#I GOT RICKROLLED
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there is no way this is real.
Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.
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Wait, is she...
SHE'S DOING IT TO EM
#to me this is the equivalent of the ending credits being replaced by a rickroll I can't believe they got us#I couldn't have chosen a better shitpost to end my owl house shitposting days with#toh#the owl house#luz noceda#amity blight#toh season 3#watching and dreaming#lucky luciano#lumity#cartoon shitposts#I'm as puzzled as everyone else with the faces Amity pulls in that collage but who am I to complain
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Wait, girl in red? Are you female??
no i’m a ✨mystery✨
….but actually yes lmaooo
#i’m still a ✨mystery✨!!!#and this blog is like in my head a separate entity of myself as like a person?#lmao but yes#also why’d you phrase is like that anon?? lmao#anyways#alexa play girl in red#ask#the hellsite answers#anonymous#hellsite hall of fame curator’s bullshit#also#I woke up to this ask and was like ‘nope can’t answer bc mystery✨’#but also then I remembered like 90% of the people on here think i’m like an 80 year old man😭#which is absolutely hilarious and adds to the lore#but I got called ‘LITTLE MAN’ in an ask#and like 1. that’s absolutely hilarious#2. even if I was a little man why would you call someone that in an ask bc it so hilariously condescending lmao#and so yeah lmao#oh also i’ve literally posted my spotify on here (which everyone should check out and totally not get rickrolled in the process :)#but I put actual playlists at the bottom and those are. like. so wlw#so anyways yeah#alexa play girl in red even louder
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many thoughts about epic: the musical...
i am once again in the middle of essay writing but plautus is boring and my friend introduced me to this album so u already know I binged the entire thing
(quick warning for spoilers of homer's odyssey? if that's necessary?? man idk whatever)
first thoughts naturally concerned odysseus. i have hated this man with a burning passion ever since I started studying classics - i think he is irredeemably selfish, a liar masquerading as a 'resourceful hero,' and basically just a twat all around. that being said, i respect that epic is not an exact replica. in fact, i like that about it!
readings of odysseus as a loving husband and father, and a man who cares deeply for his crew and fellow warriors is one i would love to see reflected in the source text (though i admit i have only read two different translations so far, so this is subject to change depending on translators choice!), if only because it would be so so refreshing. and epic does that extremely well! i find epic's odysseus to be far more likeable, insofar as he is fueled not by greed for glory (kleos for the nerds out there) but rather the desire to return to his wife and son. (I personally would argue that, while homer's odysseus is indeed fueled by a desire for homecoming (nostos), it is not for the sake of penelope and telemachus, but rather concern over the security of his status and position within the household (oikos))
i also very much enjoy that the love he holds for his family is not an inherently positive trait. in the aeneid, and often in myth, it is achilles' son, neoptolemus/pyrrhus who kills the son of hector and andromache, astyanax by throwing him from the walls of troy - less common, it is odysseus (which i did not know until i googled it just now oops). homer's odysseus does not reject the gods. he is beloved by some, hated by others - he receives their boons and curses as they come. he revels in the attention of the divine, no matter positive or negative, for it is proof of his kleos. epic's odysseus is so much more... human. he doesn't vie for glory that reaches the skies. if anything, he rues it. in the horse and the infant he supplicates himself to (who i assume is) zeus - which is such a loaded act i am genuinely struggling to think of how to articulate it, but boy am I gonna try my darndest.
