#if not fuck you epic

[dynamos-games]

why does Fortnite always have to remove something fun with every update? they took out the ability to use emojis while downed, and now you can't emote while playing jam tracks

#hope this is a bug and will be fixed #if not fuck you epic #epic games #fortnite #nova plays fortnite

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[lunameimei]

So that's basically what happened in "The Cyclops Saga" right ?

#I finally listened to everything that has already been officially released by “Epic: The Musical” #my art #Odyssey #Athena #meme redraw #meme #fuck you mean nuh uh #odysseus #athena #epic fanart #odysseus fanart #athena fanart #odysseus of ithaca #Odysseus #epic: the musical #Epic the musical #The Cyclops Saga #polyphemus #Greek mythology #epic the cyclops saga

[farah-o-0]

He made it🥹💖

#hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel sir pentious #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #sir pentious #I fucking cried #my boy did it #I’m so proud of him #I expected an epic laser collision battle #wtf Adam #screw you #choke on holy water #selftaught #drawing #fanart #digital drawing #digital art

[dizzybizz]

KAEYA BIRTHDAY ??? ?? i love you mr alberich sir i love you oh so so so much.

uh dialogue for this one but more legible under the cut (and a messy ragbros page)

Klee: Kaeya! Come down here! Kaeya: Oh? heh. What is it, Spark Knight?

Klee: Happy Birthday! It is today? Right? I even double-checked with Albedo and everything but I don't know... Klee: It's a Calla Lily! You like those, right? Kaeya: I certainly do! Thank y- Klee: Oh. Klee: OK OK OK- Kaeya: Hm? Klee: Kaeya you have to promise to not tell Master Jean about this one! Kaeya: You can count on me to keep my lips sealed.

Klee: OK! Close your eyes- eye- and hold out your hands! Kaeya: Mhm! Klee: OK! You can open them! TA-DA~!

Klee: I made a bomb for you! It even has an eyepatch! He can look after you when I'm somewhere else. Take good care of him! Oh yeah- He explodes if you- Kaeya?

Kaeya: Thank you Klee! Thank you very much! Klee: You're VERY welcome Kaeya!

a lil ragbros too.... kaeya and his red siblings amirite (bursts into tears).. also i am so obsessed with chibi diluc saying "bring em in..."

#I LOVE YOU KAEYA #these were all drawn in the past two daysashhsdgg #i was originally planning on starting like at least a week in advance bc i wanted to do one big ambitious piece but that didnt end up happe #ing... instead he gets a little comic a bigger comic and a page and my undivided attention #genshin impact #kaeya alberich #kaeya #genshin impact kaeya #genshin kaeya #im putting em all in here f u #klee #diluc ragnvindr #ragbros #none of that kaeluc shit here alright thank you or go fuck off ok epic #my art #sona #these r all improvised. i went about the klee comic in the stupidest way possible bc apperantly i love making things hard for myself.. #not like it was my fault- it was just supposed to be a concept for a finished piece and not turn into a little comic but i have no self con #rol clearly so now its here and i am jsut kinda sleepy sry #kaeya has been my genshin blorbo for over three years ok i needed to express a little of my feelings about him somehow #OK YAY ITS OFFICIALLY THE 30TH IN MY TIMEZONE SO I CAN POST THIS OK OK YEAH #HAPPY BDAY KAEYA AAAAAAAAAAAAA 😭💖💖💖 #this entire post is just me sobbing over how much i adore him #is this the longest wall of notes from me yet.. idk but it might be #ok anyways i love kaeya a lot send me anything kaeya and i will love you forever and ever and i should really go to sleep now i think #... .kaeya 🥰🥰🥰

[agir1ukn0w]

sorry but snow is such a well written iconic villain and donald sutherland performs him so fucking good it's almost hilarious how i start practically foaming at the mouth every time the man opens his mouth to say something deplorable in those movies, like he's so utterly and despicably wrong about almost every crucial thing from katniss and peeta's relationship to human nature as a whole and yet the second he starts talking about how hope is the only thing stronger than fear and how you have to allow a little hope but control it so its spark doesn't grow into revolution and how it's the things we love the most that destroy us you bet your ass i am on the floor screaming crying throwing up because that is my psychotic mustache-twirling villain RIGHT THERE

