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i need to yap about scylla and why it's the best song in all of epic the musical for a moment. i'm not knowledgable with music theory nor am i a lyricist, i know absolutely nothing about music other than 'it sounds good,' so sorry if i use the wrong music terms here!
not lyric related like the rest of this post, but can we just appreciate how the song tries to lull you into a sense of security with the light instrumental and vocals at the beginning, yet the synth adds a strange sense that something's not quite right? no? just me?
what's so awesome is that every. single. lyric. in this song is negative. not a single thing is positive.
SO STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING:
"the lair of scylla" we tend to associate lair with villain, aka a dangerous thing/place, so just from that word you know something is wrong.
"this is our only way home" implies that this path they must go through is dangerous, something bad is gonna happen
"you're quiet today" "not much to say" trying to be kind and bring up the mood -> immediately shot down. OR being passive aggressive -> mood is down from the start. depends on how you interpret it honestly.
"you hide a reason for shame" you're ashamed by your secret and the way eurylocus immediately says "i have a secret i can no longer keep" (which is also implied to be negative based on the increasingly desperate tone) proves that.
"you know that we are the same" you + implied monster = same, probably not great.
even if you hadn't listened to any other song, due to the 'drop' and "i am so sorry," you know that eurylocus opening the wind bag was a massive mistake in some way.
"leaving them feeling betrayed, breaking the bonds that you've made, there is no price we won't pay, we both know what it takes to survive" = you betrayed and deeply hurt those around you for your own survival, selfish motivations.
"forgive me" no response, again no positivity allowed, despite how much eury tries!
THEN, THEN THE FUCKING FULL SPEED AHEAD PART
in full speed ahead, it's hopeful and happy! "ithacas waiting, my kingdom is waiting, penelopes waiting for me so full speed ahead!" = i wanna see my people, and most importantly my loved ones, as soon as i can so row fast! everyone is desperate to get to ithaca and you can hear it in their voices, ody almost sounds like he's tearing up at the idea. the last big full speed ahead, it's all coordinated, all the crew members are harmonizing, they wanna get the island over and done with so they can get home and see their own loved ones too, just like ody!
but in scylla, at first they try to harmonize again like before, but they mess up, they've gone through so much that they're hearts just arent in it as much as they used to be. they're tired, they want to get home, it's just that now that wish seems so far away. they stumble and say "full speed ahead" over each other to show how uncoordinated they are, HOW DISTRUSTFUL THEY ARE OF NOT ONLY ODY BUT QUITE POSSIBLY THE OTHER CREW MEMBERS! cause who knows what they were thinking when eurylocus confessed he opened the bag! did they know he opened it and were upset the truth finally came to light by the man himself? were they unaware and thus surprised at the confession, adding even more chaos to their attempted harmony? both??
"deep down, we only care for ourselves" speaking to both ody and eury, we're all selfish inside. we care only for our survival at the end of the day. ody will do whatever it takes to get himself home, foreshadowing later events, while eurylocus was deeply selfish in wanting to know what was in the bag (and possibly hinting toward mutiny?)
"eurylocus, light up six torches" despite being said in a somewhat ominous tone, you can't really dechipher the intentions behind this order. it's mysterious with said with no emotion, like ody is already disassociating and running on autopilot. he's making himself as emotionless as possible as to not feel guilty of his actions. he needs to do this, he can't regret it for even a second, he can't second guess himself and wonder if this is the right option, he just needs to do it.
"deep down, we're lonely demons from hell" i don't think i really need to explain this. we're selfish, we're cruel, and we're lonely, especially the crew on the ship - they've been away from their families for a decade, trust in their captain is getting weaker, and they don't realize scylla is warning the crew of both her and odysseus' intentions. they haven't accepted themselves to be monsters, they're oblivious to her words, hence why they only sing "deep down." she is telling everyone that he's selfish and will betray them if it benefits him.
scylla and ody have accepted they're monsters, they're one in the same. he's gonna sacrifice six of his crew so he can get home, and she's gonna accept those sacrifices, both doing so for their own personal, selfish desire to survive.
