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Here is a SoT update for what I've been working on for the past weeks!

- a new choir concept has been created - at the moment three are planned, each serving a different role in the story, one of them likely singing exclusively ancient/homeric greek and latin, the other two are inspired by the choruses in ancient greek theatre

- managed to soldify the character arcs for diomedes and antagonist

- worked on a concept to offer more room for female characters than i perceived at first glance without straying from the sources

- included another story beat that's typical in epic poetry

- cried about a father-son realizaion i had on Diomedes and Tydeus

- very recently started digging deeper into the side characters and what role they'll play for the themes of the story (scarwy thing)

- cried about all the Diomedes content we got in the last week thanks to Diomedes Week

- thinking more and growing more confident about which style(s) of music and which apthmosphere for the sound scape I would like to have

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Hi, did the link to the discord server expire? I was looking forward to joining since I got invested in Diomedes's story

Oooh it might have! I thought I replaced it last time but i may have forgotten

This should work! Thanks for letting us know ^^ It's fixed now

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Newly started working on character roles in the story My enemy.... Grateful for @mokishy to provide a lot of patience, insights and amazing ideas 🥲

...so what if I say anti-hero Diomedes? 🤔

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if the iliad characters had leitmotifs, i think diomedes and neoptolemus's would be veeeeerrrryyyyyy similar. but NOT the same.

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For @diomedesweek Day 4: Blood + previous week Day 2: God

Book 5 Diomedes again hehe

Experimenting a bit with brush. Athena design inspired by Constance Collier’s in Ulysses at Her Majesty’s Theatre 1902

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will diomedes and aeneas kiss?

The ground, as they beat each other up 💫

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Hi, I recently started reading the Iliad and appreciating the existence of Diomedes. I rp him for a server, actually. When I came across this through the Aeneas art, I did not think that there'd be fans so dedicated that they'd make a musical for this man. He deserves it. I hope your research stage goes well!

😄 Hello! And thank you hehe

We're fairly far progressed with the story research by now and wrapping those up slowly!

Starting the musical kind of just happened I didn't really expect to be doing it either🙈

👀 I hope your rp is a lot of fun too 💫 Hes a fascinating figure of greek mythology

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Aeneas Fun Fact

In several versions Aeneas' father got struck by lighting by Zeus because Aphrodite told him not to tell anyone that Aeneas' mother is Aphrodite, but he did it instantly, so Zeus blasted him

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Which character do you have the most fun writing

@barelygrimpillar

Currently the masses (chorus) 🫣👀

Besides that....mh, Tydeus and Aeneas for me! Well and Diomedes✨️ spent the most time on them so far, and slowly branching out into all the secondary characters now

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Do you think there will be any songs in the pov of other characters or will it all be Diomedes perspective?

@mayaofthefeyclan

Yes! Current plan is to have a good couple of songs from outside perspectives....as well as playing around with elements of ancient greek theater that may add a general layer of outside perspective to the majority of songs

Thank you for the question!

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Mmhhhhhh....do you guys have any questions

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Chorus....chorus safe me

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What even is going on here..... The post (and ask) is from January and we only now received the @? Im so sorry @theartistelliott for some reason neither of us received the tag or ask...for SIX MONTHS 😭🥹😭 why is tumblr broken 🥲

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😭😭 wtf we only now received the @??? What happened

THANK YOU

Fanart for @sonoftydeusthemusical!!!

(based on this description)

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hiiii! I was the anon that wanted to make fan art and I finally got around to it!

OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH!! LOOK AT OUR BOY!!!!! LOOK AT HIMMMM

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Okay yall this app is for yapping right? I'm breaking my Tumblr rant virginity today. Let's pop my rant cherry and talk about the scarce representation of Diomedes in modern receptions of the iliad.

There's been plenty of adaptations of the Trojan war littered throughout our modern media, and yet a jarringly few amount of those include Diomedes, and even fewer yet include him as a major player.

This is so weird, seeing as Diomedes WAS a main character in the Trojan war. He had a whole book dedicated to him ffs, and a later book where he's a main player with Odysseus during their night raid of Troy. So why then doesn't anyone care to put him into their adaptations? Why has he been forgotten by modern retellers? And even if he is included into retellings, why is book 5 constantly overlooked? Or better yet– any of the books where he's a main player?

I have a theory (a game theory). Trojan war retellings typically centre around Achilles– or at least he's supposed to be the main, glorious fighter. And Diomedes... He's just too competent, too good, too outstanding. I believe they're afraid he'll overshadow Achilles. Achilles, who spends 90% of the iliad cooped up sulking in his tent, meanwhile Diomedes is out chasing Trojans and stabbing gods while being mistaken for a god himself. Not a good look for brilliant, god-like Achilles. I can assure you this doesn't come from a place of bias, I adore Achilles as a character in the Iliad and I am by no means belittling his feats of strength– but comparing his rage-fueled rampage to Diomedes' book 5 rampage... From an outsider's view, it might make you question the role of Aristos Achaion. And yet, adapting Diomedes' stunning competency in battle buffers that role at the same time.

We've seen the second best, making a fool out of the literal god of war and shaking the Trojan forces to their core, so what more of Achilles, said to be leagues above the rest? What more of Hector, who even Diomedes dares not to fight? Writers shouldn't fear Diomedes, but instead use him as a means to create that hierarchy of power, allowing the audience to truly see where the potential of Achilles lies. He doesn't have to overshadow Achilles, he could be used to indirectly bolster him instead! And in that way, this could help make modern retellings closer to the grand scale of the original epics. I find many retellings lose that... epicness.. of the epics.. for lack of a better term.. and part of that epicness entails the epic scales of strength, especially when it comes to big epic characters like Achilles, and including these power hierarchies and shows of immense strength and battle prowess could help to inject more of that epic-magic back into an otherwise un-epic narrative (take a shot everytime I say epic).

This is, of course, also paired with the fact that Diomedes' feats during the Trojan war are undeniably superhuman and difficult to adapt into live action film, and taking Troy (2004) as an example, many adaptations tend to shy away from including the gods as major players. This restriction of storytelling makes it impossible to truly tell a story about Diomedes, resident god harasser of the Achaeans. And Diomedes isn't the only victim of this– bringing Achilles back into the mix, his little spat with the river god, Scamander, isn't often included in modern media either. However, with the film technology of the current years at our disposal, there isn't much excuse to avoid covering these grand feats. All this to say that if Nolan, disappointing as he already is, decides not to include the full grandiosity of the original epic (given his previous admittedly beautiful feats of special effects and cinematography), I'm gonna throw a hissy fit. But! I digresssssssss

I wonder if you guys agree with me too 🙂‍↕️ I'm no expert, and this is just what I feel based on what I've seen. I'd love to see other people's different opinions on this issue too! 🩷 Peace out my gangalicious gangsters