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  1. Public Bookmark 41

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    “Do something. You have to do something. Achilles, please...”
    Achilles did not look at Phoenix. He was unable to. He kept his gaze lowered. He looked at his hands. They were huge. Were they his hands? They didn’t look like it.
    ‘I swear it.’
    ‘Patroclus leads the march. They’re heading for the walls. Heading to Troy.’
    He saw the wooden statue on the floor, at his feet. The boy singing, the lyre in his hands.
    ‘I swear it.’
    “A chariot,” Achilles articulated aloud. Eyes fixed on the statue. “Who has a chariot?”

    Or: Achilles has a moment of clarity thanks to an old gift from Patroclus and rushes to find him on the battlefield, where the love of his life is pretending to be him, dressed in his armour. Who knows if he will arrive before something tragic occurs...

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    01 Oct 2025

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    Gotta read this again and again and again and I'm addicted

  2. Public Bookmark 73

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    An unhinged reincarnated Penelope known as Percy Jackson washes up on Ogygia.

    This is just a crack drabble to feed my Penelope Percy obsession

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    03 Jan 2025

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    Odysseus is home. Athena’s wounds have, for the most part, healed. The suitors are no longer terrorizing Penelope and Telemachus. It should be a happy ending, yet the aftereffects of twenty years of trauma are slow to go away.

    Chapter 1: Odysseus has been traumatized by war, and now his son is training with a war goddess. Athena has been traumatized by her king-father, and now Telemachus has his king-father back. Telemachus, tired of his father and his best friend to trying to protect him from each other, just wants them to work out their issues.

    Chapter 2: Athena and Penelope are both ignoring their own issues and pushing themselves too hard trying to take care of the people they love. After Athena reveals what happened during God Games, they find this out about each other.

    Chapter 3: Odysseus is furious at Zeus. Telemachus doesn't disagree with his father's reasoning, but Odysseus's rage still scares him. Both of them want to make sure Athena doesn't get hurt again—but neither of them know how.

    Can be read as a follow-up to my series Aftershocks, or on its own.

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    30 Dec 2024

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    But even through all of the endless questions she had of how, why, what now, she still made sure that she flew down to Ithaca every day, either choosing to be invisible or lurk in the trees as an owl and watched as Odysseus played with Eurylochus and Polites, watching as the three boys ran around the woods. Though oftentimes, the former two ran while the latter one merely followed. They acted like the children they were, but not how Athena remembered them to be.

    Perhaps if there was a way, she would have gone to the underworld and demanded her grandfather's council — after all, Kronos was the Titan of time. Perhaps it was he who could explain how she had come to the situation she was in.

    And where she was, was back in time, back in the past.

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    ‘What if there is a world where we don't have to live this way?’

    (Athena somehow manages to find herself back in time, and does all she can to prevent Odysseus’ ten year journey.)

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    29 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 73

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    “I know you’ll handle this well,” his old social worker had said, with a hand on his shoulder that had him tensing up. “You’re a resourceful kid, Tommy. Or, should I say, adult! Happy birthday, by the way.”

    Ever since his falling out with the nicest foster family he ever had, Tommy had just been waiting to age out. He was done with taking so much and relying on others.
    What Tommy doesn’t understand yet, is that helping and needing help are a part of what makes us human. But he’s about to learn.
    Through being sick, unfortunately.

    Whumptober day 27: Nausea / Starvation

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    22 Dec 2024