What’s That Little Ody Bug Doing Today?

Idk

the sea is lovely, dark and deep. zolu ; 78k ; post-time skip; time loop (temporary) main character death; graphic depictions of violence; mentions of blood and gore; body horror

“What’s wrong with you, Zoro?” Luffy asks, stopping him in his tracks and pinning him in place with a simple look. There’s nothing else to it—not anger, no annoyance, just a tilt to his head and that tiny line forming between his brows as the corners of his mouth dip.

He’s already seen their deaths too many times, thought about them all more than he ever thought he would.

It was never supposed to go like this.

I’m sorry I failed and watched you die and I can do nothing to stop it, he cannot say. I know the weight of you in my arms, know what it’s like to cling to all of you and lose you, and I have lost you and will continue to. I can’t stop it, I will stop it. I can’t lose you again—“I’m fine.”

read on ao3.

No cause like, at first I was skeptical about the show, then my older cousin introduced me to it, he gives info's about it, so I say to myself, I'll give it a try.

It's 2023 now, and I'm so INLOVE with Luffy rn. (ps. Started watching One Piece in 2021)

this is a bit embarrassed, but accually…I WAS SUPER *HATE* LUFFY before watching One piece lmaooo long story short : I hate Onepiece, especially Luffy because I see him litterally EVERYWHERE. he was too overated in my eyes back then. like, what’s with this dude? lmao lame af. but then almost 4 months later when I did a Luffy fanart for my brother’s rq, I decide to give it a shot and now I’m obsessed with Luffy. I understand why he’s everywhere now. He litterally turn ME, who is hate him since birth. to love him in first episode is like ??? ?? ? ?? ? so this is the “Luffy effect” everyone’s talking about 

Epic but it's just a DnD game (part 2)

Part 1

Odysseus: “How could I hurt you?” DM: *Rolls twice* Odysseus: “What are you doing?” DM: “Rolling for persuasion. With disadvantage, since Astyanax is a baby” Zeus: “And?” DM: “Two nat 1’s” Zeus: *raises eyebrows smugly* Odysseus: *deep sigh* “But when does a comet become a meteor-"

DM: “Okay Odysseus, since you rolled a nat 20 on your persuasion check, Polyphemus is going to let you go” Odysseus: “I’m so glad we see eye to eye” DM: “Actually, make another persuasion check” Odysseus: “What? Why?” DM: “Just do it” Odysseus: “…4” DM: “Everyone roll for initiative”

Poseidon “The world is dark and ruthlessness is mercy… die” DM: “Everyone make a constitution saving throw. And I mean everyone” *sounds of many many dice rolling* “Nat 1” “Nat 1" “Nat 1" “Nat 1” “Nat 1”

Eurylochus: “She had us in just two words…” DM: “Make a performance check” Eurylochus: “Nat 20!!” *clears throat* “✨Come inside✨” DM: “His Circe impression is flawless" Odysseus: “Damn”

DM: “Among the spirits of the Underworld, you hear a voice you recognize… and now, please welcome our special guest” *Polites crawls out from underneath the table* Odysseus: “Polites?!” Eurylochus: “How long have you been down there??” Polites: “This life is amazing when you greet it with open arms…” DM: “Polites drifts away… but Odysseus, you hear another voice you recognize. Now, please welcome our second special guest” *Odysseus’s actual mom crawls out from under the table* Odysseus: “MOM?! How did the DM even get your number??”

