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Redrawing soviet propaganda poster(I'll do it sometimes, more as a countryhumans and history fan thing). The original one is from 1960 by Федір Глущук.

I used my design for Ukraine so he has scars. The text is just some shit about brother nations, I changed two words to fit real life situation(still not perfect but I won't "um... actually" about it).

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Yes it's Hermes from GOW in Epic, why not.

I just think about what would GOW Hermes say to Odysseus and I think it's funny. "Are you going to join your new pig-crew? Just try not to fuck up, we with Circe were planning to try some new pork recipes this weekend. I would love the taste of some I-have-so-many-sexy-men-around-and-I'm-still-loyal-to-my-wife HAhahahahahha... Joking!"

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swordfight!

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Also, reposting this with a full art ^_^

Tiresias is based on the official design with a few additions

Recently, I've had the chance to participate in making the first ukrainian cover for Epic :D

I translated the song and drew the art for the video! Wanna share this cover here since it is a really important achievement for me

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Recently, I've had the chance to participate in making the first ukrainian cover for Epic :D

I translated the song and drew the art for the video! Wanna share this cover here since it is a really important achievement for me

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A Brief Rundown of the IRL Ithaca Saga (to the best of my memory, in probably not chronological order)

jorge (creator, odysseus) decided it'll be cool to celebrate the ithaca saga with the epic cast via a trip to ithaca, greece

surely nothing can go wrong

mico (telemachus) seemingly found out about the trip with the rest of the fandom. he proceeded to plot a trip to ithaca

the epic cast dealt with multiple broken vans and missed a ferry by one minute. they had to cancel a stream because they were too exhausted

mico made it onto a plane

ithaca got hit by a typhoon, forcing them to move another stream indoors

mico got banned from tiktok. it was reversed

mason (tireseas) asked luke (zeus) to stop the rain. luke refused

the crew hiked up to odysseus' palace. they ran into a roadblock. mason looked into the future and did not see a way around it. (they found a way around it)

the crew found a well and sang their epic songs into it. except jp (crew) who just sang happy birthday

janani (aphrodite) also sang "royal we" into the well

anna (penelope) made it onto the plane to fly out to ithaca

hermes (troy) decided to take a plane to ithaca like a normal human instead of teleporting. he got side-eyed by a woman at the airport as he slept sprawled out in a chair. this quickly became a meme

hermes arrived in ithaca to the delight of everyone except jorge. mico also appeared in his videos. mico still had not updated anything after getting on the plane

anna's connecting flight got cancelled, leaving her stranded in a fancy hotel. she struggled to find the toilet in her hotel room

mico finally updated, claiming he was stuck in munich. mason appears in the video and gives him a water bottle, proving he is lying

the fandom believes mico anyway

mico is forced to post another video revealing he had been gaslighting us basically the entire time and was just delayed in getting to ithaca, that was all

troy and talya (circe), in character, talk about tea. troy says the tea tastes like her father's approval. earle (ares) then asks for 1000 cups and breaks down crying as luke cuts the camera

jorge posts a video apologizing for mico's absence, encouraging him to fly to ithaca, new york. mico appears in the background of this video

mico posts a video saying that he's finally in ithaca, but the crew is in ithaca, new york. jorge appears in the background of this video

jp films a behind the scenes video, calling out "some random guy" who just showed up asking if anyone knows jorge. it's mico

janani sings "royal we" again, but after she says "troy was breached" troy comes out screaming in pain. mico appears in the background of this, filming the video from two points above

it's time for the ithaca saga livestream... except it gets cancelled because the connection is bad and jorge's devices are dying

TL;DR: the gods saw the epic crew in ithaca and went "do you guys think it'll be really funny if we just. recreated the odyssey"

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Damn I've never thought about how great a lamb & Polites symbolism could be... And, oh, the art is gorgeous </3

first version and sketch

really proud of this one :3

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Poseidon: *Fucking up the stream by sending storms and shit*

Hades: Brother—

Poseidon: Not now!

