#greek+quotes

[kaitwra]

Τι είδους παιχνίδι του μυαλού είναι να θέλω να με ερωτευτεί ο συναισθηματικά μη διαθέσιμος;

Τρέχα με 10km/h , θα τρέχω με 100km/h και για τους δυο μας.

Αν και ξέρω ότι η ταχύτητα σκοτώνει.

Προτιμώ να πεθάνω από αγάπη.

[elda-bql]

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Ησυχία , σκοτάδι,  το μόνο που ακούγεται είναι οι  δείκτες του ρολογιού που πάλλονται με μανία . Δεν μπορώ να κοιμηθώ ,στο κεφάλι μου έχει φασαρία . Έχω για συντροφιά ένα τσιγάρο και κάθε τζούρα που τραβάω να μου θυμίζει πως σε λίγο θα μείνω μόνη. Μόνη με τις σκέψεις μου πάλι μέχρι να καταφέρω να κοιμηθώ . Δεν θέλω να το παραδεχτώ αλλά έσφαλα , πολύ άσχημα έτσι λέει το μυαλό μου τουλάχιστον και κάπου εκεί πετάγεται η καρδιά μου να με ηρεμήσει και ας πάλλεται πιο γρήγορα από τους δείκτες του ρολογιού στο δωμάτιο μου . Και κάπου εκεί ανάμεικτα συναισθήματα …. Αμφισβήτηση , φόβος, θυμός , στεναχώρια  και τέλος αποδοχή .  

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

[duckysprouts]

brain chemistry changed from no longer you and monster btw

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[whompthatsucker1981]

i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain

[percabethownsmybutt]

annabeth: why are you following me?

percy: because we’re dating now

annabeth: okay… what about grover?

percy: we’re a package deal

grover: buy one idiot, get one free

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[shebeafancyflapjack]

Poseidon: My poor son! I'm sorry I wasn't here to protect you! Such a shame the one who hurt you slipped away before I could arrive.

Polyphemus: Actually he left me his name, address and social security number.

Poseidon: Oh. What a fucking dumbass.

Athena: *screaming in the distance*

[incorrecthomer]

[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

[rise-deepseamonster]

Love how Percy just casually drops lore all throughout the Son of Neptune. Frank and Hazel are getting the encyclopedia knowledge on every monster they encounter plus some extra side stories from how he fought them in gym classes and "oh yea, I had a fist fight with Kronos in Manhatten."

And then they meet Annabeth and realize that behind every goofy looking powerful guy, there's an incredibly smart, capable and even more powerful woman who makes sure he doesn't die on a daily basis and are like, "oh. thats why he's still alive."

[mer-acle]

Aight now let the God Games begin.

Apollo: Uh I... Like killing that many Sirens was slight overkill don't you think?

Athena: Tbf the sirens are massive bitches...

Apollo: Fair, that was good vocal work sis, let him go.

Hephaestus: Trust is not given it's FORGED (winks) you see what I did there? Anyways he sacrificed his entire crew that wasn't his best moment.

Athena: Yes, but if you let him go, he can still BUILD a future with his fam.

Hephaestus (laughing): Good one, let him go.

Aphrodite: Odysseus should have been home sooner then his Mom wouldn't have died.

Athena:

Athena: Wtf seriously?

(Quick Thought)

Athena: Come on, Aphrodite.

Ares: DON'T MESS WITH MY GIRL ALSO YOUR ODYSSEUS IS A SLY BITCH JUST LIKE YOU AND HIS SON'S A LOSER.

Athena: (rage activate) DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK OF MY BOY LIKE THAT!

Ares: gods okay chill

Aphrodite: awww so cute you do have a heart

Athena: Besides Ares we can watch ody kill all those assholes in his palace and I'll get popcorn.

Ares: GREAT FUCKING DEAL!

Hera: Look I've been pretty pissed at Zeus lately just gimme one good reason.

Athena: So he's smart.

Hera:

Athena: He's... Uh... Did I mention he's smart?

Hera:

Athena: He's kinda funny.

Hera: seriously?

Athena: Okay goddamnit he's not a serial cheater like Dad alright?

(Collective gasps, Hermes is lying on the floor laughing silently)

Apollo: Oh wow.

Artemis: She actually just said that.

Athena: (internally) shit fuck just act like you didn't just say that.

Hera: Husband goals, let him go.

Athena: (internally) act natural... (To Zeus) So I won, let him go.

Zeus: You little shit-

(lightning)

[feral-ballad]

Margartia Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “—I need days when I can be alone, to think, to daydream.”]

[jamsandsuch]

this quote from ovid’s telling of orpheus turning back to look at eurydice makes me crumble

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”

— The Secret History, Donna Tartt

[y2kaee]

"You become what you give your attention to."

Epictetus