#Deep Space Homer

[filmjunky-99]

t h e s i m p s o n s, 1989 - 📺 created by matt groening [deep space homer, s5ep15] 'Homer + Chips (in space)'

[flyinghellfish]

[jhsharman]

Look Up In the Sky...

[captainfreelance1]

Simpsons S5 E15 Deep Space Homer Fan Edit

A While Back I made a Drawing based my favorite Simpsons Episode Deep Space Homer, I recently become curious to see how the two would match up together.

So Under the Grounds of Fair Use, I decide too combine my drawing with footage of the actual episode itself.

I really think I did a good job editing it, I left my usual logo off this because I felt this was least amount work; I ever had too do also didn't want folks to think I was taking credit for other peoples work.

[the-new-hip-priest]

Remember when Fergie was on Good Morning America and did those cartwheels? I think about it a lot, mostly because it looks like such a satisfying stim. Sometimes I just wanna cartwheel/sing down the length of my house when I'm feeling jubilant, y'know? It's like I can only emphasise my delight through gym class memories (and Barney).

[wheelybard]

My face when I found out the Simpsons episode deep space Homer parodied The Gamesters of Treskilion Instead of Amok Time.

[geekysteven]

The USS Odyssey was destroyed by the Jem'hadar. If I wrote it, they'd have shown up 10 years later in the Ithacan system with Captain Keogh as the sole survivor

[kallistoriae]

my ultimate classics reading list for the summer

[scholarship i really need to read to figure out what i want to focus on for my master’s. i’ll try to go through as many of these as i can. i ask for recs on some topics at the end of the post!]

SEXUALITY & GENDER (generic) —

*Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, S. Boehringer (to finish)

*The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory, ed. E. Haselswerdt, S. H. Lindheim & K. Ormand

*Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World, ed. A. Surtees & J. Dyer

Greek Homosexuality, K. Dover (to finish)

Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Greece and Rome, K. Ormand

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome, B. A. Natoli, A. Pitts, & J. P. Hallett

*Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture, M. B. Skinner

Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature, G. Holst-Warhaft

Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature, W. Duvall Penrose Jr

*"Monter au ciel : Kallistô et Artémis dans la mythologie grecque", S. Boehringer in La religion des femmes en pays grec. Mythes, cultes et société, ed. L. Bodiou & V. Mehl

Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, N. S. Rabinowitz & L. Auanger

Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, T. Sapsford

RECEPTION

*Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception, ed. S. Butler

Critical Ancient World Studies: the Case for Forgetting Classics, ed. M. Umachandran & M. Ward

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage, H. P. Foley

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage, ed. E. B. Mee & H. P. Foley

OVID

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, ed. P. R. Hardie

Tragedy in Ovid: theater, metatheater and the transformation of a genre, D. Curley

*"Oscula iungit nec moderata satis nec a uirgine danda: Ovid’s Callisto Episode, Female Homoeroticism, and the Study of Ancient Sexuality", J. H. Oliver ✔️

GREEK TRAGEDY

*Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy, M. Mueller

*Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, H. P. Foley

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P. E. Easterling

Reading Greek Tragedy, S. Goldhill

*Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology, S. A. Gurd

Electra and the empty urn: Metatheater and role playing in Sophocles, M. Ringer

Looking at Antigone, ed. D. Stuttard

*Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, J. Strauss

GREEK TRAGEDY: GENDER/SEXUALITY

Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece, B. Goff

*Marriage to Death: the Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy, R. Rehm

*Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, H. P. Foley

Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy, E. L. Weiberg

*Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia, S. Goldhill

OTHERS

Sappho and Homer: A Reparative Reading, M. Mueller

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body, C. Vout

Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth, C. Laes

if you have more recs that seem to fit the topics i’m focusing on or that you think could interest me, please tell me! i’m also looking for anything on: gender non-conformity in Roman myths; the family (its structure and collapse) in mythology; incest in antiquity/ancient literature; recent studies on the reception of the House of Atreus

not exclusively classics-related but if there are books on literary analysis/theory that you think are really important and could be helpful, PLEASE tell me. + scholarship about queerness or weird things with Bodies or time/space distortion or trauma theory that could be applied to ancient lit, and other similar things that could be useful when analysing classics :)

[thesunwillshineonusagain757]

READ:

“The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin: A philosophical sci-fi novel about anarchism, belonging, and utopia—an ideological touchstone for someone torn between duty and idealism. - R

“Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin : Tragic, lush, and beautifully written—Baldwin’s exploration of identity, repression, and impossible love would devastate and inspire him.- R

“The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran : A spiritual favorite he returns to in moments of crisis; its lyrical insights echo his own poetic leanings. - R

“Orientalism” by Edward Said : Required reading for a post-colonial lens. He underlines passages with fury and sorrow. - R

“The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. Le Guin : Gender, politics, and alienation—it resonates with how he often feels like he’s from another world. - R

“Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke : Marked up and dog-eared, this is his Bible of the soul. - R

“The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin : A voice of revolution and love, Baldwin shapes much of Rhaegar’s political consciousness. - R

“The Iliad” by Homer (Fagles Translation) : He finds kinship in tragic, beautiful warriors doomed by fate. - R

“Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson : A story of revolutionary terraforming and idealism breaking down under human flaws. A metaphor for his inner world. - R

The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon : A necessary fury. Fanon reminds us that healing is violent when the wound is deep, and that to love justice means we must confront blood and empire. - R

Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault : The panopticon lives in our bones. Read this if you’ve ever wondered why shame feels institutional. - R

Capitalist Realism – Mark Fisher : An exorcism for the creeping sense that nothing can change. Fisher put language to my despair—and my hope. - R

Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit : "Because despair is easy. Solnit writes like a lighthouse: distant, unwavering, always there when the storm rises." - R

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats : When I was younger, I read Yeats for love. Now I read him for memory. 'Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.' I still do. - R

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman: The first book that made me want to sing. To be alive, to be flawed, to still be radiant—Whitman taught me that is holy. - R

Love Is a Dog from Hell – Charles Bukowski: Crude, broken, sometimes unbearable. But heartbreak isn’t always elegant, and neither am I. - R

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov : Love, revolution, the Devil. It’s as strange and brilliant as the best of our contradictions. - R

Beloved – Toni Morrison: There are books that make you better. This one remakes you. - R

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera : An existential ache, dressed in sex and sorrow. I read it when I was too young. I still carry it. - R

CURRENTLY READING :

“The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson : Reading it for his dissertation on climate justice in speculative fiction—he’s particularly obsessed with the ethics of intergenerational action. - R

“The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon : Harsh but necessary. He’s grappling with how radical change happens and the cost of decolonization. - R

“Open Veins of Latin America” by Eduardo Galeano : For a course on imperial legacies. He alternates between being shattered and electrified by it. - R

WANT TO READ :

“How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” by Jenny Odell : He’s fascinated by critiques of capitalism that are also poetic in tone. - r

“On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong : He’s heard this book feels like being pierced by stars. He’s saving it for a time when he can fall apart privately. - R

“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freir : As someone who deeply believes in education as liberation, this is on his near-future reading stack.- R

“The Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard : For late-night intellectual yearning and metaphysical wandering. - R

“Autobiography of Red” by Anne Carson : A mythic, queer, poetic reinterpretation of Herakles and Geryon? Yes, obviously. He’s already bookmarked the first line. - R

RHAEGAR'S LIST

[captains-price]

I love making unnecessary tasks for myself and @need-him-pregnant-poll currently has me in a chokehold so I put together a baby list! Based on an idea mentioned that each poll is a new pregnancy, I was curious about the amount of babies everyone has now, and I thought other people might be interested as well!

The single digits are for the characters that are still currently in the tournament and their final baby numbers aren’t official yet. The rest are in a range based on whether the idea is that the character gets pregnant every time they’re in a poll or if they get pregnant each time they win a poll(and I wanted the characters who lost in the first round to still have a chance at pregnancy lol) so characters with 3-4 babies were in four separate polls but only won three etc etc

If there’s any mistakes or if I forgot anything, lemme know! I’ll continue to update the numbers as the polls continue

And putting under a read more because it’s quite the long list but anyway enjoy all the blorbo babies!

Dean Winchester(Supernatural): 4

James T. Kirk(Star Trek): 4

Li Shang(Mulan): 4

Delbert Doppler(Treasure Planet): 4

Shang Qinghua(The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System): 4

Quark(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 4

Bilbo Baggins(The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings): 4

Data(Star Trek): 4

Odysseus(EPIC: The Musical): 4

Charlie Kelly(It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia): 4

Bruce Wayne(DC): 4

Julian Bashir(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 4

Wei Wuxan(The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation): 3

Babe(Pit Babe): 3

Ford Pines(Gravity Falls): 4

Hawkeye Pierce(M*A*S*H): 4

Elim Garak(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 4

Tenth Doctor(Doctor Who): 3

Eggman Robotnik(Sonic the Hedgehog): 3

Ian Malcolm(Jurassic Park): 3

Will Graham(Hannibal): 3

Geralt(The Witcher): 3

Logan Howlett(X-Men): 3

Megatron(Transformers): 3-4

Arataka Reigen(Mob Psycho 100): 3-4

Michael(The Good Place): 3-4

Minato Namikaze(Naruto): 3-4

Peter B. Parker(Spiderverse): 3-4

Li Yu(The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish): 3-4

Hua Cheng(Heaven Official’s Blessing): 3-4

Lysandre(Pokémon): 3-4

Stephen Maturin(The Aubrey-Maturin Series): 3-4

Sir Crocodile(One Piece): 3-4

Astarion Ancunin(Baldur’s Gate 3): 3-4

Nicholas D. Wolfwood(Trigun): 3-4

Cosmo(The Fairly OddParents): 3-4

William James Moriarty(Moriarty the Patriot): 3-4

Paul Atreides(Dune): 3-4

Obi-Wan Kenobi(Star Wars): 2-3

Harry Du Bois(Disco Elysium): 3-4

Sanji(One Piece): 2-3

Shockwave(Transformers): 2-3

Crowley(Good Omens): 3-4

Anakin Skywalker(Star Wars): 3-4

Shen Qingqiu(The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System): 2-3

