#homer is a dick

[homerjacksons]

Homer Jackson, everyone.

[jessequinones]

Tumblr, we need to talk...

I don’t know how accurate this list is. Nor do I know where they got their information from, but according to the blog Fandom, which does the year in review for Tumblr.

I found which books have been trending for this year and I got a few questions.

Who is reading Dracula? Why is it the number five most talked about book? Not only that but Frankenstein, The Iliad, Odyssey, Moby Dick, Romeo and Juliet? Who are reading these in 2023?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying these stories are bad or but they’re very old. Was there no new books that came out of 2023? What am I missing?

[fuwaprince]

People who pretend like they could never be pushed to the point of violence are dehumanizing liars imo. Like who are you trying to impress by acting like you're so above and beyond that. Emotional regulation is cool like yeah I'm grounded in morality and civilized too but I will absolutely steamroll a dumbass who tries me hard enough and relentlessly!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone has the potential to be barbaric under specific circumstances

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 1 - survivors

[zackmeyman]

YELLOW! Only two left!

[acmeoop]

Happy 89th Donald Duck! “The Wise Little Hen” debuted on June 9th, 1934 and featured a wise-quacking, hot-tempered, sailor suited duck in his very first role!

[profoundkittenmusic]

A few days ago I described Paris of Troy as "a dumbass from troy who started a whole-ass war because he was too busy thinking with his pembis to consider the long-term implications of getting he dick wet", and that sentence has been living rent-free in my head ever since. I think that's it, I've peaked, I'll never write a sentence that good ever again

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Ripper Street (2012-2016) Season 1, Episode 6: "Tournament of Shadows"

[johaerys-writes]

what is your favorite character in the Iliad and why?

Wait wait you want me to choose ONE? Just one?? I'm guessing Patroclus and Achilles are excluded, right? Haha. Because they're my faves and I wouldn’t be able to choose between them anyway 😅

So.... gosh. Idk. This is really hard. There are soooo many characters in the Iliad that I love, literally I could talk about each of them for hours. But I think there's one character I really love and I don't usually talk about here, and that's Priam. I find him so interesting, and he just makes me so emotional lol. I do think about him a lot. I think about how, from a narrative stand point, he conveys so much about Troy and its culture just in the few scenes we see him in. Homer is a master of "show don't tell", and King Priam being so noble, gentle and gracious I feel says a lot about the country as a whole; I believe he's one of the reasons why I often see Troy described as being not only a land of plenty but also a land of fine culture, its people too used to peace. I love the scene with Helen, where he asks her to describe to him the Achaeans outside their gates, and even though they've come for war, he still marvels at how powerful and fearsome they all look. I love how gentle he is with her, like he really seems to try to make her feel welcome even though she's brought nothing but trouble since she arrived in Troy. And I always tear up at the scene where he asks Achilles for Hector's body back, kissing the hands that killed his son. It's just so powerful, one of the scenes that truly haunt you after you've read it.

Thank you for the ask!!

[life-on-the-spectrum]

To my husband, who keeps singing “The SANDMAAAN” as if it were the Simpsons theme at the beginning of every. single. episode:

[disgustingposer]

One fandom take I have that always makes me feel like I was about to be crucified by them is one about The Simpsons I'm about to talk about now.

Homer Simpson isn't a good person, liking him is missing the point of his character

The sole concept of Homer as a character is supposed to parody the "perfect smart dad" of 80's usamerican sitcoms, this means that Homer Simpson is the opposite, he is ignorant, he is abusive, he is violent, and above all, not a good parent and husband. He has an explicit bias towards Bart on his raising, using him as a scapegoat for all the family's problems and treating him like a black sheep, not to mention the strangling, that's textbook abusive parenting. It's completely okay to show these things in comedies, but it's not okay to try to make the audience sympathize with them like the Simpsons writers have tried both in Golden Era and Modern Simpsons, they try to paint him as some type of "Loveable idiot" who does oopsies and try to be nice when THAT'S NOT ACCURATE AT ALL. This man strangles his kid and sabotages other people's lives, he is not loveable, he is reprehensible, that's supposed to be his character!

However, I do approve of Fanon interpretations of him being a better person and being an adorkable idiot, the insulting things are only reserved for the canon.

[cryo-shark]

Daily Artyom is hanging out with Homer- scene from the book, Metro 2035

[theghostwhotumbles]

Dylan the poet

From Buddy Holly to Moby Dick, here’s what moved Bob Dylan to create searing, soul-searching songs. As the world knows, Dylan is the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. He was given the award in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan couldn’t attend the awards ceremony in Stockholm due to prior commitments, but…

[terrainofheartfelt]

listennnnnnnnnnnn this will only make sense to me but i need to shout about it.

so, in Bright Young Women, the novel I finished last week, the prevailing theme is that always, even in the face of great tragedy and strife, there are men who will still prioritize their pride and comfort over preventing a woman's pain.

and here, in Song of Achilles, Patroclus has just fucked his pride & comfort, his lover's, and this other fucking king to spare a woman great pain. and it's DELICIOUS. I am HEALED

[fandom]

Books

Huge congrats to The Iliad. It's only taken 3,000 years. This list is brought to you by Tor Publishing Group, which you're probably familiar with, given what tops the list this year.

The Locked Tomb series +3 by Tamsyn Muir

The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series -1 by Rick Riordan

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Six of Crows duology +3 by Leigh Bardugo

Dracula -3 by Bram Stoker

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

A Song of Ice and Fire -1 by George R. R. Martin

The All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic

The Discworld series +7 by Terry Pratchett

A Court of Thorns and Roses series +3 by Sarah J. Maas

The Silmarillion -1 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Pride And Prejudice -3 by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Raven Cycle series +3 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Wings Of Fire +9 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Secret History -7 by Donna Tartt

The Trials of Apollo series -4 by Rick Riordan

The Iliad +10 by Homer

The Odyssey +24 by Homer

The Folk in the Air series -8 by Holly Black

The Animorphs series +5 by K. A. Applegate

The Stormlight Archive +8 by Brandon Sanderson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Moby Dick +24 by Herman Melville

1984 +6 by George Orwell

Fables by Bill Willingham

The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Song of Achilles -10 by Madeline Miller

The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

The Simon Snow series -10 by Rainbow Rowell

The Throne of Glass series +13 by Sarah J. Maas

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard +6 by Rick Riordan

The Bell Jar -15 by Sylvia Plath

The Dreamer trilogy +6 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Shadowhunter Chronicles -15 by Cassandra Clare

The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Captive Prince -1 by C. S. Pacat

The Twilight Saga -7 by Stephanie Meyer

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The Deltora Quest series by Jennifer Rowe

Romeo and Juliet -8 by William Shakespeare

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +2 by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Picture of Dorian Gray -31 by Oscar Wilde

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

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Ripper Street (2012-2016) Season 1, Episode 1: "I Need Light"