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And tbh Homer!ody was real for that-
epic!Odysseus and Homer!Odysseus are very different people like epic!ody is like “i cant do this :( this is wrong” and homer!ody is like “oh lol one more war crime to add to the list” and procedes to chuck Astyanax off the wall.
trojan war tumblr simulator
🌊 is-the-sea-wine-dark-today
YOU BET IT IS
#the wine dark sea!!!!!!!!!!!! #wine dark sea #wine dark sea posting
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✌🏻 ajax2electricboogaloo follow
why is achilles the only demigod who's Like That? like he's my boy but u don't see memnon or aeneas or sarpedon acting like him on the reg. why is he so maladjusted? like specifically? I saw his mother once and was so terrified by the sight of a goddess I flung myself to the ground and hid my face in the dirt til she left but I still don't think that accounts for it idk
🏘️ nobody1020
it's blonde man syndrome hope this helps
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⚔️ sonoftydeus
opening my askbox so that we can discuss strategies on taking troy!
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anonymous asked: we should all go home :)
⚔️ sonoftydeus answered:
FUCK OFF AGAMEMNON I WANT REAL SUGGESTIONS
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nobody1020 asked: do u like..... horses
⚔️ sonoftydeus answered:
odysseus do I even wanna know where this is going
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⌛ isthetrojanwaroveryet?
year 9, day 234: still no....
#all our admins keep DYING
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‼️ trojan-confessions follow
I think my wife might be sending me anon hate :/ keep getting asks like 'hope u die on the battlefield tomorrow silly slag' and 'menelaus should have curbstomped you' and in her big tapestry of warriors she made me look stupid
🐴 horsetaminghector follow
lmaooo is this paris??
🔮 cryinglikecassandra follow
kinda think helen should send MORE anon hate idk
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❓ myrmidons-confessions
I was the one who wrote the achilles/agamemnon 100k slowburn enemies to lovers rpf and put it on the group chat but now patroclus is calling me 'agachilles boy' and laughing about it and asking if I can proofread his mock bardic epic where all his dogs are heroes and killing people, so I fear I've made a mistake. I also can't look achilles in the eye anymore... but honestly I've never seen proof he can read so I might be safe
❓ myrmidons-confessions
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👑 kingofmycenae
👍🏻 ajaxthegreat
achilles is DEAD and ur posting CRAB RAVE?????
🏘️ nobody1020
I think that's why he's posting it ngl
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😹 deiphobus42069
imagine being the achaeans and your best warrior gets killed by PARIS, after everyone else had awesome deaths at the hands of sarpedon or hector or memnon... like that's literally so embarassing I just know achilles is fucking fuming down in hades rn. I bet the achaeans are gonna put around that paris was guided by apollo, or that paris happened to hit his only weak spot..... anything 2 try and make it less cringe.... lol lol we're popping the biggest bottles tonight. hope helen's there
🐆 leopardskiniscool
???????????????
#I mean. yeah. but also. #deiphobus wtf I thought we were chill
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#hope everyone can be normal about the outcome!!! :)
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🧑🏻 randotrojansoldier-deactivated-8578543
so excited to go back onto the field of battle tomorrow! sure hope I don't encounter any of the big-name heroes
🗣️ homer follow
I hope you don't too! I'm sure you'll do great!
🐎 antilochussss
not the direct address????
✌🏻 ajax2electricboogaloo
direct address got him :(
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💂🏻 trojanguardtales follow
fuck my job so much I hope that this wooden horse tribute to the gods turns out to have some guys inside or something just so I can DO something rather than standing here like a twat with my spear
💂🏻 trojanguardtales follow
by ares this can't be happening
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⚔️ sonoftydeus reblogged menelauskingofsparta
do NOT order achilles from shein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#oh yeah #I was stuck with temu achilles in the trojan horse for six hours #and by hour two agamemnon had suggested killing and eating him #and odysseus was threatening to 'send him to meet his father' #and it's not even like there's any kleos in killing priam!!! #anti neoptolemus #neoptolemus defenders dni #vent tags
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getting shot in the ankle is probably what achilles is best known for but thats not even in the iliad its part of the heu (homer expanded universe)
I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.
(1/2)
Why are you writing about the forbidden play?. it´s not real, it´s an hallucination, the Telegony was lost for a reason, also is way more modern than the Epic Cycle, is bad fanfiction, like a shipper´s dream making not canon relations, Odysseus was s.a, Circe´s didn´t have a crush on him in the Odyssey.
In the Telegony, they have a child Telegonus, the boy is not bad, but a little mary suey, like everything he does, is good, like killing his father because he became mad (Odysseus) and didn´t know it was Circe´s child. Like man please let Ody and Pen have a happy live and the same for Circe´s.
And I, enjoyed Madeline's Circe, until the Odysseus part because then I realized it made canon the Telegony!, arrghhh, welp sorry for the rant, but yeah that´s the reason they´re in hell and burning for all eternity. :D
waiting.
odysseus gets sent to the underworld after his death, only telemachus and penelope were both made immortal in the telegony so now HE'S the one waiting for them.
he's eternally looking to the edges of elysium, just waiting for their figures to come across the horizon and being able to hold them in his arms again.
As I wrote on my discord three Iliiad Poems!
Andromache's plead
Inside the chains of dawn
Amidst the rivers of blood
Inside the fallen halls
Where laughter is no more
Inside the Chambers of long
There's a flick of hope
Thundering away despair
As it welcomes the new day.
The day of spring
A day of birth
A new soul took flesh
In Illium's bustling halls again.
The tender string of pearls
Gave way to thundering rain
While poor Andromache
Wasted on felt, humming along the air:
But when did the thunder became the rain?
