#don’t mind me I’m just yapping

[icapturedthecastle]

Can’t believe some of the people whining the loudest about the Acolyte are the same people claiming they want more Old Republic stories

You lost your mind over the IMPLICATION of “maybe the Jedi get things wrong and make mistakes and those have consequences” but then turn around and say you want REVAN???

MISTER “JEDI CIVIL WAR” HIMSELF??? That Revan??? “If I have to burn the Republic to ash to save it, I will” Revan??? Turned to the Dark Side not out of greed or anger or pride but because he felt it was a sacrifice he had to make to save the galaxy from something worse??

I don’t think so.

[artpoint420]

Y’all the fact the Kinger’s Special place ad is all about him wanting to look like his wife..

[t3acupz]

music videos jonathan tucker was in

[darksaccharinity]

being in love with a deeply insecure person can do a lot of damage to both parties, with the insecure person not being able to accurately reciprocate the love they are given, and the other person constantly overcompensating for that lack of reciprocation. Once u are able to confront the insecure person and accept that the way they treat you has nothing to do with you but something within themselves, “you do not care about yourself and it makes it impossible for you to care about me and you are hurting me”, it’s much easier to navigate the situation and allow things to flow. U cannot make someone grow for you and it is up to you to decide how much mistreatment you are willing to take from that person

[blossoms-phan]

many people are afraid to be real lovers. dan and phil are not

[falmerbrook]

Oblivion has the weirdest aesthetic choices going on. Everything is super bright and saturated, the characters look silly and almost bordering on cartoonish, and the voice acting and delivery tends to be pretty silly. The whole things has such a strong classic fantasy vibe compared to the other tes games, but also there's a bunch of realistic gore and rotting corpses and really dark questlines with gross visuals (for the quality of those visuals). it's such a weird game.

[blorbos-shoved-ina-drawer]

mandatory think piece on season 4 Diego (and a little Lila)

the writers did him so insanely dirty this season it was unbearable. to jump from Diego being so enthusiastic and excited about being a dad and having a family with Lila to being the most miserable of the siblings in this new universe is crazy.

i do think it’s somewhat believable that Diego and Lila would end up feeling trapped in their new life with a domestic family considering both have literally only known fighting and heroism, but the scene at the birthday party where Diego is complaining to Luther about his life is so jarring. Diego has always been a very family centered character in his own right i think it’s a little out of character for him to show so much resentment towards Lila, his kids, and his in-laws (why are there in-laws i feel like that makes no sense even if they’re alive in new timeline).

and then there’s the affair suspicion, why do the writers feel the need to keep giving him random out of no where hyperfixations on things. i feel like the affair stuff at the beginning of the season is the same as the kennedy stuff where the writers are boiling Diego down to being crazy and impulsive in his assumptions. and i even think it’s reasonable for him to suspect an affair after seeing Lila with “the little greek man” being as an on looker that would look like a date. it’s the fact that they keep pushing it, they continue to have him bring up the potential of an affair until Lila comes back actually having an affair with Five. i think the intention of the writers was to have this be foreshadowing for Lila and Five but it’s incredibly poorly done because Diego just looks fucking crazy.

and don’t get me started on how cruel it is for the writers to add the Lila and Five affair two episodes before erasing all of them from existence. it makes Diego’s fixation on a potential affair even sadder that he’s spend so much time worrying about it and then it actually happens and there isn’t enough time to actually unpack or talk to Lila about before they are all killed.

Diego’s also played up to being just fucking stupid this season, in previous seasons he was a helpful asset to the team and played important rolls towards fixing things. in this season Five has to call in a damn babysitter because Diego is so stupid he’s actively harming the plan.

Idk what steve blackmans problem with Diego was this season but he was 1000% robbed in this ending

[a-bottle-of-tyelenol]

Speaking of how Odysseus sees Eurylochus (could be seen as a part two to this post), I often think about this video Jorge made about Eurylochus where he talks about how Eury almost seems lost and like he can’t find his way due to how inconsistent his instrumental is.

I think it also implies something super interesting from Odysseus’ perspective too.

Eurylochus, as far as I can tell, only really has his Luck Runs Out motif that we almost exclusively hear paired with the rest of the crew. It’s something that he leads on, yes, but there is a moment where the crew uses it on their own (in Mutiny, when Perimedes stabs Odysseus) and therefore it feels like something much more dedicated to the crew as a whole. This could be something showing how much Eurylochus puts into the crew and how much of his life is dedicated to them, or it could also be something that shows how much more similar he is to the crew than to Odysseus (lumping himself in with them and further leading to the separation between Ody and the crew that I talk about in this post— can you tell I yap a lot about Eurylochus?).

