#but I'm gonna be like this with a diff thing

[v7lgar]

What do you think rosestarkillerchasers dynamics are with eachother?

hmmm lemme think. this might get a little bit long.

i wanna start with jarty obvsly. i see some resemblances w rosekiller in a way where two pairs are twin flames. somehow rosekiller make it work but jarty ends up being sickeningly too tangled up and since they're cut from the same cloth it almost impossible for them to set their boundaries w each other. after all james isn't like evan, he doesn't know when to stop when someone isn't there to remind him that he should stop and rest. barty does the opposite, he encourages and pushes his boundaries and he gets off of to it because james is a man with ethics but he just can't say no when it comes to barty? when they are with each other it's like everything around them catches fire and it's probably gonna devour them both.

for evanreg, evan is usually tame w him which is a surprise bcuz w barty he is as batshit crazy as barty but regulus doesn't see that side of them when they're alone, not often at least. barty is the only one who can make evan feel like that. regulus is more like when evan wants to withdrawn regulus is just there with his book, he wants to be there when evan is fighting his demons and he wants to caress his hair whilst. he is playful w reg and sometimes reg can see how much mischieve is in evan's eyes but he doesn't try to dig in and bring to the surface. he is ok w how things are.

i'm not gonna talk abt rosekiller or jegulus bcuz it's kind of obvious so i'm skipping to rosestarchaserkiller directly.

reg is familiar w rosekiller AND jarty so seeing evan w james was a bit wild in his experiences but i'd rather talk abt evan and james later in a diff post. don't ask me why there is no reason lmao.

so, rosestarchaserkiller. imo they cancel each other out. when the four are inside a room and no one else, they either making out or evan is sitting on the edge of the bed whereas regulus is sitting on the floor w crossed legs. he is letting evan braid his hair into little braids as james lays his head on his lap, he is rubbing james' temples a because his head is hurting and barty is sketching the three of them and james is resting his foot on his nap too. form time to time he is giving james' feet a firm massage but he is mostly sketching and it's quiete. idk atp they're cozying like this.

[decaying-vampire]

Guys I'm sorry for being annoying about my interests on the be annoying about your interests site

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

[spacenintendogs]

For the art requests!! Snotlout playing with Hookfang maybe <333

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[gingermintpepper]

I hear the original Odysseus and Epic the musical’s Odysseus are pretty different to the point they’re sorta their own characters- how do you feel about this?

Hello beloved Anon!! Thank you so much for the ask <3

Generally, I feel like a very big part of the appeal of adapting stories, especially myths, comes from seeing what these stories and characters mean to the author and how their interpretations of the themes and conflicts in a piece of classical literature are expressed in their interpretation of the story as a whole. This, naturally, means that I fully expect and look forward to unique interpretations of well loved figures whenever I hear that something is going to be adapted! I love being able to see what aspects of a character has stuck with an author, I love being able to trace said aspects back to the original myth and see what other places the author has picked up inspiration from along the way to inform their interpretations! A big part of the appeal of reading and interacting with a whole lot of different mythical media comes from my genuine excitement and anticipation in seeing how a favourite figure of mine has been adapted or how a moment from a story that I really like has been handled!

With respect to specifically Epic and the Odyssey, my opinions on how the characters have been adapted are somewhat mixed. Putting aside my general misgivings about the current writing of the musical, I really like the directions Herrans has taken with the theming and the broad strokes of Odysseus' character and consequent arc. I like the idea of Eurylochus as a well-meaning but still very fallible second, I like the idea of Odysseus and Athena's close-knit mentorship that completely goes to shit after the Cyclops Incident, I even really liked a lot of the representations of the gods - from Hermes' carefree and relaxed kind of power to Aelous' frivolous cruelty to Zeus' power and command prior to God Games. A lot of the interpretations in the Wisdom Saga are things I feel much more neutral-negative about though. While Telemachus' ingénue-esque naivete and enthusiasm in Legendary and Little Wolf is endearing, I much prefer the Odyssey's slight desperate but unfailingly politically apt Telemachus - the wily son who helped his mother with her staling schemes and who was praised for his wit by his father. Telemachus is a young man and while he's technically characterised as such in EPIC, he's also treated in the same way a Disney Princess is where she is technically a young woman but must still appeal to very small children and I'm just not a big fan of that. I'm also not a big fan of Antinous' characterisation though that was something I was originally intensely excited about in the early days of following EPIC! Hold Them Down is a song I'd been dying to hear a full version for because I felt like it captured the quiet menace of Antinous so well - his charisma, his vile motivations, his absolute disdain for the strong-willed Penelope who has thwarted his attempts to take Ithaca for himself and the way his mask has slipped from barely cordial but socially correct visitor to absolute monster who is willing to do anything to get that crown. Just, UGH, Hold Them Down had me HYPED, but the Antinous we got in Little Wolf was... inelegant. Not subtle at all, crass with his intentions - the kind of guy who would've gotten kicked out ages ago for contempt against the queen. The whole political aspect of why they couldn't just kick the damn suitors out is that technically they'd never done anything punishable that would justify rejecting them and sending them on their way. Antinous was the head of that malicious compliance - the one who had the intelligence to be menacing but not so much that his words could be blatant insults or threats. That was part of the whole point of Odysseus striking Antinous down first! Little Wolf's Antinous,,, was not that and I found myself intensely disappointed by it considering that he was that in the earlier versions of Hold Them Down.

