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my first ever fan cam 😋 happy octoboss friday !
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Wwdits style mockumentary but it’s a workplace comedy following the war boys
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Octoboss appreciation post
Symbol in the middle by @chocohybrid
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Therapy is risky because sometimes they'll just ask you their standard "why can't you, though", and you think you're making some good point by saying something like "well if I don't do anything with my life then what's the point of being alive in the first place" and your therapist gets that look on their face and you immediately realise that your dumb ass just got caught, pinned to the ground with your stupid-ass neck between the spikes of a pitchfork, and you are not going to wiggle out of there before you two unpack what the fuck you just said.
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More furiosa thoughts: one of the characters mentions "maggot mash" as food and then there's a scene where furiosa wakes up in a pile of dead bodies with maggots feasting on her open wound as the old lady scrapes them off, implying that the society of the citadel collects dead bodies and eats the maggots that come with rot/decay. it literally feeds itself on death .... WHEW!!
#it's a good source of protein#don't knock it til you try it#meanwhile I have two bins of bugs that I keep feeding even though my beardie died last month because I can't just starve them#and I don't know what to do with them#somebody suggested eating them#NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT I GUESS#I've heard mealworms are good with some salt and cayenne
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From Romans to Rectums: Thoughts on the Naming Convention in Mad Max
I think it’s fascinating how that meme about how often men think about the roman empire is materialized in the mad max world in different forms, but especially in their bastardized-latin naming convention. In my mind, it appears that post apocalyptic warlords were aware that modern society looked up to the roman empire, but they didn’t quite understand how the romans influenced us exactly. Nevertheless, the warlords (or their history men) did have access to niche knowledge such as ancient roman military strategy, enough to inspire the imperator and praetorian warrior position names. It’s as if the first history men did not keep any pre modern history on their skins, so they had to reduce the entire roman empire into fragments of ideals (for oral tradition). Such fragments of ideals would combine in weird ways to inspire these war-men to write the most beautifully grotesque poems that are their names.
In a world where words have more power, names are more than just biographical micro-poems, they are multi-used as tools as well. They could be guns pointed to your face like “People Eater” and “Toe-Cutter”, a quality seal of approval on a product like “Capable” and “Splendid”, an aggressive dog warning sign like “Furiosa” and “Mad Max”, and even a prayer amulet as in “Corpus Colossus”.
As a trend among warlords, a wacky wrestling stage name is a must for a strong branding. After all, the ferocious marketing of late capitalism and show business did not die with the atomic bomb, but rather thrived, mutated, and embraced nature, believe it or not. Darwin’s nature, not you tree-huggers’ nature.
The names of the two capable immortan brothers Rictus Erectus and Scabrous Scrotus reveal the real underlying obsession of all men: the penis. The penis is the axis mundi around which all revolves in the (mad max) world. But more than just about sex, the penis cult is about finding strength and courage in a hypermasculine god to mentally survive in a hypermasculine hell. In this context, the names of Immortan Joe's sons take on a deeper significance. Firstly, Rictus Erectus translates to something like grin and erection, as if Immortan Joe had hopped for a future full of pleasures for his son. It is also a very verbal wish for an offspring who can physically stand up by himself and for himself. Unlike his disabled brother Corpus Colossus, who received a magnificent name meaning body like a giant greek god statue, in fruitless hopes that his imperfections would also grow away. Scabrous Scrotus more explicitly describes a unique physical attribute, namely some scabby nuts. Scrotus could very well be a nickname, which would parallel ancient romans who would choose a cognomen (nickname) to be known by, like Caligula meaning “little boot”, Oedipus (greek) meaning “swollen foot”, and Verrucosus meaning “warty”, for example. Better would be if Joe had named his son after his own beat-up ballsack, in which case this ode to biological reproduction against the environment would be very on brand. I bet Darwin is grinning wide, in his coffin.
It is interesting to note that most people in the recent mad max world appear to be illiterate and uncultured, so most don’t even understand the meaning of these stupid Latin names, but just that they sound as important as they say they are. That means these men who have access to nuance are really “dressing up” for each other, like an internal joke with the bois. Three brothers named to sound like roman emperors, to rule over all the erected men, by his mighty phallus.
It goes to show how colossal and monumental… the roman empire was, that it would outlast even the best of modernity. And its shadow would still loom over humans like the mysterious milky way in the night sky.
It’s a shame that Miller’s hyper-poetry is not that accessible.
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Need more of the Witnessed War Boy who was shot in the head and survived and continued on thru the rest of the movie like the lil badass he is. Did he have a name? Look he just needs more attention okay, he touched Valhalla and came back, he's either a loser or a hero in that respect.
(Also he's got the same pure joy vibes as Smeg and I think they should hang out more)
He's credited as "Lone War Boy" and is played by Sean Millis and nOW I'M GONNA TAKE A HARD TURN TO SHARE that George Miller cast him and several other War Boys after hearing about their stories of surviving bullying and abuse.
Sean Millis is a singer and actor living with Hunter Syndrome and has been the target of online bullying after appearing on The Voice Australia.
Sean Millis as "Lone War Boy," who just seems happy to be here.
Then there's Quaden Bayles, credited as "War Pup," but we all know him as the Pup on the War Rig. Bayles is an Indigenous boy who was featured in a viral video a few years ago where he expressed suicidality in response to bullying about his dwarfism. After receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to send him to Disneyland, his family chose instead to donate the money to charities that support youth with dwarfism and Indigenous youth in Australia.
Quaden Bayles as "War Pup," in a role where absolutely nothing bad happens to him shut up shUT UP SHUT UP
And finally, Spencer Connolly, a Tasmanian cast as Rakka the Brakkish. Connolly came to Miller's attention after hearing the story of how Connolly and his brother were set on fire by their father as young kids. Connolly sustained burns to 38% of his body (30-40% can be fatal without treatment, with a ~30% mortality rate). Connolly was at a camp run by Kids Foundation when he expressed a dream to be in a blockbuster movie, and they made it happen. Miller was so impressed with Connolly that he gave him a speaking part (in Connolly's words, "I got a line that I got to say, which is one word, but you know, one word is better than none.")
Connolly as "Rakka the Brakkish" (right), which is a name that suggests some MAJOR backstory and I need the fanon like yesterday.