The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

The role a human refugee in an isekai world could most adeptly play would be like...organizational psychologist. HR guy for the wizard tower. Even people who scorn that stuff have ambiently absorbed more of it than the average fantasy world has ever learned. Because let's face it, you'll never be as good an adventurer as the natives, your last-studied-physics-in-high-school ass can't re-derive electrical energy from first principles, but "maybe don't constantly scream at your minions how shitty and replaceable they are?" or "You're suffering from executive burnout, my liege" would be to them what "I cast fireball" is to us. You'd have them eating out of the palm of your hand.

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funniest bnd moments in no particular order

I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.