My other misgivings in terms of characters just have to do with Apollo, Hephaestus and Zeus in God Games tbh. I'm someone who is generally more concerned with the portrayal of gods in a work than I am with the humans and EPIC has a super unique take on all of the gods that accompany and inhabit its world. I've made a separate post voicing my misgivings about Epic's Apollo but I don't have a long laundry list of issues with EPIC's Hephaestus, I just wish he had more time to shine and that there was more to chew on with respect to his argument. Zeus however is in a similar boat to Antinous where in the first half of the play he was perfect - literally the perfect neutral god-figure who was simply doing his job and obviously not personally swayed one way or another when it came to Odysseus and was maybe having some fun at his expense in Thunderbringer. His violence in God Games then was not only greatly surprising and seemingly out of character, it was also completely unsubstantiated in the story of EPIC itself. Zeus had nothing against Odysseus, he has no particular reason to bar Athena from rescuing him. Likewise, he is the one who offers up the proposal of a game, why would he have a problem with losing it? The reason of 'he doesn't like to lose' doesn't cut it for how extreme his reaction was and it completely undermines what was a genuinely super enjoyable and different take on Zeus in a modern Western-based greek myth inspired piece of media. Absolutely such a tragedy to me.

Of course, to me, the biggest actual crime of adaptation that EPIC's committed with respect to its characters is that we only have about 10 songs left based on Herrans' original outline for the musical and Penelope still has not had a single song or showing or meaningful reference apart from "I am Odysseus and I miss my wife (her name is Penelope)". The Odyssey was a twofold story split between Odysseus vibing on the way back to Ithaca and the political bullfuckery that was awaiting for him when he inevitably returned to Ithaca. The center of that aforementioned political bullfuckery was Penelope and Telemachus. Considering Penelope has been Odysseus' guiding motivation for the entire play, the fact that there has not been a single solid piece of real characterisation that can be attributed to her this late in the story is uh! Criminal actually, and it's the only thing for which I hold some level of genuine disdain over.

In conclusion: I generally quite look forward to people doing adaptations and interpretations of myths and such! I generally think EPIC's done a good job with the adventure and exploration part of the epic but the political and domestic aspect of it really isn't where Herrans shines as a writer and it shows.

[sergle]

twitter rlly is gonna be called X now... I’m gonna have to start getting used to bluesky, huh?

[onethousxndvoices]

Been working on cleaning up/making my Ko-fi page a bit more robust and found an option for monthly subscriptions. I already have a $1 tip jar tier up just as kind of a test run to see how it works, but it's got me thinking:

Price wouldn't be very high, probably capped to $3 a month (price subject to change, idk yet). I'll be using that space to post page wips, extra doodles, and, when it comes time to start posting the next track, Ko-fi members will get to read 3-4 pages ahead. Or something along those lines. Would that be something y'all would be interested in?

[bloombirdreads]

Imagine after being Geronimo's bodyguard, Kornelius discovers how much crazy s##t happens to Geronimo and not to mention the how Geronimo's friends and family treat him.

Kornelius: . . . Is this how you live everyday?

Geronimo: Ahaha.. yeah

[fisheito]

(zookeeper au) eiden: hey yakumo why do you always use the stall

rei: damn can't imagine asking someone why they pee the way they do. why do you show your dick to pee. imagine being so overconfident in your ability to piss you just stand and make a mess on the floor for a janitor to clean up (THIS DIVERSION WAS MADE BY 1/3 OF THE CLOACA CREW)

TSJFSFK THAT WAS MY INMMEDAITE THOUGHT -->defensive rei (bc i instinctively project my personal reaction as the first rxn)

if eiden's all "why are you shy yakumo? u can pee right next to me 🥰" *pats urinal next to him* i can imagine rei walking into the room with 1 of 3 reactions:

Fight Mode: "imagine asking someone what they do in the toilet. i could report u for sexual harassment" <- he would not, bc rei ain't a snitch, but i can imagine rei sassing eiden bc he feels like it

Apathy Mode: "i use the stall too. it's nbd. this is unimportant." (continues with his life, uncaring)

