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that sign won't stop me because i don't believe in birds

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Clip of Ino's appearance in "La Odisea de los Lunis" 2006 (subtitled in english by me)

It’s a real shame that there’s no mention of the veil, but I don’t mind because Ino appears. It’s already done far more than many other adaptations where it isn’t even mentioned (not to mention that she doesn’t appear in any of the adaptations I’ve seen).

It feels a bit empty, actually, quite empty, but apart from the bit about the veil, I think it’s very good:

it emphasises the resilience, and she’s presented as the daughter of Cadmus, even though in the Odyssey she isn’t introduced as such, she simply tells Odysseus to put on the veil (life jacket), and it’s Homer who tells us this (I loved the dialog format).

I also loved that Poseidon feels this way in the Odyssey. Leucothea’s voice is marvellous.

The mention of seeing a seagull and associating it with land being nearby is one of my obsessions that I told in my old blog, so I really loved hearing that here too.

I loved the reference to the heroes of old (a masterful reference)

A special mention to @ulises-aithon for always listening to my Ino Leucothean ramblings, and also to @venomspecs for sharing this wonderful film, thanks to both of you!!!! I enjoyed this so much🤩

ulises-aithon

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katerinaaqu

I'm sorry I have to say this but I think this is what double standards looks like in Greek mythos talk;

Them: Clytemnestra did nothing wrong! Ever! Me: You mean...apart from cheating, murder, coup and child abuse? Them: Shut up misogynist! She was a grieving mother and any mother would do that for her child and men cheat too and Agamemnon is a piece of trash and had it coming! Me: And Cassandra too, I presume...and her other children Them: You do not understand! She was traumatized and she has been through a lot! She was forced to marry Agamemnon even if he killed her husband and child so of course she would turn like this! They made her do that! Me: So...if trauma excuses any horrible behavior shouldn't that also apply for the Atreides too? Them: Fuck no! They are men! They can never have it as hard as Clytemnestra! Meanwhile the Atreides: Their mother was sold to a relative by her own father to drown because she was having a fling with a slave and then she was married to Atreus whom she proceeded on cheating on him with his brother Thyestes. Thyestes being a man wishing to do anything for power even to cheat on his own brother thus using his lover to collaborate with him. Atreus arguably being one of the scariest figures of myth takes revenge for adultery to the sickest level by killing his nephews and feeding them to their own father and taunting him for it. Thyestes raping his own daughter so he can have his revenge. Atreus raising Aegisthus under his own roof. They becoming exiles when their father got killed and Aegisthus did the full coup after arguably facing the most traumatic childhood a child of myth could go through and had to claw themselves back to their original place... Me: ... Me: Yeah they had "La Vie en Rose" playing at the background of their childhood alright. Trauma definitely doesn't apply to them...

Just to be clear I am NOT saying that Clytemnestra had it easy or that her emotions are not valid but if one always uses the trauma as an excuse rather than an explanation for someone's bad deeds in myth then I have to say that the Atreides had all the reasons to become villains and they chose not to and I believe we do not appreciate that enough

And no Agamemnon did NOT want to sacrifice Iphigenia. It was a dictation of the gods and he had no way of refusing that.

my garden is wishing me a happy pride month rn!!!

#pride month #aroace #bisexual #singing of arms and the man

Deer I saw the other day!

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iphigenesis

drives me mad when people complain about how tortured they are by their own intelligence or whatever like if it’s really that bad just bang your head against the nearest wall a couple of times and you’ll be like the rest of us peasants why hasn’t your big brain thought of that huh

#truth #mymoots #my fellow alchemist

bro really saw the deep fr

#gilgamesh #the epic of gilgamesh #singing of arms and the man