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When I was a kid I would collect "fluffy things" and put them in a coin purse and then put my hand in it when I wanted to. (the things were like cotton balls, yarn, and other stuff I found laying around)

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I’ve never tried peanut butter and I’m not even allergic to it

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EPIC: The Musical - the ways it goes about naming characters

Now I don't mean how it picks characters names, I mean how it goes about making the audience aware of the names of characters. I saw a joke a while back about how long it takes for Odysseus' name is said which got me to go down a rabbit hole on when/if all the characters are named and how they are; being directly referred to by name, being mentioned by name and when they show up later it's gathered from context, or not being named at all.

All of this is through the lens of someone listening to the soundtrack with little to no outside context

Starting with the characters who aren't clearly named:

Polyphemus' name is only found in his song title and the choir voices in "Survive" that are debatable on if you could figure out what they're saying if you don't know what you're looking for. (This is why this section is for those who "aren't clearly named" rather than "aren't named", because semantics like this).

Similarly, Charybdis only has its name given in the title of the song, not even having any choir voices to say its name.

Tiresias only gets called "the prophet", never his name.

Crew members that get non-ensemble moments like Perimedes and Elpenor only get named in cut songs, "Comfort Zone" and a cut verse of "The Underworld" respectively. They are never named within the official concept album.

All of the suitors go unnamed, even the ones with canonical names like Antinous, Eurymachus, Amphinomus, and Melanthius.

Zeus himself never has his name said. Even in "God Games" he is just called "Father" and "God King" by Athena but, unlike all the other gods in the song, isn't ever named. Even if it'd be obvious to anyone who knows the barest information about Greek myths by the time "Thunder Bringer" comes, in songs like "The Horse and the Infant", it isn't hinted towards outside of a sound of rumbling thunder and a hawk cry before he starts singing.

Odysseus' mom Anticlea is also never named, but not knowing that one regardless is more fair since she only has a single verse in "The Underworld" and her name isn't commonly known about even if you do know the basics of Greek myths since she isn't terribly important outside of being Odysseus' mom.

Meanwhile with the characters who are clearly named:

Odysseus is not named the last word of the 8th song, "Remember Them" and in a self-referential way, making it one of the clearer name introductions. Before then he is only called "Captain", "my friend", "Nobody", or "warrior of the mind". And even after "Remember Them", he isn't actually called his name directly very often, mostly only called "old king", "father", "dear", or "my love". Calypso does call him Odysseus in "Love In Paradise", Poseidon calls him Odysseus of Ithaca at the end of "Keep Your Friends Close", and Zeus calls him Odysseus in "Thunder Bringer" as well as Athena referring to him as Odysseus in God Games, but other than that he is still mostly called by a title or nickname.

Penelope can be gathered from context and is also called her name by the chorus suitors during the end of "The Challenge" as well as repeatedly being referred to by name by Odysseus in "Would You Fall In Love With Me Again". There is technically also the case "Suffering" where Odysseus calls the siren pretending to be his wife Penelope who does obviously have the same voice actress as the real Penelope. And of course there's all the times Odysseus sings about her before the final saga, even if these moments are just mentioning her rather than directly calling her it. Outside of that, however, when she's actually around nobody but Odysseus has much interest in calling her anything, mostly being mentioned when she's not around, either being called "my mom" by Telemachus or "the queen" by the suitors.

Telemachus, while named repeatedly by Odysseus in reference (similarly to Penelope), is only named directly and in person one time, only being called "little wolf", "boy", "the prince", "my son", or "my boy", even including the song "I Can't Help But Wonder" until almost the end of the song when Ody calls him Telemachus directly, but at this point the kid only has basically two or three lines left in the musical, so through almost the whole thing his name is only really gathered through context after he is introduced in person rather than just being mentioned by Odysseus.

But after those, things get much simpler.

Eurylochus and Polites get named either by the crew or by Odysseus immediately after their first lines in the musical in "Full Speed Ahead". Both of them are then repeatedly called their name by Odysseus throughout the musical, though they are sometimes called "brother" and "my friend".

Hermes is named by Odysseus fairly early on in "Wouldn't You Like", the audience learning his name at the same time Odysseus figures out who he is. And then when he appears again in "Dangerous" he is once again swiftly referred to by name in a similar way.

Circe calls herself by name fairly early after her introduction in "Puppeteer" with the line "I've got you, don't worry Circe's got you now" and while in "Done For" she isn't called her name, Odysseus does say her name again in "There Are Other Ways", Hermes also referring to her by name at the beginning of "Wouldn't You Like" and Odysseus doing the same at the beginning of "The Underworld"

Scylla is named in "Suffering" and then her lair is called out in "Scylla", making it pretty clear who she is, though she isn't directly called her name (which is fair considering most of the time where someone could do so, she was eating people).

