Stories and Pretty Things

Homer: *adds a noble, loyal, romantic, motherly, just, dignified, ingenious female character named Penelope*

Homer: *adds a wise, sharp, supportive, decisive, divine female character named Athena*

Homer: *adds a treacherous, powerful, magical, seductive, grey, divine female character named Circe*

Homer: *adds a lustful, obsessive, selfish, toxic, abusive female character named Calypso*

Homer: *adds a heartbroken, soft, sensitive, affectionate motherly female character named Anticlea*

Homer: *adds a stunning, highly perceptive, slightly bossy, somewhat shady, ambiguous, regal female character named Helen*

Homer: *adds a merciful, helpful, decisive for the protagonist’s survival divine female character named Leucothea / Ino*

Homer: *adds a youthful, vibrant, brave, playful, slightly lazy, wise beyond her years female character named Nausicaa*

Homer: *adds a wise, respectable, intelligent, regal, empowered, feminist female character named Arete*

Homer: *adds a flawed, disloyal, treacherous, disrespectful, corrupted, opportunistic female character named Melantho*

Homer: *adds an elderly, motherly, loving, confidant, loyal female character named Eurycleia*

Homer: *dies about 2,800 years ago*

Lupita Nyong’o, 2026: tHiS maN nEeDs to bE caLLeD oUT fOr hIs mIsOgYNY cOs hE fOrgOt wOmEn exISt wHiLe I tAkE milLiOnS prOfiTing fRoM hiS wOrK aNd cUltUrE

But of course in our stupid, media-driven, capitalist, raping of ancient culture and works of the past for money society, none of that matters. Lupita attempts to make a point about sexism in an ancient patriarchal society in a way that makes my blood boil. It was a patriarchy thousands of years ago in a somewhat similar way to how it is now really (of course women do have more rights nowadays in some places more than others, but we have yet to achieve equality all around the globe) and she says, in a slightly jovial tone, that she would have confronted Homer about the lack of “screen time” his female characters have which is just insane. First of all, “screen time”, really? I suppose it kind of works in the cinematic context of talking about a movie and the way that the term can also be applied to other forms of media but the compound noun denotes just the appearance of women of which there is plenty and most certainly enough. In fact, the Odyssey has so many female characters that were considered to be well-written for the time that Samuel Butler in 1897 argued that the poet of the Odyssey must have been a poetess, namely Nausicaa, the young Phaeacian princess who clothes and aids Odysseus in supplicating her MOTHER, Queen Arête (an example of a WOMAN WHO HAS AUTHORITY) when he washes up on Scherie. But, of course, Hollywood wouldn’t know about that because it is so often cut from any adaptation of the poem as is the case in Nolan’s.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.

Because a vodka shot is not the same as (idk, some low alcohol percentage alcohol.)

Don Miguel of California Navy Silk & Blush Pink Tulle Ruffle Shelf-Bust Strapless Dress

1950s

Pleading Dress

Éowyn — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

China Silk Evening Gown

c. 1912

Label: Blanche, NY

first you gotta do the build up and then the actual fucking and the fucking is pretty easy but you never know how long the fucking should last, and eventually you're like "okay I'm tired of this" so the characters cum, but you're not done yet because you can't just end it at "he fucking nutted everywhere" you gotta keep going, and the characters have to chat a little or cry or think about how horrible they are or something and then you kinda don't know when to end that either so now you're 2k words in and you might have put too much self hatred and not enough sucking dick. so you wrap it up, and think well it's done now.