a writer. insane, also. an insane writer.

I've never liked anything a normal amount in my entire life, ever. ✧⁠*⁠。 literature, mythos, writing, stargazing 23 // perpetualdaydreamer on ao3

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

“I have another boy at home,” the wistful king murmured, his words leaving his lips with the burdensome weight of memory. “Much older than you by now… the last I saw him, he wasn’t yet half your size. But he lives very far from here, on another isle across the sea.”

His own eyes stared back at him, unreactive to his words. His son was just an infant, but Odysseus realized that even if he were of rational age, he couldn’t possibly understand what he was saying. The child didn't know what existed beyond the idyllic, gilded shores of Ogygia. He didn't know of smiling people, and kingdoms, and war. The glittering isle had consumed the entirety of his life. Odysseus felt his grip around him tighten.

“You won't die on these shores, boy of mine. I swear it on my life.”

-

{or: An alternate universe in which Odysseus unwillingly has a child with Calypso.}

Full fic

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

Your back!!!!

Allegedly :)

[poetrylesbian]

[poetrylesbian]

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

hi, just wondering if you’ll ever update your sequel to the Acacius au? I absolutely loved the first chapter and really miss it but no pressure!

Been in the trenches for months with grad school, jobs (plural), and wedding planning, but I really do hope to finish that fic eventually <3 I have the entire fic planned out, I just need the necessary insanity to sit down and write!! Thank you for everyone who showed love to the original, I can't believe it's almost at 1,000 kudos!!

[denpadespair-deactivated2025112]

picrew chain cause im bored

make yourself in this picrew! tags are 100% optional, but i tag @enemyoflactose, @vampyyprincess and @withmytailtotheworld :D

[vampyyprincess]

thank you for tagging me!!! :) sorry it took forever 😭

this one looks more like me than the other one :)

i tag @kregoslupmoralny and @tomiokagiyuufirstfan

anyone else who sees this that wants to do it, do it!!! 🖤🖤

[kregoslupmoralny-deactivated202]

Thank you friend

@feathers-little-nest @ryjkowiec @moncher-ire @doctorl3cter @ernycek @herbata-z-sokiem-malinowym Apologies if I forgot anyone

[ryjkowiec]

A ty nie masz jaśniejszych włosów @kregoslupmoralny?

tag @rabarbarzcukrem

[rabarbarzcukrem]

thanks for tagging me :>

tagging: @invisi-bee, @kozlarz

[kozlarz]

shocked to find out my utena mutual doesn't look like utena

@calcar @goth-automaton

[calcar]

Yeey picrew!

@starstrewnspore @organized-decay

[starstrewnspore]

yeah sure why not

@choppedflowermuffinchild @nonsensicalramblings79 /nf

[nonsensicalramblings79]

YAYYY I love these!!!

no pressure tags! @nyth-yaps @hardboiledteacozy @absurdnebula786 @happybunnykat @wolvereaux

[nyth-yaps]

the hair struggle is real

@annikuh <3

[annikuh]

shrimply could not get the glasses to work with the nose so everyone play pretend LOL

taegs: @robyn-goodfellowe @sweetums0kitty & literally anyone else with love and whimsy in their hearts who wanna play LOL

[sweetums0kitty]

Ahhhh thank you for the tag this is so cute!

Tags: @standard-human @hanniballikecannibal @paramountives @thatnerdio @finniestoncrane @twink-catcoal-thing @myqueenmarceline @grimthetransman @barbossas-wench @doomwolfe @npd-enigma @bluecricket2electricchirpaloo @lizawithazed @peachinfusedtea @riddlersbimbo @thelighttasteslikelasagna @jenjensd @jaygirl22 @mf-ladle @sherlocks-bitch-moriarty

@riddle-me-ri @trelaney @verytiredtrashcan @hell-garden @sticky-palmed-worm @vveirdvvitch

[standard-human]

thanky!!!

@pirateprincessjess @missyterry @littlemissatlas @faecelessfiend and anyone else who wants in!!

[faecelessfiend]

Ooooohhhhhh it's been so long since I participated in a tag game ^^ fun!

Took some creative liberties~ but it doesn't matter lol

@reporternox @hinako-supremacy @glitched-pinball @silentcutekitten @pey-up @standard-human @letshaveadepressionparty @raccoon-in-a-dumpster @youngstarfishphilosopher @voidlovesmasks @humanaaa @inseperableinsanity @rollercoastermalfunction @ducksnflowersys AND anyone else who wants in!

[hinako-supremacy]

i like this picrew a lot!!!! they have my hair and clothes for once!!!!!!!

this is also making me want a concha lol

@fish-nailed-to-a-cross @skyllion-uwu @eksentrismi @justalazytrashpanda @theleseroftwoweevils @mashedpotatosinacup @jokeryuri and anyone else!!! giggle

[justalazytrashpanda]

Absolutely enamored with the bingus option they had omfg. @corvidcrowned @nomz @tophats-tea and whoever else wants to do it!

[tophats-tea]

haven’t done one of these in a while :P

@calliel41 @coryazon @silviaflowers @peckforlovingheck @jade-gemstone @cosmical-flowers

[silviaflowers]

this picrew is really fun :3

@capt-marty @lila-rayne @atlasdotpng @certified-trinket @nicoandindy + anyone else :P i dont remember my whole taglist...