Luo Binghe(The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System): 2-3

Jayce Talis(Arcane): 2-3

Charles Xavier(X-Men): 3-4

Mu Qing(Heaven Official’s Blessing): 2-3

Tristan Silva(Doctor Odyssey): 1-2

Stan Pines(Gravity Falls): 2-3

Larry, Moe, & Curly(The Three Stooges): 2-3

Daffy Duck(Looney Tunes): 2-3

Vedek Bareil Antos(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): 2-3

Blurr(Transformers): 1-2

Link(The Legend of Zelda): 1-2

Gregory Edgeworth(Ace Attorney): 2-3

Ted Lasso(Ted Lasso): 1-2

Professor Venomous(OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes): 2-3

Dracule Mihawk(One Piece): 2-3

Shouta Aizawa(My Hero Academia): 2-3

Shen Qiao(Thousand Autumns): 2-3

Knockout(Transformers): 2-3

Dil Howlter(Dan & Phil Play the Sims 4): 2-3

Homer Simpson(The Simpson’s): 2-3

Kinn Theerapanyakul(KinnPorsche): 2-3

Kiryu Kazuma(Yakuza: Like a Dragon): 2-3

Herlock Sholmes(Ace Attorney): 2-3

Harvey(Stardew Valley): 1-2

Cloud Strife(Final Fantasy VII): 1-2

Jamie McCrimmon(Doctor Who): 2-3

Tharn(The Sign): 2-3

Mario(Super Mario Bros): 2-3

Yoo Joonghyuk(Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint): 1-2

Veritas Ratio(Honkai Star Rail): 2-3

Tom Paris(Star Trek): 2-3

Tengen Uzui(Demon Slayer): 2-3

Garth Fitzgerald IV(Supernatural): 1-2

Isabeau(In Stars and Time): 2-3

Leon S. Kennedy(Resident Evil): 1-2

Enji Todoroki(My Hero Academia): 1-2

Larry/Aoki(Pokémon): 2-3

Jinshi(The Apothecary Diaries): 2-3

L Lawliet(Death Note): 1-2

Jack Harkness(Doctor Who/Torchwood): 1-2

Dante Sparda(Devil May Cry): 2-3

Spencer Reid(Criminal Minds): 2-3

Hannibal Lecter(Hannibal): 1-2

Optimus Prime(Transformers): 1-2

Gale Dekarios(Baldur’s Gate 3): 2-3

Augustine Sycamore(Pokémon): 2-3

Qi Rong(Heaven Official’s Blessing): 2-3

Starscream(Transformers): 1-2

Vincent Benitez(Conclave): 1-2

Simon Riley(Call of Duty): 2-3

Casper Darling(Control): 0-1

Vander/Warwick(Arcane): 0-1

Anders(Dragon Age): 1-2

Santa Claus(Violent Night): 0-1

Kento Nanami(Jujutsu Kaisen): 1-2

Josh Lyman(The West Wing): 0-1

Prince Peasley(Super Mario Bros): 1-2

Raphael(Baldur’s Gate 3): 0-1

Prowl(Transformers): 0-1

Zoraal Ja(Final Fantasy XIV): 0-1

Emiya/Archer(Fate): 0-1

Lelouch vi Britannia(Code Geass): 0-1

B.J. Hunnicutt(M*A*S*H): 1-2

Han Yoojin(The S-Classes I Raised): 0-1

Bucky Barnes(Marvel): 1-2

Suguru Geto(Jujutsu Kaisen): 1-2

Zachariah Trench(Control): 0-1

Kristoph Gavin(Ace Attorney): 0-1

Tong(My Golden Blood): 0-1

Fadel(The Heart Killers): 1-2

Charles Smith(Red Dead Redemption 2): 0-1

Kent Mansley(The Iron Giant): 0-1

Keith Kogane(Voltron: Legendary Defender): 1-2

Vladimir Makarov(Call of Duty: Modern Warfare): 0-1

Aeneas(The Aenid): 0-1

Inspector Javert(Les Misérables): 0-1

X Drake(One Piece): 0-1

Silco(Arcane): 0-1

Gilgamesh(Fate): 0-1

Jack Kennedy(Dayshift at Freddy’s): 0-1

King Neptune(SpongeBob SquarePants): 1-2

Nikolai(Call of Duty): 0-1

Roronoa Zoro(One Piece): 1-2

Takemichi Hanagaki(Tokyo Revengers): 0-1

Kiyoteru Hiyama(Vocaloid): 0-1

Heine Wittgenstein(The Royal Tutor): 0-1

Cassian Andor(Andor/Rogue One): 0-1

Morpheus(The Sandman): 1-2

Faramir(Lord of the Rings): 0-1

Kili(The Hobbit): 1-2

Sergei Kazarin(Parties Are For Losers): 0-1

Lucifer Morningstar(Hazbin Hotel): 0-1

Jesse Pinkman(Breaking Bad): 1-2

