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Finally finished the fourth season of Netflix's Castlevania a few days ago, now I shall spiral
Referenced from some screenshots from the Aeterna series (Этерна) that I found on Pinterest (here's the second image)
Words of Love
Love comes in different forms and wears different faces.
The ancient Greeks had words to express that, and the captains of the Epic Writing Server have selected a few of them as prompts for the week leading up to Valentine's Day. May these prompts inspire you to create your own portrayals of that love - whether it's for the characters in Greek mythology or another fandom!
You can add your works to our collection on ao3 by claiming the prompts here:
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I always read Telemachus’s treatment towards Penelope as not solely built up on resentment towards her, but resentment towards Odysseus as well. Since Penelope is present, she is the receiver of the anger towards Odysseus, especially when he believes that she chooses his father over him.
Telemachus treating his father well in the Odyssey doesn’t mean there was no resentment. This very much has to do not only with happiness of meeting the father he’s never known, but also because Odysseus returned at an urgent time.
Telemachus is someone that holds a lot of anger and insecurities that built up throughout his life, and it all goes back to the absence of his father. Telemachus also had to watch his mother suffer due to Odysseus not being there, and he would resent Odysseus for this and feel as though he had stolen his mother from him. It also has to do with how Penelope technically does choose Odysseus over everyone.
There’s also the factor of Odysseus not returning as the man he used to be. He is nothing like the man Telemachus heard about his entire life, and he could feel upset over that - he could either feel angry that he never met the old Odysseus or that he doesn’t live up to the image that he built in his mind.
There could also be fear on Telemachus’s part that he is not the son Odysseus imagined he would return to. His insecurities might get the worst of him and make him keep his distance for a while.
Lastly, despite Odysseus’s return, he is still a stranger. He returned when his son is an adult, and that would make it harder for them to get close. Telemachus might take time to get used to him being there. There’s also the fact that Telemachus witnessed for years as his mother was being bothered by these strange men, so it could take time for him to see Odysseus around Penelope without feeling protective.
The family dynamic after the dust settles and the initial adrenaline from Odysseus returning and the subsequent events wears off would be so fascinating to explore, that's a whole other avalanche of emotions for everyone to deal with.
With Telemachus specifically, I think he'll reach his breaking point soon enough, despite perhaps trying to keep the composure of the prince he thinks he ought to be - he's gone onto his coming of age journey, and now also got his father back and the suitors are gone, everything should be great, right? Wrong, because you can't just evaporate the trauma and the negative feelings that were piling up not just for years, but basically your whole life (and particularly the most formative years) when you get the 'happily ever after'. It all would still be there and now that Telemachus is no longer in survival mode all that anger, grief, sadness and fear are going to explode in his own and his parents' faces, who would also be dealing with their own traumas at the same time...
As much as I like to see happy family fluff for these characters after everything they've been through, this kind of additional angst would probably make more sense in their situation. The things they went through have left marks that can no longer be ignored when there's finally peace around them. There are so many wounds to be healed and it's not going to be a painless process.
Also, I think something that kind of gets forgotten is that the suitors and Odysseus' absence weren't the only major stressors for Telemachus and Penelope (I myself haven't thought much about it until recently)
Telemachus has seen his grandmother die of grief and his grandfather subsequently leaving their home because that new blow was too much for him to handle (and then potentially the rumours of him going mad, that would very much not be pleasant to hear), and iirc, that happened near the end of the Trojan war, so Telemachus was still a little kid. Sure soon after that there came good news of the war ending and the anticipation of Odysseus' return, but years went by and there was basically no information of his whereabouts or whether he's even alive.
The suitors came around 4 years before the Odyssey's events and the situation got progressively worse (that being Telemachus' late teen years and early adulthood). Aside from there being a slight chance of Penelope marrying one of the suitors, there's also the notion that she could also leave back to Sparta and marry someone there (as Telemachus himself mentioned, iirc), and Telemachus would be left almost completely on his own and with no older family members, who held any power to protect him, being present.
Penelope as well was basically left without a proper support system with her birth family far away and her in-laws not being able to help her through her struggles. Laertes in particular, were he in a better state, would've probably been able to help handle the suitors quite effectively.