[autumnrain777]

these are always so fun to do i love them! This picrew was really fun and is also actually very accurate LOL that rlly is a fit i have worn irl and that lowkey is what my baby looks like

@sopjacm @averydedicateduck @vibingandthrivingouthere @perpetualdaydreamerr @leiftheleaf06 @librarifan and anyone else! <3

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

This was so cute <3

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

Out of curiosity, are you planning on finishing your Acacius Son of Odysseus AU?/nf

I hope to! In all truth, I lost my motivation to keep writing it for right now. When I'm really into writing something I'm a complete and utter insane person and write thousands of words a day, go on a spree trying to get it out, etc, and then all of a sudden I lose it all which I did. I've also just been really busy with My Life™, butttt I would love to come back and finish it eventually. 🤍 It was such a fun project, and I'm still so humbled by the reception to it :)

[zooophagous]

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

[joshgrobanscock]

1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer

2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung

3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)

4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK

5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money

[letsoulswander]

Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you're gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.

[cephalopodvictorious]

It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Please I’m begging yall as an asthmatic, your fruit-flavored vapor will still give people around you who are smoke-sensitive attacks. So will weed. Don’t do it inside; if you’re at a bus stop or something try to not stand right next to people or move downwind of them if you can.

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

Also makes you look like a complete weiner

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[chatteringfox]

[Alt text: The tragedy of Hamlet, as in some degree of Othello, is that moral outrage demands action when no action can be of any use. In a sense, we can say that the ghost was at fault in appearing to Hamlet in the first place and setting him—for what might be called purely selfish reasons—a task which, even if accomplished, could do no possible good. When Hamlet's whole nature was outraged by his mother's behavior and then by the news of his father's murder, he naturally felt that something must be done. But what? What could be done that would make any difference—any difference at all to the things that really mattered? Would a dagger through Claudius' ribs restore Hamlet's shattered universe? Would it restore his earlier idealized image of his mother or remove the "blister" that had been set on his innocent love? That is a tragedy of moral frustration. What are you going to do about past crimes which have shattered your preconceptions about the nature of life? There is nothing you can ever do about the past, except forget it. And yet, of course, Hamlet could not forget. Revenge is no real help—what sort of action, then, is of help? None that is directed toward undoing the past: only purposive action directed toward the future can ever help. And that is at least one explanation of Hamlet's long delay in carrying out the ghost's command: he wanted action that would undo the past, and no action could do that, revenge least of all, for that would only re-enact the past. The punishment can never fit the crime, for it can never undo it. /End alt text]

[nixscriptum]

[selfsamesong]

there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Van Helsing & Mina: We're going to defeat Dracula with the power of friendship!

Quincey: And this gun I found!

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

night sky 4.26.25

[wolfythewitch]

epithets

[wolfythewitch]

Finally have all 4 life stages let's gooo

[cloudcreates]

This is BEAUTIFUL

[community-gardenss]

my very heart is not my own. they have taken from me even that.

Hiii this is part of a style study assignment for one of my classes :) Helen of Sparta oh how I adore you

Inspired by a lot of Mycenaean frescoes and also @/flaroh's work ^^

[mythsandwits]

We don't talk enough about the damage EPIC did to how Circe and especially Calypso are supposed to be seen.

Calypso is not some innocent, "child-like", lonely girl.

She's the daughter of a titan and a nymph, who had other nymphs on her island serving her, and took advantage of a broken man for 7 years.

She very much knew what a wife was, she simply didn't care.

[mythsandwits]

I understand your point and respect it, but just like people have the right to complain about EPIC's portrayal of Odysseus and other characters, I have the right to complain about how Calypso's portrayal was handled, especially when I have even seen people say Odysseus should have stayed.

Epic Calypso is undeniably better than Odyssey Calypso, but she is still shown forcing her "love" upon an unwilling, broken man, and trying to manipulate and guilt-trip him into staying, but the fandom decided she's a poor baby who deserved better for some reason.

And let's be honest, half of her defenders would switch sides if the genders were swapped.

It's not about "only my way of seeing this is right", it's about part of this fandom's straight up lack of media literacy.

[ambitiouswitch]

Saying that he... Should have stayed? The fuck? What? How much they hate that poor man?

[perpetualdaydreamerr]

Literally the best case you can make for this broad is that she's a quasi mortal character in the EPIC canon who's subject to human psychological conditions, became mentally corrupted due to years of being alone, etc, etc, and essentially "wasn't guilty" because she didn't have the capacity to know any better.

But you literally never see the take. Never. It always just gets reduced to "well, she wasn't REALLY being that rapey", "I didn't get a vivid play by play of assault therefore it's impossible", "she's just sad :(( and lonely :(( and just a girl :((", etc, etc. as if she's some 15 year old schoolgirl who wanted her crush to be reciprocated and not a *goddess* who wields absolute power and authority over her *mortal* captive (let the audience consider the absolute terror in Odysseus' voice when he echoes "goddess?" in Love in Paradise).

Even if you strip away the sexual assault of the Odyssey, you're still left with a person who held a man captive for *7 years* to the point of suicidal ideation/attempt. You're left with someone who at the very least incessantly sexually harassed their captive of, again, SEVEN YEARS. You're left with someone who was FORCED to let their captive go because she never would've done so otherwise.

Honestly, the portrayal of Calypso in EPIC was confusing and incredibly limited, so I can understand the confusion amongst the fan base... But I haven't seen so many blatantly reductive takes around a piece of media in a long time. I'm the millionth person to say it: but just imagine if the genders were swapped lol.

[meggalice]

How long has it been?

Twenty years.

I love you.