I Need To Go To Sleep But Someone Remind Me To Ramble About Scylla For 20 Hours Tomorrow

If you set your EPIC playlist in homeric order:

1-4 of the Wisdom Saga

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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

HOW DID I NOT KNOW UNTIL NOW (in the MIDDLE of the Wisdom Saga stream) THAT IT WAS STRATEGIES AND NOT TRAGEDIES

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT

Days 12-14 of my snarky sarcastic side speaking quotes from my page-a-day calendar!!

“Your breath is as bad as your personality.”

“Every second you’re alive is one less second that you will be alive.”

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

WHOOF. This weekend has been something. And judging by how the past few days have gone with my posts and doodles, I think it’s safe to say I’m going to start making weekly posts of these quote doodles. It’ll be less stress on me to make a post every day and also give me leeway if I fall behind a day but catch up the next.

Anyways, enough of my ramblings- enjoy my snarky gal! She looks so happy in the second one, I don’t know whether to be amused or concerned

Day 8 of my snarky sarcastic side speaking quotes from my page-a-day calendar!!

“Someone is talking to their therapist about you

right

now.”

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

College is starting like a TRUCK for me… I think soon I might start doing weekly updates for these pictures. That’ll give me less stress of having to both make and post a doodle every day, and I can give more focus to my schoolwork and keep my mental sanity intact.

But for this one I knew exactly what position I wanted her to be in. I imagine her elbows are resting on some sort of surface, I would’ve drawn it if I had the room.

Here are mine! Mostly the same 😂

And a bonus mention of Suffering; I enjoy going back and forth between that and Scylla a bunch.

Every Saga has that One Song

The one that you listen to more than the others. The one that you played on repeat when you heard it for the first time. What were those songs for you? These are mine:

Welp I’ve got a new response to people who drive me crazy

....i haven't heard of this until now

But honestly-............I don't Trend to support violence but this is funny- right?

OH MY GOD THIS FANDOM IS GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF MEEE HAHHAHAHA

10/10 this is impeccable I will start saying it so much you will all hate me for it kaksnnsnsb what else can I do ??? It's too good

“My brain is rotting from the Wisdom Saga” has got to be some sort of paradox hasn’t it

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.

The people have spoken

Day 9 of my snarky sarcastic side speaking quotes from my page-a-day calendar!!

“I won’t even walk a mile in my own shoes.”

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

*WHOOF*. Today was a rough one for me. Unfun classes and laptop problems. :/ But I managed to scribble a doodle in time even so!

I knew what kinda pose I wanted to draw when I read the quote. This is the first one where she isn’t smiling! Also yes, those are compression socks :3