"captain, something approaches" very...neutral, but based on everything so far, you know it can't be good. interesting note: something approaches, not someone approaches. you're never told what scylla looks like, all you know is that she doesn't appear human enough to warrant a someone. i adore the immediate contrast between her polite "hello" and the imposing instrumentals that follow, like something terrible, whatever just greeted us, is revealing itself. her voice isn't as human as it was previously, but she's still somewhat kind. perhaps she has some humanity still in her, but scylla, like odysseus, has let her monsterous side practically consume her. once more, they're the same - they don't want to do this, but will anyway. OR she's mocking them, saying "hello" as a way to show she's intelligent, a cunning monster just like ody is.
the fact that we're never given a hint as to what this monster looks like other than she's an intelligent and can growl is perfect horror, there's nothing more terrifying to a human than the unknown. "row for your lives!" two directions could be taken with this line: either ody is genuinely scared or simply pretending. either way, i think that in this moment, odysseus is trying to get the ship out of there so no more lives are taken then necessary. if it's the first option, he didn't know more about scylla other than a cost needed to be made so actually seeing her made him forget his goal and focus on the survival of him and his crew for a moment. if not, then this line may have also been him being selfish, you row for your lives so i can get home. fully up to interpretation! one more thing with this, i find it interesting how odysseus doesn't say full speed ahead? now this could absolutely be a stretch, but i think there's a reason he doesn't; he is so disconnected from his crew, so set on a selfish goal that him never saying "full speed ahead" (like that section tries to set up) is a betrayal in and of itself. his goals aren't aligned with the crews anymore - "i want to get home" vs "we want to get home." NOW WE GET TO SCYLLAS PART - credits to a comment i read in the song's comment section (written by thomasdeclerc18310) cause i would have never realized this if not for that. screenshot of that comment is below the cut! in her first verse, she's talking to the crew:
"drown in your sorrow and fears" they feel sorrow as their own captain willingly, unbeknownst to them, sacrifices them. they feel fear when being attacked by a nightmarish monster. "choke on your blood and your tears" exactly what it sounds like, they're crying from the betrayal as she kills them.
"bleed 'till you run out of years" they die, maybe even bleeding out on the ship or in her stomach as we aren't told what's happening. we can hear the screams of the crew, we know she's attacking, but the how is a complete mystery. "we must do what it takes to survive" scylla is selfish, she must do what it takes to survive. she's speaking for all monsters here, as well as her other heads (though if you know nothing about her, you wouldn't know this).
in the second verse? now she's talking to odysseus:
"give up your honor and faith" ody is officially letting go of his morals both as a king and a captain when he sacrifices them, he loses his personal honor and faith in himself, as does the crew. "live up your live as a wraith" ody will live the rest of his life crushed by guilt and regret. he will be a ghost of his former self when he returns to ithaca.
"die in the blood where you bathe" odysseus is portrayed to be bathing in the blood of all the dead men he's gotten killed. as well, she could be speaking to the dying crew and eurylocus, as the latter's actions got 557 men killed by poseidon. "we must do what it takes to survive" both odysseus and scylla.
then as the last man is murdered, the intrumentals relax. we think we're finally safe until we hear scylla one last time: "we are the same you and i." once more, she's repeating that she and odysseus are the same. and he agrees, he synchronizes with her, admitting he is a monster... but not completely, all he says is "i." despite his insistence that he is like her, he still can't quite say it. they're both monsters, but maybe ody hasn't accepted it as much as we're led to believe.
i am convinced that scylla is the PEAK of epic the musical, and nothing will ever come close. from the extremely thought out lyrics to the absolutely incredible instrumental, this song deserves it's own tier ngl. yes, other songs sound good and have clever lyrics and such, but scylla is just everything great about the musical shoved into one song. every lyric has a meaning, a double meaning in some cases. the intrumentals tell a story of their own, trying to lead you into a false sense of security. the vocal performances are some of the best in the musical. i adore this song, and hopefully this makes you appreciate it too :D
anyway, thanks for reading all my autistic yapping if you made it this far.
