#fuckin music

[shadebloopnik]

Penelope: Would I fall in love with you again? Hmmm, well. Can you also move our marriage bed over there? Hmmm? What? I thought we were pretending to be stupid by asking the most idiotic questions.

[brainrotcharacters]

I love Penelope she endured Odysseus yapping and she went "don't you fucking dare steal my autonomy from me!? I decide if I accept your war crimes!! and I've already decided!!!" icon. Ithaca is lucky to have her

[laerwenmith]

"..Mom?"

[xeverlee]

fun fact! up until around 2 months ago, i completely thought that Epic: The Musical was just a musical of this movie

and i was over here scratching my head about how the hell did cyclops fit into the story

[lynnbutlertron]

SMILING FRIENDS WAITRESS AU!!! WHERE CHARLIE IS JENNA AND INSTEAD OF MAKING PIES HE MAKES SHITTY CASSEROLES IN HIS LITTLE MAID OUTFIT!!! AND ITS CHARPIM!!!!

[sowearecleariamhere]

Penelope could easily be painted as the damsel yearning for her lover, the woman without much agency waiting for her husband to come home (which of course we all know she isn't, she is a literal and metaphorical queen), and in a lesser story*) she might have been cast into that stereotype. I think that is why I love her almost yelling "You're mine" at Odysseus in WYFILWMA.

It is so possessive and decisive, ruling out any "buts". It perfectly underlines her steadfastness, her loyalty, her agency. She claims Odysseus as hers without question once she knows it is really him, that he is finally back home. She is seemingly offended that Odysseus even suggests that she might not accept him after how much he has changed. (She will make her own mind up about that, thank you very much, and said mind has been made up for 20 years btw)

It is not only that Odysseus has come home and now she chooses him. No, she has been choosing him over and over and over for the past 20 years with every action she took. It is not him coming back that now puts her in the position to choose him - it only reveals that choice, that there never was another choice other than Odysseus. Which leads me to my honorable mention:

Ody: "[...] You’ve been waiting for love."

Pen: "I've been waiting for you."

Penelope definitely had a surplus of suitors (108) and even if their motives might have been questionable, she could have easily found a new husband if that was what she wanted, maybe even one that genuinely loved her. But Penelope's love is Odysseus. Love for her is synonymous with him. No one else is even worth considering, she would rather be alone or even die before she gives any other man the time of day.

tldr; I love love LOVE the wording in WYFILWMA, how it shows how Penelope is just not taking this shit from her husband. She knows what she wants and that is Odysseus, even if it is not the original model but the slightly banged up version, the heavily traumatized, now with grey hairs probably, war criminal, ruthless god torturer version of her husband.

Because he is still her husband, goddamn it.

This might very well not make much sense bc I am insane over them currently

*) "lesser story" is not referring to the odyssey or saying epic is better than the odyssey, I mean to compare them both to any completely different work (or franchise if you will) that does not give characters agency where they should have it

[gods-favorite-autistic]

I was relistening to Ruthlessness and I heard Poseidons “43 left under your command” and I immediately thought of the “558 men who died” part of The Underworld and oh my god he remembered to include that one guy who got drunk and fell off of Circe’s roof that’s amazing

[keysmashing-bees]

I haven't seen the movie yet but this concept has been rotating in my head for a year now. So.

[ricky-mortis]

Here’s my submission for @pulpmusicalsfortnight2024 Day 13 (ignore that that was technically yesterday): Light/Dark

[miwtual]

@lgbtqcreators creator challenge — show of the year this tongue has ruined many things within my path

[jennilah]

I dont use spotify, so at the start of the year I reset my song playcount so I could participate in the fun too

heres my.. Jenna's Itunes Wrapped, 2024

I have nothing to say for myself. absolutely nothing.

[brainrotcharacters]

Penelope a madwoman for going "Oh, you're not my husband? Move the bed, then." And the man put his whole Odyussy into being outraged

[front-facing-pokemon]

[thewhizzyhead]

also side ramble time, it has already been established that misogyny has seeped through the other gangs' treatment of the warriors (I.e. "late night cosmetology class", repeated use of "girls" rather than calling them women, etc.). with that in mind, I find it very interesting and rather culturally relevant of the writers to have the hurricanes, the one and only gang that lets the warriors off the hook, to be a VOGUE-themed gang that explicitly features black queer individuals! It speaks volumes that amidst the animosity of most of the new york gangs, it was a gang with explicit african-american and latino queer culture through the ballroom scene-themes at the forefront that encourages the main diversion of the warriors (2024) from its predecessors: the recontextualization of the warriors fighting back ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY ARE WOMEN and that same changed thread leading to changed motivations and actions from ajax, fox, and hell even mercy as they go through the show.

like, it's a very very fucking nice thing to have the cultures and histories of resistance from the POC queer communities of NYC become the fuel for immense character (and thematic) growth in our version of warriors. Truly a song of resilience and solidarity amongst marginalized sectors

[nonbinary-arsonists]

guess what musical i just watched

[neverforgetyouremyfavorite]

holding paul matthews in my hands like a bug or perhaps a small frog