#athena shut up

[athena-xox]

Someone needs to stop me from getting too much into the lore of enchantimals because no one cares and everyone just wants it to connect back to EAH and like I should finish my 1billion EAH projects but also it’s so tempting to go through the whole YouTube channel, find the specials, find the books, document the website and document the dolls because there’s like no one else in the enchantimal crazy lore game. I mean obviously we know I’m the best of the EAH crazies but like .. no competition HMM HMM

[lidera-aro]

How I thought Odypen was before I listened to Ithaca saga:

Odysseus: Would you love me if I was a worm?

Penelope: *fond, exasperated sigh and eyeroll* Yes, love.

How I think they are after I listened Ithaca saga:

Odysseus: Would you love me if-

Penelope: Yes

Odysseus:

Peneleope: *looking him in the eyes* Yes.

[xixovart]

if i see one more person saying that annabeth’s character is “ruined” because leah’s not blonde, i’m actually going to go insane. if you think that annabeth’s motives and character are entirely defined by her hair color, you did not understand the books. her character goes so much further than her appearance. “but leah doesn’t uphold the dumb blonde stereotype” leah being annabeth ENHANCES annabeth’s character arc by covering racism as well.

every single character in the riordanverse has been outcasted and turned away. this includes annabeth. you think that leah’s annabeth, a black girl in the early 2000s, is an exception to this? fuck, even in the episode with the chimera, it’s noticeable. now i dont know if this was intentional, but someone mentioned that the police officer had no problem with walker/percy’s blatant disrespect, but the SECOND leah very normally asks, “are we under arrest?” he accuses her of having a disrespectful tone.

annabeth’s intelligence is in no way related to her hair color. leah portrays annabeth beautifully and i couldn’t ask for anyone better.

[demigod-shenanigans]

Leo buddy you wanna run the fact that you don’t pay attention to what other guys look like because you hang out with Jason by us again or? 🤨🏳️‍🌈

“Unlike Jason I will never pull a girl with how hot I am. Also I’m not going to think about the fact that I just called Jason hot. That’s a perfectly reasonable best friend observation.”

Also you know who does like you for your looks and personality and laughs at even your lamest jokes?

[dootznbootz]

Athena favors Penelope because of who she is, not because of who her husband and son are.

The text even states as such.

"[...] on the score of the accomplishments Minerva has taught her, and because she is so clever. We never heard of such a woman; we know all about Tyro, Alcmena, Mycene, and the famous women of old, but they were nothing to your mother any one of them."

(Book 2, Butler)

"[...] counting too much on matchless gifts that she owes to Athene, her skill in fine handicraft, her excellent brain, and that genius she has for getting her way. In that respect, I grant she has no equal, not even in story. For of all the Achaean beauties of former times, there is not one, not Tyro, nor Alcmene, nor Mycene of the lovely diadem, who had at her command such wits as she. Yet in the present case Penelope has used those wits amiss."

(Book 2, Rieu)

[...] because in her heart she knows that she’s been given by Athena, more than any other woman, a skill in making lovely things, a noble heart, and cunning of a sort we never hear of in any fair-haired woman of Achaea, even the ones who lived so long ago—          like Tyro, Alcmene, and Mycene,                    the woman who wore the lovely headband— not one of them had shrewdness which could match Penelope’s.

(Book 2, Johnston)

Antinous is the one who is saying this but regardless, everyone considers Penelope to be favored by Athena. I think people forget that Penelope's role is very sneaky and sly in the Odyssey; of course not everything about her is "spelled out" for you because just as she tricks the trickster, her husband Odysseus, she tricks the AUDIENCE to a degree.

Not only do other characters acknowledge this Athena also reassures Telemachus that since he is PENELOPE'S SON, he'll be fine. Even while Odysseus is not there.

Then grey-eyed Athena said: "The gods decreed no lack of honor in this generation: such is the son Penelope bore in you."

(Book 1, Fitzgerald)

'And yet,' said the goddess of the flashing eyes, 'with you as you are, and with Penelope for your mother, I cannot think that your house is doomed to an inglorious future.[...]

(Book 1, Rieu)

Goddess Athena with the gleaming eyes answered him: “Well then, at least the gods have given you a family which, in days to come, will have a glorious name, since Penelope has given birth to such a noble son.

