Dytto - “Barbie Girl” Dance
Holy fuck watch this

Gandalf throwing his staff at gollum is what really makes this
Thank you for commenting because I was going to scroll past this.
Oh, I love this an inordinate amount.
This guy covers children's songs in the style of various artists, and he's incredible.
I'm weirdly emotional about it?
This is amazing!
This is the exact opposite energy of the "what happens after the camera cuts and you've destroyed you labtop for 5 seconds of entertainment"
This guy not only wrote a whole song but dressed up and FILMED it! For what! For 1 and a half seconds of MY entertainment! That must have been HOURS of shooting and editing! I'm touched, this is art
I know I'm very late to this compared to everyone here (I'm 30) but I just finished reading the odyssey for the first time and I'm... my heart can't handle it. I already want to read it again. Why did I get to this this late? Anyway, I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations for interesting articles or other books about Odysseus, apart from the Iliad? And Penelope, of course. I just love them. I'm asking you 'cause I saw your posts about Odysseus and Calypso / Circe, and found them very interesting and insightful! Thanks in advance
There's no bad time in your life to read the Odyssey for the first time! I'm so glad you found your way to it and enjoyed it!
In terms of books and articles about the Odyssey, I've been out of the academic world for long enough that I feel like I'm no longer a particularly good source of advice, but I'll toss out a few old favorites:
And I found some articles on the Odyssey that look fascinating freely accessible (no login needed) on JSTOR! Since some of these are public domain, they may not closely track modern scholarship, but if you're just kinda vibing with the Odyssey right now and are looking for more food for thought on the subject, this ought to get you going in interesting directions.
Rose, Peter W. “Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey.” Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 92–140. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvn1tbcw.6. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Coulter, Cornelia C. “The Happy Otherworld and Fairy Mistress Themes in the Odyssey.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 56, 1925, pp. 37–53. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/282883. Accessed 14 May 2023.
KAMUF, PEGGY. “Penelope at Work.” Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship, Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 145–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g60p.11. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Bassett, Samuel E. “The Proems of the Iliad and the Odyssey.” The American Journal of Philology, vol. 44, no. 4, 1923, pp. 339–48. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/289255. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Gregory, Andrew. “Circe: An Extract from Homer’s Odyssey (c. 900–800 BCE).” Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook, edited by Hannah Wills et al., UCL Press, 2023, pp. 23–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.11. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Also, if you liked the Odyssey, I think you'll love Greek tragedy! I recommend starting with Sophocles' Electra, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and maybe Euripedes' the Trojan Women.
Thanks for the ask, and happy reading!
Paul Batch aka Paul F. Batch (American, b. 1979, South Hadley, MA, USA) - Soar, 2022, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
Jeanne Rosier Smith (American, b. 1966, based Sudbury, MA, USA) - Unstoppable, Paintings: Pastel
“Three swans in flight”, 1945, by David Lloyd Evans (b. 1916)
signed and dated 'I Lloyd Evans-1945' (upper left)
coloured chalks on buff paper
24 ½ × 18 ½ in. (62.2 × 47 cm.)
We wanted to have that ending of: is the man flying or is he falling? Thomas always wanted to see me dance. I haven’t done that for 25-odd years, maybe 30 now. I was very lucky from the get-go. I don’t mind dancing, that’s not the case, but I wanted it to be heightened like a magical moment, like a dream sequence. Like he saw himself dancing immaculately, but when the rest the rest of the crowd saw him it was not that cool. It was kind of pathetic.
Mads Mikkelsen in Another Round 2020, dir. Thomas Vinterberg
christopher bursk, “ovid at fifteen” (2003) // david álvarez, “metamorpho” (2021), “agony” (2021)
hey i just wanted to say thanks for still expressing positive sentiments towards homestuck even after all this time. most BNFs aren't creating fanworks as much anymore (no one could maintain that intensity forever tbh!) but when they completely divorce themselves from that part of their life it's just... those creations brought a lot of joy, and it's extra sad when they feel the need to go scorched earth. i'm happy your works are still around and i really do wish you all the best going forward!
i think a lot of us abandoned homestuck because of two factors: the first was the collapse of the proudly sex-positive fandom space that let us be weird and creative without fear or shame, and the second was the fact that homestuck ended, then launched several epilogues, in a way that seemed specifically designed to mock fans for caring.
like, some very dark, sad, awful things seemed to happen to hussie, and he certainly did not have a good time with his own fandom. but from the perspective of someone in the audience, if a show i love turns on me and starts directly insulting me for loving it, caring for it, and hoping for the best, i get up and leave the theater.
