#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)

[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

[bellesalbums]

Eurylochus: When we fought the cyclops, you were quick to hatch a plan! Eurylochus: And when WE fought with Circe, it was-- Odysseus: WHO IS WE????

[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

[mialicassi]

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

[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

[lethepsyche]

epic the musical because i heart epic the musical and i want people to request me epic the musical things so i have an excuse to draw more things for it

anyways this wasnt originally meant to be an emoji but it seemed like it fit well as one so here is the glammed up (vengeance saga) wind bag

some rambles im doing baout the design ive done

i think its the general consensus that the (official) like vengeance saga wind bag was kinda like sewn back together?? maybe thats just been my assumption- anyway

i wanted it to seem like they (hermes/winions/whoever else fixed it idk) took like streams of wind that got like pulled out of the wind currents

its also glowing with aeolus' energy (bc yk the gods and the glowing things) [idfk how to draw flowing things this is one of the first real attempts ive made at glowing things so hopefully it looks glowy-ish]

i also put like stitching in there to hold it together and the stitching and multiple areas of strings of wind because i kinda figured after the first release of the storm the intensity would have ripped most of the bag apart

anyways i love epic the musical hope you guys find a use for this-

[seasonalmoss]

Epic the musical catified: Vengeance Saga doodle

ODYSSEUSS!!! GDJDBDJDHDH AAGHH I LOVED THIS SAGA SO MUCH IT WAS SO INSANE AND ADRENALINE INDUCING BUT BEAUTIFUL AS WELL FJDJFJFBDNJDHRJ

Anyways here’s a doodle I made! I was simply bored :]

I made his eye’s blue instead of red like in the scene simply because it created a good contrast, as the rest of the piece was a lot of warm colors, also in my design his eyes are blue so it sorta just made sense!

Anyways I feel like not enough people show just how utterly not okay Odysseus was in that scene. Its more then him winning a fight. Its a culmination of his trauma, after years and years of pure torture after years of being helpless he finally has some control in the situation. He is a broken man.

I just want people to draw his pure rage and agony as he stabs Poseidon repeatedly, tears streaming down his face as he cries and screams at him, yelling “look what I am now” “look what you made me” “look how you hurt me” I want more tears and more signs of a complete mental breakdown in art of this scene

[dynasty889]

I make thingy about Calypso cause I wanna talk about her and some of my just general thoughts about her. THIS EPIC: THE MUSICAL CALYPSO TAKE YALLS ODYSSEY AND PJO CALYPSOs SOMEWHERE ELSE (I might reference them though)

So first off, my general vibe of the character is kind of this optimistic yet isolated goddess to the point of delusion. I’m not exactly sure how to explain it, but considering her rather upbeat music I feel like that’s the vibe Jorge was going for, kind of like Circe in Puppeteer. It’s a great sound to the music but everything else tells you that the situation isn’t good (for Odysseus). In my opinion, Calypso seems to be unaware of the way she makes Odysseus feel. Now whether she’s actively ignoring it or genuinely can’t clock the situation is a whole other thing. I also definitely think she’s manipulative. Again, whether she knows she’s being manipulative or not is something else.

But something that I do find kind of interesting is her age in EPIC. In mythology, we can assume she’s at least a few centuries old (maybe even a millennia? If we go based on the fact she was around during the overthrow of the Titans but also I don’t know much time is in between that and the Odyssey so—). But in EPIC, she says she spent one, her entire life on the island and two, has been alone for 100 years. If she’s not exaggerating to get Odysseus to feel bad, then she’s pretty young in terms of deities. Only around 100 years old. It’s just a thought I had and maybe it makes sense. Hopefully.

Also, I know technically the whole “doomed to fall in love” and “imprisoned on Ogygia” comes from PJO, but that also seems to have a similar presence in EPIC. I think she did fall in love with Odysseus on her own terms rather than being doomed to, but I do think she isn’t able to leave. Maybe it’s not for some divine reason, maybe she just doesn’t know how to get off the island. Or maybe she is. But considering she’s been there her whole life and hasn’t ever bothered to just leave, I’m gonna assume there’s some divine reason she can’t leave. It’s kind of similar with Circe, whose characterization in EPIC seems to have similar elements from Circe in Madeline Miller’s novel (which seems to be indicated in a few lyrics in Done For and There Are Other Ways. Maybe even Wouldn’t You Like since Circe seems to know Hermes personally??? 👀👀)

Hmmm hmmm hmmm, I know there are other things I want to talk about. Oh yeah! I have a theory Zeus played a hand in keeping Odysseus on Ogygia with Calypso. You know, considering his attitude in God Games and some of the lyrics. Like not only does he get pissed at Athena beating him, but he also gets angry when he makes him “feel shame” (shame that he’s had Calypso trap Odysseus on Ogygia for 7 years?)

Anyway, this isn’t to say I like Calypso or am trying to defend her, but I do think she’s a very interesting character and deserves a little more analysis than “r*pist.” Why does she keep Odysseus with her? Are these actions the result of something that happened to her? etc. (these are kind of basic questions but just examples I suppose). Also I’m doing this because gigi’s animatics make me like her more than I should 😔

Also I just wanna say again Barbara Wangui is amazing.

Stream the Vengeance Saga guys