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thememedaddy

glassshine

sandmandaddy69

sigmaleph

what's this 'wife' business? nobody calls him Prince-Consort Mario

rustingbridges

if Bowser kidnapped my plumbing client, I would be saying “wahoo” as long as those hours were billable

marlynnofmany

*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

monoetr

is there an echo in here

moseby

the best fruits are hardest to open

trashboat

this fucking bowling ball is gonna be delicious i know it

ilions-end

i was reading lillian doherty's 'gender and internal audiences in the odyssey', and when looking at the gendered social rules of the (patriarchal, obviously) society the story takes place in, she writes how "[Penelope] -- and her female slaves, who would also be fair sexual game for Odysseus according to the cultural norm -- must remain completely celibate in his absence."

and i had to sit back for a moment and take it in, because man, i'd never fully considered that aspect of it. obviously odysseus is never implied to take sexual advantage of any of his slaves within the epic, but as master of his household he is meant to be in total control of his slaves' sexuality and bodies. their failure to remain celibate (whatever the circumstances...) in itself equals betrayal against his authority and against the household, acting outside their allotted station.

i think it's interesting how the first night odysseus is back at ithaca, disguised as a beggar, he lies down plotting the suitors' deaths the next day, but he is much more tempted by and fantasizes about rushing the slave women and killing them right then and there, because the sight of the suitors taking them to bed is making "his heart growl with rage". this is before the contest, before any battle. odysseus has already decided the slave women must die.

like yes, within the narrative and society of the odyssey the slave women are presented as undoubtedly and irredeemably guilty, and then when they are executed -- excruciatingly slowly -- for their misdeeds (contrasted to the suitors, who are all dealt quick deaths in combat) the text doesn't imply that that is an unjust decision at all. but i think in modernity we ought to consider what those twelve enslaved women (trapped for decades in a leaderless household where overly entitled young men are running wild) are meant to be guilty of.

homunculus-argument

A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.

flufflogic

Fourth circle needed: IT workers

homunculus-argument

You say that with such confidence that I am compelled to trust your vision. Personally I have no idea where this is going.

trytocallmecal

i'd say the overlap between "sex workers" and "people who work in morgues" is probably "seeing naked strangers a lot"

homunculus-argument

"professional handling of bodies of strangers"?

small-gods-curator

Putting my neck out for you folks here

skj-weebmam

Had a day off:)

Procrastinating sleeping not because I'm not tired but because I am and idk why that's just how it's going rn.

#idk what to tell you #sometimes that's just how it is

luna-azzurra

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

cameoappearance

Strange women on buses distributing ideas is no basis for a system of artistic motivation

tgatbc

swagophile

jf i was vladimir nabokov and i was writing lolita i would make her an adult becaude then it would t be dark problematic media and instead a sweet romabce between two adults (woke and pure)