#epic confessions

[epic-the-musical-confessions]

My sister pointed out that Eurylochus was in a no win situation and was pretty much forced to open the wind bag because he's the second in command.

the tldr of it is, because of how things were during the time period Epic takes place, Eurylochus's job is to manage the crew and ensure their health and safety. Odysseus's job is to be the boss, but Eurylochus actually is the one who is fully responsible for the crew. He's the one the crew go to with complaints, and it's his job to ensure everyone eats and gets paid. And if the crew chooses mutiny, he has to either join them, or die beside his captain. Which is why he constantly second guesses and question's Odysseus's choices. It's basically his job.

Meaning that, if Odysseus was right about being able to work with the gods like he claimed in Luck Runs Out, and Aeolus gave him treasure like the god's personal winions claimed, Odysseus would be obligated to share it with the crew upon return to Ithaca. But with the way he's behaving, it looks like he's hoarding spoils of their efforts. Meaning Eurylochus needs to open the bag to see if it is treasure, and then make choices accordingly.

Basically, Eurylochus was doomed from the start because he was the union rep.

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[lucabyte]

siffrin starts the game with oddly empty pockets for a rogue who has a habit of stashing away every little trinket that isn't nailed down

and a hardy pocketwatch is an indispensable tool for oceanic navigation

[stanleynopines]

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[fuckingdeadinsidetm]

something something Eury notices Ody’s hair has grown since troy and realizes that Ody looks almost identical to Ctimene now

[dmmdconfessions]

[Image text: wish there was epic rap battles for yaoi like EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! AOBA. VS EIDENNNNN!??!?!!?? BEGIN.]

[epicfirestormer]

Why did he think that was a good idea to say

[ambeauty]

a few thoughts on the different types of romantic love in the bear

One facet of the show that I feel like is incredibly poignant is the emotional realism. I think I read another post or podcast about "emotional realism" in the bear so I will be borrowing that to talk about emotional realism when it comes to romantic partnerships in the show.

I feel like a lot of people wanted Sydney and Carmy to be this magical soulmate pairing that faced no opposition, trials, or tribulations on their journey to love and let me be the one to tell you right now. That's just not realistic. So in order to showcase how the show portrays different versions of romantic love, I wanted to focus on some couples that are not so triggering when it comes to the idea of romantic partnership within the context of the show.

Natalie x Pete: Natalie and Pete are the epitome and pinnacle of romantic love in the show. BUT, and STRONG BUT, they are not without their challenges. Natalie's family for the most part do not like Pete. They tolerate him, now, but for the longest time and to this day, they talk shit about him, because he's not like them. He's an outsider who has a different way of loving, and they don't understand it. Should Pete have left Natalie because her family didn't accept him?

Natalie's traumatic childhood still makes her feel insecure about her relationship. Plus she has a lot of generational trauma that she is working through to not pass down these things to her daughter. Should Pete leave her because she's insecure and traumatized?

You would answer no.

Richie x Tiff:

Richie and Tiff are divorced but they are still deeply interconnected because of Eva. You know that there is still a deep love between them because of the conversation on the bench. Tiffany wants Richie at her wedding because that's her family. Not to embarrass him or make him feel bad, but because she still has a deep love for him as a person. I get the sense that they didn't work out because it took him well into his adult life to figure out what he really wanted to do. Sometimes love isn't enough, especially when a child is involved. Tiffany and Eva deserve stability and at the time Richie wasn't able to provide it for YEARS. So I don't blame Tiff for leaving, but if Richie was in a better place, I know she would've stayed.

Just because you aren't with someone anymore doesn't mean that their importance to your life and the love you have for them just goes away.

Tina x Mr. Marrero

We don't get to spend a lot of time with them but we get to see such a beautiful dynamic between Tina and her husband. Now that they've been given it to me I need more. Tina and her husband are doing their very best to take care of their son and live a content life. They aren't rich but they've created a warm and comforting environment that is built on the foundation of their love. When Tina loses her job, it shakes up everything. Mr. Marrero is focused on his duty to take care of the household on his modest income. And Tina is so independent and knows that they need her income in order to survive. Her husband supports her through this transition even if it's stress on him and her. They work as team to get through this life change. Should he have left Tina the moment she became frustrated with finding employment? Should Tina have left him because his income alone wasn't enough to sustain them?

Again the answer is no.

The emotional realism of the bear shows that relationships of any kind are never perfect and never without challenges. Familial, platonic, or romantic. Sydney and Carmen are no different. While I support whatever decision Sydney makes, I do believe that what they are going through is their biggest trial yet. Syd and Carmy have failed to communicate in a healthy way for 3 seasons. And once these miscommunications finally bubble over it's going to be catastrophic. In one way or another. Who knows? At the end of the day what's important is that they do learn how to communicate because whether they stay business partners or become more or less, there will be obstacles that they will need to work through and grow from together.

