If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.
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after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle
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comment on 10cc - im not in love
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actually because i keep seeing polls around that vastly underestimate how long most people have been on this site, might as well make my own!
you know the drill, more reblogs equals more votes!
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Athena really did just pick a family and go- that one’s mine. Like we know Odysseus and Telemachus already have ties to Athena, but it’s always not mentioned as much that in the Odyssey, Athena looks after Penelope as well! She blesses Penelope with sleep when she cries, and soothes her-
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It's super funny to me that, in Suffering, the Siren answers Odysseus's question about how to avoid Poseidon completely truthfully even though she was planning on killing him at first opportunity. It didn't even ping her radar as a suspicious question to ask. It's like her day job is drowning mortal men but her nerdy hobby is nautical navigation and she couldn't help herself. She did NOT have to give him any info but she was like, Ooh fascinating hypothetical question! Here's my analysis on the best way to survive. Anyway, get in the water silly :)
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The thing about Monster that I'm currently obsessed with: the way Odysseus humanizes his enemies as he dehumanizes himself. He correctly describes the motivations of the Cyclops, Circe, and even Poseidon which takes a level of understanding that people struggle with under the best circumstances. But then in the same verse he describes himself from the view of the Trojans. ("Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping soldiers because he is vile?")
and of course the whole song is "Monster". If Odysseus can't stop seeing his enemies as people (seeing his own son in the Trojan infant), if that is what is killing his men and if there is no future where he makes it home as the person he is, then of course he has no choice but to stop being a person.
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