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I want to point out how the final fight in Epic is not in song 38 but song 40.

How after Odysseus became "the monster" he then, was the last boss to fight

And Penelope fights him.

Because she fights for her husband, for the man beyond the trauma, for the man WITH the trauma, for the man she will always love and will wait forever if necessary.

She makes him angry, he gets furious and Penelope is the only character so far who matches that fury and tames it.

And Penelope wins.

She defeats the "monster".

And all it's left... it's just a man. Her man.

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I love how the Epic community all unanimously agreed that Athena and Dionysus don't understand how humans are born

(Telemachus just fell down a flight of steps)

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Sum old doods

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Thinking about how Odysseus carved the wedding bed out of an olive tree, which means the bed is rooted in the ground.

Thinking about the line “You don’t think I know my own palace? I built it!”.

Thinking about the fact that Odysseus built his entire palace around that olive tree, his and Penelope’s wedding bed, a symbol of their love.

Odysseus’ world is literally built around his love for Penelope.

…..i’m not crying, i just have an odypen in my eye.

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if epic ever gets a stage adaptation, imagine how the song odysseus is staged.

it’s dark, with a single spotlight on ody as he sings his opening monologue. all of the lights go out when the electric guitar kicks in & the chorus chants.

then, somewhere in the aisles, torches are lit. the suitors are in the audience, between the rows of seats (some intentionally left open so they can maneuver), up in the boxes. u can’t see odysseus anywhere, but arrows fly from multiple directions during the slaughter.

during his ending monologue, some of his lines could even be prerecorded to throw his voice around to mimic him being everywhere.

the remaining suitors try to flee from the exits of the theatre but they can’t. ody walks down the aisles to get to them, bow in hand. the lights go out a final time as the song ends.

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weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

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when people are like “he’s not even attractive you could find a guy that looks like him at any gas station” i’m like….. well you see there’s beauty everywhere actually

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buying him time

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Odysseus: "Mercy? Mercy!? My mercy has long since drowned, it died to bring me home, and as long as you're around, my family's fate is left unknown-"

Odysseus 15 minutes later: "Penelope would you still love me if I was a worm?🥺👉🏻👈🏻"

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please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

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I just had a dream last night that we could buy Epic!Ody and Penny dolls (similar to Barbies ?) and now I need this to be a real thing

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What fucks me up about I Can't Help But Wonder is that Odysseus, the man who has had the longest 20 years in known history, took one look at his grown up son and still said "how time has flown". Like. That just strikes me as such a PARENT thing to say, you know?

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In honor of the Ithaca Saga and Epic the Musical in general🫡🫡

Ody and Penelope have my heart🖤🖤

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"everybody hates me" factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn't hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.