the act of supplication and guest-friendship (xenia) is a very key theme within the odyssey, and to a point in the iliad also - essentially, if a traveller were to arrive at your doorstep, you were obliged to let them in and provide food, drink, and lodgings to that traveller, no questions asked. in return (because reciprocity is VERY important in homer especially), the guest would provide entertainment, tales of their travels, etc, and would be respectful of their host. the patron of these travellers was zeus. any violation of these terms, on part of the guest or host, would be met with divine scorn. for odysseus to supplicate himself to zeus is therefore meta as hell, but I would instead bring attention to the echoing lyric "hes bringing you down to your knees." 'he,' assumedly, is astyanax. his father, hector, is dead; as is his grandfather, priam, and all of priam's other sons. at this point, one could assume that it is astyanax who is ruling troy, who is now the host of the city that odysseus, a traveller from another land, has entered and ransacked. zeus' 'prophecy' of astyanax growing old and seeking revenge (reciprocity! homeric greece had a 'revenge culture' - essentially 'an eye for an eye' as well as 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours,' though not always so clear-cut), therefore, would be odysseus' punishment for violating the terms of xenia.
supplication, however, is not limited to guest-friendship alone. for example, in odyssey 22, when odysseus slaughters the suitors occupying his home (is that spoilers?), their priest leodes supplicates himself at odysseus' feet, begging to be spared. odysseus takes his head from his neck in an instant. odysseus' kneeling before astyanax, therefore, is no simple act between a guest and his host - perhaps he is begging the infant for mercy, for forgiveness, or perhaps he is positioning himself for punishment; in killing astyanax, odysseus accepts his own death. perhaps this means his fate (which, in case of homeric epic, refers to the time and manner of one's death), or perhaps it is a part of him that has died. in just a man, odysseus asks "when does a man become a monster?" his killing astyanax prevents the boy from ever becoming a man, and spares him from a life fueled only by revenge and the need to regain his glorious birthright, and it turns him into a monster. just as he says he would, he trades in the world where he is 'just a man' for a world where he is a cruel beast, all for sake of his family.
(quick detour but i really like how odysseus' focus is primarily on penelope rather than telemachus. [insert deadbeat dad joke here], but in reality, he doesn't even know the boy. penelope he chose to marry and fall in love with - it's no question that he loves telemachus, but after ten years, it is only natural that he would miss his beautiful, tricky wife with more fervour than the child he never had the chance to love. it shows he is imperfect, even illogical - the son is the father's entire legacy. just as odysseus is 'son of laertes', so will telemachus be 'son of odysseus', the protector of his immortal heroic legacy. yet it is penelope whom odysseus yearns for.)
(another detour but "i'm just a man" is such a juicy lyric, because the entire message of homer's odyssey is that odysseus is not any man - he is a man that the muses deem worthy to inspire great poets to compose epic poems that persist through thousands of years and a million different voices - a hero. but epic's odysseus is not that hero. he is a man, trying to go home, craving comfort and the warmth of the hearth. these 'flaws' humanise him more than homer's odysseus could ever imagine.)
skipping over to polyphemus, odysseus violates xenia once again by killing polyphemus' sheep, albeit unwittingly. homer makes this violation very obvious - odysseus and crew eat polyphemus' cheese and wine while polyphemus tends to his sheep, knowing that the cave is obviously inhabited, and they even wait for polyphemus to return to ask for more. it is worth noting as well that, at this point, odysseus and crew are still jubilant about their victory, and unlike in epic, these 'detours' are purposeful, specifically so that odysseus can scope out the islands for anything of interest he can snatch and add to his spoils of war, adding to his kleos by means of physical wealth (timē) - which makes odysseus' offer of treasure to appease polyphemus all the more baffling in epic. this odysseus is a leader who prioritises the lives of his men over his own kleos, which makes the final lines - "you shall be the final man to die" // "what?" // "watch out!" - all the more heartbreaking. he wants to protect his men, so that they too may return to their families back on ithaca; the prospect of watching them die before his eyes after he already witnessed so many lose their lives in battle must be so utterly terrifying.
polyphemus is so excellently creepy as well! i loved him in the odyssey - this was where I really started to dislike odysseus, actually. he's a cyclops, obviously inhuman, yet he rears sheep and makes cheese and wine and weaves wicker baskets to keep them in, trying to play at humanity. i really did sympathise with him from the first time I read it. epic's polyphemus is similar, so very calm in his anger yet ruthless all the same, and demonstrates great restraint in comparison to his counterpart in the odyssey, who gets filthy drunk after mashing six men dead and allows odysseus+co. to fashion a stake with which to blind him. much of the violence against polyphemus, as well as the violation of xenia in homer's odyssey is 'excused' by the fact that polyphemus is a 'barbarian', to whom concepts of civilised people do not belong.