Lahan(The Apothecary Diaries): 1-2

Jiaoqiu(Honkai Star Rail): 1-2

Blade(Honkai Star Rail): 0-1

Solid Snake(Metal Gear): 2

Xolga Utsugi(Xolga and Mr. Toko): 0-1

Voldo(Soul Caliber): 1-2

Elec Man(Mega Man): 0-1

Aki Hayakawa(Chainsaw Man): 0-1

Yu Ha Yoon(Chains of Eternal Love): 0-1

Illumi Zoldyck(Hunter x Hunter): 0-1

Sigma Klim(Zero Escape): 0-1

Agent Stone(Sonic the Hedgehog Films): 1-2

Nicholas Benedict(The Mysterious Benedict Society): 1-2

Shane(Stardew Valley): 1-2

Ragnvaldr(Fear & Hunger): 0-1

Kass(The Legend of Zelda): 0-1

DIO Brando(JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure): 1-2

Kazuki Kusuru(Buddy Daddies): 0-1

Anduin Wrynn(World of Warcraft): 0-1

Melone(JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure): 1-2

Sam Rutherford(Star Trek: Lower Decks): 1-2

Soshiro Hoshina(Kaiju No. 8): 0-1

Rain(Love in the Air): 0-1

Kayne(Malevolent): 1-2

Charles Tucker III(Star Trek Enterprise): 0-1

Satoru Gojo(Jujutsu Kaisen): 0-1

Zongzheng Huai’en(Meet You At The Blossom): 1-2

Jason Todd(DC): 1-2

Fox Mulder(X-Files): 1-2

Viktor(Arcane): 0-1

Soundwave(Transformers): 1-2

Yuuri Katsuki(Yuri!!! On Ice): 1-2

Ingo(Pokémon): 1-2

Arthur Lester(Malevolent): 0-1

Tony Stark(Marvel): 0-1

Aventurine(Honkai Star Rail): 1-2

Trent Crimm(Ted Lasso): 0-1

Vash(Trigun): 0-1

Manfred von Karma(Ace Attorney): 1-2

Shanks(One Piece): 1-2

Chu Wanning(The Husky and His White Cat Shizun): 1-2

Light Yagami(Death Note): 1-2

Grim/Casper(A Date With Death): 0-1

Gregory House(House M.D.): 1-2

Sam Beckett(Quantum Leap): 1-2

Vergil Sparda(Devil May Cry): 1-2

Buggy(One Piece): 1-2

Xie Lian(Heaven Official’s Blessing): 0-1

Luka(Alien Stage): 1-2

Eighth Doctor(Doctor Who): 1-2

Joel Miller(The Last of Us): 1-2

Thomas Lawrence(Conclave): 0-1

Izzy Hands(Our Flag Means Death): 1-2

Alfred F. Jones/America(Hetalia): 0-1

Snake(Black Butler): 0-1

Sova Novikov(Valorant): 0-1

Masaki Fujiyoshi(Tadaima, Okaeri): 0-1

Rodimus(Transformers): 0-1

Michael Taylor(My Two Dads): 0-1

John Gaius(The Locked Tomb): 0-1

Carlos Oliveria(Resident Evil): 0-1

Choso(Jujutsu Kaisen): 0-1

Kaoru Sakurayashiki(Sk8 The Infinity): 0-1

Lakia Amarga(Kamen Rider Gavv): 0-1

Enver Gortash(Baldur’s Gate 3): 0-1

Blitzø Buckzo(Helluva Boss): 0-1

Shuntarou Chishiya(Alice in Borderland): 0-1

Ray O’Malley(Conclave): 0-1

Ging Freecss(Hunter x Hunter): 0-1

Ianto Jones(Torchwood): 0-1

Fizzarolli(Helluva Boss): 0-1

The Onceler(The Lorax): 0-1

Sunday Oak(Honkai Star Rail): 0-1

Alhaitham(Genshin Impact): 0-1

Bob Hogan(Hogan’s Heroes): 0-1

Kishibe(Chainsaw Man): 0-1

Benn Beckman(One Piece): 0-1

Nandor(What We Do In The Shadows): 0-1

Bruno Madrigal(Encanto): 0-1

Kaveh(Genshin Impact): 0-1

Cecil Stedman(Invincible): 0-1

Yuugo(The Promised Neverland): 0-1

David Rossi(Criminal Minds): 0-1

Gol D. Roger(One Piece): 0-1

Taako(The Adventure Zone): 0-1

The Narrator(Fight Club): 0-1

Paracelsus(Guilty Gear): 0-1

Tarantulas(Transformers): 0-1

Farmer Jim(The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie): 0-1

Strahd Von Zarovich(Curse of Strahd): 0-1

Britt Reid(The Green Hornet ‘66): 0-1

Ranpo Edogawa(Bungou Stray Dogs): 0-1

Chuuya Nakahara(Bungou Stray Dogs): 0-1

Akira Takahashi(Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School): 0-1

