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a mug that just says “don’t talk to me until i’ve fucked your wife”

kaedeakamatsu

dankmemeuniversity

space-fey

Me intellectually: totally understands meltdowns and overloads

Me @ myself anyway: what kind of immature idiot am I, crying because there’s people and I’m tired? Literally no adult ever has done this besides me

fairycosmos

“OEDIPUS: Oblivion – what a blessing… for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”

— Sophocles, from Oedipus the King. Trans. Robert Fagles. (via xshayarsha)

weirdness-is-good

concealedblade-deactivated20210

if i don’t experience tenderness soon i’ll violently die

farmsbian

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZqenJBFknP/

i kinda feel bad for oedipus b/c everyone assumes he chose to fuck his mom when in fact he went out of his way to avoid it. he left his hometown and distanced himself from his parents because he was afraid he would somehow get tricked into fucking his mom. everything could have been avoided if his adopted parents told him he was adopted.

lesbianshepard

someone: oedipus was fucked up like who fucks their own mother??? fucking weirdo.

me: it’s not his fault! he didn’t know!

lesbianshepard

also the point of the myth is supposed to show how despite your best efforts no mortal can thwart fate but also? what the fuck? the whole thing was an oracle telling laius that his son was going to murder him and fuck his wife. that shit came out of nowhere. he didn’t offend the gods or anything. they just decided for no reason other than the world is fucked up sometimes.

lesbianshepard

i have been informed that oedipus’ dad, laius, did in fact bring a curse upon himself for kidnapping and raping king pelop’s son chrysippus.

i stand by my stance that it’s still ridiculous to punish oedipus and jocasta for laius’s crimes. also why would the godss curse oedipus for fucking his mom when they tricked him into doing it in the first place? fucked up.