Epic: the Incorrect Quotes

Epic: the Musical fan blog. Odysseus is a paranoid little rat man who hasn't slept in days and for that I relate to him. Also available generally @anon-no5 . I do not have pronouns as you should not be able to perceive me.

[isawken]

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

[bluelois]

Blue Lois

[isawken]

can i help you

[redmarge]

Red Marge

[isawken]

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[isawken]

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

One of the reasons I’m most drawn to epic is the exploration of the line where your atrocities start dehumanizing you, where you voluntarily disconnect from your own humanity. When does a man become a monster?

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

i’m sorry you followed me for incorrect quotes, you will be getting varying degrees of character analysis whenever the fuck I feel like it because I keep forgetting I have this blog lowkey

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

incorrect quotes are fun

but I do not want to be one of the purveyors of simplifying a complex work of literature down to its bare bones, and then building it back up using fandom tropes, sanding down every characters rough surface until Penelope is a girlboss queen and Odysseus is a singular-minded wife guy. The incorrect quotes are fun until I’m trying to fit every character into the singular template, until all works start blending together, until fandom odysseus overtakes epic Odysseus overtakes Odysseus of legend.

[enjolbear]

made a quiz pls do it

Here’s the thing, I don’t think of the soldier poet king trichotomy as a personality test at all it’s about your situation and how you inter

Please do it

yes

I hate you

Voting ended onDec 2, 2025

[the-odysseus-of-ithaca]

Tried greeting the world with open arms and I got attacked by a raccoon

[witless-winion1]

desperately need someone to animate Eurylochus and Odysseus doing the Macarena actually

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

please please if anybody out there has talent

[sadnessunderthebridge]

Odysseus:I'm not the man you married but would you fall in love with me again?

Penelope:...

Odysseus:...

Penelope:(Narrows eyes suspiciously) Move my wedding bed.

Odysseus:(Pissed off) The only way to remove it, is to destroy it-

Penelope:Exactly you idiot of a man, only my husband would know that. Now shut up and kiss me, my husband that I LOVE.

Bonus:

Telemachus and Athena outside the room

Telemachus: You never told me who your friend was that I remind you of.

Athena:...

Athena:You know what maybe you don't remind me of him.

[capitalwenisberry]

Telemachus: I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this spear I found

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

I did not in fact mean to batfam post on here, whoops a daisy

[rubysapphrald]

[eighteenthofoctober]

Google maps be like "fastest route, no other routes available" and it's through the lair of Scylla

[deusfoundry]

is the odyssey good chat should i read it

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

Read Dr. Emily Wilson’s translation!

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

I am aware that there were choices made with the translation that might not have been the most accurate, but I find the same with fagles’ translation (which I have also read) and I prefer dr. Wilson’s translation for both the methodology (which she explains quite well and very intensively) and ease of comprehension for the modern reader.

[deusfoundry]

is the odyssey good chat should i read it

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

Read Dr. Emily Wilson’s translation!

[kopi-fisher-deactivated20250929]

Me channeling Ody as I make my way around my house in the dark.

[epicthemusicalincorrectquotes]

Ody has one functioning brain cell and he left it with Penelope, but they decided to give it Telemachus as an early twentieth birthday present

[incoherentbabblings]

I get why people say in things like Epic that the suitors want to marry Penelope so they can be King of Ithaca in order to up the personal stakes of the risk the suitors to Odysseus. The concept of them just flagrantly violating sacred hospitality laws just doesn't have the same impact on modern audiences, so we have to up the stakes to potential usurping in order to make the audience understand how greedy these men are.

But... Penelope is neither from Ithaca nor has any right to the throne. Marrying her doesn't make a person King. One of the reasons she doesn't want to remarry is that she would have to leave her home of twenty plus years and leave her only child behind to go to her new husband's home. In the Odyssey people threaten her and say she should return to her father in Sparta so he can find a new husband for her. Regardless, her remarrying means leaving Ithaca, or - at the very least - leave the Palace her husband built for her.

Penelope is as much holding ground for Odysseus to return as she is refusing to give up her home. It's why what she is doing is so morally ambiguous and why she needs Athena's help to get her to sleep every night. She has no proof Odysseus is still alive, yet she is stopping her remarriage and potentially Telemachus becoming King (though that's more the suitor's being dicks and Laertes non active role in allowing Telemachus to actually obtain manhood rather than Penelope's presence). Point is, if Odysseus had died during those 20 years, the narrative would have treated her actions very differently.

In the Odyssey whilst in the Underworld, Odysseus seems fine with the thought of Penelope having remarried so long as it was to a good man (very different to the Epic!owl hooting who). And that statement was made only like three years (lol) after the end of the Trojan War, never mind ten! Where he loses it is seeing how the men treat his home, wife, and child.

Him realising Penelope is flirting with some of the suitors is met with joy ‐ he sees her playing the game and finds it hilarious. Again, Penelope and Odysseus being described as the same person and like minded etc., extends to their moral ambiguity as much as it does their wit. She is described as laughing or smiling very rarely in the Odyssey. One of the few times she laughs is when she imagines the suitors being murdered.

Homophrosýnē indeed.

[raointean]

Conflicting character development

Alternatively

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