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I LOVE the difference between siren Penelope’s voice and Penelope’s actual voice

It’s safe to assume the siren copied her voice from Odysseus’s memories. His memories of his wife from BEFORE THE WAR. The Penelope from before has such a light and delicate singing voice. Very young and vibrant. Her few speaking lines are peppy and playful

Penelope in The Challenge is 20 years older. She has her light moments of course, especially when she sings that “waiting, waiting” at the end. But her voice now is much deeper, fuller, warmer. She’s had to go through a lot of shit with these suitors. She’s had to spend 20 years mourning and yearning for her husband. You can hear her emotions so clearly, especially in Would You Fall In Love With Me Again

Odysseus went through a lot of changing on his journey, but so did Penelope

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He's back... with a vengeance.

WALLACE AND GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL (2024)

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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ithaca saga live reactions

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you could never make blazing saddles today. movies take a really long time to film and it's already 11am on the west coast. also most actors and film staff would probably like to spend christmas eve with their families.

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I havent seen the oops wrong home comic this year...

Happy Holidays everyone! :-D

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I love soulmates but also this-

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Everyone’s going on about having a ‘traditional, old-fashioned Christmas’, but when I burst into the house covered in green paint and demand a champion strike my head from my shoulders with my own axe so that I may return the blow next year, I’m ‘scaring Grandma’.

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

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was suddenly moved to draw a toony sort of character design .. but this is a bit too close to 2013 tumblr sexyman for my own comfort

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man i wish writing was as easy as drawing. the pictures just pop into my head fully formed à la birth of athena. the only thing standing in my way is hand eye coordination and perhaps the linear passage of time. my writing process on the other hand is some kind of infinite monkey + infinite typewriter jest. if i slam out enough words i'll eventually hit critical mass and some LUCA organism will claw it's way out of the primordial soup twitching and gasping.

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alright time to post the gremlins again

merry christmas y’all 

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what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

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there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.

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“Lord Vetinari paused. He found it difficult to talk to Frederick Colon. He dealt on a daily basis with people who treated conversation as a complex game, and with Colon he had to keep on adjusting his mind in case he overshot.”

— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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