It Doesnt Help That This Fandoms Bends Over Backwards To Demonize Odysseus. No Matter The Circumstances

it doesn’t help that this fandoms bends over backwards to demonize Odysseus. No matter the circumstances 😕😕

I'm watching people trauma bond with Calypso from EPIC in real-time. Y'all. A character can be a woman and be a rapist at the same time. And her being a woman doesn't mean that ACTUALLY there's some trauma in her past that justifies her imprisoning men on her island and taking them to bed against their will, it means that she's a rapist that just happens to also be a woman.

I love how Calypso is depicted in EPIC, she's just dripping with a nastiness that is only matched by Penelope's entitled suitors. She's sugary sweet at the outset, but when Odysseus rather violently rejects her, she laughs at his rejection, saying he's adorable when he's angry and that he doesn't have any choice but to submit to her will as a god. And then she goes right back to the sweet lover in paradise ruse!!! It's sickening! She denies his autonomy because it gets in the way of the fantasy romance that she's forcing upon him.

So, I'm frustrated with people trying to paint it as though she's the victim in the situation, that what she's doing is somehow okay because she's a pretty woman and they feel bad for her. That's so patronizing.

I've seen people justify her behaviour by saying she's lonely. Tough shit get a hobby. Being starved for affection has never justified being an abuser.

I've seen people insist she truly cares about Odysseus because she tries to talk him down from suicide... but an abuser talking you down from taking drastic measures to escape their abuse isn't them showing genuine care, it's them not wanting the game to end, it's them exerting control over your very life. If anything, it's more disturbing because she is the one who drove him to be suicidal. So she's playing this game where she drives him to the precipice and then tries to lure him back down with "reminders" of "their love", those reminders actually being of the words of his dead loved ones that she's pilfered and warped as though they were her own.

The most ridiculous argument I've seen in defending Calypso's behaviour is saying that we can't use terms like "rapist" for her because "it was a different time" so "it's not certain whether or not what she did would be considered non-consensual for the time"... Like must I even point out that... that sleeping with someone against their will has always been and will always be rape? Anyway, her actions fit the ancient definition of rape to a t anyhow, so it's weird to try and weaponize "cultural differences" for the sake of having plausible deniability in Calypso's favour. Rape is also used to mean kidnapping, which is why we have pieces titled the Rape of Ganymede, the Rape of Persephone, etc..

Even if Jorge were to come out and say that, somehow, nothing sexual took place on Calypso's island in seven years, that despite her explicitly telling Odysseus that his "no" means nothing to her as a goddess she somehow never went so far as to sexually assault him... it doesn't make her abuse any less bad that she spared him that one trauma! Like holy shit dude.

Imagine if there was an adaptation that featured Zeus' rape of Io, and the audience responded to every literally dehumanizing action Zeus took against Io by saying "ooohh but he's lonely. i feel bad for him the most he's just a widdle lonely baby man. his wife is so meaaan."

Athena meets Telemachus and begins realizing the cycles of abuse she and her family have been trapped in and that Odysseus' single-minded obsession with protecting and getting back to his family makes perfect sense. Telemachus is absolutely worth all the sacrifice and pain that Odysseus put himself through, and Odysseus hasn't even gotten a chance to get to know him yet.

And so she goes to challenge her father, despite the risks involved. And his unbending pride that trapped them all in this cycle to begin with.

Because she's seen just a glimpse of the mistake she's made and what a father can be for his children.

Snippet for the early and rough boards for a Little Wolf animatic! (Catified)

Okay these are very very rough! And do not accuraterly display the designs! There’s a lot of things I plan on changing in the final animatic! I plan on animating this bit all the way to the end! (If you’re confused the cat at the end is Antinous! I don’t think I made him confused enough)

the original boards! (THE LAST PAGE IS A WIP)

Being a part of the Wings Of Fire fandom was wild. I started reading the books when I was in fourth grade and my small gang of nerdy friends and I built a society around them.

We designated different parts of the playground/recess area to different kingdoms, and assigned different people different characters. I can still remember everyone's dragon counterpart to this day.

The best part was that we were like 11 and the laws we established were sacrosanct (except for territorial disputes). My little 11 year old ass was adamant about the integrity of our council meetings.

I also have memories of drama going on with Turtle's character? He kept going to different kingdoms (bro was bouncing between the rain garden and slide) and being such a nuisance that different tribes started to declare war on him. Then Turtle got upset because he felt ganged up on and Deathbringer had a heart to heart with him on the concrete stairs.

We talk a lot about warrior cats roleplay and the sheer chaos of it on this site, but we don't talk about the other books that were blessed with playground debauchery.

Our catified design for the stinky man who tried to beat up and traumatized Telemachus (he sure did the first- but after We’d Be Fine it seems as if Telemachus thought it was fun- I guess you didn’t beat out the good coping mechanisms Antinous)

EPIC: The musical Catfied quick Antinous design

I’m just waiting for the wisdom Saga to come out, I literally can’t wait for it- it needs to come out now or I’m going to have a heart attack/j

Anyways quick Antinous design! Not much thought went behind it? I just feel like he has a whole lot of reds on him. I kinda wanted him to look grungy and kinda dirty? I wanted his tail fur to be very bushy, as if he’s constantly bristling it. this is a doodle btw, not my actual style (for those who don’t know my account)

anyways I hate him 😊 he’s awful. But BOY OMG I LOVE HIS VOICE LIKE FHBDBDHD he sounds so giddy about mutilating Telemachus, like bro is practically kicking his feet in the air and giggling about it.

Athena’s arguements in a nutshell

Athena: (to Apollo) The sirens started it, now they are less dumb. (It worked, cause valid argument)

Athena: (To Hephaestus) His crew f***ing sucked, but he can rebuild when he gets home. (It worked because valid arguement)

Athena: (to Aphrodite) Heartbreak ain’t permanent. Suck it up. (It worked cause Athena is scary when mad)

Athena: (To Ares) Odysseus will kill SOO MANY people when he gets back. And if you ever insult Telemachus again, I WILL cut your nuts off. (It worked because Ares respects bloodlust)

Athena: (To Hera) Odysseus is so loyal to his wife, he resisted the advances of two hot goddesses, the later of which he was stuck with for 7 years. (It worked because she is the goddess of marriage and this is the biggest f*** you to Zeus so she agreed)

Athena: (To Zeus) I won your game, so release him. (It failed cause Zeus is a petty bitch with a tiny dong)