Akainu(One Piece): 0-1

Crow(Destiny 2): 0-1

Navy(Animation Vs. Minecraft): 0-1

Jake Wilson(Dayshift at Freddy’s): 0-1

Jing Yuan(Honkai Star Rail): 0-1

King Orange(Animator Vs. Animation): 0-1

Shadow Milk Cookie(Cookie Run: Kingdom): 0-1

Peppino Spaghetti(Pizza Tower): 0-1

Hosea Matthews(Red Dead Redemption 2): 0-1

Shen Xiang(Undead Unluck): 0-1

Alan(Pit Babe): 0-1

Hyakunosuke Ogata(Golden Kamuy): 0-1

Mydei(Honkai Star Rail): 0-1

Victor/Victhor(Undead Unluck): 0-1

Childe/Tartaglia(Genshin Impact): 0-1

Sabellian(Warcraft): 0-1

Phaya(The Sign): 0-1

Daniil Dankovsky(Pathologic): 0-1

Kalego Naberius(Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun): 0-1

Way(Pit Babe): 0-1

Johnathan Reid(Vampyr): 0-1

Artemy Burakh(Pathologic): 0-1

Vegas Theerapanyakul(KinnPorsche): 0-1

Geoffrey McCullum(Vampyr): 0-1

David 8(Alien Prometheus/Covenant): 0-1

North(Pit Babe): 0-1

Steve Cobs(Inanimate Insanity): 0-1

Slideshow Bob Terwilliger Jr(The Simpsons): 0-1

Robo-Ky(Guilty Gear): 0-1

Gabriel Reyes(Overwatch): 0-1

Buck Tierney(Monday Mornings): 0-1

Aenys I Targaryen(A Song of Ice and Fire): 0-1

Magnus Bane(Shadow Hunters): 0-1

Gremio(Suikoden): 0-1

Royal Margarine Cookie(Cookie Run: Kingdom): 0-1

Ryoji Kaji(Neon Genesis Evangelion): 0-1

Rafayel/Qi Yu(Love and Deepspace): 0-1

Luther Von Ivory(Ranfren): 0-1

Gu Mang(Remnants of Filth): 0-1

Doug Remer(BASEketball): 0-1

Bill Cipher(Gravity Falls): 1-2

Maximinius Ravinstill(The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes): 0-1

Ye Zun(Guardian): 0-1

Gu Yun(Stars of Chaos): 0-1

Troy Barnes(Community): 0-1

Touya Todoroki/Dabi(My Hero Academia): 0-1

Portgas D. Ace(One Piece): 0-1

Winner(Pit Babe): 0-1

Gordon Freeman(Half-Life): 0-1

An Zhe(Little Mushroom): 0-1

Leper(Darkest Dungeon): 0-1

Eustass Kid(One Piece): 0-1

Denmark(Hetalia): 0-1

Porsche Kittisawat(KinnPorsche): 0-1

Peter Kennedy(Dayshift at Freddy’s/Dialtown): 0-1

Mark Scout(Severence): 0-1

Xie Qingcheng(Case File Compendium): 0-1

Zhou Zishu(Word of Honor): 0-1

Lalnable Hector(Yogscast): 0-1

Seth Milchick(Severence): 0-1

James Wilson(House M.D.): 0-1

Goffredo Tedesco(Conclave): 0-1

Daniel Molloy(Interview With the Vampire): 0-1

Tomura Shigaraki(My Hero Academia): 0-1

Han Ying(Word of Honor): 0-1

Ned the Pie Maker(Pushing Daisies): 0-1

Evan Buckley(9-1-1): 0-1

Kim Theerapanyakul(KinnPorsche): 0-1

[caesarsaladinn]

they did Deep Space Homer for real…

[thejohnlockedfemboy]

LIL EPIC THE MUSICAL/HOMER’S ILLIAD DRABBLE

779 words, tw for brief mention of canon su*cide and death.

“Listen closely, my brothers, and I will relay the plan which has come to me. Tonight, we shall spring forth upon the Trojans vengeance for all of the misery they have wrought upon us, tenfold! Remember your kin at home, your wives, waiting long for your return, and your children, who are now close to adulthood in their own right. They have hoped many a night that the beacons would blaze on the distant hilltops as foreword of arrival, yet we are still languishing, our hearts sore and weary. Take heart, then! and we shall bring death to those warriors which have taunted us from their high perch upon the battlements. No longer will they make fools of the Greeks.”

