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The Judgment of Paris

The vanquishing warrior may carry the action, but the audience’s emotional attention is diverted to the fallen foe. This personalizing quality ensures that most of the Iliad ’s deaths are perceived — perhaps only fleetingly — to be regrettable. Although the winning of glory in combat is the aim of the conventional hero of combat poetry, in the Iliad glory is usurped by sympathy for the human being, possessed of a family and life story, who has been extinguished. Fully three times as many Trojans die as Achaeans in this Greek epic, so the Iliad is dense with the descriptions of enemy warriors who die pathetically. This remarkable point is worth emphasizing: subtly, but with unflagging consistency, the Iliad ensures that the enemy is humanized and that the deaths of enemy Trojans are depicted as lamentable. The Iliad is insistent on keeping to the fore the price of glory."

“Child, why are you crying? What pain has touched your heart? Do not conceal it. Tell me and let us both know.”

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Reading: I just started We Solve Murders by Richard Osman. I'm on page 17.

Last Series: How to get to Heaven from Belfast. (@ellivia Sister Wives is my TLC trash)

Last Movie: The Salt Path with Chewiesgirlfriend and Lucius Malfoy. I enjoyed it.

Last Song: whatever was on the radio on my way home from work today. Sombr maybe?? Was his name inspired by Tumblr?

Sweet or Salty: I agree with @ellivia both. And even both at the same time.

Tea or Coffee: Agree again, both. Mostly drink tea during the week (morning and evening), but love a coffee on weekends or days off. I love Yorkshire Gold or green tea. Not a fan of flavoured teas or coffees.

Reading: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Last Series: Trying to watch through Twin Peaks (again)

Last Movie: Zootopia 2

Last Song: Photograph by Def Leppard

Sweet or Salty: Sweet ❤️

Tea or Coffee: Coffee when I wake up and then tea throughout the day!

Reading: Currently making my way through “Pretty Girl I’ll Make You Famous” by @witchwolfwriter again (this counts as your tag for this btw) because I miss Maya Mason

Last Series: Mrs. Fletcher (Eve my beloved!)

Last Movie: mine was also Zootopia 2

Last Song: How Bad Do You Want Me - Gaga

Sweet or Salty: BOTH

Tea or Coffee: iced coffee 🫡

Reading: The life changing power of intuition - Emma Lucy Knowles

Last Series: The Traitors Netherlands OG

Last Movie: The nun 2, horror movies are my comfort

Last Song: the death of peace of mind - Bad Omens

Sweet or salty: sweet and salty when I have a migraine

Tea or Coffee: Coffee all day, everyday☕️

reading: all about love by bell hooks (just started it! + many fics, ofc, including my own while i write them!)

last series: the pitt (season 2, weekly) + girls5eva (just started it bc i wanted something light)

last movie: accused (the desi yuri of it all. watched it for koko, but *sigh* the story did not hit the way it could have... 🙄 anyway, this is technically my 2nd last watch. my actual last watch was only out of curiosity considering the hype around it. and, um, yeah. it sure was something!)

last song: leak it by FLO (+ the entire F.I.G album by naomi scott! 😍)

sweet or salty: salty (but better if savoury instead of just salty. gimme flavour!)

tea or coffee: coffee! (body's unforch addicted to my one dose of caffeine a day!)

reading: the god of the woods by liz moore

last series: the wilds (that ending……cannot believe the show got cancelled 🥲)

last movie: undertone

last song: losing streak by avery cochrane

sweet or salty: i have an insatiable sweet tooth 🤗

tea or coffee: coffee my beloved

Reading: Caliban and the Witch (for my dissertation) / Skin of the Sea (not dissertation related)

Last series: Agatha All Along

Last movie: Nimona

Last song: The Visitors by ABBA

Sweet or salty: annoying answer, but it depends on my mood 😅

Tea or coffee: tea will always have my heart!

last series: gravity falls

last movie: ready or not (preparing for when the sequel drops at my local cinema)

last song: choke me from alexandra căpitănescu (truly recommend it, our entry to eurovision this year and we might have a solid chance. also a girl from work is in alexandra's team running make up and hair as a side gig so the entire office is triple voting this year)

sweet or salty: sweet if it is around my period, salty otherwise

tea or coffee: coffee all the way, tea only when i am sick to be honest

Reading: I just finished Master of Death by Olive Blake - the audiobook was fun. They did a great job. I started yesterday ‘Jurassic Park’ by Michael Crichton. But also I read ‘my safeword is safeword’ by AnonFandomBandit. My Butch buddy recommended @panicatthestrap that and ‘God Knows You Need It’ and ‘Well I Wonder’ by @Midwestprincess_01. I was slow to the party but I’m sold. I don’t know what rock I was living under lol.

