#please listen to epic the musical

[malaloba]

The thing about Monster that I'm currently obsessed with: the way Odysseus humanizes his enemies as he dehumanizes himself. He correctly describes the motivations of the Cyclops, Circe, and even Poseidon which takes a level of understanding that people struggle with under the best circumstances. But then in the same verse he describes himself from the view of the Trojans. ("Does a soldier use a wooden horse to kill sleeping soldiers because he is vile?")

and of course the whole song is "Monster". If Odysseus can't stop seeing his enemies as people (seeing his own son in the Trojan infant), if that is what is killing his men and if there is no future where he makes it home as the person he is, then of course he has no choice but to stop being a person.

[spiderempath]

oh hey! yeah i’m doing so good and am so normal right now-I SEE A SONG OF PAST ROMANCE I SEE THE SACRIFICE OF MAN I SEE PORTRYALS OF BETRAYAL AND A BROTHERS FINAL STAND I SEE YOU ON THE BRINK OF DEATH I SEE YOU DRAW YOUR FINAL BREATH I SEE A MAN WHO GETS TO MAKE IT HOME ALIVE BUT ITS NO LONGER YOU anyway, how are you?

[gay--gh0st]

I do not have an unhealthy obsession with Epic the musical I totally do

[i-like-her-like-that]

Hey hey hi you should rant about Epic: The Musical. :> What's it about? What's your favourite song? Who's your favourite character? Who's your least favourite character?

// PROBABLY SPOILERS IN HERE

// Hihi I have been looking forward to this all day- I saw it but couldn't respond in school :( This got me through the day I'm so excited

// MUTUALS PLEASE LISTEN TO EPIC I am down on my knees begging youuuu

// Anyways I'm kinda. Hmm. That emoticon there looks familiar. I wonder who uses that often. Stares at you. Anon is not so anon. I can guess who you are. ;0

// ... OK SO how much am I allowed to rant about because I have so much to say ;0 but like let me answer your questions first.

// OK so basically uhm sdfhjsdfjhdgks I love this hey Anon. Anon. Thankyou for existing. <3 UHHHHH

// GHFJHKSHJD let me get started.

// Basically it's a musical created by a guy named Jorge Rivera-Herrans, and it's based on the story of the Odyssey. Essentially, the main character in the musical, Odysseus is trying to get back home to Ithaca, his kingdom, after the battle in Troy, and he has to avoid monsters and avoid angering gods, etc.

// It's got forty songs altogether, spread out along 9 sagas. Currently, only four sagas have been released, with thirteen songs altogether so far, but the next saga releases on the 26th.

// Sagas released so far ( I can give you a summary for each saga / song if you like, just ask ! Favourite songs have an asterisk next to them ;0 ) :

ACT 1:

The Troy Saga

Songs:

The Horse and the Infant

Just A Man

Full Speed Ahead

Open Arms*

Warrior of the Mind*

The Cyclops Saga

Songs:

Polyphemus*

Survive

Remember Them

My Goodbye*

The Ocean Saga

Storm

Luck Runs Out

Keep your Friends Close

Ruthlessness*

The Circe Saga

Puppeteer*

Wouldn't You Like

Done For*

There Are Other Ways

Unreleased Sagas:

The Underworld Saga

The Underworld*

No Longer You

Monster*

ACT 2

The Thunder Saga

Song 21 ( Not named yet )

Song 22 ( Not named yet )

Scylla

Mutiny

Thunder Bringer*

The Wisdom Saga

Legendary*

Little Wolf*

We'd Be Fine*

Love In Paradise

God Games*

The Vengeance Saga

Not Sorry For Loving You*

Dangerous*

Charybdis

Get In The Water

600 Strike

The Ithaca Saga

The Challenge

Hold Them Down*

King

I Can't Help But Wonder*

Would You Fall In Love With Me Again

// Okay anyways.

// Basically, to answer your question, my favourite song is probably My Goodbye because it's just so hfjksfhg <333, I'm Not Sorry For Loving You because it's kinda heartbreaking and Calypso's voice is so gfjksjgj <333333, Ruthlessness because I like the words and Poseidon's voice is so cool <333, or Done For because I love Circe's voice <33333333333.

// My favourite character is probably Athena or Circe. I really like the way they both sing ;0 and they're really cool !!! And maybe Telemachus, I like his voice too !

