Love comes in different forms and wears different faces.
The ancient Greeks had words to express that, and the captains of the Epic Writing Server have selected a few of them as prompts for the week leading up to Valentine's Day. May these prompts inspire you to create your own portrayals of that love - whether it's for the characters in Greek mythology or another fandom!
You can add your works to our collection on ao3 by claiming the prompts here:
Edit: There has been a slight change of plans regarding the 7th point of the rules, that being that the repost would no longer have to happen on the day of the given prompt, so being late would no longer make any difference
Penelope Week is back for another year and 2026's Prompts and Dates are officially out!
Penelope Week 2026 will be held from Monday, 10th of August to Sunday, 16th of August.
There are a wide range of prompts for everyone to choose and work on in any capacity or to use as inspiration, whether that be sfw or nsfw - so do let your imaginations run wild! We encourage art of all different forms focusing on the iconic Greek Heroine!
Feel free to hit us up with any questions or doubts you may have! Our inbox is always open 🩷
Birth | Relationship | Life [Telemachus, Poliporthes, Arcesilaus | Pan | Italus & Mamilia ]
Day 4: Lovers
Relationships | Beginning | End [Odysseus | Hermes & Apollo | Telegonus]
Day 5: Oikos
Household | Women | Suitors [Mistress of the Royal Household | Eurykleia, Actoris, Melantho | Infestation of Suitors]
Day 6: Grief
Death | Loss | War [Brothers, Cousins, Husband | Trojan War]
Day 7: Free Day!
Anything & Everything [Childhood, Ships, AUs]
Guidelines
Make sure to tag @weekofpenelope and #PenelopeWeek2026 on all your submissions for this event.
Add your works on ao3 to our Collection: PenelopeWeek2026
Each day of the week has prompts, sub-prompts, and sub-sub-prompts. You can choose to explore any of them (individually or by combining them) at length in any manner possible - as sfw, nsfw or gen!
All Penelope-centric ships, tags, tropes and more are allowed, as long as it is tagged properly.
We welcome as many fanworks as people wish to put out of all kinds celebrating Penelope, whether that be fanfiction, art, edits or something else!
Do feel free to particpate and skip whichever days and prompts you wish to!
Share your WIPs! But do make sure to tag us so we can reblog/retweet them.
Late Submissions are fine and welcome!
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frankly love that there is a niche literature side of tumblr where people are just writing full shakespeare essays for fun with cited sources, all lowercase sentences, sixteen exclamation points. tags are getting peer reviewed. takes are getting nuanced. best reading you’ve ever heard of the odyssey is suggested in a post by someone with an avengers profile pic with zero punctuation and ended with “screaming crying throwing up.” it’s like role playing academia in an online jungle gym
🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.
And guess which bit it is?
THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂
(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)
BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…
Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60
Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago
THANKYOU TO 'PROCLUS (WHOEVER HE MAY BE) FOR WRITING HIS CHRESTOMATHY (‘DESIRE FOR LEARNING') AT SOME POINT IN ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY, WHERE HE SUMMARISED MANY OF THESE TEXTS, THUS PRESERVING THEM FOR US.
Obsessed with this red-figure art because from left to right, the figures are identified as Talthybius and Clytemnestra (on the back of the vase) and Chrysothemis, Orestes, and Aegisthus (on the front). It's dated about 500 BC, almost a century before Sophocles's Electra, the only known play to give Chrysothemis a speaking role, was written. And I for one would kill to know what the story behind it is, because it is so different from the way things played out in Electra. In the play, Chrysothemis is portrayed as going along with Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, refusing to join Electra in plotting their deaths because she doesn't want to risk her own safety for vengeance. Contrast that with Chrysothemis literally standing in front of her brother, who is actively killing Aegisthus, while Clytemnestra charges at them with an axe. Red-figure Chrysothemis what is your story
*incoherent screaming* oh, sorry, we’re totally normal about @lazy-indigo’s final work for our Words of Love challenge…
I felt like I’d be a fraud if I didn’t end the challenge with anything remotely ‘open legs’. So ended up with a PosePoli drawing based on an au I’m thinking of.
