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I want to talk to you about sports, but a weird sport that I found out that you play. I don’t think it’s legal to play. That’s probably true. Is it called fire hockey?

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Starting a new sports team called the Tampa Bay Trespassers and they play any sport that they can break onto the field of

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Fun thing about football right now is that there's a move called the "brotherly shove" that the Eagles do when they're very close to scoring, where the whole team puts their hands on the ass of the guy with the ball and physically propels him over the line into the endzone for the touchdown, and all the other teams' fans hate it because it's got such a ridiculously high rate of success for the Eagles and doesn't really seem to work for any other team. People are straight-up calling for this move to be banned, claiming it's "unstoppable" and gives an "unfair advantage" but it really and truly is a skill issue. The whole league hates this move because it only makes the Eagles win more often and nobody else can figure out how to do it right

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For sale: ship of theseus

Condition: used, like new

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Demeter and Hestia

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Star-crowned Ariadne and her loving husband

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Also, for your patience: Odysseus continuing to be the main character.

Odysseus thwacks him on the head.

“Hey—ow! What was that for?”

“You,” he says after a moment, “need to chill,”

“You just smacked me with a baseball bat. Where did you even get a baseball bat?”

Odysseus stares. Then, meaningfully, “don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to,” and with that, he steps away.

Athena, from the stands, has to stifle her laughter. But when Odysseus looks up, spots her, and waves, she gives him a double thumbs up. He leans on his bat.

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Oh my god! Woah!! I promise this project hasn’t been forgotten—there’s just been a lot happening, and I’ve been reading… quite a few translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey and taking a lot of notes, so it’s been slow going. If there are any myths that anyone specifically wants to see thrown into this silly universe, feel free to say so, I guess?

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I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

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one of the reasons why "what if people went on a road trip and it was weird" is one of the oldest story types is that a lot of sense of personhood has been, historically, tied to place. the weird road trip says "what if we went somewhere else, where no one knows us, and tried out being a different person".

Odysseus, the famous liar, goes on a weird road trip & over the course of it becomes several different people, and then comes home & is all those people as well as himself, wearing the echoes of those other people

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I always imagine that one scene of Athena holding back Achilles from murdering Agamemnon in book 1 as her holding his by his neck like a cat while he writhes and hisses

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this looks like a fake ad you’d see in the background of a movie but its real

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The Three Fates (1910) by Alexander Rothaug.

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baseball different from how i remember it