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Odysseus: “Then I’ll become the monster” 😔
The 43 Bois: “YASS KING YASS HE IS THE MAN-MADE MONSTER” 🗣 🗣 🗣
Odysseus: does something monstrous
The 37 bois: 👁👄👁
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Why I don't think the Odyssey should be a movie
After reading the Odyssey for the first time, I don't think anyone should make a film of it- least of all Christopher Nolan.
First, this is because I don't think its structure is well-suited to our modern cinematic storytelling language. Homer didn't know or care what a Three-act Structure" is, and the poem reflect this. To be clear I think this is a good thing. It doesn't mean some ancient stories can't be adapted well into films, but I feel the Odyssey is too Wild and Crazy for the reasons listed below:
1. We don't meet Odysseus for like the first third of the poem. Not great for your expensive lead actor.
2. A good chunk of the action is told via flashback and long flashbacks in movies can be very hard to pull off.
3. The adventures of Odysseus and his crew are quite meandering and episodic. They don't always progress the main plot of returning to Ithaka and they loop back to the same places sometimes. I feel like in a modern film you'd have to cut many of these out, but you shouldn't because they're some of the best and most interesting parts of the story. All of the iconic stuff is here: the cyclops, the sirens, Scylla, the cows!
3. There's a lot of repetition that I think a modern director would feel compelled to take out but actually that's the Wrong Decision because the repetition is important. It's a theme, okay? I don't trust that any modern director has the courage to put Kallypso AND Kirke in the film. Or give us Agamemnon's whole backstory so we can see how his fate is a dark mirror to Odysseus' own! You need the repetition.
4. The characters aren't really protagonists in the modern sense. Mainstream modern writing convention tells us that protagonists must be Active and they must drive the plot by Doing Things and Making Decisions. And it's not that the main characters in the Odyssey never do this. But most of time it's the gods who are pushing the story forward and the humans are just being tossed around by their machinations. Cuz that's what they're supposed to do in the ancient order of things. Good humans follow the gods' will.
5. My worry is that they're ways gonna cast some super charismatic famous manly actor to play Odysseus and I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea that is. Odysseus is definitely a cool badass in much of the poem as you'd expect, but he's also a Pathetic Drowned Cat for honestly most of the poem and it is crucial to his character. The feral cat energy has to be so high. Even Athena is like "I love you and never change but also you need to calm down and not be 100% suspicious all the time." And then he also has to be a blood-soaked sociopath at the end and really smart but also kind of an idiot (see Polyphemus). I respect Matt Damon's acting talents, but I dont know if anyone can pull thay off really. Plus they should've gotten someone a bit less known. Sorry but that's just Matt Damon with a beard. Besides the fact that both he and Tom Holland will instantly develop melanoma under the Mediterranean sun.
6. I'm worried that any Odyssey film is going to focus way too much on the Trojan War when it's literally barely even mentioned. Personally, I dont understand why Nolan doesnt just make the Iliad because it has all the cool war stuff. Instead of the wacky PTSD poem which is way more of what the Odyssey is imo. Am I being too cynical if I feel like the only reason he's doing fhe Odyssey is because more people have heard the name Odyssey? I swear if he just makes a secret Iliad I'm gonna lose it.
Anyway those are my thoughts on a new Odysseh adaption but I guess we'll just have to see when it comes out.
can’t even joke about wishing my fics could write themselves without people mistaking it for ai usage anymore. what a lost whimsy
opening tumblr in march and it's just like "huh. knife weather we're having."
Calypso: Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special ♪♪
Calypso: (whispering) You're someone special.
Odysseus: (reliving the same conversation for the sixth time and ready to give it away on the very same day or just jump from a cliff, either way's fine, really) I'm MARRIED!
I feel like people give Penelope a lot of undeserved shit for crying a lot in the Odyssey. Like, imagine you're her:
You marry a man who loves you so much that he builds your home by hand and carves your marital bed out of a living olive tree (still living because it's a symbol of your love, this man is sentimental af)
Also said home that he built is a palace because he's the king and now you're the queen. So that's a bonus.
You have your first child together. You and your child both survive, and your child is a son who can inherit the throne! Your husband loves your son, and still loves you!
Your husband is being drafted into a war. He feigns insanity to try to stay home with you and your son. His dickhead coworker comes over and your husband has no choice but to drop the act to save your son's life. Dickhead coworker drags your husband off to war.
