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A lot of Greek Mythology is Fanfiction... but not GOOD Fanfiction 😑

Since I've been obsessed about Epic the Musical, I did some poking around the actual mythology around The Iliad and The Odyssey, and... Ye Gods and Little Fishes 🙄. There doth madness live.

I'm specifically irritated about the "children of Odysseus/Circe/Calypso." Because-- while I'm not a scholar-- none of these kids are mentioned in The Odyssey, sooooo... I'm pretty dang sure that all of Ody's theoretical kids fall under three broad categories:

Someone wanted their city's/civilization's founder to have a famous, easily identified progenitor! (Agrius, Anteias, Ardeas, Rhomos)

Later authors wanted to name-drop Odysseus as the father for their OCs. (Cassiphone,Nausinous, Nausithous, Latinus)

Give Odysseus the King Arthur/Oedipus treatment (why, just why?), since Homer unfortunately left things in Ithaca kind of open-ended and vulnerable to bad fanfiction.

Why does this irritate me so? (Other than messing with my rare 'Greek myth happy endings?!') Because, while ~death of the author~ is a thing, in Book 16, Telemachus tells us that Zeus cursed Odysseus's family to have only one son a generation.

"Zeus made our line a line of only sons. Arcesius had only one son, Laertes, and Laertes had only one son, Odysseus, and I am Odysseus’s only son."1

And, I mean, can you blame Zeus for that? 😅 We only need one Odysseus.

Art by Wolfythewitch

1 Fagles, Robert, and Bernard Knox. The Odyssey. Penguin Publishing Group, 1997.

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Calypso as Anti xd. This is for the Penelope warrior AU, wdyt?

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The Iron Triangle vs the Toxic Triangle

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AND SHE WAS RIGHT!!!

Based off the screen caps posted by @luckyfaeth

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Batman crack fic idea Janet Drake used to date Lady Shiva when she was in college, they break up when Janet marries Jack for social and money reasons.

Tim is born. When he's old enough the Drakes fuck off to do archeology and Janet hires a bunch of increasingly bizarre people who "owed her a favour ". There's a disgraced Russian ballerino, a mad chemist, the worlds best loclpicker, John Constantine, a black and white noire detective, some Welsh guy she found in the woods. Tim learns from all of them. Janet doesn't believe in public schools, so all of this is "homeschooling".

Flash forward, Tim is 11 Jack Drake dies on a dig in Australia, because a bird dropped a coconut on his head. Suddenly Tim has a new stepmum. Lady Shiva's nice, weirdly intense, but nothing he hasn't seen before. Janet takes over complete control of Drake industries, expands her business empire and destroyes her enemies with extreme prejudice. She teaches Tim all she knows about business. Shiva teaches him how to fight. Tim is happy he now has two mums who love and pay attention to him.

Stuff happens (I haven't figured out what yet) they find Cass and Tim gets a sister. Now, because this is DC and the children canonically yern for the streets (im thinking they're like 13 & 16 at this point), Cass and Tim become a new vigilante duo (I'm thinking Crows, one of tims nannies was an animal handler and he befriended all the crows in Gotham, they follow him around) and have perfected non verbal communication and creep out everybody with horror movie twin behaviour.

While sneaking around Gotham, they meet Steph, and she takes one look at them and decides that she likes Cass and that Tim needs to be bullied relentlessly. She is, of course, correct.

Meanwhile, Bruce is not having a good time, Jason is dead, and WE has competition for the first time in his life. He'd like to spiral into a pit of despair and find out who the new vigilantes are (and why are there so many birds?), but if he does that, Lucius will kill him or, worse, quit his job. So, instead, he and Dick are sent to therapy.

Jason comes back fully expecting to have to do a whole production out of this situation, takes one look at Bruce being forced to sit in a meeting with Janet and decides that he's fine actually, and why the fuck is Lady Shiva just hanging out at this gala with two kids hanging onto her?

By the time Damian is dropped off, everyone except for Bruce knows who the Crows are, Cass and Tim come over to hang out all the time. Damian is confused as to why The One Wo Sees All is in his father's house and how her brother manages to somehow be scarier than her. Damian does not like to be confused, so he still tries to kill Tim. This devolves into a roadrunner situation where Tim pulls out increasingly niche skills to get out of Damians traps. Later, this becomes enrichment for both of them.

When Tim is 15 and Cass 18, their mums decide they're old enough to be fine living with Bruce while they go off on their own adventures. Dick brings the Crows over to meet the Titans. He's told them about his cute baby siblings (Bruce is not the only one with an adoption problem). These children are not cute. They invoke fight or flight responses. Kon has one conversation with Tim, gets info dumped on, and falls in love immediately. He's finally found someone with an equal, if not greater, amount of weird, eclectic knowledge. Young Justice adventures are somehow even more bizarre than yj98. They are having the times of their lives.

Since Tim was never robin, Duke never started the We are Robin gang. But the Crows do have a cult, and he might be in it. His parents still get jokerised, and he starts living in Wayne manor proceeds to fit right in with the insanity (Bruce has given up on trying to control any of it).

The Justice League dreads whenever they have to meet with any of the younger Gotham vigilantes. Somehow, Jason ended up as the most almost well-adjusted one. He doesn't know how that happened either.

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it’s missing alex hours

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Name Battle: James

Who is the Superior James? If all the fictional James' are thrown together, and forced to fight, who is going to win? Who will be chosen to represent all of the James'?

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Name Battle: Jason

Who is the Superior Jason? If all the Jason's were thrown together and forced to fight, would be win and be chosen to represent all fictional Jason's?

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rewatching fantasy high (AGAIN!!)

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can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bots, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

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sky high but it’s about being gay

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🥺

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I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

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We’ll never die

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https://stopproject2025comic.org/

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Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]