I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.
In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.
(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)
Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.
(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)
I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.
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I was looking at some of Bashar Murad's old music videos (he's a queer Palestinian artist), and....
7th of August, 2021...
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It's funny picturing Alfred cleaning up after the Bats, and doing something insane like jumping into the pool fully clothed to effortlessly toss out the weights they left at the bottom during breath training, climbing out unfazed and then he continues cleaning the garden or something.
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spock is holding jim kirk's hand in sickbay in 1979.
he's saying "this simple feeling... is beyond v'gers comprehension."
this feeling, this love is beyond their understanding. but i understand. i still feel it.
and to queer people watching that. when everyone else is telling you that you're wrong. and you're thinking i understand. i tried to purge it. just like spock did. but it was barren, cold, no mystery, no beauty... i thought 'is this all that i am? is there nothing more?'
there is more.
spock is holding jim's hand and telling you he understands. and he's telling you there is more.
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dressing like me in middleschool but that doesnt make me want him any less
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