#every scene he's in is so delicious and i want it injected into my veins like heroine #as you can tell i'm quite fond of masterfully crafted villains whose monologues leave you breathless #also that part where he just tells seneca 'i like you...be careful' *EPIC CHEF'S KISS*🔥 #'hope...it is the only thing stronger than fear' #'a little hope is effective. a lot of hope is dangerous. the spark is fine as long as it's contained' #he isn't my roman empire but i do dwell on him from time to time and get shivers down my fucking spine #coriolanus snow #president snow #snow #president coriolanus snow #hunger games #the hunger games #the hunger games trilogy #thg #mockingjay #catching fire #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #seneca crane #suzanne collins #donald sutherland

[twentythousandvolts]

#ultrakill spoilers #ultrakill #FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FU #epic post compilation

[cowboys-tshot]

EDIT: DO NOT TAKE MY WORD AS THE 100% TRUTH!!

I took some classes and wrote a paper about ancient Greek culture, but I am in NO WAY an expert. Please read through the reblogs to see some good criticisms and discussion about this topic further. My point overall stands that you can't apply modern rules and standards to ancient stories, but my evidence is undoubtedly flawed!

I'm seeing everyone pointing out the possible issues with Epic the Musical's deviation from the original story of Circe and Odysseus, and as someone who's studied Ancient Greece/ancient Greek myths a bit, I wanted to say some stuff about it. This will be a bit of a long one, so apologies for my rambling!

Note that I'm not trying to shit on SA survivor's perspectives and (completely valid) arguments. I'm just trying to offer some context surrounding the original myth and how it fits (or rather, doesn't fit) with a modern audience. If I'm wrong with any of this, feel free to call me out! Criticize the shit out of me! I like learning about Greek culture and myths and would 100% love to hear other perspectives on this.

So, a few points about Ancient Greek myths to kind of explain the context around Circe and Odysseus:

Greek myths generally did not have good views/depictions of women. Women were almost always depicted as conniving, selfish, sexually insatiable creatures. To largely summarize the process within actual Greek society, women had three/four stages in their life: child, dangerous/wild virgin (after first menstruation), married woman (whose wildness was tamed by her husband), and then a "real" woman (a mother). There are a few deviations from the "evil" trope, the most prominent of which being Penelope herself—she's basically the ideal Greek wife, staying loyal to her husband for 20 years and all that.

Adultery only applied to women. Husbands cheating on their wives wasn't merely tolerated, but expected. Marital sex wasn't seen as enjoyable, rather something that had to be done for the sake of reproduction and continuing the bloodline/securing inheritance. Men cheated on their wives with various kinds of prostitutes, concubines, mistresses, etc, but sleeping with unmarried women (that weren't specifically prostitutes) or married women was looked down upon. Women didn't have this same standard. They could only sleep with their husbands, hell, their husbands were pretty much the only men they could even interact with (excluding family, obviously).

The original myth has Hermes very plainly lay out how Odysseus' confrontation with Circe will go: Odysseus will eat the moly, draw his sword at her, she'll proposition him, and Hermes directly tells Odysseus to accept. Basically a "sleep with her if you want your men to live" situation. (See this post for more specifics on this).

So, let's apply this to Epic: The Musical. Here's some reasons I think may explain the Circe myth being changed:

The Greek "women being evil" stereotype is... problematic. While I 100% understand that it's important to acknowledge male victims of SA, I don't think the original myth was focusing on Odysseus being a victim—I saw it more of an emphasis on Circe being a sexually selfish woman, as all Greek women were believed to be. Changing Circe to be less conniving and evil deviates from the concerning Greek stereotype.

