#〔 ☆ 〕 gilgamesh

[zagreus-eats-your-bread]

*booktok voice* Do you want to read a gay story about two guys who speedrun enemies to lovers, go against their designed nature by being together, who become unstoppable fighting side by side to much dismay of the gods who created them? Do you want to see one of them eaten alive by the grief for his lover when he dies from a godsent sickness? A book about someone fighting so hard for a chance at eternal life that he doesn't notice he is throwing away the precious time he has got, filling it with agony? Well, in the  2100 BCE poem of Gilgamesh-

[stil-lindigo]

ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 - On the 6th and 9th of March, I'll be doing art requests on stream with other notable artists to raise money for Operation Olive Branch and the PCRF.

I'm incredibly lucky to be counting quite a few big names in the roster, including known Jesus and Odysseus enthusiast @wolfythewitch, the extraordinary fanartist @denimcatfish, and the incredibly talented @troubledminnesotan, as well as Lilypichu from OfflineTV.

You'll be able to watch the streams on the day of the event either on my twitch channel here, or via the links provided by the artists below.

Lilypichu

Cuptoast

Akairosu_

Sevvanto

Wolfythewitch

[wolfythewitch]

enkidu

[strange-aeons]

ALL I HAVE TO FEED YOU IS THE FUCKED UP WHOLE EGGS AND BABY CARROTS SOUP

[to2llynottoby]

Funniest thing about the Old Testament is how it consistently disparages bronze-age hero type characters crafted by its historical peers and lifts up that saddest patheticest wet little meow meows youve ever seen

[optimalmongoose4]

Big day for the EoG fandom

[victusinveritas]

[headspace-hotel]

"Disaster Taxon," poem assembled using text from Wikipedia articles

[thelezay]

Saber DOES NOT LIKE her at all 😭😭

[dalemidkiff]

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 1: GILGAMESH (the epic of gilgamesh) VS SCRATCH (ice age)

[bloodybellycomb]

Someone today will read Shakespeare's hamlet and say omg he's just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it's ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don't read classics because they're old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That's what makes stories so powerful--they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

[wolfythewitch]

hehehe new charm designs

[saintsebastiensbf]

Herbert Mason, Gilgamesh : A Verse Narrative

[honkowo]

GUESS WHO LEARNT ABT THE MECH NAMED GILGAMESH