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Diana Wynne Jones wins big once again for understanding that the funniest way to write an isekai/portal fantasy is from the point of view of the people living in the fantasy world who look at the character who got isekai’d from our world and are like ‘WHAT is that guy’s deal???’

Howl/Howell stumbling back into his moving castle drunk after a night with his rugby bros is like the second funniest scene in that book, closely followed by poor Sophie getting reverse isekai’d and taking a day trip to Wales and suffering the terrible ordeal of a ride in a car.

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For the wonderful @silvermp / @silvermoonphantom your crossover fics are always so different I'm currently a massive fan of this piticuler one I just had to doodle it. I tryed getting into mdz stuff a while ago and I love wei wuxian but I couldn't get into it

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25313317/chapters/61371622

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Over and Over Again (click for clarity)

Inspired by ‘Would You Fall in Love with Me Again’ by Jorge Rivera-Herrans.

Or what if Jason was Odysseus and was forced to be away from his loved ones for 20 years while Jazz was his Penelope, who faithfully keeps the throne secure for him until he returns?

Fresh off the printing press, @gilbirda 🫡 I thought to post it on Monday, but I had a schedule and nothing else to post so… here you go :3

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After twenty years, he's finally home

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Last saga...

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Thinking about how Odysseus carved the wedding bed out of an olive tree, which means the bed is rooted in the ground.

Thinking about the line “You don’t think I know my own palace? I built it!”.

Thinking about the implication that Odysseus built his entire palace around that olive tree, his and Penelope’s wedding bed, a symbol of their love.

Odysseus’s world is literally built around his love for Penelope.

…..i’m not crying, i just have an odypen in my eye.

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this is how it went right

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If you aren't Polites and mention "open arms" to Odysseus there is NO way that man will forgive you 😭

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Odysseus: I know you waited 20 years for me but would you fall in love with me again if you knew what I’ve done?

Penelope: Before I answer that, could you do me a favor and move our marriage bed out of the room?

Odysseus: What! I- I built that bed as a testimony to our love! How could you ask me that!?!

Penelope: Oh sorry, I just thought we were taking turns asking each other stupid questions.

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SHAKING VIOLENTLY

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The Jackbox livestream will not be happening tonight- this is from Jorge’s YouTube!

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A Brief Rundown of the IRL Ithaca Saga (to the best of my memory, in probably not chronological order)

jorge (creator, odysseus) decided it'll be cool to celebrate the ithaca saga with the epic cast via a trip to ithaca, greece

surely nothing can go wrong

mico (telemachus) seemingly found out about the trip with the rest of the fandom. he proceeded to plot a trip to ithaca

the epic cast dealt with multiple broken vans and missed a ferry by one minute. they had to cancel a stream because they were too exhausted

mico made it onto a plane

ithaca got hit by a typhoon, forcing them to move another stream indoors

mico got banned from tiktok. it was reversed

mason (tireseas) asked luke (zeus) to stop the rain. luke refused

the crew hiked up to odysseus' palace. they ran into a roadblock. mason looked into the future and did not see a way around it. (they found a way around it)

the crew found a well and sang their epic songs into it. except jp (crew) who just sang happy birthday

janani (aphrodite) also sang "royal we" into the well

anna (penelope) made it onto the plane to fly out to ithaca

hermes (troy) decided to take a plane to ithaca like a normal human instead of teleporting. he got side-eyed by a woman at the airport as he slept sprawled out in a chair. this quickly became a meme

hermes arrived in ithaca to the delight of everyone except jorge. mico also appeared in his videos. mico still had not updated anything after getting on the plane

anna's connecting flight got cancelled, leaving her stranded in a fancy hotel. she struggled to find the toilet in her hotel room

mico finally updated, claiming he was stuck in munich. mason appears in the video and gives him a water bottle, proving he is lying

the fandom believes mico anyway

mico is forced to post another video revealing he had been gaslighting us basically the entire time and was just delayed in getting to ithaca, that was all

troy and talya (circe), in character, talk about tea. troy says the tea tastes like her father's approval. earle (ares) then asks for 1000 cups and breaks down crying as luke cuts the camera

jorge posts a video apologizing for mico's absence, encouraging him to fly to ithaca, new york. mico appears in the background of this video

mico posts a video saying that he's finally in ithaca, but the crew is in ithaca, new york. jorge appears in the background of this video

jp films a behind the scenes video, calling out "some random guy" who just showed up asking if anyone knows jorge. it's mico

janani sings "royal we" again, but after she says "troy was breached" troy comes out screaming in pain. mico appears in the background of this, filming the video from two points above

it's time for the ithaca saga livestream... except it gets cancelled because the connection is bad and jorge's devices are dying

TL;DR: the gods saw the epic crew in ithaca and went "do you guys think it'll be really funny if we just. recreated the odyssey"

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These were concept albums technically it’s only just begun.

Oh my god it’s over.

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The King has returned

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