#i love music so much though

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

i know i'm a month late to this party but when it happened i couldn't get netflix to stop buffering lol so i decided to wait for the official separate release--and then i forgot it came out and youtube didn't recommend it to me until today after i watched kendrick's halftime show.

so i have to gush about the beyonce bowl and how obsessed i am, as somebody who still goes back to cowboy carter whenever i haven't heard it in a while and who is super bummed that her tour news is for just a few spots, the closest to me being LA (aka not close at all, even though i couldn't see the eras tour so it's not like i would ever have a chance of seeing this either).

the horse! the aethetics! mixing so many of my absolute faves together! especially riiverdance which i adore but wouldn't have expected to be included!

do-si-do-ing with her daughter! sharing the stage for blackbird! everything about the marching band! MY GOSH a former competitive marching band kid loves to see it. and since i don't actually think i've ever seen post malone perform before? his chemistry with (and respect for) her makes a good impression.

then that lift and the closing notes? i caught myself literally not breathing, and realized that for some reason, to me beyonce feels related to the legacy of whitney houston, and idek why especially when i'm watching her perform country music as a national history lesson during a football game. but in a very different way, it reminded me of that, of those peak moments that could make you catch your breath.

anyway i'm glad i finally saw it and i suspect i will be returning to it again in future cuz it was just such a good time, the same way taylor's all too well 10 minute version snl debut is a semi-regular rewatch in my youtube history. (and so was shallow for a while, but i got that one out of my system.) i just really love musical performances that are blatantly, proudly as much performance as they are about the music. i love it when the talent and craft are already founded so the spectacle is the point--cuz that's a kind of talent too, and one that fascinates me.

[gigizetz]

Hi Gigi :3

Are we gonna get a hold them down animation? Or no because the uncomforty topic?

that's up for the future to decide

I'll be busy with commissions up until february I think, so util then I won't be working on any Epic animatics

and then once I have time again I'll finish God Games

and after that I kinda want to do Legendary-

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[manyrepulsivethoughts]

that one post comparing ruin's and LN2 endings altered my brain chemistry so now have this

[starlingfawn]

send me back in time and i'll bring us back in line

[spacedace]

In the Odyssey the axes were arranged so that she would be sitting behind them, so that if any of the suitors truly had managed to string Odysseus' bow and make the shot, the arrow would strike her in the heart.

And there is so much in that, already, but there is so much more in all the greater context of Penelope and Odysseus' marriage.

Even before Odysseus came to Sparta with all the many suitors looking to win Helen's hand, he was clever enough to know that a King with no bride price to offer from a tiny, almost insignificant island like Ithaca would stand no cha ce of winning Helen's hand. He had never intended to we'd Helen. He had been there to make connections, and to win the hand of another beautiful Spartan princess.

He forged a deal with Helen's father to help him see Helen safely married without fear of those not chosen shedding blood, in exchange for just the opportunity to try and win Penelope's hand. And with his swift speed or swift mind, he did so.

They were not a love match then. Just two practical people, who understood the way the world they lived in worked. It was duty that had Penelope alight into Odysseus' chariot, to be drawn away to his ship and across the water to what would be her new home.

When her father, heartsick that he might never again see his beloved daughter again, chased after them and stopped them outside the city gates, began his begging, I think that was when she fell in love with her husband. Her father, one of the most powerful men in the Greek world, begged them to stay, offering this strange, trickster she had been married to all that any man could ever dream. Wealth, connection, the promise to make Odysseus his heir and with such an oath see the King of Ithaca instead one day become Co-King of the much greater Sparta.

Did she think that this had been part of her husband's plan, I wonder? Odysseus, grandson of an infamous shape-shifting thief, great grandson of the trickster thief-god Hermes. More than clever enough that he must have known all her father would give up to keep her close. Did she think it all a ploy to get what he truly wanted?

But no. No, cunning Odysseus, clever Odysseus, loyal Odysseus, he wanted none of those things. His father had only him as son, Ithaca without him would be left abandoned. He was a trickster, but he was steadfast in his devotions. He would not be swayed from his duties to his kingdom.

But he hadn’t made that choice for her, either. Even though he could, even though as her husband it was his right to carry her away with him across the sea. He did not take that choice, but turned and gave it to her instead.

He would return to Ithaca, but he would not force her to come with him. He would not steak her from the place her heart lie. If she wanted to stay in Sparta, with her father, he would return her to her father's home, would bear her no grief or ill will, only the consideration of her choice.

How could she not love him then? How could she not love his clever mind and loyal heart and the respect he gave her that no other man living or dead - her father included - would ever had even considered granting her even a portion of?

She left with Odysseus that day. She made her choice. And these men that roamed the halls of her palace like jackals and snakes, would not take that from her.

She would sit behind the axes.

[wrathyforest]

Today's performance with Wang Yifei, Zuo Yiping and Guo Hongxu <3 LC-mu knows how to resurrect me, my mental health is holding only thanks to them.

[avoicebehindthestars]

Are we ever going to talk about how in GO!god's favourite film:

the protagonist is told it's okay to abandon her religious calling to pursue romantic love

the family flee the country so the father isn't forced to serve in forces that are obviously evil?

Yes? No? All right then.

[egophiliac]

Waittt, what did you mean with your last post?? I don't want to spoil myself so I'm waiting for the nightmare before christmas event to arrive on the eng server before diving deep into the wiki. But I HAVE to know; were there hints of Lilia joining in for a rerun or a sequel ??? Your big "OR IS IT???" filled me with way too much hope !! please tell me it wasn't a bit : (

there was a little teaser at the end that implied there'll be a sequel event, though we don't really know anything beyond that! I do think it's likely we'll get the other half of the cast in it, even if it's just wishful thinking on my part. 🤞🤞 NIGHTMARE SUITS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

as far as I know there's been no confirmation on whether it's going to be next year's Halloween event or a separate thing (the snow makes me think it'll be more Christmas-themed, or otherwise more related to the plot of the original movie) so. we're probably going to have to wait quite a while before we find out anything solid. :') they really do love just dropping these things on us and then watching us go absolutely wild with speculation while they watch like

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

also who's afraid of little old me? is one of my absolute favorite tracks from ttpd anthology but it took me until my 4th listen today to figure out that it reminds me of tori amos and young me had a tori amos era so no wonder i adore it

[dootznbootz]

Fascinating how Polites, the character who is the personification of Odysseus' optimism and is only in 5 songs, is more grieved and appreciated than Eurylochus, a character who is his own person and is in 11 songs.

[kaleidoscopeminds]

𖤓°⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[r0sesthings]

the way KWP says “Ponboiiiii” everytime makes me giggle

[moxyphinx]

"Don’t you see what’s happening in this country—across Europe—Everywhere. Money is the only thing that can protect you." LEMPICKA, the musical