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It is nuts that I wouldnt fight Eurylochus for stabbing me but I would fight him for opening the wind bag

so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.

silly dangerous doodles

what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

[Athena & Apollo]

This is an absolutely shit doodle but all I can think abt is how funny it was that Apollo just went "Idk he killed some sirens and I like songs so that kinda sucks" and Athena was like "they were gonna kill him" and Apollo like "Damn ur right"

I was thinking about Tiresias being happily genderfluid on greek mythology(Zeus and Hera both saying Trans Rights was a happy revelation). Then I remembered the Underworld Saga where Tiresias is dead, and we see that Odysseus and his crew all have major PTSD(Circe definitely sent him down there so he could say goodbye to his mother, instead of to There's where Tiresias's Daughter, who was an even greater prophet than her mother, was). And now I'm thinking about Hades and Persephone allowing Tiresias to keep their consciousness in the Underworld. So They'd shift between their mortal forms pretty often. So when Tiresias was singing "No longer you He'd be a man at some points and she'd be a woman at others. Like She'd sing "I see a song of past romance as a woman and he'd be a man again when he sings "Sacrifice of man" She'd just continue this trend until the end of the Song. Whe she sings about love and women it would be as a woman. When he sings about Odysseus and Men it would be as a man.

Wouldn't that be neat?

Odysseus' last words to Poseidon

Burn your own CDs, mend your own clothes, rent all of the books and movies you can carry at the library. Feed the birds, don’t mow your lawn, grow your own food. Love openly and honestly, give yourself patience and time, feel the emotions that you want to feel. Let yourself live in the body you have without being told to change it. Be openly and unequivocally yourself, revolt against your government, challenge preconceived notions of what you should be.

you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

A Categorical Way of Designating the Multiverse By Donatello Hamato (through a meta lense but that breaks the fourth wall shhh)

The Different Centuries: 1900s: 19 2000s: 20 Different Continuities: TMNT: Designation N Samurai Rabbit: Designation S (it's so intertwined it gets to be included outside of crossovers) The Comic Continuities: Designation C Mirage: 1984 Usagi Yojimbo: 1984 Image: 1996 IDW: 2011 The Live-Action Continuities: Designation L 1st Film: 1990 Next Mutation Series: 1997 Bayverse: 2014 The Animated Continuities: Designation A The First: 1987 The Second: 2003 SR 2003 Crossover: 2004 The Animated Movie: 2007 CGI: 2012 SR 2012 Crossover: 2017 Rise: 2018 Batman vs TMNT: 2019 The Usagi Chronicles: 2022 Mutant Mayhem: 2023 Tales of the TMNT: 2024 The Bad Future Continuities: Designation B 2k3: 2005 2k12: 2017 Ronin: 2020 Rise: 2022

Example of the format: Rise would be designation N-20-A-18

Crossovers: Designation O (Overlap) I'm not going to go into all of these since it's a lot, but the year will be the year of their crossover with the TMNT, not their creation Example: IDW/ Batman: 2015 >> O-20-C-15

Im reading the iliad for this first time and im going to die priam is out here like "who is that short, hairy man" and helens like "thats odysseus" and hes just like "damn thats right he was at my house"

Rick really did him so dirty with that 😭😭😭

Ok, but Cannonically I see two reasons for this happening

1. Percy forgot which cabin Clovis is from

Makes sense, wouldn’t put it past him (look I haven’t read the other books in a while I have no idea what yall are talking about when you say they dumbed him down) he doesn’t remember Hecate either, and he probably didn’t know Clovis too well.

OR

2. Morpheus had decided to steal his half siblings and everyone kinda just went along with it. (Including Percy)

No reason for this one, I just think it’d be funny

I keep thinking of potential for "good dad Zeus" stories but for Olympians when they're younger/coming into power and they're making me very, very sentimental.

You're young Artemis and you're your father's daughter. You come to him first when you're upset or hurt because, intimidating as he is to many, he always holds you close, laughs fondly, and makes your distress easier to bear. You know that whoever hurt you will not sleep at night and your wounds will heal.

You're young Apollo and you're your mother's child but your father's favorite son. You and him share understanding looks that no one else comprehends. When you wake up from your first prophecy, you are terrified and confused, but you feel a steady, big, warm hand under yours and it's alright. He teaches you the art of fate. You know his mind like no other.

