#THE RESIGNATION

[yrsonpurpose]

PAUL MESCAL & ANDREW SCOTT All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh — You're here. With me.

[momachan]

"I haven't really lived here in months. Place is probably a mess. In bed by midnight. When's the last time that happened? Never knew there were so many minutes in one night. No coffee, orange juice, milk or cereal. Breakfast's a wash. Maybe I could call for a pizza-- a cornflake pizza."

Nightwing (1996-2009) Vol. 1: Bludhaven. "The Resignation."

Cornflake pizza... may god forgives you because I can't, Dick Grayson. 😆

[raccoons-in-a-trenchcoat]

THERE IS NO OTHER ROUTE OUT. CHOOSE AND CHOOSE AND CHOOSE.

Anyway I’m obsessed with @spinbitchzu’s fic tell it again.

[beanmaster-pika]

Me when I get into a new series or game: hello! where are the tragic brothers

[khalixvitae]

🩻 Warning: book 6 spoilers but w no context 🩻

This scene. Made me so mentally unwell. Like. Spiritually unwell, even. A wave of nausea is the best way to describe it.

[napping-sapphic]

*large resigned sigh* i would be SO good at being someone’s pathetic girlfriend

[bertoyana]

#ship so good they (accidentally) gave each other abandonment issues

[thankstothe]

one-85

[vriskan8or]

let her go

[blorbocedes]

lando explaining how instead of pills, his trainer incorporates his nutrient deficiencies in his food

youtuber: kind of like a dog?

lando: (resigned sigh) kind of like a dog 😶😐

[vgilantee]

the most embarrassing part about being a virgin smut writer is that those tiktoks of pussy eating/cock sucking tips and tricks have me taking notes. not to use irl because HA nobody's touching me any time soon are you kidding. but to make sure sex havers think I know what I'm talking about when writing my fictional character porn

[momachan]

"...We watched my parents fall to their deaths from a sabotaged trapeze rig-- murdered by a Grade B hood named Boss Zucco who was trying to extort money. --I became Robin, history's first kid sidekick. There I was the laughing boy daredevil-- Tearing through Gotham City with the great Batman himself. I thought I was the hottest item in town. But it wasn't all fun. I was on call twenty-four hours a day and you subjected me to discipline that would make a Marine Boot Camp look like a Scout Girl Cookie Fest. I was able to handle school work-- but there was no time for anything else. No football games, no dances, no proms, no girlfriends. Just Robin, laughing boy daredevil. Batman's faithful shadow. And where was Dick Grayson? Nowhere. Nowhere at all. Eventually I cut loose from you. I thought I was becoming my own person. But was I? I adopted this identity-- Nightwing-- A bargain basement version of Batman, and I continued to do as I'd always done. Wear a mask and fight the bad guys... I realized I'm not you. I was never you. I don't want to be you... I want you to have the Nightwing suit, here. -What should I do with it? -Put it in a trophy case. Give it to the Salvation Army. Burn it."

Nightwing (1996-2009) Vol. 1: Bludhaven. "The Resignation."

[amygdalae]

[wickedheadache]

forever obsessed with Regina's conversation with Emma this episode. her acknowledging that she's built up on a lot of bad habits to the point where they're now her instincts. acknowledging that her first instincts are destructive and that she needs to actively make an effort to ignore them. her finally knowing what she wants out of life and what brings her happiness.

but also: "you hate doing good?" "YES" and how shocked Emma is by that. delicious. a full meal.

[wowsillies]

I WISH Jorge had referenced the part of Luck Runs Out where Odysseus tells Eurylochus to be quiet because I feel like that’s an element missing from a lot of Eurylochus interpretations.

“I need you to always be devout and comply with this /Or we'll all die in this” is important because Eurylochus fails to do it by questioning Odysseus’ words (the bag is NOT treasure, it’s storm) and opening the wind bag and his actions lead directly to the facilitation of the death of most of the crew. I hesitate to say he’s to blame because, well, Poseidon is taking revenge due to Odysseus’ decision, but Eurylochus handed him means and perfect opportunity to do it.

So, after that, Eurylochus obeys everything Odysseus says to do. He takes men to explore Circe’s island. He stays put instead of running when Odysseus goes to rescue him. He follows intl the Underworld despite the fact that “hey this witch is helping us now by sending us to death’s realm, this is definitely not a trick” probably raised some questions. He doesn’t (or at least we don’t see) stray or talk to the souls in the Underworld even though Odysseus ends up doing it. He traps and kills the sirens.

He lights and gives out six torches.

So, if devotion to Odysseus wasn’t enough to save them? If Odysseusnis now using that devotion and trust to get them killed as long as he gets to make it home to his wife? What is he meant to do now?

Eurylochus doesn’t sound… fully there, during the second half of Mutiny. Whether there was divine intervention pushing him or madness or simply the pain of it all, he’s not acting rationally. He just saw six of his trusted men brutally murdered, asks Odysseus to lie and say it was a trick, and can’t even kill him when the truth comes out. Odysseus’ wounds are bandaged! (I’m not sure that he doesn’t actually know where Helios’ statue is from btw, both due to the melody and bc it seems outrageous)

We’re all talking about Odysseus pleading for Eurylochus to stop before killing the cows, but Eurylochus is pleading too. He asks how much longer is he expected to suffer, to push through doubt, to follow the orders. And Odysseus’ first plea is “I need to get home” (later “we can get home”). Let’s not forget Odysseus is selfish and Eurylochus knows that, maybe even loves that, but he’s not just hungry, he’s tired.

When Polites gets the location of the sheep cave from the lotus eaters and takes the men to it, he leads several of them to death and himself to his doom. When Eurylochus stumbles upon the cows, does he remember that? Does he deliberately invoke it?

Killing the cows isn’t about the hunger, not really. It’s about the devotion that was asked of him, the price he paid to learn that lesson, and the pain that silence put him through anyway.

[rubyfunkey]

ponders them...