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    17 Mar 2025

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    15 Mar 2025

  3. Rec *

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    When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself in his old bed in his old home in his old body. Is this death? Or a trick of magic? Either way, Bilbo recognizes a second chance when he sees one, and this time his adventure with Thorin is going to go a bit differently.

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    11 Feb 2025

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    The name of Rin's soulmate has sat on his arm his entire life, and after Yukio met his it only made him more excited to find his own.

    But then Satan is possessing his dad, and suddenly he's the son of Satan, and his entire world has been turned upside down.

    The last place he expected to find his soulmate is in a classroom of students training to kill half of what Rin is.

    And yet...

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    21 Jan 2025

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    Arthur has always had distant dreams of leaving Camelot. They were never more than a wistful fantasy, at least once he grew up.

    Finding out about Merlin’s magic changes everything though, and not only because Arthur would do more to keep Merlin safe than he cares to admit. What follows are secrets upon secrets, allowing the dreams to slip back in as all his father’s lies unravel around him. Slowly but surely, Camelot feels less like a home and more like a gilded cage, and Arthur isn’t so certain anymore whether he’s the right person to carry this legacy. If he even wants to.

    One final secret, one opportunity, and suddenly the dreams aren’t mere dreams anymore. Merlin wouldn’t be Merlin if he didn’t follow wherever Arthur goes, and as they try to outrun Uther’s manhunt for them, they have to learn to live a life that’s about more than duty, other’s expectations, and a destiny that has never once cared for them.

    Or: Arthur long since expected that one day, he might have to flee Camelot with Merlin. He just never thought that he would be the reason.

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    01 Dec 2024

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    When Merlin sets out to teach mindspeech to Arthur, he couldn't have known just how much it would affect the friendship between King and Court Mage.

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    01 Dec 2024

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    Shen Qingqiu survives his self-destruction in Hua Yue City and is whisked away by Luo Binghe to recover under his care. Once he wakes, it quickly becomes apparent that, not only is he temporarily paralyzed, but Luo Binghe also doesn't know that he's awake.

    Believing himself to be unobserved and unheard, Luo Binghe starts talking to Shen Qingqiu...

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    30 Nov 2024

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    Three weeks pass.

    Odysseus is carried through them with ecstasy and joy, reuniting and grieving and laughing and rearranging.

    But then everything settles down, and-

    It was him who'd ordered it. Ordered owls to be carved into every free inch of Ithaka, coveted shipments of the secretive birds for his personal menagerie, sold trinkets in the market. Made no secret of who favoured them, when he had half the houses painted blue.

    But now every step he takes in his own home haunts him.

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    29 Nov 2024

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    The tale of Odysseus is one that has been retold over countless millennia, from the mouths of poets, of authors, and historians and storytellers. But has it ever been told from the mouth of the man himself ?

    This is a familiar tale, and a familiar story - the Iliad, entombed in history as ancient as the land of Greece. This is the story of the Iliad as told from the mouth of the man who made it all happen - from the mouth of the Silver-tongued prince of Ithaca. From the mouth of Odysseus

    Watch as he navigates the cruelty of the war, as lovers are ripped from each other, daughters die, heroes fall, and he survives it all - armed with a quick mind and a sharp tongue.

    This is not a story of heroes and gods and myth
    This is a story of love, of loss and war and death
    This is the story of the most human of the Grecian heroes

    (A retelling of the Iliad fron the POV of Odysseus. Unedited first draft of my first novel)

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    22 Nov 2024

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    All and all, Thanatos was used to worry. He carried it with him as readily as he carried his scythe, and it was equally a part of him. He had long since embraced it, knowing it was inescapable to run from and foolish to be ashamed of.

    But even despite aeons of self-development, Death could not control the scorching panic that coursed through him as he grappled with a singular thought.

    Zagreus was missing.

    (A deeper look into Zag/Than/Meg's "Understanding", as well as the connections between many of the prince's loved ones.)

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    19 Nov 2024

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    "Please consider what I’m about to say. Think of it as you return to your mother. You must put as much thought into it as you can. Will you? Please, promise me you will.”