When did a cuddle became my heir?
When did in mother I became?
(When does a ripple become a tidal wave?) She thought away.
But when did my light in your eyes became ?
When did spring rose again?
When did in mother I became?
As soon as the lyrics end
As soon as her eyes laid against
The stiff and cold bundle of flesh
As soon as her mind saw him again.
As soon as the helmet shine in her end.
As soon as that beast was awake
She could not rest.
Forgive me, is all she said.
En la sombra del ardor
En la luz de la desesperación
Estaba Andromache parada en estupor
-¿Cómo, no puede ser, otra vez?
En él se fijo ella otra vez.
-Héctor ya sabes que el casco no hace bien.
Parado la muralla de valor, aquél corazón habló:
-¿Oh mujer cuándo vas a entender
Que este casco de regreso es?
-No me importa tu razón
Sino las lágrimas que tu primogénito derramó
Al verte entrar en la habitación.
Y como mi corazón se encogió en el salón.
Al quitarse el casco de jabalí y temor
Dejó entrever su rostro
El troyano mejor.
-oh mi niño., oh mi rey.
Por tí acabaría la vida de los argivos sin ley.
Por tí Troya será fecunda, por tí mi vida daré
por que esos aqueos no rocen tu piel.
Y así el sol deslumbró al infante
Envuelto en sábanas de oro y rubor
Así río la alegría de ellos dos
Translation
In fire's shadow
In the light of despair
Still and mute Andromache was.
-¿How, not again?
She in he her eyes were fixed.
-Hector you know no good the helmet is
Standing the greatest wall, his heart spoke:
Don't you know my love
That this helmet is return?
-I don't care what you said
But the tears your firstborn shed
As seeing the room you entered
And shrinked my heart was.
Doning the boar's and fear helmet away
Did he let his face be sawn
The best troyan of them all.
-oh my child, oh muy King
Those lawless argives lives would end
For you Troy fertile will be, my life I'll shed
So those aqueans don't stroke your flesh.
And the kid by the sun was blind
In gold and Red blankets he was.
And then their joy laughed once more
As previously mentioned, I am kinda going through a Greek Mythology Phase™ right now, which led me to creating this painting depicting Klytaimnestra after the murder of her husband, Agamemnon. The snake is in reference to a dream she had, in which she gave birth to and nursed a venomous snake/dragon instead of a child, which is seen as a prophecy of her death at the hands of her own son, Orestes.
I decided to do a bit of research into historical Mycenaean Greek dress, seeing as the Epic Cycle and the events directly thereafter are most likely set in the mid to late Bronze Age and as such the style of clothing and architecture would differ considerably from that of the later Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Periods that is often associated with Greco-Roman mythology.
Then again, I'm not a Historian, Classicist, or anything of the sort, I'm just some random sixteen year old with too much free time on their hands, so I make no promises of accuracy. There are also certain elements that I deliberately left inaccurate, either because it didn't fit the colour scheme, such as the fresco on the wall, which should have had several yellow elements that just looked a bit muddy when I tried to add them, or because I was too lazy to paint them in intricate detail, such as the skirt, which should consist of several layers of different fabric atop each other, but I didn't want to paint all that.
Said skirt is inspired by John Colliers painting also depicting Klytaimnestra after the murder.
Anyway, sorry for the long, nerdy ramble of text, I hope you like the painting and have a nice day :)
(a couple of close ups in case Tumblr fries the quality)
Achilles is quite annoying until that big character development in book 24 of the Iliad, but that kinda makes him interesting to paint.
This originally started out as a lighting study, hence the composition and colour scheme being a bit sparse. Also couldn't find that many depictions of male Mycenaean clothing, so most of what he's wearing is just guesswork.
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Hello
Hi
Epic the musical fandom.
WHY DO YOU KEEP MAKING HERMES AND POSIEDON HOT
LIKE
I GET IT
THEY'RE GODS
BUT LIKE
It is unnnecessary for you to make this stressed 1 9-5 job with 4 other part-time jobs God so hot
Same for the fish dude
AND NOW ZEUS AND CALYPSO??????
Istg y'all are making a career out of this one
Hello
Hi
Epic the musical fandom.
WHY DO YOU KEEP MAKING HERMES AND POSIEDON HOT
LIKE
I GET IT
THEY'RE GODS
BUT LIKE
It is unnnecessary for you to make this stressed 1 9-5 job with 4 other part-time jobs God so hot
Same for the fish dude
90 percent sure Odysseus has said this at least once in his life.
90 percent sure Odysseus has said this at least once in his life.
Hear me out
Hazbin Hotel Lucifer
With Epic the Musical's God Games
He appeals for Lilith's freedom
Then ends up yeeted off of heaven
And also: Rewrote lyrics under the cut
Father, God king
Rarely do I ask for favors
Now I'm knocking
On your door
With hopes to save a
Friendship with one whose a prisoner in her home...
The first Woman.
Divine Intervention?
Is that what you seek
To free the first woman,
That's what I came up with so far, but like... I might finish it.
OHMY WHY DID I NOT THINK ABOUT THIS
THIS IS GREAT
Hear me out
Hazbin Hotel Lucifer
With Epic the Musical's God Games
He appeals for Lilith's freedom
Then ends up yeeted off of heaven
And also: Rewrote lyrics under the cut
Father, God king
Rarely do I ask for favors
Now I'm knocking
On your door
With hopes to save a
Friendship with one whose a prisoner in her home...
The first Woman.
Divine Intervention?
Is that what you seek
To free the first woman,
That's what I came up with so far, but like... I might finish it.