#survive

[theoddsideofme]

[crystaldragon1997]

[chipsy]

I will survive, somehow I always do.

[classycookiexo]

[nobeerreviews]

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

-- Markus Zusak

(Bistrița, Romania)

[aguysurviving]

[usuallyobsessedtmblr]

EVERY SINGLE PERSON FROM THE CREW CRIES OUT FOR ODYSSEUS WHEN THEY DIE. RIGHT BEFORE DYING THEY HELPLESSLY SCREAM OUT "CAPTAIN". IM SOBBING

[eruwaedhiel-in-an-impardis]

The way that Polyphemus is shown to be a kid really devastates me. Like "my favorite sheep 🥺" and "😯wine??😯" are so pure. And "you will learn it's not so fun to take" and "don't you know pain you sow is pain you reap?" sounds like a kid on a playground confronting their bullies and parroting things grown-ups have told them. And then in Survive, he says he doesn't like this game and that "escape is not allowed". In Remember Them when the other Cyclopes come in, it's very much older siblings going "OMG WHY ARE YOU CRYING NOW?! IT'S NOTHING??? SHUT UPPPP THEN OMG YOU'RE SO ANNOYING" and then Polyphemus's lil "😢don't go😢" is just--

Anyway now I have pity for a Cyclops--THE Cyclops, no less--and idk how to handle this

[roguetoo]

[dk-thrive]

Hustle has always been romanticized in American culture, which promises that nobly sacrificing yourself on the altar of endless work will pay off in the end. But it’s increasingly clear that for most people, it won’t...The notion that hustle will eventually pay off is an insidious pipe dream. Everyone is in survival mode all the time. The system has failed. The place is unfixable.

— Carina Chocano, How ‘The Bear’ Captures the Panic of Modern Work (The New York Times Magazine, Published Aug. 3, 2022. Updated June 22, 2023)

[b0bthebuilder35]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Coma (Bertrand Bonello, 2022)    

[norvandit]

Download link is at the bottom of the post

[coffeexxcigarettes]

Rafflesia

-

Did my voice

Frighten you?

Perhaps I misspoke.

When I said I was your

Biggest fan,

I meant we're connected by a rope.

Did your desire give way to decay,

Am I no longer your muse?

Have you taken what you wanted from me,

Did you put it all to good use?

If someone has taken the jade from your gaze,

And you no longer wait for my arrival-

I just hope she's as obsessed as I was,

And I'll pray for her survival.

x

[tendie-defender]

❌ = areas with 100+ miles away from blast zones with viable farm lands.

🟢= habitable unscathed wilderness survivable

[usuallyobsessedtmblr]

So I just realised that in survive before polites died odysseus said:

"600 lives at stake, it's just one life to take"

Which like,,,he didn't take the one life which indirectly results in the death of 600 lives.

But THEN

Other people pointed out that in the climax of ruthlessness where poseidon drowns 11 out of 12 ships, the screams of the crew and the ensemble vocals of poseidon result in this:

"Ruthlessness is (CAPTAIN)"

Because odysseus, by trying to follow Polites's ideology of open arms, actually became more ruthless by letting them all die in the hands of a vengeful god. He is a monster.

"Mercy upon our (CAPTAIN)"

Only captain gets the mercy. 600 men died at sea, but only he survived. He was shown mercy.