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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

codplay? why is this the first thing I thought of?

I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish

SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

But the modernization choices for Nolan's movie have a weird inconsistency going on that makes the movie have a bit of an identity crisis. E. Wilson points this out here and here among other areas:

In Nolan’s Odyssey, slaughtering people with the help of trickery, technology and weapons is presented as bad when the Greeks are killing the Trojans, who have violated xenia, but good when Odysseus is killing the suitors, who have violated xenia. Taking something ostensibly abandoned by Odysseus and his comrades is natural and forgivable when the Trojans lay claim to the horse, but unnatural and unforgivable when the suitors lay claim to Odysseus’ palace, food, wine and wife. Strangers in Ithaca are to be treated with gracious kindness, as possible gods in disguise; but strangers in foreign lands are usually monstrous, to be blinded, robbed and slaughtered. Defying the gods is noble and brave when Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, son of Poseidon; it’s stupid and greedy when Eurylochus eats the Cattle of the Sun. Deception is bad when Odysseus tricks Sinon or the suitors trick Telemachus, but good when Telemachus and Odysseus trick the suitors. Sharing is good, and Odysseus is seen taking his place at an oar alongside his men; but one-man rule is also unambiguously good, and those who challenge monarchy or autocracy, or try to eat more than their allotted portion, are either evil (the suitors) or foolish (Eurylochus). Either way, they have to die. It is bad to fight and kill to accumulate wealth, as Agamemnon does; it is good to fight and kill to preserve the wealth that you have already acquired (even if by war). Any one of these moral contradictions could make for an interesting and generative theme in a movie, but Nolan lets the fragments of an incomplete set of big ideas spin around in the epic whirlpool, with no plank of solid, specific human experience to which we might cling.

But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point. Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern, must show the perspectives of the victims as well as the perpetrators, and the Homeric poems easily clear the bar – but Nolan doesn’t. The Trojans are dehumanised by their masks; we know none of them by name or face. The hands of Odysseus and Telemachus are bloodied only by the most righteous, computer-game modes of killing, and we feel no pity or horror at the deaths of their victims, whether Trojans, giants, suitors or slaves. During the sack of Troy – which he supposedly organised – Odysseus gazes around in bewilderment and horror, as if he has never seen a massacre before.

Yet we are also invited to despise Penelope’s chief suitor, Antinous (‘opposite mind’), for being a coward, a liar and a schemer. The film asks us both to be horrified at war and to celebrate the action-movie sequences in which the reluctant warrior finally gets his hands on his bow and the blood starts flowing. The massacre of the suitors is probably the most enjoyable sequence in the film. The exuberantly villainous Antinous – Pattinson is the only person on set who seems to be having any fun – clearly deserves to be stabbed to death with the dagger of Sinon, but he also deserves one of the Oscars that will shower down on this movie like the golden rain of Zeus.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

freaky anti stuff??? im so excited

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

this is one of the things that motivate me most when writing! I absolutely adore filling my OCs selves with gross ideas like they're fucked-up lil containers lol

the "full of soup" kitten but the label claims they're full of "ontological evil" instead >:3

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

found this buried in my ancient windows laptop

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

if I call Why an utter clown and sloppy vibecoder can I get on the blocklist pretty please

Clown at a computer. But this one hasn't tried to dip it in the pool yet so he's ok.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

C'mon folks, we can do this. Please share any arguments against the OSA between your fellow queerfolk if you can as well!

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

rosi I absolutely adore this also I didn't sleep last night so my first glance at it was something like this:

A four-panel of a confused lady surrounded by esoteric math symbols (hey can you tell I was never really good at math)

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

decided to return a few hours later for some reason and update: it's still going and now the gifs are comin' out en masse, dude is pissed off lmao also can't stop laughing (and feeling a fair bit of horror) at the decreasing coherency apparently deepfake porn will make the democrats win more now??

dear god im not alt texting this one sorry

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Fuck ai. Full stop. the world's already so capitalistically fixated on demotivating folks from anything that takes time and personal growth to do, that the water-draining, psychosis-inducing slop-on-demand only adds to it. Fight it. Do not go gentle. Fuck ai. Fuck ai. Fuck. ai.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

.... I shouldn't be surprised, most of my OCs are fit as hell '^^

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

real, every time I see you paint something awesome I just think

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

as someone currently stuck on the shitty island I fully endorse this message :3

You can always blame the british. it's always morally correct.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

yeah ended up trying to plan out my whole new vegas playthrough like

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

(modded) on that note, have a prototype of my Wind Thing

the Wind Thing. A Temple(?) filled with vertical windmills

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

he looks SHOCKINGLY hot, my goodness also

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I love this design so much!! but I'm sorry, all I can think of right now is this lmao

a still from Jerma's thanksgiving video, a mirror in the background showing off his comically large posterior

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

WOAH! (ffs I can never get gifs to work on this site lol)

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

why would you do this. give me YOU.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

gimme that thought RIGHT NOW imma do this with it

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

bug this reads like a job job card (here have a favorite of mine)

A card from Job Job (a game from the Jackbox Pack 8) titled, "spending Christmas with my gayboy family"

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

what the hell I can't fuckin believe I never knew about this site before this is so cool

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Wooooo looks so goood!!! :D Big glow-up from this lol

Bald furry with a human face and huge ears, originally posted by remanedur. I have seen the face of god and it was weeping.

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Tragedy has struck, apparently the usage of vibes-based blocking has taken me down ;w; (shame, sky and her work is hella cool. I may no longer be able to see her, but check her out if you want! there's no grudge for me to hold lol)

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

making every Roundhead question their sexuality since 1642! ;D

Buckingham softly kissing a confused and shocked (flustered?) Roundhead soldier ehehehehe

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SPOOKY Ventastica @ventastica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

ok the zohran poster generator kinda fucks hard actually

Zohran Mamdani's campaign poster, now edited to say "T for T SEX"

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