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Greek Apologies

I keep hearing people say that Odysseus never apologized properly to Poseidon but in the Greek way he did.

Basically the Greek word that apology is derived from- Apologia means “Speaking in Defense”.

Basically the Greeks would explain why you did what you did while expressing sympathy and remaining respectful.

The reason why Poseidon didn’t accept the apology was because Odysseus permanently crippled Poseidon’s son which was like, a great disgrace for that time period- it would’ve been more honorable to kill Polyphemus.

But anyways- my whole point was that Odysseus DID apologize correctly but due to the disgrace of what Odysseus did, it’s why Poseidon was so angry and said, “This totally could’ve been avoided had you just killed my son.”

This is why Odysseus was quiet when Eurylochus apologized for the wind bag- because he didn’t apologize correctly per the time period, he just said “I’m so sorry, forgive me.” He didn’t give a defense or reasoning, he just begged to be forgiven.

[the journal you see is journal 4, he ripped off the number and fingers out of anger (great another diary edgy edition) ]

After the portal incident Ford fell into a heavy depression making Bill leave him because he got bored, once Ford had gotten a metal plate installed into his skull by a sketchy doctor he eventually got the idea to showcase his life's work so he wouldn't die as a failure. Ford knows he cannot show the real deal to the tourists so he spends his time creating realistic models of the creatures he’s studied keeping him busy. He refuses to have made up creatures like Mabel suggest because he views it as a mockery and scam it reminds him of someone

When the kids came for the summer he gained some confidence and weight after Mabel's much needed "mandatory self care" days. Ford loves both kids to death but has trouble showing it. Sees himself within Dipper resulting in him spending more time with the boy unintentionally separating the twins

After faking Stanley's death with a car crash he drags back the Stanmobile having it fixed and sitting in a locked garage with Ford staring at it for hours at a time repeating the words “he’s gone and there’s nothing I can do”

“Sometimes I wonder if I deserved it. I’d allowed it to happen for so long, I can’t say that I didn’t play the part of the ‘willing victim’ well.

He was everything to me—my guiding star, the one thing that shone so brightly in my sea of darkness and I was his ‘muse’. I remember thinking, ‘He’s all I’ve ever wanted, all I’ll ever need.’ But was he really? His light was blinding. God, it was so blinding that I couldn’t see anything else. I couldn't see what was happening to me, couldn’t see what he was doing.

By the time I started to see clearly, it was too late. I was already trapped. When did it happen? When did I go from being free to being in chains? I keep asking myself, ‘Why didn’t I fight back? Why did I let him control me like that?’

‘Why was I so fucking stupid?’

The truth, the hard truth, is that he wasn’t what I thought he was. Not even close. All this time, I thought he was my light, my savior.

But in reality, he was no human at all. My starlight was a monster.”

— The Book of Will

We will remember.

anyone else thinking about ford being accidentally pushed into the portal by his sister, only to come back 30 years later to an old man w/ his sister's face?