#they did nothing wrong your honor

[buki-1]

I think Challengers is a really fun movie.

[thepinkpestilence]

Behind blue eyes

[monowritestoomuch]

POV: You’re listening to me justify the actions of one of my blorbos

Me: Your honor, he only killed a few people—but he was in a task force your honor!

[rraaaarrl]

I need to dig up that reference or article about how Comic Sans is actually helpful for dyslexia for reasons

[murfpersonalblog]

I skip apology and go straight to being their criminal defense lawyer.

i love doing apologism for fictional characters. yes he killed people and ruined everything but thats ok bc i like him and hes my little baby. so who cares

[demii-bourbon]

I love them so much this took me like two weeks

[share-somelove]

Let my boy go he did nothing wrong

[fighto-art]

Rewatched the first Avengers movie the other day and I loved scepter boy who killed 80 people in 2 days

[bucky-obsessed]

I loved this part!

[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

[princess-pathetic-112898]

*Dan Voice* HERBERT-

[meangirlsbway]

Janis ‘Imi’Ike icons!

[rosietrace]

Shipping Eloise and Cressida Cowper was not on my 2024 bingo card

But am I complaining??? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NOT

[brook8xoxo]

THIS EDIT NEEDS MORE RECOGNITION

[microwavedchocolatechipcookie]

himiko toga.., my beloved.., she deserved to rehabilitate and be in love w her gf.., but nooooooo

[beachbabey]

sometimes your babygirls are a ptsd riddled cockney and a fruity ass looking killing machine