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Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family. 

Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.

But consider: Odysseus is exACTLY the kinda smartass who’d chime in “oh i’m Nobody” just off the fuckin’ cuff if presented with “Nobody will believe me!” Like it’s a Dad Joke. 

I remain extremely proud of this post. It’s nice to see it still going around. 

So the idea that Odysseus, a man so cunning he could become Professor of Cunning at Oxford University he might be a child of Hermes, might hear a prophetess say that nobody will believe her and respond in a way where it’s ambiguous whether it means that he is the Nobody who will believe her, or that he is the personification of cunning who will believe her … it really does make sense.

The Wicker Man (1973) | dir. Robin Hardy

XXI. The World

In other words, not only did her mathematical education fail to prevent her from following in her father’s footsteps, it only made her stronger.

Tnhk

Tumblr wouldn’t let me upload the video but I let the mice write a tumblr post for me and this is the result :^)

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Imagine being a marine biologist and a marine biology comes to visit you but you're not home 😭😭

Helpful former homeowner.

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