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"Starfleet Academy is being produced without any organic fan demand..."

Yeah, so what? Since when is "pre-existing fan demand" a requisite for a new series? Like, do you think that people watching Star Trek in the 80s were thinking "Man, I really wish that they would make a new series, except set a hundred years later after most of our favourite characters have died, with a bald Frenchman leading them instead of Captain Kirk and instead of Klingons, the main villains are greedy capitalists who seem uncomfortably like antisemitic stereotypes"

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Villain: *transparently self-serving motive rant recontextualising their crimes to make themselves sound good and heroic*

A non-zero percentage of fans: "Wow, that's such a mic drop moment, I never saw it that way"

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Nice try, Doyle!

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Loud online discourse people concluding that zoos are all, every last one of them, evil & must be destroyed bc some zoos are bad for animals & some people very loudly want a kind of all-or-nothing binarism where entire classes of thing are good or evil is silly, but they've also done something with museums

Like when those artifacts were stolen from a Dutch museum earlier this year, and it sparked responses saying "Well, good! Now they can return those artifacts to their home country!". And someone involved had to explain, very gently, as if to a child, that the artifacts were on loan from their home country & that museums are not in fact just evil hoarders bogarting stolen artifacts for evil reasons. Like the home country was horrified that their artifacts were likely melted down for gold & lost forever

Also, like. They know if someone stole stuff from the British Museum they probably wouldn't be the "what if Tomb Raider stole back artifacts from museums?" fantasy people crave but like...thieves who would sell it or melt it down, right? Right

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I am so charmed by how tumblr-esque dorothy l sayers' way of expressing her fondness for her hero is. she truly was spinning that guy around in an anachronistic microwave and chewing on him and beating him with hammers and biting him biting him biting him and so on with the greatest affection imaginable fr fr. she may have been vastly more articulate and educated than I'll ever dream of being and I respect her writing skill immensely, but blorbo brain recognizes blorbo brain across the ages too. she literally starts out at 'he's like a little worm ❤️in a top hat :)' and only keeps going from there and it's glorious. tell me that descriptions like 'he looked, with his long, narrow face, like a melancholy adjutant stork', 'true, he is all nerves and nose --' and 'he was a colourless shrimp of a child' are not in the same literary tradition as, if removed in time from, the modern tumblr idiom for blorbo appreciation. you can't. I'm right about it. anyone can give their hero hard grey eyes and ptsd but it takes tumblrina instincts to also repeatedly liken him to a bewildered heron

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Pondering my orbs.

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thinking about the character in peril or perhaps some sort of pain...

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"mmh did you know that creator you like also posts 🔞 content? did you know that? don't you think that's weird? don't you think we should keep this space-"

no. i don't.

i booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view

just go back to the 1660 new england hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever

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scientists wont tell you this! (because it's not true)

experts don't want you to know this! (because it's made up)

doctors HATE this one trick! (because it's dangerous and unhealthy)

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i've read several papers recently that try to concisely translate the potential meanings of odysseus' name (Man-of-Pain, Trouble, Hateman, Anger-Bringer, Suffering) but the one that still haunts me is Mr. Hater

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some guy about to start the first mentorship program: i am JUST like the goddess athena rn

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When [Penelope] awakens after the slaughter and hears the news that Eurycleia brings her, she cannot at first believe that it is truly Odysseus who accomplished it (her skepticism mirrors the earlier suspiciousness of her husband; both Odysseus and Penelope need to learn that there is a time for trust and acceptance to supersede disbelief). Instead, Penelope supposes it must be a god who has come down from Olympus to punish the suitors for their villainy. The scene which follows shows Penelope, in the midst of her confusion and doubt, formulating a plan to test the identity of the stranger. Once before, in Book 19, she had attempted to do so ('Now, stranger, I have it in my mind to test you'), but there Odysseus had sidestepped. Now we see the tables turned, the biter bit, in the famous counter-test of the bed. Here Odysseus' celebrated caution and control vanish, and he bursts with indignation. This scene not only trumps Odysseus' previous testing and Penelope's own failure in book 19; Penelope here also goes on better than Athene in Book 13, for even Athene, though she deceived Odysseus and he failed to recognize her, could not make him give himself away: Impasse. Penelope is the only person who could outwit Odysseus in such a test, and this shows, like many other details and parallelisms between them, how well matched husband and wife truly are. Further, it is not just the test itself, Odysseus knowledge of their secret, which makes Penelope believe in him, but his moment of angry passion, of uncontrolled emotion. As commentators have pointed out, a god would have known the truth [...] The automatic, unthinking surge of anger at the thought of his bed, his wonderful creation, being violated is wholly human.

—Richard B. Rutherford, 'The Philosophy of the Odyssey'

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I just fully realized what's going on with this Saga if Ithaca musical and it makes me so happy for you lmao You must be Living

I actually haven’t listened to it yet! But I’m always happy for people to get more into the epics, even though the Odyssey isn’t my favorite. Aeneid for the win, can’t help that Rome was my focus in school.

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If the Aeneid has a million fans, I'm one of them

If the Aeneid has one fan, I'm that one

If the Aeneid has no fans, my soul, indignant, has fled down to the underworld with a sigh