hi my beloved!! so technically i have multiple as there are over 350 out there, but my absolute favourites as of this exact moment are either a nicobar pigeon (as they are super cool) they’re a near threatened pigeon which is the closest living relative to the dodo and you sent me a dodo badge
or it’s a speckled pigeon which is of least concern and it’s found within the south of Africa and the Sahara because i love watching them on my birding streams as they get quite aggressive an they have very cool eyeliner.
I couldn't even IMAGINE forcing people to pay for something that looks ai fucking generated, your robbing people.
why cant i get any of the good anon hate. anyways come buy my totally one hundred percent ai generated artwork here, im having a discount and im in need of some cash bc ive got ✨hospital bills✨ to pay
Telemachus is so underrated in modern media. Like, GUYS I KNOW WE LOVE STINKY MAN ODYSSEUS AND CHEEKY WIFE PENELOPE BUT PLEASE. PEN AND ODY'S LIL BOYO EXISTS TOO- (Cries in Telemachus is favorite Odyssey character)
Cheeky wife Penelope is my everything but yes, Telemachus is definitely underrated (actually I think more sadly talked about in a very negative manner)
He gets hated on a lot but he also doesn't get a lot of attention compared to other myths. Also making him out to be like he's an atrocious person when...holy shit. he's going through SO much.
Yes, he is snappy at Penelope. (I adore that woman and this isn't something I'm fine with but it's understandable) That moment of him telling her to go back to her room and not mind the music is him protecting her in "hey! I know you're upset but the suitors will see you and hound you!" while also trying to assert himself to the suitors. I mean Athena, Menelaus, Nestor, etc. practically everyone also brings up how "You're your mother's son" just as much they bring up how he's his father's son.
'And yet,' said the goddess of the flashing eyes, 'with you as you are, and with Penelope for your mother, I cannot think that your house is doomed to an inglorious future. […]
(book 1, Rieu)
He's acting out. And that's the point. he's a young man who's terrified for himself and his mom. He didn't grow up with his dad around. Him going to see Nestor and Menelaus was kind of a way of "Here's some 'positive' masculinity for you." As Nestor is just everybody's grandpa and Menelaus just taking a more semi-paternal role with him. it's supposed to "mature" him. even Penelope talks about how he's changed from the boy he left as. He's learning and growing!
With his "bossing Penelope around", he's kind of trying to pull a "Let me handle it!" as to try and protect her but he's young and doesn't realize that he's…putting himself in danger too. Yes, he's being a lot but it's not like that's abnormal for young adults at their parents anyway (not that it's right, but it happens)
As a whole, even then, it's to show how so much has gone so messy in the Ithacan Palace with Odysseus' absence. He's trying to do so much despite the situation he's in.
