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well at least i don’t have kids

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i do genuinely hope that, if my epic posts or my character analyses come by your dash and it makes you roll your eyes or seethe with rage, that you block me and never think of me again.

seriously, i cannot tell you how much more pleasant your online fandom experience will be if you just block people whose takes you hate (or conversely, make you feel bad about your participation in something you enjoy).

this is a fun hobby, it shouldn't make you angry, nor should it make you feel bad. we're all sharing a public internet space, we're not all gonna agree with each other, so just block what/who you don't want to see and move on

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for Penelope week I'm gonna write the rarest of rarepairs (Penelope/Sleep)

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Paige I would love to hear about your short king

Tell me about a complicated man, is how Wilson opens her translation of The Odyssey. From Polytropos—(πολύτροπος)—"of many turns." Wandering Odysseus. Cunning Odysseus. Enduring Odysseus. A name shaped for slipping through fingers.

He believes in wit, in survival, in the power of a well-spoken lie. He loves a disguise: hero, beggar, captain, king, nobody.

In The Odyssey, he is salt in an empty throat. A voice swallowed by the sea wind. A ship splintering on the rocks. Reckless, wavering, tied to the mast. Lingering on distant shores.

Now tell me about a man who misses his wife.

In Epic, he is no longer the same Odysseus. No longer just cunning, no longer just restless—now aching, now constant, now pulled forward by the thread of her name. Now just a man trying to go home.

Jorge’s Odysseus is not simply a wanderer but a man who never truly leaves. Time folds like a melody, motifs endlessly returning like him, again and again. He is the ripple and the tidal wave.

In Epic, Odysseus is seventeen under the olive trees of Ithica, shaking with how much he wants her, and he is seven years lost on Ogygia, longing to see even the smoke that rises from his homeland, wanting to die—seven winds from her, fighting to keep his eyes open before he's torn from her again, over seven hundred deaths from making it back again, and seven breaths from breaking apart in her waiting arms.

Tell me about a man who is always coming home. Tell me if he ever does.

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ohhhh my god u were learning the invocation of the muse by heart when you were 12? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite homer

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“oh I’m too old for stuffed animals” skill issue. sorry you can’t appreciate little creatures made to hang out with you, I on the other hand am full of joyous whimsy and therefore vastly superior.

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Continually filling your mutual's dash with your blorbo like some sort of missionary trying to convert them

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Penelope Week: From 27th July to 2nd August!

The Dates and List of Prompts for Penelope Week are officially out!

Penelope Week 2025 will be held from Sunday, 27th of July to Saturday, 2nd of August.

There are a wide range of prompts for everyone to choose and work on in any capacity or to use as inspiration, whether that be sfw or nsfw - so do let your imaginations run wild! We encourage art of all different forms focusing on the iconic Greek Heroine!

Feel free to hit us up with any questions or doubts you may have! Our inbox is always open 🩷

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I'm looking forward to the Ilium musical but before there is anything more about it let me say two things:

Yes, fans of adaptations can be uninformed about things and prefer different versions of the characters that are not in line with the source material

BUT

If I see you motherfuckers bullying teenagers because they like a musical and didn't want to read 2,000 year old poems I am going to scream. MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE KIDS! My blocking finger is primed if you are being an asshole over fandom discourse

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okay back to fun stuff can i say im soo eager to see if/how the beginning of the troy saga from epic comes into ilium; are we going to get a song or two from Helen or Agamemnon or Menelaus or any of the other named characters in "The Horse and the Infant" during the sacking of Troy? Like it would be soo interesting to get the events of that song from someone else's perspective! Will we get "Just A Man" from Andromache's point of view ;; will we get a glimpse into Odysseus' mindset between that song and "Full Speed Ahead"?

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anyway sorry this blog has been a bit negative the last couple days when it should be a pile of odypen angst

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I'm looking forward to the Ilium musical but before there is anything more about it let me say two things:

Yes, fans of adaptations can be uninformed about things and prefer different versions of the characters that are not in line with the source material

BUT

If I see you motherfuckers bullying teenagers because they like a musical and didn't want to read 2,000 year old poems I am going to scream. MOST OF THESE PEOPLE ARE KIDS! My blocking finger is primed if you are being an asshole over fandom discourse

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bringing this one back today some of you just hate fun

sorry i will just never think that epic fans are ever as annoying as whatever is going on with people who constantly complain about epic fans

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i currently have 3 epic meta posts in my drafts rn, one about god games, one about eurylochus, and one about circe!

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it's a feniminopticon

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its extremely important to read widely and deeply in a variety of genres. read obscure self published shit that only 4 people have read. read culturally relevant works of literature that have helped shape the canon. read horror. read women's lit. read historical fiction and comedies and nonfiction and hentai and poetry and science fiction and fantasy and mysteries and romance and good things and bad things and things u hate and things you love and things you COULD like if only the author changed x y and z and things which are beautiful but not meant for you.

doing all of this reading will lay a groundwork of rich complexity in your heart. so that you can write really good porn

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