Pretty Silver Haired Bat 🩶
feeling a deep kinship with this egyptian funerary boat model. this really is what it feels like sometimes
I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.
if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this
i know i said i did not want to talk about the nolan odyssey but i do have one more nodyssey post in me. i actually think the idea of odysseus understanding his story as existing both in and out of a historic timeframe is a fun way to handle the liminality caused by the story being part of an extensive oral tradition. however having him say "our age of bronze is collapsing" is perhaps not the way i would have done that
"our bronze age is collapsing" homeric hero version of "this is my 9/11"
I love it so much when people tag reblogs with character names, either because the post reminded them of a character, or the post is something that they think the character would say. I really love it when people get super into characters they like, it's wholesome and fun and awesome
