Just Wait Until You Hear About The Axiom Of Choice

No calendar doodle today, I’ll make up for it with two tomorrow. Too busy, long day

If you set your EPIC playlist in homeric order:

1-4 of the Wisdom Saga

↓

Horse and Infant - Thunderbringer

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God Games

Guys, it does things.

It emphasizes the Problem and not the Man, creates new tensions and makes every crack in Odysseus's sanity since the Infant, feel heavier. It introduces the videogame vibes earlier and also how Athena's time stopping works.

On the con side, it's a little less thrilling when everything is a flashback.

Yes I'm aware I'm saying something very obvious, changing the order in a narrative changes the narrative. But, what a fun exercise. 10/10 will do again.

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EDIT

I’m so happy there are so many people on board! I hope you enjoy the experiment. So, just in case you get lost,  I guess I’ll expand on my vision (you’ll probably have more ideas, though):

We start on Ithaca, Telemachus, and the suitors. We meet Athena, we’re introduced to the time stop and the video game fights. We learn she regrets breaking her friendship to someone. Then, we learn this someone is Odysseus and we get BIG EPIC INTRO TIME through Athena’s mind travel (if you've seen the Phantom of the Opera, kind of like the chandelier intro moment). And now Odysseus is suicidal and we have all these voices that will make sense further in the musical. So, what’s the tea?

Ok, now we’d need to imagine some kind of transition, but. Off to The Horse and The Infant we go. And now there’s a noticeable difference between the enthusiastic Odysseus that was back then and what he is now. And how cold Athena was. And it’s kind of a punch to the gut. And then things get worse and worse. And then God Games.

And then we would be free to go forward with the story. Ta-da!   

EDIT 2

Telemachus introducing the Monster theme in the conventional, fantastic way, and then the Actual Monster development of Odysseus? Arghh

IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED—

The way that in the remastered version of Warrior of the Mind you can tell the “enlighten me what’s your name” is stressed, because so many people heard it as “you lied to me” in the first version-

"average greek pisses off 3 gods and demigods a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. average greek pisses off 0 gods and demigods per year. Odysseus of Ithaca, who is just going home & making a mortal enemy of yet another olympian each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Day 4 of my snarky sarcastic side speaking quotes from my page-a-day calendar!

“At least at your funeral you’ll get professional makeup.”~

The calendar is taking quotes from the @ unspirational Instagram account by Elan Gale.

Look at that! Posting before 20:00!

I realized I had a friend coming over for the rest of the evening pretty soon, so I needed to scribble out my doodle right away. It’s very scribbly. But I think it still gets the expression across!

:333 I knew it

With absolutely no context I wanted to say:

I Told You So

:3

white people go like “is anyone going to redesign this nonhuman evil character as a poc?” and not wait for an answer

My mom got me the page-a-day calendar “but first, anxiety”. Every day is a snarky sarcastic quote from the @ unspirational Instagram account by Elan Gale.

I’ve never seen Elan Gale’s Instagram, but from what I’ve seen of the calendar so far *cough*thebackoftheboxanddayone*cough*, these snarky sarcastic quotes are right up my alley for my snarky sarcastic side. So I thought, why not do a fun thing and doodle said snarky sarcastic side personified saying these quotes each day? And then expose those doodles to the eyes of the world?

-So here’s day one—

And here’s the sketch. I think most of my posts will be more of this kind of sketchy doodle, especially with college starting back up next week, but I wanted to go a bit extra for this first day.

Day 6 (and 7) of my snarky sarcastic side speaking quotes from my page-a-day calendar!!

“EVERY day could be your last!”

The calendar is taking quotes from the @ unspirational Instagram account by Elan Gale.

This calendar has one page for the weekend days, it seems. It’s not my favorite thing with calendars, but was extra useful this weekend as I’m on the road most of the day today. So I was able to doodle this out yesterday, and post today! Most of these weekend-quote posts will likely happen on Sundays.

I took the quote to heart, and since this weekend could be my last, I decided to ink this doodle as well. I don’t usually use ink as I’m extremely of messing up the line work, but since it may be my last day I decided to go for it. I like how it turned out!! I need to practice using ink more.

I think we all need a little reminder of this every day

Hey you know that thing you're good at? That thing you think makes you valuable? The way you are, or the thing you do, etc?

You can be and deserve to be and will be loved and cherished even without it.

You're not worthwhile because you help, or you are good at making your art, or your skills at your job. You're worthwhile inherently, as a person, even without all that.

And I want you to internalize that because otherwise there might come a day where you can't do The Thing You Think Makes You Valuable. You'll get sick and can't draw, you'll burn out and can't do your job, you'll be emotionally unable to do your regular helpfulness for whatever reason, and you'll start to feel like you have no worth anymore.

But that's not true. You have worth, you deserve comfort and companionship and happiness, and that's not a conditional thing. You deserve that, even if you can't be Useful and Productive and all that shit.

It's an easy trap to fall into to justify yourself as "well, at least I help/make art/work hard" and have that be entirely too much of your self-esteem. Being proud of your work is fine. Being proud of yourself solely through your productivity is not, because you're making it conditional. And conditional on something that can change for reasons completely outside your control!

You gotta stop thinking about it like you gotta justify the space you take up on the planet. It's great if all those things make you happy: just make sure they're not the only things that make you feel like you are justifying your existence, or you'll crater if they get taken away.

You are lovable and likable and you have value as a person and a member of society, even if you never can be productive again. You are enough.