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Given that you're the de facto person who comes to mind when the Odyssey is mentioned...thought you should know Christopher Nolan is doing an adaptation

I'm just kind of giggling about it to be honest. Like Nolan is great I'm sure, I've heard lots about his movies. But the idea of Tom Holland possibly being like Telemachus or something (god forbid Odysseus) is so funny. Who's playing Odysseus here? Matt Damon? Robert Pattinson?? I think Pattinson should be able to do whatever he wants

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i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

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I missed them and I’ve been having a TimeTM today so silly goofy what-if-Kai-went-with-Skylor-when-she-asked doodles. Just two mentally ill, co-dependant besties on the run <3

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Quick odypen painting because I’m missing them this Christmas Day

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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one thing i love about the curtis brothers is that you can try to debate about which one is the most tragic or who had it worst, but there is so answer. they are all sopping wet cats and i love them dearly

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I can’t stop thinking about the Curtis brothers and the soldier poet king trend.

Because Darry, as the strongest greaser, the leader of the gang, and the oldest brother, seems like the natural choice for king. But Darry leads everyone else to victory, never himself, and the war he wages is not his own. Darry, who exchanged his own future for the future of his family. Darry, who never wins, but goes to battle anyway, so his brothers will have the opportunities he was denied. Darry, who sounds of bitterness and death, who lives like a man betrayed and loves like a man condemned, who fights and fights and fights because fighting is all he knows.

There will come a soldier, who carries a mighty sword. He will tear your city down, oh lei oh lai, oh lord…

And then Soda, quick on his feet and a good fighter, full of bravado, who flunked in everything but mechanics and gym, seems like he should be the soldier. But Soda is golden as the summer grass and soft around the edges, wielding his smile like a blessing and his voice like a benediction. Soda, who brings comfort just by entering a room, who makes his brothers feel better just by the sight of him. Sodapop, who understands everyone and always knows just what to say to bring the sunrise back.

There will come a poet whose weapon is his word. He will slay you with his tongue, oh lei oh lai oh lord…

And Ponyboy. Ponyboy Curtis, who loves literature and sunsets, is a poet if I ever saw one. But Ponyboy…

He walks the line between worlds—he is neither violent nor peaceful, a fighter who hates fighting and a greaser who hates grease. He longs for a world beyond his own but fiercely protects those who hold his loyalty. Death haunts him, goes to bed with him, keeps him company in the morning and joins him at night. His path is marked with suffering. He fights for a future he doesn’t understand, hands bloodied from his fallen friends. Ponyboy Curtis belongs everywhere and nowhere, he is everything and nothing, the last of his family but the first to watch sunsets, the prodigal son who never left, the golden son who rebelled, the quiet kid with nothing but a switchblade and a head full of poems, a cigarette pack and an indescribable longing for a life he’s never know. His brothers sacrifice for him and his friends die for him and in the end he’s left only with a whispered promise, stay gold, weighing down like a crown upon his aching head.

There will come a ruler whose brow is laid in thorn. Smeared with oil like David's boy, oh lei oh lai oh lord.

Darry, fierce and stubborn, is a soldier. Soda, beautiful and golden, is a poet. And Ponyboy…

Ponyboy is the longing, lonely king.

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The fact that Soda doesn’t have a favorite brother because he understands their differences and perspectives so intimately, but this is the very thing that makes both his brothers consider HIM their favorite brother.

I fear this will always get me 😭🫶

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Ponyboy's entire inner monologue when he reunites with Darry and Sodapop in the hospital is probably one of the most emotional and important moments in the entire book.

It's not even just about his joy at the reunion and the mix of happiness and sadness he's feeling, but just about how his view of Darry has such a sudden shift. His thoughts going from how Darry didn't like him, how he had hit Ponyboy, driven him away from the home and yelled at him.

But his realization that Darry is crying, something he hadn't even done when their parents were killed, something Ponyboy hadn't seen him do in years. The expression on Darry's face in the hospital being the same expression that Darry had on his face when they were at their parents' funeral.

I think the most important part of this scene is that Darry does not move until Ponyboy does. He hangs back while Sodapop and Ponyboy have their reunion, and shrinks himself down to be as small and unintimidating as possible, not even meeting Ponyboy's eyes. He is being eaten alive by his guilt.

And Ponyboy's realization immediately just clicking in that moment, the realization that yes, Darry does care about him as much as he cares about Sodapop, he does love him more than anything. That Darry getting angry simply masked his worry because he's still working on the balance of being a brother and a father.

Darry's entire fear being boiled down to "I thought we lost you like we did Mom and Dad", to being so utterly terrified that he'd lose another family member in the same terrible way.

That being the moment when Ponyboy stops seeing just an unflinching, unloving brother, but starts seeing Darry for who he is, terrified to lose more of his family, desperate to keep everyone safe, believing in Ponyboy to the point of pushing him as far as he can go.

When Darry is hugging Ponyboy, and stroking his hair, and Ponyboy thinks, "I remembered how close he and Dad had been, and I wondered how I could ever have thought him hard and unfeeling.", it's such an heartbreakingly beautiful line, because Ponyboy finally, finally is allowing himself to love Darry, to love his big brother, get over his own fears of loss.

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ADHD Dyslexics of the World UNTIE!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

SHOP NOW

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Feel like the yearning & pining website can really resonate with this one.

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i woke up shivering from my dream this morning (it had you in it)

@/heavensghost on tumblr / unknown / richard siken / susan orlean / cool about it by boygenius / @/annalaura_art on tiktok / @/annalaura_art on tiktok / for your own good by leah horlick / the night we met by lord huron / richard siken / trista mateer / text: I thought id know you forever.. by Olivia Ruby - art: Watchmen by Dave Gibbons et al

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Art by Tasia M S

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I do miss epic iii's og lyrics and like it better but I think Reeve Carney possibly singing "there's a hole in his arms where a world used to be" might kill me

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Every listicle about which Star Wars characters go in which Hogwarts houses is bullshit. They always make Leia a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor. Leia is a Slytherin. She was raised a princess but even that wasn’t enough for her, she was like “I’m gonna overthrow the government, bitches.”

And Han Solo is not a bad-ass Slytherin, he is a Hufflepuff, because every five minutes he is dropping his own agenda to help his friends not die doing whatever crazy shit they’re about to do.

The biggest Gryffindor in the whole trilogy is R2D2, because every beep of his can basically be translated as “Hold my beer and watch this,” usually followed by him getting zapped by something and falling over.

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Are you trying to kill your mother? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)