copperbadge:

Even better, I’ll just link to it. 

Here you go! 

Two things:

1. I needed a dark background and I figured I might as well go FULL WEIRD and use one of my Magritte postcards, you’re welcome, it’s now Art, Ceci n’est pas un teef

2. The molar kind of fell apart, it was cracked to begin with, so you just get the canines. 

me: but if you think about it the success of generic and universally despised franchises is kind of fascinating, and from a creator’s standpoint, I think its valuable to examine how and why these movies keep being made-

some fucko who watches ChannelAwesome: its MONEY lol

me: oh yes thank you so much I hadn’t even thought of that. Who knew that a business that costs millions to participate in on a mainstream scale would be concerned with insuring their investments pay off. Thank you so much for your contribution of “people in Hollywood like money” i dont think we could have even broached the topic of film analysis without it. What a deep and profound statement. Tell me sir, where did you study film? My teacher bored us all with facts about social climate, advertising, and general rules of storytelling in my screenplay writing class, but it seems like your education was FAR more fruitful. Why didn’t I consider the fact that an industry based in America, this capitalist hellscape, would be concerned with money? Well thank god you brought it up sir. Has everyone heard this gentleman here? Does everyone understand that money is evil and ruining film even though movies from the ‘golden age’ were far more expensive to make and therefore had stricter regulations on who and what were allowed to participate? okay? Have we all applauded this critical genius for his valuable contribution to the discussion of mass appeal in cinema? okay good moving on but first we need to have a 5 minute segment where my alter ego “CEO Overlord” punches me in the nuts repeatedly so we can really make sure everyone understands your profound and brave statement

idreamtofmanderleyagain:

hooligans-holiday:

idreamtofmanderleyagain:

I swear to god Tumblr-fad! Hades/Persephone is basically the Twilight of mythic archetypes. They took a concept that was gothic, dark and strange that had interesting layers of meaning to explore (including feminist meaning)…

and then pasted simplistic, generic romantic tropes all over it that were easy for every palette to digest, removing all complexity and nuance in order to make it fit a completely different narrative than it embodied

Like I know I’m probably coming across as an elitist rn but honestly I don’t care, you took my cool shit and they sucked all color from what it originally was you bland motherfuckers

(Disclaimer: this post has been written under effect of “I’m studying spanish because I have to do guided tours about the Pantheon in Rome in spanish but I never studied that language before”, and I needed a break from that. Another disclaimer: I’m a butcher when it comes to narrating things. Third (and last) disclaimer: a huge THANK YOU to my university professor.)

I’m on board with what you said, and (without going too far into the origins of their myth, or else I might write a whole essay.), with Hades and Persephone one of the interesting thing is that the kidnapping is full of metaphors about seeing. Hades is the “unseen one”, and Persephone is also Kore, that is, apart from “the maiden”, the pupil of the eye.

As Socrates told Alcibiades, the pupil is “the most excellent part of the eye”, and not only because it’s the part that sees, but also because it’s the part of the eye where the watcher sees, in the eye of the other “the simulacrum of the watcher (himself)”. And, if we translate Socrates’ words “know yourself” as “look at yourself”, the pupil is the only way to know one’s self.

When Hades goes to kidnap Persephone, she was looking at a narcissus flower. So, she was looking at the boy who lost himself in his own reflection (who lost himself trying to know himself?). And then Hades got her, and she looked at him. The pupil met “the unseen one”, and Persephone screamed. Was that a scream of terror because she was getting kidnapped, or was it because she suddenly recognized herself (let’s keep in mind that one of the theories about the origin of her name is that it comes from
pherein phonon

, that means “to bring (or cause) death”) and she understood that she belonged to that unseen world?

I could go on for hours, but it’s better if I get back to work. Sorry if I fell a bit off topic.

WOW this is fascinating and fantastic information, thank you. I had no idea about the language aspect of it, and never thought to apply the narcissus flower into the themes of the myth. It seems so obvious now!

novafuzzcheeks:

Hey terfs friendly reminder that literally 1 out of 5 people with ovaries have polycystic ovarian syndrome which causes hormonal imbalance and often leads to broad shouldered, deep voiced, hairy bearded people with vaginas if their symptoms started close to puberty and y’all out here drawing people who look like me to be caricatures of trans women to laugh at their “masculine” features while 1 out of 5 people with ovaries literally look like this and desperately try to hide it because of people like you who tell us we’re men because we’re hairy and our bodies are shaped differently

Friendly reminder that terfs don’t actually care about *any* women, they’re just as misogynistic as the worst men out there and they just hate trans people and need a platform for that

Trans folks y’all are wonderful and amazing and don’t ever let one of these turds get you down, please. They’re angry misogynistic hateful little toads who want all women to be literally what shitty cis men want women to be lmao

ao3tagoftheday:

Just as an update for those of you who were around last night: that blog got taken down. Well done everyone, thanks for your help.