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can I ask for a Trans!male Hermes doodle with top surgery scars that looks like wings? If thats okay!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

Love the concept

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I don't know if this makes sense

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For sale: ship of theseus

Condition: used, like new

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im not a system (or am i........ idk man I'm jjst a billion rats in a trenchcoat rn) but i love headcanoning characters as plural (fav or not)

Christine Canigula Youre so plural ily. "me and the voices in my head have made up our collective mind"???? okay i see u guys .......

is this rhe right blog to send this to?? I DONT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! but we ball

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some of the god designs i did over on instagram

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I find it very funny that Palamedes is a character clearly only created to make Odysseus look bad.

There is no trace of him in either the Iliad or the Odyssey, but at a certain point he appears out of nowhere in later sources and the authors start attributing literally everything to him! It starts with the unmasking of Odysseus' madness and the embassy to the Trojans, then he is added to the expedition to find Achilles, and at a certain point it is decided to shit outside the potty and the most absurd things are attributed to him: the invention of dice, the invention of writing, of weights and measures, of checkers, of numbers, of sentinels.

All this fuss just to be able to say: Palamedes was cool and Odysseus killed him, what an asshole.

But since I hope you will get on board with me on the train of hatred for Palamedes, I will remind you of another thing that has been attributed to him: Epipola was a woman who fought in the Greek army disguised as a man, and who had enlisted to save her father. Palamedes discovered her, denounced her to the army and had her stoned. Even Achilles was disgusted by that.

That's why of the 200 versions of Palamedes' death I prefer the one where he himself is stoned. Karma, some may say.

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Good night.

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odysseus famously makes a lot of the other kings uncomfortable with his sex jokes/flirting because he always cracks them at the worst times. but when diomedes leans over to him during a meeting in agamemnons tent and asks ‘what are you thinking’ and odysseus responds ‘a little what are you doing and a lot of uh uh oh please don’t stop’ (because he hasn’t been paying attention) and diomedes just snorts that’s when he knows they’re going to be bffs

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(comment on tiktok) "im gonna listen to epic so i dont have to read the odyssey" nuh uh nope no nope nope nope dont do that. tone tag for i am trying to help

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i know in my heart diomedes has so much fun with the respect all the other kings and the men have for him. like he’s basically carrying the team, everyone respects him as a straight shooter and a brilliant strategist, no one’s ever going to tell him ‘no’ about anything. and i know in my heart odysseus abuses this. odysseus goes to agamemnon with some totally self-serving plan and just when agamemnons about to call him on his shit diomedes chimes in with ‘that’s a great idea odysseus, we should totally do that’. and like. now what’s agamemnon supposed to do?? tell diomedes to fuck off and have every other king be like ‘wtf agamemnon’?? so he has to give in. and i’m not saying that’s how they killed palamedes but…

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sometimes a family is the child soldier who’s really a horse girl at heart, his frat bro older brother who can’t keep his mouth shut, the know it all coworker who everybody hates and their omniscient goddess pal

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Redraw! ;0

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Achilles "It would've hurt less to know if it was my dear son that died" Pelides is not beating the deadbeat dad allegations btw

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sleep odydiopen doodle

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And historians will call them-

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HE JUST GOT THERE

Also, suddenly his dad is back

That's a lot for him to handle, ngl