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Author Topic: THE EPIC OF DEONIDEAS - MANLY FANTASY FICTION  (Read 19463 times)

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« Reply #60 on: May 12, 2010, 11:55:15 am »

I'm not sure if I'm proud or ashamed of this ... oh well, here it is:

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« Reply #61 on: May 12, 2010, 01:28:09 pm »

If any of you are artistically inclined, feel free to do cover art or illustrations for these stories!

EDIT: like this here!


I chose to make Deonideainaeodaiousa a giant with an eyepatch, because that just seemed manlier than a traditional cyclops.
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« Reply #62 on: May 12, 2010, 05:58:23 pm »

Thee are awesome! ^_^

I have put the last scene from Thwe wonam of Fire in my art quee, so I might do an awesome art of it in a few months!

I say, a continuation of Woman of Fire migth be a good target for vesters romance art if she dont aleredy have a bazilion idea,s in wich case she shuld do those as that are probably even more awesome.

****, thisthread is so ****ing awesome and MANLY!  ;D
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« Reply #63 on: May 12, 2010, 06:31:10 pm »

If any of you are artistically inclined, feel free to do cover art or illustrations for these stories!

EDIT: like this here!
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I chose to make Deonideainaeodaiousa a giant with an eyepatch
So The Unpronounceable Cyclops is a giant pirate? :D
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It's known as the Oppai-Kaiju effect. The islands of Japan generate a sort anti-gravity field, which allows breasts to behave as if in microgravity. It's also what allows Godzilla and friends to become 50 stories tall, and lets ninjas run up the side of a skyscraper.

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« Reply #64 on: May 12, 2010, 06:33:55 pm »

there's more than one definition of cyclops. Though if he appeared in some other story as a traditional "one eye in the middle of the forehead" cyclops, that'd be jsut fine. For some reason those kind of inconsistencies work GREAT with the excessively manly medium.

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« Reply #65 on: May 12, 2010, 07:36:54 pm »

Deonideas in: The Industrial Revolution.

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« Reply #66 on: May 12, 2010, 07:40:54 pm »

there's more than one definition of cyclops. Though if he appeared in some other story as a traditional "one eye in the middle of the forehead" cyclops, that'd be jsut fine. For some reason those kind of inconsistencies work GREAT with the excessively manly medium.
Its so MANLY that it ignores all inconsistencies!
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« Reply #67 on: May 12, 2010, 07:44:19 pm »

often times what happens on the cover of a sword and sandal novel is radically different than what is described in the text.

Deonideainaeodaiousa might even be a woman, for example. I don't think his gender has been stated in the text yet.

EDIT: don't tell Deon I said that

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« Reply #68 on: May 12, 2010, 07:53:50 pm »

The fun thing about cyclopes is that the Iliad never actually says that Polyemphus's eye is in his forehead, and it doesn't even say if he naturally has one eye or if he had 2 but 1 was put out. It's most likely that Polyemphus was actually a large and powerful man who was missing an eye due to an accident or perhaps fighting something, and thus was branded a 'cyclops'.

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« Reply #69 on: May 12, 2010, 07:57:08 pm »

The fun thing about cyclopes is that the Iliad never actually says that Polyemphus's eye is in his forehead, and it doesn't even say if he naturally has one eye or if he had 2 but 1 was put out. It's most likely that Polyemphus was actually a large and powerful man who was missing an eye due to an accident or perhaps fighting something, and thus was branded a 'cyclops'.

My favorite interpretation is that he was a one-eyed bartender who'd lost his eye.
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« Reply #70 on: May 12, 2010, 07:59:11 pm »

The fun thing about cyclopes is that the Iliad never actually says that Polyemphus's eye is in his forehead, and it doesn't even say if he naturally has one eye or if he had 2 but 1 was put out. It's most likely that Polyemphus was actually a large and powerful man who was missing an eye due to an accident or perhaps fighting something, and thus was branded a 'cyclops'.

My favorite interpretation is that he was a one-eyed bartender who'd lost his eye.
You mean he was a bartender who lost one of his eyes? Unless you mean he had one eye before, then lost it.
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« Reply #71 on: May 12, 2010, 08:00:06 pm »

The Iliad is fun to read if you don't have any preconceptions about it's contents. If read one way, it's the story of a drunken asshole named Odysseus as he sails up the european coast stabbing people because they look funny.

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« Reply #72 on: May 12, 2010, 08:06:44 pm »

The fun thing about cyclopes is that the Iliad never actually says that Polyemphus's eye is in his forehead, and it doesn't even say if he naturally has one eye or if he had 2 but 1 was put out. It's most likely that Polyemphus was actually a large and powerful man who was missing an eye due to an accident or perhaps fighting something, and thus was branded a 'cyclops'.

My favorite interpretation is that he was a one-eyed bartender who'd lost his eye.
You mean he was a bartender who lost one of his eyes? Unless you mean he had one eye before, then lost it.

Both.

Also, Calypso and Circe? Are high-class brothel Madams.
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« Reply #73 on: May 12, 2010, 08:42:45 pm »

The Iliad is fun to read if you don't have any preconceptions about it's contents. If read one way, it's the story of a drunken asshole named Odysseus as he sails up the european coast stabbing people because they look funny.
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we must have missed a lot in english class (book only had a little part of it). that sounds a lot more interesting then what we read.
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« Reply #74 on: May 12, 2010, 09:05:18 pm »

The Iliad is a monsterous text, so i wouldn't be surprised if you only did a little bit, most modern translations also take quite a lot of liberty with the text, adding in bits to make it more readable to the average man and soforth.

The really sad part is that the Iliad makes several mentions of other books written by the same guy, which were all similar epics about heroes doing what heroes do best (killing people, looting their houses and raping their women, not neccessarily in that order), but the Iliad is the only one that's survived the ages.
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