#a paean

[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

[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)

[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.

[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 💪

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Devastated 💔💔💔

[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

[asexualreptile]

Hey @ashcroft-writes, you haven't heard from me in about half a year, so I think it's high time I bring another offering.

This one is inspired by the hands down funniest comment you've received on Gunslinger's Paean so far (imo), that still makes me laugh every time I read it even three years later. It's been living in my head rent free and now it's finally made its way onto paper. Thank you @dcdoesart for your contribution. The image of Obi-Wan and Cad Bane salsa-dancing is lodged into my head so deep, I fear it will forever taint (enhance) my perception of them (If you want to go back to it: Chap 9. A Quiet Den, 2; The Idiot's Array)

Do tell me: Is the hat comically large enough?

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Finding dance poses online as a base for this was surprisingly hard as most of the ones I looked at had one of the dancers in a very trusting/submissive figure that just wasn't right for them at this point in their relationship. I don't know much about standard dancing, so I can't tell who's actually leading whom here, I assigned roles on the basis of what would show off their clothes best.

Also: I took care not to twinkify them as a response to another drawing I had done before this one that you haven't seen yet (one of a few actually 👀), so stay tuned

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This is not the kind of thing I usually draw in several ways but I think it turned out like the perfect crack xD

I hope this brings you joy!

[artisplatters]

I drew a lil' something

I'll probably draw more but I need sleep

the new update is so fun

also of course I drew their wool only to realize that its all gonna get covered by the fleece

[ashcroft-writes]

Please sir....a snippet of either of the gunslinger's paean.... i'm so toirsty.....

Heh, I'd be HAPPY to. There is no one who's wanted to finally bring it to publication more than me 😂 Can I interest all of you in the first few paragraphs of Calamity Horizon, this 150k+ WIP monster draft

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The words that would destroy High General Obi-Wan Kenobi came softly on slippered feet, announced with a hesitant knock. He very nearly did not come to the door.

After all, it was twilight, and he could pretend to be asleep.

Behind him and through the window of his Temple chambers came the distant whirring of speeders from the Coruscanti sky lanes. Before him was a pile of armor on his bed, blaster-singed and grimy, fierce-plated and fur-lined. The black visor of the helm seemed to stare accusingly. These were the uncivilized effects of a bounty hunter: Rako Hardeen. His second skin. Wasn’t as if the Temple hadn’t paid for it, so he’d kept it all this time. Perfectly useful, of course.

Liar, a voice hissed in his memory, a resonance that made the pale scars in his neck ache—and it was their maker he was going to see. Oh, the lines between the will of the Code and the will of the Force…

…Then the rapping came again. Soft. Insistent. Obi-Wan quickly stacked the armor in the closet, put a blanket over the top, and went to do his duty. At his threshold—in a robe, simple shawl, and slippers—he found a Duros woman.

Knight Oralli, who’d led part of the Duro-sector victory against Grievous.

Of all the… she was the only one here who knew he was in contact with Bane at all! She couldn’t have known he was about to…!

But she was so very clever…

And from the lines under her fiery-red stare, she still wasn’t sleeping much, her bow of respect weary, perfunctory. Her jaw clenched a taut line. For the past week, ever since she’d confronted him about his secrets, she hadn’t made eye contact.

Until now.

“I heard you were taking leave, Master Kenobi,” she whispered.

[sphinx-myth]

APOLLONS NEW ALTAR! I planned to paint the box but now im not too sure if i should! Also i did ask for permison before i posted this!

The cloth underneath is one we have just finished sewing! The drawung and the terribly made sun was made by us at school too! We made the picture during lithia :>

Blessed be paean!!