i cant remember if i mentioned this on here already, but its still circling around my head
Odysseus and Aeolus
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Muppets travelling by map
what if, when Odysseus meets Aelous, rather than just giving Odysseus the winds, he gives Odysseus a map to travel by map with, so we can just do a map transition to the crew nearly at Ithaca (obviously visible in the distance) and then someone, I'm currently picturing Fozzie, decides to take the winds as in the original text
if the person who takes and opens the winds is Fozzie, I feel like he was probably attempting a fart joke or something...
but with the winds open, they, of course, get sent all the way back across the Aegean, and they could lose the map as well when they are ripped away from Ithaca by the winds, explaining why they have to effectively go the long way round, rather than fast-travelling like they can in other media
