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spookyfantasyauthor

Now I'm imagining Odysseus doing the hot to go dance but spelling "ogygia"

starweaverblog

The Odyssey character designs ✨

c0untzer0interrupt

Chappel Roan Circe? I love it

There is an interesting essay in wondering when Calypso became a black chick in popular consciousness. Because Calypso is a black chick in my head right? But Homer says she is blonde, so why do I think Calypso is black? My girlfriend, the lovely @bilgewaters-fortune, her theory is that when Americans picture Calypso's island we picture like a fantasy version of Jamaica or Trinidad where there's no issues, and I think that might be it, because if Ogygia is a wonderful Caribbean paradise island it stands to reason that the goddess of that island would be a lovely Caribbean lady

medusaspeach

Homer, Iliad 5. 385 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) "[Zeus speaks :] ‘Many of us who have our homes on Olympos endure things from men, when ourselves we inflict hard pain on each other. Ares had to endure it when strong Ephialtes and Otos, sons of Aloeus, chained him in bonds that were too strong for him, and three months and ten he lay chained in the brazen cauldron; had not Eeriboia, their stepmother, the surpassingly lovely, brought word to Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him.’"

medraut-pendragon

Odysseus and Calypso by George Percy Jacomb Hood

c0untzer0interrupt

Hermes in the background just vibin

medraut-pendragon

Odysseus and Calypso by George Percy Jacomb Hood

haywardfreud

the killer angels of house atreides

Gustav Dore, Paradiso (1968) and Paradise Lost (1880) / Dune Trilogy (Dennis Villeneuve, 2021-2026)

dcartcorner

Between Two Fires but in Darkest Dungeon style! been watching a friend play the game and thought the style fit really well

jottles

sweet skalitz boy, you can't join them yet. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.

i can't feel my wrists my back or my crack but it was worth it cuz I love how this turned out.

scissorsaint

finally finished reading Between Two Fires (a good read) and this line made me sit back and just stare around the park for a few minutes

“Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them.”

RIP Tom Kane. You were the voice of so many beloved characters, but my favorite obscure one of yours is the insane racist guy in Kotor

#knights of the old republic #KOTOR #Tom Kane #Voice Acting #Star Wars #Taris #Theevilwalksamongus

incorrect-kotor-quotes

Kreia:

Is 50/50 neutral because she's determined to be equally distant from all extremes no matter what they are.

Ableist towards a blind girl despite also being blind.

The guys stopping murders are exactly the same as the guys committing murders.

She’s racist, but she hates everyone, which is the same as equality.

Giving sick people medicine just makes them weak.

Deadbeat mom (probably).

Giving starving refugees five dollars makes you a bad person. So does not giving them five dollars.

Assumes you are heterosexual and can't be convinced otherwise.

Jolee:

Ends up slightly light-sided because he doesn't pick his beliefs just to feel smarter than other people.

Doesn't give a shit what you do as long as it's less evil than toppling civilization.

Steals from rich people. Taxes the greedy.

Fell in love with a cop who stopped him from collecting greed taxes.

Regrets not killing his fascist cop wife whom he loved.

Kills slavers and colonizers.

Left the Jedi because he thought their justice system wasn't harsh enough, specifically towards him.

Close friends with a galactic conqueror.

Thinks sex and romance are great despite the Jedi trying to convince everyone otherwise. Also despite the fascist wife situation.

Assumes you are heterosexual, but not as aggressively.

inkdoe

The fact that in the Carth romance there isn't a definitive moment in game where things get "physical" like in the Bastila one is really funny actually cause then you can headcanon whatever you want in a spectrum from "Those two where definitely hooking up since Taris" to "Maybe they finally kissed once before Revan went to face Malak after the slowest slow burn ever <3"

c0untzer0interrupt

Real ones know it started in Dantooine during Revan's retraining, fizzled for a bit during her whole Odyssey bit, then after the whole Revelation thing it slowly became more of a thing during their Korriban bit

#mostlybecauseinmyheadcanonKorribantakesthelongestbyfar

laelish

I don't feel like the game should have given Scout Dark Side points for telling Mission to go no-contact with her shithead brother. I do understand why they got Dark Side points for threatening to sell his organs on the black market when he hit them up for money though.

dizzyhslightlyvoided

Atton Rand is such a great character. I mean obviously he's a shitty character, but that's what makes him great.

Like I need to establish the context here. So, Han Solo, right? "Scoundrel" with a heart of gold, popular Original Trilogy character, you know. So lots of writers wanted to use him, or something like him, but couldn't use him directly for reasons like "he was clearly not involved in stealing the Death Star plans" or "this story is set 4000 years before the movies." So by the time KotOR 2 was in development in 2004, there were a lot of shitty Han Solo knockoffs running around the galaxy.

And so the KotOR 2 writers produced Atton Rand, whose entire concept is "shitty Han Solo knockoff." Like it reeks of intentionality, he's just a perfect sendup of the whole thing. They even made him hate droids, for crying out loud, which is the personality trait you give a Star Wars character when you can't think of anything else. Perfection.