Polyphemus Is Displaying An Alarming Amount Of, Shall We Say, Meta Knowledge. Like, He Knew That Odysseus

Polyphemus is displaying an alarming amount of, shall we say, meta knowledge. Like, he knew that Odysseus had been there before, and that our Odysseus was not him? I don’t like this…

MEET ME IN THE PIT GWAINE

I saw a funny post by @emergentdivergence and just HAD to do something with it.

I’m sure most of my followers at least will be just fine. 😉

[Image description:

A 4 panel cartoon by Autball, done in collaboration with David Gray-Hammond.

1: A Red/Purple figure with gray glasses and a lip ring says, “April is Autism Acceptance Month, and you know what that means…”

2: A bunch of NT and ND figures stand all together (some looking happy, some looking not bothered, and some looking quite bothered indeed) while Red/Purple continues offscreen with, “Anyone not accepted by an Autistic person before April 30th will be yeeted into the sun.”

3: Close up of Red/Purple who says, “But don’t worry…”

4: Red/Purple continues, “We’ll only make you work as hard for our acceptance as we’ve had to work for yours.” To the left is a yellow/gold figure holding three heavy books entitled Autistic Communication, Unlearning Ableism, and Masking. To the right is a light blue/blue figure holding three more heavy books entitled Stimming, Autistic Social Skills, and Neurodiversity 101.]

Ok, loved the new @camlannpod ep, but…

Where are they going with this? Is it just a filler episode to draw out our misery and speculating over Gwaine? Will our main crew meet up with Odysseus and Ariadne? Is it a separate narrative totally? Only time will tell.

I feel like post-Nirnaeth easterling-occupied Dor-Lómin definitely has a lot of songs that are covert allusions to real events they can't speak of out loud? and symbolism?

like there's this song about mourning a great tree that was needlessly cut down, and actually it means the warriors killed in the Nirnaeth. or there's a huge amount of ballads about a man who stole some trinket or other from a variety of increasingly grotesque and unsympathetic figures; for good measure the songs often end with the thief mockingly thanking the previous proprietor for his bride's new dowry. and magpies. nightingales are way too obvious but everyone knows magpies steal jewelry so there's a lot of plausible deniability.

I feel this so much

Aaaa such a good episode