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like genuinely the cultural baggage around fanfiction will have people saying the most absurd stuff. what prompted that last post is i was watching a video about publishing fanfiction and they quoted an author saying 'no-one but me is allowed to interpret my characters'

and im like hey. hey. look me in the eye and say that again. what the fuck do you mean no-one's allowed to interpret your characters? your characters get re-interpreted anytime a new person reads your got damn book. everyone is interpreting your characters all the time. what are you talking about.

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dragonsareawesome123

WHAT

seayeahjustsea

illusion-of-death

When will my beloved wife (Our Lady Aranessa Royce) return from the war (location where none of the PCs currently are)

skyrim-forever

The worst characters are the ones were you only get like three pieces of lore about them but the lore is so fascinating and hits your brain at just the right angle to have you behaving like a feral dog in front of your conspiracy theory cork board

birdplushie

i love a morally grey ruthless woman who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals (that she believes are for the greater good) and is also constantly wracked with guilt about what she's had to do but can't show it so she just comes across as cold and unfeeling to everyone

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softest-beigest-pillows

your favorite iwtv character says a lot about you. mine is the vampire armand and this is because i am a bad person

reactoriv

god great comet is an insane musical. it's an adaptation of about 70 pages worth of war and peace. half the lyrics are just straight english translations of conversations from the book. it doesn't rhyme. it's entirely sung through except for one single line in the second to last song. it's technically a love story between two people who don't even meet until aforementioned second to last song. josh groban is there

hollowboobtheory

one thing you need to know about 2014. is that what does the fox say was playing pretty much everywhere you went. and everybody was just relieved it wasn't blurred lines

hollowboobtheory

I canot stress enough that those were the only 2 songs in 2014

garaks-padded-bra

I wish adhd didnt have the reputation of the oh my god you people cant do anything disorder because i feel like i am barely staying afloat at every single moment of my life dawg. Maybe i have adhd 2 but um jesus fucking christ, jesus christ,

garaks-padded-bra

Like i literally feel like a loser. What do you mean the disorder is Affecting me. It shouldnt be doing that, ppl online said thats cringe. Thats not allowed

letmetellyouaboutmyfeels

*walks up to a couple* so which one of you is the cheetah and which one of you is the golden retriever who keeps the cheetah from stressing themselves to death

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maxiemumdamage

TL:DR for my much longer xenia post is that the idea the Trojan Horse would've offended the gods is...nonsense.

Xenia was a compact between travelers and hosts. It wasn't the fucking Golden Rule, it was a specific-ass policy about how you treat someone who is a guest in your home, or how you act when you are a guest in someone else's home. Its purpose was to promote peaceful travel between Greek city-states, but someone showing up at your door armed to the teeth and intent on murdering you, raping your wives and daughters, and plundering your wealth would not be entitled to the same rights as a peaceful traveler. That's an enemy soldier, and to be treated as such.

An invader trying to break down your gates isn’t a guest; they’re not entitled to xenia. Neither the “guests” — the Greeks — or the “hosts” — the Trojans — were expected not to harm one another. They had in fact been killing each other for a decade by the time Odysseus thought up the trick with the Horse. Entering the gates of Troy through a tricky trap would not have elicited feelings of shame among the Greeks, and certainly wouldn’t have invited a divine curse from the gods.

Odysseus invites a divine curse, yes, but not at war — it's while he's coming home from it. It's when he shouts his name at Polyphemus in a moment of stunning hubris, because it's not enough for him to win the day with tricks and lies; Odysseus feels the constant need to brag about it. That was the act of arrogance that got him in trouble, and Nolan cut it.

Also, Athena (or what Odysseus thinks is her but is really his guilt-fueled hallucination of a priestess) haunting Odysseus to shame him for it? Wildly out of character. The Trojan Horse trick is how you know Odysseus is Athena's favorite mortal — because he's being strategic and clever and tricky and deceitful and winning the war she's been championing in the process. Athena and Hera were the biggest members of team "BURN TROY TO THE GROUND FUCK THIS CITY" throughout the Iliad — multiple times Athena pops onto the battlefield to either interfere directly or manipulate a mortal into keeping the battles bloody and the Greeks winning.

Like, it's made more offensive to me because Nolan is trying to pretend he's applying an ancient value and moral in this situation. But xenia, Zeus's Law, whatever you call it, is not the same thing as Golden Rule (or the Geneva Conventions), and cannot be treated like it is.

If Nolan could just admit he's sanctioning Odysseus for something ancient folks wouldn't have blinked at, it might've worked. He could've had Odysseus be in denial about the fact that going to Troy and helping burn it was wrong, and let that be a slow realization before he grasps that the Trojan Horse was just the final atrocity he committed among many at war. But Odysseus clearly knew even before he left that he was doing something heinous, which raises the question of why he did it at all. And moreover, it ignores what morals people from that time and culture actually had.

weaseltotheface

Everybody say "thank you south america" for the humble potato

weaseltotheface

Actually let's get specific with it

*checks wiki*

Everybody say thank you indigenous people of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia from 7-10,000 years ago for the humble potato

denebrye

proficiency in both ranged and deranged combat🫶

cafffine

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

wizardshark

In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place

sadieoftheopera

My new favorite type of photo. Photos in which Erik is about to kill ALW

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ajcrowlor

big tshirt that says MY INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and THIS IS FUN TO ME on the back

gothhabiba

when people point out that "90% of fanfiction is garbage" as though this is something that reflects on fanfiction in particular and not something that is true of literally any kind of content in any medium and genre

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