DM: “Odysseus, as you stand at the edge of the cliff, lost in your despair, you hear three familiar voices” Odysseus: *looks under the table and screams* Polites, Anticlea, and Eurylochus, in unison: “Hi!!” Telemachus: “Have they been down there the whole time??” Athena: “You get used to it”

DM: “Odysseus, as Poseidon’s trident sends you shooting to the bottom of the ocean, you hear-" Odysseus: “Familiar voices?” DM: “How did you guess?” Odysseus: *glances under the table to where Polites, Eurylochus, Anticlea, and literally the entire crew are very poorly concealed*

Antinous: “Channel the fire inside your soul and-“ DM: “Make a dexterity saving throw” Antinous: “Literally why I’m in the middle of a monologue” DM: “Just humor me” Antinous: “So that’s a nat 1” DM: “Goodbye, Antinous” “wHAT-"

hi hello i’ve seen far too many people find out about the telegony and be devastated that the odyssey’s happy ending does not remain happy for long.

so.

the telegony is not canon. it was not written by homer. some wannabe called eugammon of cyrene wrote it. telegonus was a character from one of hesiod’s works (not homer’s) and he’s never mentioned in the odyssey. eugammon just decided to make him odysseus’s son with circe because why not.

the telegony directly contradicts the ending of the odyssey in which odysseus and penelope grow old and die together. ALSO. odysseus’s bloodline cannot have more than one than one male heir per generation. some ancestor of his was cursed by a god. so that makes telegonus’s existence impossible. if odysseus ever had a kid with circe (which he didn’t in canon) it would have had to be a girl.

homer was long dead when eugammon was like. telegonus is gonna kill his dad and bring his step family to his mom’s island, marry his stepmother while is half-brother marries his mother. never happened. this is ancient fanfiction.

TL;DR : feel free to entirely ignore the existence of the telegony; it’s what i’ve always done anyway.

I found Telemachus art from last year so 😭

made a second one hehe

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

Eurylochus: umm, captain?

Odysseus: yes?

Eurylochus: since we’re not going to be killed by Poseidon, I feel like you should know this, I opened the wind bag.

Odysseus: ok.

Eurylochus: that’s it?

Odysseus: yeah. I mean if you opening up the wind bag had bigger consequences I would be PISSED! But nothing happened. So yeah just don’t do something like that again. Deal?

Eurylochus: oh, uh yeah deal. I was expecting you to be angrier, but I guess since nothing happened we have nothing to worry about! Awesome! Can’t wait to go home and see my wife.

Odysseus: as I can’t wait to see mine.

*Meanwhile at Ithaca.*

Telemachus: so, my dad blinded your son, and then made a dad joke to you?

Poseidon: a few things left out, but yeah you get the gist.

Telemachus: what does that have to do with me? I’m like 5.

Poseidon: just a heads up, when your dad comes back, I’ll give you and him like pffft, how does 5 minutes sound?

Telemachus: why kill him at all? Just leave him be?

Poseidon: BECAUSE I HAVE A FUCKING REPUTATION TO KEEP UP! Dumb fuck.

Telemachus: will anyone even care by then?

Poseidon: ugh yes! Zeus will! Like he’s such an 💅asshole💅!

Okay, so I've been seeing a misunderstanding about Antinous' age going around, so here's my most recent bit of Odyssey research (read: combing through the entire Odyssey for scraps of dialogue)

First of all, the idea that Antinous is 19 is flat out incorrect. That's just folks doing a google search and not looking closely enough to realize that the 18-20-year-old Antinous is a different guy entirely (the lover of Emperor Hadrian). Antinous of Ithaca has no established canon age.

HOWEVER.

Telemachus indicates that Antinous, along with the other suitors, were adults when he was a child, or at least older than him.

When did the suitors arrive?

Four years ago, when Telemachus would've been 16.

Now, the bigger piece of evidence here:

Antinous was old enough before the war to have seen and remembered Odysseus well, but young enough that he was not forced to join the of-age men as soldiers.

Given this, I would assume he was at least 10, maybe as old as 15 when the Trojan war began. 20 years later, he is likely in his 30s when Odysseus returns from war.

It's also worth noting that Antinous' father is also present when Odysseus returns, implying that he was likely too old for war when the Trojan War began. While that doesn't necessarily indicate anything about Antinous' age, it does lend some strength to the argument that Antinous is on the older end of the scale, especially as the suitors are willing to defer to him as their leader.