(very quick detour but polyphemus' first admonishment of odysseus - "you killed my sheep" up to "take from you like you took from me" - makes such heartbreaking parallels to astyanax's murder and the sack of troy. it almost provides a visualisation of the guilt that odysseus must still be battling. i would have loved to have been in his brain when he heard polyphemus say that.)
the mercy odysseus shows polyphemus is particularly interesting - homer's odysseus leaves him alive and tells him his name purely so that his name will spread and his kleos will grow. but epic's odysseus, despite his conviction to kill in survive and to avenge is fallen comrades in remember them, spares him. in part, this is to assure them an escape, so that the cyclops' giant body does not block their exit - but athena's interruption makes clear that this is not all. she criticises him, remarks "he is still a threat until he's dead." no doubt this calls back to zeus' warnings about astyanax, hence his refusal (or inability?) to commit to slaughter. for a homeric greek hero to allow a foe to live on after his allies had been slaughtered is a grave failure of reciprocity, casting shame on both the hero and their enemy. homer's odysseus escapes this with his reputation intact, since as a result polyphemus curses him to face poseidon's wrath - as I mentioned, for a hero, even negative attention from the gods is a good thing as it proves that their reputation/glory is known all over, even in olympus. but, as we have established, epic's odysseus cares not for kleos. the decision to tell polyphemus his name is entirely impulsive and irrational, grieving his comrades, hence athena's outrage.
the relationship between athena and odysseus is founded entirely on the principles they share, described in warrior of the mind (if anyone can lmk whereabouts this song fits in the timeline I will be so grateful, I'm stupid unfortunately :/). they value wisdom, reason, and rationality over brute strength and bloodlust. epic's athena becomes odysseus' patron goddess with the goal to "make a greater tomorrow" and "change the world" - aspirations that are entirely foreign to any homeric god. gods in homer do not care about the wellbeing of humans unless they are directly related to them, and they certainly don't care about the wellness of humanity as a whole. humans are toys and tools of the gods. the amount that athena cares for odysseus, even in the odyssey, is unusual, demonstrative of how much she cares for him, yet epic makes their comradery more obvious, even going as far as to (tentatively) call them friends. my goodbye frames athena's anger as disappointment at an experiment failed - calling back to warrior of the mind, where she claims to have "designed" him - but odysseus' replies to her makes clear that it is far more personal. perhaps, to her, odysseus acting so irrationally is even a betrayal; odysseus is abandoning the principles of reason they both once held and thus is forsaking all that they once shared and that she, as the goddess of wisdom, stands for.
ive always considered athena to be a very interesting goddess. she is a patron of both war, which in homer is only carried out by men, and weaving, the traditional work of women within the household - her very nature is a contradiction of masculine and feminine. although it is ares who is considered the 'black sheep' of the olympians for his brutality in war, epic's portrayal of athena through odysseus' lens paints her as lonely and ostracised - "since you claim you're so much wiser // why's your life spent all alone? // you're alone." It is clear that odysseus here does not view her as his patron at all, rather as a friend - and to that she takes offence, because she is a goddess, eternal and all-powerful. she does not need friendship or comradery; those are mortal concerns alone. personally, I see epic's athena as incredibly insecure. she cuts odysseus off because she cannot bare that a mortal has been able to read her so clearly, to see all the ugly parts of herself that she keeps hidden to retain the facade of the perfect goddess. she knows the paradox within herself - warrior and woman, immortal and alone - and rues that odysseus was able to see it as well. the cruellest part, the most ironic, is that his being able to figure out the true, imperfect nature of a god shows that he has not abandoned the path of the warrior of the mind. in fact, his wisdom extends beyond mortality into the realm of the divine. but athena is blinded by her anger and insecurity, and she says her goodbyes. she disappears from there, only to appear again to try to warn odysseus of his crew opening the bag of winds given to him by aeolus in keep your friends close, once again demonstrating her care for him, despite her anger.