The SA in the myth is not actually very clearly SA. Yes, with a modern perspective, it absolutely is sexual coercion, but for Greeks, not so much. It made sense to them that sex could be transactional. It's already been established that Epic, while still generally accurate to the original myth, does change things relating to morality/themes in order to better align with modern Western ideas (i.e. OG Odysseus not being as remorseful and merciful, as that was expected of a Greek hero, but Epic Odysseus having more empathy because that's more modernly heroic). If something from the original myth doesn't translate well into modern culture, then it's understandable to want to change or omit it.

In the case that the original Circe myth wasn't SA (I'm not saying one is more right than the other, I'm just covering all the bases), then it wouldn't even constitute as cheating. Like I described earlier, it was perfectly acceptable and expected for men to sleep with women that weren't their wives. Plus, being a goddess, she's already kinda exempt from being blamed if Odysseus slept with her—only women are ever really blamed for sleeping with (or being SAed by) gods, and even then, their husbands sometimes don't even give a shit. But modernly, we would not see it that way. To us, it's not societally acceptable for a married man to sleep with another woman (without his wife's consent, at least). While Ancient Greeks viewed Odysseus as a good (or at least okay) husband, a modern audience wouldn't. Making Odysseus loyal to Penelope and not sleeping with other women (assuming this wasn't SA, but again that's one interpretation) makes him the good, loyal, empathic, modernly heroic man that Epic is clearly aiming for. Repeating my last point: If something from the original myth doesn't translate well into modern culture, then it's understandable to want to change or omit it.

Applying modern perspectives on Ancient Greek society and mythology isn't worth it. Like, we all joke about Ancient Greece being super gay, but they didn't actually like gay men. Homosexuality was literally only acceptable when it was between a young man and a prepubescent boy (it was called pederasty if you want to know more) or between women (they only considered penetrative sex to be 'real' sex so they didn't really care what women did with other women). Y'know the Hades and Persephone story? Like, the original one with the kidnapping? Yeah, that was normal. The myth of Demeter and Persephone is tragic, yes, but it was so normal that wedding ceremonies often included references/recreations of it! Girls got married off ASAP after their first menstruation to men of at least 30 years old. We don't tolerate that shit today (for the most part, at least)! But it was normal in Ancient Greece. Applying modern rules and standards to ancient culture just does not work.

Anyways, I'll shut up now! I'm gonna go keep listening to The Circe Saga lmao

#can you tell im a history major #seriously tho im not trying to shit on the opinions of SA survivors talking about this #the greeks were just kinda fucked up #greek mythology #epic the musical #odysseus #the odyssey #circe #circe saga #the circe saga #hermes #epic the circe saga #ancient greece #history

[indelicateink]

as an american, sam reid’s total inability to hide his contempt for overly fake-chipper american journalists, especially ones who Have Not Done The Assigned Reading know and care about the show, will never not be hilarious and iconic to me

#sometimes he can dial it back to civil blank apathy #but i have never laughed and cringed like that at the same time #sorry we’re so fake bro we’re just Like That #his frank tiredness with unoriginal or dumb questions is kinda refreshing #i think we first got it full-blast with It’s What’s Written In The Books last season #after 5K ‘why is it gay’ questions #but that latest Dish tv interview where the journo joked they thought he was dead holy fuck #defcon 1 levels of Done #it’s sort of fascinating since generally all celebrities play along with any interviewing atrocities they suffer though #american fakeism is the lowest bar to endure but the man is just a wall #lol don’t lose that sir #iwtv #interview with the vampire #okay no sorry this is my ted talk— #i mean he’s not alone frex some european actors in particular seem to pull out their best acting chops when #faced with shrilly chipper american interviewers #though sometimes you can catch the horror in their eyes #and hugh grant epically blanked that one effusive interviewer on the red carpet at the oscars the yr before last #and was almost assigned 40 lashes in the court of public opinion #(​until will smith sucked all the oxygen out of the room) #but sam reid is just full stop not going to reflect back. it’s…kind of awesome and not a little brave in this biz #anyway this has been my ted talk #saluting an icon 🫡

[front-facing-pokemon]

#lurantis #yes their eyes are a little weird and spotty but you really can't blame me at this point when i'm doing my damn best at this shit #lurantis is like. one of my favorite pokémon. cool pink fucking bug with big talons and striped pants. that's fucking epic. i love their #color scheme and everything. so obviously i would have tried to make it look as good as possible #but!!!! y'know!!!!! it's fine!!!!!!!!!!

