That one friend that's too Minoan

and another thing. the loom was too small. the loom should have been huge and i mean HUGE. monumental. and detailed, full of color. images of men and dogs hunting, horses running, orchards and olive trees. terracotta, purple crushed from sea shells, yarrow-yellow. penelope was too alone: her slaves should have been numerous, her own landlocked and resentful crew, and busy spinning yarn and making dyes. making the household's textiles, and it could have been doubly interesting for the movie to show the suitor's own clothes being repaired or made by them, as a demand of their presence and its implied caretaking. many faces, whispered conversations, uneasy work songs. dirty hands and flax in piles. bolts of cloth. many other looms, some lap-looms and other bigger ones, but penelope's: big, big as troy's doors. dazzling to look at. so that her secret unweaving (which should have been shot as its own scene) is meaningful: it is a work of art, her lifetime's skill, and she wrecks it again anf again. penelope's trickery as a foil to odysseus's own treachery in a very visible sense.

parents will aggressively tell you to shave because "it's summer and everyone will look at you and body hair looks ugly on girls that's why all the girls shave" and i'm like. first of all it's not even that noticeable and second i...literally don't care? what random people think of me when they see me? IF they even acknowledge me which they literally won't? i'll shave when and IF i decide to? also not a single fuck given about what all the girls supposedly do which is a shitty argument bc how on earth are these dumb gender expectations still normalised? gods.

I appreciate that Peisistratus just shows up in the Odyssey to be extremely wholesome on main and then vanishes into the eather. Good for him. Everyone out here murdering their family and marrying their stepmoms and he just... kinda hangs out. Not important enough to get tragedied. I can't even find a canon wife or child. He just - went home. He's sitting somewhere blissfully ignorant of all the epic fuckery going on slurping his ancient tzatziki.

what the actual fuck is going on????

Headcanon that throughout those twenty years, moreso the later ten, Penelope was often sickly because she just refused to take care of herself

What I would give to see the conversation between Tyndareus and Icarius after Odysseus came up with the oath and asked for Penelope’s hand

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