You're young Athena and you're your father's delight. He always finds newer and newer ways to engage your rapidly thinking mind, and he chuckles fondly at your theories. "You would be a mighty king, my child," he tells you and you know it is the highest praise though you don't delight in calls of power. You watch competitions and games standing by his side. You are, still, his greatest pride.

You're young Hermes and you always make your father laugh. He tells you stories of your mother, all scented with strawberry tree fruits and wild flowers, and you wonder how big a man's heart is to store so many loves. He chides you a little for your constant pranks but you can tell that he loves you from the little glint in his eyes. He always sits you close during banquets and listens to your stories even if they're made up.

You're young Dionysus and your father finds you perplexing. He might not understand you as well as his other children, but you watch him from afar and get him, somewhat. The grab for power and the need to keep it, the desire to make others bow to your might: you've felt it since you were much younger. Always a demanding son, always a ruthless little leopard. He'd pick you up and look at you in wonder, "you are so much like me".

You're young Ares and your father does not understand you as well because you're your mother's child. You are not as close to him as others are but that's how you are with most of your family. Deep down, he relates to you - he was much like you when he was young: taking what he's owed. As you grow older, you realize you've become the same great father he is, following in his steps.

Zeus want a hug from his favorite babies u.u

Pre-Iliad Dashboard simulator

⬜️ iphy-the-princess-deactivated12990415

Eeeee!!! Guess who’s getting married to swift-footed Achilles??!!!

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💪 bestofgreeks

hurts being the only competent Greek warrior but someone’s gotta do it

#aristos achaeon #suck it agamemnon #im so hot #trojan war

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🪢 ilovemywife

I’m so strong for putting up with the other kings of Greece. #Except my bestie o-my-gods-just-let-me-die-omedes the only real one #if I have to hear agamemnon refuse to acknowledge the gods’ help one more time #he has so much hubris #could never be me

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why do people find Odysseus charming? He’s literally just lying about everything??

🖕o-my-gods-just-let-me-die-omedes

I get it

#i would legit die for him #hes the best of all of us ok?? 245 notes

👁️ pleaseimaprophetiswear

PLEASE SOMEONE LISTEN TO ME

🗡️ agamemnon

yes?

👁️ pleaseimaprophetiswear

SOMEBODY ELSE

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👑 prettiest-girl-ever-derogatory

Day 57 in Troy: living my best life, my new “husband” was away today thank the Gods. I heard there’s going to be a war over me. Love the sentiment but it’s a little much y’know?

#my husband is so nice but he’s so dramatic #hes pooled together all the armies in Greece to come together #no hector hate in the reblogs ok? #hes actually pretty ok #we make fun of paris together

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🏹 paris-not-the-city

Ok poll to prove I’m not crazy

No nuance option bc I wasn’t given one

#not my fault #its clearly aphrodite #olympian gods #i didn’t know kidnapping the queen of sparta would have consequences

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✨ queen-clytemnestra

im going to kill my husband. with an axe

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Could you imagine the vibes on that boat after Odysseus’ crew go against his word and open the bag sending them all the way back to where they started near enough…

I like to think there was a moment somewhat like this

Oh my god wait. What if the blessings of the gods manifested physically? Like if a god takes an interest in you, EVERYONE is going to see it, for better or worse. And if you lose their favour? Everyone can see that, too

Jason with a peacock tail and feather-crest, both of which go faded and limp when he turns on Medea, so that they drag on the floor and get in the way

Pollux with eagle wings instead of arms, so Castor acts as his hands and that’s why they’re inseparable. When Castor dies and Pollux splits his immortality with him, they each get one arm and one wing, so one can’t fly without the other

Odysseus with a forked tongue and fangs—a subtle feature that he can hide when he needs to. When Athena feels like being helpful (like when she disguises him as a beggar) she’ll cast an illusion over it, but Penelope immediately recognises him by his lisp

When Athena gives Diomedes the blessing of seeing through the gods’ disguises, he also gets owl eyes and the ability to turn his head 180 degrees. This helps when Odysseus tries to stab him in the back on the Palladium heist