Hades: Brother please—!

Poseidon: NOT NOW CAN'T YOU SEE I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING!?

Hades: IT'S NOT HIM!

Poseidon: ...What?

Hades: It's not Odysseus!

Poseidon: ...It's not?

Hades: He's been dead for over 3,000 years! OF COURSE IT'S FUCKING NOT!

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OH MY FUCKING GOD, I've been relistening to "Would You Fall in Love with Me Again", and when (after Penelope's question "what kinds of things did you do?") Odysseus said "left a trail of red on every island", POSEIDON'S MOTIF AND INSTRUMENT STARTED PLAYING??

ALSO THE WAY IT'S THE FIRST THING ODYSSEUS MENTIONS WHEN ASKED ABOUT WHAT ACTIONS HE REGRETS?? We're so doomed, it's unbelievable

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Congratulations to EPIC for the release of the Ithaca Saga here's a quick redraw of that one Beggar Odysseus and Penelope thing

^ old version

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I also want to rumble so much about Odysseus' final lines from that song in the context of my Monster AU, so I might as well do the post about it later. I just... wow. Need to process everything, lol

Celebrated the new saga with friends, and my silly drawings went too far, oops :P

(also I'M SO FERAL ABOUT "ODYSSEUS", I ADORE ODY IN HIS MOSTER MODE)

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Celebrated the new saga with friends, and my silly drawings went too far, oops :P

(also I'M SO FERAL ABOUT "ODYSSEUS", I ADORE ODY IN HIS MOSTER MODE)

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Odysseus' character analysis & how we overlook his trauma

Okay, this will be a long post about Odysseus and what could be happening in his head after his return to Ithaca because I really need to share these ideas <3

During the last few days I've been thinking about the whole Poseidon-obssesed-with-Odysseus concept (thanks to @rin-solo for inspiration :)), and that's how I recalled one headcanon of mine about Odysseus and his possible perception of his conflict with Poseidon.

A disclaimer first: I know that Epic is sometimes historically and culturally inaccurate, but! I want to include some of the cultural norms of ancient times because they will make things much more interesting.

So, since early August I've had an idea that Odysseus' personality during the post-Odyssey timeline would be heavily influenced by PTSD. That's just reasonable: the war takes its toll on the person anyway, especially on the warrior like Odysseus. He saw the nightmares of the Trojan War, lost his comrades and faced things that made him lose his sleep.

I actually like how Odysseus' trauma is depicted in Epic. We have these parts with the voices of Polites, Eurylochus and Anticlea and see just how much these losses affected Odysseus (take the ending of "Love in Paradise"). But instead of focusing on the losses like the musical does I'd rather talk about those who had caused them. It's a curious thing about the mentality of those who survived the war and similar events: their mind tends to demonize and hate those who caused pain deeply. It produces the ultimate hatred that is able to overcome any other feeling. This is the idea that I want to pursue in my Monster AU (might write about it later because that's another long talk) about the overwhelming feeling, produced by trauma, that can't be distinguished. And Odysseus is the only character in the story who has endured that twenty-year long nightmare: his comrades from the Trojan War didn't have the decade of journey back home behind their backs, and those who sailed with Odysseus died.

But there's one more layer to this scenario. While we've covered the idea about the war victim demonizing the aggressor, we can't forget that we're talking about the religious society of ancient times. Poseidon and Zeus are the two godly villains of Odysseus' story. However, they're also the god of the tides, who must've been one of the most widely worshiped in Ithaca (since it's an island... yeah), and the King of the gods.

That leaves Odysseus in an even more complex situation. Because he most likely highly respected both of them for his whole life. Eventually, they left Odysseus ruined. The people of Ithaca didn't stop worshipping them, and Odysseus has to follow the same religious rituals and celebrate annual festivities, which definitely reminds him of what had happened.

