sweeter than honey

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

(via honeyberryharvest, jessicainreallife)

I need those people to understand that Penelope waiting for Odysseus was a fight for autonomy. She wanted to remain his wife, she wanted not to marry any of those suitors, she fought against an entire society to retain that very autonomy that they spent several years trying to steal from her by insisting (and even threatening) that she must remarry. Trying to act as if Penelope was forced to wait for Odysseus is once again another attempt at woke feminism wherein you completely take away a female character's voice and try to act as if the replacement you draped over it is 'more feminist' despite you literally silencing a woman.

people are always like "Oh a vampire wouldn't get horny while drinking someone's blood, that's like getting horny while eating a sandwich" and like man have you never had a really good fucking sandwich?

The sandwich i had for lunch didnt moan and scream and squirm against my body and then become limp and pliable when i was done now did it

tbh I’ve always found it very funny that Elrond is like “there’s no point bringing Glorfindel on the quest, even though he’s a balrog-slayer. You won’t need balrog-slayers” and then thirty pages later they run into a balrog

#anyways it’s common knowledge in the shire that dwarves are actually just a kind of mushroom#but no one says anything#because they think (seeing as how the dwarves haven’t brought it up themselves) it would be rude (via @willowcrowned)

bluh bluh let women be feminine WHATEVER but it kills me that while adaptations of Athena often leave out how genderblurry her presentation of herself and her form is over the course of the odyssey IS, she’s both strongly linked to the world of war and to internal domestic works of clothes and weaving which in the odyssey manifest as directly noted links to storytelling trickery and cunning. So it kills merchant Athena is rarely shown in the many incarnations of gender age and class she takes the form of across the odyssey but it also kills me that while she’s rarely shown with her armor and helm in adaptations she’s …. Also rarely shown in outfits that make manifest her expertise in weaving and clothing as well, which would include things like a lot of fabric, many folds, designs and patterns and layers. Modern adaptations tend to portray Aphrodite as “the goddess of love and beauty” and then relink beauty to a modern idea of “fashion” but I think Athena is far more powerfully linked to what we might consider “fashion” today in terms of the clothes themselves. Let Athena wear couture

i feel like i’m cursed forever but other than that i’m doing alright