Angriest Rice Cooker Directors Cut 50–On Pet Names
Awwwww. At the time that I wrote this, a couple of months before I posted it, I didn’t have a cat. We were at least sort of hypothetically thinking about getting a cat, though, which is what caused us to have a conversation about mythological pet names. By the time that I posted this, we had an adorable and crazy little tortoise shell kitty named Nausicaa. Nausicaa is now about two years old. Here’s what I dubbed her “class picture”, probably from around this time:
If you want to see more of how adorable she is (and also how messy our apartment was back then), my lovely girlfriend has a gallery of her photos here.
If you’re wondering, Telemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and is one of the main viewpoint characters of The Odyssey. Nausicaä is the daughter of King Alcinous, who saves Odysseus at the beginning of The Odyssey. She’s totally hot for Odysseus, too. In some accounts, she later married Telemachus. Clytemnestra is also mentioned in passing in The Odyssey when her husband Agamemnon bitches about how she killed him when Odysseus and company meet him in the afterlife. There’s several different versions of that story, but the basic gist is that Agamemnon really wanted to get his big fucking army to Troy to beat down the Trojans but the winds were shitty. So to make the gods happy, he sacrificed he and Clytmnestra’s daughter Iphigeneia. Agamemnon is kind of a dick. Anyway, when he finally won the war and came back Clytemenstra was still a mite peevish. You know women. It’s always, “You didn’t take out the garbage!” “You never take me anywhere!” “You sacrificed our daughter to the gods!” Plus, Agamemnon was boning Cassandra, the seer cursed for spurning Apollo (speaking of entities who are huge fucking dicks). So Clytemnestra offed him and Cassandra too. Later, her son Orestes kills her in revenge for killing his father. This part of the story makes up the plot of the Aeschylus play The Libation Bearers, also known as That Play Quoted At the Beginning of Harry Potter 7: No Not The William Penn Thing, The Other One.
Mythology is awesome.
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