#anyway stream epic the musical

[iggys-patootie]

thinking about the fact that the lyrics of the "open arms" chorus are polites' final thoughts and polites' final word spoken aloud is "captain" (desperate, hurt, pleading) and how that means even as he was at the mercy of the cyclops, even as he was probably terrified but all too aware of what was about to happen to him, he was still thinking about all of the guilt he knew was already in odysseus heart. how much more guilt was GOING to be in odysseus' heart after his death.

and how he spent those final seconds wanting to tell odysseus to still, despite it all, greet the world with open arms.

[chaichai-draws]

He’s home!!!

I just wanted to leave a close up of the part I started this sketch for.

[deadbaguette]

Goddess of Wisdom, Master of War🦉🛡️

(The somewhat official Athena design by Luiza Xavier Mazzei based off Teagan Earley)

[sprmrte]

never really know who you can trust

[asp3nn]

final athena doodles before the vengeance saga because GODDESSES CANT DIE DONT LIE TO ME

[lemonpoet]

I’m going to start boarding for “get in the water” I’m having VISIONS

[brainrotcharacters]

"Mutiny" or as I'd like to call it "Say It Ain't So"

[kindred-spirit-93]

THIS IS EPIC: THE LIVE STREAM

my laptop and remaining braincells cant handle the sheer awesomeness of the stream unfortunately so i went and read the comments instead to placate myself.

the live chat replay wouldnt load either :( this is the best i could manage. someone saying poseidon had contacts at youtube was iconic. i love this fandom so much yall are awesome :')

[r0semultiverse]

I hope Jorge keeps the streams up until the next live stream like he did with the last Saga.

I had trouble getting into Epic: The Musical without the visual aid of the animatics as visuals help me absorb the material. I kinda wish he would upload each song with the lyrics and animatics in them instead of just the animatics by themselves without the full song, but maybe that’s just me. I’m an audio and visual gal otherwise I have trouble absorbing information. Besides the streams there’s no current way to watch the musical seamlessly with actual visuals and yet it is called a musical. A medium I’ve kinda expected to have visuals by this point, that was my one big criticism going into this series was “so it’s just songs? And I have to watch the script as I listen to know what’s happening? That’s hard to keep up with.”

Though if this is a consistent change going forward of having the full musical with visuals until the next iteration premiers, then great & honestly my only criticisms are a lack of trans voice actors (seemingly but I could be wrong) and a lack of fat characters in the animatics because Aphrodite was fat in her depictions throughout history in the very least. Which I’m not even sure if this counts as a criticism so much as an observation and something that gives me a bit of pause? Again, not series ruining, but just more an observation I guess?

That being said, I’m super excited for the Vengeance Saga tonight! Probably gonna stay up just to watch it! Sleep be damned I wanna see it as it comes out! 💜

Edit: Okay actually not risking tummy issues by napping and can’t stay awake any longer. If I have tummy issues I couldn’t even watch it as it premieres anyway because I’d be fighting for my life in the bathroom. ANYWAY DON’T GO ATTACKING ANYONE INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT, I WAS JUST MAKING AN OBSERVATION.

[scrambledd3ggss]

I was just listening to Storm and it occurred to me how much epic means to me? Like I know that may sound silly or stupid but like I listen to it when I’m having a shit day and it makes me feel a little better and i remember being half awake at 11:30 for the storm saga stream and it was defiantly one of my favorite memories

so yeah, this little musical about the odyssey is really special to me and I’m really grateful that it exists

[beigetiger]

Uh. Medias I like. Kind of somewhat. We’re going with loose definitions here but basically here are some medias and you’re allowed to go bother me with questions about them. Idk.

Shows:

Sighs deeply

- Monkey Wrench

- Murder Drones

- The Amazing Digital Circus

- waiting for The Gaslight District and Knights of Guinevere

- The Owl House

- Good Omens

- Our Flag Means Death

Movies:

- Nimona (the movie version)

- The Wild Robot

- SECRET OF KELLS

- pretty much anything made by Studio Ghibli, but some favourites are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, and Nausicaa of the Winds

Not much else because I actually don’t like movies that much. There are movies I enjoyed but none of them spark any sort of brainrot or inspiration.

