💞 And 🚲 For JOYCE !!
💞 and 🚲 for JOYCE !!
🚲 : Does your OC enjoy playing the field? Or are they more monogamy-minded?
joyce doesn’t necessarily want monogamy, but her ortega derangement syndrome doesn’t leave much room for noticing or returning anyone else’s interest. like i think it’s pretty damning that she’s a dating sim MC and in three playthroughs i’ve never felt compelled to even try another route with her.
her puppet, josie, cursorily flirts with mortum to make their working relationship easier, but it doesn’t excite her. mortum wants to be wanted by josie, so where’s the sport?
i do think she has chemistry with chen, that he has chemistry with ricardo, and that they’d be good for each other in a trio, but i can’t see her wanting someone who’s good for her. she’s busy acting up about ortega !
💞 : Do they treat sex casually or do they view it as something with a lot of emotional weight?
definitely something with like planetary weight, although that might not be true if it wasn’t for the re-gene tattoos, because she’s a sensual person & totally horny enough.
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I know I'm very late to this compared to everyone here (I'm 30) but I just finished reading the odyssey for the first time and I'm... my heart can't handle it. I already want to read it again. Why did I get to this this late? Anyway, I wanted to ask if you have any recommendations for interesting articles or other books about Odysseus, apart from the Iliad? And Penelope, of course. I just love them. I'm asking you 'cause I saw your posts about Odysseus and Calypso / Circe, and found them very interesting and insightful! Thanks in advance
There's no bad time in your life to read the Odyssey for the first time! I'm so glad you found your way to it and enjoyed it!
In terms of books and articles about the Odyssey, I've been out of the academic world for long enough that I feel like I'm no longer a particularly good source of advice, but I'll toss out a few old favorites:
the film O Brother Where Art Thou - a retelling of the Odyssey set in the Deep South during the Great Depression
the novel the Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - a feminist retelling of the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view
technically it's more about the Iliad, but Somewhere I Have Never Travelled by Thomas Van Nortwick is a scholarly work that's informed my thinking on Homeric storytelling a lot
And I found some articles on the Odyssey that look fascinating freely accessible (no login needed) on JSTOR! Since some of these are public domain, they may not closely track modern scholarship, but if you're just kinda vibing with the Odyssey right now and are looking for more food for thought on the subject, this ought to get you going in interesting directions.
Rose, Peter W. “Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey.” Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 92–140. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvn1tbcw.6. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Coulter, Cornelia C. “The Happy Otherworld and Fairy Mistress Themes in the Odyssey.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 56, 1925, pp. 37–53. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/282883. Accessed 14 May 2023.
KAMUF, PEGGY. “Penelope at Work.” Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship, Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 145–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt207g60p.11. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Bassett, Samuel E. “The Proems of the Iliad and the Odyssey.” The American Journal of Philology, vol. 44, no. 4, 1923, pp. 339–48. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/289255. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Gregory, Andrew. “Circe: An Extract from Homer’s Odyssey (c. 900–800 BCE).” Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook, edited by Hannah Wills et al., UCL Press, 2023, pp. 23–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.11. Accessed 14 May 2023.
Also, if you liked the Odyssey, I think you'll love Greek tragedy! I recommend starting with Sophocles' Electra, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and maybe Euripedes' the Trojan Women.
Thanks for the ask, and happy reading!
“is your sidestep design just s—” just sandra oh? yes. yes it is.
A few comic things I did about the Rangers attempting to carry Levi without warning lol
sessi do you have a tag you put to read’s/ref in? or any book recs off the top of your head? I trust your judgement <3 kisses!
ohh I don’t sorry!! but I always recommend anything donna tartt, susan sontag’s on photography is a classic, the lonely city by olivia laing is one of my all time favorites, trick mirror by jia tolentino, if i survive you by jonathan escoffery, on freedom by timothy snyder, and currently I’m on the years by annie ernaux <3
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