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Alright I remember still my one and only post that reached over 2000 notes and I am still so happy to see the fantastic comments that people have left to it!

I also remember some random ideas discussed with people like @wolfythewitch at the comments about "what if Odysseus and Penelope were just courting for 10 years" and honestly...I am seriously considering something! You see someone contemporary to Homer, Hesiod seems to have a small idea for the ideal marriage;

When the time comes bring a woman to your house when you are not far off thirty years of age, above or below. And this is the right time for marriage; let your wife mature from puberty four years and marry her the fifth

(Translation by me)

So we know that Odysseus arranged the whole marriage thing while he was asking the hand of Helen in marriage with Tyndareus hence the oath. We also know from stories like Pausanias when he tried to leave Icarius tried to stop them from leaving hence Odysseus asking Penelope to choose marrying him or stay with her father, to which Penelope covered her face with her veil to indicate she is to marry Odysseus.

So what if that is the system followed? What if Odysseus got home Penelope that was around 13-14 years of age and then waited for 5 years till Penelope reached the right age to marry like around 17-18 years old? That would make her in her 30s in the Odyssey which could explain the urgency to remarry. I also imagined Odysseus to be in his late 20s when a suitor of Helen's so if he was around 20-29 and Penelope was around 14 when they met, taken to Ithaca and then married around 4-5 years later that would leave 5 years extra where they are childless Telemachus being born later and either when Telemachus is a few months old or if he is tops one year old almost then Odysseus leaves

What needs to come next, obviously, is a story where Natasha can square this movie with her future. CA:TWS ends on a very similar note as The Avengers, with them going their separate ways but with the promise that when they’re needed, they’ll be back. How does she get to that, though? “When I joined SHIELD, I thought I was goin’ straight… but I guess I just traded in the KGB for Hydra”

So, uh

Sam Neill passed away.

A lot of people know him as Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park, but Sam Neill has an incredible catalogue of film and television, stretching back to 1975 on the big screen, but he cut his teeth in university productions of Shakespearean dramas.

All this to say, Sam Neill never let himself get pigeonholed as an actor. He was an incredibly versatile actor with a plethora of roles and genres to his name.

And that's not even touching upon his interests outside of acting. He was a passionate vintner (of the Two Paddocks winery) and an outspoken environmentalist who frequently spoke out against political policy that negatively affected indigenous peoples in Australia and New Zealand.

Jurassic Park is an incredible film, and I know many people have fond memories of the original trilogy.

It's not an odd ask at all - it's been asked a few times before, but I'm happy to answer again!

The three most common Welsh-language pronouns are:

ei/hi = she/her

ei/fo or ei/fe = he/him (fo is used up north, fe is used down south)

eu/nhw = they/them (singular ei can also be used instead of the plural eu)

This LGBTQ Cymru blog post written by Luke Blaidd delves a lot deeper into the pronouns - I really recommend giving it a read, especially as it breaks down the mutations for each one!

And here's an example of some Welsh-language pronoun badges used by Cwiar na Nog, the LGBTQ+ division of Urdd Gobaith Cymru (a youth organisation in Wales):

Worth noting that when my piece was uploaded some typos made their way into the title (it says rhagwenau instead of rhagenwau). Working on getting this fixed once I'm able to get the síte admin to take a look at it!

hi sorry uh. incredible miscommunication on my part lmfao.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

Here ya go