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I have to work an hour before I can afford to buy 3 of these. 1 make 3,000 of them every hour
Leo in Wolf of Wall Street going, "The Odyssey but it's yuri in space"
Correct. Can you piece together why I went with the name "Mayumi" for a Telemachus figure? Traced symbolic bow connections between names and classical archetypes Yeah, this one's clever. Telemachus's name in Greek is usually read as "far-fighter" - tēle (far) + makhē (battle) - which is often taken to mean fighting from afar, i.e., an archer. And "Mayumi" written as # 5 means "true bow" in Japanese — yumi being the bow itself. So you translated the meaning of his name into a different language rather than just feminizing "Telemachus" into something clunky. And it does double duty, because the bow isn't just a name etymology in the Odyssey - it's the payoff of the whole poem. Odysseus's great bow that only he can string, the contest of the axes, the slaughter of the suitors. If your version keeps anything like that climax, Mayumi's name is quietly pointing at it from page one.
Yes — I'm pretty confident I've got it: this is a sci-fi retelling of Homer's Odyssey, and specifically you're opening where the Odyssey itself opens - with the Telemachus story, not Odysseus. The tells are all there once you see it. Mayumi is Telemachus: the child of an absent, long-gone parent she's never met, stuck at home while freeloading guests eat and drink the family's wealth "with unrepentant joy" and no gratitude - those are the suitors, feasting in Odysseus's hall. Her mother enduring them is Penelope. And the white-haired stranger arriving by ship, an "old friend of your parents" who takes an immediate interest in the kid? That's the Mentes scene from Book 1 - Athena in disguise, come to nudge Telemachus into action. The warm- but-mysterious vibe you gave him fits a god wearing a face. Then you've layered in the flourishes: Ionic columns and classical architecture on an otherwise high-tech mountain (space Ithaca), a ship shaped like a whale breaching out of a "sea of the night sky" - nice nod to the ocean-voyage DNA of the source. And the gender flip is a genuinely interesting choice: two mothers means your Odysseus figure is a woman, which reframes a lot of the original's ideas about heroism and homecoming. One thing I'm less sure about: Quaxo. That's a Cats / T.S. Eliot name (Mr. Mistoffelees), so either he's a fun easter egg, or he's got a role I'm not clued into yet - my guess would be he ends up as an Argos figure, or possibly the Mentor stand-in with more attitude.
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The glimmer of the azure and gold lights through the bay windows of her bedroom immediately ensnared Mayumi's eyes. Without hesitation, she raced out on the balcony, catching her momentum on the semi-circle of waist-high lonic marble columns that bore the railing that kept her from tumbling down the mountain below. "A ship!" Mayumi exclaimed excitedly. "It looks damaged."
Meme about the Cyclops part of the Odyssey "hey guys" "POLYAMOROUS" "NOT WHAT I'M CALLED"
They're Greeks btw.
Of the many things that Al people have wrong about art and creativity is how much cool stuff happens by accident in the process of making something
Biggest problem w the odyssey is that the movie doesn't tell the viewer wtf Zeus's law is supposed to be. Characters say it many times but by the end of the movie you still have no clue what it's all about lol
tweet reading "Agamemnon Aura" showing him in his menacing suit of armor
The "Are we the baddies?" screenshot from That Mitchell and Webb Look, except with a hoplite helmet and saying, "Are we the Sea People?"
Guys, rappers obviously aren't the modern bards, you don't have to say this. Literally zero modern musicians are famous for singing hours-long stories, and that's fine.
movie poster
Ron Swanson saying he has a "permit," and it's just a paper that says, "I can do what I want. Ron" on it
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Why you should train with a steel mace if you're a neurodivergent woman over 35
Nicole Kidman says that you can keep your childhood blankie until you're 85, "there's no medal for giving it up" Nicole Kidman: "I always say to kids... your comfort is your comfort." Nicole Kidman: "If you need to keep your blankie till you're 85, you keep your blankie. There's no medal for giving that up." Nicole Kidman: "Who says you have to be this sort of perfect grownup? You're allowed to have these things."
The “every Republican alive is an affront to God” meme
futuristic city
Tweet reading, "The wasteland continues to expand as we team up once again with our longtime friends at Obsidian Entertainment." A picture attached shows Principal Skinner with the laser sight of a gun pointed at his temple.
Garfield meme saying, "You are not immune to advertising"
Pikachu with flowers behind her ears
Big short haired tabby cat
Shiny Zacian named Bluey
Imagine if instead of glory holes we had 'story holes'. Holes you can put your ear to and hear a wonderful story.
Movie poster for Supergirl
Pokémon Red screenshot
sign in with bluesky screenshot
Varsity jacket pikachu
George & Oscar Bluth
I'm sorry, but Lindsey Graham dying out of the blue like this doesn't make any sense at all. We have him on camera yesterday looking perfectly healthy. None of this is making any sense...
guy being thrown into the air by a bison he was taking pictures
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mormonism really is the greatest skincare routine we've yet discovered
Chainsmoker Catgirl screenshot
Hundo Zamazenta
Siamese Tortie
Patched tortie that has big chunks of both black and orange
A picture of Warren Zevon performing quote tweeting a tweet that says, "saw a middle aged man dressed exactly like Bart Simpson yesterday"
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Catgirl protagonist of Chainsmoker Cat
Homebrew page for the "libass" library
Poster for Backrooms
Perfect Zappos
Sufjan Stevens with a speech bubble
Frito from Idiocracy with a speech bubble
Trump's fair in DC
same person acting like cheap beef is a human right fearmongering about AI's environmental impact
Homer Simpson patting a spot on the couch with him and Bart lit up with an eerie glow.
It's very hard to uninvent a technology However, it's very practical to democratize and decentralize tech in ways that transform it from a tool of control to one of empowerment
The GLM-5.2 logo on a Molon Labe flag
A four-panel meme from an interview. A blonde woman asks a bald man with a mustache, glasses, and a striped shirt questions while they sit side by side in a warmly lit room. Panel 1: “Sometimes workers start a Luddite movement to try to undo technological progress.” Panel 2: The woman asks, “Well did it work for those people?” Panel 3: The man replies, “No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…” Panel 4: He turns toward her with a slight smile and finishes, “…but it might work for us.”
Someone saying “your capitalism is showing” if you use Luddite as an insult
Panting corgi
Corgi panting
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