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Hello! I'm Sil - My pronouns are she/her, I'm queer + poc and I enjoy all things greek mythos. I write in this fandom (at least, at the moment) - and my fics are down below! Feel free to hit me up with anything, i love to talk, though i'm a bad texter in general so please have some grace!
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#sil's fic recs: fics i enjoyed reading!
My Links:
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My Posts:
Odysseus & Penelope's Ages according to the sources.
Recommended Books & Articles for accurate depictions of Aegean Bronze Age & Greek Mythos' attire.
Trojan War Twitter Posts (Part 1)
Trojan War Twitter Posts (Part 2)
How would the Trojans have Dressed
Queen Arete and Penelope Parallels – how their role as powerful women is crucial to Odysseus' Homecoming
A Comprehensive Analysis of Odysseus and Penelope’s Relationship - Part I: Pre-Helen's Choosing of A Groom
A Comprehensive Analysis of Odysseus and Penelope’s Relationship - Part II
A Comprehensive Analysis of Odysseus and Penelope’s Relationship - Part III
Commissioned Art:
Greek Mythos:
Pre-Trojan War OdyPen in Ithaca by Justvea18
DioPen during The Odyssey by BLUETONES
Penelope in her Palace's Spring by puddingdemonlair
OdyDioPen during The Trojan War by Justvea18
Penelope as Regent of Ithaca by BLUETONES
Pre-Trojan War Odypen in the Hallways of the Palace by puddingdemonlair
Clytemnestra, Helen, And Penelope Pre-Trojan War by ithacantrickster
Hades Game Bath Salts Penelope by ultramachine99
Telemachus' Eyes by AsteriaStarz
Penelope Hearing News About Odysseus from Troy by HO2Piyo
POV 'You're Penelope and your husband just came back home from war jacked as fuck and killed all the men harassing you to marry them' by Roslintheredfox
Lord Hermes and Penelope in the fields of Arcadia by kokofi
Penelope, Helen, Clytemnestra as the 3 Fates by mameomal
Odysseus and Penelope Looking Down at her Dead Suitors by jimzi
Penelope looking at Odysseus, the night before her marriage, at the hot springs at Sparta by ultramachine99 for garden-of-rambles
ASOIAF:
Lyanna Stark with her Winter Rose by ithacantrickster
Rhaegar, Lyanna, and Baby Jon together by kokofi
Greek Mythology Odyssey AU Rhaegar and Lyanna by mameomal
Prince Rhaegar and Lady Lyanna with their Darling Princess Daenerys by j1mzi
Tumblr AUs:
#telemache: DioTele AU where Fem!Telemachus and Diomedes marry 3 years before Odysseus' return to Ithaca.
#fem!odysseus au: AgaOdy AU where Fem!Odysseus, who is Agamemnon's Concubine, is forced to go to Troy with him after Athena proclaims that Troy won't fall without her.
#university au: Modern Day AU with Professor Odysseus and Students Penelope and Diomedes. OdyDioPen ending!
#hunger games au: Tribute Penelope and her older Mentor Odysseus.
My Works:
General:
I Held Her Hand Tighter:
In the lead up to the arrival of Helen's suitors, Clytemnestra, Penelope and Helen spend an afternoon together talking about marriage and their futures (One shot - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
The Apple of My Eye:
After God Games, Hera and Athena talk about Athena's parental relationship with Odysseus. (One Shot)
Fighting From Afar:
Odysseus dies during the war. With a prophecy that claims that only the mind of Laertiades will cause the fall of Troy, Ten year old Prince Telemachus is brought to the shores of Troy. (Ongoing 6/8)
Forgive My Wanton Grief:
My Love I Kept You Well side series focusing on the Gods during the main fic. (Ongoing 2/?)
