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Being a writer sucks sometimes because tell me why I had to restart this thing FOUR TIMES because I can’t decide on a beginning?? Like bro, why are you being so difficult??

AND NOW I JUST THOUGHT OF ANOTHER ONE GODS DAMNIT

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Quick thing

Talkin about Odysseus ghosts

Why? Cause I'm an introverted English lit student who likes making people suffer alongside me.

Anyways enjoy.

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Polities is blue. Blue like tears running down face and hands, blue like the condensation on a cold glass of water, blue like the tinge of the lotus flowers, blue like Telemachus eyes, blue like Athena's quick thought space. Polities is close, always close, always asking asking asking to be heard, to be listened too. To be learned from. To be remembered and cherished and responded too. Polities is falling apart, fading, little by little as he is forgotten bit by excruciating bit. He is never cared for, never responded too, never listened too. Polities is the siren call, begging, begging with a blood-flecked voice driven dry by his singing and the lotus flowers, to listen hear learn but Ody never does, never listens never learns never remembers. Polities is the unhealed heart, the unheard cry for help, the hidden grief. He is the flowers wilting on the grave, still beautiful and filled wits message and a promise, but ignored and forgotten all the same. Because he always is, isnt he? He's never been heard and never will be. Not in his story.

Eurylochus is orange. Orange like diluted blood, orange like the sunset, orange like the rusted blade. Eurylochus is quick to follow, quick to lead, quick to forget the consequences, quick to lay the blame, quick to draw the first blood. Yet he is also hesitant, paranoid, planning ahead and ahead into the future, slow to act up, slow to accept defeat. Eurylochus is clinging, doubting, always doubting, clinging like syrup the colour of blood and sunsets. Eurylochus is the rusty blade, never learning, never advancing, always holding onto the past. Eurylochus is the man driven insane by the things they have seen, unable to recover, unable to move on, unable to see the present day. Eurylochus is trapped by his own brain, syrupy-slow and stick and soft.

Anastayx is purple. Purple like royalty, purple like lotus flowers, purple like wine, purple like blood-stained seas. Anastayx is silent and still, frozen in time, in the limbo between laughter and mourning, joy and sorrow, forgiveness and revenge. Anastayx has no voice, no song, because he never had the opportunity to make one before his life was ended on the whim of a distant god. Anastayx is falling, ever falling, falling from grace, from memory, life slipping through his fingers faster and faster as his eyes say everything that needs to be said. Anastayx is the silent heartbreak, the unfinished story, the broken pieces left to collect dust but silently accusing that you did this. You left me. You ended my story before it could begin. It's. Your. Fault.

Anticlea is green. Green like tropical plants, green like the loyal protective snake, green like the life she lived to the fullest. Anticlea is slow, methodical, a mother teaching her stubborn, reckless child, slowly rocking him, trying to bring comfort. Anticlea is the vine that wraps around a tree, whispering to it tales of the heroes of old, bringing beauty for a short while before decaying slowly, softly, flowers falling petal by petal onto the forest floor, soon gone and forgotten as the tree grows older and unrecognisable before her invisible eyes and hands. Anticlea is the silent bystander, voice and memory lost to time as she stands in the background, a husk of a memory, a silent plea.

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HELLO youre the person who wrote that polites son of priam fic right?? i love it so so much i was so happy earlier to see a new chapter. the Patroclus visit was so fun i lowk expected Machaon when i read a medic showed up but Patroclus is a MUCH more fun option i like how you characterized him too and the "your trust means nothing to me, King Odysseus" I GASPED?? absolutely adore the weird relationship Patroclus and Ody have ...... and Polites ohhhg everything being from his pov is such a good choice it lets the reader get so immersed in the story I Think. your writing style is absolutely delicious i can so easily understand or feel what the characters are feeling its incredible . from the chase scene at the beginning and the rush of adrenaline Polites felt to the utter awkwardness of that moment where Patroclus gave Ody a glare for not bandaging Polites' damaged rib... im so interested w where youre going with this fic i cant waut ro read more... but take your time obviously no rush no rush !!!!!