    “Yes! Whatever it is, I’ll consider it.”

    “Eventually Lord Hades will have mercy upon you. He will. I know that must sound strange—the most severe of the gods showing mercy where his kindred won’t—but it’s the truth. The Olympians are more… unreliable. The only way I can see to protect the Underworld and in turn you and your mother is this: Bind yourself to me.” His hands tremble. He brushes his thumb along the crook of Zag’s throat, so very sweet, even when he’s rigid with tension. “Wed me.”

     

    Raised by his mother far away from both Olympus and the Underworld, a strange series of events leads Zagreus to meeting a faceless, nameless Chthonic god.

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    17 Nov 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    best fic i've read in a while. just beautiful.

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    Achilles and Patroclus go to the arena to see Zagreus fight. That's the plan, anyway, until Theseus says a few things he shouldn't, and Achilles decides to stand up for the prince.

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    11 Nov 2024

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    It's a bit ironic that the god of life should fall for the dead.

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    10 Nov 2024

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    “I’ll do anything,” Orpheus says. His knees are beginning to buckle under him. “I’ll work in the mines. I’ll work on the wall.”

    “Son, you wouldn’t last a day down there,” the god drawls.

    “Then I’ll sing,” he croaks. “I’ll sing for your workers to keep them in line. I’ll sing for your wife, to keep her underground. Please…” He glances back at the house—really more of a shack—where Eurydice lies by the dwindling fire. “I can’t let her starve.”

    Silence. Then, a quirk of the lips—not really a smile, but the gesture of one. “I suppose I could use a canary.”

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    10 Nov 2024

  15. Rec *

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    In which Odysseus inadvertently sets out on another odyssey through the underworld. Hijinks ensue.

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    10 Nov 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    beloved omg

  16. Rec 53

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    His body holds the years. She reaches out to hold his body.

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    A non-linear look at Penelope and Odysseus meeting after, and remembering, the twenty years between them.

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    09 Nov 2024

  17. Rec *

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    Odysseus of Ithaca, the sacker of Troy, had angered the gods during his travels many times. But what if, through his wit, sheer stubbornness and love for his family, he had managed to convince the gods to care for him as their own?
    The Olympians are equal parts baffled and intrigued by this man, who is not nearly as fearful as he ought to be when in their presence. Their eyes, unavoidably, turn to Ithaca.

    Or Odysseus decides he can’t lose Athena right after being robbed of Polites and refuses to let her go. Somehow it makes his life so much better and at the same time also so much worse.

    Or or Odysseus gets home earlier than in the original myth but now Ithaca is somehow starting to look like second Olympus and he has a few ideas what to do about it (they all go horribly)
    Penelope is not impressed. Neither is Eurylochus.
    Telemachus is just happy to have his dad home.

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    07 Nov 2024

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    Penelope owns a golden chain.

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    07 Nov 2024

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    Hermes’ form began to glow a sickly orange, radiating in waves as a pair of ram horns sprouted alongside the wings on his head. Odysseus watched with morbid curiosity as the rest of Hermes' body darkened, creating the illusion of a void besides the luminescent glow of his eyes and wings. His mouth seemed to glow with each word he spoke, but Odysseus couldn’t be sure as the deity took another step away from him and towards the goddess that haunted his life for seven years.

    “I have been patient, daughter of Pleione, but you have tested me. I came here with no intention of creating conflict, but you have given me NO choice!”

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    What if Calypso was not so willing to let Odysseus go?

    Featuring Feral Hermes with his great grandson (Athena's part in chapter 2)

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    07 Nov 2024

  20. Rec *

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    “What are you carving?” a few of the children ask, the younger ones hiding behind the backs of their older, braver siblings.
    “I don’t know yet,” the king replies. “But I think it’s important.”

     

    Or: In which Odysseus amasses a small army of Ithacan children, a very large army of wooden soldiers, and the support system to heal just that little bit further.

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    05 Nov 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    genuinely one of the most beautiful stories i've read. i cried.

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