Books:

- Skulduggery Pleasant (of course)

- Iron Widow trilogy

- Sunbearer Trials trilogy

- Hell Followed With Us

- Nimona (the book version)

- Monstress

- used to be into Wings of Fire, read up to book fourteen I think? Lost track

- probably more, I am an avid book enjoyer

Games:

- Sky: Children of the Light

- Dungeons and Dragons

- Ultrakill

- Cult of the Lamb (have never played, would like to at some point)

- Mouthwashing

- hey have I mentioned Dungeons and Dra-

[mialicassi]

AAAAAAA IM SO EXCITED FOR THE ITHACA SAGA RELEASE I LITERALLY DREAMT OF IT 3 TIMES IN THE SAME NIGHT

[xiranjayzhao]

Heavenly Tyrant is out today! It's a weird feeling after so many years of losing hair over it. It didn't feel like I was capable of finishing the book until I wrote the last word. The publication process was not a happy one. I'm not doing any events for it, not even a launch. I'm typing this while lying in bed and thinking about what a terrible year it's been. We joked about 2020 being the worst year ever, yet every year since has been progressively worse. And the coming years do not show any indication of being better.

But a big theme in Heavenly Tyrant is that wherever there is oppression, there WILL be resistance. I have had as much heartwarming support from peers, friends, and readers as I've faced heinous shenanigans this year. When a very, very famous author I met this summer asked me "Are you a controversial person?" after I told him about the stuff I was going through, I answered "To many who hold power? Yes. To regular people? I don't think so."

I want to thank all of you who gave me the faith to say something like that. Most people I know are on the right side of history. If you aren't - I don't want to know you.

Anyway, the book. Heavenly Tyrant is SO different from Iron Widow that I'm pretty nervous about whether people would like it. I want to ask you all to adjust your expectations going in. You're not going to get another breakneck-paced story about a Girlboss Going Smash. The smashing was the easy part. Rebuilding what she broke into something better is much, much harder. The story is a lot slower by necessity, and the problems she faces are way more complicated to deal with. I also ask that you read until the end before making a judgement because, well, developments you don't like might not be endgame! And there's a book 3 coming! (This was always supposed to be a trilogy; it's just that my publisher was only willing to buy 2 books from me at first. They changed their minds after seeing the preorder numbers for IW.)

Finally, I want to bring everyone's attention to the five songs the Bookish Songs Collective wrote specifically for Iron Widow! They're now available to stream whenever you get your music. It blows my mind that MY book would get such epic music?! I can't thank or praise them enough. Seriously, CHECK THE EP OUT.

[notscarsafe]

OKAY SO what with the TWO new Hermits implied by the updated banner I will say that, though the Skizz truthers have me convinced, I now have room to do my own crazy red string monologue and throw my hat in for my choice

1) Mythical J. Sausage (the J is silent) is a multitalented S-tier builder that absolutely deserves to be shoulder to shoulder with the Hermits. The man does buildings, interiors, terraforming, custom trees, and he does them SO WELL.

2) The production values!!! Beautiful replay mod sequences with shifting camera perspectives, shaders, music that sets the tone for each segment that's different from series to series. He already has more than a million followers on YouTube and for good reason!!

3) He has been SO consistent lately. He started a hardcore world about three months ago (about the time you might expect the Hermits to finalize their s10 choices maybe...???) and already has 15 episodes and hasn't gotten involved in any other big content. (He did just start playing a little of the BCG server but from what I understand that's super casual /copium copium copium).

4) That hardcore world is conveniently about to reach a good "pause" point. He started his world on a cherry blossom biome island that he's filled with a medieval village and starter farms, he's said it's almost full and what's left is the castle. I'm guessing the new season will start the first week of February, so if Sausage puts out a video this week building out that Castle and finishing that island it will be MIGHTY CONVENIENT TIMING.

