Retrospective Neglect

Let there be sweets!

[butchdotgov]

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

[crystalandrock]

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

[fiftysevenacademics]

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

[sci-fantasy]

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

[necrofuturism]

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

[mao-tenno]

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.

[jukeboxemcsa]

Millennial Odysseus is starting to suspect there’s something wrong with his GPS…

[retrospective-neglect]

It's a minute detail, but at the end of the episode where we first see Shirley's miniature Forever House Replica, the porch lights blink twice, calling the children home.

[trashamemnon]

So I’m about to read Madeline Miller’s Circe and out of curiosity, has anyone read it? I’d be really grateful for someone’s opinion.

[retrospective-neglect]

When I first started reading it, I was hesitant because the premise in Circe differs so much from Madeline Miller's first book. But few pages in, I found myself feeling that Circe was superior to The Song of Achilles.

First of all, Miller's writing has improved by a long shot. Her way of describing settings and characters had to improve because she suddenly had far more characters and locations to work with. Especially when it came to obscure characters; most people know about Achilles, Odysseus et al., but when it comes to Prometheus, Daedalus, and especially Circe, most readers will draw a blank. Hence, she has to make us acquainted with them.

Circe's story also allowed her far more creative leeway. Unlike TSoA that runs on a time limit, Circe has a vast surplus of time. You get to explore far more myths, and plots that will seem familiar (e.g. The Minotaur).

I remember not crying even once when reading TSoA, but in Circe, Miller had me crying over Prometheus. Right at the start of her book.

It's a more saddening, but welcoming ride. You get to know Circe in a way you never got to know Patroclus.

I strongly recommend reading it.

[retrospective-neglect]

[retrospective-neglect]

The original one got flagged.

[retrospective-neglect]

Achilles is dead, Hector et al. are dead, the wall is unbreachable, and the Trojan War is at a standstill.

Neoptolemus:

[mountaingoatsmp3]

it’s all fun and games until you remember that achilles never found out that patroclus slept with deidameia

[retrospective-neglect]

I was wondering if we, as the TSoA fandom, were going to just collectively ignore this plot point.

[retrospective-neglect]

Odysseus in all the events leading up to, and following, the Trojan War:

[retrospective-neglect]

Achilles: coming to avenge his murdered lover

Hector, the Greatest of All Trojans:

[retrospective-neglect]

Where other Myrmidons see walls, Patroclus sees opportunities.

[retrospective-neglect]

Didn't think that through, now did you?