Tis merely a personal opinion of mine but I do think it’s a bit silly when people quote “not accurate to the original myth” as a reason why xyz work of fiction is bad. First of all, because a LOT of mythologies don’t even have an “original” version and are in fact very inconsistent between retellings, but also because. It’s fiction. I don’t know about you my guy but I read fiction expecting it to be made up. Of course it’s always nice to learn things on the way, but if I genuinely wanted to learn more about xyz subject I would directly read non-fiction where the explicit purpose is to be accurate to real things in life. Doubly so for mythologies and folktales where I could just check the primary source and have as accurate an experience as possible.
I really feel tremendous grief for friendships that kind of petered away in the face of life’s currents. There are people with whom I formed deep, unique, vibrant, life-changing connections, and then we had to go our separate ways and it was too hard to maintain long-distance. There wasn’t a fight, it just sort of faded. And I feel like I have more friendships like this than friendships that have endured, so maybe I just have to get used to it. But if grief is all the love we have left over - well, I never did get to finish loving them. I love them, and I miss them, and I probably always will.
that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn’t she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael… pet photos of all time
