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Seeing someone give a spoiler warning about what'll happen in The Odyssey is wild. Like, your heart is in the right place but... this is the 2000+ year old story😂

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it's darkly funny to me at the end of the odyssey when odysseus and penelope talk about all the livestock and valuables they've lost to the suitors, and odysseus assures her he's gonna work really hard and soon go on lots of raids to get more, in the exact same tone as "don't worry honey, i'll work extra shifts down at the factory"

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I do love how in the Odyssey you spend the first four books following Telemachus, hearing with him from everyone else how great and wonderful Odysseus is, and how tragic it is that he isn't there. You hear from Nestor and Menalaus and Helen, and even Athena and those left at Ithica are building Odysseus up as a great hero. The reader gets an idea of who he is and a sense of the pressure of Missing Legacy To Uphold for Telemachus.

And then we follow Hermes to Calypso's Island and still no Odysseus while Hermes and Calypso hang for a bit. And finally we meet the titular hero almost 5 books in, and the very first thing he's doing is weeping on the beach.

Which is such a facinating--and, to our modern ear, kind of funny, since tears arent """manly""" "hero" behaviour--juxtaposition of Great Hero vs man crying on the beach, and I love it so much. It instantly changes him from a hero of renown, a huge legendary figure Telemachus could never live up to, to a man who just wants to go home.

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Why did Odysseus trust the Siren?

I don't remember who it was, but I watched someone react to the siren giving directions to Odysseus during Suffering and questioned why would he believe her- for all he knew, she could have been tricking him about that too. So, in the Odyssey this was mentioned:

No one ever sailed past us without staying to hear the enchanting sweetness of our song- and he who listens will go on his way not only charmed, but wiser, for we know all the ills that the gods laid upon the Argives and Trojans before Troy, and can tell you everything that is going to happen over the whole world.'

-Basically, they provide knowledge... but in exchange, you are lured to jump into watery death. That was why OG Odysseus wanted to listen to them in the first place (aside from clout of being the only one to survive from listening, I guess???).

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Odysseus: Penelope, you know I'm too shy... Penelope: Bullshit. Odysseus: NOW that's the REAL Penelope all right!

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*non-vn gaming journalists constantly foaming at the mouth to assert how much they hate visual novels*

(this is for a review of tsukihime)

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Pre-Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope and Her Ducks [Otome]~Development Blog~

NaNoRenO 2023 is around the corner… and I couldn’t participate this year- but I did participate last year with Pre-Odyssey: Odysseus, Penelope & Her Ducks, an otome game from Penelope’s POV, with of course, one love interest, Odysseus.

If you’re interested, you can play it here: https://ant-san.itch.io/preodyssey

I got a few questions about this title from first impressions… why ducks? To which I’d answer: it’s a spoiler :) But if you know, you know ;) The game has two main romance endings, but the trickier to get is the one I consider as the ‘true ending‘.

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AAAAHHH I LOVE THE ODYSSEY

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Last night I've been thinking if there was anything Odysseus could have done to get through Scylla without sacrificing six of his men... And I was like- what if one of Odysseus' remaining men was a monsterfucker?

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I can't produce Jester plushies… but I'll be selling Jester cushions at our PGDX booth (https://tickets.pgdx.ph/) this coming 26th to 28th! Stocks will be super limited, first come first serve✨ And yes, there are two variants, closed eyes and open eyes (collect them all?!)

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Every time I think about God Games and how Athena is just- "Don't talk about him (Telemachus) like that, he's my friend!", and how she's just "I'm not looking for a friend" when it came to Odysseus, I giggle. Yeah, still funny.

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ARCANE STUDIO FORTICHE MAKING AN ILIAD/ODYSSEY HIGHSCHOOL COMING OF AGE MOVIE EVERYBODY MOVEEEE EVERYBODY MOOOOVEEEEE GET OUT OF THE WAY

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New update is up for those who availed the $30 and up reward!

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I've been looking back on this blog... and wow, it's filled with Odysseus posts, huh?

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Picking Frames for POV change

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penelope didn't have to turn the tree bed into a riddle. she could have asked odysseus to prove his identity, to tell her something only he would know — which she actually did a few books earlier, when she asked the beggar to describe odysseus, and odysseus told her about a purple cloak with a particular golden brooch that she fastened herself twenty years ago. when penelope tells telemachus they have signs by which they'll know each other, you sort of expect more of the same. and instead, she decides to trap him. like a bug in a cup.

and it's delightful to me, idk, how odysseus has been trapped and cornered in various way throughout the odyssey, but arguably never so that he has to tell the truth to get out. (with the phaeacians, maybe? the omniscient narrator corroborates some of what he tells them, but do we really know everything?) and in fact he is not trying to get free of penelope. he wants something from her, wants to convince her, wants to be welcomed home, but until this point he's lied to her, revealed himself to other people before her, and been distant with her (though also patient! he doesn't try to strongarm or rush her into accepting him; it's his idea to sleep elsewhere).

except penelope isn't looking for him to be distant and patient. penelope lies in a way that requires odysseus to stop playing along — not only to prove that he knows what odysseus knows, but that he's willing to tell the truth about himself.