Y’all know im a fan of catchy songs~
Busy throwing a baby off a wall I imagine
I found this quiz on pintrest!!
I got my boy Eurylochus!
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RIP. But the people have spoken! Duvet-box’s shall make the playlist
Some of you will know that I am introducing my mom to epic through animatics. I need your help deciding which ones, now that we are up to the wisdom saga and I am spoilt for choice. I've narrowed it down to basically two each. We'll start with Legendary because tumblr won't let me do more than one poll at a time:
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.
Dear sweet mother of Athena... BOY DO I DETEST CALYPSO. NO MEANS NO GIRL... AND THE FACT SHE KEPT HARRASSING AND TRYING TO WOO ODYSSEUS...
Gags me
AND THEN!! In I'm not Sorry for Loving you, she essentially tries to GASLIGHT him by saying: If my love is too much then sorry not sorry.
.... ITS ON SIGHT WITH THAT BITCH!
poseidon: you can't kill me
odysseus: you've forgotten a very important piece of information - I am completely fucking insane
Correction. *barely*. I *barely* survived the Ithaca saga
How are we feeling guys
Good to know that Eurylochus has started to haunt the narrative with his buddy polites
I’m reblogging so my tumblr can become cool too! Also also:
Poseidon when Odysseus exists:
A couple of months ago I let my little sister listen to Epic after showing her some fanarts on Tumblr, she became addicted to the musical even though she didn’t understand a word (English is not our first language (we’re Italian) and she’s pretty young too).
She says she watched animatics to understand better what was going on and she asked me to translate some of the more difficult parts.
Today I let her listen to the Vengeance saga (after I understood the lyrics in order to be able to translate to her everything) and we had lots of fun.
Just a while ago she gave me this drawing saying to post it on Tumblr to give fanarts back to the fans and so that my Tumblr becomes “Cool”.
I’m kinda crying from happiness about this, I’m so happy I got her excited about something I love too and it (positively) melts my heart to see her putting so much work into making something for the media we both love
So thank you Jorge and thanks to all the crew for making Epic, you guys really made us two bond and spend lots of good time together when we used to not talk much or even see each other.
Throwback to that time my brother discovered Jorge’s account through his “hefeffus” reel
I’m was gonna post all of the cringe stuff instagram would hate here instead, but it’s more of an epic the musical blog now. Also cover art is by Zwist (obviously)
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