I wrote a fanfic! It would mean a lot if you’d read it ❤️

Honestly there is something really brutal and daresay savage on the way Eurypedes writes his "Orestes". Clearly Eurypedes has a beef with Odysseus and consequently Menelaus who was arguably his best friend in Homer but the way Orestes goes from madness to absolute desperation to acceptance of his fate and rage towards Menelaus and Helen and eventually he sinks more and more to the drunkeness of murder so now he wants to murder Helen herself, like a person who has nothing left to lose and has only revenge and anger left.

And the way Electra acts like a mastermind behind it all, even advising Orestes to take Hermione, their own cousin and an innocent who suffered as well being a protegee of Clytemnestra, as a hostage and a human shield and the calmness with which she suggests for Orestes to cut her throat if necessary, dancing and singing hearing Helen screaming in desperation to Menelaus for help or when Hermione is heard struggling against Orestes in the palace is definitely disturbing liking or not the writing of Eurypedes (or agreeing or not with his outtake of this play) Orestes holding his hostage on the roof like a madman demanding from Electra to set the palace ablaze while he is in there...

Yeah that family is not doing okay!

Thinking about how Euripides mentions that when they were little, Electra and Orestes chased a deer in the palace. A deer. The animal that was used to replace Iphigenia at her sacrifice...Orestes got a scar from chasing the deer...

Something something Electra and Orestes chasing the shadow of their dead sister something something It's 2 am here I'm not thinking well

guys from greek plays/mythology being represented by some of my favourite posts <3 peace and love on the earth

Electra looking exactly like the female version of Agamemnon is just perfect to me. Orestes looks at her and sees their father, obeying her. Menelaus looks at her and sees his dead brother, guilt-ridden and mourning her. Clytemnestra looks at her and sees the worst, treating her the way she never would if she was Iphigenia.

Chrysothemis, the only sister she grew up with, is probably the only one who sees Electra as Electra.

The world if girls would project their mommy issues on Clytemnestra and Electra, Helen and Hermione, Cassiopeia and Andromeda, Hera and Angelos etc. instead of Demeter and Persephone:

this might legitimately be the funniest i've been, ever

I try to be normal but when I see people babygirling Neopteomus my eyes start twitching so bad like. This guy made Andromache his SEX SLAVE. Or when people make Odysseus save Astyanax and/or raise him and it's like ok cool but what about Andromache? WHAT ABOUT ANDROMACHE?

Contrasting the Theban cycle and the Oresteia and. Clawing at the walls. Oh, they’re so opposite but so similar.

The House of Atreus is driven by hate. Clytemnestra hated Agamemnon. Orestes hated Clytemnestra. The Furies hated Orestes. It was all about revenge and hatred.

The House of Laius l, however, is all about love. Antigone died for her love of Polynices. Haemon died for his love of Antigone. Eurydice died because of her love of Haemon. There was revenge in the form of love.

And it’s all about siblings. Clytemnestra and Helen. Agamemnon and Menelaus. Orestes and Electra and Iphigenia. Antigone and Polynices. Antigone and Ismene. One of them is already dead, there’s no way to get them back. But they can still be loved. Their love can speak for one last time.

It could only be for their siblings. Not for spouses. Not for children. Only for siblings would they revenge their brothers and sisters.

Actually I’m not done. Thinking about Antigone and Elektra within this

They are both angry and full of rage, but other than that they are so opposite.

Antigone is a patriot. Despite what Creon wants to paint her as, she holds deep value for her country and its traditions. That’s why she’s rebelling the way she is. Antigone’s roots in Thebes are firmly planted. Same with her family. Antigone is pious; she reveres her gods, even when she doesn’t understand them. She is doing all she because of and for her family. Everything she does is driven by love.

Elektra? Total opposite. She is no patriot for Argos. Her rebellion is to stand up against what her country is and how she can’t stand it. She wants to take her roots and tear them up. Her family? Even worse. They never truly accepted her, and the feeling became mutual. With the exception of Orestes, she feels no love for them. She is nobody’s daughter. She worships no gods, for they have been unkind to her. Everything Elektra does is driven by hatred and spite.

Penny is dead?

im still upset we never got this pairing more

society if the magicians s5 had been a eurydice and orpheus type story of the whole crew going to rescue quentin from the underworld and bring him back to life as he has done similar for them countless times culminating in eliot being the one to save him and get him back through the power of gay love and they got to grow old together again in their own timeline and the lesson was that you can grow beyond your depression even if it stays with you and find people that love you even when you are flawed and would move heaven and earth to get you back and not only that but that you DESERVE that love and you deserve to be happy.

instead of. whatever the FUCK it was that we got.

optimism | lazarus rising | lost and found | tombstone | the prisoner

is there any temptation greater than being in the hardware store and seeing the place where they have all the little cards for the colours

as someone who works in the paint department of a hardware store i just wanna say that you are absolutely allowed (and ENCOURAGED!) to grab as many cards off the rack as you want so long as you don’t take more than one or two of each colour (they are free for customers but the store only gets so many at a time so please don’t just walk off with our ENTIRE supply of SW 7587 Antique Red cards)

That’s too specific. Have people been stealing the SW 7587 Antique Red cards in droves lately?

legally i am not allowed to comment

I’m too cheap to actually buy paint so I’ve been going to every hardware store in collecting all the SW 7587 antique red cards and gluing them to my walls

YOU!!!!!! YOU ARE MY ENEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

are you gonna pick those penne noodles out of the boiling water one by one like a man, or are you gonna use a strainer like some kind of democrat?

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