the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
- icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down
- cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)
feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated
Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it’s all in the delivery and if you’re the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.
Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about.
(2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures
Medean Task: Doing this is going to destroy you and what you love just as much as the person you’re trying to destroy. Everyone is telling you this, and you already know this. But your “fuck that guy and what he thinks he can do to me” instinct is just that strong. Also admittedly you get an extremely badass exit when all’s said and done.
Penelopean Task: You have to constantly do and redo a ton of busywork day after day just to keep a bunch of asshat men from constantly bothering you
(via poorshadowspaintedqueens)
