My (little To No Context) Reaction To The Thunder Saga 💛💛💛💛💛💛

FROM THE DESK OF TAYLOR SWIFT Chairman, The Tortured Poets Department (2006-2024)

Ithaca saga ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The challenge

. Poor penelope

. Oh yes the weaving trick

. "I don't know how long much longer I'll last"

. Oh the tempo

. "Time to be the man of the house"

. Changed it slightly?

. "Though I never thought these would be the lengths we go for love"

. WAITING? NOO NOT THIS MOTIF

Hold them down

. Goofy suitors

. "Can't you guys see were being played?"

. The repition of "hold them down" is so good

. Antinous is so deliciously evil

. "Hold him down til the boy stops shaking"

. The animatic is insane, anniflamma never dissapoints

. "Only the ocean and I will know"

. What the fuck

. That is so disturbing

. WOLFY

. ODYSSEUS WAIT ONG

ODYSSEUS

. "Worst of all I hear you dare to touch my wife and hurt my boy"

. Cmon

. BOSS FIGHT

. HE HAS HAD "enough"

. The suitors have such good voices

. Alright batman

. GET THEM

. "old king forgive us"

. Open arms? Mf you tried to rape his wife

. TELEMACHUS MY PRINCE WARRIOR OF THE MIND

. "we don't fight fair"

. "get off me, get off me!"

. Not the callback

. "You filled my heart with hate"

I can't help but wonder

. "Father" so much in that one word

. This line makes me sob without failure

. Jay and mico hug is so sweet

. "Show yourself"

. WHAT ATHENA??

. Oh, that's saddening

. I'm literally crying, TELEY MY BOYY

Would you fall in love with me again

. "Penelope" finally

. "Is it you" so surreal

. "I am not the man you once adored" fuck

. All the differnet artists mixing with the actions it's beautiful

. "And take it far away from here"

. The tree? Lol I know that it's a trick but still

. "Carved it into the olive tree when we first met"

. "So i guess that makes him you"

. Their voices are so incredible

. Waiting, waiting......

The end, fin.

EPIC MY LOVE I'LL MISS THESE 😔😔🥰

I fear the ttpd set might be my favourite on the tour, just about surpassing midnights <3

The vengance saga🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵

I'm not sorry for loving you

. I'm so excited for this one

. I lowkey don't know the songs that'll be here

. Her voice!!!!

. I'm so glad I get to listen to the proper version

. I feel bad for her sorry guys 😞 ✋️

. "Let me speak~"

. Their voices!! Especially together

. The pre chorus and chorus sound heavenly

. "I'm angry and tired and restless and sad"

. This part wrecks me I'm sorry

. "WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS LOVE FOR YOU" is literally the best line

Dangerous

. Huh? Not how I expected that to start

. A lil reprise

. Fuck, the emptiness where the crew usually sung

. Bro they've got him on a raft

. HERMES SAGA

. God I love dangerous

. No comment just perfection

. Hermes actually telling him what's going on>>>

. ODYSSEUS YES HE HAS TO GET HOME

. "Good luck~" icon

Charybdis

. THE INSTRUMENTAL CHRIST

. Ooo the snippet

. "I'd like to hurry up and end this"

. He's such a king like

. And of course very intelligent

. "Til I'm in the clear"

. Thats it?

. HOME ITHACA

. "My wife and son are past these shores"

. His voice is breaking me

. "Penelope"

. The what saga continues

Get in the water

. THE ONE WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

. "I've been waiting for this moment for the perfect time to strike"

. Whoever hates Steven's voice needs help

. "Get in the water"

. And Jay's voice is once again incredible

. "Don't mistake my threats for bluff"

. I'm very excited to see how this goes

. "Aren't you tired Poseidon?"

. Don't reason with him?!

. He is not gonna talk his way out this shit

. Um... is he?

. YESSSS

. "RUTHLESSNESS"

. THE MIXX

. "DIE"

. It sounds like a choir

. NOOO I DONT NEED ANOTHER MIX OF ALL THEIR VOICES

. BROOO 😭

. Brb ascending

. FUCK OFF THAT'S IT???

Six hundred strike

. The guitar 🎸 mmmmm

. HUH?! WHAT'S GOING ON AHAH

. AEOLUS?

. WHAT'S GOING ONN

. HELPP WHAT

. "I don't think you seem to get it cuz I cant afford to die I will get back to my son and I will get back to my wife

. Im glad that this song takes place over so much time becuz it deserves it

. "You idiot"

. Aww I thought

. BLOCKED HIS WAY HOME??

. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING

. "You can't kill me"

. "Exactly" GAGGED ME

. BRO AHHHHHH

. "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE HELPLESS"

. JESUS CHRIST

. OH MY GOD

. FULL CAPITALS

. DUDE I MEAN

. "haven't I suffered enough"

. "ALRIGHT"

. YESSSS

. I'M GONNA HAVE A HEART ATTACK

. NEXT TO MY WIFE??? KINGG (of Ithaca)

I think one of my favourite parts about the iliad is the gods interacting on Olympus. Obviously I love my lil greek heroes but somehting about the gods just hanging about like normal people is so silly. Like people are dying Zeus why are we having brunch 😭

I truly can't explain it but something about Percy & Poseidon's dynamic truly breaks me. Much more than Annabeth's relationship with Athena or Nico's with Hades. I can't explain it. I just think it's written so well.

Iike Poseidon is by no means a good father, but he clearly loves Percy. Every time he interacts with Percy, you can feel how much he wants to be there for Percy and the fact he can't makes me actually nauseous.

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON HIM BEING POSEIDON'S "favourite son" [DIRECT QUOTE 😭]

Or the fact he visited Percy when Percy was a baby even though he never should've for both their sakes *slams head repeatedly into knife*.

Anyways, my history teacher was talking to us about the Treaty of Versailles and to introduce us he asked if any of us were swifties and played 'Don't blame me' by Taylor Swift.

So basically, the best lesson of my life.

[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

As someone who got into greek myths when I was 10, because of pjo ^^^ no notes : perfection even

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

percy’s view of himself: i’m so stupid and ugly and useless. i’m such a lame demigod

literally everyone else’s view of percy: