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The Lady of Shalott is an 1842 Arthurian poem about a lady who is cursed to remain confined within an isolated tower, weaving on her loom. She is forbidden to look out her window, and is only able to see the world through the shadows that appear in her magic mirror. One day, however, she turns away from her work. This poem was also turned into a song by Loreena McKennit.

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Let’s be real. His expense reports are widely known to be like this.

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even if it kills me

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Penelope, Ariadne, & Andromeda in mythology having:

agency

personalities

happy marriages with loving husbands

Also, Penelope and Andromeda had a say in their marriages

“Feminist” Retelling Authors: look at these poor women being forced into abusive marriages by their sexist society. I will give them a voice in my retelling *proceed to ignore all their trauma and personality traits, and reduce their personalities into “girlbosses or weak victims that hate men, especially their husbands.”*

They always use the excuse “well, we don’t actually know what they felt about their husbands and situations”. YES, WE DO! Just admit you never bothered doing research or using your brain while reading the source material. If you don’t like how it was written, then just leave it be instead of trying to “fix” it.

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Can I just say I love love looove the moments in "Suffering" where Odysseus says things that are actually true, or reflective of what he might say to Penelope, even while he's playing along with the siren. Like:

"Don’t you miss me? / More than you know."

It's a tender endearment, but it’s also true whether he's saying it to Penelope or the siren! "More than you know" because you’re not really her, and the siren doesn't know the depth of how much he misses his wife.

Or little phrases like "as good as it sounds" and "for you, I would die." Like yes Odysseus does just want to be with her!! He would die for her!! He means it, even though he’s pretending. That’s what makes it hit so hard in my opinion, that he’s hiding real feelings in the performance, so the siren thinks it’s for her.

And that long-suffering sigh at the end followed by "the things I do for you," ugh. It feels like an old inside joke, the kind of thing you say when your partner asks for something small and you pretend to complain, but you’re already doing it with a smile. It’s sweet, familiar, and completely gutting, but also... he is literally doing the impossible for her!!

And it's such a rich line coming right off of "Monster" where he's resigned himself to doing whatever it takes to get home. He is drawing his bow and thinking only of her, only of the things he'll do to get back to her.

But what I think hurts the most is how he slips into the rhythm of this song so easily. That kind of flirty back-and-forth must feel so familiar to him! It’s muscle memory; he’s done this with her a thousand times, and he wants so badly for this to be her, for it to be real. For a moment of that teasing, effortless banter again. You can hear him reaching for it, even knowing it’s not her.

And I think that's also why his anger in "Different Beast" is so palpable too. He had to look at a siren wearing his wife’s face, using her voice, pulling him into something that felt like home, and then hurt her. He had a flicker of normalcy, a moment that felt like her again after so long, and he had to destroy it with his own hands.

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Manannán by Ksenia Kru

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Can we as a fandom agree that Eris raised Lucien ?

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Out here dreaming up posts that are only funny if you are familiar with the plot of the Odyssey, the classic 1870 sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the 2003 film Finding Nemo and also know the Latin word for "no one".

Fortunately this is tumblr and everyone loves stupidly niche jokes. Here is my vision:

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"I would rather lie in my wife's arms for a moment than to spend forever without her."

yeah no worries brb cryin g

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i love athena bc she favors odysseus for being cunning and a tactical genius and all that. and she favors diomedes for being batshit insane

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And Pygmalion prayed to Hephaestus, Coppersmith, Renowned Artificer, god of the forge and stonecarving, and prayed that his ivory sculpture may be brought to life.

But Hephaestus, Cunning, Clubfoot, stayed his hand; “I will not allow this,” he said. “To destroy thine handiwork would be contrary to my nature. For great craftsmanship shall last forever, while flesh will falter in time. In stone, she will have beauty that is everlasting, endless and immortal.”

Then Pygmalion prayed to Aprodite and said, “Can you please bring my sculpture to life? Your husband said no,” and lo; Aphrodite had the chance to do something hilarious.

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BABE WAKE UP IT'S GAY CATHOLICS SUMMER RENAISSANCE AHHH (The sandman x Conclave fandom where are u)

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So apparently Tumblr ate my original post about this but:

A couple weeks ago I’m going to get lunch and as I open the fridge, my mother attempts to communicate to me that any chicken currently in the fridge is ok for people to eat, because the chicken that was intended for the dog to eat has been used up.

What she actually says is, “That’s human chicken.”

After taking a minute to process all horrible implications of the phrase “human chicken”, I decide to go a different route and hold the tupperware of chicken out to my sister, saying, “Behold, a man!”

This was evidently the wrong choice, as it meant I had to explain to my parents who Diogenes was, thereby cementing the incident in their minds and leading to me, just now, opening the fridge to see the following incredibly cursed image:

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somatic symptoms of anxiety are so fucked. what do you mean I got so scared my body decided that it needed to add nausea and headache and dizzy to the situation. how is it helping

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Old Ben, fondly and earnestly with a wistful gleam in his wise, ancient blue eyes: “He was the best star pilot in the galaxy.”

[we cut to a five minute montage of Obi Wan and Ahsoka screaming and clinging on for dear life as Anakin crashes various ships, using the same exact crash footage each time like the Toonces the Driving Cat 80’s SNL skit]

Old Ben, dignified, poised and mournful, continuing with no acknowledgment of the previous scene: “And a good friend.”