Nine years pass. The war ends! The soldiers come home! ...Your husband is nowhere to be seen. His coworkers say that he survived the battle (with all 600 of his soldiers!), so they have no idea why he isn't home yet.
Time passes. Everyone thinks your husband is dead. Every single bachelor in your kingdom is abusing guest hospitality to feast at your home, wasting your money and resources, bullying your son, harassing your servants, and demanding that you pick one of them to remarry.
Trying to buy yourself time, you ask them to wait until you finish weaving a shroud for your husband's father. It would be a tragedy for such a great man to not have a shroud, after all. They agree. You buy yourself several years by weaving during the day and secretly unweaving it at night, until one of your maids snitches on you. The suitors force you to finish it. You do.
Trying to buy more time, you set a challenge: string my husband's bow (war bow, requires strength to string) (foreign bow, requires knowledge to string properly) and shoot through twelve axes (requires precision and skill). Whoever does it will get to marry you and become king.
The suitors can't do it, and now they're planning to kill your son (who left to search for his father) so you have no one left to protect you.
Despite being the queen, you're still a woman, and have limited rights. You cannot protect yourself. The title of queen only makes you more vulnerable, because it means more people are preying on you, trying to become king by marrying you. If your son dies, you will have no protection.
It's been twenty years since you last saw your beloved husband. You don't even know for sure whether he's dead or not, or if you'll ever know. A group of brash, disrespectful men are taking up space in your home every single day. There is a plot by these men to kill your son and you can't even warn him about it. These men demand that you marry one of them, and none of them love you; they want you as an object, and they want the benefits that come with marrying you.
Like, shit, I'd be sobbing my eyes out too. Crying doesn't make her weak or helpless. She is a strong woman who is in a horrible situation, doing her best to keep her head above water, and it's understandable that she's emotional and miserable.
She is cunning, and clever, and she is buying her husband time, hoping he's out there, somewhere, and that he'll come home. And when he finally shows up, she doesn't immediately jump into his arms — she tests him, making sure it's truly him, truly her husband, before she rejoices at their reunion. Regardless of her emotions in the moment, she holds them back and makes sure that the situation is truly as it seems, that it isn't some trick.
Penelope is not a "damsel in distress" just because she cries. I mean, for one, she's not a damsel; she's a mistress. But she's a mistress in distress the same way that Odysseus is a master is distress: they are surviving using their own cunning, but boy are they having a bad time, and boy do they miss their spouse.
Chapter 4 of my retelling of the very end of the Odyssey, but in the Epic-verse, is out. Originally intended as some sort of reconciliation between Odysseus and Athena, but it got out of hand and there's more.
The final chapter that was the first idea for this whole thing – Odysseus finaly has a serious talk with… his friend?
Chapter 4: 3074 words.
Hope it's at least somewhat enjoyable, it's way longer then the previous chapters… ^^'
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Chapter 3 of my retelling of the very end of the Odyssey, but in the Epic-verse, is out. Originally intended as some sort of reconciliation between Odysseus and Athena, but it got out of hand and there's more.
In this chapter, Odysseus and Telemechus have an emotional walk back to the palace.
Chapter 3: 1401 words.
It's been out there for more than a week, but the days got incredibly busy; chapter 4 will be out this week, I hope intend.
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Chapter 2 of my retelling of the very end of the Odyssey, but in the Epic-verse, is out. Originally intended as some sort of reconciliation between Odysseus and Athena, but it got out of hand and there's more.
In this chapter we encounter the grieving and easily influenced Danish nobleman Odysseus' father Laertes and some angry locals and some divine intervention.
Chapter 2: 1763 words.
TW: suicide talk in one paragraph - see notes at the begining for explanation.
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS | 3.02
I'm behind on ST:SNW... so my first thought was... It's Stede Bonnet explaining to Spock that he's in love with Blackbeard, right? "Yes, that does make perfect sense." Ehm.
So, this fic has been waiting, waiting… for five long months to be finished. It's in four parts, three of which has been finished for all that time, and only the last one (and possibly the most important one, or the one that was the original idea for this whole thing) needed some polishing and care to be its best self and I beleive it has come to it now, so here goes…
My retelling of the very end of the Odyssey, but in the Epic-verse. Originally intended as some sort of reconciliation between Odysseus and Athena, but it got out of hand and there's more.
Chapter 1: 1101 words.
