Bullying Odysseus of the Hot Thighs

She/her • Currently working on Here by Your Side/What's between Pylos and Ithaca • Tholos my firstborn • Ducks and Leopards my sweet girl • and then the gremlins

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Fics Masterlist

Here by Your Side 👯‍♂️

Bromance, smut - Telemachus and Peisis become lovers and friends on the journey from Pylos to Sparta.

What's Between Pylos and Ithaca🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Bromance, teens and up - Telemachus and Peisistratus become lovers and friends on the journey from Pylos to Sparta, smut free.

Tholos ❤️‍🩹

AU, Odypen, tragedy and healing love - Odysseus and Penelope lose Telemachus to the hands of the suitors and they rebuild Ithaca and their lives in his memory. You have to bite thorugh the salt to get to the candy.

Set in Stone 💍

One shot in the Tholos AU, emotional hurt - Peisistratus grieves the death of Telemachus.

Ducks and Leopards 🐆

Pure, silly fluff, post-Odyssey - Odysseus, Penelope and Telemachus bond by bickering at each other while they draw animals on the dirt.

Spoils 💓

Angst, romance, Trojan War - Menelaus and Helen's reunion gets intense while Troy burns.

Judgement Call 🌩️

EPIC, catastrophe - Zeus wrecks Odysseus' ship whith an impossible choice. Thunderbringer (EPIC) and Odyssey inspired.

Wretched 🥀

Experimental, smut - Melantho's POV on betraying Odysseus' house as Eurymachus' lover, smut for pathetism.

[surrealgaykay]

it feels amazing to listen to warriors the musical without some FUCKER in my ear saying:

“they made it woke!!!!! 😢😢😢😢😢😢 why genderbent 😢😢😢😢😢 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢why isn’t this like the og 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢” MAYBE BECAUSE IT’S AN ADAPTATION YOU POTHOLE

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Also the original is nothing like the book and the musical does add some of the original original concepts the movie missed, so

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Please Víctor you're so adorable I don't want to doubt you 😭🔫

[robotsincastles]

My blood is your blood now or whatever

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You're telling me Harold Perrinau, our sheriff Boyd, is the same man who gave us the best performance of Mercutio that ever existed whose death traumatized me as a kid, and I NEVER NOTICED??

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Sorry I really think From is a great show, I'm invested, but you can't charge it as premium content due to its "high production costs", then give Julie a Temu wig for a haircut

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I might be having 4 cups of coffee daily but only aroung six sips of that count, the rest is either 3rd degree burn provoquing magma or lukewarm disapoinment. I'm just chasing the high.

[xenasaur]

the way ppl talk about latinas is kind of very gross if I'm being honest

[xenasaur]

they're like reverse Asians bro they're all stacked and they're fiery mamacitas who you can break like a horse and make into domestic servants who love family

[xenasaur]

"bro I need a big booty latina" bro I need you to kill yourself

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"Be a star. Better yet, be a shooting star."

Luther. Oh Luther.

[feraligatr]

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Is this what Twilight is about?

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Sorry once again for the long wait on the last chapter update

But I have a good reason!

My cat has been very sick for the past four weeks. In true cat fashion, one condition triggered another into a full snowball effect that took a lot of time, effort, and money to untangle.

Gastritis > diabetes > dormant mycoplasma infection > intense anemia > anorexia > liver failure.

Since I’m her only caretaker, that’s meant hourly force feedings, IV drips, painful injections, and daily vet visits for weeks. I cried a lot from exhaustion, but if she wasn’t giving up, neither was I.

I’ve basically been a zombie, and not a single creative thought passed through this troubled neurons during that time. But I think I could say we’re finally in the clear.

She’s gaining weight and her appetite has been consistent for five days. Though it’ll take time before she regains her muscle and stops looking like a wet brush.

I’m still pricking her ear for blood every day, so she'd say she's far from forgiving everything I've done to her. But on the bright side she has mastered a new trick, the sickly Victorian child meowl whenever she wants wet food.

And since all the medical grade delicacies my cat refused to eat went to her sister, that one has been living The Life and is now the pretty one.

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

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This kind of extreme commonplace to the point where %70 of romance novels is exactly the same minus names, is the reason why nowadays AI can write a y.a. novel and no one would know.

They ruined literature first.

[hypokeimena]

it actually makes me feel fully out of touch with consensus when people say an author is anti-war "because he said war is hell!"

please. please. do you know a single thing about Recorded Human History. "war is hell" is so, so frequently THE pro-war take, and the entire reason soldiers and officers receive social esteem for fighting. the honorable duty of undergoing The Trials Of War on behalf of your polity &/or beliefs is one of the fundamental cornerstones of masculinity in SO, SO many human cultures. what is anyone EVEN SAYING!!!

