Being Alive Is Great Because There Are So Many Different Vegetables You Can Sauté. But Then There Are

Lucy is so ethereal when in Natsu’s POV

Just look how amazing she looks

Simply gorgeous

Best girl honestly

This frame of Laxus always gets me because you are 26 years old and started a civil war a few months ago💀 but whatever, do what you want king

I’m so torn on this ship sometimes but thematically they hit. I only enjoy angst Zervis

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I wonder what Barb felt about the whole body swap thing😂

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

penelope didn't have to turn the tree bed into a riddle. she could have asked odysseus to prove his identity, to tell her something only he would know — which she actually did a few books earlier, when she asked the beggar to describe odysseus, and odysseus told her about a purple cloak with a particular golden brooch that she fastened herself twenty years ago. when penelope tells telemachus they have signs by which they'll know each other, you sort of expect more of the same. and instead, she decides to trap him. like a bug in a cup.

and it's delightful to me, idk, how odysseus has been trapped and cornered in various way throughout the odyssey, but arguably never so that he has to tell the truth to get out. (with the phaeacians, maybe? the omniscient narrator corroborates some of what he tells them, but do we really know everything?) and in fact he is not trying to get free of penelope. he wants something from her, wants to convince her, wants to be welcomed home, but until this point he's lied to her, revealed himself to other people before her, and been distant with her (though also patient! he doesn't try to strongarm or rush her into accepting him; it's his idea to sleep elsewhere).

except penelope isn't looking for him to be distant and patient. penelope lies in a way that requires odysseus to stop playing along — not only to prove that he knows what odysseus knows, but that he's willing to tell the truth about himself.