Skepti(m)cal

ao3 s Skepti_m_cal / he/they / if you've been rivals for 80+ years, you're no longer enemies, you're gay.

[zira-draws]

can yall act like yall love eachother

[brejecat]

After a long time of planning, lots of learning, some nights wake, many youtube and tiktok tutorials and some willpower i didn’t even know i had it’s finally done. My bind of Threads that Bind by kingburu, one of my favorite fics and one of the best jasico fics out there.

First i would like to say I’m grateful to @kingburu for given the world such a good story and for allowing me to have the honor of doing all this so i could have it in my shelf. If any of my jasico fellows haven’t read this one on ao3 yet, please do (https://archiveofourown.org/works/14711279/chapters/33998390#workskin). It’s funny, adventurous, romantic and, in personal biased opinion, really feels like a percy jackson story in a way that not everyone is able to emulate. There’s so many good moments in this fic and while doing all the process of typesetting I realized that it was even better than i had recalled before, so many phrases that got stuck in my mind.

I also want to say thanks for @thinkingjasico and all the support he provided through this project. The amount of times i kept bothering him about it, asking for opinions in all the aspects you can imagine and even crying because something didn’t felt right can’t be counted (yeah, sometimes typesetting can be THAT frustrating). If weren’t for him i would’ve probably given up long time ago, so thanks for being such a good friend.

And of course, last but not least, I couldn’t forget the marvelous and extremely talented @maryviolinart (go follow her on insta and here too) for this gorgeous cover art. If you’re looking for an amazing artist who draws beautifully and is super attentive throughout every part of the process I would highly recommend you check the available slots when her commissions open again.

nonetheless, it was a truly crazy thing to do, a bit more stressful than i had imagined but in the end i’m really happy with how everything ended up. Jasico is one of top 3 ships, one that helped a lot through the pandemic, so every time i look to my shelf or any time i wanna see a bit of them i know one more place where to find them. my first project for them but i hope it won’t be the last ❤️

[fuocogo]

Inspired by real life events.

(And yes Jason is reading Magnus Chase)

[minuiko]

home is wherever I’m with you

[blackberreh-art]

Casually Going Insane here's some Jon and Helen

[blackberreh-art]

I want to finish this... do I keep it simple and greyscale or do i. Colour every panel. god

greyscale

colour

Voting ended onMar 5, 2025

[purple-confusion]

Adapted from this text post by @the-delta-42

[rednth]

[smallpwbbles]

I’m crying at how offended Roger made Sonic sound

[shirakum-owo-boro]

Headcannon: the reason Mic takes the late-late night radioshow time is because he knew that was when Aizawa patrolled. For a while the two of them didn’t keep in-touch that much, so Mic always thought that if Aizawa was lonely or bored he could turn on his radio and feel like he’s with Mic. This and also because in case Aizawa ever had an emergency, Yamada would always be up and ready to respond.

[bravobeavo]

wAiT a thought just occurred to me - what if when he picked that time slot his producers were TOTALLY against it?

They looked at him and were like “Mic how tf are you gonna get an audience? The only people listening to your show will be night shift workers... why don’t you just take our prime time slot instead?” and he just outright refuses because he needs to know that Shouta is out there somewhere listening to him.

But over time he proves his producers wrong - he gets a huge following from the aforementioned night shift workers, to people who record the show to listen during the day, to insomniacs who call in, to anyone who wakes up from nightmares & can’t go back to sleep...

[voluptuous-mealz]

i think something else worth mentioning is that 1-5 am in japan is like 11-3 in america on the east coast and 4-8 pm in europe. those are both good times, ESPECIALLY in europe. 4-8 pm on a friday night? thats literally prime time, when everyones driving home from work. if there was some kind of language translation quirk or mic's show is presented in english, his show could easily be global and that would explain a lot.

[megglepie]

!!! mealz!!! your mind!!! considering that put your hands up is a nonstop music show i’d say it’s very likely that it is globally appreciated!! a good portion of radio stations have live and/or asynchronous streaming online so with the timezones in mind, i think it’s totally possible for put your hands up to be popular overseas. not to mention that there are absolutely radio stations that play songs in one language and comment in another, i interned with a english spanish format station so why not an english japanese format station?