*  *  *

The air within the horse was humid and heavy with the hot press of bodies clustered close together in the limited space. Muscles slickened with sweat slid against one another and the anticipation was palpable.

The Trojan horse was a magnificent thing, crafted by the Greek’s carpenter, a skilled man named Epeius, after the great goddess of wisdom, Pallas Athena, appeared to Odysseus in a dream and unspooled the thread of the tapestry of fate that would lead the king of Ithaca to victory after ten years of relentless fighting.

After the horse had been built, the majority of the Greek army had boarded their ships, burning the huts they had been living in over the last decade and filling the sky with black smoke, and sailed around the nearest curved coast of the nearby isle of Tenedos. Here they could hide while the Trojans saw the smoke and came to the conclusion that the Greeks had finally deserted the war.

Meanwhile, the bravest of the Greek chiefs and princes took up in the horse itself, and they wrapped their swords and spear-shafts in silk so that the arms would not clash together while they jostled for room, since this would alert the Trojans that something was amiss.

Into the horse went much-enduring Odysseus, of whose clever deception the creation was to begin with, along with Meneleus, the brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen of the fair hands, who the entire great ordeal had begun over when she had allowed herself to be stolen away under the cover of night by the handsome Paris while he was a guest in the house of Sparta.

So, too, there, was the austere and hot-blooded Diomedes, who would lead the charge once the Trojans had brought the horse deep into the heart of the city, rolled over the ground on cut logs, in the way that dockworkers once did when launching a ship. While Diomedes would be one of the firsts to slay the sleeping Trojans, who danced and feasted and sang long into the night, rejoicing their ‘victory’ over their foes the Greeks, Meneleus would slip off into the shadows thrown by the towering gates, much-scarred with char and indents from the attacks aimed directly at the stronghold Illion’s barricade. There he would slaughter the guards as they dozed and throw open the gates so that Agamemnon, having led the Greek army to land their vessels back on the beach under the cover of night, could enter with all the rest of the men.

Then, together, Ajax of Locris — also known as Lesser Ajax to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, who had committed suicide out of shame, for a dishonorable madness had been cast upon him by Athena when Odysseus had been awarded the fallen Achilles’ army — with the bowman Teucer, who was half-brother to Ajax the Greater and much aggrieved over his death. Both were eager to follow Diomedes’ lead to ransack Troy.

Old Nestor, who was too aged to continue fighting any longer, would be tasked with finding Helen in the house of Deiphobus. Deiphobus was one of the elder sons to the king Priam and queen Hecuba; which is to say, he was brother to the slain Hector and Paris, and the young Helenus, who had once been called Scamandrius before being gifted prophetic sight alongside his mad sister Cassandra.

And finally, Neoptolemus, the sole son of Achilles, would clasp his revenge close to his chest and take his xiphos to the flesh of the heirs of Priam.

And now it was time.

Like wraiths, the best of the Greeks opened a hatch in the belly of the horse from within and dropped to the ground below. They all gathered around, and did not seem to know what to do.

Diomedes, however, raised his spear and gave a mighty shout, and the others took courage from this and raced forward like a pack of swift wolves…

[lasudio]

VeronaHills, Round Ten: Land (A)

Scot followed Dixie to university (mostly in search of someone to start a family with).

There were empty spaces on the bookshelf where Scot's sci-fi stores once sat. Out of everything, that was the biggest dose of reality for Beulah. Her first boy was out of the house for the first time. It was just her and Homer and River and Delta left in the house that had once burst at the seams with frantic familial activity spanning three generations of Lands.

A household consisting of a mere four family members - heavens! That simply would not do.

Sweets was almost a corgi, if not for her slightly longer legs. An almost breed was much cheaper than a purebred, so Beulah and Homer happily went in on adopting her. The shelter had correctly named her for her sweet doggy smile. Beulah even swore her fur smelled like its caramel colouring (Homer agreed to disagree).

Delta liked Sweets. Deep down, she'd half expected her parents to adopt another child instead. Thankfully, a dog was much easier, and a nice change of pace. She'd heard Dixie describe the pitfalls of parentification and preferred not to have to experience it first hand.

Having homework ripped to bits ("Sweets had it in her teeth, it was too dangerous to grab!") was the cherry on top.

[captainfreelance1]

I made this Drawing a few months ago, I based it on the iconic scene from 'Deep Space Homer' where Homer Simpson is enjoying a snack in Zero Gravity; I enjoyed making this drawing it was a lot of fun to make.

[blubadventures]

Fonts

Today we're going to get very technical and talk about custom fonts in PICO-8. I know I just made this blog, but we're taking a deep dive right away because it's one of the first things I did in my game, and it's still fresh in my mind.

