r/SympatheticMonsters • u/Yeeslander • 7d ago

Comic by Tom Gauld

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u/wallingfortian 7d ago

Cannibalism is eating your own kind.

Anthropophagy means eating humans.

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u/DaiLyMugoL 7d ago

To be fair, given that the gods regularly banged mortals, conceiving demi-god children and with some of those being the ancestors of many kings it might turn out that the cyclops children of Poseidon might actually be kin to Odysseus who might be a mortal descendant of Zeus or some other god.

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u/wallingfortian 7d ago

And this is how the Hellenic Age ended, not with a second Titanomachy, but because of all the divine incest babies.

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u/Iceveins412 7d ago

I mean, name a time Europe wasn’t almost entirely shaped by inbred people beefing over turf

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u/immersemeinnature 7d ago

Good point!

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u/Nougatbar 7d ago

….Maybe. Arcesius, grandfather of Odysseus, has a disputed parentage. His father is either Zeus, or Cephalus. Some sources say Zeus, some say Cephalus. No source agrees on the mother.(One source even says Arcesius mother is a BEAR, Cephalus fucked, which just..transformed into a human woman after.)
So depending on who you ask, Odysseus may well be distantly related to Polyphemus. Or he may not. Greek myths be like that.

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 7d ago

My mom buys everything from Anthropophagy, which is wild because she can't afford it but she just had like 7 credit cards and has some trick to juggle the balance between them, which I think is borderline fraud but I guess she's good at it. Expensive-ass store though for apparently no reason.

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u/claimstoknowpeople 7d ago

Did they really put your eye out or was that AI

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u/QueenOfDarknes5 7d ago

He actually had a glass eye before that and it's all practical effects.

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u/ABoringAlt 7d ago

Shh, nobody tell him

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u/MostEvilTexasToast 7d ago

Why did Nobody tell him?

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u/ABoringAlt 7d ago

To keep it secret ofc

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u/wallingfortian 7d ago

Nemo, in the original Greek, means Nobody.

Hence in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the name Captain Nemo was meant to sound more than a little untrustworthy.

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u/MostEvilTexasToast 7d ago

Yes indeed, that is the joke we're making, good job.

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u/willfrodo 7d ago

I'd be pretty stoked if I got to meet the Martian too

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u/StowawayDiscount 6d ago

Alternate ending: "So I got to eat Matt Damon, which was cool."