Mechtober Day 8: Fav Album

I absolutely adore Ulysses Dies At Dawn 💙💙💙

"all is hushed for the song of Orpheus..." my own take on udad!Orpheus, partially inspired by @/reegis's design (making him a sad goth boy is such a concept <3) and these images of ts/jl:

Any udad fans out there who also watched Autodale dystopian series and vice verse?

In the city, most (if not all) non-human animals are extinct. Orpheus still uses the word vulture in his song despite the fact that he probably wouldn’t know what an actual culture was like. So I suggest: vultures are not birds in the city, they’re people who dedicate themselves to trying to desecrate the brains of dead people before the Ferryman can bring them down and plug them into the Acheron

ooh that's a fun idea. perhaps after they remove the brains bodies are crushed by "pythons" and burned rather than buried

-mod fen

It's like-

Oedipus started out trying to save and help the community he grew up in, only for the scandal orchestrated by the community he was born to turn the community he was raised in against him

Heracles wanted to help his family, his father and his children, only for his father to kill slaughter his children and blame it on him

Orpheus loved and was loved for his songs so much only for all of it to leave him when his true love and muse died and he couldnt handle it

Ariadne wanted to help herself and to escape the crimes of her parents only for it to further damn her when Theseus used her help and then rejected her

Ulysses was so worn down by the guilt of their crimes, of how they destroyed Illuim by turning all of them against each other and then Daedulus does the same thing to the Suits. They saw this and just killed everyone including themselves

I know it’s just a technical fault but I can’t help but headcanon that the little gap in between Orpheus’s singing in the Death To The Mechanisms version of Underworld Blues and Ash’s reply is Ashes wiping some tears from their eyes

love him. the orifice

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At least, that’s the word on the street from those what saw what went down at Calypso’s…

Gods above I am so fucking stupid (but how could I resist) Based on this tweet. Unfortunately I could not extract the mandolin

[ID: a tweet by @neitherabaron on twitter replying to a reply on another post by Jessica Law. Her tweet reads “Stop taking my lyrics and making them weird!” The tweet in response, by Kofi, reads “my rewrite of trial by song: I’m not a man/i don’t have hands/thought I could speak (followed by 3 mins of dead silence)” end ID]

Mechtober Day 11: The Suits

The saddest, wettest, most pathetic gang in the history of ever tbh. I love them 💕

question. are the 'lotus eaters' from Jessica laws song Lotus eaters the nymphs? ik that if the song was kept in it would be in place of sirens but idk enough about greek mythology to really pick up on that that implies.

I kinda though so because lotus is frequently referenced as something Orpheus struggles with addiction to, aswell as presumably being big in the nymph scene/Dionysus's clientele, being so focused on pleasure.

(set at a party held by narcissus, Dionysus's most popular nymph)

also this line (government sponsored??? hmmmm)

i dont know how to explain it but to me udad and hnoc are like opposites of each other. (Under read more, cause it is loooooonnnnng)

With udad the situation everyone is in is bonkers shit. The world they live in is absolutely shithole of a place that exploits everyone but the richest of the rich and the people there cant escape even after their death. Every single one of them is bitter and depressed and wronged and just wants to survive and they'll do anything to survive even if it meant killing the other one. All the natural part of that world is long dead and only thing exists is this cold dark metallic hellscape of a city that swallowed its own planet like a cancer. Almost all the songs are just how everyone was exploited, used, wronged, and discarded they were. Ulysses is a drunk fallen 'hero' completely guilt ridden by their role in Illium's fall. They had lost everyone and everything even before the album began. They spent so much of their throughout album getting their shit beat in. They, Heracles, and Orpheus go to Hades (Ashes) in hopes to be freed whether as a request, through theft, or through a deal. And Ashes all but set them all up to die for their own amusement (which btw very sexy of them <3 but that is besides the point). There seemed to be no hope for them.

And yet, despite everything the ending is so hopeful. We know that Ulysses would die, if it wasnt obvious from the title of the album itself it certainly becomes obvious when we learn how their world works. And yet they died a happier ending, they escaped the curse of their city and died reunited with their love. Ulysses died under an oak tree in a grassy fields, among nature which was thought to be dead since The City's takeover. Ulysses died being warmed by sunlight, a right denied to so many others like them. Ulysses died at dawn.

And then there is hnoc. Hnoc starts heroic. Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere take over Camelot from the corrupt Stone clan through their skills and teamwork. They turn it into a place of safety with all three of them incharge. Their lives are hard and filled with violence and hatred and fear and the world they live is harsh and unforgiving. But they still have each other, and they still care for the people around them. There is nature like scorpions and vultures despite it being a space station. The album has songs about love and being in love, about hope of peace, about power of faith. Everyone wants to survive and they are willing to work together to do it. Arthur is embittered by his "daughter's" death but still has his partners to keep him grounded and is ruler/sheriff of a powerful town with lots of knights working for him. What is more, the tragedy that hardened both Arthur and Gawain can be healed because the person they mourn isnt dead, he is Mordred and he is here to make amends. Arthur, Gawain, and Galahad go to Merlin (Brian) to seek aid, and he gives them advice that truly could have saved them, because Merlin really did wanted to save them and the entire station. There seemed to be hope for them.

And yet in the end it meant nothing. It was all for nothing. Alfred and Gawain did not listen to Brian's advice and ended up sealing theirs and everyone else's fate. Galahad did take Brian's advice and it destroyed him in a self sacrifice that ended up being for nothing. Mordred tried so hard for peace but at the end seeing the hatred and cruelty of his world hardened him to the core. Gawain's hatred turned peace talks into war and turned him into sawage barbaric monster he thought Saxons to be. Arthur's hardened core did not let him hope that his child could ever return to him and ended up not giving Mordred even a chance. What could have saved everyone Fort Gallfridian ended up turning into what destroyed Fort Gallfridian whether it be the GRAIL or Mordred. Almost all of them died a pointless avoidable death. And Arthur? Arthur lost everything. He lost his partners, he lost his chance to embrace his son, he lost his home, he lost his people. He may have survived but at the end he lost everything. High noon over Camelot. We didnt understand what it truly meant (all of them dying in the sun) until it was too late.

Ulysses shoots once, and it led to their happy ending. Gawain shoots once, and it led to everyone's tragedy. 3 shots all for Ulysses and it killed them. 3 shots for Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, and it hurt Arthur but never killed him. Ulysses was the only one who got to die under the sun, Arthur was the only one who didnt die in the sun.

The city doesn't actually have keyboards for typing and music has a strong tie to mortality/power. Prometheus was a master at playing the keyboard (instrument). Ashes was able to take control of the underworld because they played music so well. They listened to Orpheus because his talent with music was a legitimate threat, but he didn't seem willing to use it for more than getting Euridice back. This is also why Heracles (very strong and threatening) didn't do anything too bad to Orpheus.

thats actually a really interesting idea, i like that a lot!!! someone write an au jhgfsjd

-mod andy

I love how in the album Orpheus is treated as this little baby boy cinnamon roll who definately doesnt belong with the criminals and must be protected at all costs 🥺🥺🥺

And then you read the fiction and he's like an absolutely depressed bastard. Just fuck awful rancid vibes. Highkey pathetic and wettest cat around (according to him)

orpheus. wet cat

Today I offer you:

Traditional udad sketches

Tomorrow? Who knows.

Look guys, Its him.

The favoured son.

And these creatures.

The soots