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Odysseus' Strategy Notebook
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE TROJANS
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE CYCLOPS
Build giant wooden horse spear and hide inside it stab the cyclops with it
PLAN TO ESCAPE THE CYCLOPS' CAVE
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden SHEEP and hide inside it
Build a bunch of normal-sized sheep and hide in those
Skin real sheep and use them to make incredibly realistic sheep costumes
Ride the sheep out of the cave but upside-down so he doesn't find us
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE LASTER LAESYTR LESTRYG CANNIBAL GIANTS
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden cannibal giant and hide inside it
Build giant wooden RUN
PLAN TO DEFEAT THE WITCH
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden pig and hide inside it?
Build giant wooden d go with Hermes' plan
PLAN TO DEFEAT SCYLLA
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build wooden decoy sailors and hope she eats those DID NOT WORK
PLAN TO STOP MEN FROM EATING SACRED CATTLE
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build giant wooden cow and trick the men into eating it
Take a nap and come up with a better plan
PLAN TO ESCAPE CALYPSO'S ISLAND
Build giant wooden horse and hide inside it
Build wooden decoy statue of me and put it in her bed
Build giant wooden d
PLAN TO KEEP ODYSSEUS HERE FOREVER
Steal strategy notebook
Check for splinters just in case
PLAN TO SNEAK BACK INTO THE PALACE
Build giant wooden h
Disguise self as giant wooden beggar normal old beggar OKAY I GET IT NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A GIGANTIC WOODEN REPLICA I GET IT ALREADY sheesh Athena
GET THE SUITORS OFF MY BACK, PLAN B (THANKS A LOT MELANTHO)
Announce that I will marry whoever can string my husband's bow and shoot through wait this isn't my notebook
PLAN TO KILL THE SUITORS wait who scribbled in my notebook
#inspired by a gag on jeff wright’s odyssey: the podcast#the odyssey#odyssey#homer's odyssey#odysseus#odypen#penelope#epic the musical#trojan war#trojan horse#polyphemus#cyclops#circe#laestrygonians#scylla#calypso#athena#hermes#melantho
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Circe by Wright Baker (1889)
#wright baker#art#paintings#fine art#19th century#19th century art#pre raphaelite#pre raphaelites#painting#english artist#british artist#mythology#greek mythology#circe#sorceress#animals#the odyssey#classic art
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"She had us in just two words"
#epic the musical#epic the circe saga#circe#had to reupload cuz I hated how it looked on tumblr#half of my pigs lost just like that 😭#it’s been so long since I’ve been active on tumblr that I forgot the right image size to upload#plus I'm still trying to get used to procreate#so every draw may look weirdly compressed for a while sorry bot that#anyways let me complain again how much I hate to paint cuz it always ruin my art#my lineart was hella cute but I don’t feel it anymore#anyways is it obvious that I was inspired by wright barker's circe for this one?#except his colors are sweet demure and very mindful#meanwhile my colors are always on a 100 percent of saturation to make sure everyobdy's eyes will hurt when they look at it#i like to call it a medusa painting style#if you look directly at it it'll turn you to stone
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“I learned to braid my hair back, so it would not catch on every twig, and how to tie my skirts at the knee to keep the burrs off. I learned to recognize the different blooming vines and guady roses, to spot the shining dragon flies and coiling snakes. I climbed the peaks where the cypresses speared black into the sky, the clambered down to the orchards and vineyards where purple grapes grew thick as coral. I walked the hills, the buzzing meadows of thyme and lilac and set my footprints across the yellow beaches. I searched out every cove and grotto, found the gentle bays, the harbor safe for ships. I heard the wolves howl, and the frogs cry from their mud. I stroked the glossy brown scorpions who braved me with their tales. Their poison was barely a pinch. I was drunk, as the wine and nectar in my father’s halls never made me. No wonder I had been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.”
-Madeline Miller, Circe
-Painting: Circe by Wright Barker(1889)
#poem#poetry#poets on tumblr#writers and poets#poems and quotes#poetic#reesoliloquy#reniassance#the renaissance#art#the victorian era#victoria era painting#victorian era#victorian#1800s painting#1800s art#late 1800s#1800s#madeline miller#circe#circe madeline miller#Circe Wright Barker#wright barker#my favorite
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"Circe" by Wright Barker
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Circe, by English painter Wright Barker (1889). Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
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Circe by Barker Wright. Inscription reads
Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around; Now prone and grovelling on unsavoury ground.
