Lithe Macho Theta Male

now calypso asks what if you didn't have to go to sea anymore? what if your endless voyage could literally be over right now and everything could be easy forever. her initial seduction is the same as the lotus-eaters, she enchants him with comfort and sensation (singing and weaving, also, being Feminine Arts : Womanly Comfort and the performance of domesticity being associated with shore leave in the western maritime tradition since. well. the odyssey). odysseus has been gone from ithaca for so long that all he knows is war and the sea; going home is first and foremost the quest for relief; why shouldn't that relief be here? what if you don't have to keep going? but the thing is that you do have to. and odysseus is not the kind of Lesser Sailor who can be earnestly swayed by something as mundane as an eternal shore leave. as a figure in this story he is a True Mariner and a Responsible Patriarch. he has to voyage, and he has to go home and get his house in order because it's his job. so obviously he doesn't Want to stay on calypso's island. he has to go to sea. side note: his imprisonment on calypso's island is actually a perfect parallel to selkie stories right down to the sexual violence and it would be really interesting to explore the way that gender affects both how those stories are structured and how they're received.

illustrated a piece of a dream i head tonight about turning into a werewolf, from the perspective of a guy who brought me food

Pavi does not like humans. They always ask for weird stuff and overpay, which makes her suspicious.

Trying out switching up my sketching order of operations (color blocking before refining) results promising!