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top tier ship dynamic: "*insert trauma dump* but my childhood wasnt that bad. what about you?" x "bestie what the actual fuck you need therapy" (is equally fucked up)

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anyone else just really like Trials of Apollo??? like it’s very different from PJO and HOO but I’m honestly in love love with it

it’s very fun and I love the plot of a once omniscient and inhumane character falling from grace and taught how to be human by the people they once looked down on. very cool chefs kiss

it definitely doesn’t deserve the hate I’ve seen it get online 😭

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ODDYSEUS AND JAY 🗣️‼️✨

I wish you all a Happy New Year! ✨ It's funny to think that the King of Ithaca, who single-handedly defeated 108 men, and the energetic guy who always greets us with 'Hello friends!' He has the same voice XD

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guys, i cannot believe i have to say this but. if ur an ancient roman prince/emperor, do NOT date any suspiciously cute twinks with stupidly long blonde hair. HE WILL RUIN UR LIFE.

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My full Apollo design.

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AoD core because yes

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Apollo/Lestercore 3

I got the Twitter ones from meme text posts from a different fandom so the credits for those quotes are cut off because there were no credits to add. Just characters as the username and profile pic Dw

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apollo would have the craziest hear me out cake

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I CAN FINALLY GO ON HERE

now that epic is finished I can finally scroll tumblr yippie

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This but it’s Artemis and Apollo

yes I’ve been into mouthwashing but that’s not important right now

happy new year btw

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merry crisis everyone

And a happy new fear

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for uhm personal reasons I need to know all about feminine apollo so please tell me more

Aha, that's something I love to talk about. I was about to make a post about this anyway so: There's a lot of ancient greek vase paintings that show Apollo wearing feminine robes and accessories that were usually worn by women. For example,

a veil

(Heracles ascending to Olympus)

Multi pinned sleeve

(Apollo helping Hector in the Trojan war)

Cross sash

(The musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas)

Periskelis (the thigh band)

(Orestes seeking shelter at Delphi)

Here, he is wearing the chiton in a way that girls wore

And these lithographs of ancient art have him wear such pretty dresses

Since he is an eternal youth, 99% of the times he has long hair and youthful face - those are the very important physical traits of Apollo. There are many paintings where you will confuse Apollo for a girl.

Apart from these, I have found quite a few statues and marble reliefs too. Many of these are from Hellenistic Greece and Roman era:

As you can notice, most of these present Apollo as a musician, so maybe music played a part in Apollo being effeminte? Did the Muses have a lot of influence on him?Idk, food for thought I guess. Oh and there are a number of headless statues identified as Apollo Patroos (fatherly), where again Apollo is wearing long robes.

Lastly, some quotes from literary sources (FYI I have not included the hundreds of quotes describing Apollo's long hair and smooth chin):

"And ever beautiful is he and ever young: never on the girl cheeks of Apollo hath come so much as the down of manhood."

- Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.)

"Apollo puts his hair in order by shaping his flowing locks with soft foliage and braiding it with a golden diadem."

- Virgil, Aeneid 4.147 (trans. Ingo Gildenhard) (Latin poet C1st B.C.)

"These children Niobe placed above those of Latona [Leto], and spoke rather contemptuously against Apollo and Diana [Artemis] because Diana was girt in man's attire, and Apollo wore long hair and a woman's gown."

- Hyginus, Fabulae 9 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.)

[describing an effeminate man]: giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes about; sometimes throwing his hands hither and thither...sometimes personating Aphrodite, sometimes Apollo"

- Tatian, Address to the Greeks 22 (trans. Pratten) (Assyrian Theologist C2nd A.D)

"[in the fragments of Lucilius' satires (C2nd B.C)]: Taking issue with Apollo, whom Romulus mocks as a pretty boy (pulcher) with a fondness for effete dance, Romulus rants against foreign luxuries"

- The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (ed. Shadi Bartsch, Alessandro Schiesaro)

fair number of Renaissance paintings continued this tradition by making Apollo look feminine and beautiful. But for some reason most of the modern adaptations make him macho, the typical Manly Man 🙄 Come on people, you're throwing away the potential here! I wanna see an Apollo who can rock a suit and a pretty dress. Give me more of Apollo and Dionysus hanging out together at drag parties.

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Ithaca Saga rant pt. 1

I’m going to start with the fact that, WOW. This might be my favorite saga. This and the Circe saga are battling it out. I love everyone’s voices in this saga so much! Even if it’s just a random suitor who’s name I’ll forget, his voice is 🔥

Now let me talk about the first song, The Challenge. This song is the first time it’s actually Penelope singing in the musical. Of course we had Sirenlope, but this is officially her. The layered emotion in her voice was the first thing I noticed. The fatigue, the hope, the underlying fear was all there for me within the first few seconds. The fatigue is there because she’s been waiting so long, but there is hope is there because she is still willing to wait. She still trusts her husband to make it home, but there’s still the fear because there was always the possibility that he died over the 20 years she had waited.

The fact that she could tell the storm meant that something was about to happen is so hghhttt… And she had pre-arranged a challenge that she knew only Ody could do, like she had that locked an loaded. I mean 20 years of prep time will do that I guess.

The desperation in the “Waiting” was 😭 So good. I was expecting her to repeat “buying you time” but then she started singing waiting and I teared up. It made me think about how Penelope was waiting with Ody’s mom until she died. How she must have been singing it with her and then had to sing it alone once over those years.

Ik other people have pointed this out but still…She says her husband’s old bow, not her old husband’s bow, not the old king’s bow. Her husband’s. She still considers Odysseus her husband because he is not dead, she knows that and we know that. The suiters do not.

Overall, loved the first song, it shows Penelope’s determination and cleverness. I love that for her

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how i imagine things going down

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I’m shaking and crying wtf

We finally met up and watched it together and omgs

Penelope’s voice

Ody and Tele’s reunion

WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AGAIN??

I need to go to bed right now, I’ll rant in the morning 😭

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I’m trying to avoid spoilers for the Ithaca saga 😭

I usually watch the livestream or premiere with everyone else, but me and my bestie have agreed to watch it together. Since she’s busier than me I have to wait until she is free for us to watch the vod together. It makes me sad that I can’t be celebrating with everyone else yet but it’s worth it.

Even though I know what basically happens story wise because I’ve read the Odyssey, i’m trying to avoid any spoilers for the actual music. I’m Suffering waiting for this 😔

I just wanted to share this because I want to add more posts to the Epic the musical tag so we get number 1 on trending! ❤️🔥

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Siesta.