#Apollo is failing

[greekgodssitcom]

Artemis: That’s just a really sad slice of pizza

Apollo: Wanna see a sadder slice of pizza? Look in the mirror

Dionysus: That’d be a sick burn if we were all pizzas

[spokelseskladden]

*draws lester one billion times just because*

[willthespy]

as promised… pt 2 of this post with will (he did definitely have an emo phase in middle school trust)

also willthespy thought of the day is that i 100% want to become so good at art that people like it sm they turn post notifs on. like whenever i do that for artists i LOVE their art and i think thats just…a nice goal??

honestly my art goal should be graduating my arts class but mehhh…. c’est la vie

[kkas-art]

Once again it's time for @klapollo-minibang ! Sometimes, you just need a 6 months trip across the Mediterranean to think about your feelings, riiight? Klavier's first stop: MONACO✨

Check out @bacony 's piece to find out where the journey goes next! And go read the whole fic "May I Always Be On Your Mind" by @subdomjellyfish / Julian_CourtJester (ao3) !! And again thanks to everybody making this possible ❤️💜

[moodyseal]

TOApril Day 1 - Missed Target

«What about you? How exactly did you… uh, do all this?”

I suppose he was talking about the piles of ash and rice, the broken chairs and control panels, and the blood of my enemies decorating the walls and the carpet. I tried not to laugh like a lunatic. “Just lucky?”» (TON, chapter 26)

Tfw an entire group of evil bodyguards tries to kill you but you're a literal god

[saturdaysky]

You may resist, but it's too late. You already embraced the powers the parasite gave you. You leveraged them to manipulate, to dominate, to survive. Your nature is no longer your own.

Mayhew failed the save to resist the Emperor's offer, and I have never been more pleased at a consequence! What an amazing moment.

Timelapse, line drawing, and character musing beneath the cut.

This choice!! Or rather, this lack of choice!

I love, love, love how failing the save made Mayhew's own will ambiguous, even to himself. He didn't want to be changed, he didn't want to forfeit his humanity (gnomanity)...or did he? He resisted. He opened his mouth to say I will not, but the door to his mind was already unlocked, power welcomed in. Mayhew will never know who unlatched it.

Also, while this is a Gale run -- Mayhew and Gale make each other worse in the most devoted, well-meaning way; the heavens will rue their names -- it also kind of feels like an Emperor run. A subtextual badwrong not-romance.

The Emperor and Mayhew are allies of circumstance turned intimate enemies. The Emperor listens to Mayhew's every thought, gives protection which Mayhew needs, offers advice and temptations which Mayhew takes. Mayhew likes the Dream Guardian; Mayhew cannot shut the Emperor out. Mayhew would see the Emperor dead, if he let himself think about it, but he would miss him after he was gone. And, of course, Mayhew is too curious for his own good, and the Emperor is full of answers.

For the two of them, partial ceremorphosis is a kind of consummation: what could be more intimate than shaping someone from within and without? Metaphorphosis is a gift, by one telling, and a horror story by another.

You are exquisite, the Emperor praised. Mayhew will never know if he became so by his own will.

(He failed the save by one (1) point.)

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Timelapse! It includes all the silly things I drew for my friends, including: 1 tonsure, 3 neon signs, 2 cat emoji, 1 crotch face, and the emperor's armor drawn with my left hand. Spot them all!

Lines!

I don't usually work primarily with line, but I love it. In some ways, it's easier than painting, and in other ways much harder. I find I can't fudge things as much with linework as I can with paint; because the stroke is smaller, I have to be more specific. Even if I abstract details away, I need to understand the underlying form until I know what I am abstracting. It was fun having to be so rigorous.

[demigod-shenanigans]

Feeling some type of way about Leo deciding Jason is the one who needs saving when Jason’s been the one saving people all his life.

The thing is, once they realize what the prophecy means, Jason decides if it’s him or Leo, it has to be him. He outright states this in his narration twice:

As much as Jason loved his life, he couldn’t let his friend die for his sake. He could never live with the guilt. ~ House of Hades

He knew the risks. But he wanted to take those risks himself, not put them on Leo. ~ Blood of Olympus

And the thing is, Leo knows this. Jason never tells him, but Leo still knows it. He doesn’t tell Jason and Piper his plan because he knows they’d never allow it. Because he knows Jason, stubborn hero leader that he was raised to be, would never let it be him.

Leo knows Jason would die for him and he will not allow it.

Thinking about how one of the first things Leo says when he manages to string words together after learning what happened to Jason in The Burning Maze is “He did what Jason always did. He saved the day.”

[thereseuwu]

Drew/sketched Apollon again :^0

(I wanted to go with a painterly vibe but I can't paint </3 so I scrapped the idea... DSKFDSFK I was heavily inspired by Wolfy the witch! But don't tell them that. I just love love love their artstyle X^D)

Here's my failed attempt at painting him X^D

[u3pxx]

wait a minute this isn't apollo

[genericpuff]

my unabridged thoughts on 278-279:

[wingedfoolnearthesun]

i was stressing out over learning how to properly read and interpret the tarot cards i was getting (chronic ‘if i’m not good at something i should never try again’ mentality), and all of i sudden i heard such a clear sentence in my head telling me to “stop focusing on this spread and focus on the other you’re doing so well on. don’t stress on deity identification. you don’t need it”. i immediately felt my anxiety fade away, faster than it’s ever happened before.

[apollosothertwin]

Apollo loves doing other people’s hair, but he never learned to braid his own normally because he always had someone to do it for him

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

That time when Nico wanted ear piercings, so Leo offered to do it because, you know, he knows how to sew with needles. It can't be that differed, right? So Leo takes one of his sewing needles and sanitizes it with his firey hands and sticks it in Nico's ear

Nico doesn't flinch but when Leo starts trying to get the earring in, he realizes there's a problem. The earring isn't going through the hole and Leo just keeps trying to re-pierce the whole with the needle, so it goes in one hole and makes like 30 holes on the other side

Will walks in on them. He is beyond confused and then frustrated because he knows Leo doesn't wash his hands after dealing with grease (Leo claims his heat and fire cleans all the bacteria off his skin), so Will gets his first aid kit and starts cleaning Nico's ear

He then brings Nico to Claire's to get his first ear piercings

Nico did get to hold a stuffed animal (Will has pictures)

[strawberrymangosoda]

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

[yonemurishiroku]

I don’t even need Nico to fight Zeus. I can settle with just Nico, calm and unafraid, looking right into Zeus’ freezing blue eyes, saying “You’re scared of me.”

[woolydemon]

top ten most appropriate places to flirt. number 1: the workplace