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jonny (good kind)Can't guarantee I'll make it through this one. Hercules was kind of an exception to my typical "no period pieces/no Greek/roman stuff" rules #monsterdon
maybe dont go around announcing you're going to dethrone the king around a bunch of the kings men and whatnot #monsterdon
how come this dude is wearing a bag #monsterdon
dude you want to pick people based on how good of sailors they are not... whatever this is #monsterdon
the costume department is like "hmm what did ancient guys wear, probably like diapers and pillowcases" #monsterdon
what in the fuck is that. do not leave that animatronic snake babe on my ship #monsterdon
boat knowers of #monsterdon, is that sail what you'd be needing to go to the edge of the earth #monsterdon
Peter Ries 🚲🫩@jonny
No, I'd say it's misun something...
No, I'd say it's misun something...
SnoopJjust dessicate my ass on deck in my diaper #monsterdon
yeah see the risk of going around announcing that you're going to dethrone the king around the king's men is that you might actually be talking to the king himself
obviously when the giant statue comes alive and starts coming after you you just drop the god damn brooch pin and scram #monsterdon
of course! the giant statue is only held together by the diesel engine in its ankle!
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well now that the statue is dead, waste not want not, go and get your ass equipped with giant anal beads and whatever else was in there. the gods probably smile upon that kind of shit #monsterdon
i looked away for five seconds and now a bunch of demons have baited a blind guy into an open field torment sesh with a plate of grapes #monsterdon
was greek mythology concerned with sin? i didn't think it had like a set of commandments or the concept of sin #monsterdon
@jonny we might charitably interpret the film's use of "sin" to mean defiance of the gods, but this is excessively charitable. just bad writing
@SnoopJ yeah that's what i thought, that like there wasn't the manichaean good v evil thing so much as like "playing the hand you're dealt and listening up when something more powerful than you comes around and tells you what to do" #monsterdon
@jonny it's hardly even an expressible concept in a belief system that *explicitly* has multiple gods whose motives directly oppose each other at times
best path to a definition in Ancient Greek terms would I think be "the opposite of virtue" and how "virtue" intersects with religious belief is an exercise for the reader in any given tale I guess
@SnoopJ definitely a belief system that has an easier time explaining why bad and random things happen in the world compared to "god: ??????"
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David Zaslavsky
Ben Ramseyhomies have had the concept of fashion and not wearing only diapers this whole time they just choose to diaper up and get a full body sunburn for fun #monsterdon
Neia masks@jonny To reduce the amount of laundry they have to do, probably
#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
so they're doing all this to go get some rug and convince everyone that the gods are real and therefore inspire a popular revolt that installs this guy as the king? #Monsterdon
i am literally asking because some stories don't have like a narrative arc and that's fine, epics can just be epics and lengthy series of things happening one after another, but it's also a movie and usually movies have plots #monsterdon
Plaid@jonny Greek historical mythos. The raving lunacy of horny teens. And the writing quality to match. #monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts
don't question me while i'm holding my little guy obelisk necklace, diaper man #monsterdon
what the hell man i literally just deployed my giant fish man to save your ass and how you're throwing your little guy obelisk necklace overboard and suggesting as king you will promote a secular society less reliant on the gods? #monsterdon
throw the guy a courtesy wave as you pass by or something man, #monsterdon
@jonny The fleece can cure plagues and famines across an entire nation. Pelias had a usurious reign. It's not stated outright, but we can infer that he caused famines and/or plagues, I think. So this is the "and once you have the throne, then what?" planning?
#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
#Monsterdon #JasonAndTheArgonauts1963
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@jonny hubris probably closest
Dan, the US is the threat!
Sam LevineMooching over here tonight, we'll see how long I stick around.
(My current book isn't doing a very good job of holding my attention so probably for at least a little while )
Interesting that they put her in a purple dress. I don't recall enough of the story to know if that's foreshadowing Phonecians.
Is this a track and field meet to select people?
They ended a story with Jason & Medea on a positive note? I call shenanigans.