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

in a modern context, one could even argue that the emphasis placed on the traumatic nature of waging war, of participating in war, is part of how the participants morally absolve themselves from their participation. There is a common idea in liberalism (but not only in liberalism) that the trauma of killing one person, or ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, et cetera, is its own punishment, regardless of whether the persons killed were soldiers or civilians, whether it could even be considered right or wrong, whether it was necessary or unnecessary to kill them. Under this logic, renumeration or reconstruction for the victims is considered functionally irrelevant because of the exonerating suffering of the soldier.

In “Israel” they call this kind of narrative in media “Shooting and crying.”

This kind of apologia is/was often applied to the US military’s actions in every historical conflict, up to the present day. I have also seen American police officers use this kind of apologia when they are criticized for discrimination, murder, and various other crimes. They say “Oh, you civilians couldn’t possibly understand how hard it is to be a cop. It’s so difficult and traumatic.”

I think this idea of “exonerating trauma” is both dangerous and widespread. I’m sure there are many other examples of this type of rhetoric.

[voluptuarian]

Average fandom-ized "mythology" enjoyer talking about Greek myths like:

"Every woman is a woke girl boss (except Athena because she's a pick me who supports the patriarchy and keeps other women down! Unless we're hip to the super extra Real version where Actually she made Medusa into a gorgon as Protection!!) who's also a poor and helpless victim who never had any power or autonomy and probably also got sexually assaulted (for some reason). Because the more girl boss someone is the more they sit around complaining and doing nothing and just letting bad things happen to them. And are also unable to have normal, consensual sex, so anytime they sleep with someone it has to have been rape or manipulation. (Except maybe if its in a mildly popular f/f ship!) Circe was just a done-wrong feminist who spent her time picking herbs in a utopian commune or something!!

Every man is an evil problematic unforgivable demon abuser and representation of the patriarchy. Yes, even Perseus, who was just a kid trying to help his mom, because Medusa was actually a *Victim* bc Ovid said so and he should have known better but actually he was The Real Monster™️ and also Cadmus who did fuck all and minded his business bc he was probably homophobic or something??(for some reason). Zeus is the most evil of all ofc and everything bad that happens in the myths is his fault bc he's a Misogynist and Abuser™️! Nobody ever slept with him because they wanted to, it was always assault! (Special mode: there's 50% chance Ares is actually a misunderstood feminist golden retriever mama's boy who is super into gay rights and taking trips to the park with his kids, but only if it can somehow mean interpreting Zeus as even worse!)

The only exception is the minotaur! Who should never be called that bc his real name was Asterius and the minotaur was a demeaning insulting title given to him by his Abuser!! He was never actually a monster, that was Minos' fault, and the labyrinth represents the inescapable cycle of abuse! Everyone else in the family loved him except for evil Patriarchy Demon dad! Except maybe Pasiphae but that's because she was Traumatized from being a victim of sexual assault (Zeus is a rapist!) But Asterius is actually a little innocent baby who never did anything wrong and actually represents the dehumanizing effects of racism/abilism/transphobia/etc! Also Theseus was The Real Monster™️ and manipulated Ariadne! (Unless I decide that he and the minotaur were In Love, and then he's a great guy actually.)

And also the gods were all useless and evil and never did anything helpful at all ever and were all abusive parents and rapists and Worst of All got into relationships with Problematic Age Gaps and everyone in ancient Greece hated and feared them and nobody actually revered or worshipped them except when Patriarchy/Capitalism (??) forced them too! Most people just resented them but were helpless to do anything but the Heroes were tough enough to say 'fuck the gods' and the gods couldn't stop them bc they were just too Badass!

I know this is true because some Percy Jackson/God of War fans on social media told me so and anybody who says otherwise needs to Read a Book [worst ya- tized massacre of mythological story you've ever heard of]!!"

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Casual misogny is so funny, they´ll always say "people" when they mean "girls and women".

What about the average male greek myth enjoyer, who dismisses all mythology context and nuance to make it a self-insert fantasy of swords and abs where women are half naked and always want the hero?

Like every Odyssey movie, series and comic ever (except for Rossi's Odissea, which is cheff kiss). And 2003 Troy. We can predict Nolan's Odyssey will walk the same road, too. And, by the way, Epic.

Those retellings are not annoying. Those fans don't get chastized for misunderstanding the source. Those people are just normal, I guess.

Look, I'm not saying you have to be ok with all of that. You don't have to like it at all. But please give some grace to girls the same way you give grace to guys, or none to neither.

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Ok I'm watching The Pitt and s.2 was good, but s.1 is very sloppy?

Most melodrama I've had to skip over, and keeping up the myth of the "undeveloped prefrontal cortex" as an euphemism for "boys will be boys"? Heh.

[mono-chr]

im rly sick rn so i rewatched chosen season 5

i will be back with good content i swear...

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Stop you're gona give him heartburn

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"Ya feeling alright man? You need a little help or something?"

(Warning number 1.)

"Whatever you were saying, man?"

(Warning number 2.)

"No, see, I'm a problem child. Hyperactive, always running wild. I play too rough sometimes."

(Red lights spinning.)

"Ok."

(You're fucked.)