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It’s totally fine if you’re talking about him being a sparkly yaoi blorbo of gay representation when you’re talking about certain specific adaptations of Greek myth that lead with that aspect of his characterization. But I think there’s something missing if you assert that he is a sparkly yaoi blorbo of gay representation in the Iliad and ignore that his establishing scenes set him up as someone thoroughly bought into an honor culture where you earn your positive reputation through the conquest, murder, and enslavement of people, and that includes completely disregarding the bodily autonomy and consent of women and treating them as war-prizes/objects in a gross scorekeeping game.

Like Achilles does end up questioning that system maybe the tiniest bit by the end of the Iliad but not enough to stop doing war and conquest and enslavement and war prizes about it. He will continue to attack Troy even after his temporary truce with Priam reminds him of his own father grieving at home. And I do think the Iliad depicts him as Loving Patroclus This Big, but I feel like part of what makes Achilles compelling is that how that love coexists with his capacity for rage and violence.

I’m also not saying that the Iliad is the one “true” or “original” depiction of Achilles but it is a highly influential early depiction that lays the groundwork for how his story is understood. (And look. I also think we need to talk about depictions like the one in Statius more—or at least know what comes from Statius vs Homer—or like, I think we should also pay attention to the version of Achilles we find in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis and other depictions of Achilles in tragedy.) But I do get frustrated when people take the “Achilles was just so in love with Patroclus, omg OTP, ancient gay icons!!11” and see it as the defining feature of these ancient texts where we should probably also be talking about how that intersects with the misogyny and the desecration of corpses and the war crimes.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

Disabled people should be allowed to get married without loosing benefits

Death penalty should be abolished

They prison system needs heavily reworked towards not being for profit and focusing on rehabilitation

You should not be forcefully commited for communicating suicidal thoughts

Kids should have more rights

Military recruiters shouldn't be allowed to come to schools and they especially shouldn't be allowed to lie

Free healthcare

All drugs should be legalized

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Don't date thirty-year-olds until you are at least 25.

Having a glass of water for every glass of alcohol will give you a 50% reduction in hangover viciousness.

Bad people will use your willingness to be quiet as a weapon against you. If someone's being awful to you and trusting you'll be quiet to keep from making waves, surprise them.

There is no physical object in the world that is worth as much as your honor.

Honor is not the same as dignity. Retaining one sometimes means leaving the other aside.

Don't have any sex you don't want to have; have as much as you want of the sex that you do, whether that's a lot, a little, or none at all. Nothing you can do to your own body is immoral, unless you're doing it as an act of self-punishment.

Food is morally neutral. You do not have to earn the right to eat calories. Fat and sugar keep your brain from eating itself.

Learning to sit still and breathe--in, in, in, hold, hold, hold, out, out, out, out, out, out--can give you five feet of clear space around yourself in a maelstrom.

Find out how to make three good meals: A comfort meal you can make for just yourself relatively easily, a fancy meal you can use to wow a date, and a meal you can feed a bunch of people. All the other cooking can come later, but you can build a community on those three meals.