As it's finished I'll be putting up the other chapters (four in total) weekly (or biweekly if I'm too busy). It's not proofread, but I've read it so many times I hope it's at the very least not littered by typos. (English is not my mothertongue, so grammar might be wobly.)
Enjoy?
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To be honest, Epic fans who claim that Epic! Odysseus is better than Homeric Odysseus are boring and cannot accept that morally grey characters can still be loved.
Epic fans who think Epic!Odysseus is not morally grey have not been paying attention. And it's not just him.
ahh elizabeth vandiver's lectures pointing out a heartbreaking moment in the odyssey i wasn't even aware of:
telemachus addresses eumaeus the swineherd as atta (ἄττα). in my fagles edition it's translated as "old friend", but as vandiver points out, atta has two meanings: it can be used as a familiar-but-respectful form of address to an older man (which is how telemachus uses it), but significantly it's also baby-talk for "father", parallel to papa/dada. it's what telemachus WOULD have called odysseus growing up, but now telemachus refers to him as xenos, a visiting stranger/foreigner.
like imagine. odysseus is in disguise as a beggar, it's the first time he's seen his son since infancy, and one of the first things he hears telemachus say, to another man, is "daddy, who is this stranger?"
I love this nuance and Vandiver's lectures. To sate my own curiosity, I cracked open my collection, and:
Alexander Pope (1726 translation): father
George Herbert Palmer (1891 translation): father
Samuel Butler (1900 translation): old friend
T.E. Lawrence (1932 translation): father
W.H.D. Rouse (1937 translation): daddy
E.V. Rieu (1946 translation): uncle
Robert Fitzgerald (1961 translation): uncle
Richard Lattimore (1965 translation): my father
Stanley Lombardo (2000 translation): papa
Emily Wilson (2018 translation): Grandpa
Hm, my Fagles translation appears to have wandered off... *goes meandering through the home library, to be seen again in twenty years...*
Czech translation, Otmar Vaňorný (1921): tatíček ... which is a bit old-timey diminutive for "táta" (dad), "tatíček" is old-timey "daddy". So yeah, we have it too.
There's a lot of calling people who are not the characters' mothers or fathers "mommy" or "daddy" (matička, tatíček) in the translation, so I thought it's just supposed to show affection, especially since these terms are used as affectionate terms for older people (in (older) Czech literature). Never have I imagined it could also have the literal meaning.
Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author
if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?
How to Download Your Kindle Books (with screenshots)
From your Amazon homepage, click "Account & Lists" then click "Content Library"
Click "Books"
Find the book you want to download and click "More actions"
Click "Download & transfer via USB"
Click the button next to your device, then click "Download"
That's it! Your book file is now downloaded to your device. To my knowledge there isn't a way to bulk download everything, which means that your have to download books individually. (If anyone knows how to download multiple books at a time, please let me know!)
I use the free software Calibre to organize my ebook files. This video gives a good basic overview of how to download your ebooks from Amazon to Calibre, and also goes over how to use Calibre to transfer your ebooks to Kobo. I recently got a Kobo and have slowly been transferring my ebooks to it, and it is actually pretty easy!
If you're looking for ways to get ebooks without supporting Amazon, check out Smashwords, Bookshop.org, or see if your favorite author/publisher sells ebooks directly from their website.
Go forth and read!
❤️ Which is it this Valentine's Day? ❤️
You know I'm too shy and terrified
I'm not sorry for loving you
Waiting, waiting...
We are the same, you and I
Would you fall in love with me again?
I see the song of past romance
If you make one wrong move then you're done for!
Poseidon, eh?
Where is he? Where is he?
I'm not your man
I. Have had. ENOUGH.
Captain!
Thank you, everyone who has voted in this silly little poll!
I hope that until next year's Valentine's Day, you'll get all you've been waiting, waiting… for and that you'll be less shy and terrified!
Lot's of love to you all! ❤️
❤️ Which is it this Valentine's Day? ❤️
You know I'm too shy and terrified
I'm not sorry for loving you
Waiting, waiting...
We are the same, you and I
Would you fall in love with me again?
I see the song of past romance
If you make one wrong move then you're done for!
Poseidon, eh?
Where is he? Where is he?
I'm not your man
I. Have had. ENOUGH.
Captain!
Epic: the Musical be like:
Odysseus: Deep down, I would trade the world to see my son and wife… Zeus (and possibly Poseidon): How deep down?