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hi, I'm Eyrx, they/them. COMMISSIONS OPEN! side blogs: for fun: bovinesun moi, but spicy: stoopidskull

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side blogs !! I'm just here for fun bovinesun

moi, but spicy... stoopidskull

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Olympus, I accept this message!

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new poster design I made that’ll be at ANYC!

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Odysseus fucking name dropping the Bronze Age is like Leonardo De Vinci writing in his journal "wow what a beautiful day here in the Italian Renaissance. I sure am pleased to be experiencing The High Renaissance period"

It's just so fucking stupid.

Like.

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Waiter waiter! More blue and yellow pairings!

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A rabbit, his sword and his slain enemy.

Inspired by illuminated manuscript marginalia depicting armed rabbits.

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Why do tumblr ads have themselves convinced I need help with sciatica ?

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The VERY NEXT AD AFTER THIS - WHAT EVEN

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Why do tumblr ads have themselves convinced I need help with sciatica ?

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Trevor Signorino by Brendan Wixted for Iris Covet Book.

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oh so when other people call a baby "cute enough to eat" it's sweet and charming. but when i, cronus,

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happy birthday bubbo!!!!!!!!! i still love u to death!!!!!!!!

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500 posts in a row about the odyssey - no breaks.

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I really hated the choice to make Athena a symbol for grief instead of an actual character

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nolan's the odyssey has such a fundamentally culturally christian understanding of religion and divinity that it is genuinely jarring to see characters in a supposedly ancient greek historical context describe divinity and its expression in those terms. characters wonder aloud why gods hide themselves (they didn't), question the existence of what nolan interprets the supernatural to be (they wouldn't) and talk of zeus's law (not real, and still somehow bastardized) in the same way we would talk about the ten commandments. it's so out of place. and it taps into that "defy the gods" thing.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

and it's such a beautiful way of looking at the world, and he just doesn't get that.

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Another thing I really was thrown by watching the Odyssey is just like, the characters all felt really like “oh there’s Famous Actor” rather than a character