Poseidon has his chorus of Laestrogonyans chanting his name at the beginning of "Ruthlessness" but unlike Polyphemus, he is then called by name by Odysseus and is basically just called by name when talked to/about outside of Odysseus calling him "the god of tides" in "There Are Other Ways".

Athena is called out to at the very beginning of "Warrior of the Mind" by Odysseus and is never really called anything else in all the other times she is referred to or talked to.

Calypso calls herself by name before the second chorus of "Love In Paradise" and is also called her name by Odysseus in "Not Sorry For Loving You", though outside of those two instances isn't referred to at all which does make sense.

Aeolus is called by name at the beginning of "Keep Your Friends Close" and doesn't need to be referred to again since that's the only song they appear in.

And of course, every god in God Games (besides Zeus) is introduced by Zeus and then more clearly at the beginnings of their individual sections by the chorus, Ares getting the highest treatment as Athena also calls him by name.

Does any of this mean anything? Probably not! Did I spend way too much time on this? Absolutely. But hey, I am nothing if not a fountain of useless knowledge because I am way too obsessed with this musical and love analyzing the heck out of pointless details. And this was all very interesting to me so hopefully at least one other person also finds it interesting.

(Also, if you're on Reddit and think you've seen this before, it's because I made this post over there a couple months ago but only recently remembered that I have a Tumblr account and only today figured that I could post it here as well (with a few slight edits for things that I missed))

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got inspired to make a TF2 Mercenary Professionalism Tier List the other week, and decided to properly chart it

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Heres a compilation of some of the jokes I made up that I thought are funny but aren't in enough situations to tell them enough:

- I don't know why the US can't use the metric system.

I mean they already use Liters for soda and Grahams for crackers.

- Someone on testosterone:

Me when this T wrecks: 🦖

-What do you call it when Steven Seagal goes bird watching?

Steven See Gull.

- I went to the eye doctor the other day.

Too bad they were imaginary.

- Why shouldn't you fight a Mediterranean meal?

Because you'll felafel.

- We know how to mosh, we have the Wiggles!

- Agree and support me?

I call that backing the fuck up.

- Call me a pussy the way you are what you eat.

- Why is it whenever someone has a complicated relationship with someone it's assumed they were in love?

Maybe they hated each other.

I admit that some of these could be already existing jokes that I saw and didn't remember the source and thought I made it up or that these jokes could have already been told, but I wanted to share them anyway.

Also there's probably more that I could find written down that isn't in here if y'all want more. Also I can explain any of them if they don't make sense.

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Genies can only grant wishes that are things that an ordinary person could do, just better and faster. The jinn are the creations of a divine being, and so they are part of the divine plan and cannot defy the natural order of things; a wish granted by a jinni can’t turn the day into night or the sea into yogurt, but if you wish for a temple to be built, a jinni will build it by hand, the way men do, and have it done in a day.

If you need a wish granted that defies the natural order you gotta catch a leprechaun, because no god was involved in their creation whatsoever. They just kinda showed up one day in the nineteenth century. The Aos Sí have no idea what their deal is

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im gods weakest faggot

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They're angry over one of the most basic components of his character?

I was kind of joking about that post about how you couldn't make Blazing Saddles nowadays, but I guess it's just true. You can't even make Superman these days without them complaining he's woke.

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how do you talk to mutuals. i've just been standing here scared

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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"equal ground" a blu engiespy comic

CWs: graphic descriptions (not illustrations!) of violence/torture, illustrations of blood, bruises, fresh stitches. for the first one, please refer to this clip from poker night at the inventory if you need a preview.

thank you for reading

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now for the ultimate test. go to this website. set it to randomly generate ONE pokemon. all generations. all types. whatever it generates? thats you as a pokemon forever. what you get is what you get. NO RE ROLLING. now. who are you? i got goomy :^)

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Big challenges

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i love you queer fanartists and fic writers. i love you queer side of fandom, the backbone of any fan space. i love you queer headcanons and art and fic and all the ways that people can use fandom to express themselves or safely explore concepts otherwise ridiculed by society. every year there'll be people in fandom who will try to discourage your work by calling it cringe or silly or uncanon or even try to argue that it is somehow problematic, but promise me you'll never cave. happy pride

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what's a contraction?

say you got an I-T, followed by apostrophe, S now what does that mean?

YOU WOULD NOT USE "IT'S" IN THIS CASE!

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After all, what're queens and kings without a few

💜🂡✨ A C E S ✨🂡💜

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i think about medic’s birds often but have never drawn them until now!

+ some archimedes-centric thoughts and headcanons