#Sons of Apollo

[24kmar]

𝙋𝙅𝙊 𝘾𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙨

𝖢𝖺𝖻𝗂𝗇 7

Yellow: 𝖫𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌,𝖤𝗇𝖾𝗋𝗀𝗒, 𝖲𝗎𝗆𝗆𝖾𝗋, 𝖮𝗉𝗍𝗂𝗆𝗂𝗌𝗆

[witchthewriter]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨

Men who know how to tell a story; they’re able to get out of sticky situations with their wit, humour and/or charm. Some become leaders, side-kicks, and/or  but more often then not, they’re the comic relief, the memorable characters that everyone loves, and they always push the story onward one way or another. 

𝐽𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑟

𝐹𝑙𝑦𝑛𝑛 𝑅𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟

𝐸𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛

𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑘𝑖

𝐽𝑜𝘩𝑛 𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟

𝐽𝑜𝘩𝑛 𝑆𝘩𝑒𝑙𝑏𝑦

𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦

𝑇𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟

𝑁𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛

[ponderingrandomthings]

This is song #2 from the second and final album by the progressive metal supergroup Sons of Apollo.

It released two albums:

Psychotic Symphony (2017)

MMXX (2020)

The band was formed in 2017 with:

Mike Portnoy - drums

Billy Sheehan - bass

Derek Sherinian - keyboards

Jeff Scott Soto - vocals

Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal - guitars

Mmm… Wait! Bumblefoot? (Ha ha. Err…) Was he clumsy? No. He was helping his wife study for her veterinary exams and in the process he learned about this bacterial infection. "The name went from being just the name of an album, to the name of a record label, to a band name, to eventually his name as a solo artist."

My point of interest for this song Wither to Black is that it was based on a riff written by Mr Bumblefoot - initially called Rushgarden - because it sounded like a mixture of Rush and Soundgarden.

[Yes, it does. Plus the vocals reference a 'modern day' in a line! Good to see Rush-inspired great music.]

[j-tillow]

[dreamtheatergifs]

[millportisntreal]

Thinking again about twin sons of the twin Apollo Andrew and Aaron Minyard. Canonically never knowing their biological father. Aaron being premed and wanting to be a doctor. Andrew’s obsession with truth and honesty. Apollo is the god of youth and the protection of the young. How betrayed the twins would feel when they found out, how their divine father did not protect them from the people who were supposed to take care of them? Apollo as the god of the herd, Andrew taking in the monsters and protecting them like a flock.

After they come to Palmetto, and digest the information of their parentage, being able to move on and develop their skills. Andrew learning the bow and arrow, Aaron learning music and medicine, both of them finding comfort in each other and newfound siblings who they can share their joys and grief with around a campfire.

Thinking about son of Hermes Neil Josten. Growing up with a mother who stuck with the Butcher, a man so vile no monsters would come near. Mary praying, praying, praying for auburn hair and blue eyes, to need there to be no question of paternity. Thinking about how when they finally go on the run, Neil feels more at home than he ever did in Baltimore. The road is a comfort for him, not quite safe but secure in the rightness of movement. Being fast when he needs to get away, outrunning hands and bullets and knifes. Coming into his own as a thief, a pick pocket, always finding luck on his side. Realizing that he picks up and understands languages better than anyone else he knows. And when his mother’s body is burning and then the bones are buried in the California sea side, he gets a message on the wind, the speaker sounding familiar like a dream or a childhood friend - “You’ll be safe at Palmetto.”

Once Neil learns the truth, when he’s safe at Palmetto surrounded by people like him, I imagine how relieved he is to learn that the Butcher is not his father. He was a Wesninski only in name, and not in blood. Neil uses his God-given wit and cunning to take down Riko and the Nest. He is a permeable boundary that brings together the Monsters and the rest of the Foxes.

And, of course, he’s the fastest on the team.

[thehyacinthprophecy]

Nico having some musical talent and a terrifying, hauntingly beautiful singing voice is so important to me.

Just Apollo clinging to Will and breaking down into tears cuz "YOU DID SO FUCKING GOOD, SON, YOU HAVE EXQUISITE TASTE".

[glossc1]

apollo, achilles, and the death of troilus. REACH OUT, TOUCH FAITH.

[comalatte]

Perceive

[mint-mango]

nick finally got him to wear the shirt yippee

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[the-star-rigel]

pjo/hoo/toa + the cycle

The Lightning Thief / Growing Sideways, Noah Kahan / Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin + Saturn Devouring His Son, Goya + Saturn, Rubens / The Blood of Olympus / The Family Jewels, MARINA / The Last Olympian / The Sea of Monsters / The Family Jewels / Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Bouguereau / The Hidden Oracle / Apollo and Marsyas, Manfredi / In The Blood, John Mayer / The Sea of Monsters / The Combat of Ares and Athena, Jacques Louis David / The Family Jewels / Mark of Athena / The Combat of Ares and Athena / The Lightning Thief / Family Line, Conan Gray / Cronos and Rhea, Schinkel / The Lightning Thief / The Blood of Olympus / In The Blood / The Last Olympian / Chronos and His Child, Romanelli / Desireé Dellagiacomo / The Lightning Thief / Family Line / The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel + The Last Day of Pompeii, Bryullov / The Blood of Olympus / The Outcast, Botticelli / Glass, Irony and God, Anna Carson / House of Hades / Family Line / The Last Olympian / The Lament for Icarus, Herbert Draper + Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Roman School + Minerva and Arachne, Houasse + Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris, Kauffmann / The Last Olympian / Hadestown / The Lightning Thief / apple, Charli xcx / The Last Olympian / I Would Leave Me If I Could, Halsey / The Sea of Monsters / ? / LET YOUR DAD DIE ENERGY DRINK, Lavery and Corrigan / The Last Olympian / Eat Your Young, Hozier / The Last Olympian / Orpheus and the Bacchantes, Lazzarini / The Blood of Olympus / Susan Smith, wych elm / Orpheus and the Bacchantes / The Burning Maze / ? / The Tyrant’s Tomb / Perseus Freeing Andromeda, Veronese / Abduction of Psyche, Bouguereau + Bacchus and Ariadne, Van Loo / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero

[sushiisiu]

khura'inese wedding

[just-an-enby-lemon]

After God Games

Helios: The sirens?

Apollo: I was taken by surprise, okay? Dad just popped me into the arena and went "yo fight your sister about Odyseus or something".

Helios: And you didn't consider my cows as a reason?

Apollo: I panicked!? And the sirens do write bangers.

Helios: After I considered you as my sucessor!

Apollo: Look, honey, Hector was my champion and I didn't even considered Troy a reason. Is nothing personal.

[xieliancore]

nico di angelo!!

[j-tillow]

[imafuckinstar]

i could never be a demigod because quests are literally only for morning people. like why do i have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn just to head to my imminent death with a side of eternal damnation. waking up that early is already punishment enough for paying the debt of my half-godly existence.