Concept: After Eurylochus Kills One Of Helios' Cows, It Starts Getting Unnaturally Dark... An Eclipse

Concept: after Eurylochus kills one of Helios' cows, it starts getting unnaturally dark... an eclipse is coming.

Was asked to speak Filipino, panicked, felt the ghosts of my ancestors possess me and out came fluent mandarin

alright so THOUGHTS ON THE THUNDER SAGA

I was already expecting going in to wanna make the first two songs (for obvious reasons) and to make a Scylla one bc that was the one I was the most excited about, but for some reason ALL of the songs are BANGERS????? LIKE BEYOND REALLY GOOD??? All of them are very dramatic and story heavy, so yea I'm kinda lost I want to make an animatic for every single song now

What I will do for now is work on Suffering + Different Beast, and after that I'll see how this goes. Original plan is to make all of the songs in order!

Suffering will probably look a bit simple, and that is because I want to release this and Different Beast in the same video! A five minute animatic. AGAIN LET`S SEE HOW THIS GOES. In the meantime have this drawing of Penelope in the water, don't worry you can trust her

|| Birds of War

I’m just now getting into and learning about the odyssey but like…was all the adultery with Circe and Calypso by choice or did Odysseus get manipulated into that since he does genuinely love Penelope more than he did either of them so like what happened there?

Well you read the text haha you tell me

There's too much surrounding Circe's to ever know the level of consent imo. She gets like a paragraph or two and we know they definitely slept together at least once. Hermes tells him to but their meeting was also supposedly prophesied. She is a goddess and he's a mortal. His men were trapped with her but they also stayed a year after. We don't even really know if they had sex after that but I can't say they didn't. The whole thing is very vague, but you can't quite say it was by choice. I think a friend described it by saying the closest word for it is dubcon

With Calypso it's clearer the level of consent. Though, maybe it could have been willing at first, with the line "she no longer pleased him". Which could be interpreted a different number of ways so I'm not gonna get into it. The bit I'm going to point to is the line after, "an unwilling lover beside a lover all too willing". That's rape. Regardless of any past proclivities, at some point his consent was revoked. He had been trapped on her island the entire time for 7 years, so already the power imbalance (along with her being a goddess) is pretty skewed. He wept on her shores every day. He says himself that he longs to go home. Athena says he longs to die

I'M NOT OKAY