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Also makes you look like a complete weiner

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

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there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here

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Van Helsing & Mina: We're going to defeat Dracula with the power of friendship!

Quincey: And this gun I found!

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night sky 4.26.25

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epithets

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Finally have all 4 life stages let's gooo

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my very heart is not my own. they have taken from me even that.

Hiii this is part of a style study assignment for one of my classes :) Helen of Sparta oh how I adore you

Inspired by a lot of Mycenaean frescoes and also @/flaroh's work ^^

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Literally the best case you can make for this broad is that she's a quasi mortal character in the EPIC canon who's subject to human psychological conditions, became mentally corrupted due to years of being alone, etc, etc, and essentially "wasn't guilty" because she didn't have the capacity to know any better.

But you literally never see the take. Never. It always just gets reduced to "well, she wasn't REALLY being that rapey", "I didn't get a vivid play by play of assault therefore it's impossible", "she's just sad :(( and lonely :(( and just a girl :((", etc, etc. as if she's some 15 year old schoolgirl who wanted her crush to be reciprocated and not a *goddess* who wields absolute power and authority over her *mortal* captive (let the audience consider the absolute terror in Odysseus' voice when he echoes "goddess?" in Love in Paradise).

Even if you strip away the sexual assault of the Odyssey, you're still left with a person who held a man captive for *7 years* to the point of suicidal ideation/attempt. You're left with someone who at the very least incessantly sexually harassed their captive of, again, SEVEN YEARS. You're left with someone who was FORCED to let their captive go because she never would've done so otherwise.

Honestly, the portrayal of Calypso in EPIC was confusing and incredibly limited, so I can understand the confusion amongst the fan base... But I haven't seen so many blatantly reductive takes around a piece of media in a long time. I'm the millionth person to say it: but just imagine if the genders were swapped lol.

We don't talk enough about the damage EPIC did to how Circe and especially Calypso are supposed to be seen.

Calypso is not some innocent, "child-like", lonely girl.

She's the daughter of a titan and a nymph, who had other nymphs on her island serving her, and took advantage of a broken man for 7 years.

She very much knew what a wife was, she simply didn't care.

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How long has it been?

Twenty years.

I love you.

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I read again the Iliad, and I love how Hector insults Pâris.

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You finished the story!!!

:D

So... sequel...

I would love to read one if you write it, but in the meantime I'm gonna read the oneshots!

I did!! :)

Baha- I had pretty much convinced myself that a sequel wasn't worth doing, but all of the encouraging comments have been so sweet :') and so spoiler: I am planning on writing it! I don't have an anticipated timeline yet, but little Acacius will be getting his little feature film lol!!

Also I just learned how to look at "asks", sorry for the late response 💀

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Am I the only one who thinks that the idea that Odysseus 'loved/came to love Calypso as a friend' is painfully ridiculous in the concept of her character in the musical?

Not saying he didn't start to care for her because trauma bonding and isolation, but the way her stans frame it, and even use the words 'friendzone' sometimes, implies Calypso was ever his friend, which is incorrect, because Calypso never treated Odysseus as her friend, nor she showed she wanted a friend.

This is why their whining about her loneliness falls so flat on me and I have no sympathy for it. Because if she truly was so lonely and desperate for the company of another sentient being, she would have given up and accepted that Odysseus didn't want her in that way, but she shows no change on her intentions. In her two songs, she frames her relationship with Odysseus in a strict romantic/sexual nature (soon into bed we'll climb/handsome/love of my life/I hate I fell in love with you, etc) and there isn't a single indication that she ever thought his opinion in the subject mattered. He was going to be her lover, whatever he wanted or not.

And then her stans are horrified that people still read SA on their interactions? How can you not read that when her lyrics are literally showing how she doesn't want to see him as anything but hers in a sexual/romantic nature? Where exactly is the friendship there? Even when she is trying to get him away from the ledge she still frames it as if they are lovers and how bad it would for her if he died.

For Odysseus to have loved Calypso as a friend it would have been required for her to treat him as a friend. But Calypso didn't want that and she had seven freaking years to change that dynamic, she didn't, so there is no 'friendship' there.

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I'm taking a break from writing until next week and I genuinely don't know what to do with myself. Develop a drinking habit? Caress tree bark? Talk to other people? Like seriously what do I do now

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I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

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One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.