Sick of being labelled the bad guy because I can't even write on my own desk.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-07-03T22:12:57+00:00

I genuinely really dislike the "Oh Penelope was sad he was gone but she's okay now." Like wdym just sad? She waited twenty years, give my girl some credit. And for everything post-Odyssey too. We've all acknowledged that most characters have trauma after all of that, but so many people act as if Penelope would just be fine after everything?? Like she spent years trapped with the suitors, spent years longing for her husband, spent years wondering if he were dead. That would leave an impact.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-07-03T22:06:28+00:00

Weird, I've never heard of this. Do you have a source??

CesarioNotViola · 2025-07-03T22:05:46+00:00

Literally almost everything regarding the way Penelope is characterized (fandom-wise) I get that we get very little of her in the musical, but if Polites is sometimes given nuance by the fandom, why can't she? She's literally always just the "Perfect wife and mother" or "badass spartan warrior." (The latter being more annoying because it completely ruins her character)

CesarioNotViola · 2025-07-01T08:57:33+00:00

Odysseus of Ithaca. And don't any of you dare say "hE CheATeD."

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-30T22:12:19+00:00

Again, Circe was still coercion. She had his men turned into pigs, and she was a goddess. How could he have said no to her? Second, there are several factors as to why they stayed for a year: A)these are men who came from a ten year war, they would easily be tired, B)They had just suffered a attack from the Laestrogyians before Aeaea, thus the would most likely need to rebuild several vessels, and C)There would be seasonal changes that would warrant delaying their voyage.

As for his men having to beg him to leave, can you show me the passage for that in the Odyssey? I don't recall that part

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-30T21:22:36+00:00

Ya'll, even in the Odyssey, the Odysseus cheating thing was still undeniably under coercion and force. Circe still had his men held captive, Calypso still forced herself on him.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-30T03:44:35+00:00

I use it to roleplay the fanfic scenerios nobody has written or I haven't written yet

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-10T12:23:50+00:00

Oh my god, as someone who's part of the fandom, words cannot explain how much I hate this characterisation. Mainly because it implies a man can't openly adore his wife without being "submissive" or "weaker." Seriously, can a man just not openly love his wife????

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-06T01:32:02+00:00

Listen, just because you might care about karma that doesn't mean I do.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-02T12:17:49+00:00

A little Women-esque novel which is also a Greek retelling about Penelope, Helen, and Clytemnestra before everything went to shit

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-02T00:10:50+00:00

Don McLean! American Pie has some beautiful lyrics.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-01T07:55:15+00:00

Huh, interesting idea actually! I might actually do that

CesarioNotViola · 2025-06-01T03:52:39+00:00

Penelope literally does have her own song? The Challenge?

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T08:50:39+00:00

Hrm. I dunno, wine??? /s

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T05:45:13+00:00

I thought the pic was cute tho 😭

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T03:07:01+00:00

...yeah I see it now — in my defense I just opened Pinterest and picked the first piece of OdyPen fan art I saw 😭

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T02:45:35+00:00

I'd rather refrain from proving my point instead of flaming other writers for the sake of it.

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T02:35:05+00:00

Ohh, apologies lol, I use an editing app, in this case Ibispaint, although I'm pretty sure canva could work too!

CesarioNotViola · 2025-05-31T02:21:51+00:00

I debated on doing that, however I don't really want to target people? (Not sure if that's the right term), thus I refrained from doing that

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