#Out Of Wisdom

[periwinkle-the-11th]

Also I love that when the stream got banned the whole chat was spamming

CAPTAIN???

Captain!!!!

Captain??!!!!

CAPTAIN!!!

[caleohateclub]

"When's your tramp of a mother gonna choose a new husband?"

[the-phantom-peach]

unstoppable force vs immovable object

what are you expecting

[martyfive]

time to save the kingdom by spawning the bed during the boss battle to take a quick nap or whatever

[justsmth2]

*in penelope's costume* this is my husband

[blueskittlesart]

may have spent slightly too long in eow link's house today. im obsessed with him

[almondcroissantsandink]

i've been BELTING out the Epic concept album in the car to and from work the past couple of weeks, esp. the bit where Odysseus cries out for Athena at the end of Love in Paradise, and I thought it would be funny if the goddess herself was like WHY is this person in rural NY state calling for me every day at 8:40am and after 5pm

[joshuamj]

Hero.

[sunshines-child]

Athena, who probably got handed baby Telemachus, looked at Odysseus, and went “what the fuck Ody. It’s underdeveloped. Send it back to fully form.”

[superdaisypowerhour]

it only took 38 years

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[bloominflowers]

echoes of wisdom zelda, my beloved

[deboracabral]

toxic immortal yaoi :')

[czl]

dungeon ponies

[ochiody]

i see your scarred athenas and i raise yall kintsugi athena. pottery is in her domain

[asavt]

Once upon a time a small rat walked into my web...