// My least favourite character ? Probably Eurylochus, I don't like the way he challenges Odysseus all the time ;0

// I recommend listening to it !! And checking out some of the artist animations :]] <3333

[steelthroat]

Everybody shut up! NO NO JUST KIDDING KEEP MAKING NOISE I LIKE NOISE! I HAVE A NEW IDEA! TRANSFORMERS: EPIC THE MUSICAL AU!

Brb gonna start a new Word document because I SWEAR I'VE GOT THE BRAIN ITCHES

[twomanyfandomshelp]

Heyo fellow aroace here. I have a friend whose absolutely obsessed with Epic if you want me to tag her.

Hiya! Always a pleasure to meet a fellow aroace 💚💜 I would love if you could tag her, so far I only have one of my in person friends hooked on it, I need more people to chat with about this masterpiece!

[nikoisme]

clawing at the bars of my enclosure i need more of song 40

[jartistic]

violently shaking /pos

GRRRRAAAAAAGHHHHHEHHRHHHHHHEHRHRHEHRGRGGEGRGEGRHWHTHEHRHRGRHRHEHRHHERGHRHEHRHR

The Circe Saga everyone 💞

[solarpunkani]

I was looking for a solarpunk music playlist more geared to an optimistic fight to get there and less peaceful ambiance (because I already have playlists like that). I found one I liked and recognised that profile pic anywhere! Awesome collaborate playlist :)

Thanks so much! I’m glad people are liking them!

It’s not just me though, its the whole community! Shout out to everyone who’s added to the collaborative playlists! They wouldn’t be nearly as good without you!

[miszoblin]

MUSIC: Just a Man · Jorge Rivera-Herrans

[loveofshows]

Epic: the underworld saga has wrecked me when it released, and still continues to wreck me 😭😭

It’s been three days

[m-for-now]

I only got around to listen to it a day late but these are bangers I love these Songs so much what

[that-angry-noldo]

"you are the worst kind of good cause you're not even g r e a t"

mr. posseydon sir how does it feel to be the most hilarios mf on the planet earth

[phantomdecibel]

FUCK you: re-canonifies your Flower!AU

Anyways what if Polites actually still dies flower au au (bit o context in the tags, just so this drabble makes a bit more sense since it doesnt exactly follow canon aha-)

Rattlesnake Root

shield, step carefully.

Watching Ajax rush across the deck, calling out orders while cradling little Astyanax in his arms, the realization hit Odysseus like a brick.

This is what Polites had meant.

Eurylochus’s voice still echoed in his ears — but Odysseus wasn’t hearing any of it. Everything sounded muffled, like he was listening to (one of) his best friend chew him out from underwater. He must have started yelling louder, because the teenager glanced over at the two of them, something Odysseus hesitated to label as anything other than concern written across his face.

He wanted to yell.

He wanted to scream, keep shooting venom like arrows, jump up and pace, even.

Instead he stood, hands clasped over the rail, staring blankly past the blurred shape of his friend. It was both too loud and yet too quiet and annoyingly chilly and somehow everything was way too bright. It felt like there should be a storm brewing overhead, yet the only rain falling came from his eyes. The sun shone down unapologetically overhead, and Odysseus fought back an unintelligible scream.

This is what Polites had meant, what he’d pleaded back in that forest.

If you don’t talk to us, if you don’t trust us, then how can we help?

He’d thought he’d had it all under control, that his own hangups weren’t affecting anyone else, but clearly he’d been wrong. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or just plain ignorance, but Odysseus had fucked up, pushed too far.

He wanted to sob.

He was already crying, Odysseus realized in a vague, sort of detached way. His face felt… damp, and tight from the salt already starting to dry. Something hit his hand; again and again and again, and rolled down his knuckles.

Eurylochus yelled again, throwing his arms out, and Odysseus flinched.

How long had this been brewing?

How long had he been pushing his crew, his friends to the edge? For how long had he been pushing them to the side, ignoring their concerns and needs, forcing them to pick up his slack?

…when had his efforts to protect them start to hurt instead?

Slowly, Eurylochus’s face came back into focus.

His mouth moved and Odysseus could, technically, hear him still, but the words themselves were lost to the buzzing in his head. The tilt to his eyebrows would have looked angry — really, really angry — to anyone else, but Odysseus knew his friend. Eurylochus was angry, sure, but mostly he was just worried (and tired, so tired, and grieving, too). The man’s eyes glistened wetly, shining with unshed tears.

Odysseus barely noticed as he started to shake.