HERACLES WITH BULL HORNS. I have nothing to add I just think that sounds sick as hell

Helen grows beautiful golden feathers instead of hair. Nothing useful, just an obvious sign of her heritage that adds to her appeal to the suitors: whoever wins her hand gets to walk around with a physical symbol of Zeus’s favour

Atalanta with antlers that snap when she gets married, leaving jagged shards behind that won’t go blunt and can’t be sharpened down. She can have her husband, but he can’t touch her head without risking badly cutting himself. This can either be one final blessing or a curse depending on how consensual you interpret the marriage

Hector has pristine white raven wings, making him even more terrifying to the Achaeans, flying into battle like divine intervention, and a symbol of hope for the Trojans. Achilles plucks the feathers off his corpse, but they won’t stop growing back. Still, Achilles has a cloak made from them and wears it into battle, turning Troy’s symbol against them

Paris gets dove wings, but he tells everyone they’re too small to fly with because he’s a coward and doesn’t want to have the same responsibilities as Hector. Then he flies away from the duel with Menelaus in front of the entire army, and that’s when Troy finally loses what’s left of their respect for him

I just imagined this is how it went in the Olympus

“DAAAAAD! THEY KILLED MY FAVORITE COW!!!”

“Not now Apollo, I’m choosing a new maiden to deflower tonight”

“But daaaad! Odysseus crew can’t get away wi-“

“OOOH IT WAS THAT ODY BOY?! WHY DIDNT YOU SAY IT SOONER?! HHAHA THIS IS GONNA BE HILARIOUS”

The Perenor saga: Ocean #1

Elpenor: THIS STORM IS SO TERRIBLE I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING

Perimedes: SOMEONE PLEASE TELL EURYLOCHOS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP, IF HE KEEP SAYING "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" I'LL SHOOT HIM WITH A HARPOON

Elpenor: BUT WE ARE REALLY DYING, SUCH A STORM IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SURVIVE! IT'S LIKE IT WAS SENT BY POSEIDON OR SOMETHING

Perimedes: SHUT UP OR I WILL EITHER THROW YOU OVERBOARD OR JUMP YOU MYSELF

Elpenor: WAIT- THERE IS AN ISLAND IN THE SKY!

Perimedes: DON'T TRY TO DISTRACT ME- HOLY SHIT IS THIS REALLY AN ISLAND IN THE SKY?

Odysseus: EVERYONE GRAB YOUR HARPOONS AND AIM IT HIGH! WE'RE SHOOTING AT AN ISLAND IN THE SKY! IN THE SKYYYYY!

Perimedes:

Elpenor:

Perimedes: naaah bye, I’m sure death at the hands of Poseidon will be less stupid. Tell your mom that I love her.

Elpenor: GET OFF THE DAMN MAST-

Odysseus: Penelope whyyy, you know I to- Ayo why does that siren look like Elpenor?

Sirenlope: what

Eurylochus: DID YOU NOTICE THAT TOO? I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY

Perimedes: 😀😀😀

Zeus menacingly over Odysseus' ship: Pride is a damsel in distress

Odysseus: Eurylochus! look what you've done!

Eurylochus: We were hungry! I didn't think this would happen!

Odysseus: Exactly you didn't think!

Zeus: Hey! I don't like being ignored in my leading role!

Odysseus: Oops, sorry Zeus but Eurylochus is going to fix it!

Eurylochus: Why me!

Odysseus: because you caused it! He pushes Eurylochus towards Zeus.

Zeus: it's no use, I have the perfect punishment Who do you kill your crew or yourself?

Eurylochus panics and kisses Zeus.

Crew: :0

Odysseus: :0

Zeus:....change my mind, I'll let you and all your men go to Ithaca in peace if you give me Eurylochus.

Odysseus: done

Eurylochus: Odysseus!

Odysseus: you got us into this situation, abstain from the consequences.

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I imagine that this is how it happened in the AU of pratt.core in Tiktok.

