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Have you listened to the Paris musical?

Yes I have (old art)

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finally leaking these doodles for the world to see ft @hymnoeides 's crack!hermes

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Guys I think I have a favorite god/dess

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Tumblr recommended me ur account!! Ur art is soooo pretty ✨️

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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“I am the jester

My job's to entertain

And it seems that soon enough

It too will be my job to reign

Over all that you see

Over all that you know

As the king is slowly dying

At any moment he could go

Yes the king is slowly dying

Any moment he will go”

Oh sweet Jester of the moon, the entertainer of the gods, I pray that in these dark moments you bring us hope from despair, as you have granted us light from darkness.

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Okay so basically in my book Malyari is a jester, the god’s entertainer. Though she is sometimes worshipped as a king by the aetas and sambals. But after possessing a dead body, he soon lost some of her powers, making him weak. He wishes to be back on the moon, entertaining gods and being with his brother once again.

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I’m still figuring out his personality. On one hand I could make him a cold and quiet person who has a deep hatred for his job, but on the other hand I could make him an extroverted character who enjoys socializing and being around others, but also has a mischievous side which can make him seem aloof and detached. BUT I could make him a sassy bitch who is constantly bored.

Maybe I can combine all of those personality traits? Make him like Junko Enoshima. I already made a personality for Maria Aguipo. She’s the protagonist of my book that I’m writing. She’s very energetic and is optimistic, but she’s also pretty petty and vengeful

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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

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Father Mallari ~

Disclaimer: I did not kill the serial killer Juan Severino Mallari. It’s just my oc Mallari in a priest costume.

First time rendering in procreate. Idk what to feel about this. It feels so wrong.

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It saddens me deeply when the few people who write fics with filipino mythology and the vast majority of them are libulan/si dapa, which not only perpetuates the lies of libulan being the patron god of homosexuality, but also to my understanding si dapa isn't actually the god of the dead (there's a few who are involved in that domain), he just determines a person's lifespan

we deserve to be silly and goofy about our gods, and I think they are very interesting and can prompt some good writing! but instead you just focus on the (1) myth that's not even true

i am once again reminding you libulan is a pubescent boy and Not the god of homosexuality

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Man this is supposed to be scaramouche but I was like “fuck it I’m drawing a non-existent character”

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so jorge lied,

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I love him

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“I’m just a man”

Guys how the fuck do you render in procreate

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Lawu and Malyari acting like an old married couple

Reference

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GIGI !!! GIVE US A PERENOR DOODLE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS,,,

the bros

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Odysseus: Penelope whyyy, you know I to- Ayo why does that siren look like Elpenor?

Sirenlope: what

Eurylochus: DID YOU NOTICE THAT TOO? I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY

Perimedes: 😀😀😀

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FNAF movie Mike thinks Michael is dumb as hell