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Odysseus is the smartest man in Greek mythology, which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.

Say what you want about the elder scrolls but it’s the only game series where american accents don’t sound jarringly out of place in a fantasy setting

my phd supervisor is notoriously lax on fieldwork safety but he’s also 6’7 so it’s like yeah dude no wonder you’ve never had to worry about bears they see you coming and are like oh fuck it’s the slenderman

The heartbreaking truth about star wars fix-its is that if Order 66 hadn’t gone out, Obi-Wan & Cody would have carried out their mission normally and at the end Obi-Wan would have returned Boga to her keepers and said goodbye to her and called her a good girl and then he would have left her behind and I’m going to be in tears about this.

#obi wan can have a sixty foot lizard as a treat (via @armin051)

You’re right and you should say it. Boga can also have a 5′8″ Jedi as a treat

Obi-Wan: Here, have her back.

Locals: Nah, she’s imprinted on you.

Obi-Wan: What?

Locals: Yeah, it would be unhealthy to separate you two now.

Boga: 🥺

Obi-Wan: Oh, so I can… I can keep her? 🥺

Locals: Of course! It’s the least we can do to thank you for repelling the Separatists.

Anakin: I want one!

Mace Windu: (has just gotten a taste of how close to insanity Anakin is) GIve him one. He needs an emotional support animal.

Anakin gets a reek.

Part of his rehabilitation is learning to let the reek be his anger translator.

Mace regrets this decision.

OK GUYS IVE ALWAYS KNOWN ABOUT READRIORDAN.COM BUT NO ONE EVER TOLD ME YOU GET UPDATES FROM THE CHARACTER'S LIVES??

From the Spring Break Update Article

PERCY GETS BETTER GRADES THAN ANNABETH????!!!! WAS PERCY JUST....GASLIGHTING US THAT HE GOT BAD GRADES IN SCHOOL? WHAT NEW LEVEL OF UNRELIABLE NARRATOR IS THIS?

"oh yeah annabeth is the top of my class, i just manage through school😁🥰" WHAT THE ACTUAL--

PERCY IS DUMB TRUTHERS HAVE LOST THEIR ONLY DEFENSE???

(obligatory beep boop percy being called smart alert)

I think having a baby niece is great cause my brother will send me just a constant stream of messages that sound indistinguishable from how someone at Jurassic park would text if they were being hunted by the raptor

I find it incredibly funny from a meta/author perspective, that Ancient Greece decided to name their protagonist that angers many people “Anger Bringer” but, even funnier, is the in universe understating that anyone who meets Odysseus must have had the thought “oh dear, how unfortunate to be named hateful/hated” and then they have exactly One conversation with him and go “Ah I see now”

For reference, Odysseus’ name sounds very much like the Greek word odussomai, which can roughly mean “I am angry at” or “I am the cause of anger” (or simply “to hate” or “to dismiss”), a fact that is used for ironic effect frequently in the Odyssey.

It’s also specifically stated in Book 19 that Odysseus’ grandfather, a master thief and one who has also pissed off a lot of people, specifically named him this because “I am disliked by many, all across the world, and I dislike them back. So name the child Odysseus.” 19.428

Bro looked at his grandson and thought “Ahaha, this one’s going to be a troublemaker like me. Better get him started early.”

It’s like a terrible allegory for cause and effect or something.

Assigned Problem At Birth

hey so who was going to warn me that merlin was going to change my brain permanently and i’ll never be the same person again?

hey so who was going to warn me that merlin was going to change my brain permanently and i’ll never be the same person again?

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

even setting aside the fact that gendered bodytype averages aren't universals, and plenty of individual (cis) women and (cis) men could easily go to toe to toe. have we considered that the fact that all the most prominent and well-paid sports are ones that require things like Being Tall and Having Muscle Mass, as opposed to, ex, gymnastics...is itself an artifact of sexism

also to people who are like "well do you think WOMEN should be playing AMERICAN FOOTBALL against MEN" actually I don't think anyone should be playing american football on account of, you know, the irreversible brain damage.

“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

sorry for tagwatching but you still have to act like they aren’t mad at you imo! bc it’s the mad person’s duty to make it known if they want anything changed. it is never anyone’s duty to be a mind reader.

I'm actually astounded that Fallout seems to have avoided the curse of game to movie/tv adaptations being completely totally awful. I need to go research who was on the writing team so I can understand how they pulled this off. Also I need S2 yesterday.

My theory: Gaius didn't know about Merlin's magic because, in his correspondence with Hunith, she only skirted around the topic is vague ways so the end result was him just thinking Merlin was gay and the magic was a secret little surprise

How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

I'm sorry but this is so funny

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