the amount that odysseus cares for his crew is demonstrated time and again throughout the album, yet in the end, he still slowly loses their trust. aeolus' winds are the first sign. his crew betrays his orders upon the first whisper on the wind that he might be keeping treasure from them. the next sign, in puppeteer, is eurylochus' confession upon arrival to aeaea (circe's island), which odysseus brushes off, much as he brushed off eurylochus' concerns in luck runs out. then, in a matter of moments, 600 men are reduced to forty by the wrath of poseidon - which in itself is a significant change. while odysseus in epic is explicitly blamed for failing to kill polyphemus, homer's odysseus takes no responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of his men. it happens when they arrive at telepylos, which, unbeknownst to them, is home to the laestrygonians, a race of cannibalistic giants. odysseus, apparently sensing something off (who tf does he think he is, spiderman?), allows his entire fleet to enter the bay of telepylos while his ship alone remains outside - and when those ships are attacked and trapped, he alone takes his single ship and escapes, allowing twelve ships of men to be ripped apart and eaten by cannibals. an act which he shows no remorse for.
in my interpretation of homer's odyssey, it is this slowly slipping trust that eventually leads to his men ignoring his warnings and feasting on the cows of helios which leads to the deaths of all his remaining crew, including eurylochus and polites (spoilers? idk). so, once epic: the musical catches up to book 12 of the odyssey you WILL be seeing me again I hope ur excited.
there is definitely more i could say here, especially about the circe saga bcs ohhh my god I love circe and I love this circe especially (a female character with actual motive other than being a victim? homer could never) but unfortunately I'm running out of steam and I do in fact have 3 essays due this month (help) so I will probably return to this later !! hopefully its readable bcs I'm not going back to edit any of this ;)
#joined cort's spotify jam while writing this and got rickrolled#the message here is trust no one#skipped my seminar to do work and did this instead#fuck u plautus and your dumb menaechmi#this took like 4 hrs to write i have issues#epic the musical#epic the ocean saga#epic the circe saga#epic the cyclops saga#epic the troy saga#epic#classics#classical studies#homer's iliad#homer's odyssey#the odyssey#odysseus#penelope#media analysis#literary analysis#longpost#homer
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Rust Crick 🌾 DA-7167-8664-4413 @faeryac | original post
#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#acnh#acnh edit#acnh dream address#dream address#dream journal#rust crick#this is such a cool visit n i loved all of the villagers interiors!!!!!#i stayed so long the fog dissipated orz#also i saw the sea creatures poster in one of the houses n got so excited i booked it to the museum#felt like i got rickrolled lmaoo
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So
Vessel has done covers of Hey Ya and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, both of which are fast paced song that were slowed down in the cover
So it stands to reason that he'd be drawn to do the same with similar songs.
Anyways.
He should cover Never Gonna Give You Up and rickroll the whole fanbase
#sleep token#worshitposting#this would hilarious and also the cover would be beautiful#i got rickrolled and decided to watch the whole video and this thought came to me in a flash its yours now#my greatest contribution to any fandom are the weird thoughts that i leave like dead rats in the tags. enjoy#also possible someone has already posted something similar to this. if so feel free to ignore
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hello guys
i am NOT comfortable with "kys" jokes
It should be a basic thing that you don't say this to someone you don't know and don't know the boundaries of. Doing this to a friend you're close to is fine, but don't make jokes like this to people you don't know, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S A JOKE. Do Not Tell People You Don't Know To Kill Theirselves.