But I think it’s interesting to look at it in a more meta way. EPIC is primarily told from Odysseus’ point of view, only changing after Eurylochus dies. So, every moment we have with him is strictly from Odysseus’ perspective and, therefore, the lack of distinction in Eurylochus’ music could easily be attributed to that.

Most of Eurylochus’ arc is implied— specifically when it comes to how he changes from Circe’s island to Mutiny and that’s led to a lot of interpretations from people that aren’t necessarily wrong due to the fact that nothing about him is very clear. And I don’t just mean people who view him as a selfish hypocrite, I also mean opinions that I hold too.

I, for example, strongly believe that there’s a real possibility Eurylochus wasn’t the only one who opened the windbag. He was definitely there and probably apart of it, but there are real implications in the show that he might not have done it alone and simply took responsibility out of guilt. It doesn’t absolve him of all wrongdoing, but it is something to consider when it comes to the discussions about his self-preserving nature versus how he prioritizes the wellbeing of the crew. That being said, these implications aren’t what’s directly in the text, through lyrics or music, so I could be totally wrong.

And that’s exactly my point; there isn’t a whole lot to Eurylochus to decipher, musically. Jorge likes to use the music to give the audience background information on characters (like how he uses Athena’s ensemble in Warrior of the Mind to tell us that Athena is amused by Odysseus fangirling over her or how we can sometimes hear Circe’s motif in regards to Scylla, both things he’s revealed on TikTok). This is the type of information that Odysseus might not necessarily know but that we get told through the music.

Eurylochus doesn’t seem to have anything like that.

Unlike pretty much every other character that has some level of distinction to them and how they interact with our primary perspective, Odysseus doesn’t have anything to connect with Eurylochus other than the rest of the crew. There’s nothing that is specifically tied to him and this carries on throughout the entire show, where he takes on other melodies and instruments depending on the context. While perhaps not intentional, Eurylochus being musically lost not only leaves a lot of his actions and motivations up to interpretation for the audience, but it also highlights just how out of sync he is with Odysseus.

Their primary conflict revolves around their inability to understand one another and it’s very clear that they both have views on the other that is incorrect. Odysseus believes Eurylochus to be too ruthless and yet too cautious to actually effectively use the philosophy and Eurylochus sees Odysseus as too arrogant, playing foolish games with the gods that will only get the crew killed. They’re both right, to a degree, but their inability to understand or even empathize with the other’s position is really what destroys them— something we see even in the very beginning. There is no musical tie to them and nothing musically surrounding Eurylochus to signal any other meanings to the audience— Eurylochus is just his Luck Runs Out melody, that again is intrinsically tied to the rest of the crew which makes it less distinctive to him as a character than, say, Open Arms for Polites.

And then comes Mutiny— where Eurylochus is the most musically distinct and yet, none of it is truly his. In the beginning, he hijacks Odysseus’ electric guitar (possibly a hint that he understands Odysseus more than Odysseus has, thus far, understood him) and, in the second half, the melody he sings is that of Survive— which was potentially the first time he truly doubted his captain in ten years— to a beat of The Horse and The Infant (that’s what my friend and I hear, anyways)— which is mostly just a tool used for foreshadowing Thunder Bringer. Then, the script flips and Odysseus is in Eurylochus’ position for the Luck Runs Out melody, possibly signaling that he’s finally beginning to understand Eurylochus for the first time since the start of the story. And, instead of going back to the lyrics of Luck Runs Out, Eurylochus turns to the specific use of the word ‘suffering’.

Because Eurylochus is so vague in his instrumentals, prioritizing the crew over his own well-being and identity, the times where he does falter into other melodies, particularly ones involving Odysseus, are very loaded with implications that you can interpret— like how Odysseus uses the concept of suffering as a motivator, associating it with Penelope and her ability to make everything worth it. Eurylochus, on the other hand, associates it with his loss of the will to survive, which is why I think it follows that song’s melody too.

But even then, Eurylochus is still followed by the voices of the crew with a melody that has never been his alone because Eurylochus, as a character, is defined by what he does for other people and, since Odysseus simply cannot understand being in that position, Eury’s music reflects that.

I just find it interesting that the character with the second most screen time has little to show for it musically, and I think that’s a good thing for showing Odysseus’ inability to see things outside of his perspective (or outside of a magical perspective; as in, he can’t relate to regular men), especially given that this is a flaw Eurylochus has as well. It could’ve been really easy to give Eurylochus a bass— which is known for being paired with guitars— or maybe a specific drum and call it a day, symbolically, but Jorge chose to keep him as only the voice of the crew with one mention of a bass and snare in Luck Runs Out.

Something about that intrigues me idk

[gigireece16]

starting off your novel with a man being tortured for two pages, then abruptly introducing your devious little lesbians on the next page, is a good way to begin idk tho

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[finn95o]

What is it with the nerd stereotype and glasses?