Your Dreams are Blameless:
After his ship breaks during a mission to retrieve the son of Achilles, Odysseus gets to make a brief visit home - after ten long years at the shores of Troy - and reunite with his wife and son for a few days. (Ongoing 2/6)
Sing O' Muse Of The Man Of Twists And Turns:
The main cast of the Iliad react to EPIC: The Musical, and other parts of The Odyssey. (Ongoing 1/30)
One Born of A Noble Mother:
Telemachus and Penelope's tumultuous relationship before and after Odysseus' return to Ithaca. (Ongoing 3/4)
All The Things I Might Not Be:
In the early days after her arrival to Ithaca, Penelope talks to Ctimene in an effort to get closer to her new husband's sister - it does not go so well. (One shot - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
My Homeward Way Has Proved Too Long:
When Telemachus is called upon to adjudicate the matter of Hermione's groom, he alongside Hermione, Neoptolemus and Orestes, find themselves back in time to the 9th year of the Trojan War, in the middle of Achilles and Agamemnon's argument (Ongoing 1/8)
Odysseus/Penelope -
My Saved Up Happiness:
It is two weeks after the birth of their son (he does not know that it is two months before he is forced to leave for war) , Odysseus puts aside his duties and work and spends the afternoon with his wife and newborn son. (One shot - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
The Dream of You:
Stuck at Troy, Odysseus thinks back on the years he spent with Penelope after their marriage. (One shot - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
My Love I Kept You Well:
Penelope is the one taken as Paris' Achaean Bride instead of Helen - Penelope of Troy AU (Completed 8/8)
A Hand With No Lines:
Odysseus and Penelope find out they're expecting a baby after years of struggling with the absence of a child of their own in their life. (2/5 - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
Time Rejoices For You and I Have Reunited:
Penelope and Odysseus' reunion happens slightly diffferently when she awakens earlier and reaches where Odysseus' carnage is unfolding, unaware. (One shot)
Full of Anxious Fears:
Odysseus and Penelope spending their last night and morning together before they're separated for twenty years. (1/2 - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
The Star To Every Wandering Bark:
The Trojan War nears its end - Hector has been killed, Achilles has fallen, and the tenth year has arrived. With the capture of Helenus of Troy, all the Achaeans need, is a winning battle strategy that would at last bring down the great walls of Troy. Yet, the Mind of the Achaean army - to whom they all look to now - has grown weary and tired of the constant warring, and has not been able to draw up the final battle of the Trojan War. His patron sees this, and brings him the one thing she knows for certain, that will get him going again - His wife. (One shot)
The Old Familiar Place:
How Odysseus and Penelope spent their first night together in twenty years, delighting in each other. (Ongoing 1/3)
The Hopeless Longing of The Day:
In an alternate world where Penelope is a Princess from Anatolia instead of Achaea, King Odysseus after a fierce battle with the Trojans, returns to his tents to share the bed of his Concubine – Penelope (One shot).
Smile on Thy New World:
In an alternate world where Penelope is a Princess from Anatolia instead of Achaea, King Odysseus and his Concubine Penelope find out about their pregnancy, as Odysseus plots about an alliance with a Foreign Achaean King here in Anatolia - unaware of the man's relation to his Concubine. (Ongoing 1/2)
Now. Forever. Always:
Erostober Day 12 - Pregnancy + Breeding (One shot)
A Royal Heir:
After an explosive argument with his parents about the lack of an Heir of his own, Odysseus ruminates the state of affairs of his household, and then attempts to forget his worries in the arms of his wife. What better place for the King and Queen to make a Royal Heir, than the Royal Throne? (One shot - part of Days of Olive and Honey series)
Penelope/Diomedes -
Of the Art of Destruction and Creation:
They bond during one of Diomedes' stays in Ithaca during the Odyssey. Penelope teaches him how to weave. (One shot)
You Are The Trembling of Time:
With the fourth year since the end of the Trojan War passing, the Elders of Ithaca have begun pushing for Penelope to marry again and take another man for husband - Odysseus considered dead by everyone. It is in the wake of this that Diomedes returns to Ithaca - to a distraught Penelope and Telemachus. (One shot)
Others -
Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder:
Odysseus/Diomedes; Book V of the Iliad - Diomedes knows that none can see the Lady Aphrodite's true form, that she appears as one's most desired, adored and loved. Yet it still takes him aback entirely when she appears to him as Odysseus. (One shot)
The Light of Mine Glory:
Penelope/Apollo + Odysseus/Penelope; Penelope was Apollo's lover before her marriage. Now, years later, she is breaking at the seams holding together a kingdom amidst her own grief, when Apollo comes to her again, with a deal so irresistible that she cannot help but not refuse - Odysseus' safe return home. (One shot)
An Embassy to Atreides:
Odysseus/Agamemnon + One Sided Odysseus/Menelaus; With the Achaeans losing their battles after Agamemnon and Achilles' argument, Odysseus finds another way to bring about the peace. (One Shot)
Sleeping With a Serpent:
Odysseus/Agamemnon; Five times Odyssseus convinced Agamemnon into letting him have his way, and the One time Agamemnon got Odysseus following his words. (Ongoing 2/6)
If Music Be The Food of Love, Play On:
Diomedes/Telemachus; Diomedes and Fem!Telemachus are forced to marry after being caught waking up together, chaos ensues as Odysseus' return looms in the background (Ongoing 1/3)
Once Long Ago I Loved You:
Helen/Penelope; Helen and Penelope spend an afternoon in the Baths together, as Helen bemoans Penelope's upcoming marriage. (Oneshot)
What Base Ends And By What Abject Ways:
Helen/Andromache; There is a rage that burns through Andromache.
