#epic plots

[chloesimaginationthings]

Poppy playtime got a guy worse than William Afton

[wheredostarsgowhenyoudie]

Fic where????? I love it

an irondad frozen au that is both not entirely thought out and incredibly thought out at the same time. buckle up. i have a lot to say about this.

the fight with thanos is much, much earlier in the timeline. tony doesn't die from the snap exactly, but he isn't the same. essentially, the stones embedded themselves in his hand. and sure it's weird, but thanos is gone and the world is safe, so it’s a small price to pay. regardless, tony’s seen first hand (no pun intended) how dangerous the stones can be, and is very cognizant of the fact that people may not find it comforting that iron man has the very stones that wiped half the population and nearly destroyed the world, so it’s decided that this new development will stay under wraps for a while.

and all tony really wants is to relax, maybe move out to a secluded cabin by a lake, but there are people who have lost their jobs, homes, family, and he feels partially responsible so, of course, stark industries helps however they can - including hiring a certain recently widowed and homeless nurse for their medbay, and offering her a place to stay while she tries to find someplace new for herself and her wide-eyed ten year old nephew, who is practically buzzing with excitement to be "living with mr. iron man stark sir!"

but the kid is smart, real smart. and tony - against his better judgement and newly bejeweled arm - takes a liking to him. with his aunt's permission, he takes him down to his lab and honestly, tony has never seen anyone so excited. one trip turns to two, then five, and before tony knows it, one peter parker has somehow wedged his way into tony's heart.

peter's full of surprises - the biggest being that once seeing the after effects of the war with thanos, peter's not scared. he's actually floored at how "awesome it is that iron man is magic now!"

so, lab nights became magic nights, too. peter was just so amazed by it, that tony felt like these stones could actually be used for good. they talked about ways the stones can be integrated into tony’s suits, how they could help so many people, how one day tony will build that cabin by the lake, and everyone will come, and they can create anything and everything.

and that was fine, really.

until peter got hurt.

now, tony's seen a lot of scary shit. but watching peter crumble to the ground unconscious and unresponsive, and a gray streak appearing in his hair where he was hit, that was definitely up there.

they rush him to strange, who is, thankfully, able to help. "help", meaning erasing all memories of the stones from peter's mind to keep him safe. they were lucky, apparently, that peter was hit in the head, rather than his heart.

tony won't risk it, though. not again. so, since that night, he's kept himself a safe distance from everyone he dared to care about - especially peter, a kid who almost died because of tony's carelessness.

peter didn't understand. but tony would rather live with peter broken hearted because of him than peter dead because of him.

but peter parker is relentlessly stubborn. and his hero shutting him out one day out of nowhere? that won't fly.

three years pass, and everyday, peter knocks on tony's door and talks to him. tony never responds (he wants to, really, he missed this kid) in hopes that one day, peter would just stop. he never does.

so, tony listens to all of it. he listens to him rant about how some kid with a stupid name keeps bugging him. he listens to him pridefully boasts about how he got a full-ride scholarship to midtown high which tony knows nothing about, and had absolutely no part in.

he listens to peter hold back tears as he tells tony how he had to bury his aunt. listen to him come to terms with how he is the one parker left, worry about where he was going to go now, quietly ask why wasn't tony there, up until he is reduced to hitched breaths and tears.

(tony sits against the door throughout all of it, wishing he could hug the kid on the other side.)

time goes on, peter stays in the tower until they can find him a family, and peter parker lives a lonely little life, wanting desperately to be wanted.

his life becomes decidedly less lonely after a certain gala to celebrate five years since tony stark saved the world with a single snap, as well as tony stark's first public appearance since. for peter, what really matters is that this marks the first time in what feels like forever that he's going to be around people that aren't pepper, rhodey, or happy. he has his first conversation with tony that lacks a door and involves actual responses, and it's awkward and weird, but peter can pretend he''s ten again, in tony's lab, and everything is okay.

he meets this man, quentin beck, who says he knew his parents, and cares about what peter has to say, and wants to adopt him. wants him. and his lonely little life seems to be growing into something full, and happy, and -

and tony says no.

which is rich, considering he does everything in his power to avoid peter. and peter, after years of being ignored, finally lets himself be angry. angry that tony shut him out - and the world out - with no reason why. angry that tony wasn't there when he had to bury may. angry that tony thinks he has a say in this, but he isn’t his dad,

and then, there’s a flash of something, a crumbling building, and tony stark, his fist glowing with infinity stones no one knew he wielded, watching guests cower in fright because of him. because he has the very things that almost destroyed the world, and he hid that.

and shit. peter knew this was his own, stupid fault.

tony disappears to god knows where, and despite many protests, peter sneaks out to find him. he doesn’t remember much from when he was younger, but he remembers a cabin and a lake. and that’s a start.

he asks beck to try his best to keep press away from the tower. he’s insistent that he will find tony, and even if tony was bothered by peter, he would never hurt him. he runs into a scary girl, mj, and her much-less-scary friend, ned, who decide to help him as long as peter can slip their resumes into the stark internship files. and, surely, you can imagine what will come next.

i could keep going, but this is probably long enough as it is. but… please. take this. write it. draw it. make something of it. ask me about it. i’ve yet to see this done and i am begging someone to take this silly irondad frozen au from my incapable hands and give it the life it deserves.