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*sad violin music plays because you and the rest of your war buddies have been turned into animals by a beautiful island witch goddess*
#circe#Wright Barker#some of the animals have bows because Odysseus was actually the first person to popularize the coquette aesthetic#he brought it back with him from Troy
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As a kid I had project were we dressed up as/basically RP'd a figure from mythology to pretend to be interviewed to show off what we knew. I can't remember if I picked Circe or got assigned Circe, but probably on the long list of reasons I am the way I am.
The original painting I used as a reference was by John Wright Barker. Pigs are cute but I ended up only keeping three of them, because I don't enjoy drawing them. I made her dress red because I wanted her to stand out more/as a small Hercules animated series reference. The animated series is honestly even more inaccurate in the most fascinating* ways compared to the movie, but Circe was voiced by Idina Menzel/has a fun little musical number, so there's that.
*Sometimes terrible
#Greek Mythology#Circe#John Wright Barker#I don't know if I captured her particular facial expression well#but there's something about it that I enjoy so much#My Art
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Nature, red in tooth, claw, and, uh petals...
Circe, 1889
Wright Barker (1864 - 1941)
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"Circe" by Wright Barker
#dark academia#dark aesthetic#dark acadamia aesthetic#grunge#book quotes#books#coffee#poets on tumblr#academia#books & libraries#circe#mythologie
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Monstrous Love - a Like Minds Valentine's Day Web Weave
[Like Minds Aesthetic Masterpost]
Card 1 - Enemy: Pierre Corneille - The Cid // Hélène Cixous - “The Perjured City” // Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal // Louise Glück - Timor Mortis // Khalil Gibran - The Forerunner Photo 1: Agustín Gómez Arcos - The Carnivorous Lamb Card 2 - Love: Leigh Bardugo - Rule of Wolves // Marie Howe - The Addiction // William Golding - The Lord of the Flies // Micah Nemerever - These Violent Delights // Crimson Peak Photo 2: Steve Kowit - Eurydice Card 3 - Violence: Elaine Kahn - Romance // unknown // Frank Iero And The Future Violents - Violence // Schuyler Peck - Horoscope for the heartbroken // Madeline Miller - Circe Photo 3: tr. Andrew Miller - Paulos // Anne Sexton - The Papa and Mama Dance Card 4 - God: Emery Allen - Holy Things in This World // George Seferis - Stratis the Sailor among the Agapathi // Andrew Joseph White - Hell Followed With Us // Rilke - // Charles Wright - Clear Night // Saniyya Saleh - A Million Women Are Your Mother Photo 4: Tumblr user normal-horoscopes Card 5 - Heart: Blythe Baird - If My Body Could Speak // Natalie Diaz - Wolf OR-7 // Richard Siken - Dirty Valentine // Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World Photo 5: Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Card 6 - Monster: Fortesa Latifi - ? // Maguerite Duras - ? // Natalie Diaz - Postcolonial Love Poem // Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Rumi Photo 6: Victoria Chang - Obit // Florence + the Machine – I'm Not Calling You a Liar Card 7 - Devotion: Margaret Atwood - Hesitations Outside the Door // Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla // unknown // Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles // Leah Horlick - For Your Own Good
#happy valentine's day#guys i went WAY too hard on this one#the planning alone took months of collecting and then days of arranging#like minds#nigel colbie#alex forbes#nigel colbie x alex forbes#tom sturridge#eddie redmayne#murderous intent#like minds 2006#web weave#web weaving#murder boyfriends
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Circe Talon Abraxas
Circe, sorceress divine, I claim your witchery, making it mine.
Everywhere I look, I see bold statements of sovereignty erupting, from truth telling about sexism to new ways of practicing the Craft of the Wise. Indeed, this is Circe's voice coming through these individuals. Witches everywhere are feeling drawn to the Original Witch like never before. We are Kirke after she left the island, fully able to claim our power and change the world with our witchery. Like her, the powerful men, desperate to cling to all they possess, strive to keep us isolated. With Kirke's power, we shall no longer succumb.
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Circe, Wright Barker, 1889
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