#also ginger

[moxie-girl]

damn 😔

[churrotowns]

ginger cat world domination incoming

[gingermintpepper]

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.

[githling]

freckled nav. you agree

[deankarolina]

[lotus-pear]

god i love skk sm i wish gay ppl were real :(

[featheryalarmclock]

keeping the flirt on brand

Stardew valley farmers I encourage y'all to use the text sign in the way it was intended to be used (/j)

Which is to write cheesy one liners for your pixelated spouse and pretend that they actually read the signs whenever they wake up early in the morning to help you out on the farm

[favoriteginger]

FAIL CONDITION

[opens-up-4-nobody]

I want to like tea so bad. How can I possibly hate all the tea I've tried???

[scourgiez]

It runs in the family

[kimgkoi]

he's jealous of the cat, coz he wants more of Toya's attention lmao

[dyke-in-crisis]

“why don’t you read the translated german version of the book?”

LOOK AT HOW THEY BUTCHERED MY GIRL

the font?? the change from gtn to “I am gideon”? the removing bones in a book series about NECROMANCERS?? never fails to piss me off

[mockingjaylad]

Feeling a bit Jason Todd today I guess ^_^

+ Shiro from “Home” by ErinWantsToWrite and alighterwood on Ao3

[g1ngerbeer]

the most interesting thing about lu guang to me is the fact that he seems so normal and even well adjusted to literally everyone else including people who meet him for like 2 seconds. this is important to me. its important that he has just enough control over his emotions to SEEM like the only sane person in the room especially in contrast to cheng xiaoshis impulsivity. lu guangs skillful approximation of a Normal And Trustworthy Guy is critical because makes the eventual reveal that hes batshit fucking insane and putting himself through an infinite evil hell grief time loop for his doomed qpp even better i hope this helps

[gingermintpepper]

I haven't read the Odyssey so I'm asking you. Are you telling me besides Athena, Apollo was the god who helped Odysseus and his family the most? Indirectly at least.

If that's true it's really a missed opportunity in EPIC.

No, no, the god who assists Odysseus the most after Athena is unquestionably Zeus.

Zeus genuinely has no problems with Odysseus and makes it very clear that he finds the man brilliant and would have already had him home and safe if he had his way, but he makes it clear that he's deferring to Poseidon who actually has the problem with Odysseus because, ultimately, the sea is Poseidon's domain and kingdom and Zeus doesn't intend to step on his brother's toes.

(Od. Book 1 trans. Robert Fitzgerald)

I'd definitely give third place to Apollo however. The big bug-bear about Apollo in the Odyssey is just that he's much less tangible than Athena or even Hermes who appears to Odysseus multiple times to help guide him/give him proclamations. His presence is everywhere though; like I've previously mentioned (and like he did with Jason) it's Apollo protecting Odysseus from Poseidon as he sails the sea after Odysseus blinds Polyphemus. It's also Apollo keeping Telemachus safe. His most vital role by far is when Odysseus returns to Ithaca in time for the challenge that will determine the next king. Not only is it a shooting contest whose first hurdle is to string a bow, the challenge itself takes place on a festival day for Apollo. Athena is there with Odysseus and Telemachus physically, but Apollo is looking after them in spirit, sending signs and signals to keep Telemachus especially safe.

(Od. Book 15, Telemachus warns about the state of Odysseus' house to Theoclymenus, a son of one of Apollo's prophets.)

There's also the fact that Odysseus makes sure to pray to Apollo before he attempts to string the bow:

(Od. Book 21. Beggar-Odysseus petitions to shoot his shot)

Likewise, before he slays the first suitor, Odysseus again prays for Apollo's guidance and gaze to guide his arrows:

(Od. Book 22. Odysseus commits the first of many (divinely-sanctioned) murders)

Also, as an additional thing, have Telemachus invoking Zeus, Athena and Apollo that he could see the suitors have their asses beat:

(Od. Book 18. Telemachus excitedly gushes to him mom about his cool new friend (Odysseus. Odysseus is the friend.)

There's a lot of minimisation of Apollo's role in the Odyssey because it isn't as bright and showy as his role was in the Iliad but hey, even there people tend to minimise how truly present Apollo is for the duration of the war when they're doing adaptations. Within Epic, the stage is already more than set for both Apollo and Athena to be there at the advent of Odysseus' revenge but none of that matters if that's not the creator's intention, y'know?

[bastart13]

This has been tried about a thousand times, but it really is fun trying to see what a genetically-realistic Warrior Cats would look like!

For my attempt, I went in terms of introduction order, like how it would have been built as the writers go through each book.

Firestar and Sandstorm are described as ginger cats in the first arc, so Squirrelstar and Leafpool end up ginger in the second. Then Firestar and Princess being described as siblings, so their mother has to be a tortie but Jake cannot be ginger or Princess would also be tortie.

I still tried to make every cat as accurate as I could to their original description, so Jayfeather and Hollyleaf are described as a grey tabby and black cat respectively, so they become low-red torties.

(You have trans headcanons because it suits the character, I have trans headcanons to suit cat colour genetics. We are not the same)

Also, my changes tended to be additive rather than subtractive. Jayfeather and Crowfeather are described with blue eyes, so I added white to make that more plausible vs changing their eye colours.