[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.

[dootznbootz]

Sorry, not sorry but I see this too often and it bothers me :)

Before people get mad: Notice how I put “Me and Penelope fans” there? I know there's others. this ain't about you <3

edit: This is about how people in the fandom prioritize Odysseus and Telemachus (and even Diomedes, who is not in the Odyssey) despite the Odyssey also being HER story as well. I've seen many fics about Odysseus and Telemachus in their youth, and never really seen that for Penelope.

[witless-winion1]

ICHBW is so silly because like

Telemachus, being all insecure that his father won’t like him: All this time I've wondered, if you'd embrace me as your own…

Odysseus: (gestures vaguely at 108 bodies lying around them, that he killed for his son) uM????

[kdpartworks]

I'm sure there was some great plot in that Ganymede and Zeus comic but I was unable to focus on anything other than Zeus' honkin boobas I am sorry

Love the art though

[kupidachillea]

I was bored

Images from Pinterest

[nondelphic]

note to self: stop adding more characters. you already have a cast of thousands.

[sallufix]

OPEN ARMS!

I'm back with my short dumb reel things except it's Epic the goddamn Musical. I haven't drawn humans in so long why do they look decent...

[thhouseofblack]

During the mission to bring Achilles' son to Troy to fight for the Greeks, Odysseus and Diomedes' ship crashes in Messe, resulting in two weeks of repairs needed for the ship to be able to set sail again back to Troy.

While this happens, it (very naturally) hits Odysseus that Messe is only a day and half away from Ithaca. So ofcourse, being the absolutely normal person that he is about his family, Odysseus temporarily abandons the war effort to escape to Ithaca and spend the next two weeks in his wife's arms and meet his son for the first time in ten long years.

I just want 10 year old Telemachus to get to spend time with both of his parents together. Oh! and for Odysseus' mom to get to see her son.

[champion-of-love]

[ptieuca]

buffy + angel's claddagh ring

[gabe-dasha]

And me? I'm the damn fool that opened the wind bag while you were asleep

[somereaderinblue]

May I offer you a concept design for Odysseus of Troy?

I shall now offer you a summary of my reaction in 2 images:

[makedonsgriva]

so here's a thought i had while i had been working on omwt

shen yuan dies at the abyss scene for binghe instead of pushing him in. binghe goes apeshit and then resurrects sqq and sj is the one who comes back to life. yada yada you know the plot till here.

now here's where it changes.

shen yuan and shen jiu are the same. time flows differently in the two universes. shen jiu had qi deviated and during the time he was unconscious, he spent a whole different happy life in a different world as shen yuan. he died with those memories and returned to life as shen qingqiu in his original body, but with no memories of being in it before.

he dies again at the abyss scene and comes back as shen jiu because the system is glitching or something.

Basically, shen qingqiu can only keep one set of memories either as shen yuan or shen jiu.

so shen jiu knows he died for binghe, got infected by without a cure for him, did all nice things for him willingly and has no clue why

like he is genuinely having a meltdown because why tf was he acting like that? it cant just be side effects from a qi deviation. he talked to himself in a different way, would rant about a 'system' and be not like himself. at all.

so he doesnt know what to tell binghe. he wants to be cruel but now there is a lingering affection that he just cant shake off.

binghe is bitter because shizun is not shizun anymore and shen jiu is having a full blown identity crisis

and so the slow journey to find the truth starts.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

You know really thinking about it.

Telemachus is 20 years old.

Dude is definitely old enough to just be king.

Yet all of these Suitors are trying to marry his mom.

Also, how old is Odysseus?

Like Telemachus was just an infant when he left for war. And He was gone 20 years. For the sake of simplicity Odysseus must have been at LEAST 25 before the war.

He must be mid to late forties post time skip.

So to put that into perspective. all these Suitors are trying to bag a woman who (lets say Odysseus and her are close in age) is in her forties and likely past Child bearing age. So Marrying her would not produce an heir. So these guys would have zero claim to the throne, especially considering the fact that Telemachus is an adult. He would be the next king.

That being said, Good for Penelope being able to attract all of these men.