He did this. This was his fault, the result of his negligence. Polites was dead because of him, and now he was driving away the other person he should be supporting, looking after the most.

Odysseus clenched the rail tighter, clearly hearing it creak under his grip. Eurylochus’s voice faded in and out, nothing but background noise.

He’d failed.

Odysseus blinked once, twice, trying to alleviate the pressure growing behind his eyes. The tears, which had been slowing, built again, suddenly, and everything was just too much.

Oh. He dimly realized again. I did this.

And Odysseus…

…Odysseus broke.

Odysseus broke, tears falling like a waterfall. He choked on a sob, shaking violently, as his knees wobbled and knocked together. Eurylochus’s voice, angry and harsh, snapped back into focus, and Odysseus keened weakly.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered, falling to his knees as he swallowed back another sob. “I’m sorry-“

Desperately, shaking all the while, Odysseus clutched at his friend’s chiton, head pressed to Eurylochus’s knee. “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry-“

Eurylochus’s angry rant trailed off into shocked silence as Odysseus tripped over his words. Apology after apology spilled from his lips as he sat shaking on the wooden deck of the ship, legs collapsed awkwardly beneath him. He didn’t dare look up as silence crashed against the ship like Polyphemus’s club crashing against men and stone, just kept choking out desperate apologies into the empty, oppressive air.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered, sobbed, like a mantra. “I’m sorry,”

The moment seemed to stretch for an eternity; a terrifying, heart-stopping eternity.

He couldn’t do this.

Odysseus- he couldn’t. He’d tried, fuck he’d tried. Tried to carry every burden he could, tried to protect his people, and look where they were now.

It was all a mess, a fucking disaster.

And- and Polites was gone, now, really truly gone, never-coming-back gone.

Dead.

And Eurylochus would be too- not dead, not if Odysseus had any say in it, but gone, leaving.

Leaving him, because Eurylochus would do what was best for the crew.

Odysseus was just dead weight.

The leg he leaned against, clutched in desperation, was pulled back, and Odysseus let it go.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered again, trying and failing to blink away his tears as his hands dropped down to dig his nails into his own knees instead. Something thudded against the ground ahead of him, but all Odysseus could think was ‘this is it’.

This is it, this is where his friend, his last surviving best friend, his brother, even, left him.

And by the gods if he didn’t deserve it.

“‘msorry,” his words slurred together. “‘msrry’msorry,”

He deserved this, for hurting his friend and daring to proclaim otherwise. Why should Eurylochus stick around? Odysseus wasn’t worth the work. He hunched in on himself some more.

“‘msorry,” he might have begged. Please don’t go. You have every right to, but please, please. Don’t leave me. “‘msrrymsrrymsor-“

Odysseus coughed.

Oh, that was odd.

He couldn’t breathe, for a moment there, air knocked from his lungs as his chest collided with something warm and solid. Something strong tugged his forwards, pulled him tight against it.

Warm arms wrapped around his shoulders, and Odysseus suddenly found his head tucked into the crook of Eurylochus’s neck as he shook. He tried to choke out another apology, but Eurylochus held him too tightly to properly speak the words.

Oh.

Oh.

Odysseus shook some more, hands slowly worming their way from his knees to clutch this time at the front of his friend’s chiton.

Eurylochus was hugging him.

Eurylochus. was hugging him.

Odysseus sobbed again.

“I’m sorry,” he managed to force out again, but Eurylochus just pulled him impossibly closer.

“It’s okay,” his friend whispered, voice hoarse. “It’s going to be okay.”

mans is a bit harsh on himself :,)

He doesn’t q u i t e get the point, but he’s getting there-

Anyways so flower au; asty lives and also @hahahaghosty and I are soft for lil ajax :P

I know I always say this, but they were a huge inspiration for this (bc they fuel me w like 75% of my writing ideas lmao-), so thank you a whole lot!! wouldn’t be possible without ya :) they're really fucking awesome, go check out their stuff!! do it- Do It Now-

anyways that all from me for now, thanks for reading :P

(me: check out the tags for some context :) also me: throws way to much shit in them-

just. just read the beginning and end and itll all make sense if u wanna)

[melit0n]

Eight by Sleeping At Last is so insanely Odysseus coded and I will never shut up about it

[sonicposer-sideblog]

Color sketches for a Medieval Fantasy Sonadow AU

Sonic regularly goes into woods near the palace to gather ingredients for Amy’s spell work, and to find trouble. Shadow, the mysterious crown Prince, is usually the trouble he finds.