PICO-8 ships with a default character set called P8SCII (a pun on ASCII) that includes 256 different characters. This set includes uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, hiragana, katakana, various control codes, and other special glyphs. You can see it below.

The default font has some pros and cons. If we focus on the uppercase Latin letters, punctuation, and numbers specifically, all of the characters conform to a 3x5 pixel size. This is very space efficient and consistent, which makes it an excellent font for writing code on PICO-8's tiny 128x128 screen.

Code is written in "all caps" so to speak, although the concept of uppercase and lowercase letters doesn't really exist in PICO-8 programming. Instead we have normal letters (seen above) as well as an alternate set of 26 characters called "puny characters," which looks similar to the regular font but even smaller!

So it works great for coding, but what if we're reading a lot of English words? Here's an excerpt from Homer's Iliad written using the default font, with regular characters for uppercase and puny characters for lowercase.

It doesn't look bad necessarily. I'd even say it conveys a certain amount of retro charm. But I'd be lying if I said it was easy to read.

Enter custom fonts! This is a relatively new feature of PICO-8, and it is one that is a little bit complicated to implement and not very well-documented at the moment, but I'm going to do my best to explain it.

Unfortunately, you can't simply have your custom font loaded and ready to go by setting it up in the cart itself. Custom fonts are defined by messing around with specific memory values at runtime. I'll explain an easy way to actually create and load your own font in another post, but for now lets talk about the memory addresses that need to be modified and how it works under the hood.

First of all, custom fonts must be enabled with the following poke:

poke(0x5f58,0x81)

Address 0x5f58 contains the bitfield for the current character rendering mode. There are a few options, but the ones we care about are 0x01, which enables special rendering modes entirely, and 0x80, which enables the custom font.

Once enabled, all future printing operations will use a custom font that is defined in RAM from addresses 0x5600 to 0x5dff. That's 2,048 bytes total. Remember that there are 256 different characters in P8SCII, so that's 2,048 / 256 = 8 bytes per character.

Each character in the custom font can be as large as 8x8 pixels in size. Each of the 8 reserved bytes for a character represents a row of pixels, and within each byte, each bit represents whether the cell is filled or not, with the least significant bit being the leftmost column.

Here's an example. Capital T has index 116 in P8SCII. 116 x 8 = 928, which is 0x03a0 in hexadecimal, so the custom font for T is defined at 0x5600 + 0x03a0 = 0x59a0. Here is how I have defined T in my custom font.

peek(0x59a0) = 0b00011111 = '#####---' peek(0x59a1) = 0b00000100 = '--#-----' peek(0x59a2) = 0b00000100 = '--#-----' peek(0x59a3) = 0b00000100 = '--#-----' peek(0x59a4) = 0b00000100 = '--#-----' peek(0x59a5) = 0b00000100 = '--#-----' peek(0x59a6) = 0b00000000 = '--------' peek(0x59a7) = 0b00000000 = '--------'

(Remember, the least significant bit is the leftmost pixel drawn, thus the binary representation and the actual drawing appear to be mirrored.)

It doesn't look great on Tumblr, but hopefully you get the gist. As you can see, this character is 5x6 pixels in size. But how will PICO-8 draw this? The two highest addresses (0x59a6 and 0x59a7) are still empty, and there are also still 3 columns of space on the right. Obviously we don't want the T to be floating in the air or have a big gap before the next character is printed, but how would PICO-8 know that?

Here is where things get more complicated. There are two components that define the actual size of a character.

The default size of the entire custom font. This defines a height and width which applies to ALL characters in the custom font.

An individualized width and height offset for all characters. This is a newer feature than the above, and it is what allows us to make variable-width fonts! Because it's newer, you'll see a lot of resources on how to do #1, but resources for how to do #2 are relatively sparse, at least at the time of writing!

Where do we define this stuff? Remember when I said that we have 8 bytes for each of the 256 characters in RAM for defining the custom font? There's a slight asterisk there, which is that the first 16 characters in P8SCII are never actually printed. These are called control codes and they represent various printing functions, not text. They do have a graphic in the first image I posted, but they are never actually printed. Therefore, the bytes in RAM reserved for these first 16 characters may be freely appropriated for other uses.

Font-wide settings are stored in the data reserved for character 0. We can think of this as the "font header". Each of its 8 bytes have different purposes. I'll outline them explicitly.

0x5600: Pixel width of characters 16-127. (Mainly Latin letters, numbers, and punctuation.) 0x5601: Pixel width of characters 128-255. (Mainly special glyphs and Japanese letters.) 0x5602: Pixel height of all characters. 0x5603: Draw offset x. 0x5604: Draw offset y. 0x5605: Set 0x1 to apply size adjustments (see below); set 0x2 to apply tabs relative to the cursor. 0x5606: Pixel width of tabs. 0x5607: Unused.