Once again, no one understands what he's gone through. Even Penelope and Telemachus, no matter how supportive they are. Thus, the trauma is left unseen and unhealed. Too bad there was no therapy in the ancient world, Odysseus would've needed it.

Finally, this whole set of reasons serves as a perfect background for deep and tragic obsession with those who hurt him and inability to let go of the past. Do the voices fall silent after Odysseus defeats all the enemies? No, they probably don't. Because even though physically Odysseus is already home, mentally, he's still fighting with the ghosts of his enemies. This is a desperate feeling that belongs to a broken man who no longer fits into society like he used to. And it eats him alive, kills him from the inside. No ruthlessness or bloodshed can help Odysseus to run from this despair. It fact, they might only make it worth by reminding who made him a monster! :)

Generally... this is pretty much it. The whole idea of all-consuming despair and trauma is what I've wanted to pursue here because I find it very natural in terms of everything that Odysseus has been through. I'd also like to analyze the whole Vengeance saga (especially my fav Six Hundred Strike) from this perspective because it actually makes perfect sense for me, but that's one more long post of another time lmao.

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Eikon for @rin-solo

"touch me like a lover would"

Have Poseidon being totally levelheaded about his little unrequited crush on Odysseus. Nah, don't mention it, really, he totally isn't obsessing about this mere mortal every second of the day and doing completely irrational things about it, nah... he's just a chill god chilling with his waves, wouldn't be him, right? Riiiiight...

*cackles in Linear B and chisels a relief of it into Mount Helicon that will last for the next five millenia*

(alternate versions below⏬)

Anyway, I've been stewing alongside our favourite Lord of the Depths in the god-level angst that gracious @rin-solo cooked up in 'Theohimerotic' over on AO3. Yes, of course I'm normal about it, thx for asking.

This is a sort-of chapter-header, and it's based off the line above for chapter III. There's this concept of the Eikon in the chapter, which I just found a very cool narrative device. This is the result of me thinking about it, and fair warning: This is Poseidon's hc inspired by that chapter, so don't go looking for this scene specifically, but do go read. Also, mark the emboldened words above (maaaybe also the fic tags, if you aren't me), that's important, but it doesn't take away anything from the massive and enjoyably written heartache.

Now head over there, enjoy for yourself and leave the author a nice big comment, plz. ✨

Artwise: I'm trying to challenge myself with lighting, a little more complicated poses of characters interacting, and finding back into a more efficient sketching/painting process, so there's anatomical "glitches" ... hehe... priorities were set.

Merry solstice, fellow pagans.

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OMG YESSS this is exactly it!!!

They're so doomed, it's astonishingly tragic. Also, I really love this idea of almost canon one-sided obsession. It just feels so right??

I couldn't miss the reference to your own fanfic about them in the last sentence, which is an opportunity to say how gorgeous it is </3 Because, oh, once the vulnerability is shown in the 600 strike scene, it's no longer just an obsession. It's a pure yearning. And it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen about them.

My favorite thing in Epic that we don't talk enough about is that during the Circe and Thunder sagas, Odysseus was pretty much aware that Poseidon was after him. But in Vengeance saga, considering his reaction at Poseidon's appearance in "Get in the Water", he kinda thought that Poseidon must've forgotten and let go until that time. BUT HE DIDN'T. THE MAN WAS OBSESSED WITH ODYSSEUS FOR SEVEN YEARS

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THIS and also a mutual pining trope for this scenario !!

I'm in a "let Poseidon fall in love with Odysseus and be loved back" for once mood now and I'm just saying that at the very least this would mean absolutely no one would have the balls to mess with Odysseus or his family.

And I love the idea of Poseidon being ruthless to everyone else but him - with Odysseus he's incredibly soft and kind.

Just give me a smitten Poseidon that loves Odysseus and is loved back.

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*drops my Poseidon design and runs away*

Those ancient vases are horror core tbh (in a VERY good way)