Fun fact: the Percy Jackson Musical taught me how to pronounce Odysseus
Little elementary school me had no people really to talk to about Greek Mythology, and so I pronounced words horridly wrong for years. Odysseus being one of those words. Then comes along the Percy Jackson Musical, a verbal source of pronunciation. When Percy says ‘this ain’t Odysseus’ Odyssey’
’ I had my little, oh, that’s how it’s pronounce moment :)
My least favorite thing about the recent uptick in stories about Hades and Persephone as a romance is that people are forgetting the message of the original Homeric hymn. It is a Homeric hymn to Demeter, not hades, not Persephone, but Demeter. It is about a woman losing a child: to death, to marriage, etc. and grieving so hard she turns the world barren with her power of emotions. It is the story of how strong a mothers love is, the marriage is secondary, it is the catalyzing force to get to the story of mother daughter relationships and how powerful grief is. Like, in our modern worlds where we all re-examine our relationship to our mothers, and that position in a sexist world, is that not a perfect story? Is that not the message we all really need?one about the power of maintaining and holding onto our maternal relationships in a world that is constantly tearing them apart, instead of a love story that in essence we’ve heard again and again, and have to rewrite again and again to make it romantic. People can and should like the love stories, that’s why they exist. But in the process should we erase the real story about women that already exists?
[something that references more things than even more] best things about dimension 20
- how somehow they’re able to bring together a group of people who play off each other SO WELL every time
- ally beardsley. a gift to the world. thank you
- aabria’s reactions to other scenes are fucking incredible every time like she’s so engaged and expressive and i fucking love her
- persephone valentine
- in episode 5 of the seven when brennan goes “….sam” and sephie goes “hi :)” like SHES SO CUTE WTF
- “elgeebiti ally”
- plug’s butt ugly stuff hut
- plug’s whole “dying tomorrow” thing and the reveal of it’s not tomorrow it’s today, like that’s fuckin hilarious and such a clever thing and it’s also such an amazing outlook on life! love it
- “we didn’t go to school, we just learned things organically through listening to people’s thoughts” “oh montessori”
- “i like your flesh husk!”
- “cousin!”
- brennan’s fuckin jane austen proposal “you will never know a lonely day again” just stab me in the heart with a knife why don’t you