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i'll always be there to bring you back

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mycenaean odysseus

this is a result of 'what if portrayals of the Odyssey set it in bronze age greece rather than classical' christopher nolan when i catch you and my months long obsession with Epic the Musical

i have degrees in archaeology and public history so here are the sources i used and also a little explanation:

this is just a fun little exploration into more mycenaean greece archaeology and combining it with the musical and the vibe of the amazing animatics and art that have been made by the fandom~

Casual: my biggest and most helpful resources for this outfit were this post by the lovely @littlesparklight as well as the blog Gorgeous Tangents and their recreation of Mycenaean chitons. there's a little bit of bronze but very minimal.

Troy Saga: the armour here is made out of bronze (surprise) aside from the helmet, which is created from boar tusk. the helmet specifically is inspired by this one that was also described by homer in the iliad! as for the armour, it is inspired by the work of artist Dimitrios Katsikis who combines archaeology with academic papers and other sources like frescos to create accurate armours from 15th century BC - 15th century AD. he has created armour sets specifically for Odysseus as well as other characters like Achilles. the armour here is inspired by his works but is not copied directly from the artist's designs - instead i used them as references to create a look i feel fit the vibes of Epic.

Ithaca Saga: so Odysseus returns to Ithaca naked in some interpretations but i can understand why the musical animatics don't. do that. the cape/cloak used in them is incredibly cool so i decided to settle in the middle and just give him a sort of skirt/kilt. this is inspired by the chitons of Gorgeous Tangents but also the Seated Woman of Mycenae. its been twenty years, bros been through it. i dont think Odysseus was too concerned with his fit when killing the suitors and getting back to Penelope.

im not gonna claim this to be fully accurate. a) because there is little surviving artefacts from the period we think the trojan war took place in (between 1260 BCE and 1180 BCE), b) im not a classics student/bronze age specialist, i currently specialise in the stone age - the earlier the better - and finally c) a few creative liberties have been taken for the designs to fit the feel of Epic the Musical. mostly in terms of a simplified art style. if you want detail, absolutely go check out Katsikis work and the rest of the sources credited here.

i plan on designing more of the characters and will keep doing more research. who knows i'll maybe even come back and redesign this after i've learned more!

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i hate being an adult because no matter how hard you try your house is never ever ever ever ever clean

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“To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.”

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (2005) dir. Andrew Adamson

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I promised you 🩵🦋

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An absolutely stunning Spearhead with cut and engraved bronze latice-work through the center, Germany, ca. 1474, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

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don't want to write I want to think very hard about my fic until it emerges from my head fully formed like athena

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We finish this together.

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"Honey and lavender cream. Sweet, intriguing..." This started off as a leyendecker style study, ended up as lucanis drinking his coffee and me rendering that cloud of smoke for wayy too long rip -☕🪻🍯🐝-

[ get him as a print here!]

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in my canon run of dragon age: inquisition, my inquisitor‘s hair turned white after narrowly escaping the fade! (and leaving alistair in there…..)

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hate coming to terms with things. i should be able to cast a fireball instead

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H….hi Detective…. I got something needs investigatin’ 😳

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Veiltober - day 12, Varric

Bioware really made Varric come back all sexy for the 3rd time around just to NOT let me romance him AGAIN!! This is unfair and I seek legal compensation.

Going forward, I'll be trying to make compositions a little simpler for the sake of time and to not expend myself too much. It's still a long way to DATV and I wanna have some energy to actually play the game XD

Ty to @lynnerdo for the prompts !!

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la belle dame sans merci as kimallura

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#Obscutober

day 12:

Smaragdine (adj.) Of or relating to emeralds Emerald-green in colour

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the first place the party travelled in the Four Horsemen campaign was through the Emerald Plains to the glittering city of Bawic.

(prompt by @mysticsparklewings !) #obscutober #mysticsobscutober #obscutober2024 #drawtober2024 #dnd #dndart #dungeonsanddragons #sketch #landscape #carriage #smaragdine