#smilesrobotlover my beloved

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18!

“No!” Wind screams, kicking out. His feet hit only air.

“No! You can’t!”

“Be quiet, brat.”

A slap comes stinging across his face. His head snaps sideways. Tears smart in his eyes.

The large hands are on him again before he can fully recover, pulling a gag tight between his lips.

“We’ll get that captain yet. And you’re how we’re gonna lure him in, whether you like it or not.”

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Oooh an Iliad graphic novel? 👀 That sounds AWESOME. I hope you get time to read it soon!! You’ll have to tell me how it is hehe

Are you working through next semester too?

I’m good thanks! Getting ready for school and trying to update my First Hero fic before it starts lol

*falls into your inbox*

Hey Smiles!!! How’s it going?

Hiiii Trin! It’s going gooood I’m just workin a lot and trying to stay motivated creativity wise haha. I was able to snag an Iliad graphic novel that’s the same as my odyssey graphic novel so I’m super stoked about that heheh

How are youuuuu?????

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Comms done this week :)

The first was for @/coelacanth-designs, including our own two characters:D

The second is a take on a “jashling” based on the song “Mayday”, and it was for @/ouijacollective

And lastly, the glorious Linebeck for beloved @/smilesrobotlover <3

Do NOT repost my art without asking/without credit.

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I missed Peter Poncho whomst

mr peter pan-cho iii <3

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WHEN EURYLOCHUS CALLED ODYSSEUS ODY I AM UNWELL!!! I AM ILL!! I AM GOING FERAL!!!! AUGH!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭

IKR I LITERALLY GASPED

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Thanks for the tag @hero-of-the-wolf! I am taking your beloved orchids I loveeeee flowers :D

No-pressure tags for @telemna-hyelle @smilesrobotlover @luna-lovegreat @silvercaptain24 and anyone else who would like to hop on :)

Thank you @anti-homophobia-cheese for the tag! This one is super fun!

Tagging @cha-melodius @zwiazdziarka @orchidscript @firenati0n @read-and-write- @gayrootvegetable @alasse9 @caterpills @xthelastknownsurvivorx @cultofsappho @love-has-a-way-ofgrowingbackward and anyone else that wants to play!

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Gosh yeah, I’ve barely been obsessing over the odyssey but I too am sick on how some people characterize Odysseus. I don’t think I could consume any Odyssey media that isn’t Epic the musical cuz I feel like because Odysseus is a super masculine dude, they’ll give him toxic masculinity traits and make him a cheater. Which is entirely false! He’s a kind and caring man who loves his wife and son more than anything! Sure he’s a little violent but only because he HAS to be. He HAS to do things in order to survive and to protect those he cares about!

even if it’s their own interpretation, I feel like characterizing Odysseus as a cheater in any way shape or form is EXTREMELY disrespectful to male SA survivors. That’s a more off topic thought tho (won’t talk about that anymore I just wanna throw it out there)

EXACTLY

I completely agree!!! It’s this weird thing that’s always driven me nuts where masculinity is equated with toxic masculinity just as often as femininity is equated with weakness. As if a manly dude can’t be a family man who’s both soft-hearted and fiercely protective. Which like WHAT?? It’s yet another infuriating stereotype. And it plays into the whole disrespect to male SA victims thing. Him being a victim doesn’t make him any less of a man per se. It freaking makes him HUMAN.

I don’t get the whole thing with the maids and suitors either. People do realize that they betrayed Penelope and plotted to kill Telemachus right?? They do realize that by completely victimizing the maids they take away the agency they did possess, however little? I’m not saying it’s cut and dry or that’s it’s ok to slaughter a bunch of people (though don’t western heroes do that ALL THE TIME and don’t get slack for it??) or that the maids had this wonderful situation where full consent was given. But come on. You’re gonna villainize the dude whose home they invaded and ransacked and whose family they endangered?

And I feel like with Ody especially he gets characterized by his mistakes (real and contrived). People see him as the guy who got all his men killed by telling the cyclops his name (an understandable mistake because the worst of us comes out under duress. Of course he displayed pride and hubris! He was exhausted and sorrowful and infuriated!). They see him as the guy who “cheated” on Penelope with Circe and Calypso. And they forget the source material. Homer was over there making a character to rival the vast majority of those we have today, a sensitive, traumatized, flawed man who endured SO MUCH to return to his beloved family. A man who, unlike all of his fellow warriors, identified himself as the Father of Telemachus because Penelope and Telemachus are his LIFE. He wrote this awesome character, even gave him a character arc in the Odyssey, and he gets reduced to a cocky cheater.

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Hi, I’m here to annoy you again.