#seriously im tired.#i got a lot of “omg kys lol” things on a post of mine. it was a rickroll#it doesnt matter. it was a fucking rick roll. you're telling me to kill myself over a RICKROLL. seriously??????????#!#important#tw suicide#tw sui mention
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#I've found myself blocked by a lot of random people since I made that alt text rickroll post#like even people I have talked to were apparently really offended by my disrespectful misuse of alt text#like... first of all it was meant as a silly goofy joke for MY MUTUALS ONLY and then it got away from me#second of all it was someone else's idea first I was just copying off of another post#and thirdly I deleted it once I realized that people were upset about it!!! it isn't even on my blog anymore!!#I wasn't making fun of visually impaired people holy shit. I AM a visually impaired person#I was making use of Tumblr features to make a joke for MY MUTUALS.#and now I can't interact with half of this website because of it#like yeah it was inconsiderate of me THAT'S WHY I DELETED THE FRICKING POST GUYS
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i saw the bulbapedia april fools thing and i went to check the splatoon wiki and it was exactly what i thought itd be lol
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flight of the fucking bumblebee. cmon man
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I need my darling followers who did the wikipedia random gender poll to know that the answer you got was in fact the point.
#i love you guys but my notifs are just people going 'I can't believe I got rickrolling!'#beloveds...#I scheduled this to post about ten minutes after the poll itself so I wouldn't ruin anyone's fun for the next two or three hours
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if the sollux car is yours (which i assume it is given your iconsake) i think your car looks awesome :( how could people hate such an awesome car
I love putting weird things on my car and having fun with it especially because a lot of people get a kick out of seeing this strange car out in the wild but some people get so mean over stickers s: Nobody said anything overly Terrible on here but last time I posted my car on twitter a while ago several people were really nasty about it -_-
#ask#a car is just another ita bag if you arent a coward#its not a big deal if people find out where i live from that post but pls leave my friend alone he didnt sign up for that#but one time i caught a bunch of people scanning the qr code on my car in the parking lot when i came out of wommart it was very funny and#they were all very fun and chill and im glad they got a laugh out of it (the qr code leads to a rickroll)
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smh kids these days don't understand the point of rickrolling. "haha nice try but the ads on the video prevented me from being rickrolled!" so what you're saying is... you clicked on the link? you clicked on my silly little link expecting something else, but it was actually rick astley's infamous music video? sorry bud, just because you didn't take the time to look in the mirror doesn't mean i missed you with my clown makeup beam. you're still wearing it.
#ghost town... 2!#it's not about the song... it's about the principle of deception.... you fool....#also context: i posted an innocuous meme on youtube ages ago and people took it seriously for some reason#so i “doubled down” and pinned a rickroll as “proof” that the video was “real” (i never claimed it was real bc it obviously isn't lmao)#(the video is just markiplier's famous “WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87” facecam over the ending of annihilate jsab btw)#(i then got WAY TOO MANY COMMENTS calling me out for posting a fake video like. yes. i know. it's fake. good job you got me.)
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never getting over how the producers of I Woke Up A Vampire got Rick Astley to play a vampire but also to play himself. they rly handed him some fake fangs and made him get on FaceTime to say that he's a real-life vampire
#new conspiracy theory just dropped lads#i'm pretty sure it's actually an evil shapeshifter PRETENDING to be Rick Astley but they still got Rick Astley for the part#so either way he's either a canonical vampire or a shapeshifter has canonically drank his blood to be able to take on his form#netflix#rick astley#rickroll#i woke up a vampire
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We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (to say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
VAFFANCULO
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So for my own sanity I took a break from this blog for a bit. Today I came back for the first time and I come back to this in my inbox:
@nocentis / @aetrnalis / @sinshckled
I've seen a lot of conspiracy in my life but NOTHING QUITE LIKE THIS
#nocentis#aetrnails#sinshckled#wtf you guys#just like wtaf#this gave me a good laugh xD#NOT TO MENTION I JUST GOT RICKROLLED BY MY GF LITERALLY YESTERDAY TOO#after rickrolling HER two days ago
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