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Sacred fruit

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as always i have to interrupt everyone’s happiness with angst. So imagine, just imagine, the joy that ctimene felt knowing that her brother was alive and rushing to the palace. Penelope and Odysseus finish their song and the door is immediately slammed opened by Ctimene who throws her hands around Odysseus and hugs him. Only Odysseus can’t hug her back, he just can’t. And Penelope knows, by just looking at her husband, that the phrase “trading friends like objects” meant so much more than she thought. And there is weight in the air as Ctimene pulls out and asks “Where’s Eurylochus?”

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i love my cat but he is very fond of trickery

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Don’t tell me you’re not the same person You’re always my husband And I’ve been waiting, waiting

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😭😭😭

father how i've longed to see you!

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maybe odysseus wondered and worried about what telemachus would be like when he finally met his son, if he'd even want a dad, if he'd be a good kid, if he'd grown up to be cynical or ruthless due to the horrific environment he was raised in.

and then odysseus meets telemachus.

within a few hours odysseus realizes: he's just like Polites. except i saved him in time, didn't hesitate to END the one who threatened my BOY

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LITERALLY!!

The last words ever sung in Epic being "I love you", everything truly is about love huh?

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THE FACT THAT "I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER" AND "WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AGAIN" LITERALLY FINISH EACHOTHER AHHHHH ITS A SENTENCE

I can't help but wonder; would you fall in love with me again?

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

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UP AGAINST AN ARCHER!!

When does a Man become a Monster?

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Can we please appreciate Odysseus being a silent stalker in the shadows, taking out suitors with his bow, not deigning to speak to them as he takes them out one by one

until some of them go "we have to strike him in the darkness too! we know the halls of this palace! the odds can be tilted!"

and Odysseus, built this palace with his very hands, has to step out of the shadows like "are you this fucking stupid"

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I Can’t Help But Wonder absolutely KILLS ME because it sounds like a lullaby, it sounds like Dear Theodosia, except ODYSSEUS COULD NEVER SING HIS SON LULLABIES WHEN HE WAS SMALL, so now he has to sing it to him while he’s an adult. and Telemachus is singing it BACK to him. oh god i’m ill

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Odysseus: I am no longer the man you fell in love with- hold up

Penelope: What's wrong my love?

Odysseus: wait here, I need to go back to the underworld and beat up a certain prophet, I'll be home for dinner

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Ithaca Saga thoughts:

- the one thing that bothers me is that we never see Odysseus, Telemachus, and Penelope together in a big hug. Don't get me wrong, the Penelope/Odysseus hug made me ugly cry, but I wanted them to all be together as a family

- I can't help but wonder gives dear theodosia vibes

- Ody says that he carved the marriage bed out of the tree under which they first met and the roots are still planted, does Penelope have to prune their bed?

- also, since he built the palace, does that mean that he carved the tree into a bed and then built the palace around the bed?

- When Penelope asks Ody how long it's been that he's been gone... does she really not know? Has she just been existing outside time until her husband comes back, regardless of what the suitors shout?

- Also with the question about the marriage bed: PENELOPE IS AS CLEVER AS ODY, THATS WHY HE MARRIED HER. And with the shroud, and the bow challenge, she's clever, just like him!!!

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Exposing myself as the theater nerd I am. I'm just sad that vengeance saga hasn't been out long enough to have made an impact on my wrapped, b/c one of those songs probably would have made my top song. Calypso my beloved. Also, the secret snippet had me almost crying???

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I'm trying to make a good pot roast in my crockpot, but after I take it out it gets dry. It's on "low" (whatever that means) for 8 hours. I've tried searing it before and still dry. It's submerged in plain water with some herbs and spices for that time. Am I over/undercooking it? It's a cut with low fat %, is that why?

I love you. I think you learned how to make pot roast from someone on Opposite Day, or perhaps April 1st. The only thing you got right is 'low heat for 8 hours'.

Choose a fatty cut of tough meat. Look for lots of fat marbling on a Chuck roast or Shoulder roast. Tough meat has a ton of flavor, and the fat keeps the meat from drying out. The long cook time on low heat, plus acids will make 'tough' meat into a pull-apart, melt-in-your-mouth glory.

Make sure the meat is completely thawed, NOT frozen.

Plain water and nothing else except herbs/spices is.... not what I'd do. A lot of flavor can come into the broth when you add whole carrots (minus the carrot top!) and quartered onions in there. I'm a fan of adding some big chunks of pumpkin or butternut squash and chunks of turnip as well.

I think using red wine for part of the liquid base, and adding a hearty helping of worcestershire sauce will also help the flavor and making the meat 'melty.' The acid and alcohol will draw more, and different flavors from the meat and vegetables that water alone cannot do. Makes it richer.

For my very best pot roast recipe, which had my wedding guests fuckin' clamoring to get the recipe; I cheat. I'm not ashamed of that fact. For the richest, most face-punchingly meaty tasting broth, go to an asian market (or online) and find a mushroom hot pot soup base. It'll be a thick liquid inside a bag, which you then dilute with water. Use THAT as the liquid base (remember to dilute it!), and add your wine and wocestershire sauce to it, along with those herbs & spices. Your whole face will be blown off with flavor. It's the best.

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twenty years across the sea

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This is the best thing ever. I scrolled past it and couldn't stop thinking about it so I came back. This embodies one flesh one end SO MUCH. I love you, I can't live without you, I am you, you are me, we are bound together, we were always destined to be together, there is no one that can take your place, you are inside of me, you are a part of me but I need you to be even more. Beautiful

“One Flesh, One End”