#athena is so done with odys ass lol

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CACKLING OH MY LORD XD

desert my dear ur dedication is truly unmatched, travelling in time to capture this masterpiece mustve been exhausting, lemme giv hug u x

MIDWIFE POLITES LETS GOOOOOO!!

poli is like brother she had one (1) contraction and u passed out already?! *motions to eury to drag him out to recover*

@fl0ral-ghost I'm so sorry your ask somehow got deleted??? But you asked for Ody's reaction when his son was born.

Luckily I was there and made this live and 100% accurate depiction of Telemachus' birth.

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Reading the Iliad, Book 10 thoughts

This is my first time ever reading it and I know next to nothing abt greek mythology so if I interpret anything wrong by all means pls correct me

Im reading the Robert Fagles translation

This book is short but does not lack in the entertainment department

Agamemnon can't sleep bc how can he with the war going the way it is?

So he goes out to find Nestor but as he's doing that he runs into his brother Menelaus who also cannot sleep and is doing the same thing Agamemnon is abt to do

Menelaus pitches the idea that they should send someone to spy on the Trojans. However, he's almost sure that no one is going to want to do this job bc its super dangerous

Agamemnon agrees bc the very thought of Hector is making him sweat hard asf

So they split up to gather a council. Agamemnon says he'll get Nestor and tells Menelaus to grab Ajax (Greater), Idomeneus, Meriones, and Nestor's son.

I don't think they say the name of Nestor's son in book 10 or maybe they said it in an earlier book bc I don't know who tf Nestor's son is lol

But Menelaus asks "Um where tf am I supposed to meet you after I'm done??" I really like how NO ONE clears anything up unless asked too

They decide to meet back at Agamemnon's tent

Agamemnon ends up scaring the shit out of Nestor when he enters his tent.

Nestor's like 80 you can't be scaring him like that😭

Nestor suggests they grab Dio, Ody, Ajax (Lesser), and Phyleus for this meeting too

Then Nestor starts shit-talking Menelaus out of nowhere???? LMAO😭😭

"Ur brother's so fucking lazy lol, we still need to get Ajax and Idomeneus but they're on the other side of camp." -Nestor

Why is he acting like Menelaus hasn't been pulling his weight this WHOLE time? Hello?

Then Agamemnon says "You're right as always buuut Meneluas is doing that very thing as we speak so..."

Menelaus catching strays this book ig

Odysseus gets super pissy at Nestor for waking him up so I'm going to assume he's one of those ppl who are just in a bad mood after being woken up. He doesn't seem to be a morning person at all

Nestor shouts at Diomedes to "WAKE UP." A complete 180 from how he woke up Odysseus btw

"Why are u yelling at me?" - Diomedes

After everyone is rounded up in Agamemnon's tent Nestor presents their plan in a way that really told me a lot abt his character

He's like "Hmmmm I wonder who would be willing to spy on the Trojans for us? It has its risks ofc but think of the glory he'd receive upon his return, all the gifts? All the men will ask him to their feasts" (it's a feast not the fucking prom💀)

I really like the way Nestor says it. I can just imagine having been a young man himself at one point he knows how to play into the egos of the men around him

Diomedes is the first to jump at this opportunity

But Dio says he needs a partner and everyone stands up to volunteer

But he picks Ody

Jump to the Trojan camp: Guess who had the same plan as Menelaus? Hector, they have like, the exact same plan.

Dolon who is just some ugly guy decides he'll be the Trojan spy

Both teams of spies run into each other

And Dolon starts running for his life

Diomedes and Odysseus end up catching this guy and he automatically starts crying

Ody asks him a whole bunch of questions abt their camp

Dolon is the world's worst spy bc he tells them everything and by the end he asks "You guys are going to spare my life now, right?"

And Diomedes just goes "Nah.♥️" and CUT THIS MANS HEAD CLEAN OFF

They loot his body and give the armor to Athena

Anyways they get to the Thracians who are currently asleep and Ody and Dio see that the Thracians have some nice ass horses

Diomedes kills 13 of them while they sleep, one was a king.

Once it's time to go Athena has to come down and tell Diomedes that it is time to stop and go home. (they take to horses)

Apollo watches this whole mission happen and wakes up the Trojans

Dio and Ody make it back to camp, Nestor asks where those nice ass horses and that's the end of the book

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I said I'd do it, so, as promised...

Quill reads:

The Eight Arrow

Chapter 1: Out of Depths

Post 1/2

We're off to an absolutely great start with this, which is basically implying thag Ody found this map made by Chiron, scribbled over it and the claimed to have completed it. I can already sense the gremlin energy.

WELL THEN.

So this is just straight up Odysseus writing his way out of Dante's Inferno out of sheer pettiness and spite, uh?

My expectations are now officially sky-high.

Two bros, chilling in a hot flame, 0 feet apart cause they're not gay~

I'm sorry where in the hell is the "father of Telemachus"??????

Okay nevermind, worst book ever, 0/10, would not recommend. In this essay I will-

Glad we've established from the very start that Diomedes is an absolute mood. Fantastic.

Then again he's had to put up with Odysseus' dumb ass for like 3000 years now, I can't really blame him.

"Oh fuck, an Italian" - Odysseus probably

Isn't it nice to know that if one of your childhood heroes was alive he'd find you absolutely repulsive? :D (I'm Italian, in case that wasn't clear enough lol)

I'm sorry, I know that he put you in hell and all that Ody but what's up with all the Dante hate, dude?

Don't do my man like that, he's sensitive! D:

When you're a drama queen but your patron goddess is literally the deity of getting shit done efficiently.

Because your fav is a dumbass, Athena.

Part 2 because I physically can't add more pictures