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julytrees

Donna Summer photographed by Fin Costello from a photoshoot in 1976.

datadegroove-deactivated2026042

yooo how do I get out lol 😂 how do i get out of here 😅😭

takethemonetandletsgogh

Czesław Miłosz, “IV. Over Cities”

kingoftheu

One tragic aspect of the Odyssey that I've never really seen handled by any adaptation is the link between Odysseus' marriage and the Trojan War itself.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

So his own plan, to marry Penelope and stop a hoard of ravenous suitors, ends with him forced to defend his own marriage from a hoard of ravenous suitors.

mervynbunter

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

kosmogrl

they weren’t kidding when they said the only way out is through

afroesoteric

There used to be this guy who made really good music His name was Frank Ocean

iloveyoumyvalentine

90scakeboy

‘UPRISING’ DAZED MAGAZINE 2000

hiyari8

they should invent activities for sleepy people with no energy

filmnoirsbian

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

miamaimania

Dazed and Confused (April 1997). Photography: Bettina Komenda, Styling: Sabina Schreder ꩜ Denim kneeling before delicate pink pattern—fashion’s power play.