here's that original comment:
#another thing i love is how vague it is setting wise#animatics can really go wild!#“lair” is all you get#that can totally be interpreted as simply “territory”#this song can take place in the sky or on land#or the middle of the ocean#just everything about this song is so fucking well crafted#well done mr jalapeno#epic the musical#epic the thunder saga#epic scylla#scylla#jorge rivera herrans#musical einstein istg
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Im a trans girl that lives in the same-ish time zone 👀
Now when you say same-ish time zone
#ask#anon#time zones are vertical#so not sure if same ish means like Europe#or Africa#or the middle of the ocean
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Adar had to die because if he, Gil-Galad and Elendil were all in Middle Earth at the same time there would have simply been too much Dad Energy ™️ for the populace to handle. They would have defeated Sauron through sheer “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed” force alone.
#their combined parenting styles would have saved middle earth#they would have been too powerful i fear#they may also have possibly driven galadriel (millennia-old teen rebel extraordinaire) throw herself into an ocean or off a cliff AGAIN#‘the last alliance of elves and men’ nah just two Dads who have had it up to HERE with your bullshit#adar rings of power#adar#gil galad#high king gil galad#elendil#trop#the rings of power#gil-galad
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Yellow Boxfish (Ostracion cubicus) juvenile form, family Ostraciidae, order Tetraodontiformes, Red Sea, Jordan
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Final Movement
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its much easier to do makeup when you only have one eye
#if one more person in this goddamn campaign gets wave tattoos im killing them.#PLEASE there are more things in the world you don't have to all get fucking wave tattoos im begging you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#anyway yes. not the final tattoo design. couldn't chose between these and the bright pink ones#jrwi riptide#lizzie lafayette#my art#sketch#its very funny to me that lizzie wears makeup while also being on a ship in the middle of the ocean constantly#her eyeliner smudges and drips because of the salt and water but she keeps reapplying it
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Obi-Wan wonders if this will be the rest of his life: chasing the ghost of Anakin Skywalker
#obi wan kenobi and his ghost#sad old man making an ocean of tears in the middle of the desert#star wars#obikin#obikin fanart#anakin skywalker#obi wan kenobi#obi wan and anakin#kenobi series#owk series#my art
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Dunluce Castle has the most precarious perch of any castle in Ireland
#Irish history#Dunluce Castle#coastline#cliffs#Atlantic Ocean#UK#Ulster#rural britain#mediaeval#fortress#Middle Ages#12th century#precipice#seascape#ruins#Northern Ireland
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I'm trying to push "just" as a minimizer further out of my vocabulary, not to eliminate but to crack down on using it. I don't need to use it as often as I do, and then I'll poke around and see stuff like "it just happens to intersex people" or "intersexism is just an edge case" or other language along that lines, and that's kinda where I notice the word "just" has some claws deeper in my brain than I would like because it's super easy to roll with that. "Oh well that's fair it's just a little small amount." And that's just fucked up I think.
Cuz that sort of minimizing language has been around forever. Oh it's just intersex people, oh it's just trans people, oh it's just gay people, oh honestly, how much could that part of the population be, ten people? But it's always tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions however you cut it. Like you live in a small town, a thousand people, if intersex people are "just" one percent of the population, maybe ten people there might be intersex and you probably know one or two. You meet a hundred, a thousand people, more in your life, it means you probably met someone intersex or trans or queer or all of that. In a global population of seven billion people you can six degrees your way to famous actors Kevin Bacon and he's one guy. That "just" thing, that easy and agreeable minimizing sentiment, it's tricky and so I'm trying to make it a caution point. It's just language though, just one word that happens to be widely used by millions of people and which directs your brain to think a certain way because language is how we share our brains.
Anyway this is too long.
#just#idk i saw the whole intersex dismissal thing again and was gonna make a shitpost but i had feelings#it just affects intersex people okay what if eagles just carried you into the middle of the ocean#long post#ciper just stop
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I sometimes think people legitimately don't realize that Poseidon is wrong in Ruthlessness and that he's not even actually being ruthless anyway.