Last Series: Finished the first season of X-Files. Onto Season 2! But before that it was The Pitt (and I’m also close to finishing first season of ER).

Last Movie: How to Mary A Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe. But I downloaded Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (‘at worlds end’ my favorite) to watch on the plane ✈️ home.

Last Song: What You’ve Done by Radio Free Alice.

Sweet or Salty: both both both ( I like to bake so I do both 😈)

Tea or Coffee : Both, I have a caffeine addiction. Soon I’ll go cold turkey and quit coffee again, 4 cups a day is too much. But no nicotine and no energy drinks are a win.

Reading: I’m so serious when I say the bible (it’s for my degree 😢) but besides that I’ve been rereading any all fanfics that make me feel happy (mostly Liandrin and Lilia ones lol)

Last Series: Harlots - in the middle of it rn bc i need a Kate Fleetwood fix like no tomorrow.

Latest Movie: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Version. I am in love with lotr bc Cate Blanchett and Miranda Otto are just stunning but also I’m really autistic so I can quote the whole of lotr:rotk extended version (I’m talking camera shots, dialogue, music, facial expressions) so I’m trying to do the same for the other two.

Last Song: currently listening to music lol but Rubber Band Man just ended. I’m on a mission to be Hoziers top listener this year on Spotify so I have literally been listening to him nonstop since January.

Sweet or Salty: I like both! Gimme sweet sea salt chocolate chip cookies!!!

Tea or Coffee: as an Italian I fear I should say coffee but I just really love tea more. The flavours you can have!!!! Coffee is good when u want it but when u want hot flavoured water but dont know what flavour - tea for you!!!

Reading: Mythos (for my uni coursework but I love it anyway)

Last series: Wheel of Time - for my beloved Liandrin who's never done anything wrong ever

Last movie: The Importance of Being Earnest - watched on the National Theatre's YT channel and I loved it

Last song: Queen of Nothing by The Crane Wives

Sweet or salty: it also depends on my mood. at the moment it's been very sweet

Tea or coffee: a sweet fruit tea

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📖 Reading: The Trojan Women, Eurípedes

📺 Last series: One Piece, season two

🎬 Last movie: Friday the 13th Part 2

🎵 Last song: The Bad Touch, by Bloodhound Gang

🍭🧂 Sweet or salty: Sweet

🍵☕ Tea or coffee: Both?

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📖Reading: I'm usually reading and listening to multiple books at a time because hhhhhh so many stories so little time (and def not because all my library holds come in at the same time)! 🙏😫My current reads are: Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, The Other Moctezuma Girls by Sofia Robleda, Lady Dragon by A.M. Strickland, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephan Graham Jones, and Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu!

📺Last Series: Wentworth (rewatching season 3)

🎬Last Movie: Ever After

🎵Last Song: She Works Hard for the Money, Donna Summer (cuz Monday morning motivation anthem🙏😫)

🧂🍭Sweet or Salty? Salty.

🍵☕️Tea or Coffee? Coffee! If I'm in the mood for it, then peppermint tea.

Tysm again for the tag!!

📖 Reading: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 📺 Last series: Fucking Adelaide 🎬 Last movie: Bring Her Back 🎵 Last song: Cursum Perficio (Enya) 🍭🧂 Sweet or salty: Salty 🍵☕ Tea or coffee: Coffee

📖 Reading: Boulder, by Eva Baltasar (a quick and riveting read)

📺 Last series: Wentworth (naturally)

🎬 Last movie: The sound of music

🎵 Last song: Pleasure and pain (Divinyls)

🍭🧂 Sweet or salty: Fully dependant on my mood (right now, salty)

🍵☕ Tea or coffee: See above - though a dirty london fog ticks both boxes!

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📖 Reading: Not counting my law textbooks, An Accidental History of Tudor England by Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski - Would highly recommend! So, so interesting to get a glimpse into the everyday lives of the people of Tudor England in such a unique way. I'm also reading (or re-reading) The Iliad, with the translation by R. Fagles!

📺 Last series: House MD season 4

🎬 Last movie: Hamnet (2025)

🎵 Last song: Setting Sun by You'll Never Get to Heaven 🥀

🍭🧂 Sweet or salty: More often than not, I'll pick salty

🍵☕ Tea or coffee: TEA >>

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