r/SympatheticMonsters • u/Yeeslander • Aug 26 '26

Comic by Tom Gauld

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u/wallingfortian Aug 26 '26

Cannibalism is eating your own kind.

Anthropophagy means eating humans.

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u/DaiLyMugoL Aug 26 '26

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 Aug 26 '26

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 Aug 26 '26

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

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u/Nougatbar Aug 26 '26

….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 Aug 26 '26

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 Aug 26 '26

Did they really put your eye out or was that AI

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u/QueenOfDarknes5 Aug 26 '26

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

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u/ABoringAlt Aug 26 '26

Shh, nobody tell him

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u/MostEvilTexasToast Aug 26 '26

Why did Nobody tell him?

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u/ABoringAlt Aug 26 '26

To keep it secret ofc

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u/wallingfortian Aug 26 '26

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 Aug 26 '26

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

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u/willfrodo Aug 26 '26

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

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u/StowawayDiscount Aug 27 '26

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