But I listened to some snippets from the thunder saga which is SUPER exciting except the fact that Eurylochus, who sees Odysseus as a brother, is gonna start throwing hands with him

You’re not annoying me AT ALL, my friend. I’m enjoying freaking out over EPIC and the Odyssey with you so much fr! I’ve srsly been about to burst with this brainrot XD

But IKR?? THE PAIN 😭😭😭

I know he mentions in the snippet of Mutiny how he disliked Ody’s approach to Scylla but I wonder if his actions are also the build up from whatever was bothering him during the Puppeteer.

Also he was weirdly silent during the Underworld saga which is honestly scary to me cause up until now he’s been at Ody’s side like constantly. And that was such a vulnerable and painful moment for Ody so WHERE WAS HE? Just watching from the sidelines or something???

It makes me think he blames Ody for all their losses 😭 Which him doxxing himself did lead to Poseidon’s outrage but can he be blamed for everything that happened? I’m extremely biased cause I love Odysseus but not imo

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I’m just imagining possibly after Ody fought the boar, and he returns to Ithaca with a bandaged leg, and Polites is like “oh no, friend! Let me help you!” And then Penelope shows up to help Ody as well and Polites is like “😏 actually I’m tried, why don’t YOU help him Penelope” like the wing man he is

Alskskdjsldjskdb

Polites, the ultimate OdyPen shipper

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Hi I’m here to annoy you again :)

I keep thinking about the line “everything’s changed since Polites” and it has me unwell. Clearly Polites was an anchor for everyone. He was positive, kind, and gave everyone hope because he had so much. His death was the first crack in the crew 😭

augh that line KILLS ME

YOU’RE SO RIGHT. He really was the glue that held them together. He was the one who reminded Ody to allow himself to keep his soft heart, and reminded Eury to be optimistic rather than just rigidly pragmatic. But with him gone their natural leans toward distrust and doubt, anger and fear erupted. They needed him 😭

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I’m thinking about how Ody tried to hug his mom three times but he couldn’t and I Thinkin about the pain he had to endure witnessing that. PLUS Agamemnon!!! 😭😭 that guy…

AUGH YESSSS

That scene KILLS me. I literally start to cry when I read it.

Ohhh yeah Agamemnon. Not only can I hardly help kinda feeling bad for him (despite not really liking him alsjdkdbdkdn) but the way that his tale is like a test of Ody’s faith in Penelope and her ability to withstand the threats that assail her with him gone hits hard. Like the dude is trying his hardest to get home and then there’s this tale out of left field, this story of a homecoming going terribly wrong.

Everything is foreboding in the Underworld, everyone is telling him the ways he can and will fail to get home or fail to get his family back but he keeps going anyway because he has hope still that he can save his men from their foolishness, that he can have a happy ending even when his companions are telling him that’s a fantasy.

And maybe there’s a bit of pride there too, thinking he can change fate, but he won’t give up, he never gives up because his family is waiting for him, his men are relying on him, and he will do everything he can to reach home for their sakes, for his, for Penelope’s and Telemachus’

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Ody is absolutely jacked and built like a brick wall but it doesn’t mean he can’t be a short king 😌

TRUTH

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I need to know if Telemachus sneezed randomly in your version cuz he sneezed out of nowhere in mine and it was so funny: and also that random bald joke was genuinely the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Don’t even know if it was a bald joke but if it was it was the sickest burn I’ve ever read

YES YES HE DID

I burst out laughing at that part ALDJSKDJDKDN

And IKR?? I think mine literally had a footnote explaining that it was a bald joke XDXD

Also the part where they go to chuck yet ANOTHER stool at Odysseus and it hits a random servant and everyone’s just like ‘welp rip that guy’ which is sad but also like what is happening rn??? WHY IS EVERYTHING SO CHAOTIC?? ALDJDKDJDKDN

The RANGE this story has is unreal

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Reading the Iliad graphic novel (same artist as the one for the odyssey) and the part with hector and his wife and son has me weak he’s so gentle and sweet with them 😭😭

AUGH IKR? 😭😭 I LOVE HECTOR SO MUCH (almost as much as I love Ody. I swear they would’ve been friends if they weren’t on opposite sides of the war.)

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Me, listening to the entirety of Epic, reaching the end of the underworld saga: well it’s come to an end 😔

Suffering: *starts playing*

Me: OH YEAH THERE’S MORE!!!

YESSSS IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

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Friend, I didn’t say it cuz I was actively dying, but Ody’s memories of Polites when he was still alive KILLED ME. The one with Telemachus. I’m Ansndbkebwkwbwkwbwka 😭😭😭

Alskdjskdjskdsb I’m sorry for the pain but THANK YOU