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Ilium? More like I love 'im, amirite guys

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an apple a day keeps the doctor (aka the apollo cabin) away

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feel like a fucking idiot. logged into tumblr.com and searched up conclave, expecting some kind of analysis but all i saw was a sad bisexual kissing the intersex pope. gay shit on the gay website? not sure why I expected anything else.

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Hi, everyone. I made a quick quiz to test your knowledge of the ever expanding list of names at the end of each Midnight Burger episode. Only 11 questions, and I wasn't trying to make it difficult, because it's a bit of a test run for me. Really appreciate it if you take the time to do it! Let me know if I messed up anything, caught myself thinking I'd made up a name only for it to turn out to be a real one 💀 I can't guarantee that didn't happen twice.

Also, pretend every response says "Yes/No this is a name read at the end", I was too lazy to type it out for each one, and just having "Name"; Yes / No is kinda funny to me.

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So like I completely understand that bringing Jason back to life would completely cheapen the meaning of his death and go against the point of the narrative

But I actually dc. Rick needs to pick the pen up and write my boy a happy ending.

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jason is one of those people that everyone would be intimidated to talk to and be like “he has plenty of friends he wouldn’t want to get to know me i’m boring” but in reality he’s like. actually one of the loneliest people ever

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the Eurylochus apologist in me cannot be tamed. people often make fun of (?) Eurylochus for telling Odysseus "But we'll die" in Mutiny, because Odysseus explicitly told them to not. kill. the. damn. cow. now obviously, there's an element of hunger ("hunger is so heavy"), and desperation ("how much longer must we suffer now? how much longer must we push through doubt?"), which to me means two things: they're not going to make great decisions and they have no real hope of returning home.

and why would they have hope? Odysseus wouldn't have been able to defeat Circe without divine help. Odysseus showed that he was willing to take the first choice he got, which was to sacrifice 6 of his own men-- men, mind you, he'd tried to save previously. how can you trust your captain after that? they spent TEN YEARS fighting and living together, and now the crew reasonably fears they'll be next to die if their captain feels it's necessary. under these circumstances, only the present matters-- only short-term survival matters.

Eurylochus was for sure stupid for killing the cow. but there's a difference between having divine punishment inflicted on you and a god giving your captain a choice: him or all of you. in the latter case, there's a chance. a chance Odysseus will give up his life for the lives of dozens of others. "But we'll die" is not a stupid thing for Eurylochus to say in that moment-- he might've been prepared to face the wrath of a god (we often don't feel the weight of our decisions until after we make them, I don't think Eury was actually ready), but was Eurylochus prepared to have Odysseus choose his life over all of theirs?

now really, I don't see Odysseus as a monster here. my main gripe is with Zeus LOL. because he could've just smited the crew or Eurylochus himself. he was the one who killed the cow-- Odysseus didn't and was in fact, emphatic about not killing it. why would he be wrapped up in that mess? (yes, yes, there's an argument about Ody being the leader and his crew's actions being a reflection of his leadership but that aside...). Zeus had to turn the question to Odysseus-- even if I'm sure he knew the answer ("if I were to make you chose the life of your men and crew over your own, why do I think they'd lose?") just to torment him. just so that Odysseus can feel like the monster for making that choice.

Eurylochus was at fault, but he's just so terribly, heartbreakingly human. and so is Odysseus! impossible situations, impossible decisions. Zeus can [redacted redacted redacted] though.

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“Please…not you too..”

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they never would've guessed just how gay the right arm and right leg would get.

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ao3 is great because I'll be on [redacted tag] and see an old childhood piece of media I'd completely forgotten about. like wow. didn't expect you here. don't want to scar myself by reading that under [redacted tag] but thanks for the reminder.

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death boy u will always be famous

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kronos spiritually cannibalizing luke the way he did the first six olympians eons ago and luke destroying kronos from the inside similar to how zeus’ emetic made kronos regurgitate the children who’d bring about his doom in this essay i will

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one of the best gags in leverage is when the crew starts naming random cons, even better when they disagree and give us just enough information to be more confused - "it's like the cherry pie, but with lifeguards" or "the roper has a glass eye. No! It's a cue ball." bafflingly perfect, 10/10.

But a close second is when they just reference a con they did, without giving us any useful information. Now we see physical bits during like the broken wing job which is great. Or the night out jobs where they show the chaos of both nights in pieces from the other side. But I had forgotten in the 'cross my heart job' they were doing crazy crazy things. They were on the emerald isle, Sophie was pretending to be french on a topless beach, Eliot was in a shipwreck fighting three ex-brazilian combat divers with harpoons underwater, and hardison apparently faked a volcano eruption??

no notes. a perfect show truly

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Basically

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and suddenly, life has meaning again 🙂‍↕️

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Valentine's carnival at camp with cupid as the main star

Happy valentine's 💘

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