Genuinely In Tears At Torbek's Poetry Writing (ep8 Of Ouaw), I Wanna Give Him A Hug So Bad 😭😭 Little

HAPPY ACE WEEK!

Have some bracelets I made I guess

Okay but THEN at the beginning of I Can’t Help but Wonder, the intro is the same as it was in Just a Man, but instead of being played on guitar (Ody alone) it’s played one viola (Penelope’s instrument) because he’s made it home and even thought he became the monster he’s “always [Penelope’s] husband” and with them he can be just a man again, as is reinforced later with the Just a Man reprise at the end of WYFILWMA

"Odysseus" showed us how much Ody has truly changed.

He's compared to almost all monsters in the musical during that one song.

His name's chanting is the same as Polyphemus', and he acts a little like him when he decides to kill everyone.

Po - ly - phe - mus ("Enough")

O - dy - sse - us ("I. Have had. Enough")

He aims for the torches just like Scylla.

"Eurylochus, light up six torches"

"Keep your head down he's aiming for the torches"

He rejected forgivness just like Poseidon did.

"Maybe you could learn to forgive..."

"No"

"Old king our leader's dead. You've destroyed the serpent's head. Now the rest of us are no longer a threat. Old king forgive us instead, so that no more blood is shed. Let's have open arms instead!"

"No."

Also, there's an electric guitar in the song. It represents Odysseus' cunning and ruthless nature.

He IS a monster. But that's what got him home. And he'll embrace this side of him.

the way Kaz just straight up does not have a mom in the books is wild,,, like there’s not even a throwaway line about her dying when he was young so he doesn’t remember her, just nothing

sometimes I wonder if bc barguo was so focused on Jordie and Kaz’s relationship that their parents were just put on the back burner bc Kaz doesn’t seem to have any memories of his father beyond his death either, it’s such a sharp contrast to how important other characters parents are (specifically they’re mothers)

it does lead to some possible parallels between Nina and Kaz, what with them both being orphans having very little to no memories of their parents and an older sibling figure that is much more important to them then those parents

It does leave me with the opportunity to characterize Kaz’s mother basically however I want for fics which is fun but a plot level it annoys me we don’t even know if she exists

I have watched less than an hour of Icebound but I already would die for all of these characters

i know that people have already discussed this at length but i'm watching the patreon behind the scenes character discussion for frost and listening to derek talk about the psionic order and "mind over matter" and all that and then comparing that to frost throwing his pack in ep 46 has me feeling like the exploding galaxy brain meme. like. he has this canonically 110 pound bag or whatever and yeah that's kind of a meme bc he just picks shit up and Never uses it but that's also So interesting in the context of how he was raised to Not value physical items and give no credence to "things" but rather to ideas, thoughts, mentalities. Frost was taught to hold this value his entire life yet carries a 110 pound bag around with him everywhere. And in that same vein, the order taught him that physical relationships are also supposed to be unimportant, and having people tie him down will only block him from reaching his true potential. yet he's traveled with years with these three friends and when he's "replaced" by someone else for just a few hours on guys' night he feels sensitive and self conscious. and in the carnival horror ride we see that his worst fear is being alone. Everything about his life contradicts everything he was taught is supposed to hold dear, (and side not, i think one of the most interesting parts about this video is the discussion of whether or not frost is Aware of what he's doing, Aware that he's directly going against the pillars of his order, but that's a discussion for another time). And all of this culminates in episode 46, when frost stands alone, all of his friends dead or dying around him, and his throws his pack. on some level i already understood what this meant for him, the getting rid of everything he was saving because it doesn't matter anymore, but after approaching it more from the side of these tenants of his faith, it's like. holy shit. he just lost all his friends, this physical attachments that "tie him down," and now he's willingly giving up all his physical belongings as well, and this is it, that's the moment he reaches that pure mind over matter because he doesn't have anything anymore. there is nothing tying him down. this should be nirvana. but instead, it's the worst moment of his fucking life. everything that was supposed to bring him paradise and freedom and immortality and whatnot has only brought him unimaginable pain and grief.

I found a small wizard in my pocket today

”After everything you’ve done, how will you sleep at night?” How can you rest easy knowing everything you had to do to get home, slaughtering sirens and sacrificing your crew and reducing a god to begging? How can you live your happily ever after knowing it was built on lives lost? How can you excuse your own unforgivable actions?

“Next to my wife.”

Because it will have been worth it. I will have gotten home and made it back to my wife and son, and every minute of these 20 years, every life lost, all the ruthlessness and monstrous deeds will have been worth it to get there. I will rest easy knowing I completed my journey and made it home.

it’s not?

I've learned many things from watching Legends of Avantris. How to play D&D, the importance of friendship and what makes good story telling. But the most important thing I've learned is that the #1 cause of death over 40 is accidents.