#naked girls tattoo

[chlobody]

on edge [ shot by @ohseephotography ]

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Odysseus' reintegration into the world bound by mortal limitations foregrounds both his age and the distance he has traveled. The shipwrecked sailor who manages to crawl ashore naked on Scheria, bereft of companions, possessions, any token of identity — of all but the bare ember of vitality (cf. 5.488-90 — a lonely spark in a pile of ashes) — meets the young Nausikaa, whose life (like that of Telemachus) is just opening to the possibilities before her. The scene in which Odysseus, awakened by sounds that evoke in him fears of hostile men, faces instead a group of teenage girls playing ball, is both comic and poignant as it measures the difference between their expectations and stages of experience. Later, as he is challenged to compete in an athletic contest, Odysseus acknowledges the toll that age and journeying inevitably take. This is not, then, the epic of the beautiful death (one way to read the Iliad (e.g., see Vernant 1991: 50-74)) but the epic of timeworn, embraceable life.

John Miles Foley, A Companion to Ancient Epic, 2005.

[amberaesthetic101]

1, 2, or 3?

[unholy-cvlt]

WOO HOO!

[mjbythebay]

Chappell Roan is just handing me the urge to go get a tattoo of her lyrics on a fucking platter

[eve-was-framed]

there’s this addiction recovery creator I really like who recently got out of an abusive relationship and immediately jumped right into another relationship with a violent felon who brags about his crimes and she’s moving her and her two young girls across the country to live with him

[laurettelarue]