#probably did

Because guys, c'mon, it's not a choice. You wouldn't be choosing this life, you simply gotta endure me and that's the beauty of it. 🫵🏻🖤

Since I always say you are cats in my kitchen, well, you kinda are cats on top of my carcass now. My old ass carcass, but still that's my corpse so it counts.

I have the version with the names, but good luck trying to figure out WHO you are in this. Ones are easier than others, sure, and some of you will definitely find weird how I look at you and go 'no this mf definitely has the overall vibe of happy colors' even though you are goth dark edgy and shit. Anyway, thanks for being people inside my big and small screen. It's always fun to see you all existing here and talking and being nice and making my days brighter in little random ways, plus even reading the situations i put sukuna in for our entertainment in his torture.

fluff moment is now over, i'll be back on my evil shit.

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[This is a crackpost based on the Odyssey.]

If Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Nemesis, then she's not a demigod that'll grow old, but rather among the deathless.

And that makes her ending with Menelaus bittersweet because in the Odyssey, Proteus tells him that he'd taken to the Elysian Fields instead of dying.

“But about your destiny, Menelaus, dear to Zeus, it’s not for you to die and meet your fate in the stallion-land of Argos, no, the deathless ones will sweep you off to the world’s end, the Elysian Fields… All this because you are Helen’s husband now—the gods count you the son-in-law of Zeus.” - Book 4, Line 631-641

As we see, as Helen's husband and Zeus's son-in-law, Menelaus's status is elevated and his fate upgraded into a mortal's best possible ending.

So when his time comes, Menelaus will be granted a mortal's paradise, but that doesn't mean Helen can cross with him.

There's no clear answer if gods are allowed to visit their dead ones, but if they can't, that's where the cruel irony comes in.

After twenty years of separation—ten at war, then years wandering—they make it home. They get to spend their lives together, but not forever.

For Helen, this means knowing exactly what she'd lose everyone she ever knew, including their daughter Hermione and their descendants—watching them age and weaken—until she's alone again.

For Menelaus, as mentioned, he gets to go to a place of eternal spring where no pain or suffering will follow. It's everything a mortal can hope for.

But no her.

That's the problem. Because what he fought ten years for, what he endured storms and exile for, what he hoped for after the war—was to be with her again.

He can't stay with her forever, and she can't follow him where he's going.

As a result, his so-called reward is just another separation.

For Menelaus, it's paradise without the one person who made life worth fighting for.

For Helen, it's eternity without the one who made it meaningful.

They won the war. They made it home.

And still, they can't keep keep each other.

(recreation of Basti, capital of the Bastetania, and a Bastetan warrior)

The Bastetani were an Iberic group that lived in more or less all Eastern Andalusia, plus part of Murcia and Albacete. There's evidence of them as early as the 5th century BC, due to some Greek kratera found in a necropolis in Basti (modern Baza, Granada), which was the main oppidum or settlement in the area. It was a highly orientalized area due to its contact with the Phoenician cities in the coast, which are called Bastetan-Phoenician (Sexi, Malaka and Abdera among others).

The territory was divided into fortified pseudo city-states that controlled the roads, plus some extra-urban sanctuaries consisting of empty lots with accumulations of a particular type of vase, probably to make libations. There are also traces of mining operations throughout the territory, as it was an integral part of their economy, apart from garum (salted fish) and esparto. Apart from Basti, other major settlements were Iliberri (Granada), Tutugi (Galera, Granada), and Ilurco (near Pinos Puente, Granada).

There is a very rich archaeological history in Bastetania, but its most important and well-known finding that constitutes a symbol of the whole region even to this day is the Dama de Baza (Lady of Baza) a polychrome and incredibly detailed funerary statue. What's interesting about it is that the ashes of the corresponding tomb were inside the statue, acting as a funerary urn, and the dowry was almost exclusively made of swords and other weapons. Based on that, archaeologists first assumed that the statue represented a Goddess and that the ashes were of an important male warrior, but later on it was discovered that the ashes corresponded to a female body. The most accepted theory right now (although this is still very polemic) is that the statue was of the deceased, and that she could have been a powerful woman in the oppidum, either a high priestess or the equivalent to a queen. Below you'll find pictures of it and more Bastetani archaeological findings, as you can see the oriental influence is very present in its statuary catalogue: