#Circe/Daedalus

[circenatomy]

I like having my Helios design just be the literal sun and nothing more

Some Helios and his children doodles

[pantheonsofgaynessanddespair]

i just realized that if circe x daedalus was actually canon in greek myth then icarus would've bursted into circe's house after flying to the sun and go: "well you fucked my dad, so i fucked yours!"

[mizz-moon]

Sketch of Circe and Daedalus

I couldn’t stop thinking of these two and their dynamic after reading “Circe” by Madilyn Miller. Especially after Circe comes back from talking with her sister, Pasiphae, and he is just waiting for her. UGHH AH UH OUCH MY HEART

[wallflowertrait]

Last year Odysseus had helped me. I touched the thought like a bruise, testing its ache. When he was gone, would it be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover, Patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and done the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

Circe, Madeline Miller

Love that Song of Achilles Crossover.

[am-i-tho]

going crazy over circe bc up until this point literally every single men she met has done her wrong in some way (or is straight up not a good person

[hollenka99]

I have been looking forward to meeting Icarus as soon as his father mentioned there was something he could not part with. And now I'm just

He's just a little boy! I love he! He is 4 years old, doesn't know a gilded cage is still a cage (or that he's in one to begin with) and nothing bad is ever going to happen to him, nope not at all.

[inconsistentreading]

My brother, Ariadne had called it. But this creature had not been made for any family. It was my sister's triumph, her ambition made flesh, her whip to use against Minos. In thanks, it would know no comrade, no lover. It would never see the sun, never take a free step. There was nothing it might ever have in the world but hatred and darkness and its teeth.

[saltycryptid]

something something Circe by Madeline Miller.

It’s so beautiful, and for what? To plague ME with tears? Perhaps...

[circenatomy]

As far as the Circe book by Miller goes I really need to see more people talk abt her and Daedalus :(

I don’t fw Circe/Ody or Circe/Telemachus,, please please guys make more content of Circe and Daedalus nobody understood Circe the way he did (except Prometheus but that’s obv not the same)

[xxcrystalinerose]

KEEPSAKE ART!! KEEPSAKE ART!!

I've been waiting for this in particular and there are some very interesting looking keepsakes so let's talk about them!

Hecate's is just the sigil we can find on and around characters allied with the Unseen (Nemesis) or witches (Medea, Circe). So I'm going to assume the sigil itself is called the Silver Wheel.

I had to research what Odysseus' is supposed to be (because I haven't ever read the Odyssey) but it turns out this is a type of game of chance called knucklebones? Interestingly it's something taught by Palamedes to his countrymen during the Trojan War, and Palamedes was the guy whose trickery forced Odysseus into the War and Od never forgave him (in most accounts, Od also killed him later). Oof.

I've wanted to make keepsake-based art for these, but since I don't know what they're supposed to be I was forced to speculate. But I don't need to any longer!

Nem's keepsake is... a literal evil eye charm. I don't know what I expected really! But it has a thread on it, so maybe Nem wears it on her armor? Hung on the back of her cuirass perhaps, to ward off malice directed against her back as she leaves after dealing retribution?

The skull on Moros' keepsake looks adorably polite (just like the man). I like that the 'pin' part is similar to one of those tiny sewing pins. It has the color of the Fates on it; did they give this to him? From its appearance, it's likely the Pin was supposed to be worn to fasten his sash.

Hermes' keepsake is a vial of mercury. Also known as quicksilver. 100/100 pun game and mythological reference here, Supergiant.

Artemis' keepsake is likely a reference to the sacred hind of Artemis, which is said to have golden antlers (likely represented by the golden accessories on the antlers).

Heracles' keepsake is from the name itself without a doubt a fang from the Nemean Lion, whose pelt he is also wearing on his person (my favorite iteration of this trope by the way).

Medea's is almost definitely the Golden Fleece, but looked like that either due to her curses, vengeance, or she just decided to singe it out of spite, as the in-game name is blackened fleece. The Medea we meet in game is likely her after enacting vengeance against Jason (can we see what's left of him? Or his shade? Please?).

I did not expect Circe's to be an ADORABLE pink crystal piggie. I wonder if SGG will discuss Circe's tendency to curse people into animals, judging by the pink sheep pigs on her island... and the entire Odysseus situation, because hoo boy.

Icarus' keepsake is a slightly modified Daedalus hammer. It doesn't look that much different, maybe to signify his doubt of his own skills and his belief that he will never escape his father's legacy and shadow? He's not yet found the courage to come into his own.

[something-something-here]

I love that everyone just assumed you read percy Jackson lmao.

We need Circe in Camp Half blood! I can only imagine how much everyone would fawn over her. What cabin would she be in?

I didn't understand anything what is camp half blood

[luvrdotcom]

Some quotes I loved from "Circe" by Madeline Miller

“I did not pretend to be a mortal. I showed my lambent, yellow eyes at every turn. None of it made a difference. I was alone and a woman, that was all that mattered.”

“I had once told Daedalus that I would never marry, because my hands were dirty, and I liked my work too much. But this was a man with his own dirty hands.”

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveler, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

“A dozen times grief had scorched, but its fire had never burned through my skin. My madness in those days rose from a new certainty: that at last, I had met the thing the gods could use against me.”

“Our faces are both lined now, marked with our years. I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am conforted. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”

[variousobsessions]

I was curious and had time on my hands so I decided to count all the times characters in the Riordanverse cursed. I always see people talking about how much Percy definitely cusses a lot since he's a New Yorker, so I wanted to see how he compared to the rest of the cast. I included all mentions of a named character cursing, even if it's just something like “Oh, Styx” if the narrator specifically calls it a curse. This is almost definitely not 100% accurate and was just a fun pastime, please don't judge me if I incorrectly counted the amount of times a character swears 😂

1 count of swearing:

Grover Underwood

Hermes

Circe

Zoë Nightshade

Daedalus

Hephaestus

Dionysus

Midas

Thalia Grace

Hyperion

Connor Stoll

Travis Stoll

Hades

Hera

Rachel Dare

Ephialtes

Lou Ellen Blackstone

Nike

Arrow of Dodona

Kayla Knowles

Paolo Montes

Damien White

Chiara Benvenuti

Peaches

Nero

Luguselwa

Julius Kane

Amos Kane

Bast

Michel Desjardins

Set

Halfborn Gunderson

2 counts of swearing:

Atlas

Luke Castellan

Polyphemus

Jason Grace

Medea

Meg McCaffrey

Caligula

Sadie Kane

Zia Rashid

Setne

Thor

Alex Fierro

3 counts of swearing:

Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano

Piper McLean

Bes

Hearthstone

4 counts of swearing:

Coach Hedge

Ares

Calypso

5 counts of swearing:

Hazel Levesque

Blitzen

Samirah al-Abbas

6 counts of swearing:

Carter Kane

7 counts of swearing:

Nico di Angelo

Apollo

Frank Zhang

Arion

Magnus Chase

9 counts of swearing:

Annabeth Chase

11 counts of swearing:

Mallory Keen

12 counts of swearing:

Leo Valdez

17 counts of swearing:

Percy Jackson

I am not at all surprised by Percy's filthy mouth but I was not expecting Annabeth, Frank, and Carter to swear so much while Sadie and Alex swore so little. You learn something new everyday.

[whencyclopedia]

Ariadne

Ariadne is a figure in Greek mythology, best known for her role in helping Theseus to defeat the monstrous half-man half-bull Minotaur, her half-brother, and escape the Labyrinth, the torturous maze beneath the palace of Knossos in Crete, ordered to be built by Ariadne's father, King Minos.

Origins & Family

Ariadne comes from a powerful family in Greek mythology. Her mother is Pasiphae, daughter of the sun-god, Helios and her father is King Minos of Crete. The women of the family play significant roles in many important myths. Ariadne's aunt is Circe, the witch who turns Odysseus' men into swine in Homer's Odyssey. Her cousin is Medea, whose story mirrors Ariadne's in some ways. Like Ariadne, Medea enables a hero to accomplish his legendary feats – in her case, she gives Jason and the Argonauts a magical salve and instructions so that they can steal the Golden Fleece from her father Aeëtes of Colchis – and is later deserted by him.

Ariadne's sister, Phaedra, grows up to marry Theseus later in life, but she falls in love with his son Hippolytus and so sets off a chain of tragic events which lead to Theseus bringing about the death of his own son in the Greek tragedy Hippolytus by Euripides.

The story of Ariadne's mother is perhaps the strangest and most shocking of all. When Ariadne's father, King Minos, offends the sea god Poseidon by refusing to sacrifice a beautiful white bull to the god, Poseidon punishes him by causing his wife, Pasiphae, to fall in love with the animal. Pasiphae entreats the master craftsman Daedalus to carve a realistic wooden cow in which she can hide to seduce the bull. The product of this union is the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man but the head of a bull and an insatiable appetite for human flesh. The creature is Ariadne's half-brother and is consigned by her father to the dark depth of the Labyrinth from which it can never escape.

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[aaronofithaca05]

The love-hate relation I have with this book is unimaginable, like I related to Circe and wanted to be like her, ( a independent person, witty, etc...) but then the end, oh god, we don´t talk about that....

"But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."

Circe - Madeline Miller

[inconsistentreading]

But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.