Anawim

Bryt&Bonnie's mom 💎 Mrs Bonskie💍

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@eunyboshi Hahaha ka gwapa kay tita ninang ah

[Mudassar Iqbal @dannielthe7th]

Acting matters dear. #ChristopherNolan failed to create a single sequence of this class with #Odyssey whereas this wasn't even the best scene from that mediocre venture e.g #Troy

[Panem Base @panembase]

🚨President Snow has hired Christopher Nolan to record this year’s Hunger Games exclusively with IMAX cameras.

[Movies Scenes 🎫 @SceneinCinema]

In The Odyssey (1997), Vanessa Williams plays the mesmerizing sea nymph Calypso, with Frederick Stuart as Hermes.

A reminder of one of television's most ambitious mythological miniseries.

Made with a record-breaking budget of over $40 million.

[M. Castells @shamol_coder]

THREE FAMILY BACKGROUNDS YOU SHOULD NEVER MARRY INTO BECAUSE THESE HOMES OFTEN RAISE NARCISSISTIC MEN:

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@eunyboshi 🤣🤣🤣

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@Yara_Rose71 🤣🤣

[Anima Cristi Fermean @thequeenanima]

Breaking: Eugene Domingo.

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

Remember Colin Kaepernick? The man who turned kneeling during the National Anthem into a national pastime has now lost his battle with the NFL over pension and benefits.

His argument was that he should receive a full pension because the league’s owners effectively denied him the opportunity to continue playing.

The adjudicator was unimpressed.

“Nobody made you kneel. You made yourself unemployable.”

It turns out that choices, however passionately made, are not exempt from consequences.

[GMA News @gmanews]

WATCH: A man who had been searching for his family through rubble after Venezuela’s twin earthquakes this week expressed relief and gratitude on Friday, June 26, after they were found alive nearly 26 hours later.

Video filmed by Jose Alberto Gallipoli Lameda’s son Jofram Gallipoli showed people, including himself, his wife and his four year old son trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building before being pulled to safety by rescuers on Thursday, June 25.

VIDEO COURTESY: Jofram Gallipoli and Jose Alberto Gallipoli Lameda via Reuters

[行进中的二诸葛 @daxiongmao1234]

他是怎么做到又快又慢的

[Attractive @dailyatractive]

I almost died laughing!! I met a Harry Potter fan on an Uber, and I almost spat out my water when they turned a corner 🤣

[No room for wokeness! @Wokenessisevil]

Make Movies Great Again!

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@EndWokeness Whaaaaaaaat????

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

OK, I’m just flipping tables at this point.

I know people are discussing Helen’s (and now Clytemnestra’s) ethnicity, but here’s a different complaint:

Why would you have the SAME ACTRESS play two sisters who are NOT TWINS?

It’s like every decision is meant to take the audience out of the story.

We have rap.

We have random American accents.

We have anachronistic language like “Let’s go!” & “Daddy.”

We have one actress playing two characters that are not identical nor twins.

We have a female presumably playing a male.

I take this stuff very personally because of my obsession with epic literature and mythology.

I really would love to be wrong.

I’m probably going to give Christopher Nolan my ticket money just to see what he comes up with, but I’m afraid this is Rings of Power 2.0.

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@THR 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[kyla @kylalalaluh]

UTANG NA LOOB, PATALSIKIN NIYO YAN!!! Sorry pero ang dami pa rin talagang 8080 and people don’t even care kahit pa nasa harap na nila evidences against Sara. ANG LALA 😡

[Anawim @Itsdorenne]

@kblstgn Hahahah

[Adjei Emmanuel @KofiAdjei55]

@GlobalBoxOffice

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey comes when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You'd expect the story to end with a great celebration: with the hero coming home and the family reunited.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. The same man who blinded the Cyclops now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. He delays his revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus' great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man's house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms along the journey. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth:

A man's home is never truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

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