Like I’m sorry I have glasses and am good at math but that doesn’t qualify me as a nerd right? Right??

[yesandpeeps]

Impera Ghouls as bugs 🪲

Swiss: Cicada

Cirrus: Spider

Mountain: Cricket

Cumulus: Moth

Sunshine: Bee

Aurora: Silverfish

Aether: Scarab beetle

Aeon: Mantis

Rain: Dragonfly

Dewdrop: Wasp

[hyperch1ptune]

yk i’ve talked about spooky month on here before,,once I think showcasing my first gadgetini art of the year (or since 2022)

it’s actually the webseries that had me reminded of gatg from it having a duo I felt were similar 2 the main robo-twins

THE THIEVES 💪💪

These guys have been my favorite since 2020, and it wasn’t until the beginning of the year where I felt I was improving on both my art & writing skills where I’d interfere without feeling i’m mischaracterizing the 2

(I actually uploaded some of my recent SM thief stuff 2 tumblr one time,,,buut that was before I decided to restart & delete the 5 year old blog entirety)

(cuz my old stuff from them,,,additionally from 2021 & 2022 where I had a really bad “edgy” phase was NOT good i’ll say that)

most of the headcanons I have written for them are archived somewhere in my now fidget-focused rp account, but I can try & paraphrase most of what I have to present other than roleplay

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Barton “Barry” Gómez (Fat Thief), and Eugene “Euan” Gómez (Thin Thief) are the duo thieves of the neighborhood; Barry being 32 and Eugene being 34. They’re both brothers, close ones at that. Even with the 2 year difference it’s always been as if they were the closest friends they could have.

They both were the previous son’s of Richard, 20 years before Roy came along (more than likely in his 50’s now). Richard had another partner before Carmen, but they never got along as well as he hoped..he took it upon himself to take care of both of the boys whenever him & his old girlfriend partner. Barton doesn’t remember much of his mother besides playing with her whenever he was young; Euan only remembers her consistent fighting with Richard most of the time now.

The thieves are unaware of Richard’s new life, having both moving out for collage (and independency mostly) at that early adult age (18/20 respectively for the both of them) they’re both been they’re only source of family sense, being roomies for as long as they can remember with each house/area they move/hide into. The only thing that is known is that Richard’s been having a better life with his new wife..additionally with them not knowing it’s Carmen (more than likely they’ve tried robbing her before) AND not knowing that makes them related to some kid named “Roy” in some way.

It was Eugene who first got into the habit of thievery; with him thinking it would be good financial help for the 2 of them, and just liking the thrill in general. With Barry being the youngest, he ended up picking up that habit alongside him. With how long they’ve been doing it around the neighborhood, it was surprising to hear them both getting relatively popular under local news reports..only having full realization after someone deliberately order a heist for them to hit off. AKA: the RUMORED CULT hiring them to rummage through the attic of a house they’ve already failed stealing from. They already had good enough of a grip of how dangerous the group could be; given how they escaped jail in the first place with help from famous Bob Velseb; the reanimated cannibal that was ALIVE because of the cult (they didn’t have that great of a relationship with him in-and-out of the prison..) Barry was more unsure on the deal, not wanting to be wrapped deep under more garbage for the future. Eugene? They were paying good, he couldn’t let go of that offer (it would’ve payed off they’re apartment bills🎉🎉) Alongside the duo they were hired with the Candydealer, him acting more as some information giver-mentor hybrid for the two. Trying to keep them in order from fear or hesitation so they don’t “run out of luck”

Barton is a Gay man, & Euan is Bisexual as well btw 🫡🫡

ADDITIONALLY THEYRE BOTH MEXICAN WHICH MAKES RICHARD MEXICAN WHICH MAKES ROY MIXED HEHEJAHAHAHA I LOVE SELF INDULGENT HEADCANONS 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

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thank u 4 ur time I just wanted 2 get on here & say i’ve loved these guys 4 so long & they mean so much 2 me and with the power of tumblr & how much words u can write on here I can announce that 2 everyone else

anyways here’s the full art dump I have w them ur welcome chat

[reylosaurus]

the acolyte spoilers

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wait so indara was the last to the scene so she can see the dead mother (mother aniseya) but does she know it’s a jedi who killed her?? ig a lightsaber would is v visible but now episode one interaction comes back to me

mae: attack me with all your strength

indara: jedi don’t attack weaponless ppl

mae: yes, you do

like it’s crazy to pin the blame on mae of the actions that killed the entirety of her people,,,,,,,, she is the only living witness of the truth!!!! presumed dead but now alive?? I cannot wait to see her confrontation of sol like wow next episode will be crazyyyy

[hiraethwrote]

once again my best friend cancelled the lunch date we had planned for the fourth week in a row 🤭