#same with music

[capricores]

the scorpio urge to over-consume every new thing you love (music: looping the same few songs for weeks on end, food: only eating a specific food all the time OR frequently eating a new craving as your little treat, etc) until you absolutely despise it and cannot stand it anymore <3

[esorydoolb]

Did you know that no story is completely the same any time you read, watch, or play it again? For example, you could have a new perception of the main character, which differs from the idealized version of them that you had the first time. you may choose to empathize less with their actions and feelings, and instead focus your attention on the side characters that you barely perceived the first time. or maybe you notice that the "good" protagonist character is suddenly not as noble as you thought, you were just influenced by the perspective the story is told from. maybe something in your life has happened or changed, and you see some of it reflected in a character that you previously didn't care for. a good example is when you like the villain a lot more as you get older, because you don't believe in pure good and evil anymore.

this is true for other aspects as well, like motives, conversations, metaphors that you previously didn't understand or interpreted differently. I'm sure that's something you were aware of, I just find it really cool to know that because you as a person are subject to change and constantly influenced and adapting, it can have a significant impact on the way you react to a story you have previously read and didn't really get, for example. it could also have the complete opposite effect and you suddenly hate it.

at a certain point in my life i developed this habit of wanting to read or see something a second time, and compare my reactions. sometimes, it not only tells you something new about the story that you missed previously, but it also tells you about yourself, and I think that's part of why I find it so addicting to experience the same story over and over again. Your mind just makes up new connections every time, so it's not necessarily redundant or boring to read/watch something again!

and basically, I'm just repeating what reader-response theory and cognitive literature studies have focused on these last years. it's quite interesting!

[ace-and-ranty]

To be completely fair to you, many varieties of English don't really distinguish between þ and ð. Everyone will understand you perfectly no matter which you use, and exactly which word is voiced and which is unvoiced will vary from dialect to dialect. In fact, some dialects such as Irish don't use eðier sound!

ðis ask brought to you by many hours of watching jan Misali and other English youtubers interested in linguistics.

Ahahaha, awww, thanks friend. Linguistics IS hella cool.

[luxury-nightmare]

Odysseus: Penelope I am not the same person you fell in love with, I have done terrible things to get home. I understand if you can’t accept the monstrous things I have done-

Penelope: cool, could you please move this wedding bed

Odysseus: what, no!

Penelope: that’s my husband

Odysseus: Penelope I have killed so many

Penelope: I don’t give a shit

Odysseus: I sacrificed my crew-

Penelope: And I would’ve done the same

Odysseus: I am covered in the blood of the suitors

Penelope: and you look fantastic

Odysseus: I TORTURED A GOD ON HIS OWN WEAPON

Penelope: and that was incredibly sexy of you

[thebat-musicman]

Odysseus: *lying, traveling, stealing, etc*

Hermes, the god of all those things: YOURE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE

[roseofithaca]

Odysseus crew: *watching him from the afterlife*

Elpenor: Look, he's hunting down the suitors! He's gonna kill them all!

Eurylochus: Maybe you were right, Polites. Violence has only lead to more violence. Perhaps the Captain would be better off showing mercy before he goes too far.

Polites: Are you fucking kidding me?! You heard what they were planning to do to Penelope and their son!! He should butcher every one of them!!!

[anfuus-strongest-soldier]

the minecraft movie is going to end with a man in a smiley face mask starting awake in bed and going "WHOA! that was crazy,,too bad it was all just a Dream"

[words-writ-in-starlight]

honestly my mother was a huge champ about her eight-year-old asking to be bought an unabridged edition of the Odyssey for a birthday present, and then she was an equally huge champ about reading her eight-year-old the unabridged Odyssey as a bedtime story and pausing every four lines to define something for me, and let me just say that I have fucking TREASURED the opportunity to reverse that old tradition by more or less forcing her to sit on my couch and listen to Epic and pause it every four lines for my dissertation

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[thefishywizard]

Guardian swap au for 4/13 ^ ^

[saveugoodmadam]

*leaves theatre* wow what a great show my favourite bit was how it fundamentally changed me as a person forever

[lyraofthestarsss]

You’re the number one fan of epic the musical??

WRONG

That title belongs to Jorge Rivera-Herrans!!!

[thatdykepunkslut]

Taylors wift is just elon musk for horse girls and gays who are afraid of faggots

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

PD-MDZS: The Hallmark Episode.

[mosdrash]

Found a new hobby/therapy: draw the various funny moments of the cast in Ithaca as their characters 🤭

[witless-winion1]

A week or two after Ithaca saga

Odysseus: (eating lunch with his wife and son) -get it?! I responded to his rhetorical question with a literal answer-

Penelope: (nodding along, unfazed)

Telemachus: ….(nervously sips drink) (chokes and spits it out)

Odysseus: My boy, are you alright?

Telemachus: Yeah- uh, just, what kind of wine is this?

Penelope: (tastes her cup, hums) interesting. It doesn’t look like wine, either…

Odysseus: (frowns and smells it) ….what is this..?

Telemachus: (looks into ‘wine’ pitcher) ….father?

Meanwhile, up in Olympus:

Ares: (giggling) he’s finally trying it-