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tristansfreezingtheirbrain · 6 months ago

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Arthur: 20 years ago if you wanted to marry the wife of a powerful king you would have to go out and abduct her with the aid of the gods, now everyone just saunters into your palace and thinks they have a chance with her.

Merlin: he literally just picked up something I dropped. Also I’m not a women… ALSO WE AREN’T EVEN MARRIED!

Arthur: now I must kill him >:(

#merthur #merlin emrys #bbcs merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin show #merlin incorrect quotes #merthur bbc #arthur bbc #merlin bbc #I think the original quote was about Odysseus #you know #from the odyssey #which I’m kinda obsessed with right now #but I couldn’t find the original poster 😭#i’m sorry

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voicebones · 3 months ago

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still dont quite know how to draw odysseus but take this

+blank ver under the cut because bro pisses so many people off i cant make all the possible versions of this on my own

#the odyssey #epic the musical #not explicitly but it isnt NOT epic the musical #odysseus #odysseus of ithaca #greek mythology #girl help the greek mythology obsession from elementary school has me by the balls again

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kattortillas · 2 months ago

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its okay to become the monster but its not okay to disrespect your wife btw

#the odyssey #odysseus #epic the musical #epic the musical fanart #odysseus of ithaca #epic #this is the closest thing ull get to actual epic fanart from me btw #i need to get better at drawing Men At War

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insomniphic · 2 months ago

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Decided to do something more... wholesome for the Odyssey/EPIC community.

Thank @melionesnightmares for the idea ^^

#That tree has lasted for about 75-80 seasons since Odysseus left #Ever since Eurymachus and the other suitors moved in this is the tree that Penelope and Telemachus have prevented from being toutched #at all costs #Penelope #Odysseus #Young Odysseus #Young Penelope #Odypen #Odysseus x Penelope #The Odyssey #EPIC the musical #Greek Mythology #Before the Musical #InSomniphic's Art

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sunshines-child · 2 months ago

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Athena, who probably got handed baby Telemachus, looked at Odysseus, and went “what the fuck Ody. It’s underdeveloped. Send it back to fully form.”

#The problems of coming out as a full adult from your father’s head #the odyssey #odysseus #athena #telemachus #epic the wisdom saga #jorge rivera herrans #epic the musical

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ellilyre · 2 months ago

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Do you think that Odysseus has become a kind of running joke among the gods, like when we joke about cockroachs' survivability?

For example some mortal is surviving stuff that rly should've killed him, and someone on Olympus says "is he pulling an Odysseus on us?" and everyone laughs

#Odysseus in his palace gets a cold shiver like “ik someone is speaking about me and its rarely a good thing”#i offer to make “to pull an Odysseus” an actual idiom that means “to go though many neg things and survive”#ex “friday i had classes from 8:30am to 3:30pm with only an hour of break to eat. i rly had to pull an odysseus”#“the vet said my cat wouldn't live older than 2-3yo but hes pulling an Odysseus he's 4yo and in great shape”#the iliad #odysseus #the odyssey #epic the musical #homer

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gingermintpepper · 2 months ago

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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.

#ginger rambles #ginger chats about greek myths #Sorry for the quality of the quotes but I'm too tired to google a pdf vers of the Odyssey and then edit those so y'all are getting #my crunchy pictures from one of my physical copies of the book lol #it's reiterated multiple times that Poseidon doesn't want Odysseus dead too #he is literally just driving him mad on the ocean because that's what Odysseus condemned Polyphemus to by blinding him #Also there's no good way to mention this but the Odyssey starts #by Zeus lamenting how mortals blame all their troubles and miseries on the gods when that's just not fair #because the gods go out of their way to warn the mortals that will be saddled with the most wretched fates #and they ignore the gods and do whatever they want anyway LMFAO #It's a really smart way to tie in the whole Orestes plot that would have wrapped up in between Odysseus getting stranded on Ogygia #and Odysseus getting off of Ogygia #epic the musical #epic the wisdom saga #zeus #athena #odysseus #poseidon #the odyssey

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charowon · 4 months ago

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Throwback to the Circe Saga

#epic the musical #eurylochus #circe #epic the circe saga #the odyssey #puppeteer #art #digital art #edit: just a note. the joke here is not ‘women are scary’#(this comic was actually a spin on the 3 panel ‘no fear-*scary thing appears*-one fear’ meme)#(but I guess I was too abstract)#(so I shall yell it from the rooftops. Circe is just scary because she’s Circe)#(and not bc Eurylochus is supposedly scared of women or any other reason)

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vor-leser · 27 days ago

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i love that in the book poseidons sole motivation for hunting ody for A FULL DECADE is just because of his son polyphemus,, like,,, hes not even trying to teach him a lesson like in the muscial,,, just a very passionate dad!!!

also close-up under the cut cause the face rendering kind of slays

#polyphemus #poseidon #epic poseidon #odysseus #odysseus of ithaca #epic the musical #the odyssey #greek mythology #homeric epics #epic the cyclops saga #epic the ocean saga #artists on tumblr #fanart #also the fact that odysseus genious idea to get away from the cyclops #in the book #is just to hide under the sheep??#im not even sure thats physically possible i had to make it a VERY big sheep #own post

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malusvalley · 2 months ago

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Bits from the latest time quangle episode i HAD to draw

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 time quangle #gorgug thistlespring #sofia lee #sofia bicicleta #margaret encino #dimension 20 fanart #i wasnt sure about whether to draw sofia in her ch1 or ch2 look #cause they show the art from ch2 but she's meant to be pre inducted into the unsleeping city so i went with ch1 #time quangle #fantasy high #a starstruck odyssey #the unsleeping city

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gay-little-izzet · 14 days ago

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WIP because I’m cooking

#taking a quick break from comm work to blow off some steam #hades 2 #can anyone tell who this is #here’s a hint —>#the odyssey #delete later?

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duckysprouts · 4 months ago

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“fair enough”

by the way, i’m doing the math and they are like in their mid 20s when odysseus framed palamedes, lmao. and you think your workplace hostility is bad?

anyway, love ody but he can be such a dick