this episode killed me. celia is a MOTHER? sam used to VAUGEPOST? gwen is literally JONATHAN SIMS? lena is basically ELIAS BOUCHARD? SOME OF THEM ARE BENEVOLENT?????????
Jorge Rivera-Herrans and the entire cast of Epic the musical owe me emotional compensation because I have had two very long days with all day (very fun and enjoyable) trips, and I haven’t cried ONCE. I listened to The Underworld from the Underworld Saga a few minutes ago, and do you want to know what the straw that broke the camel’s back was? The last minute or so of the song with Odysseus’s mother. I’ve shed a few tears over musicals in the past, and I’ve read the Odyssey and didn’t find this moment so emotive in text form, but I was full on SOBBING, then I tried to listen a second time as a form of exposure therapy and IT HAPPENED AGAIN 😭😭😭. I don’t know if it’s because I’m not as close as I could be to my own mother and have regrets about that or if I was simply imagining myself in Odysseus’s shoes but that moment leaves me an utter wreck and I’m not okay.
WAIT. in Monster, he says "I lost my best friend. I lost my mentor, my mom." the mentor is Athena. This isn't mindblowing, but. he says "mentor" and NOT "friend"
my heart goes out to kid odysseus. you couldn't have your friend, and future-you doesn't even have a mentor.
It’s been a super hard day and seeing this at the end of it has made it a lil better! <3
I cried when I hit 1k, and I’ll cry at 1.5k
I say it all the time but I never imagined a single person ever reading anything I wrote but to find out 1.5k of you guys like my silly lil stories enough to follow??? Crazy