‘Do Not Weep, Do Not Wail, I Am Coming Home To You’

I've been watching too many bookbinding youtube videos and I really wanna try it. Thinking about buying some supplies online in the next couple of days.

Finished!!! Yes I know the lighthouse looks like a 🍆

Got a cat recently and sometimes when I talk with people instead of saying "she" I use "they" (not even realizing when I do). And people always get so annoyed when I say I only have one cat. They are constantly like "why do you say they" etc, etc.

It's kinda stupid to get annoyed over but I've only told like 2 people irl about me being genderfluid and it makes me so sad/mad that people are getting that annoyed when it's literally just my cat. Like they tell me to stop saying "they" and "do you not know the gender".

Man, I already know I'm going to be absolutely obsessed with Thor: Love And Thunder.

The depression barbie hit a little too close to home

Okay, but how can this show still be this amazing four seasons in?!?! Most shows aren't as good after season 2 or 3 but I am loving all the new episodes.

Started watching 911 on FOX and I'm hooked. Currently on S02Ep09 "Hen Begins" and watching Hen's first interactions with the previous Captain have me 🤬.

Can we please appreciate Odysseus being a silent stalker in the shadows, taking out suitors with his bow, not deigning to speak to them as he takes them out one by one

until some of them go "we have to strike him in the darkness too! we know the halls of this palace! the odds can be tilted!"

and Odysseus, built this palace with his very hands, has to step out of the shadows like "are you this fucking stupid"

Theseus #4 (Into the Labyrinth) Illustration by me.

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No sooner had Theseus settled into his princely position, than King Minos of Crete, calls upon Athens for its bloody yearly debt. King Minos son had previously died in the Athenian games, and as an act of revenge, he threatened to invade Athens unless the kingdom sent seven male and seven female youths to Crete to sacrifice for his half-man, half-bull creature within his labyrinth; the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers as one of the youths, determined to stop the beast. King Aegeus tells Theseus if he survives, to switch the ship’s black sail to white upon his return, so his father will know he lives.

Arriving in Crete, King Minos’ daughter, Ariadne, falls for Theseus, and vows to help him if he will marry and bring her to Athens after defeating the beast. Theseus agrees, and Ariadne consults Daedalus, the ingenious inventor of the maze, as to its secrets. She gives Theseus the secrets, and most importantly, a ball of thread, so that he may retrace his steps. That night, Ariadne sneaks Theseus to the entrance, and he enters the dank corridors...

Ariadne is one example of smitten women assisting male Greek heroes on their quests with invaluable clues and tools. The Argonauts, arriving at Colchis to acquire the Golden fleece, were assisted by the princess Medea, who uses magic and ingenuity to help Jason succeed in his labors.

Can you think of other examples?

There are many interpretations for the symbolism of Labyrinths in myths. On the surface they show a character on a journey to discover their purpose or destiny through finding the correct path to reach their goal. They’re also symbolic of the stage of the hero’s journey Jospeh Campbell calls the “belly of the whale,” where the hero commits to their metamorphosis, and thus re-emerges from the ordeal, reborn anew. The Labyrinth center could represent a unification with the hero’s inner self, a higher power, or the ultimate challenge, and the tunnel could represent a birth canal.

What other symbolism might a labyrinth hold in art and literature?

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𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙍𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙀𝙍(𝙎): Remus Lupin/Moony | Sirius Black/Padfoot

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Sirius & Remus

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