Heart Dedicated to Hanji Zoë & Levi Ackerman

A little reminder that Telemachus JUST got back from his diplomatic mission, found his home destroyed with bodies in the halls, got ATTACKED.

MET HIS FATHER THAT'S BEEN GONE FOR 20 YEARS?? HIS FATHER STARTS SPOUTING OUT THAT THE SUITORS WANTED TO KILL HIM AND VIOLATE HIS MOTHER??

Thinking about the line “You don’t think I know my own palace? I built it!”.

Thinking about the fact that Odysseus built his entire palace around that olive tree, his and Penelope’s wedding bed, a symbol of their love.

Odysseus’ world is literally built around his love for Penelope.

Waiting...

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

No-pressure tagging @sunflowersunite @soupsontheside @sisteramoebas @quillsandblades @youre-ackermine @volcanicshrinegypsy @alexdswfan and anyone else who wants to play along!

Last song: Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce 🎧

Currently (re)watching: Charlie's Angels, Season 2 Episode 13. Currently, as in, it's playing on the TV as I answer these questions 😆

Currently reading: All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda 📚 I've been craving crime books/thrillers lately hehe

Current obsessions: Levihan (as always, lol), and a specific fruit tea I didn't like at all when I tried it about a year ago, but now I could drink it every day! 🫖

Last web search: "how many brontë sisters were there" - I'd been talking to a friend, and we were wondering whether there were more than the three famous ones xD

Last song: Flying Whales by Gojira 🐋

Currently (re)watching: Supernatural -just finished season 1. I started rewatching it partly because of nostalgia and partly because I must teach the younger generations

Currently reading: Last Chance To See by Douglas Addams and Mark Carwardine. It was a birthday gift by my friend and it's surely becoming a favourite of mine

Current obsessions: Reading, new music, My Chemical Romance recent concert lore, doing a small side quest each day

Last Web Search: "guilttriping frnkiero andthe cellabration" -I was searching for the lyrics

Favourite flower: Jasmine. It will always be jasmine 🌱

Last song: King and Lionheart by Of Monsters And Men

Currently watching: Rewatching season 1 of "a good girl's guide to murder" so I can watch the next

Currently reading: Nothing, but next in line is Agatha Christie's "Midwinter Murder"

Current obsessions: drawing, trying to get out of a writer's block, video games, my ships on the side

Last Web Search: "did soldiers from the crimean war have ptsd". The answer is yes.

Favourite flower: sunflowers, obviously.

Last song: "The Cave" by Mumford & Sons

Currently (re)watching: Violet Evergarden

Currently reading: Heartless by Marissa Meyers

Current obsessions: Nothing in particular. If trying to get a normal sleep cycle counts lol then yeah

Last web search: "synonym of stray"

Favourite flower: Bluebells

Last song: The Mirror by Mollie Elizabeth

Currently watching: Just finished s3 part 1 of JJK. I miss my husband :((

Currently obsessions: Levihan, ways to get through this insanely long art block, and trying to decide if I should leave the childcare field and try something else or if it's just too late atp 😮‍💨

Currently reading: Bought a hardcover so I could do my own Dracula Daily 0w0

Last web search: "Will a cat get sick from eating a wolf spider"

She only gobbled two of his legs so I think she'll be ok?

Favorite flower: In addition to bee orchids and roses I always forget how much I love lily of the valley :3

Currently watching: my sanity going to shit thanks to my post-grad thesis lmfao nothing since JJK s3 ended.

Currently obsessions: Sukuna, Levihan (trying to write the mecha AU fic I started back in 2018 LOL), and the Epic Saga (on Spotify).

Currently reading: "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain" by Antonio Damasio; "The anatomy of humans destructiveness" by Eric Fromm (again); "Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Embodied Brains, Social Minds and the Art of Learning" by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

Last web search: "Agamemnon" (because of twitter edits with him in The Odyssey movie LOL)

Favorite flower: passiflora flowers