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menelaiad · 2 years ago

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LOOK. whatever you think of menelaus or agamemnon or whatever. this lil moment here (from icke's oresteia) is AGONY. because they did come from so much shit. from murder and scheming and freakin' cANNIBALISM. yet they MADE IT. before paris and the dominos that fell afterwards, they would have believed that they were different, that they were safe. they had wives that loved them and kids that loved them too (argue with the wall about it). they had MADE IT. DESPITE EVERYTHING. and most importantly they had EACH OTHER. they weren't atreus and thyestes. things were so good for them. and they did good!! we know that myceneans LOVED aga as their king. and menelaus got a kingdom he NEVER expected to have.

to be descended from TANTALUS you are already losing. to then have ATREUS as a father and THYESTES as an uncle? it would have been so easy for greeks to write them off. for them to write themselves off. BUT THAT DIDNT HAPPEN. and they did SO WELL. it was all going SO WELL.

you can't change a narrative. you can't alter fate. and the reason tragedies are so is because it wasn't ALWAYS that way. but ... things could have been so different for them. i TRULY believe that.

#i dont believe aga was like predestined to just be a clown.#was he perfect personality wise? no.#but his personality combined with the cirumstances put on him? fuck bro #and what hurts more. is. menelaus IN A WAY goes back to this.#he gets the kingdom. the wife. the kids back.#but he loses his brother.#moments before troy were the last time these two were truly TRULY TRULY happy and complete #and that TEARS me down #menelaus got so much of it back but lost. another big. HUGE important part.#aga parted with his brother on bad terms. for all he knew. they were done. they had becomes #atreus and thyestes. they never got the closure.#'we could have just been eaten up by it' i am. weeping.#MENELAUS WASNT. and there's comfort in aga knowing that. i suppose. before he died.#i just. wanna talk about these brothers until i lose my voice.#they are everything to me.#i know i have brain fog and this makes no sense but MY GOD.#paul rudd: hey. hey look at us. meme.mp4 #'they were doomed from the beginning' I KNOW. I JUST /WISH/ THEY WERENT OKAY

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