We should also stop blaming Anniflama and start blaming @bloodlustwarrior

He should be at the club—

The club killed his best friend. He should be back in Ithaca with his wife and son 😭

Floyd takes a deep breath. Shaky. His hands are clenched together in his lap to keep them from doing the same and it's what he’s concentrating on when he hears Branch’s voice asking, “You alright?” (or: Floyd goes to the doctor.)

here you go you can thank trolls official for this one

Number 1 Rule of adapting the Odyssey into EPIC is: if it can be more dramatic, it will be more dramatic.

The Greeks decide to throw the infant Trojan prince from the walls because they're scared he'll try to avenge his family? No, Zeus comes down to personally give Odysseus a vision of being killed and says his family WILL die. Kill the baby that reminds you of your son right now, it's the gods will.

Odysseus goes to greet the inhabitants of an island and gets trapped in a cave for two days by the cyclops that's eating his men one by one? Nope, we got BOSS BATTLE 30v1 in the Ithacans' favour until BAM fourteen pancakes are made by Polyphemus' club and oh shit Polites is DEAD-

Athena is just vaugely absent for the whole journey until the end? We got emotionally charged platonic breakups instead, with yelling and insults and "well I'm breaking up with you FIRST!"

Smooth sailing to Ithaca? STOOOORM-

Odysseus' great-great-great-grandfather giving him a speed boost to help him on his way home? Get ready for trickster wind gods, mischievous winions, and a game that was rigged from the start.

Random-ass suspicious and greedy crew mates open the bag? It's Eurylochus, his second in command, his brother-in-law, the man he trusted, Eurylochus WHYYY

Parking in the wrong harbour and getting boulders thrown at the fleet by angry man-eating giants while Odysseus backs away veeery slowly? Nah Poseidon himself pulls up to dunk on them, and Odysseus has to make a last minute getaway using the power of STOOORM to avoid being curbstomped like his fleet.

Odysseus gets some stronger drugs from a god to make him immune to the other drugs of a goddess? Well these drugs actually give him magic powers which he uses to engage in a Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh style BOSS BATTLE!

Get some closure with dead loved ones and acquaintances, and be the first interviewer of the fallen heroes of past ages? Nope, we just got TRAUMA and a whole boatload of guilt!

A neat outline of what the rest of the journey will look like, a warning against an island of cows that will slow him down, and the way to appease Poseidon? This Tiresias just says "Y'know there used to be a world where you made it home, BUT I DON'T SEE IT NO MORE. IT'S GONE. IT'S OVER. Also, your palace is fucked."

Sailing past the sirens while getting to be the first mortal to hear their song and live? M U R D E R

Sailing past Scylla to avoid Charybdis and accidentally getting six men eaten because he thought he could totally take Scylla, even though Circe said he couldn't, and then he realised he, in fact, cannot take Scylla? ... Eurylochus, light up six torches.

Eurylochus waits till Odysseus is out hunting and then goes behind his back to mutinously rally the crew and feast on some sacred cattle? Betrayal on both sides, stabby stab, K.O., and then Odysseus helplessly watches them make the greatest mistake of their lives as they ignore his pleas.

Quick clean and easy lightning-strike to the ship, leaving Odysseus to cling to some driftwood and paddle away? Zeus himself appears to the mortals, monologues, makes Odysseus be the one to choose, and then smites the whole ship leaving Odysseus to nearly drown anyway.

Telemachus gets advice from a disguised Athena to yell at the suitors and then sail away to look for news of his missing father? Telemachus gets into a full on beatdown with the suitors and gets FIGHT CLUB TRAINING from Athena!

Athena goes "dad I want my favourite mortal back? Did you forget about him? I think you forgot about him" and Zeus instantly replies "nonsense. How could I have forgotten that funny little mortal? Of course you can have him back my sweet favoured child <3" and then Athena skips off to Ithaca? "Father please-" "LIGHTNING BOLT! ANOTHER LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT TO THE FACE HOW DARE YOU ASK ME OF SUCH A THING!"

Poseidon does a double take "wait they let him go?? Oh hell nah!" and then sends a giant fuck off storm for Odysseus to swim through until he reaches the Phaeacians? No, Poseidon's just been there on Ithaca's shores, waiting for eight years, now get in the water BITCH- except Odysseus is just like "oh yeah? Fucking FIGHT ME"

You thought the suitors in the Odyssey were bad? Jorge really just said "dial that shit up to ELEVEN"