(Book 1, Johnston)

Athena wouldn't be reassuring Telemachus with "You are your mother's son; you will be fine" if Athena did not truly believe it. Even if you interpret it as more of a "Penelope has given birth to a great son, therefore you'll be fine," that's STILL acknowledging that she is his mother and the one who had, partially, made him who he is.

I've got more examples but I think I've made my point. Just because Athena isn't giving Penelope power ups to fight doesn't mean that Athena just ignores her or that she's "lesser" than Odysseus and Telemachus. Athena loves Penelope just as much, it's just in a different, though not less meaningful, way. Penelope herself embodies a lot of what Athena IS: intelligence, weaving, trickery, etc. I guess you could say that Penelope is more in the "feminine" domain of Athena's but still in her domain regardless.

I also think it's amusing that Athena had to instruct Odysseus with his plan to take out the suitors while Penelope came up with the challenge of Bow AND the way to test him about their bed all by herself. I'd like to imagine Athena is kind of like "You got everything handled. Let me make sure your husband doesn't die."

[livingincolorsagain]

sorry but if you watched this episode (and really, the last few episodes) with your eyes and ears open and still think buck denying his feelings for eddie is the end of that story and end of buddie, im embarrassed for you

[likethexan]

Had to correct my Art Appreciation professor about Medusa being a priestess of Athena + raped by Poseidon and I swear everyone was looking at me like I blasphemed the Bible

[wylldebee]

YOOOOOOOOOOO!

YOOOOOOOOOOO!

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[lavendermerry-go-round]

Just so everyone knows, if someone ever tells me that us queers who fight tooth and nail for queer rep try to erase straight couples in the media and refuse to enjoy them, I will pull up the Athena landing the plane while Bobby stands on top of his borrowed engine and scream at them about how beautiful it was and how it will have me in a chokehold for probably way too long for it to be healthy.

Bathena is beautiful. It's everything. It has been for a while but this episode was really cookin'.

[dangergays]

chat am i cooked

(also my comms are open btw check my pinned 🤭)

closeups under the cut ⬇️

i love all of them but tbh im proudest of apollos he is SERVING

[ace-succo]

Can we take a second to talk about the cast for the upcoming Odyssey by Nolan cause that's not it...

I knew from the start that it would just be a blatant Hollywood production of an adaptation that we do NOT need, but God, now I'm really just pissed off.

Like, can you seriously get a british twink to play Telemachus ??? And mind you, i have nothing against Tom Holland. I even had a fan account of him when I was younger😭😭💀, but it's so crazy to me that there's not even ONE actor in the whole production that's actually Mediterranean, don't even mind Greek. There is NO way that they got Anne hathaway to play PENELOPE, as much as I like her as an actress, penelope is a woman from thousands of years before Christ there's no way they got an American actress with a perfect 21st century face to play her. Like where are THE NOSES, WHERES THE TAN. you cannot tell me that a SAILOR who has been at sea for 20 YEARS under the SUN for decades every single day is as pale as a vampire. STOP WHIWASHING PEOPLE IM SO MAD IM SO SICK OF IT. why does everyone always complain when a black actor is cast to play a former white character, but no one bats an eye when they get only the most American and British actors to play Mediterranean people that existed in a time where they didn't even know what Britain was. I'm. So. Mad. Like please you cannot make a movie set in ancient Greece and then have the characters look like they know what a microwave is .

Like I don't think that they realise that these people were 24/7 under the burning sun without sunscreen and that even if they are white they had to have some kind of tan going on 💀

Can we just stop americanizing every single piece of media existing in the world thank you

[aceyanaheim]

NO SHUT UP ATHENA MATCHING TELEMACHUS' MELODY FROM I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER

[thefirstflowers]

one thing I'm sure of is that the writers wouldn't be putting such an emphasis on tommy always calling buck 'evan' if they aren't planning on adressing it in s8

and the other thing I'm sure of is that when that moment comes I'll surpass the levels of pettiness previously known to man

[sirjo-esque]

Hey so out of curiosity who is the ensemble in Odysseus? Since Jay said it's people in scene//gods having their own fanfare

[1960z]

“we need more mean female characters” y’all couldn’t even handle athena cykes