welcome to my πολύτροπος mind

people like to lump circe and calypso together and i see why, i’ve done it too, but i think maybe calypso is better matched with nausicaa, because it’s actually nausicaa who is calypso but stronger

i feel like nausicaa kind of walks into the odyssey out of a different genre. a fairy tale. odysseus knows what kind of story he’s in, and it’s not that. but nausicaa is tossing a ball with her friends when she throws it too far and loses it. when she goes after it she finds a cursed man. she doesn’t run away because she’s brave. she gives him her laundry to clothe himself because she’s kind. she sneaks him into her palace. if this were a fairy tale he would marry her! but when he doesn’t, she doesn’t turn into a witch or a monster. she’s still just kind to him. idk. i love her.

Hear me out more people should sing the epics. They were songs first right? I was singing the Iliad earlier and when I read the Homeric hymns I'll sing them as well. I always read those kinds of texts out loud.

good point. they should rap the epics

I meant for blog content. There'll be a lot to post about.

with the benefit of hindsight i think i owe you an apology because there has been a lot to post about. my bad, dude