In Ruthlessness, Odysseus and the crew of his main ship manage to get away because, rather than sinking the entire fleet in one go, Poseidon purposefully saves them for last so he can force Odysseus to watch him sink the rest of the fleet. This is not being ruthless. This is being sadistic and cruel, which is admittedly a mistake a lot of villains make.
Odysseus makes the same mistake later in Different Beasts, though in this case it turns the crew against him. Not only because of him being needlessly cruel in the way he ordered the sirens killed, but he was so busy going as hard as he could on "Becoming the Monster(TM)" that as some have pointed out, he never considered trying to find a way to protect his crew from Scylla, like, as many have pointed out, keeping some of them alive to use as bait for her or something.
Polities isn't entirely right either, since being too trusting is also not good, which the events of the song Open Arms hinted at. But I think the real answer is somewhere in the middle.
Knowing when to be kind/merciful and when to be actually ruthless without being cruel. Of course whether Odysseus actually manages to figure that out by the end of the musical remains to be seen. But I'm mostly saying this because a lot of fans seem to talk about Poseidon's little catch phrase like it's the actual over all message of Epic, when Mutiny kind of shows that it very likely isn't.
Also, another reason why Poseidon is wrong, is that while you can argue about whether Odysseus was actually being merciful to Polyphemus to begin with, Odysseus's real mistake during the Cyclops Saga was telling him his real name, just like in the original Odyssey.
#epic the musical#epic the ocean saga#epic the thunder saga#odysseus#polities#If jorge decides to tone down agigya i hope that's mainly so Odysseus has some time to reflect while he's stuck there for seven years#and realize he seriously needs to dial things back and find a middle ground
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Kalia beach, Dead Sea, Israel
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Is it too much to ask that Eddie be full on bawling at the BuckTommy Wedding because his best friends are getting married and he can’t think of anyone better for them to be marrying, only for him to deliver the most savage roast of them for his speech at the reception?
#‘I’m Eddie Diaz Man of Honor and I have to live with these two every day. let’s get started#first of all what are you THINKING Thomas? that man broke my LEG!! my LEG!!! I thought we were friends but you marry this man??#and BUCK!!! that man almost gave me a heart attack in the middle of the Pacific Ocean#and you thought HUSBAND MATERIAL???#y’all know Buck used Chimney as an excuse to play basketball with me and Tommy instead of picking up the damn phone???#he didn’t want to look desperate he says as if they hadn’t ALREADY made plans for drinks#he gave you a TOUR of his STATION Buck! that’s like Firefighter First Base!#but what you couldn’t have followed up on that beer?#eddie diaz#BuckTommy#and because it’s me yeah if Eddie is single at this point he should also get to be there for the consummation
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#tallulah qsmp#chayanne qsmp#qsmp fanart#qsmp#mcyt#the vibe here is early 2000s taiwanese coming of age drama#where chayanne is complaining about a very middle schooler problem to his cousin tallulah#to the sound of the ocean waves washing up against the beach#my fart
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Royal Angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus), family Pomacanthidae, order Perciformes, Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt
photograph by Diego Delso
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jolyne doodles
#jolyne cujoh#jjba#jojo's bizarre adventure#stone ocean#deliart#im gonna make the bottom middle doodle into a proper illustration#trying to work my way up to commission worthy standards#since im a little out of practice with how little i post#but i keep getting freak colds. like i dont know if its been a single long one or several with no pause. its been a month#but im not gonna go back on my promise to open comms. just need a little time to recover
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Maybe the child stans comforting mabel and Dipper?
Stories about sea days keep the nightmares away 👍
I’m sorry this took so long anon, I got busy with school stuff. But hey, at least it’s almost summer! 😁
Edit: this is connected to this request and also this request
#art#ask box#requests#gravity falls#gravity falls fanart#stan pines#ford pines#mabel pines#dipper pines#dipper and mabel#stan and ford#sea grunks#kid stan#kid ford#the Stan twins still don’t have glasses because they’re still to big for their shrunken faces#Where are you gonna find an eye doctor in the middle of the ocean?
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