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@watchanddream Sure! This got a bit lengthier than I intended, but I wanted to try and be thorough.

Put far too simply, xenia is the practice of hospitality, but it's also a ritual and in a sense a contract between guest and host. When a stranger arrives at your doorstep, you're expected to feed them and give them a gift as the host. Typically, you're not even supposed to ask them their name until they've finished their meal. Once you've done this as the host, the guest is now expected to share stories and information about themselves, and not burden you or your household. Typically, people focus on how hosts violate xenia, but guests can also violate xenia.

This is called a guest-friendship, and once it's established, you are expected to offer the same to your host should they ever visit. It's a ritual of hospitality, yes, but it's also used to establish alliances and can be passed down through generations. For example, in the Iliad, when Glaucus and Diomedes discover that their grandparents were guest-friends, they decide not to fight, but rather exchange armor.

Theoxeny is a common story you see in myth where a god (typically Zeus) disguises themselves as a mortal and requests to be hosted by someone. Should the host follow the rules of xenia, they'll be rewarded, but if they fail, they'll be punished or killed.

This is important to the Odyssey, as it comes up multiple times, but in particular, the cyclops, and the suitors. In both these instances, Odysseus arrives disguised and gives a false name, the practices of xenia are failed, and Odysseus reveals himself and punishes the one that failed to follow xenia. The suitors in particular fail xenia, as they both fail as hosts, AND as guests, for burdening Odysseus's household.

He was a 98 year old retired opera singer who I met in a Spanish class last year.

I’m a coloratura soprano, and I mentioned to him my fears around HRT changing my singing voice.

He was basically like ‘yeah, that makes sense as a fear to have’ but then he continued.

“but who knows,” he said,

“you could be an incredible tenor.”

He was a 98 year old retired opera singer who I met in a Spanish class last year.

I’m a coloratura soprano, and I mentioned to him my fears around HRT changing my singing voice.

He was basically like ‘yeah, that makes sense as a fear to have’ but then he continued.

“but who knows,” he said,

“you could be an incredible tenor.”

He was a 98 year old retired opera singer who I met in a Spanish class last year.

I’m a coloratura soprano, and I mentioned to him my fears around HRT changing my singing voice.

He was basically like ‘yeah, that makes sense as a fear to have’ but then he continued.

“but who knows,” he said,

“you could be an incredible tenor.”

Could you survive? And how? (Note you can be helped by bystanders around you during the attack if you can't bring yourself to sock Susie coming at you with a hammer in self-defence)

they have to go to another fucking continent Just to kill me, i admire their dedication

i don't know if they are still alive or ghosts in this scenario. so. have both.

if they're alive: i mean i would definitely survive But i still think they would be a total nightmare to deal with because they would do looney tunes bullshit in my own house. i will slip on a banana peel and fall down the stairs. i will run into a door painted on the wall. i have a bucket of water spilled on me.

however. i have lots of candy in my pantry. so i'm just going to bribe them into not killing me in exchange for free candy. they can take all of it. they will immediately accept it. yes, including cassidy.

if they're dead: susie is the easiest to neutralize because she would be too depressed to do anything frankly. so i'll just make her play House Flipper on my computer. i think she would enjoy House Flipper.

fritz most likely would find zero point in killing me, so i don't think he would do much either. and even if he does have the energy, he does easily give up. so i'm going to make him also play House Flipper on my computer with susie.

gabrielle's going to be a total nightmare to deal with, and i will not survive an encounter from her unscathed. but she sees everything as a game and loves playing them. so i will get her to play House Flipper on my computer.

jeremy is full of fear and anger and wants to protect his friends. so i will tell him that they are safe playing House Flipper on my computer. and that he should also play that with them.