What song are you obsessed with atm?
Easy.
Like A Kennedy by Heart Attack Man
(bc of the version that came out featuring Awsten Knight lmao. I LOVE Heart Attack Man, tho so that collab was mind-blowing to have came out. Found them a year ago because some girl was talking about their Fake Blood album in a vinyl haul. Decent Pop-Punk if your into it.)
We Need More Bricks by Neck Deep too. (That album has been in rotation since January. Oh my god bro FINALLY a good fucking Neck Deep album. Past two projects really were mid in comparison to Life's Not Out To Get You. The Peace and The Panic being better than All Distortions imo bc of many of its tracks, but I remember hearing Heartbreak Of The Century when it dropped and being as flabbergasted as I was when FOB dropped Love From The Otherside-only difference is that the album didn't come out as being v mid to me when it dropped. S/T is literally how you make a bomb ass pop punk album.
There's more I'm listening to but I'm not gonna insert a long list of songs here. Might make a playlist later.
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taylor didnt write sweet nothing, all the girls you loved before, paper rings, king of my heart, london boy, paris, daylight, invisible string, willow, lavender haze, and cornelia street for tabloids to say she didnt see them working out in the long run
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Random thoughts on Grecian Fate
I’m bored. So let’s talk about fate. More specifically, the fate of Odysseus.
Halitherses had prophesied Odysseus’s fate as “he'd suffer many troubles and would lose all his companions, before returning home in the twentieth year unknown to anyone”, before Odysseus sailed for Troy.
The best way to examine a Greek prophecy is to reckon it to be true. Thus the tens years of journey full of tribulations and the deaths of all his companions are already fated before their departure for war. What could Odysseus do to change that? Everything will eventually happen, one way or another.
But he was given a choice, twice.
The first time was when he was given the wind bag by Aeolus. He could’ve reached Ithaca, had he not been conquered by sleep, while his crew opening the bag.
The second time was when he was told twice not to eat Helios’ cattle, by Teiresias and Circe each. He could’ve still reached Ithaca with his remaining crew alive, had he not fallen asleep (sent by the gods, it seems), while his crew killing the cattle (thus violating their oath).
You can always blame the crew on their folly, of course. Their own foolishness and disobedience led to their own demise. But was their folly decreed by their fates?
Also, was Odysseus fated to sleep at the wrong time?
Which leads to the question: did Odysseus really have a choice?
After being blinded, Polyphemus had revealed a prophecy saying that he would be blinded by some random guy named Odysseus, before cursing Odysseus that he would “never get back home/(if fated) get back late and in distress, after all his comrades have been killed, and in someone else's ship, and find troubles in his house”.
Now, we have Polyphemus fated to be blinded by some random guy named Odysseus. One might wonder what would happen if Odysseus didn’t give his name to the Cyclops, since it wasn’t mentioned in the prophecy that he would reveal himself, and there’s the fact that the second part of the prayer Polyphemus had made was later fulfilled (it was heard by Poseidon, thus being handled by Poseidon).
But remember, Halitherses had made a similar prophecy years ago already. Odysseus was fated to endure all these tribulations, even when he wasn’t cursed by Polyphemus, and even when Poseidon didn’t hear him.
But now Poseidon did. So he saw to it done that Odysseus “wandered from his country” (thus we speculate that the winds and tidal waves which sent Odysseus to all sorts of dangerous islands were caused by Poseidon), until when he went to feast with Aethiopians that the gods agreed to release Odysseus from Ogygia.
So people blame Odysseus on his hubris. (Though frankly, I had to ask, is it hubris, or a sense of justice, or a matter of honor?)
Was it fated too, that he revealed himself so that Poseidon could hear Polyphemus’ curse on Odysseus, therefore causing him to wander for years?
We have everyone here carrying out orders from Fates—the gods, the monsters, the men. And we have all sorts of rhetoric questions raining on Odysseus. But one has to admit, that everything that happened in the Odyssey is just part of an elaborate web weaved by the Fates, and that no matter what Odysseus chose to do, the end will always be the same:
He will suffer.
In the end, nobody can escape their own fate, not even Nobody.
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