#nostos

[xanaxfarts]

Nostos: Il ritorno (1989) dir. Franco Piavoli

[call-me-caravaggio]

The loser Achilles who could only ever achieve nostos or kleos because of his prophecy vs the chad Odysseus who got kleos as a byproduct of nostos

[apoemaday]

Nostos

by Louise Glück

There was an apple tree in the yard — this would have been forty years ago — behind, only meadows. Drifts of crocus in the damp grass. I stood at that window: late April. Spring flowers in the neighbor’s yard. How many times, really, did the tree flower on my birthday, the exact day, not before, not after? Substitution of the immutable for the shifting, the evolving. Substitution of the image for relentless earth. What do I know of this place, the role of the tree for decades taken by a bonsai, voices rising from the tennis courts — Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut. As one expects of a lyric poet. We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

[quillusquillus]

I want to give a shoutout to a kickstarter that's looking a little dicey on whether it might get funded or not: Nostos.

It's a tabletop roleplaying game about being one of a team of heroes that fails to save your universe from destruction, and how you choose to process or rebuild or say goodbye to what you know as home in the aftermath. You sail around on an ocean of universe... stuff... visiting various other universe islands in search for an answer

The art is gorgeous OBVIOUSLY and they're still adding more all the time. The kickstarter is for a print edition of the game and you can also get the preview on itch.io if you'd like

[amaryllisse]

[wonderpig204]

i was thinking about deadpool and wolverine (because of course) and I think it's really cool that they decided to use a honda odyssey as the car to feature

not only is it a typical 'soccer mum' minivan that is so far from the vibe of deadpool that it is ironic, but also: its called an ODYSSEY

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE MIRRORS THE ODYSSEY

the main theme of the odyssey is literally odysseus' nostos, his homecoming- similarly, dp&w centers deadpool trying to return to his home, his oikos, through an unfamiliar land filled with foes (whether this is the homeric fantasy Mediterranean sea or the void is irrelevant)

ALSO he does this by saving his 'household' (in the Greek context the house and family) from those infesting it, doing this with the help of a trusted confidant.

i have a lot to say about this film.

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

woolgathering by patti smith

[madefromclay]