[theplatypusblue]

i'm gonna be real i don't think there's any hope for this guy.

#the only way to avoid all this would be for lloyd to forge his own identity/path which umm. have you seem him?? thats not happening!!! #he's fucked!!!! #ninjago #lego ninjago #lloyd garmadon #this meme format is super old isnt it.... whatever who cares #i have exams i could be studying for rn but!!! i dont want to lol #also do you ever draw something thats so epic and ur proud of it but then ur scared to post it for no reason. idk man its weird

[funky-sea-cryptid]

epic the musical just makes it fucking clear how much of "the struggler" odysseus is. he's like "dont open my bag" and guess what these stupid shits go and do. he just wants to see his wife. circe is hitting on him or some shit and he's like "please im married,,,, i just want my wife,,,," posideon himself comes down beats the shit out of him and homeboy narrowly escapes with his life but also my man's stupid as hell "WHATS UP, CYCLOPS I JUST BLINDED, MY NAME IS ODYSSEUS. PEACE." no WONDER posideon came fucking knocking dude

#epic the musical #im still mad at him about astynax but i can empathise #i too would go 10000000 miles and 20 years to see my wife #(even if i would not go to war. you know what i mean) #technically that fucking bus ride (on the way back from seeing them) was the goddamn oddessy with how many shit shows i saw

[dootznbootz]

Jay understands Odysseus so well and it's fucking fantastic. He knows that every Epic the Musical saga needs to have at least ONE song of Odysseus rambling about his family or then that's not Odysseus 😤

#It's basically the center of his character throughout his story. if you take that away? “Who is that man? That's not our simp.” #Jay IS taking a LOT of liberties clearly. but you can tell he fucking loves the story and the characters which is so important #epic the musical #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus

[dreamsb0u]

Doodle of this by @xpau-official (absolutely baller art btw)

Also I am absolutely balling rn ignore anything that looks funky my style is doing something

#i am deciding this xmas is gonna be absolutely fantastic #i decree it #man I’m feeling great at 9pm #xmas #ig #this au is sooooo silly I love it sm #i have no idea if I make sense but fuck it man I’m just a silly guy #epic sans #epictale sans #cross sans #xtale sans #xtale cross #i love how many cross tags there are unironically like yasssss boy you got so many names 😍😍😍😍😍 #uhhhhhhhh #xpaufanart #idk if that’s the right tag but it’s there now 😋 #wait no i forgot to colour cross’s x purple day ruined /j #ermmmmmm i Hope u like it bye

[thylionheart]

Odysseus being considered past his prime and adaptations always depicting him as having a long white beard when he makes it back to Ithaca when he is AT MOST 40 years old… is wild. That is only like, one Emily Axford.

#or one Sam Reich #or one Adam Conover #or one Matt Mercer #the odyssey #especially him living as a soldier most of his life #I bet he’s fit #like yeah my knees may be stiff but I’ve been studying the blade and how to make bad decisions since you were in diapers #epic the musical #00 #EDIT: How the FUCK did I forget Odysseus disguises himself as an old man? I remember him being disguised as like a hermit #100% forget it was an old hermit

[yinblanc]

"You rely on wit and people die on it" if someone said that to me I will cry big fat tears odysseus youre so strong

#epic the musical #epic the ocean saga #odysseus #eurylochus #it's not directed at me but im still crying #pls im just a baby #odysseus is doing his best #also what the fuck #everything's changed since polites #why would you say that #do you enjoy seeing me cry