I'm just going to focus on 0x5600 and 0x5602 here, but you can experiment with other values as you wish. When designing my font, I found that 4 pixels wide generally looked pretty good. However, we also have to account for a gap between characters, which I would like to just be 1 pixel, so our actual character width should be 5, which is the value I poked to 0x5600.

For height, Latin characters vary quite a bit. For most tall characters, like lowercase d, I made them 6 pixels tall. However, some characters like lowercase g are meant to be drawn partially "below the line" when written on paper, so I had these characters dip 2 pixels deeper. Here are some examples.

Since we have characters that extend to both extremes in terms of height, we can say that overall the font is meant to be 8 pixels tall. Furthermore, I once again want a 1 pixel vertical gap when printing to the next line, so we'll say the height is technically 9, which is the value I poked to 0x5602.

But wait! What about the characters which are extra wide, like our uppercase T? That was 5 pixels wide, not 4, so won't it get chopped off? The answer is yes. (Technically, the entire T would still get printed, but we would lose the 1 pixel gap before the next character.)

This is where the per-character width and height adjustments come into play. Remember the data for character 0 formed our header, but we still have characters 1-15 whose data is still unused. That's 15x8=120 bytes. We have 240 printable characters (17..255). Therefore we can allocate one nibble (that is, 4 bits, or half a byte) for each printable character. The lower nibble in each byte will correspond to the lower of the two characters represented by that byte.

The 3 lowest bits in the nibble represent the width offset for that character as a signed 3-bit integer, for a range of -4 to +3. This is what will be added to the default width when determining the actual width for that specific character. The highest bit is used for a vertical offset; if it is set, the character will be drawn one pixel higher than normal.

Finally, to enable these per-character adjustments at all, the lowest bit of 0x5605 must be set to 1, as mentioned previously.

Let's see some examples. Remember that the T we drew earlier was 5x6. Or rather, it's 6x6 if we include the 1 pixel horizontal padding on the right side. But our default width is only 5. Therefore we need to set T's offset to +1.

We have to do some fairly complicated address math to figure out where T's offset lives. Remember its P8SCII index is 116. Among the actually printable characters, its index is 116-16=100. Offset data begins at 0x5608. Remember each byte corresponds to two characters. 100 (or 0x64) is an even number, so it is going to live in the lower nibble of its corresponding byte, which is located at 0x5608 + 0x64 / 2 = 0x563a.

T's roommate is character 117, which naturally, is U. The U I drew conforms to the standard width of 5, so its offset should just be 0. Across the board, I'm not using any height offsets, so those bits will always be 0. Therefore, our offset for T is achieved with the following poke:

poke(0x563a, 0x01)

Lets pick a more complicated example: lowercase L and M. Let me show you what I drew for those first.

Both of these characters have nonstandard widths. Worse yet, they're roommates! L will need an offset of -2, and m will need +1.

L's index is 76, and M's is 77. Their offset data will live in the same byte, with L taking the lower nibble. The address of this data is given by:

0x5608 + (76 - 16) / 2 = 0x562e.

M needs a width offset of 1, which is simply represented as 001 in binary. L needs -2, which is represented as 110 using two's complement on a 3 bit integer. Again, both should have a 0 height offset. Putting this all together, our poke will be:

poke(0x5626, 0b00010110)

Or in hex:

poke(0x5626, 0x16)

Or even in decimal:

poke(0x5626, 22)

Anyway, that's my overlong explanation for how custom fonts work. Now let's see the custom font I made in action, side-by-side with the default font.

Not bad! Personally, I find this dramatically more readable, but it does come at a cost: it takes up way more vertical screen space than before.

[patrochillesvibes]

do you know why some people seem so uncomfortable with the idea of associating patroclus with kindness? i'm honestly starting to wonder if I got a bad translation of the iliad or got my memories mixed up because I remember him being portrayed like that by homer

Oh, it’s pretty straightforward!

This sentiment is due to a combination of things:

Lack of basic reading comprehension skills and an understanding of literary analysis.

The need to be or seem as “edgy” by hating “mainstream” to gain approval from peers.

Proliferation of hate culture that has permeated all spaces across the internet.

“I liked it first/before it was cool” syndrome.

Formerly gifted child syndrome who cling to the idea that liking The Classics™ still makes them smart.

Hipster snobbery phenomenon

Internalized homophobia.

Internalized sexism.

Racism (Patroclus is often depicted with darker skin compared to Achilles).

Toxic narcissism of Academia culture producing the most insufferable and pretentious asses with the frailest egos imaginable.

Ditto for toxicity of The Classics™.

I’m sure you were expecting a thorough literary analysis instead of a rant about how today’s antis don’t understand basic tagging etiquette and how every time I go into the fucking patrochilles tags I gotta deal with fucking antis. But there’s really nothing deep about people foaming at the mouth over a fictional man having *gasp* feelings. It’s internalized cultural bias, babe.

Maybe one day these haters will grow up and realize how cringe it is to make hating something your personality. I almost feel bad for them.

Thanks for the Ask!