#lillo rambles

[willoillo]

I am in the process of rereading The Dragonet Prophecy and I just got to Gill

And I had the most horrifying thought

I like the headcanon that before he was gone Gill recognized Tsunami, to some extent. Not as his daughter necessarily, but as Coral-- it's a neat headcanon, it makes it more tragic, and Tsunami is the spitting image of her mother.

Gill is too dehydrated to speak. Part of what makes what happened to him terrifying is the fact that he makes no sound as he tries to attack Tsunami.

... Seawings don't need to speak to communicate. They have Aquatic.

Tsunami doesn't know Aquatic.

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Random EPIC thoughts again!! At this point I'm making this a tag lmao

I adore how in God Games, the one who actually stymies Athena for even a moment is Aphrodite

Like she's forced to pull out quick thought for her

Because the line Aphrodite leaves her with is the same thing Athena abandoned Odysseus for??? Like she has no answer to the accusation that he spited the cyclops, so all she can do is buy time and beg her to reconsider

Fortunately for her, Ares, in all his rage and madness, gives her the answer by bringing up Telemachus.

A broken heart can mend. After all, thanks to Telemachus, hers has.

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The bots are out in full force I see

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I have been kind of a cryptid lately, huh

Should get back into doing daily dragon. Was giving myself a well earned break after doing it for a year xD Also I wanna do more finished art instead of sketches

ANYWAY. I COME BEARING NEWS

I GOT MY CRICUT WORKING. Check out this test print of stickers!!!

I'm gonna need to get different sticker paper and Turtle, Peril & Qibli's stickers ended up HUGE, plus I'm not entirely happy with the background color? But they EXIST. :D

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Gotta love when I look at the recommended blogs on a post and it's just exclusively people I'm moots with

Like yes, Tumblr, you have successfully identified my social circle. Do you want a cookie

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Tfw you're tempted to go read the rest of the kitty books ENTIRELY so you can understand the memes and art you keep seeing

Which. Like.

I guess that's what started me reading them in the first place????

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So, with the Vengeance Saga out and destroying my brain

I wanna just say that it confirmed something I thought back when the Thunder Saga came? Which is that Odysseus is spending MOST of the song of Suffering desperately trying to convince the Siren to leave them be

Like the entire chorus part is basically him all but telling the Siren as Penelope to leave him be. Why, do we really have to do this, you know I'll die, you should come onto the ship

Before giving up and committing to being the monster. He won't risk his crew or his journey home any longer. The things I'll do for you, Penelope...

I've felt this way for a while? But the way he deals with Poseidon confirmed it for me. Even the god who killed all his comrades and has hunted him for a decade deserves a chance to forgive.

Odysseus believed in kindness. He never wanted to be a monster, even after he realized he would have to be.

... That said. I think that part of him died on the rocks. But we'll see what's left of that man in the Ithaca saga.

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If there's one thing I learned from Artfight this year, it's that I am far more motivated by people being super excited to see art of their characters than I am by the actual like. Money I need to live lmao

Like my productivity this month is OUT THE WAZOO?? Turns out I can actually just like. Pump out a relatively complex piece in like a day if I'm motivated properly and don't need feedback from a customer for it