Generous Mode: "you're curious? come in here and i'll show u"

[amiharana]

thinking about writing an au where link is a prince who is bright but carefree and reckless, and revali is his overprotective retainer who's always bickering with link about being more careful and picking up after link's messes and getting link out of trouble (and it's because he's secretly in love with link but knows he can never have him because link is the prince and revali isn't nothing other than his ever loyal retainer)

one day the king announces that he intends to marry link off to another kingdom (link and zelda are twins in this one and zelda is the heir who will take the throne), and revali's heart shatters. he already knew that it would never happen, but this really solidifies it. revali wonders if link will get a new retainer when he gets married and resolves to begin the non-attachment process now rather than later. by the time link gets married, revali needs to be completely devoid of attachment towards his precious prince...

[yoiku]

Trying to come up with something i could afford to do on my bday in a few weeks, would be nice to have something nice but i always end up regretting it when i go outside and treat myself to something. Head downtown for a boba tea is always the number 1 option but i dunno, i find it hard to make it feel worth it. Maybe i could finally brave it and go get a haircut so i can use the hairdye i bought... I dunno why i dread the barbershop each time so much when the lads there are always really nice and by now seem to know that i'm not much of a talker :'D Also it takes maybe 10min tops to just trim the sides so its not an hour long salon torture or anything. Still, difficult to get done and looking at the mirror each day thinking "oh wow my hair looks like shit and it annoys me, i should do something about that" doesn't seem to be enough of a boost to make me go walk in the next day. I'd love to go to the art supply store to grab some supplies I definitely do not need but oh so desperately want, but for that I know I won't have the funds.(which is probably a good thing)

[yo9urt]

local man completely obliterated by strength of narrative and character writing in 2023 game of the year

[cabbojage]

HAIII

I have a QUESTION!

what piece of world building do u really like that makes a lot of sense in your au?

HELLOOO SORRY THIS IS LATe i swear everything in my inbox is rotting from neglect. BUT I'M GONNA ANSWER ITALL

hopefully i answer this right but.... i really like all the machine lore in my wip ! the whole "time is currency" thing that i mentioned obviously takes the spotlight in terms of my world's defining features, but machines and the energy that powers them also plays a pretty big role! the gist of it is basically, CLOCKED OUT's city of klairva is mainly fueled by electricity, which is generated in power plants and produced by huge watches wound up by the Clockmaker when he was alive. it's one of the reasons why the city is able to survive with so little land area and such a dense population; essentially, there's an infinite source of energy. however, since the energy source is tied to magic (like a lot of things in my world lmao), it will undoubtedly collapse if the magic ends up dying. or if, you know, the creator of that magic has been considered dead for half a century...

exempt from all this, though, are automatons - half-sentient machines who can take orders but not think for themselves. this is where lola comes in with her mechanic expertise: she makes and fixes automatons! automatons aren't powered by electric batteries, but rather by "keys" - which must be blessed by a Cardinal. the only magical aspect of these keys are the ability to bestow the machine with a half-consciousness (think modern day AI/robots, who can respond to stimuli but don't think or themselves), and keep the machine running without constantly having to be winded (an automatic key instead of a manual one!)

lola, however, has nothing to do with the magic of it all. she deals with the grit, the gears and the grease and the details and dimensions. the design. and i want to capitalize on this human/machine, creator/creation dynamic throughout the whole story - what defines humanity? if your body is ruined into metal, if someone tells you what to do and you obey, does that mean you are more of a machine? if someone else controls how long you live for, are you no different than a generator? the human as a machine and the god as its creator....hm.....

but anyway! i hope this relationship becomes clearer as i write it bc.... all i have rn are vibes LMAOOOO and i don't fully know how i'm gonna represent this or if i have too many elements interacting with each other etc etc TT i might end up toning this down so that my world isn't so magic-reliant (maybe have them use fossil fuels or something idk lmaooo) - but yeah, i like how the whole "time is currency" interacts w the city's machinery as a parallel representing humans as the machines and the cardinals/the Clockmaker as their creator. (i just realized i could've just said that last sentence instead of that massive info dump but.... oh well KLDJALKDJKD)

[berrymeter]

sometimes i think maybe i'd like to actually write & post my writing on here but then i remember the worldbuilding i was working on needs to be entirely reworked in some parts & it's like. what's the point until i've worked all that out

[snapbackslide]

sorry for this ugly weather @twentyonepilots seems to happen every time they're in town 😭 it was sunny all week 😭😭

anyway... sometimes it pays off to wait till the last minute to get tickets 🥲

see you soon boys ❤️

[boycottmakeup]

i think i'm gonna bring a pic from my end-of-semester voice studies performance (i sang creep in clown drag) to the jinkx m&g, for her to sign so i can feel somehow validated for my shitty beat and cringe song choice