The Captain's Lady

I killed Wesley. I shot him seven times. Because the clip ran out. He deserved more.

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"#incredibly relevant for academic work too!! #apparently a friend of a friend almost didn't graduate because she ran her thesis through an ai/plagiarism checker #which then scraped her entire paper and added it to its 'database' #so when she submitted it and they ran it through an ai/plagiarism checker #it marked as 100% AI #i can't imagine how devastating that would be"

they weren't calling it "AI" back then, but even in the early days it was clear the corporation was stealing student work to build its database - plus stealing published work, else how would that sort of plagiarism-detection tool work?

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Aeolus and his wind bag

Odysseus meeting his mother Anticlea in the underworld. It hurts his heart to see she died of grief waiting for him to return.

The horror after Odysseus' men butcher the sun god's cows. The meat starts mooing on the skewers, the cowhides slither along the ground, and the carcasses get up and start moving like live cattle. It would've made for some great horror.

Penelope testing her husband by saying she moved the wedding bed (one of its posts was carved from an olive tree and the whole palace was built around it so you would have to uproot it to move the bed). Odysseus gets irate hearing that it was moved and his reaction is how she knows it's not Zeus in disguise (recall that Zeus is not above shapeshifting into women's husbands)

Telemachus nearly stringing Ody's bow on his first try with no prior knowledge but Ody secretly signals for him to stop

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