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in the club getting psychosexual

Calypso’s island is magical. It supplies every possible demand Odysseus might have for food, drink, clothing, sex, companionship or conversation. He has only to pay over the coin of his self. His entire self. Calypso wants Odysseus body and soul. She wants everything about him. Physical, moral, and verbal. She wants the work of art that he has made of his own human being. And she wants it for all time. She promises to immortalize him.

When he rejects the transaction she’s baffled. Why would anyone choose to abandon a consumer paradise where he could live forever with a ravishing divinity? Odysseus’s answer is: “I know you’re a goddess and bigger and better looking than my wife, for you are deathless and ageless while she is a mere mortal, and yet, I prefer Penelope and what I really long for is the day of my return.” Odysseus’s answer sets up a calculus. He measures the infinite days and infinite pleasures of Calypso against the single day of his homecoming and the mortal attractions of his wife. The infinite comes up lacking.

Neither Odysseus nor Homer ever tells us exactly what the infinite lacks. That is, we never get an objective description of Penelope. We do not know if she is dark or fair. Odysseus no where itemizes the qualities that make her more desirable than a goddess. What becomes clear in the final stages of the poem however as husband and wife engage in a so called recognition scene that extends from Book XVII where Odysseus shows up in disguise at Penelope’s house to Book XXIII where she falls weeping in his arms and calls his name is that these two people are a match for each other in wits and ambiguity.

We watch Her throughout the six books seduce him by the simple tactic of never letting him know what she’s thinking. She dangles herself. She dangles the prospect of homecoming before him in a series of tantalizing interactions. She gives him clothing, a meal, a bath, a bed in the courtyard and several deep conversations without ever letting on whether she’s recognized him or not. Scholars still disagree on where exactly in the poem she decides Odysseus is Odysseus and she should welcome him home. Penelope’s power is the power of a meaning withheld.

—Anne Carson on the distinction between selling and selling out

when you're reading smut and that middle aged man has a little too much stamina

I'm really sorry that I keep rbing this and showing y'all tags but this put actual tears in my eyes

compiling my favorite "peepaw CAN fuck" tags

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Loving this part of Rachel Tashjian’s latest Opulent Tips newsletter

NYC Data Stories: Allyship

For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.

also, i would like to add that marriage equality is not the end-all-be-all to queer rights. homophobic and transphobic laws are not over now in the US because we can get married.

as of october 2022, there are no non-discrimination laws in 18 states and 5 territories for gay people, and another state for trans people.

30% of the USAmerican queer population (excluding territories) lives in a state where they can be denied housing just because they’re queer.

ahahahahahahaha BYE BITCH! trans folk stay winning, terfs stay losing. ya cunt

LETTUCE ALWAYS WINS!!

i can't stop thinking about this. she moved from a far left to a far right politician. she's spent over a decade pushing for a more right-wing government. an extraordinary series of coincidences fell together and let her actually run a country. and she's been nationally humiliated on a level literally never seen before. in just 44 days.

Google Maps: "In 200 meters, turn left."

My Autistic and Dyscalculia dumb brain trying to figure out what side is left:

A Checklist Of Possible Reasons I Am Upset, To Review When I Can't Seem To Figure It Out:

and then. and THEN. I may consider:

#DIVERSITY WIN, YOUR FAV SERIAL KILLER IS GAY

everyone tagging this “and what about it?” as if this isn’t a celebratory post like yes king kill them all!

reassurance

i am a very serious artist

they get 4 hours of sleep per night and look at em they’re fresh

there’s something wrong with me but sometimes i have fun with it