'isn't it horrible to be the hero? aren't stories just prisons? isn't love ultimately meaningless? isn't hope the main driver of tragedy?' sure, fine. yeah. you're not the first man to ask these questions. they're big damn questions!
'aren't you stupid for sitting there and watching me ask these questions? because the answer is that i'm an idiot for asking them and you're twice an idiot for thinking that the answers might be worth the wait.' now you're just being an asshole to yourself, your story, and your audience. im taking my toys and going home.
homestuck was a brilliant, fascinating, unprecedented monument to storycraft... and it ended like a sandcastle getting kicked over by a toddler. that, to me, is the central tragedy of the piece.
One idea for a potential solution (though I’m not sure what we’d do until then as since some if not all of the after-the-ending material wasn’t technically official as it wasn’t technically made by him, you can’t have an “unofficial sequel” try to make itself “here’s what actually happened” without acknowledging what we got being on the same level of canonicity if both are given any higher weight than any other given fanfic) is if Homestuck could be visual-media-adaptable at all, try to make a show that fixes the plot but has some of the plot threads added to fix things basically meta-symbolize why we’re fixing it for these reasons (y’know, the fixing having as much weird meta-resonance about the nature of fiction as the breaking)
i politely but STRONGLY disagree: you can’t fix homestuck. it was finished in such a way as to deliberately break it and leave it broken and have that brokenness stand as a monument to the waste of it all.
you can not fix homestuck because it is, by its nature, on every level, a story about the futility of stories, and a story about breaking stories, and a story about how stories break the people inside them and outside them and trying to escape from them and watching helpless from outside.
in every act, from every perspective, the story breaks. it breaks the fourth wall. it breaks the timeline. it betrays its own premises repeatedly, it breaks promises, it subverts expectations and then subverts those subversions. it contradicts itself and laughs at you for expecting honesty. it sets characters up and drops them to shatter. it tells you that this time maybe you’ll kick the football and then it eats the football.
you can’t fix homestuck because it does not want you to. it would be like trying to fix a smashed egg with a dead chicken while the kitchen’s on fire. you’re trying to do something that’s too late, that’s always been too late.
like, this is the insane power of this fantastic, bewildering tragedy: it is so broken that it breaks your heart. ten years later you still want to fix it, and you couldn’t then and you won’t now. two vast and trunkless legs of stone lie in the desert and on their shattered pedestal is a dick joke that hates you personally.
incredible piece of work. 0/10 stars. 10/10 stars. and a fist full of penis.
Spencer Gore (UK 1878-1914) The Icknield Way (The Cinder Path) 1912 oil on canvas 83.9 x 96.6 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales,Sydney
Jan Mankes - silent dreamy (autumn and winter) landscapes
when a 3000 years old pharaoh takes possession of ur body without consent
Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???
For those who can’t go to the ocean….
…I can bring an ocean to you.
thank you
Adding My Ocean:
have some more
adding my ocean as well
Not my ocean but my brother’s:
adding my ocean
A sunset from my ocean (when I used to live in Hawaii)
not close enough to an ocean rn, but here’s some pictures from when i was :’]
I’m three hours from an ocean and envious, but grateful that I don’t live in Iowa or something where getting to the ocean involves a plane or multiple days in a car.
… Fuck, putting it that way I’m impressed Iowa is as civilised as it is. If you live that far inland in Australia, we hear about you when you’re on the news for providing shit healthcare to everyone especially when Aboriginal. I get all unbalanced thinking about Central Asia too, even though they’ve got much prettier wilderness. And, you know, imagine being in a landlocked country.
Oh, in the US we solved that problem by just providing shit healthcare to literally everyone no matter where they are, especially anyone who’s not white but especially especially Native Americans and black people, so the middle of the country doesn’t have to feel left out.
writing ygo characters like everything is about games except for games which are about ideological triumph
you know that rule for knowing where and how to place songs in musicals so they don't feel tacked on is that when a feeling is too big to say, you sing. well in ygo when a belief is too strong to speak you play a game about it