"What grows together goes together."

thank you @thoughtfulchaos773 for encouraging me to expand on this

[mblue-art]

once again i was fueled with coffee (did not sleep the whole night) but this time i doodled college au to cope bc ofc i did (also did not feel like sleeping wooo)

[eddwardharrison]

Thoughts on today's episode?

I’m recovering.

[ SPOILERS FOR “Sun is to make a DEADLY CHOICE!!” 10/31/24 ]

I’m honestly pretty disappointed that Nexus died, not because I wanted anyone else to die, but I genuinely wanted to see a lot more from Nexus. I GOT MY SOLAR AND NEXUS ANGST THOUGH SO I’M EATING!! Nexus definitely seemed “too-far-gone” with his act, so caught up in power and murder that his original self was completely blinded and would never get its sight back. With Nexus getting stronger and stronger, it’s a little hard to believe he would go out so…flatly. THE DEATH ITSELF WAS GREAT, VERY IMPACTFUL, VERY WELL DONE, but I expected…more from Nexus? Maybe some kind of way out, a backup plan like Eclipse’s have. Eclipse’s ARE Moon’s after all, I’m wondering if this isn’t the last time we see Nexus.

I don’t believe Solstice (Dark Sun) is coming back. His final goodbyes were very…final. He explained who he was, he gave Sun a great choice that would show Sun a head-on reflection on who he is and how he truly feels, and I do believe it really opened Sun’s eyes, which was Solstice’s plan all along.

This entire episode was the defining reason why I gave Dark Sun the name “Solstice”, because a Solstice is when the sun reaches the highest point in the year. Solstice was more than likely the greatest and highest Sun simply because he is a combination of every Sun there is, along with every Moon. (though it’s intellect based.) Solstice himself said the great quote

“I am every Sun you’ve met and will ever meet. I am every Sun you’ve never met and never will meet. I am Sun.”

A Sun in the purest form, not driven one way or another, yet driven by a unified cause spread across the timelines. Simply wanting to be freed of constraints every Sun has struggled to bottle up their entire life, no matter how much it damaged them. A Sun who not only snapped, but did so in a way that was completely neutral, not malicious by murder or passive by escape, but taking advantage and then growing. A real True Neutral.

I don’t believe we’ll ever see Solstice again, but I hope we do. He’s been one of my favorite characters, and I held so many expectations for him, to which he met nearly all of them. It was a joy watching his character and dissecting him to the final details, and I still haven’t watched every episode of him quite yet. I’ll never really stop waiting for his return, either. A year from now, I’ll still be re-watching these very episodes as I do with the entire series.

Just yesterday I was watching a lot of Eclipse’s old videos, a lot has changed and my perspective is much different than it was then.

But Uh…Nexus is a loser and died. Hahah! Guys, point and laugh! Laugh at the stupid Moon who betrayed his family and got all butt hurt when they squared up! GOD the Solar + Nexus angst was so DRY yet so JUICY UGGHH I WANT /MORE/ BUT THE MAN’S /DEAD!/ You could see just how much Solar was affected during that, he was very hesitant and unsure, resorting to begging at times. A part of Solar knew he couldn’t fight Nexus, so he never fully tried. Quite heartbreaking.

Sun could barely do it too, upon that countdown Sun was /breaking/. Of course both of them have hurt him in significant ways, but it wasn’t a matter of “who hurt me more”, it was more of “Who is still my brother?” Nexus could’ve been helped was the dilemma. Even Sun believed there was still a Moon inside him that Sun cared about and loved. Nexus was such a good brother and he just…shattered. It’s tragic, really. But when someone is so…destroyed like that, you can’t always put them back together. I believe that was the deal breaker in Sun’s decision.

Solstice pushing Sun forward with the “Nexus would probably use you as a tool to find Shards”, “I don’t care what Nexus does to you afterwards”, etc was NOT (imo) a heartless remark just to express how little he cared. It wasn’t that, it was Solstice trying to push Sun into the better choice which was to save Moon.

Not because Solstice cared about Moon or anything, but because he wanted Sun to realize a few things. (1) That Sun had the power to do something, he could intervene, he could take control of a situation. (2) To realize Sun was much more powerful than he thought. When he used his magic on Nexus, he reduced him to a crumbling puddle of metal and circuits. Everyone was…rightfully terrified because of that. Sun wasn’t even aware of what happened afterwards. (3) Solstice didn’t want anything bad to happen to Sun, but Sun’s don’t recognize when they’re in danger, they just simply cope with it and endure. Solstice doesn’t want Sun to just “endure”, he wants him to take control, flip the tables and DO something, the same way he has. (4) Honestly Solstice was more than likely bluffing that he wouldn’t do anything to help if Nexus tried to hurt him. If he wasn’t, then it’d be a “It’s because you’re too oblivious to save yourself. The best thing afterwards is for me to save you.” Via allowing Sun death so he could still have that final relief without stress coming to torment him ever again, the same way he did it to Servant Sun. Just “putting them out of their misery” kind of thing. If Sun didn’t act, he’d fall under the “You’re too far gone” idea. But the fact Sun acted showed he is so much more.

