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stazz's avatar

molly, you are seriously the voice of our generation. this was 1000% worth the wait. this series will always be worth the wait. if it had been around when I was in school taking a course on ancient greece and rome I would've convinced my professor to let me write a comparative essay and told everyone in the class about it. heck I still tell everyone about it regardless. I hope you professionally publish this saga one day and it receives the recongnition it deserves. Thank you for being such a bright spot in these dark times. ♡

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mollyhall's avatar

GOSH i dunno about voice of a generation but i will happily be the voice of a small subsect of our generation with the niche crossroads interest of fraternity fiction.

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stazz's avatar

eh, tomayto tomawto ;p (thanks for the reply, you're seriously the best)

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carlee's avatar

This is INSANE. Like, don't apologize for it being slightly late- I forgot I had subscribed for updates to this thing and as soon as I saw it in my inbox I dropped what I was doing to read it. Your writing is INCREDIBLE and you are doing such a cool job taking an old story and writing it in a new way. I am so impressed and can't wait to see what happens next. Thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas with us!

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mollyhall's avatar

well GOSH THANKS. lmao "slightly late," what a diplomatic way to categorize "posted half a year later." carlee for president, 2024.

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lucy's avatar

wowowow this is so good?? i honestly can't believe how many subtle little things from the iliad you worked into this, it's incredible. and your voice is so strong and so unique and so entertaining and so fun to read. and you made me care?? about FRAT BOYS?? unbelievable. im mad, honestly.

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mollyhall's avatar

"i'm mad, honestly" should be the tagline for this whole dumb story. you and odysseus both, babe.

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Anna's avatar

i enjoy every chapter, but i do admittedly also sit with my chin in my hands wondering Where Is My Mans, My Terrible Mans, Odysseus, and behold! he showed up! and i just think, it's very good when one half of odysseus' characterization is "the only adult in the room, KIND OF?" and the other half is "penelope's fool" so thank you for the good good laughs

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mollyhall's avatar

listen ..... "My Mans, My Terrible Mans" is the absolute perfect way to describe him. i love odysseus and also he's the Worst. penelope also feels this way. she loves him into pieces and also is like [bob's burgers voice] "you're terrible. you're allllll terrible."

thank you for reading!

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ivy's avatar

Okay seeing this email was the best part of my day even though it then took me ten days to finish reading it but also. is it bad that I'm now seriously considering making a flowery cross stitch that says SHOOT EM IN THE DIIIICK even though probably no-one who sees it will get it but me

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mollyhall's avatar

ivy PLEASE do this and send me a photo.

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Pookarah's avatar

Thank you for keeping at this, you've easily made my week. Gonna reread this after chemo tomorrow to perk myself back up. Off to go let folks who might not be subscribed know you updated <3

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mollyhall's avatar

ahhhh, babe. best best best of luck at chemo, i hope this cheers you up even a little!

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Taylor's avatar

im so heeeere for this!! i love the whole heff, dité, and ares relationship. it’s great! and i love achilles and patroclus boycotting because of briseis. honestly i’m about to reread the whole thing because it’s been a while.

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mollyhall's avatar

thank you!! i really love those three as well. i've been sort of playing around with a "dité/heff/ares" side story from heff's point of view that kind of tells their background, but. WILL SHE FINISH IT? who knows.

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