[sarnai4]

First family dinner back in Ithaca

Penelope: Want some pork for dinner, Darling?

Odysseus (gagging): No, Beloved. I don't think I'll ever look at a pig the same way.

Telemachus: Ooh! Dad, how about some bee-

Odysseus (terrified): No! Don't even finish that suggestion! (Whispering) He'll hear you.

(Penelope and Telemachus look at one another with concern)

Penelope: Well, we also have some fish.

Odysseus: Perfect!

(Odysseus proceeds to stab it as violently as possible)

Telemachus:...Mom, was he like this before or...?

Penelope (swooning): No, but I'm into it.

[blackberreh-art]

Really, who WOULD resist the opportunity to be stepped on by Gerard Keay

[justvea18]

What am I even doing man

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

Rumour has it, although the King of Ithaca had returned to his shores, his throne remained empty for the better part of a year.

[sloanslone]

Them

[izbnart]

Made an arcane fan animation hehe

[thetruearchmagos]

@theprissythumbelina

[waveoftheocean]

doors exist and someday batman will learn to use them but today is not that day 🙂‍↔️

[waveoftheocean]

doors exist and someday batman will learn to use them but today is not that day 🙂‍↔️

[abearthatwrites]

A Brief Rundown of the IRL Ithaca Saga (to the best of my memory, in probably not chronological order)

jorge (creator, odysseus) decided it'll be cool to celebrate the ithaca saga with the epic cast via a trip to ithaca, greece

surely nothing can go wrong

mico (telemachus) seemingly found out about the trip with the rest of the fandom. he proceeded to plot a trip to ithaca

the epic cast dealt with multiple broken vans and missed a ferry by one minute. they had to cancel a stream because they were too exhausted

mico made it onto a plane

ithaca got hit by a typhoon, forcing them to move another stream indoors

mico got banned from tiktok. it was reversed

mason (tireseas) asked luke (zeus) to stop the rain. luke refused

the crew hiked up to odysseus' palace. they ran into a roadblock. mason looked into the future and did not see a way around it. (they found a way around it)

the crew found a well and sang their epic songs into it. except jp (crew) who just sang happy birthday

janani (aphrodite) also sang "royal we" into the well

anna (penelope) made it onto the plane to fly out to ithaca

hermes (troy) decided to take a plane to ithaca like a normal human instead of teleporting. he got side-eyed by a woman at the airport as he slept sprawled out in a chair. this quickly became a meme

hermes arrived in ithaca to the delight of everyone except jorge. mico also appeared in his videos. mico still had not updated anything after getting on the plane

anna's connecting flight got cancelled, leaving her stranded in a fancy hotel. she struggled to find the toilet in her hotel room

mico finally updated, claiming he was stuck in munich. mason appears in the video and gives him a water bottle, proving he is lying

the fandom believes mico anyway

mico is forced to post another video revealing he had been gaslighting us basically the entire time and was just delayed in getting to ithaca, that was all

troy and talya (circe), in character, talk about tea. troy says the tea tastes like her father's approval. earle (ares) then asks for 1000 cups and breaks down crying as luke cuts the camera

jorge posts a video apologizing for mico's absence, encouraging him to fly to ithaca, new york. mico appears in the background of this video

mico posts a video saying that he's finally in ithaca, but the crew is in ithaca, new york. jorge appears in the background of this video

jp films a behind the scenes video, calling out "some random guy" who just showed up asking if anyone knows jorge. it's mico

janani sings "royal we" again, but after she says "troy was breached" troy comes out screaming in pain. mico appears in the background of this, filming the video from two points above

it's time for the ithaca saga livestream... except it gets cancelled because the connection is bad and jorge's devices are dying

TL;DR: the gods saw the epic crew in ithaca and went "do you guys think it'll be really funny if we just. recreated the odyssey"