I Feel Like This Has To End In A Variation On A Closed Loop, Right? Of The 'dude Vanished Bc His Son

I feel like this has to end in a variation on a closed loop, right? Of the 'dude vanished bc his son went back in time to save him from vanishing' variety. Except instead of just getting pulled forward Odysseus is compelled to take the slow path for the sake of his future family.

Having never considered the concept of a highschool retelling of the Odyssey until that one post mentioned them in passing, I'd like to give my own pitch: the Odyssey meets Back to the Future meets whodunnit.

Odysseus is the central figure of the story, of course. He is also one of those high school protagonists who is inexplicably surrounded by half a dozen girls, because emphasizing that aspect of the Odyssey is funny to me. There's Penelope, his actual girlfriend; popular girl Circe; poor little rich girl Calypso; freshman Nausicaa; and Athena, who is older and solidly in bro territory with Odysseus, but still adds to the overall effect of him being surrounded by girls. (Is she a goddess? Idk. Probably she has some other kind of power, like riches or genius or both.)

The cast is rounded out by some of his Odyssey crewmen, maybe a few Iliad Greeks, and Telemachus, a new kid at their school who quickly becomes friends with Odysseus. For about half the story, things focus on slice of life, Odysseus's schemes, and the students' various personal problems. Incidents from the Odyssey are nodded toward, but not directly retold.

Then you get the Back to the Future part with the reveal that Telemachus has traveled back in time twenty years, with the help of future Athena, to solve the extremely cold case of his dad's disappearance by investigating his high school life.

Future Athena was only able to discover that someone from his high school circle was involved; in their time, there were just too many roadblocks set up between her and the truth. And she can't get inside access to those events as her adult self. So it's up to Telemachus to get to know his past parents, investigate their friends, and chase down the clues to discovering where his father's been all his life.

...While hopefully not raising the suspicions of his teenaged, but still infamously clever, parents in the process of this totally straightforward and not at all emotionally taxing mission.

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@oh-tobeafrog Thank You For Inspiring Me With This Galaxy Brain Take On My Two Favorite Marvel Heroes
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@oh-tobeafrog Thank You For Inspiring Me With This Galaxy Brain Take On My Two Favorite Marvel Heroes

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6 months ago

Dance the Night by Dua Lipa, 100%. Heard it and was like hmmm...an absolutely glitterific bop hiding an indomitable spirit plagued by heartache. Yes, I have a blorbo this will pair with quite nicely, methinks.

Dear Nightwing fans, please drop your song recs for him :D


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2 months ago

In more joking terms: every Soulmate AU that insists that its non-consensual One True Predestined Love setup is right every single time with zero exceptions is being disrespectful to the long history of people poisoning their way out marriage for fun, freedom, and/or profit. 😔🫖🍵

5 months ago

A fantastic poem on an infuriating phenomenon; arguing in good faith does not guarantee a correct consensus

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 


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8 months ago

Dangit I missed the window, gotta catch the next drop. (Never underestimate SH fans, they brought the guy back from the dead and haven't rested since)

WATSON'S SKETCHBOOK VOL 1 Is Available To Purchase! 178 Pages Of Black And White Comics, Illustrations,

WATSON'S SKETCHBOOK VOL 1 is available to purchase! 178 pages of black and white comics, illustrations, and occasional essays on Victorian queerness, covering the Watson's Sketchbook story from A STUDY IN SCARLET through SECOND INTERLUDE. Many of the comics have been updated and cleaned up from their online versions. Also they are signed and I drew a little guy inside!

9 months ago

Don't you just love a cozy little fandom? :D

@professorfoglio replied to your post “y'all about to make me never liveblog girl genius...”:

Hey. The whole purpose of this stuff is to entertain. We tried REALLY HARD to not make the novels have any "spoilers", but, I will confess that they DO contain more information than the comic. It's a different medium. Personally, I get a kick out of your updates. I would say, treat any comments you get like we treat fan fiction: we know its there, but we do not allow ourselves to read it, and assume it's all positive. Good luck!

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THE COMIC WRITERS?!?!?!??!?!?!!?!?!?

@professorfoglio Replied To Your Post “y'all About To Make Me Never Liveblog Girl Genius...”:

uh...hi? big fan.

still working on getting through first read but The Horrors are interfering

i uh thanks for the advice!

8 months ago

I adore small art of scenes we will never get in big movies. They are the moments that can most easily be cut, without ever hurting the narrative, but they hold the soul of the work.

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This one was a beast, but man it was fun.

Once again, the poetry is from my super cool friend, Meg. Who also wrote the poem for this set of drawings. Though, if you asked her, she'd just tell you that she only rhymed what Tolkien wrote in the House of Healing chapter. Regardless, scream some love in the comments for her!

Or- check out her other poems and writings here! She's got a bunch!

With that being said, thank you, Meg, for giving me the proper outlet to draw this scene. I would not have been able to get nearly this far or include this much emotion without you <3

1 year ago

I guess I always assumed that Gotham was Chicago, NY was NY, and Metropolis was, like, Portland? Seattle? Or maybe some east coast city on account of the water and general Aura of Civility(tm)

To me metropolis Gotham and new York city occupy the same space because they're all supposed to be NYC right. Like Gotham in NJ and the other two in NY and in DC reality the geography is just different whatever. And then I read fics where the author says Metropolis and Gotham have two time zone hours difference so I suppose it's in Kansas now? Or something? Idk I don't America. And that has the same feeling for me as that one MCR fic I read once where Gerard hitchhikes/road trips across the entire USA to get from New Jersey to New York City

1 month ago

One of the most well-known fics in the fandom includes a whole subplot based on the fact that this guy cannot stop getting his ass physically beat by virtual card games...

I'm More Shicked He Didn't Faint Mid Battle Honestly

I'm more shicked he didn't faint mid battle honestly


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7 months ago

I've cultivated the habit of saying "my condolences" really solemnly to even smallish complaints, because I am frustrated by that exact thing. It has the added benefit of often making people snort and feel slightly better.

Either people need to learn how to tell the difference between an “I’m sorry” that takes direct responsibility and an “I’m sorry” that signifies sympathy, or I’m gonna start responding to unfortunate information with a solemn nod and a “Sympies,” because I am tired of receiving a “Why? It wasn’t your fault” every time I try to vocalize compassion.


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