#a paean

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Some Assets From "Heroes, Assemble! Paean of Era Nova" Web Event

[my-name-is-apollo]

Dark-haired Apollo

I know everyone likes blonde Apollo, and for good reasons! A lot of poets seemed to have been fond of imagining him with long, beautiful golden hair. But dark-haired Apollo, though quite rare in the poems, also exists and I honestly like that too.

• From the Erythrean paean to Asclepius (which then continues into a paean to king Seleucus):

"Over the libations, sing of Seleucus, son of dark-haired Apollo, whom the god of the golden lyre himself begot..." – (Trans. P.A.LeVen)

> κυανοπλοκάμου (kyanoplokámou) - dark-haired is used to describe Apollo's hair here.

• From Limenius' paean to Apollo (also known as the second Delphic hymn):

"But you, O god who owns the oracular tripod, come to this ridge of Parnassus where the gods tread, and where divine possession is welcomed. Weave a crown of bay about your wine-dark hair, and drawing with your hand . . . you encountered the monstrous child of Gaia . . ." (Trans. J.G.Landels)

>It was a bit difficult for me to figure what word is used here for his hair because the original Greek text is fragmented and I'm not knowledgeable about the language - I rely on the online translations - so a disclaimer. But from what I've put together, the word used to describe the color of the hair is οἰνῶ̣πα (oinõpa) which translates to "dark", "ruddy complexioned". Also, the same hymn calls Apollo "golden-haired" in the beginning lol.

In Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, a comment is made on the poets' imagination of Apollo's hair vs the painters' preference:

"And you do not either like the poet who spoke of the golden-haired Apollo; for if a painter were to represent the hair of the god as actually golden, and not black, the picture would be all the worse." – (Trans. Charles Burton Gulick)

> according to this, the painters liked to represent Apollo with black (μελαίνας) hair. Or rather that making his golden will make the painting look worse.

And if the Roman paintings and mosaics are any proof, these painters did actually seem to prefer representing Apollo with dark hair.

So yeah, while in the myths he's often called golden-haired, dark-haired Apollo is a more common sight in the paintings.

[itsartlee]

Okay! I finally made COTL designs I'm happy with! Thank you to my friend who gave me the idea to base Narinder off a maine coon.

Height chart below

[glitchyvoice]

my contribution to this bullshit fdakhfd

@ghosts-and-glory

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Paean of Era Nova - Honkai: Star Rail (2/2)

[scalefeathers]

…Just a moment more… Look directly up, and the sky would subtly thin at its zenith, the muggy teal starting to let space peek through: darkness infinite. [...]Above, the clouds drifted and shimmered… they almost seemed to stretch into long, thin storybook-ships… when he was really little, he thought that if he wished hard enough, perhaps they’d stop for him…

(@ashcroft-writes has been posting new fic and that means I’m back on my bullshit)

[merkuriyy]

could you draw the god Paean?

i hope that this will suffice. Here is the physician of the gods (or at least one of them if you wanna view apollo and asclepius that way)

lowkey the design was kind of hard to think of because originally i thought of him as some random bearded dude, but i thought that was boring. I view him as more of a guy that likes messing around with herbs and stuff, so I made that the primary inspo for this design, as well as the fact that a paean is also a song of worship and praise. I also wanted him to look young because he’s often associated with apollo (youth god of sorts) and gave him a sort of veil/hood thing because he’s just so mysterious to me due to the lack of info on him

[cc-tens]

Here, take this [opens your hand and places pictures of my Clone OCs in it]

I've just accepted I may never finish drawing their armor so take these busts instead. [in order: Stutter, Quips, TenFour, Paean, Jabber]

[ashcroft-writes]

Summer's End: A Gunslinger's Paean Short Story Collection

A new Cad Bane fic collection. It's a bridge to my next big novel-length installment, and I hope you like it!

New stories will be added on Fridays.

Our first story is A Dance for Duro. On a hot summer day decades gone, a Duros orphan attends a town festival, dreaming of a future. Kid Bane and a summer back on the homeworld, a bit bittersweet, laying some groundwork for who he would become. Genfic, and reading the rest of my series isn’t necessary for it!

[alacants]

"Me alegro mucho por David también porque siempre ha estado a la sombra y ya es hora de que se le reconozca todo lo que ha hecho... Es como si llegase el Barca-Madrid, aunque en este caso será un derbi especial porque somos muy amigos."

— "Ferrero y Ferrer se citan en octavos" (AO 2008)

"tee-hee it's so special when we play each other, it's a ~derby just like barcelona vs madrid <3" it is NOTHING like barcelona vs madrid, those fans would kill each other for a single corn chip and you guys are one drunken fumble away from a civil ceremony.

[artbyanca]

Apollo composing his paean after the slaying of Python.

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Background Images From "Heroes, Assemble! Paean of Era Nova" Web Event

[maimoncat]

I'll look after you

I'm a "Paean is Aym and Baal's father" truther

So here I give you an estranged demon father finally being reunited with his distrustful spawn

[shentheauthor]

Another

Fornaean power couple 💪

[glitchyvoice]

babe wake up its time for bullshit

also i think its important to add this screenshot to this post cuz the irony is fucking hilarious

[dragaliareferencearchive]

Paean of Era Nova - Honkai: Star Rail (1/2)