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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

Fearless child, Broken boy; Tell me what it's like to burn.

This.

The suitors honestly give such frat bro vibes

Odysseus- kills over a hundred people, beheads someone

Odysseus, not even ten minutes later- “Oh my son look how much you’ve grown 🥰💕💖 Oh my boy sweetest joy I’ve known 🥺✨🌸”

Did a meme fanart of Eurylochus, the Epic version lmfao

6 of my god designs for epic the musical 💜

(from top left to bottom right - Circe, Apollo, Aeolus, Poseidon, Dionysus, Hermes)

singles under the cut

AKSBBAHR I FORGOT HERMES’ WINGS SMH

everyday i’m getting closer to having designs for all of them

Once a year, Penelope orders for a painter to come and make a painting of Telemachus.

So when Odysseus finally returns, there’s a gallery of 20 paintings, showing how year after year, Telemachus grew into the young man he was now.

In some of them, Telemachus is dressed properly as a prince of Ithaca. In others, he is doing some of his daily activities (reading, playing with Argos, writing, playing the lyre), as the painter came around so often that the prince stopped caring to pose for an entire day in an uncomfortable attire.

There is one, that Odysseus finds himself staring at the longest.

It’s the twelfth painting. Where Telemachus is accompanied by his mother.

The young boy sits at her side, as she carefully teaches him to weave. It was painted in their room, as a part of the olive tree that is their bed, is also captured in the back.

Odysseus sobs, and thanks his wife for bringing the lost years in such a beautiful form to him.

Even years after his return, the King often is found in the small gallery, watching his son slowly grow with each step.

(I love this family your honour)

My entire musical taste revolves around these two. I'm not complaining; I love listening to it with edits

hey sexy what time do you plan on being done grieving

I'm very cozy in my little necklace home 🥰

(Your art is amazing as always @the-tech-turn!"

Do you have a version of Poseidon bc if so DRAW IT FOR US IMMEDIATELY if not, which is your favorite rendition of him? (Idk just been loving Poseidon designs recently)

Ive been waiting for this moment for the perfect time to strike

THIS IS MY POSIDON DESIGN

( @toocringeforinstagram lives in his necklace as a fish)

Here are some early concepts and failed drawings

As for my favorite Posidon design

Definitely @neal-illustrator 's design

I LOVE IT SO MUCH

I love how in Love In Paradise when Odysseus cries out for Athena Eurylochus is singing: “you rely on wit” because Odysseus is literally relying on wit, on Athena

Peek A Boo! I plan on doing a whole series of Famtheon comics addressing the lives, relationships, and pasts of my designs for the greek gods. So keep your eyes peeled for more in the near future!

SCYLLA

Always there for you Telekinesis

Can we normalize not calling me by nicknames? Like everyone calls me Telemarketing or Telecommunication, like come on! My name isn't that hard T.e.l.e.m.a.c.h.u.s NEXT TIME PLEASE WRITE IT THE GOOD WAY! I am gonna go CRAZY if it continues

Heartbreaking concept: Penelope thinking up the challenge years in advance once it becomes clear the suitors won't leave without a marriage, specifically thinking of something Odysseus can do, with the axes, sitting at the end with the assurance that she will die if they succeed, and having Telemachus trained to use his father's bow specifically from a young age. Initially she doesn't say anything about her true intentions but one he reaches like 15, she explains that if she ever issues the challenge then she expects him to complete the challenge, including killing her, and taking up the throne

reblog this and tag the first fandom you joined on tumblr

In Godgames Zeus says "no one beats me. No one wins my game", implying that he's hosted it before. This is supported by all the other gods being totally unphased about having to rap battle against Athena.

The only one who has never heard of this game is Athena herself. We know this because A) she didn't know who "them" was referring to and B) Zeus had to explain the rules to her.

Now I find it funny that in none of the past Godgames Athena participated because we all know she would've RULED. However I doubt it's for a lack of Zeus asking. I think Zeus rang Athena up and went "need you for a game" and Athena went "oh, sorry Dad, I'm hanging out with friends this weekend. Next time though, haha..."

Which 'Hold them down' animatic should I show to my mom

Please don't say none of them lol

The profile pic has me WHEEZING

You look different, Your eyes look tired. Your frame is lighter, You smile torn

Is it really you, my love?

Esto me mucha risa, Ody todo preocupado y Penélope buscando las similitudes XD

I’m not ok :]

I did this for the final part of my animatic but i loved it so much i wanted to post it

He would definitely own a Blåhaj and take care of it like it was his son

give penny a hug

I'M SCREAMING THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

@toocringeforinstagram

ITS YOUR PFP!!!!!!

Misinformation in the fandom

Yes I'm reposting this.

I need to get this off my chest because I've noticed this pattern in the fandom.The people that go on YouTube, Reddit and Tumblr to talk about how Calypso was cursed to fall in love with anyone who stepped on her island when that was Riordan's iteration of the Odyssey are the same people that swear that Jorge claimed that Calypso never raped Odysseus.I want to get this out of the way and say I couldn't find anything to prove that Jorge has said that.

I have looked on his IG, looked for receipts on Reddit and Tumblr, looked at his livestreams, everywhere I could think off I looked at and I found nothing so there's a huge chance that he didn't say it at all and it spread the same way the thing about Calypso did until it became this thing.So there's no evidence of him saying this (that I could find anyway).

