Thank You Troy 2004 For Helping Me Objectify The Trojan Princes

minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son

Illustrations by Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone for Jason and the Golden Fleece

Sketch while we're waiting. I enjoy mounted charges more than I enjoy most things. :`)

Sauron actually did try to repent, according to Tolkien.

According to Tolkien, there was a time that Sauron genuinely repented and turned away from evil. He even confessed his deeds to the herald of Manwë.

In RoP the reason he was on that boat in the beginning is because he was on his way to Valinor to confess and repent before the Valar and be judged. I'm convinced he booked passage on that boat, then possibly summoned the Worm to destroy most of the ship once he drew closer to Valinor since no mortals would be permitted to accompany him to Aman. He was likely planning to float that raft, alone, to Valinor's gates.

Then he met Galadriel and ended up in Númenor, and decided to start a new life instead. Galadriel was the one who really pushed and pushed him back toward evil because the darkness (vengeance) inside her was that tantalizing.

Sauron totally "fell" for her. He started manipulating her after he abandoned his smithing post and agreed to return to Middle-earth. Everything before that was genuine, especially his desire to start anew.

Sauron genuinely wanted her to rule with him.

Fortunately, Galadriel said no. And that's a good thing, because Celeborn (her husband) is likely not dead. He needs to return to her, so that Aragorn, himself, may one day have an heir. (Because it's important to the entire lotr story... not because it's important for a woman to breed. Come on.)

The Muppets as Goncharov (1973)

the only goncharov remake I want is a muppets version

🌿🏺 Classicstober '23 week 1: Cassandra, Medusa, Asterion, Lycaon, Chiron, Medea, Persephone.

did i even draw hektor if he looks like he’s had a good night’s sleep in the last 10 years

One of the funniest real-world things to mix with the Iliad is that in Hittite society bird omens/reading birds was like.

A really important divination method.

Maybe not THE most important but it was big and it was complex and involved.

And then you have Hektor "fuck your bird signs" of Troy.

Overcoming the slightest challenge of my day: “This is just like the Odyssey.”

Finally GIFs from my project! I made a simple animation for a story about the death of Ajax. I combined the first dialogue of Athena and Odysseus from the tragedy of Sophocles with the episode of Odysseus in Hades from the Odyssey. And Ajax in this project had no words :( dying in silence.