Oh my god wait. What if the blessings of the gods manifested physically? Like if a god takes an interest in you, EVERYONE is going to see it, for better or worse. And if you lose their favour? Everyone can see that, too
Jason with a peacock tail and feather-crest, both of which go faded and limp when he turns on Medea, so that they drag on the floor and get in the way
Pollux with eagle wings instead of arms, so Castor acts as his hands and that’s why they’re inseparable. When Castor dies and Pollux splits his immortality with him, they each get one arm and one wing, so one can’t fly without the other
Odysseus with a forked tongue and fangs—a subtle feature that he can hide when he needs to. When Athena feels like being helpful (like when she disguises him as a beggar) she’ll cast an illusion over it, but Penelope immediately recognises him by his lisp
When Athena gives Diomedes the blessing of seeing through the gods’ disguises, he also gets owl eyes and the ability to turn his head 180 degrees. This helps when Odysseus tries to stab him in the back on the Palladium heist
HERACLES WITH BULL HORNS. I have nothing to add I just think that sounds sick as hell
Helen grows beautiful golden feathers instead of hair. Nothing useful, just an obvious sign of her heritage that adds to her appeal to the suitors: whoever wins her hand gets to walk around with a physical symbol of Zeus’s favour
Atalanta with antlers that snap when she gets married, leaving jagged shards behind that won’t go blunt and can’t be sharpened down. She can have her husband, but he can’t touch her head without risking badly cutting himself. This can either be one final blessing or a curse depending on how consensual you interpret the marriage
Hector has pristine white raven wings, making him even more terrifying to the Achaeans, flying into battle like divine intervention, and a symbol of hope for the Trojans. Achilles plucks the feathers off his corpse, but they won’t stop growing back. Still, Achilles has a cloak made from them and wears it into battle, turning Troy’s symbol against them
Paris gets dove wings, but he tells everyone they’re too small to fly with because he’s a coward and doesn’t want to have the same responsibilities as Hector. Then he flies away from the duel with Menelaus in front of the entire army, and that’s when Troy finally loses what’s left of their respect for him
It’s SHOCKING that V from V for Vendetta isn’t a Tumblr sexyman.
Like HELLO?! Verbose morally grey anti-fascist anarchist with a deep voice whose face is never revealed but implied to be horrifically scarred??? “It is time for me to meet my maker and repay him in kind for all that he has done to me”?!?! LEAVES A ROSE ON THE BODIES OF THE PEOPLE HE KILLED?!?!?!
Siren & Lockboy feels like it was engineered for tumblrinas. It’s a musical cartoon based on Greek mythology. The main characters are a hot badass robot lady and an absolute loser of a man with a visor for a face. So far the messages include: men are pigs, fuck the police, the concept of medical debt is insanely dystopian, and billionaires are childish assholes. Is has less than 50k views on YouTube
I need all non-brits to know that we are genuinely taught to sing Nellie The Elephant when performing cpr. Like people have come to my school on several occasions to teach us cpr, and I’m pretty sure every one of them has told us to sing Nellie The Elephant to keep the rhythm
Concept: a Sherlock Holmes television adaptation, set in the usual time period, that starts in media res, with Lestrade telling Holmes and Watson about the crime of the day and then getting right into them doing their thing. Then at the end of the episode, they return to Baker Street, close the door, and Watson and Holmes kiss. They are in love. It is an otherwise normal adaptation with episodic stories and personalities accurate to the books.
Bonus points if it’s narrated by Watson and he never explicitly mentions that him and Holmes are dating (though he probably alludes to it pretty heavily because my guy cannot help himself) because of course they’re in Victorian London and nobody can know. You can even have fun with it: Lestrade more than once walks in on them clearly having just finished kissing sitting too close together probably blushing, and completely fails to make the connection, like is completely sure they’re just like really close friends. Mrs Hudson stumbles into increasingly incriminating situations without comment, until at some point it becomes blatantly obvious that she Knows and just doesn’t care so long as they pay their rent. Sherlock’s intelligence means he’s always three steps ahead of the police, allowing for there to be little risk of them being caught, which allows for varied stakes depending on the plot of the episode (because this is an episodic show and the main characters’ personal lives aren’t usually the focus).
However! There needs to be at least one case where their client is gay, maybe their lover was killed or they’re being blackmailed or something, and they go to Holmes because obviously they can’t go to the police, and it’s treated completely seriously, like all the other cases. Maybe even a criminal is gay (a spurned lover committing murders of passion or something) and neither Holmes nor Watson mentions that part to the police, because that is not the crime they need to be punished for. Acknowledging that queer people existed in Victorian London opens up so many options for new stories that ACD wasn’t able to write during his lifetime! There’s so much potential here!!!
Just. It’s straight up bizarre to me that for all the Sherlock Holmes tv shows we’ve gotten, to my knowledge there has yet to be a single one where Holmes and Watson are canonically in love despite every generation of fans shipping them together.
Saw one or two people complaining about how the scene with Hera raping one of Zeus’s lovers (as in, having sex with them disguised as Zeus) was presented as a “girlboss” moment, and… was it?
Like obviously I don’t know how it was intended, but I always saw it as a kind of dark joke contrasting the human’s completely understandable reaction of horror and panic with Zeus and Hera’s unfazed ones, showing how little the gods care for human life. Like when Poseidon casually drowns someone or Zeus starts shooting the ballboys; the show goes out of its way to show the mortals’ terror, because this show is in part a comedy and the gods’ cruelty is one of the main plot points.
Also, immediately after this part, Hera tells Zeus to kill a baby and turns the woman into a bee. The bee thing is very much not presented as a girlboss thing in Dionysus’s plotline, so I KNOW I’m not misreading that bit
A prophet’s job is to give warnings, because sometimes the future can be changed—sometimes there’s an “if”. “If Achilles sails to Troy, he won’t survive the war”, “If the men eat Helios’s cattle, only Odysseus will get to Ithaca alive”.
Prophets stay in their temples and dole out prophecies because people tend to heed them (or at least try to) and not because they can’t leave and affect the story themself. I mean, maybe some gods would get annoyed at them for meddling, but, when you’ve already royally pissed off one god, what more do you have to lose?
What I’m getting at is: AU where Cassandra saves Troy by preventing the war herself, since nobody will listen to her warnings.