Solstice wanted to show Sun the knowledge Solstice already has, that they’re greater than what everyone else is. After all, an Eclipse is the combination of a Sun and Moon within coding. Even though Moon’s the only “smart” one, Eclipses significantly surpass a Moon’s intelligence. Why do you think that is?…because he’s also SUN. Eclipse’s are PART Solstice’s. Just a small detail.

That Dragon wasn’t used enough imo, it just had a big clash with Goliath and that was kind of it…I was hoping for more but I’ll simply..create it myself. 😈

I also get a free “hahah you guys are losers because dark sun is totally canon still and I’m the only one that gets to know” because (in my headcanons) Solstice and Eclipse drink at a multiverse bar and chat about their universes every Thursday night from like 8-12 pm. Haha!! Got I need to DRAW THAT STUFF AUAHGHGHGHG!!!!!!

Another detail, the title. It’s missing “IN VRCHAT”. It makes me wonder who named the title, or if this was even a planned upload. Maybe Solstice himself uploaded it…oooooooh spooky theooorryyyy…ooga booga!!

I wonder what’s going to happen to Ruin.

Ladies, Gentlemen, other strange…strange people with unreasonable addictions to Celestial events…we have reached the end of a chapter. We have reached the end of the “Solstice Arc.”

I await impatiently for what’s to come.

Happy Halloween.

[veliseraptor]

you know, all the stuff about "people want comments because they want community, it's not just about wanting attention and affirmation" is very nice and everything, and definitely true, and certainly sounds better from a "not wanting to look like a needy and/or entitled whiner" perspective but the thing is

sometimes i do just want the attention and affirmation, actually. and i wish that weren't quite so. idk. cringe to admit.

[startswith0]

Tfw you tried so hard to set up your friends' confession scene only for them to enjoy it for 5 seconds and then leave

[epic-the-musical-confessions]

Odysseus lost any moral high ground when he yeeted that baby from the wall so if you're going into the fandom with the mindset that he did nothing wrong ever, please recall the baby he yeeted from the wall. It doesn't matter if the gods said he'd die if he let the baby live. It's still a freaking baby.

An infant! Specifically an infant!

Do you know how old infants are? 2 months to a year. At that age, it's barely as big as your average PC tower. That is a lump roughly the length of your arm from elbow to finger tips.

You know watermelons? You ever see one of them dropped from high places to the ground?

He very clearly killed that infant in the same way as one drops a watermelon.

This is not a man with a solid moral compass that did nothing wrong ever that the fandom likes to portray. This is a man who would kill LITERAL BABIES to see his wife again.

That is important to remember going into this musical. Above all else, Odysseus, when he's "just a man", is already selfish and monstrous enough, before he even becomes the monster (rawr rawr rawr), to kill an infant.

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[puffpawstries]

SO FOR Hanichi😇😇😇 the meow meows my beloveds i love them, who ask out who? :3

HAII WAVES I EXPLODE HAPPY !! I'll do my best to semi explain... so I'm working on another ask that will have more context for this type of ask >:] which makes me more excited to draw out the comic even more so I'll make it in parts to make is easier for me! BUT OKAY so technically Ichimatsu?? KINDA??? He had his own way of confessing his feelings (denying any closer feelings that he had for her) that's for sure. But Honno did say that they like, liked him outwardly in the context more normally (as normal you can call these two) But there wasn't a normal confession to asking each other out when Ichimatsu brothers were encouraging + kinda helping to push Ichimatsu to admit his feelings while they're also being haters at the same time (we love and hate em) Though being the second one of the matsuno family to get into a relationship wasn't on anyone's bingo card. But Karamatsu is supportive about it! :D

[mcytblrconfessions]

“SDMP is SMPLive 2” WRONG!!!!!! SDMP is SMPLive THREE. Put some goddamn respect on EpicSMP. Learn your heritage!!!!!!

[eah-confessions]

epic winter was not as bad as y'all make it out to be, the main reason y'all hate it is because of daring shipping

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[backpackingspace]

I just really think we glossed over eurylochus's confession and the mutiny in thunder saga. Like first off no reaction from odysseus at all?? And then after being stabbed and over thrown and (I assume) tied up all odysseus has to say is my head hurts? And then eurylochus is reverting to calling odysseus childhood nick names??