there’s a very specific genre of modern greek mythology retellings a in a vaguely madeline miller-ish way that are all just catering to a market of ex percy jackson kids but i will eat up every single time without fail.
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“the song of achilles fandom—“ what you mean, like, the iliad??? like, the homeric epics???? “the circe fandom—“ the fucking odyssey???? what the hell and fuck???? “the prophecy abt the best of the myrmidons must have been abt patroclus” YEAH THATS IN THE FUCKING ILIAD????? THESE ARE NOT GROUND BREAKING OBSERVATIONS???? “omg odysseus saw achilles and patroclus together in the underworld according to Circe” YOU MEAN LIKE IN THE ODYSSEY, WHICH CIRCE IS A RETELLING OF??? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
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words i wish were written for me, part 2.
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I was thinkin' about who you are
Your delicate point of view, I
Was thinkin' about you”
— Harry Styles, From “Little Freak” from Harry’s House
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
— Madeline Miller, Circe
“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
— Euripides
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i lied have a circe right now
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Circe sagas been hitting different (in a good way) while reading Circe by Madeline Miller
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There is something so poetic about Dedalus falling in love with Circe, the daughter of the sun god, and then his son dying because of the sun
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“But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.
Madeline Miller, Circe
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say it with me folks:
INTERPRETATIONS ARE VALID BUT ARE NOT ALWAYS MEANT TO BE REFLECTIVE OF AND CANNOT USURP THE ORIGINAL STORIES
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Anyone: Bro you ok?
Me: Yup…..No sometimes I think after Patroclus died Achilles rushed at killing Hector just so he could die sooner and join Patroclus instead of just revenge
*I looked at TSOA posts on Tumblr again and can’t move on with life again*
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So when’s Madeline Miller gonna make a fantastic version of a non villainized Medusa??
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