5) This man can GRIND. His Hardcore world hasn't even been going half a year and he's built... So much??? Magnificent! And when he was on the Hermitcraft server he did the Razorcrest for scar AND the player head baby yoda/stormtrooper merch AND the noteblock themesong AND still built in the xmas village and other "diamond of peace" and so many other shenanigans. Did the man even sleep? He can grind with the best of them.

6) He can do redstone, too! Maybe not unique designs, I honestly don't know, but he builds farms for build materials no problem.

7) The DRAMA this man loves his improv and his backstory and trauma lore! For every series he does! Can you imagine if he gets to interact with Ren for an extended period of time, what that would do to them, to us?? Give Martyn a run for his money!!

8) Which brings me to my next point, which is that Sausage is already One of The Gang, because he's been in series with so many of the Hermits already! Empires and the crossover, obviously, but also Pirates with Cleo and Origins with Scar, and he's even done MCC! Joel is the only other player with the same depth of different series but there are other people truthing him already.

9) The EPIC BROMANCE with Pearl. My god the devotion of this man to his sunflower goddess bestie. I would try to do ot justice but y'all have seen floweroflaurelins work, you already know.

10) He's already a PG streamer but with HILARIOUSLY PG-13 tendencies. Imagine him and Cleo cracking each other up at an HHH stream, *grips your shoulders* IMAGINE IT.

11) Sausage comes with his own mascot in the form of interdimensional dog extraordinaire Bubbles, but he's also just an animal lover on general. Mans drinks his "I love Jellie" juice and had her in his world even before the sad news of her loss.

12) Diversity win! No one should be hired just for their gender, race, sexuality etc etc unless it's truly necessary to the job, but we were all happy when more women got added to the server in s8 and I know a lot of people would be happy to see some ethnic diversity added, too.

... That bulletin board had a lot more pins in it than I thought it did but anyway MYTHICALSAUSAGE TRUTHERS/ALL OTHER TRUTHERS RISE UP SPEAK YOUR TRUTH! we'll only get to wildly speculate for a few weeks so we might as well make it everyone else's problem ENJOY IT TO THE FULLEST!!

[abyssboo]

“Well it’s a little bit dangerous my friend / you’ll need a mindset change for this”

I cannot believe it’s been 5 years since I discovered watcher Grian and this is the first time i’ve ever drawn him. Smh my head (i couldnt confidently draw people until like six months ago thats why)

Anyways this directly references the song “Dangerous” from Epic the Musical (stream Epic the Musical by Jorge Riverra-Herrans on all platforms) and also this post I made sometime yesterday.

Some progress shots and a final piece filled with all my drawing references beneath the cut, reblogs appreciated, etc etc

Art referenced: one frame from Ximena Natzel’s Dangerous animatic for the pose, DDVAU grian by @/kitsuneisi for the head wings. He was initially holding a wind bag, yes, but i decided the dice fit more and looked cooler

[sleepitysleepyspees]

I like how so many people are like. "oh yeah, [EPIC song] was my introduction to the musical" and then I'm just over here being all autisticly "I could never do that because it would be out of order and spoilers and-"

anyway, EPIC is awesome. hard to believe we've come to the end of the story. it's been less than a year for me but it feels like it has actually been twenty years. maybe I'm just impatient, maybe it's because I spend more time thinking about my hyper fixations than fulfilling my basic needs, maybe Jorge is just insanely talented and that's the answer to any question anyone has ever had and ever will have. guess we'll never know.

thanks Jorge and everyone who took part in creating this wonder of human creation.

not only do I enjoy every second these songs are entering my ears, but I have also found an amazing group of friends through this musical (hello @skylerashford @madrone33 @captaincorgi128 @yummyorgans @kixrru and many more)

this musical has affected my life in so many ways, I don't think a single one of which is negative (unless you count the "I'm not doing christmas if it means I'll miss the stream" but uh.)