Yes I am :D I’m so glad you like it, it’s such a joy to see that other people like my writing <3 Honestly, I was going to have Machaon show up but I went nah because Patroclus is my bgg and I wanted to include him lol. For my characterization of characters I mostly just go based on vibes, and it seemed so natural to me that he’d have massive beef with Odysseus (firstly cause he dragged him and Achilles into a war and then what he does to Polites)

And I’m so glad you like my writing style because whenever I write I start thinking it’s way too mechanical lmao. I love feeling immersed in a story and its characters, so I’m glad you feel it as well :)

(Tbh, I was thinking of doing an Odysseus pov when I started but I wanted it to be exclusively Polites because it felt more natural. I might still do an Odysseus’ pov for one scene that hasn’t come out yet :D)

Writing takes me for ever lol, I’m posting faster than I can write the chapters, so updates might slow down a bit unless I lock in and speed run the chapters

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(Am I allowed to repost? Idk, but I took it :D)

UM WHAT—

You should like... Take this epic uquiz.

WOOHOOOO

@epicthemusicalstuff @sloanslone @gigizetz

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Dangerous: 600 men, 600 deaths under my command, ‘cause I had one goal in mind…

And then silence. Now look at this

Full Speed Ahead: 600 men, 600 men under my command, with only one goal in mind! (Make it back alive to our homeland!)

The pause was for the crew. In that moment he found himself still awaiting the cheery voices of his crew to show up and make it all better.

They don’t show up, and they never will again

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reblog if you consider the people youve befriended on this website (and other websites) to be real friends, even if youve never met them irl before

trying to prove something to my dad

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HE SAID WHAT? WHEN? HUH?

if Jorge finds out about our gay ass shenanigans (aka the MANWHORE AU by yours truly, @anniflamma ) are two possibilities.

1. He will have to get baptized and get a year's worth therapy for what he just saw.

2. He will block us all and will put us in years worth of therapy instead

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Look at me actually posting art for the first time in forever! Here, have an Apollo redesign :D

(The arrows are plague arrows, that’s why they emit that sort of gray mist/smoke thing)

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@deinodevilmaus … should I? Should I add this to the list?? 😭

I need gen z polities who narrates/commentates on everything that happens in the musical after his death and constantly breaks the fourth wall and is besties with Hermes.

Can I have it.

Please.

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el dijo open arms pero no dijo que clase de arms

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OMG THIS IS SO CUTE I LOVE IT

ok so this au started in the epic server when i made this drawing just for fun cuz i know athena poped out of Zeus head full grown

and then his person said this

so like- its an au where Zeus laid an egg of athena and it fell down from Olympus and ody found and started taking care of her this is so random but makes sense i swear

AND NOW I CANT STOP DRAWING IT

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A Get In The Water snippet, followed by a clip of Warrior of the mind, then all of Ruthlessness cause of Get In The Water, then The whole musical :D

Out of curiosity, what song was the first epic song y’all ever heard?

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@imheretocausechaos25 have you seen this yet? Very nice, very Eurymene 👍

Shoutout to Eurylochus and Ctimene for being the characters that won my heart without Ctimene even existing in the musical.

Also shoutout to Ody 'Matchmaker' of Ithaca for being the first person in history to ship Eurymene (shhh, it's canon in my heart).

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Hehe, yes I did 😈

He's a housewife fr, he cooks for the whole crew

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@imheretocausechaos25 I found your man lmao

He's a housewife fr, he cooks for the whole crew

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i can’t believe im about to say this

Poseidon x Odysseus

its very believable, actually

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I saw a lot of posts, where is implied that Apollo in God Games doesn't care about Odysseus and his situation at all. But what if it's other way around and Apollo just cares too much?

Mythologically Apollo and Hermes are friends. And looks like Hermes cares about his grandgrandson (Odysseus' grandfather is son of Hermes). Hermes was the only god who helped Odysseus even without being asked, just because Hermes wanted to help him.

I just imagine, that Hermes keeps an eye on Odysseus and constantly chatters to Apollo about him, calling him Ody. So thats why Apollo choose such a ridiculous reason as sirens, and uses "Ody" - he wants to help just because of his friendship with Hermes.