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epic!Odysseus and Homer!Odysseus are very different people like epic!ody is like “i cant do this :( this is wrong” and homer!ody is like “oh lol one more war crime to add to the list” and procedes to chuck Astyanax off the wall.

Homer, the entire Iliad:

I’m fine with taking creative liberties in adaptions but shifting the blame for Astyanax’s murder to Zeus instead of Odysseus (or at least Neoptolemus) has been disastrous to Trojan war discussions, bc now dumb ppl who have never read the Iliad or Odyssey or watched any adaptations of the Trojan women will think that big mean Zeus pressured poor boy dad Odysseus into killing Astyanax. As if Zeus didn’t favour Hector and was hesitant to destroy Troy.

If you're only drawing what you find attractive on a basic level, you're missing out on a core lesson visual art teaches both artist and viewer. All forms can be beautiful and all forms can be grotesque.

Importantly, the human body's forms can be, through visual art moreso than in real life where they are connected to a person, exalted. Through art you can show the beauty in any body's forms. And that, even if the person interacting with the art doesn't consciously recognize it, can have a positive effect on how they experience the image of their own or other people's bodies. It can be freeing, empowering.

I see it a lot with people who will only draw pretty anime men, people who will only draw portraits of attractive women, and try to explain it as "this is what I enjoy looking at, these are the forms I like and find attractive, so that's what I enjoy drawing." Again, you're missing out on that lesson, that ability to see the inherent beauty of everything. You're missing out on the lesson that a visual attraction and the recognition of beauty doesn't even need to be sexual, or romantic, or align with your sexuality and your aesthetic preferences as to the appearance of a potential romantic partner. You can learn to admire a human body in the way you admire a sunset.