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[elvensixpm]

Vengeance Saga spoilers!

For Six Hundred Strike, I don't imagine Odysseus using Poseidon's trident against him, actually. Mostly because my idea of Poseidon is that he is much larger than Odysseus— a giant, terrifying vision of the sea, no, he is the sea.

There is no clear differentiation between the sea and Poseidon— the waves his spilling hair, the sea foam his skin, the mist his robes.

Imagine this:

Odysseus using the trident to wash Poseidon and himself to the rocky coast of Ithaca, his homeland, rugged and worn as he himself is. Birthplace to six hundred men gone to Poseidon's cruelty, he doesn't use Poseidon's own weapon against him, no, that would be too simple.

He wants his Ithacan brothers to drink their fill of revenge as well. He raises the trident and commands the water to his will, fighting the brutality of the storm whose winds force against his arm, as if warning him not to do anything rash.

His gaze finds the sharp, jagged edges of shore— large rocks like spikes that jut out of the sand like a palisade of swords.

That will do.

The god of the sea smashes against the rocks as Odysseus strikes the trident down onto the sand. Poseidon ebbs away before forming back, like how broken waves regenerate. Odysseus strikes.

Again. Again. Again.

He watches Poseidon splinter against stone before immortality melts him back together again. The golden blood that sprays in his face as Poseidon smashes against the bank leaves him with a greater satisfaction than any gleam of treasure ever would.

The storm's wind whips and howls in his face like a shrieking banshee— he uses it to pretend not to hear the god.

Odysseus' screams for venegeance, for retribution and for the god to call off the storm, drowns the other's pleas for him to stop. This was payback for his crew; does Charon accept gods' blood as payment? It was gold, after all. As it seeps into the waters, Odysseus hoped that it would reach his crew— so that they could finally cross the river Styx. So that they can finally, finally stop their aimless wandering.

Poseidon gurgles out that Odysseus is a monster. Like Charydbis— Odysseus spews back the gods' teachings in his face: Ruthlessness was mercy, was it not?

Poseidon... relents. The trident slips from Odysseus' hand and clatters on the ground. The storm subsides, and the mist lifts.

Odysseus' eyes set upon rocky Ithaca once again. He doesn't look back at Poseidon— there is no need to turn back to the sea now that he's home again.

The King of Ithaca has returned.

Yes, I replaced treasure Odysseus brought home in the book with Poseidon's blood LMFAO! I really thought the treasure part was important in the book, so I wanted to give Epic!Odysseus something of the sort as well.

I also used Charydbis as a likening of sorts because... well. Wasn't it the book— so I just had to incorporate her somehow! How'd I do?

This is how Ithaca's shore look like in my mind while I was writing. Probably not accurate. I just wanted there to be a connection between the place of birth of the crew VS poseidon being their cause of death.

I always have nightmares of smashing against there, because they look so sharp:

But facing outwards, so it makes more sense, haha. I'm just thinking about how Epic!Odysseus is a certified religion betrayer now. Whoops!

Also I just learned that Palisade is an ancient greek thing? I thought it was a Biology thing LOL. I keep running into these coincidences!

[dughole]

remember the way my chemical romance was there for u when u were 19..

[idontmindifuforgetme]

i really am the kind of bitch who loves reading textbooks huh

[yourdailymag]

Jisoo (Blackpink) for Dior Lip Glow Lip Balm 2020

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[zaascaa]

Me and my bestie @kyaiitx LOVE BALMING TIGER!!!! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET ONTO THEM RIGHT NEOWWWWW #music #balmingtiger #dubiouslittlenumber

[cryolyst]

thinking about this youtube comment in conjunction with this post. how beautiful is it that you can listen to the same recording of the same song and get a totally different experience by just listening through headphones, or changing the kind of speaker it's playing on? that it's possible for artists to do these funky mixing things to their songs and change the way it sounds even in one single recording? and immortalizing that for people to be able to go back on?

[ithappensoffstage]

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[professorfcknmoriarty]

Tagged by @dimension20stuff

Rules: shuffle your On Repeat playlist and list the first ten songs that come up...

Alamar by O'Death

Another Man's Grave by Amigo the Devil

Hungover in the City of Dust by Autoheart

No Gold by Black Nail Cabaret

Burn Your Village by Kiki Rockwell

Hollow by Cloudeater

Window by Bonefield

Blood of Angels by Brown Bird

GDMF by Stephen Paul Tayler

Dark Clouds by Auger

@heckblade, @nbspacegay, tagging my other 2 fave mutuals 💗

Anyone who wants to tho et cetera

[smileymoth]

so good hes there twice

[seoul-bros]

Music Master List

The Last Christmas

Black and British

El Capitxn

Does it make sense?

RIP Sergio Mendes (1941 - 2024)

Colde releases I Color You

Stray Kids at BST Hyde Park

Alec Benjamin at BST Hyde Park

Marina - Man's World

Little Simz killed it at Glastonbury

Did it ever occur to you to cherish me?

Cómo, Cuándo y Dónde

Kendrick created and Anthem

El Capitxn's New Adventure

No one I knew stood half as bright as you

Not like us - Kendrick Lamar

Everything I Own

Ken having his Like Crazy/Set Me Free Pt 2 moment at the Oscars

Nina Simone born on this day in 1933

Buriburi on the Tonight Show

Stay from Entity

Tracy Chapman at the Grammys

Balming Tiger - Up!

Hiss and Hennessy

Jam of the Week

Entity - Cha Eun Woo

Back to the grindstone - something to brighten the start of your week

The Brothers Sun OST

Heart Station - Groovy track from The Brothers Sun

Happy Sunday Everyone! (21/01/24)

Jazz Friday - A little positivity for your TL

Happy Sunday Everyone! (14/01/23)

Rainbow Connection

J Christ - Lil Nas X

Jazz Friday with Aja Monet's "Why my love"

Jazz Friday - Aja Monet

Libianca's EP Walk Away Out Today

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

Love Song

Get Back the Rooftop Concert

Sliding into the Weekend with this Friday Night Groove

Lazy Bird

Spotify Wrapped 2023

Nina Simone "Revolution" 1969

Happy 80th Birthday Joni Mitchell

Nobody Told Me

Now and Then: The Beatles

America has a Problem

David Bowie: King of Prose and Performance

Troye Sivan: Got Me Started

British Rock in the 1960s

On this day in 1957

Ice Slippin new release by Omar Apollo Part 2

Ice Slippin new release by Omar Apollo Part 1

The secret to a happy life: Learn how to ring your own bell

Love in the 90s

Tina Turner - Icon of the 80s & 90s

Colde "Love Part 2" EP

K-pop's darker side

Samara Joy

Did you check on me?

New Face: Joining the Dot's on Psy's Discography

Reveling in Korean Culture at the V&A - Part I:Music

Se ha ido pero nos deja su música inolvidable

Balming Tiger is Rethinking K-Pop

Musical Jo Kwon

Jo Kwon - Animal

[distantshore]

july/august faves

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[walterdecourceys]

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