In addition to what the post above already said, for Telemachus even more conflicting feelings about Odysseus being dead or alive could arise from Anticlea's death and Laertes' grief, like simultaneously blaming Odysseus for dying, because the rumour of his death is what caused that, while also being resentful, if he's alive because then why wasn't he here to prevent Anticlea's death and Laertes' grief and departure, etc.
I really wonder what teenage Telemachus initial reaction to Penelope weaving a burial shroud for not yet dead Laertes would've been...
Even if she were to explain to him that this was a trick against the suitors, the notion of her making that specific item would have been a lot to process after all that grief
Imagine a 16-17 year old Telemachus having a meltdown one night and actually contemplating (or even attempting) to destroy that shroud and all it symbolises... And being stopped by either Penelope or Eurycleia because that might cause too many additional problems they can't afford to deal with (but in particular because Telemachus would be the one scrutinized for it and they don't want him to go through that in addition to everything else)
Eurycleia was basically holding Penelope and Telemachus' mental health together as much as she possibly could in her position
The honorary grandma stepped up
POV: you are the young king of Ithaca and you finally see that Spartan princess you were so curious about
A woman with a stature fit for a goddess standing proud and tall amongst her valiant people, her long hair cascading down her back akin to ocean’s waves, her eyes as bright as the endless sky above, with gaze so clear and so perceptive giving a glimpse of undeniably sharp wit hiding behind the calm and gentle smile. She was ethereal. And she was most definitely too far of a shot for Odysseus to make, but as luck would have it, he has always been an excellent archer.
^This is from my Odypen one-shot that you can read over here on AO3
More about the drawing below the cut
Penelope wip~
(Referencing "Lot’s Wife" sculpture by W. Hamo Thornycroft for the pose and fabric flow)
I bring you yet another meme redraw
My painting class is right the day after my drawing class, and a (slightly exaggerated) summary of that would be to say that the drawing class is meant for torturing the students, while the painting class is to heal our souls afterwards heh
Apparently I never shared my AO3 stuff here, so here you go
A compilation of EPIC and Odyssey AUs and one shots, which I still occasionally add to
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
A short rewrite of "I'm just a man", featuring Odysseus singing it as a lullaby to baby Telemachus before leaving home (which also was the first thing I ever posted on AO3)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
And this is why Odysseus started introducing himself as father of Telemachus
This has been sitting in my wips for an embarrassingly long time, and I kept scrutinizing it, kept being unsatisfied, because the longer I waited, the more nitpicks I found, but at last! I finally decided to accept this thing as it is, post it and move on
Didn't realize I forgot to post the full drawing where you can see the details better
The armour bits, btw, were from these incredible recreations of Mycenaean armours
Undoubtedly the Late Helladic era (15th -11th century BC), well known as Mycenean period, is characterized as a vivid war-centric society.
A couple of sketches from yesterday's class that turned out decently :P
Me, who hasn't drawn in about 2 months and hasn't touched gouache in about 2 years: how long could this possibly take ( ᐛ )?
The answer was all night-
I made this back in checks calendar
... back in August haha ("ᐛ )
and kind of forgot to post it on here oops
This was a pretty sudden late night decision to make something as a reciprocatory gift. That something ended up being an Apollo meme redraw with gouache (and a couple of other things). Bet you didn't see that coming heh neither did I
I don't know, why I decided to give him black hair, when the vast majority of his depictions (be it classical paintings or modern fanarts) portray him as blonde, but here we are
I didn't have any kind of Apollo design, so I had to come up with something really quickly and ended up pulling a few statues and some other ancient depictions of him to use as references on the go. Somehow in the process the overall image ended up somewhat reminiscent of Mycenaean/Minoan frescos (not that I'm complaining, I suppose I just stared at them so much they burrowed themselves into my subconsciousness haha)
Some birds from across Pinterest I drew during midterms as an attempt to cool down my brain
Some Autolycus sketches🐺
This was originally supposed to be Diomedes, but when I drew the first sketch it just wasn't him and so I rolled with that XD
(For those, who don't know, he's Odysseus's grandfather and son of Hermes)
I think I might actually like the unedited photo more now? Idk, maybe it's both
Behold!
A meme:
My attempts to draw the movie version of this guy
When you haven't been drawing for so long you forgot what your own style looks like
Two versions, because I couldn't decide, which one I like more ¯\_(‾▿‾ )_/¯
Translation of the text in the art:
Text translation:
There's no Oleg here-
Oleg is here.
Spoilers to "Major Grom: The game" movie: