teaching my mother (not a classicist) about Odyssean reverse-similes (specifically Odysseus weeping like a woman over her dead warrior husband vs Penelope as the sailor lost at sea seeing land again) and watching her realise in real time just how good Homer truly is
there should be a two year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people, and take lots of pictures
“protective percy 😍” actually no he’s making sure annabeth doesn’t tear alison ass up bc he knows she unfortunately don’t play about her cult leader brother
mj stronger than me because if the man behind the mask were a roughed up gorgeous miserable man who's giving me puppy eyes i would’ve pretended i remembered him like omg yes… peter parker ❤️❤️❤️
When Paul Blofis treats Sally like a queen / is an amazing step father to Percy and he realizes that just because his dad doesn’t overtly harm him like other Gods doesn’t mean he’s a good guy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
jaybin wasnt evil but he DID question the ethics of killing but so did donna & kori in NTT. the no kill rule cannot be true “because i said so” kids dont take to that kind of reasoning. tons of heroes question it & teens especially question morality as part of their development
thinking about the little things mj said that were reminiscent of her high school self:
- statistically there are psychopaths here
- you're lucky i believe in mind control, the french have been doing it for years
- so three rules then?
- "bombs."
what they don’t tell you when you start Riverdale is that the heathers casting they hit you with in s3 is a mid-show litmus test to see if people are still falling for the characters s1 facades
My gf has been talking to this guy that bought a billboard in SF so that it wouldn’t be bought by a real AI company and now he just responds to anyone that messages him 😭 his name is Tucker and it took him 3 days to send her back that cat drawing