#epic trading

[smoolio]

Was doodling some Hermes last night

[tickletails]

My part for an art trade with @ntj2pj !! their OC and agent one from helluva boss :33

[sweetea-rosey]

Friendly reminder that the original sirens were bird ladies

[planetsandmagic]

malice in the air

art trade with @pinchan!

[puffpawstries]

art trade for @nervigg !! of his Oso-san oc Miki with Karamatsu!! >:]

[s4r1n-g4s]

My end of an art trade with @elijahtheepic! He was so fun to draw and I love this adorable guy shshshshshshshshsh

Do check out his page while you're at it!

[muffin-min]

Hello and welcome to the Traded AU. This is basically just the normal swapped Au you would see in many fandoms. Though I decided to flesh it out a little bit. This is currently the prologue before the epic Mickey, or Oswald in this case, plot started. This is still a work in progress, but I already thought out almost a lot of the story and background for the characters in this AU. This Au is just purely for fun and there is no harm done. Anyway, have a little bit more information about Mickey and Oswald in this Traded Au

I put a lot of thought into the designs. Like how Mickey doesn’t have gloves and shoes, but Oswald does. This is what I could currently make before my first day of school comes so Im pretty happy with it. Also little note, Mickey’s suspenders is a little easter egg to Oswald’s old design. There will be little easter eggs like that as I flesh out this Au more

[sumerianlanguage]

Not a vocabulary ask 😅 but I was wondering if lapis lazuli had a special significance for the Sumerians? I remember reading a translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the stone pops up in relation to the divine a bit. Or is it simply that lapis lazuli was the gemstone they prized the most?

Hello! Lapis lazuli features frequently in Sumerian literature and appears in many Mesopotamian archaeological sites.

The lapis used in Mesopotamia is one of the clearest pieces of evidence for long-distance trade in that era, given that Mesopotamian lapis comes from mines in what is now northeastern Afghanistan; Afghan lapis has been found as far as Egypt and Mycenae(1,2) but by far the most has been excavated in Mesopotamia.(3) And the decline in frequency of lapis objects in Mesopotamian sites starting in the early second millennium BCE coincides with the breakdown of these networks,(1) contemporaneous with the decline of the Indus Valley civilization that was a major trading partner of Sumer and later Akkad.

In terms of associations, lapis lazuli's main connotation was wealth - possession of a lapis object was only available to the very wealthiest in Sumer, or for use in temples. Most objects from the Sumerian era made of lapis are small, like the eyes inlaid in larger sculptures, or small amulets or trinkets.(1) This is because "lapis lazuli was shipped from Iran to Meso­potamia in the form of small blocks or semi-processed masses."(2) So references to large lapis objects, like Inanna's lapis lazuli chariot that she offers to Gilgamesh in the Epic of Gilgamesh, show their fantastical nature, beyond the scope of what one could actually see in contemporaneous Mesopotamia. Who could be richer than a goddess?

The Bull of Heaven, also featured in Tablet VI, has horns "each [of which] was thirty pounds of pure lapis lazuli / and their cases were two fingers thick" (VI.161-62, Helle (2021) translation), an unimaginable bounty, while also showing the other major symbolism of lapis - the sky. Its blue was associated with the heavens, and the flecks of gold often referred to in literature as embedded in the lapis were the sunlight that shines through it.(1) So it's only appropriate for a heavenly bull to have humongous lapis horns.

For more on lapis in ancient Mesopotamia, see (1) Moorey 1994: 85-91; for how lapis was mined in ancient Afghanistan, including photos & maps, see (2) Tosi & Piperino 1973; and for more on the lapis trade, see (3) Hermann 1968.

[abr-giggy]

hear me out...

ace markey as just a man from epic the musical??? 👀

[fluffypotatey]

“you miss your wife so bad, you’d trade the lives of your own crew”

“if you want all the power, you must carry all the blame”

said by Eurylochus and then literally the next song Zeus gives Ody the power to place the blame on either him or his crew

[starlightmeadowbloomthesecond]

l've made epic.chronicles in instagram an art trade that took me three days as they requested me to draw Oswald and Ortensia falling from the sky that was inspired by the amime Spirited Away. I knew I should add the bunny children, Mickey, Minnie and Gremlin Gus as well because why not?

[brieforsomething]

Connor McDavid's parallels with Achillies

1. He's the leader and pride of his city(-state).

2. People worship him because of his superhuman ability but it's becoming more obvious by the day that he is just so painfully human and can be hurt/injured

3. Has been fighting the same fight for nearing a decade (trojan war anyone?). He gets so close but he just can't win the cup; its been a long war everyone is tired and just wants to go home

4. Draisaitl as his patroclus - bestfriend purchased for him from a foreign land

He's just the perfect tragic hero archetype and I will never get over it. Feel free to add

[byfulcrums]

It's kinda funny that if you take “Just a Man” from EPIC: The Musical out of context, the song is basically just about a man throwing a baby off a balcony and crying about it

[kemetic-dreams]

[donnieluvsthings]

its the way this is the beginning of act 2 and it so closely parallels the beginning of act 1 except. well. the man has become the monster