First things first:If you pay attention to Not Sorry for Loving You (especially the language used in the song) Calypso expresses how she's not sorry for loving Odysseus, but how things are phrased on the song very much depicts subtle forms of manipulation.And is the subtly in the writing that is telling.

Firstly, how she starts out by saying that "if I pushed you, or ambushed you, for that I'll say I was wrong"To "I'm sorry if my love is too much for you"She's making her "apology" about her. When Odysseus tries to let himself be heard, she literally stops him and doesn't acknowledge him, making it about her again.

She still doesn't grasp completely that what she's feeling isn't love, she's still not taking real accountability, she's still posing this scenario as something hypothetical, not something that is real and that she's done to him.Even in Love in Paradise, the "soon into bed we'll climb" seems to imply that something he didn't want to happen did happen.

To Calypso and perhaps even Odysseus she's developmentally a child and while that doesn't dispute what she did and doesn't make it better, it just adds more nuance to her character. It gives us insight into Calypso while still making her come off as manipulative and ruthless (even if she's not aware of the fact).

That's the thing about abusers, that's how they behave (especially those who swear they aren't being abusive).Yes Calypso doesn't have the emotional tools to understand what she did is wrong, she's not like Circe, but that doesn't justify what she did and at no point is made clear she didn't sexualy assault him.

Now onto the next thing:

Should have Jorge made it clear whether or not she did rape Odysseus? I can't say for sure and you know why?Because Jorge said the song was written during a difficult moment of his life, and if for some reason he didn't feel comfortable saying what happened I have to respect that too. Whatever made him write it, we're not owned an explanation of. There. I said it.You're not entitled someone else's feelings or their stories or whatever else. Not every artists is going to take you by the hand and explain to you why their lyrics are like that and that's fine.

With that in mind, we need to be mindful of Jorge himself as a person as well.I say this because I've seen way too many people crossing the line, saying things when they don't know what they're saying (clearly based on the fact I can't even find any proof of Jay saying Calypso didn't rape Odysseus and boy did I try to find it) and it genuinely makes me worry because Jorge is a whole ass human being who clearly wrote the song like that for a reason so maybe y'all should think about that.I understand that representation of male victims of SA is important and I agree wholeheartedly, but it seems that this issue comes from people spreading something that doesn't seem to be true.If anything, I think Jorge may have realized that leaving implied is what caused this discussion and that's why he used the word rape in Odysseus, to shut it down.And yet, I have seen way too many people assuming he did say Calypso didn't rape Odysseus and spiraling because of it when again, I have been looking for proof of that for near a month and found nothing.This is just me begging you guys to engage with social media with some critical thinking. You can't just blindly believe everything you read online.

The lack of research has plagued most of everything online, but it costs nothing foe you guys to make sure you're not spreading something you don't know if it's true or not.

Waiting~ Epic the musical shirt when you come home I'll be waiting~

My interpretation of 'Would you fall in love with me again'

So I have seen a lot of interpretations of Penelope's stunt with the wedding bed, but I haven't seen anyone echo my own so I thought I'd share? This is just my opinion though.

I think that the wedding bed thing was not just Penelope's way of saying Odysseus is always her husband no matter how much of a monster he thinks he is. I think she was calling his bluff.

Because throughout Epic, Ody's arc has him becoming a monster to get back home to his family. In Monster, he explicitly gives up his humanity to make it back home. And for the majority of act two, he stays true to this conviction. He is a monster, and he is ok with this, because it is what helps him to get back home.

However, when he sees Penelope again, he loses his conviction. As he faces his sweet and gentle wife, the woman he has been dreaming about for all these years and placing upon a pedestal, he falters. Because he feels he doesn't deserve her now that he has become a monster.

So even though it breaks his heart, he pushes her away. He tells her that he isn't the man she once knew and he questions whether she would ever fall in love with the version of him that he has become. In all of his lyrics in this song, he expresses how she could never fall in love with him again after everything he's done. He plays the part of a martyr, willing to give up his one true love because she should not be forced to love a monster.

Now, Odysseus is a rather selfish character. I think we can all agree on this, yes? It was selfish of him to taunt the cyclops, selfish of him to approach Aeolus alone and to keep the windbag to himself, selfish of him to refuse to listen to Eury when they first arrived at Circe's, selfish of him to sacrifice six men to Scylla, the list goes on. He isn't afraid to do what he has to to get what he wants.

And Penelope knows this.

So she rejects him, and she does it in the most hurtful way possible - telling him to literally uproot their lives, that she can't stand him to the point that she wants every reminder of him gone, even if that means basically destroying their room by removing the bed. This was 'a symbol of their love everlasting' so by asking him to get rid of it, she is saying that she really never could fall in love with him again.

And Odysseus fights back, because he is still selfish. He still wants his wife to love him. Despite pushing her away, he actually can't stand the idea of losing her after everything he went through to get back home to her. He cannot give her up.

Penelope points this out to him. You are my husband. Do not try to say that you don't deserve me, do not try to shy away from me because of what you have done. Don't play the part of a martyr now, when you have martyred others just to get back home to me.

You are selfish. You are a monster. But I love you regardless.

Because Odysseus will always be her husband. And just the fact that he feels he doesn't deserve her proves that her 'kind and gentle husband' is still in there, somewhere. She'll help him to return to a place of love and empathy one day. But it's something they'll do together, not apart.

And I think that's beautiful.

Obligatory redraw of Live Telemachus Reaction

Me every time I watch a Not Sorry For Loving you animatic and they show baby Calypso being abandoned: