#alternatively: diana and apollo

[heavensincarnate1111]

my son and daughter (who just so happen to be twins) are gonna be sooo mad when i name them apollo and artemis

[catindabag]

Part 3 of Panem’s ✨Districts✨ as seen by the 24 OG Mentors in my TBOSAS on Crack!AU.

PS: This is after they met their “totally normal, not crazy” Tributes.

District 5 (Electricity Duct Tape & Lightning Bait) according to Dennis Fling after meeting Hy.

District 5 (Electricity Electric Batteries & Potato Galleries) according to Iphigenia Moss after meeting Sol.

District 6 (Transportation Thomas & Friends) according to Apollo Ring after meeting Otto.

District 6 (Transportation Transformers & Pop Dancers) according to Diana Ring after meeting Ginnee.

[apiswitchcraft]

orphic hymns to apollo and diana

i should mention that i did NOT write these!! they are from like the 1st century AD lol

APOLLO:

Blest Pæan, come, propitious to my prayer, illustrious power, whom Memphian tribes revere,

Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health, Lycorian Phœbus, fruitful source of wealth.

Spermatic, golden-lyred, the field from thee receives it's constant, rich fertility.

Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian, thee I sing, Python-destroying, hallowed, Delphian king:

Rural, light-bearer, and the Muse's head, noble and lovely, armed with arrows dread:

Far-darting, Bacchian, two-fold, and divine, power far diffused, and course oblique is thine.

O, Delian king, whose light-producing eye views all within, and all beneath the sky:

Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, who, omens good reveals, and precepts pure:

Hear me entreating for the human kind, hear, and be present with benignant mind;

For thou surveys this boundless æther all, and every part of this terrestrial ball

Abundant, blessed; and thy piercing sight, extends beneath the gloomy, silent night;

Beyond the darkness, starry-eyed, profound, the stable roots, deep fixed by thee are found.

The world's wide bounds, all-flourishing are thine, thyself all the source and end divine:

'Tis thine all Nature's music to inspire, with various-sounding, harmonizing lyre;

Now the last string thou tuned to sweet accord, divinely warbling now the highest chord;

The immortal golden lyre, now touched by thee, responsive yields a Dorian melody.

All Nature's tribes to thee their difference owe, and changing seasons from thy music flow

Hence, mixed by thee in equal parts, advance Summer and Winter in alternate dance;

This claims the highest, that the lowest string, the Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring.

Hence by mankind, Pan-royal, two-horned named, emitting whistling winds through Syrinx famed;

Since to thy care, the figured seal is consigned, which stamps the world with forms of every kind.

Hear me, blessed power, and in these rites rejoice, and save thy mystics with a suppliant voice.

DIANA:

Hear me, Jove's daughter, celebrated queen, Bacchian and Titan, of a noble mien:

In darts rejoicing and on all to shine, torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine;

Over births presiding, and thyself a maid, to labor-pangs imparting ready aid:

Dissolver of the zone and wrinkled care, fierce huntress, glorying in the Sylvan war:

Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skilled, wandering by night, rejoicing in the field:

Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind, illustrious dæmon, nurse of human kind:

Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell, 'tis thine; blest maid, on woody hills to dwell:

Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, in endless youth who flourish fair and bright.

O, universal queen, august, divine, a various form, Cydonian power, is thine:

Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind auspicious, come to mystic rites inclined

Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear, send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair,

And to the mountains drive Disease and Care.

Dividers by @vibeswithrenai

[merp-blerp]

Part 2 of A Gaylor interpretation of "The Prophecy"

I had more Thoughts™ that I initially left out for length, but I'd like to elaborate in sections. Special thanks to @mamataylovesrubbi for being so friendly. This community is so lovely.

TW: Brief talk of self-destructive behavior and suicide near the end.

Part 1 here

Overblown Analysis Under the Cut ↓

Artemis/Diana

Some things about Artemis/Diana that I left out of part one I left out were that 1) Artemis is also the goddess of the hunt and animals. I think that tidbit adds to the fable connection, as fables are often stories about animals. When it comes to the hunt, songs like WAOLOM and The Albotros possibly being about Taylor planning revenge on her closet-ers really scream huntress. Artemis can also become a deer, a somewhat surprisingly non-vicious animal for a huntress, if she pleases. "I've been the Archer / I've been the prey." I think this could portray Taylor's strengths and weaknesses. 2) Artemis is a virginal goddess, never having any male lovers in her stories. This doesn't necessarily make Artemis a sapphic goddess, even though I've seen that interpretation, but it's pretty telling that Taylor would align so closely to a goddess with that trait. 3) Artemis/Diana was also the goddess of the moon (somewhat, it's a bit complicated, but that's Greek mythology for you). Fits the themes of Midnights, with Taylor being Midnight (Rain) and her lover being Sunshine. Though that probably shouldn't be taken too literally, as Apollo, god of the sun, is Artemis's twin brother. Trust him like a brother, yeah—

2. Vocalizing

Taylor's vocalizing after "...tell me it'll be okay" reminds me vaguely of the vocalizing in "My Tears Ricochet", a song, like this album, alludes to Taylor dying.

3. "But I looked to the sky" and "I've been on my knees"

With all the talk of sky, I wonder if maybe "Bigger Than The Whole Sky" might be about failed coming outs. I don't know if this is something others thought have already (probably), but I never thought of it before. Meanwhile, the repeat of being on her knees makes me think of "Would've, Could've, Should've". I've mentioned before that I'm open to that song being actually about JM because it wouldn't surprise me if she tried dating dudes in some way early on in her career, whatever that would mean. However, I'm open to alternatives too. With my analysis of Taylor's Eve being bitten by the serpent/Devil, maybe the serpent could be the Devil from "Would've, Could've, Should've". Maybe the Devil could be The Professor from my "The Manuscript" analysis. I'm leaning toward that Devil being her old label.

4. Throttle

A throttle is several things. It can be something to give machinery fuel. It can be a verb, you can throttle something, aka kill it by strangulation. By "hand on the throttle," I think Taylor was saying she was ready to not only fuel/validate her truth, but kill her past lives. I get this vibe that TTPD might be for TS12 what Reputation was for Lover. Just like with Rep, she's killing the old Taylor(s) that hid her queerness before she steps into the daylight with what comes after. Makes me understand all the chockers and high-neck collars she's been sporting for this era.

5. "And it was written"

I feel like I grazed over this part of the line a bit. What was written? It could be Taylor's lyrics or her 100 thrown-out speeches. She wrote them, but wasn't heard anyway, cursed. Or it could be the word written in the Bible. (In my opinion, shit) translations of the Bible call for all kinds of things to happen to queer people, and has so for years. Not that many though because the word homosexual didn't even exist when the Bible was first scribed. Taylor was cursed before she was even born. Possibly like Eve. Didn't Eve have control over whether she ate the fruit or not? Do queer people have control in who they love? Christian will debate forever.

6. "Let it once be me"

One reason why Taylor wasn't out from the get-go obviously has to do with where her career began and under what industry she was entering. An underaged, famous, sapphic country singer sounds a bit wild now honestly, imagine in 2006! The world would not have been ready, unfortunately. But why can't Taylor come out now? Well, in "WAOLOM", Taylor sneers, "I am what I am 'cause you trained me". She was raised to closet for her whole career, maybe even longer, who could know? And of course, "Old habits die screaming" (from "The Black Dog"). After this album, however, I feel like she's gearing up to free herself. Still, there are so many people younger than Taylor who come out super casually, like Reneé Rapp, Girl in Red, etc, without games or clear fear. Taylor probably sees them and wonders why she couldn't have/had that freedom. Maybe when she says specifically, "redo the prophecy" rather than "change the prophecy" she wishes she could go back in time and somehow make it so she could've come onto the scene out and proud way back then.

7. "like fools in a fable / Oh, it was sinking in"

I think Taylor started feeling like she'd never be free as she began to write Folklore. Of course, she knew the plan didn't work before that in 2019, but as she created Folklore and Evermore, she realized she was anywhere near where she wanted to be in 2020, playing the same games. It sunk in with that. That's why Folklore, Evermore, and even some Midnights songs can sound so hopeless. As an LSK, I don't believe it was due to a breakup, but more closeting. All the albums after Lover seem to have minimal color because she can't be herself.

8. "My last coin"

So, I mentioned in part one that Taylor had/has referenced self-inflicting harmful actions towards herself in many songs. She also mentions poison in this song. It got me thinking about Romeo and Juliet and how that play goes. Taylor, with the "Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand" seems to be combining Romeo and Juliet's death, Juliet getting stabbed or "pricked" and Romeo drinking poison. Maybe this symbolizes that, even though when she was younger, more naïve and optimistic, she exclusively identified with Juliet and changed her ending in "Love Story", now she identifies with both Romeo and Juliet, even sometimes taking on the "male" role in her songs (e.g. The Heartbreak Prince and JaMEs). A part of me wonders if that could be a comment on her gender identity too, but that goes a bit over my skill level to analyze. But it feels sad that Taylor used to change the fates of Romeo and Juliet and now she's honest about what happens to them. As I said before, I want nothing but good for Taylor. it will be okay. 🤍 ✌️🌈

Alrighty, I think I got it all out of me. Watch me think of some more shit with this song. 🙄😅

[dc-marvel-crossovers]

The DC/Marvel Crossover server is proud to present our summer Pool Noodle Party! Celebrating the rarest crossover pairs, both platonic and romantic. Courtesy of this post about ships that are too small to count as ships:

For our purposes, a “pool noodle” is a relationship tag that comes up with less than 30 hits on Ao3. Platonic (&) relationships count! Any and all crossover pairings with under 30 existing fics are welcome.

We have six themes. Each theme will have a week for posting creations and a week for celebrating — giving feedback and leaving comments. We’ll share everything that was created the previous week and try to spread the love, but also post rec lists of our favorite older fics that fit the theme.

For anybody who's interested in creating fanworks for existing fic, we'll be posting a list (soon) of fics whose authors have given permission for podfic, moodboards, art, and playlists inspired by their work!

Themes are relatively loose, so your ship might fit multiple themes — that’s fine! Entirely up to you when you post.

Check out the prompt lists! Keep in mind that fics do not have to fit a particular prompt, only the general theme for the week they're posted. These are just for inspiration.

Hackers, Paleolithic weapons, interplanetary romance, etc.

Robin Hood AU 

Mia Dearden & Kate Bishop

Eddie and Venom work at the Daily Planet 

Tony and Roy in rehab

Venom finds a new host 

Kree identity shenanigans

“I’m a doctor, not a _” 

Oracle & Jarvis 

Clint and Dick knew each other in the circus 

Starfire meets the Marvels 

Not necessarily femslash, but woman-centric!

Natasha Romanoff/Talia Al Ghul

Birds of Prey crossover 

Genderswap 

Amanda Waller puts together an all-female team 

Captain Britain Peggy Carter

Powerpuff Girls AU 

Diana Prince in SHIELD 

Selina Kyle as a Widow  

Coulson recruits Cassandra Cain

Blorbos who have been resurrected, who live in Daredevil territory, who deal with demonic shit, etc.

Lazarus Pit side effects

Priest!Jason 

"I think they came back wrong."

Dumpster bros 

Buffy crossover 

Nelson & Murdock in Gotham

Orpheus and Eurydice retelling

Angels and demons AU 

Clint Barton/John Constantine 

-powers, -heroes, -villains, -boys, -girls, and/or -soldiers!

Conner Kent gets adopted 

Powers/serum are sexually transmitted 

Loki joins the Legion of Doom

“Wait, I have powers in this universe?” 

Power swap 

Kryptonian biology quirks

Marvel character gets a Lantern ring

Supernatural crossover

Murder as a love language, or at least as a career.

John Wick AU 

Ronin!Clint / RedHood!Jason 

Outlaws team-up 

Gun/knife play 

Wade & Slade Wilson are related 

Marvel character trains Jason during Lost Days

Someone kills the Joker

The other Winter Soldier

Frank adopts Jason

Alternately, found family! Anything to do with relationships involving more than one person.

Band AU 

Team as family (or team as relationship)

Midnighter/Apollo/someone

Werewolf AU   

Biker gang AU 

“God help us if they ever join forces.” 

Teen Titans meet the Young Avengers 

Accidental alien planet multi-marriage

"Everybody lives in Clint's apartment building" civilian AU

[deathlessathanasia]

When Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus where would you place her in the birth order of the younger gods?

In the Library of Apollodoros Dione is Zeus's third consort (after Hera and Themis) so Aphrodite is one of his eldest children. Assuming that all the children of Hera (Hebe, Eileithyia, Ares) and Themis (Eirene, Eunomia, Dike, Klotho, Lachesis, Atropos) were born before Zeus took Dione as his partner, then Aphrodite would be at most his 10th child, older than gods like Persephone, Athena, Apollo, Artemis and Hermes. Pseudo-Hyginus' genealogical lists in the Fabulae can be all over the place, but he lists Jupiter's divine children in this order: Venus (by Dione), Mars (by Juno), Minerva (by himself), the Graces (by Eurynome), Juventas and Libertas (by Juno), the Horai (by Themis), Proserpina (by Ceres), the Muses (by Moneta), Pandia (by Luna), Mercurius (by Maia), Apollo and Diana (by Latona). So here Aphrodite appears to be his first child. In Diodoros of Sicily, Library of History 5.72.5 we get this list: "To Zeus also were born, they say, the goddesses Aphroditê and the Graces, Eileithyia and her helper Artemis, the Hours, as they are called, Eunomia and Dikê and Eirenê, and Athena and the Muses, and the gods Hephaestus and Ares and Apollo, and Hermes and Dionysus and Heracles." Of course the order may be more or less arbitrary and they might not be supposed to be arranged in chronological order in this list, but whatever the case, Aphrodite is mentioned first.

I do prefer her to be older than the other children of Zeus who are members of the dodekatheon at least, as a nod to her alternative origins as offspring of Ouranos on one hand and to the theory that Dione (or a goddess she derives from) might have been the original consort of Zeus on the other.

[hyakinthou-naos]

A Personal Revelation & Temple Teachings

This is a post about Aön's personal practice, and a peak into our upcoming work and teachings. It's a fairly long post and we didn't want to flood everyone's feeds - so if you're interested you can click below to keep reading :)

[How this relates to The Temple can be found in Section 2]

Section 1: Personal Revelation

When I was between the ages of 13 and 15, during the period of my life when I identified as a Wiccan, I worked with and worshipped the Roman Goddess Diana. This was an extremely positive experience and I have always looked back on my work with her with fondness.

However, many years later when I began my journey into HelPol, I found myself extremely uninterested in working with Artemis. When I tried, it felt like working with a stranger instead of reuniting with an old friend - which was extremely confusing to me for a number of reasons. The main reason being that I syncretize almost all of the Roman counterparts of the Greek deities I worship into said Greek deities (there's more nuance to my syncretizations, but that's a post for another day).

I have been struggling with this for literal years at this point, when finally - finally I found something during a research session that made all the pieces fall into place.

To summarize and simplify the information I found tonight, the Goddess Diana was worshipped in Italy before Greek Polytheism was brought to Rome. She existed as a primordial nature deity associated with the Moon, nature, hunting, as well as crossroads and the underworld (something I found particularly interesting was that her cthonic aspects predate Greek influence and therefore predate Diana being conflated with Hekatê). Once I learned about Diana and not Diana-Artemis - everything made sense.

It is my firm belief that the entity/deity I was working with all those years ago was the ancient Italian goddess, Diana. Specifically the entity or avatar that predates Greek influence. Not only does this explanation just feel *incredibly correct* on it's own, it also feels correct due to my past and my connection with Italy.

My mother's family, on both sides of her family tree, are of Italian descent (mainly from Rome and Sorrento). And while I wasn't raised ethnically Italian, I was raised Roman Catholic - so our Italian heritage and lineage was something that was important and emphasized. I left the Catholic Church at the age of 13, and when I began my journey into paganism around that same time - I did incorporate a lot of my mother's lineage into my practice (primarily through ancestor veneration and ceremonial magic).

Section 2: Temple Teachings

The reason I initially fell down this research rabbit hole is because I am currently working on a large project for The Temple, and part of that involves establishing some forthcoming belief statements and teachings. In this vein, I was working on mythical alignment and interpretation surrounding the primary deities of The Temple and found myself going in circles.

I, as the Temple's Founder, had made the choice to focus much of our spiritual practice and alignment on Lord Apollo - without showing the same focus or attention to Lady Artemis. This was not in any way to disrespect Lady Artemis, but was instead to better align with the alternative revival structure that I had felt called to align The Temple with. However, this alternative revival structure involved reinterpreting the myth of Leto's birth to Apollo in some way to create a literary narrative where Apollo is born AFAB - as a symbolic and mythic exploration of Lord Apollo's transmasculinity. The details of said reinterpretation were what was having me go in circles.

However, following the personal revelation I had, I found the reinterpretation falling into place.

In the myth of their birth, Artemis is said to have been the first born - and even acted as midwife to Leto for the birth of Apollo. However, given the right lens, one could interpret this story as 'Artemis' being the child born of Leto - but that the birth of a second child, a son, at the hands of the first is an allegory or metaphor for Apollo being an AFAB child who transitioned. A child born and given an identity, only to be reborn by his own hands with the support and love of his mother.

Creating this reinterpretation, while also incorporating Ancient Diana into the Temple's Primary Pantheon, allows for Temple patrons and visitors to still have a space for Artemis to exist within ritual and temple literature. Being able to allow space for Artemis to still exist for those who want it was and is incredibly important for me in creating this alternate interpretation of myth - as Lady Artemis is so important for so many people and also extremely important to not ignore or forget.

If anyone has any follow up questions or if any of the above information was not clear please feel free to comment, shoot us an ask, or send us a DM 🕯️

[Source 1] [Source 2]

[silverthornwitchery]

wanting to put my druidic path in a predominantly Celtic (continental Celtic as well as Old British to be exact.. sorry Irish Ancestors.) path so i've been through the help of the internet, coming up with constructed names for the roman deities, and coming up with syncretizations either through history or UPG. For Diana - Adruinna/Louna/Adsagsona Arduinna being the manifestation of the huntress and wilderness Diana, Louna being Luna, and Adsagsona (who we know very little of other than she's a cthonic witching goddess) for Trivia. As for Diana-Nemorensis, she appears to me as Nemetona. For Apollo (this is where it gets really messy) - Grannus is the name I call upon in regards to healing, and I call on Grannus alongside Sirona. In regards to Apollo as the Aradian-Lucifer, I feel that Lugus and Endovelicus both could fill that role. Though Lugus is more associated with Mercury that Apollo, I also tie Lugus to Lugh because of the light aspect. And Both Lucifer and Lugh are known to be mercurial trickster figures. In the fall I usually call to Apollo as Maponos. The Horned One - He's already VERY syncretic in terms of existence, so the name I call him varies based on how he shows himself to me. As the Folk Devil/Witches' Devil, he's usually Lupercus, who through demonization, is syncretized with Lucifer, but historically also Faunus. The Devil as Lightbearer to me is Cunamaglos (who i associate with Lupercus), Lugus, or Endovelicus (through Luciferian ties), and then as King of the Forest(both Folk Devil and Otherwise), Callirius. I dont really click with the name Cernunnos, but alternate spellings like Carneo or Carnonos, or Cernun, resonate a bit more. Cunamaglos also fills the role of my Wolf-Spirit deity in the masculine form. Fauna - Easy enough, Fauna is Druantia. Both the feminine form of the Horned One, and also the personification of Druidry as a whole. She IS Nature personified, and kinda blends with Diana-Nemorensis to form Nemetona. As a fertility and underworld goddess (an epithet i use for Druantia is Bone-Mother, giving her a Cthonic link), she can be Aeracura. Thus giving names such as Druantia, Druantia-Nemetona, and Druantia-Aeracura. Her cthonic form is also linked to her fertility aspect as well, since life and death are two sides of the same coin, which is fitting as Aeracura is historically a cthonic and fertility goddess. I haven't quite figured out where Venus stands in all this, though I'm sure I'll figure it out in time. I also plan to Incorperate Brigantia into my practice, since she's another form of Brigid. I also want to form a relationship with Andraste, and can respark my relationship with An Morrigan/The Raven Queen under the name Cathubodua, which is the first name of hers that really resonated with me. As for Aradia, I Personally don't view Aradia as an external spirit, I feel she exists WITHIN the practicioner, as I view Witches as all of Diana/Adsagsona's children. Though Aradia very well may have been a physical person or deity at some point. I feel Aradia works WITHIN us.

[thepringlesofblood]

Find Out Your Ceresian Senator Name!

(made with love, the d20 gang put a lot of work into diversifying character names, & as I was doing my etymology post I noticed similarities but no clear formula so I thought I’d write one for funsies)

First Name: The first letter of the street you grew up on (if you didn’t grow up on a street feel free to use a town/city name, or a landmark!).

I included alternates for gender reasons - a/o means the name can end with either a or o depending on your preference, e.g. Emilio vs Emilia. You can probably also throw an -e at the end of some of them if (like me) you wanna be a bit nonbinary about it.

A - Aurelius (Adria, Andrea) B - Bianca (Bacchus, Basilla) C - Cara (Cassius, Camila/o) D - Dominic (Donatella/o, Daniela) E - Emanuel (Emanuela, Emilia/o,  Eduardo) F - Francisco (Fabrizia/o, Fiero) G - Giuseppe (Graciela, Gio) H - Hercules (Hero, Hermes) I - Ignazia/o (Imelda, Isabella) J - Jupiter (Jiovanni, Juno) K - Katarina (Kronos, Celeste) L - Lorenzo (Luca, Loretta) M - Marco (Messina, Manuela) N - Nunzio (Natalia, Nico) O - Oliverio (Ouranos, Roberta/o) P - Patrizia/o (Paula/o, Pallas) Q - Quirinus (Pietro, Ricarda/o) R - Rizzo (Rafaela/Rafael, Renata) S - Silvio (Sabina/e, Serafina/o) T - Titian (Tullia/o, Terra) U - Ulysses (Urania/Uranus, Rosetta) V - Valentina/o (Venus, Vesta, Vesuvio) W - Luigi (Mario, Rosalina) X - Xanto (Romeo, Diana, Apollo) Y - Ylenia (Saturn/Saturnus, Minerva) Z - Zappa (Mars, Melete, Diana)

Last name: The last letter of your favorite food

A - Bucatini B - Capellini C - Bavette D - Matriciani E - Pappardelle F - Scialatelli G - Spaghettini H - Tagliatelle I - Trenetti J - Vermicelli K - Anelli L - Cascatelli M - Castellane N - Cavatappi O - Farfalle P - Garganelli   Q - Passatelli R - Paccheri S - Rigatoni T - Strozzapretti U - Testaroli V - Cannelloni   W - Agnolini X - Cappaletti Y - Fagottini Z - Sacchettoni

Voila! Now just put “Senator” (or another Roman govt position if you want) in front of it. I’m Senator Andrea Trenetti!

I also did some optional funsies for those of us with dice we never get to use:

Roll 1d20 


If it lands on a 1, you are straight up a loaf of bread. use the Bread Table under the cut


If it lands on a 2-10, you are a pasta dish. Use the last name chart for your first name, and use the Pasta Dish Table under the cut for your last

If you roll a nat 20, you are may choose b/w

a popular snack food. Use the Snack Table under the cut
. 

you can also use the first name chart and use the snack table for your last name if you want

a Ceresian folk deity. not a senator anymore, but arguably funnier. Use the Deity Table under the cut

otherwise, use tables above as normal.


In The Ravening War, all of the senators also got “tribune” titles like “Tribune of Triscutia” - if you want one of those, you can either:

Use the last name table but use first letter of your favorite food

Use either the Bread, Pasta Dish, or Snack table under the cut

Bread Table

Roll 1d12 or use your birth month

1. Panettone (you have a little Candian on your mother’s side of the family) 2. Muffuletta 3. Pane rustico 4. Panino 5. Pita 6. Tortano 7. Baguette 8. Ciambella 9. Fugassa 10. Friselle 11. Crescentina 12. Boule

Pasta Dish Table

Roll 1d20 or how many mozzarella sticks do you think you could eat in one sitting? (if you can’t eat mozzarella sticks imagine carrot sticks instead)

1. Arrabiatta 2. Amatriciana 3. Bolognese 4. Capresi   5. Bottarga 6. Indiavolati 7. Siracusani 8. Scarpariello 9. Boscaiola 10. Fagioli 11. Lucchesi 12. di Mare 13. Napoletana 14. Puttanesca 15. Ragu   16. Sorrentina 17. Tartufo 18. Valtellina 19. Zucca 20. Cacio-pepe

Snack Table

Roll 1d6, or rate the last movie you saw from 0-5 stars (or 1-6 if you don’t want to do math)

Tostito(s)

if you like you can also use Fritos or Dorito(s)

Chex (you can add a last name that describes the kind of Chex if you want)

Pepperidge (like Pepperidge farms)

Ritz

Kellogg (you can add a last name that describes the kind of Kellogg’s food item if you want)

General Mills

you can forgo the “Senator” title if you so chose and just be “General Mills”

the ancient Roman govt Ceresia is based on had a lot of interplay between the military and the government so like. Generals still have govt. sway.

you could also just be “Senator Mills”

Deity Table

Roll 1d6 or tbh just pick which one you like they’re all fun

you are now known as Ben the Original, but you have never forgotten your past life as Uncle Ben.

you are Little Miss Sunbeam, a maiden goddess of light and happiness

you are the Triple God, the Holy Trinity, and your aspects are Snap, Crackle, and Pop

you are a Keebler elf, one of a large family of forest spirits hidden deep in the mountains on the border of Candia and Ceresia

you are Umaemon, an otherworldly cat-like being with unknowable powers and dual aspects of both cat and human.

you are the Pillsbury Doughboy. 

[thesummerstorms]

So I thought the Titanesses would be a good side plot for the Romans (main continuity) OR the Wonder Fam in the DC crossover, and looked them up on the PJO wiki. Very brief rundown:

Rhea (Queen of the Titans, Mother of the Gods) stayed out of it, and for the sake of the Donna Troy panel in my cross over or just because of their domains in the main continuity, so did Themis (Titaness of Justice, amongst other things) and Mnemosyne (Titaness of Memory) did as well.

Leto, Apollo and Artemis 's mother and Titaness of Motherhood and... Demurity(?) probably did too. I can't see her going against the twins, given how Apollo talks about her in TOA, and Apollo has a vision of her trying to intervene with Zeus on her behalf. I can't imagine she could even do that if she had actively betrayed him.

We do know she's reforming in Tartarus in House of Hades, but she's back not long after that for TOA rather than trapped with the rest of Gaia's supporters. Whatever happened might have just been her getting caught in the crossfire or something unrelated.

Then we have Theia, Hyperion's wife and Titaness of Splendor. I haven't independently researched her, but maybe a potential candidate for Kronos's side.

The PJO wiki also credits her with the domain of "Clear Sight" and loving "clear views" and "sparkly things". So bribery+ humans destruction of nature as a motivation maybe?

I don't think Eos, Titaness of the Dawn is getting involved if her siblings, Selene and Helios, are faded. But maybe 🤷‍♀️ Maybe she wants revenge for her siblings being supplanted. She also has a history with Aphrodite.

We have Asteria, Titaness of Starry Night and Prophetic Dreams. You would think "Prophetic Dreams" would tell her how things are going, but, hey, Apollo still does dumb things. The wiki goes with Hesiod's account of her being Hecate's mother, rather than Nyx, so maybe she joined for her daughter's sake. It sounds mildly more plausible as amotivation than "light pollution", which is the best alternative I could think of.

Tethys is the wife of Oceanus, Titaness of Seas and Freshwater. She's purportedly kind, but if her husband was tempted until he joined Kronos, maybe she followed out of loyalty.

Maybe she's slightly conflicted and is the one to defy both the Olympians and Kronos to reveal to Diana what's going on in the DC crossover. It would work best if it was during or just before the whole Typhoon thing, not long before the Battle of Manhattan.

Then the last we have is Aura, Titaness of the Breezes, who gets no info on the PJO wiki... but a quick google search shows that's likely because what little exists (from a Greek poet, but in the age of the Romans) it's very not middle grade material. TW for Rape if you google it. Anyway, she has actually pretty decent reasons to try and kill Dionysus and Artemis if any of that carries over to PJO's version. I don't love the story, but Rick kept Agrius and Oreius, so.

So I think plausibly, we end up with Asteria, Theia, Aura, Tethys, and maybe Eos as possible extra antagonists in the background of the PJO Titan war.

Maybe Mnemosyne if you aren't being influenced by crossover plans like I am, but I feel like the effects of her hostility would have been very, very notable.

We also don't have an accounting for what Koios (Farsight, Intellect, and Knowledge, the North) did during the war, but he was on Gaia's side later, so he can also be used as needed for plot reasons.

[kindred-spirit-93]

@suremaybeiguess bonjour from the account im more active on and dedicated to my literary & artisitic shenanigans!

my oc hilal, arabic for crescent moon, is a daughter of hades & more about her concept idea found here or @bright-side-of-the-moon ^-^

general description & some random ideas, have fun:

warm olive complexion, oval face, long lashes and round brows

flowy headscarf, dark ish academia aesthetic, muted earthy tones (esp dusty rose or sage paired with black)

perpetually ink stained fingers & dark under eye circles

variable eye shape: rbf = sharp and half lidded almond shaped, any other kind of emotion = comically large and round

irises of the most boring shade of brown (except, say it with me now, in the sun, where they seem to faintly glow the colour of honey and molten gold)

carries a black satchel she embroidered with flowers and skulls with jewels for eyes (cha cha real smooth)

has a journal diana (daughter of apollo) gifted her decorated with sun and moon motifs.

maxi skirts, ankle boots, cardigans, sliver cyanide ring for giggles or a plain black one idk, alternatively a headscarf pin

sorry if this is too detailed or not enough lol, feel free to use any, add ur own, or do something entirely different :D

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i wasn't able to do this before today because my partner got covid from a coworker and i've been really upset abt it. shit sucks man!

anyway i listened to a bunch of stuff that i don't normally listen to this past month because i did this tiermaker based off the 200 best albums of the last 25 years, according to pitchfork readers and realized there were a bunch of albums i had never heard before, or hadn't heard in a long time. so that's fun. maybe i'll post that here someday. idk! i mean at this point i'm mostly just posting for myself.

list of albums under the cut

1997 diana // brockhampton (alt hip hop)

apollo xxi // steve lacy (pop / funk)

voodoo // d'angelo (neo soul / r&b)

babae // kelady (alt dance / hip hop)

pretty little baka guy // shonen knife (japanese pop punk / post punk)

bitter tea // the fiery furnaces (indie rock / electronic)

love hallucination // jessy lanza (canadian electro-pop / experimental)

choose your weapon // hiatus kaiyote (australian future beats / neo soul)

leak 04-13 (bait ones) // jai paul (english pop / r&b)

hard to please (reprise) // spellling (experimental / progressive pop)

different now // courtney barnett (australian alternative)

seeds // tv on the radio (art rock / electronica)

psycho:logy // shouta aoi (j-pop)

maningen // atarashii gakko! (j-pop)

enknee1 // hemlocke springs (indie synth-pop / bedroom pop)

golden best ~pressure~ // golden bomber (japanese pop punk)

kyotaro&rikuo // kyotaro&rikuo (japanese funk / drum and bass)

flux // poppy (alt rock / grunge)

government plates // death grips (experimental hip hop)

born like this // mf doom (british-american hip hop)

fever to tell // yeah yeah yeahs (garage rock revival / art punk)

earth born // soft ballet (japanese synthpop / new wave)

citrus // asobi seksu (shoegaze / dream pop)

fúzào // faye wong (c-pop / dream pop)

fm! // vince staples (hip hop)

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titian's- the death of actaeon

1559-75, oil on canvas, 178.8 × 197.8 cm, The National Gallery

Around 1551, Titian began producing an ambitious series of large-scale mythological paintings for Prince Philip based on Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. Titian referred to these works as "poesie", visual equivalents to the poetry.

The Death of Actaeon is amongst these poesies. The story behind it involves Acaeton disturbing Diana and her nymphs at their secret bathing place, in response she splashes him with water and threatens him to tell the world what he seen, Ovid wrote. Titian paints the scene after, of Acaeton fleeing from Diana however she has already transformed him into a stag. In the painting, Acaeton is still mid transformation, his body still being human while occupying a deer head. He is no longer able to speak. His own hounds strike at him.

It is unsure whether or not the painting is completed. Titians materials remained the same, but his way of use and techniques developed, he took on more of a bolder and freer approach in his work, revealing textures and leaving parts of his paintings in different stages of completion. I quite like the idea of using the same materials but applying them in different ways in order to receive an alternate product. Specifically, how he works more in specific areas, leaving others less refined. With this you can easily highlight certain areas and make them stand out more.

His technique in painting provides dynamism and movement into his work, something that I could apply to my own work. Even though I'm focusing on the structure and anatomy of an animal, I feel like the way I execute my work it turns out very stiff. I want to try to be more fluid with my work and maybe in some way also include the similar dynamics of Titians works. You can see how the dogs are running right at Acaeton. He executes this through their legs such as the dog beside Diana its legs are quite fuzzy or blurred, not fully refined detailed legs, or the dogs attacking Acaeton, it is also blurred but you can see multiple of legs with not a full clear connection which one connected to what dog. More movement is seen through Acaeton falling over backwards or the fabric in Diana's dress as she runs at him.

What I also like about this work is the subject matter itself, I haven't seen this scene painted ever from Ovid's poem Metamorphoses. I'm only aware mostly of Apollo and Daphne. The transformation of Acaeton is really interesting and cool. The mix of animal and human body links to the other artist I researched into, Nicola Hicks.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

World's Finest

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/97fJTQN by Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiii In another life, she would be Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and he would be Percy Jackson, a son of Poseidon. In this reality, she's Athena Chase and while he's still Percy Jackson, they are very different from the Hero of Olympus and Olympian Goddess everyone knew. (Mortal AU, Perthena) Words: 3827, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: F/M Characters: Percy Jackson, Athena (Percy Jackson), Zeus (Percy Jackson), Poseidon (Percy Jackson), Hestia (Percy Jackson), Demeter (Percy Jackson), Artemis (Percy Jackson), Apollo (Percy Jackson), Sally Jackson (Percy Jackson), Hades (Percy Jackson), Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Clark Kent, Justice League (DCU), Members of the Team (Young Justice), Robin (DCU), Aqualad (DCU), The Light Members (Young Justice) Relationships: Athena/Percy Jackson, Percy Jackson & Poseidon, Athena & Zeus (Percy Jackson) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eventual Romance, Mortal AU, Villains to Heroes read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/97fJTQN

[tumblingghosts]

alright expanded version of time travelling ginnee!

ginnee might not have been saved, but the ring twins are grieving heavily, and it's only compounded by the other mentors who got attached to their tributes (e.g. persephone, lysistrata, iphigenia, etc.). so there's more than a bit of an outcry after the games are over and all but lucy gray are dead. i like to think with more mentors being vocal about their distaste, it's less likely to continue. maybe in this scenario, sejanus's punishment for going into the arena is working at the new gymnasium strabo plinth paid for under professor sickle while coriolanus gets sent to d12, so he's stuck peacekeeping without an opportunity for betrayal sending him back to the capitol.

alternatively, ginnee gets another chance after that! she's incredibly traumatized by dying twice-over now, and is near inconsolable. otto does his best to try and calm her down, but it's not working. similar to the first loop, the ring twins don't know how to react with ginnee being so distraught. she's much more panicked about seeing people die, and is able to save brandy by intervening and tearily questioning why arachne is being so mean to them. arachne would snap back, except ring twins get her to lay off ginnee, and she leaves.

ginnee ends up telling otto about the time travel. he doesn't quite believe her, but she's insistent that there will be bombs during the arena tour, and it makes him wary enough to save apollo and diana this time around too. he believes her after that, and comes to the realization that it ends badly for them. neither he or ginnee is going home, and he doesn't like that future.

when the ring twins visit in the aftermath of the bombing with food and thanks for saving them, he's decides he has nothing to lose and lays into them about how they're still willing to let otto and ginnee die in the arena. how could they say they were "thankful" that he saved their lives if they're not willing to save his and ginnee's?

it forces the ring twins to have their reflection arc much earlier. lysistrata is already having her doubts after jessup saved her. it starts as tentative conversation- the ring twins are well liked, and their doubt about the morality of the hunger games is better received than when sejanus has been trying to say them. (sejanus gets on board pretty quickly once he hears that the ring twins are starting to go against the games.) they can't quite end the games just yet, but they do their best to delay them.

"the tributes need more time to recover" "we need extra time to prep for interviews since the bombing set us back" "can't we source an actual doctor rather than a vet?" "we need more time to properly strategize with-"

the extra time means that many more mentors start to get attached to their tributes, and they're not ready to let go. it comes to a head during the classroom interviews when sejanus finds out that marcus has been captured and tortured (inspired by this fic), and kicks up a fuss that gives the tributes a chance to "slip away" from their mentors.

apollo and diana might not have been trying very hard to keep otto and ginnee restrained. lysistrata isn't trying very hard to restrain jessup either. treech picks his and lamina's cuffs and they book it out of there (vipsania and pup "can't" stop them.) arachne is alive but still not exactly nice, and brandy attacks her. tanner uses the distraction to knock out domitia, and they get out too.

they're not the only ones. they've got a lot of missing tributes at the end of it. peacekeepers are in a frenzy trying to catch the escapees with little success. more than a few mentors are willing to turn a blind eye when some of the visitors at the zoo look just like those escaped tributes. somehow, overnight, the rest of the tributes are mysteriously able to disappear too :))

it's pretty embarrassing for gaul & the capitol government in general. the mentors aren't very motivated to see their tributes captured. the ring twins are the leading voices in swaying their classmates towards ending the games. sejanus manages to get marcus out of gaul's custody. clemensia is still incredibly upset over the snakes, and her parents are far from happy about the state of their daughter. gaul is taking hit after hit to her public image, and she's "suggested" to leave her post. highbottom is transferred the role of gamemaker, and he's not exactly enthusiastic over continuing the games.

with no tributes, mentors that don't want to mentor, and a head gamemaker/creator that has no interest in continuing the games, that's pretty much it's death knell. (various mentors may or may not be hiding the tributes in their houses. who's going to snitch? certainly not them.)

(this ended up straying from time travelling ginnee, but i like to think that diana and apollo get a lot more bonding time with ginnee and otto after they inexplicably end up at their house. the ring twins' parents aren't too happy with tributes in their home, but apollo and diana are not about to let the kids that saved their lives get turned in to the peacekeepers, and they acquise to that point.)

How about a time traveling ginnee?

responding to this as part of the au ask game, but if you meant this as a general ask then lmk - i would be happy to ramble even more about time travelling ginnee!

1) ginnee doesn't remember dying. she barely has enough time to register the explosion before she's blinking awake in the train car to the capitol, shaking from the aftershock of pain that she didn't get to live long enough to properly feel. otto thinks she's just had a nightmare.

2) ginnee convinces herself it's just a nightmare like otto said, right up until she sees that blonde capitol boy again and events start playing out as the did before. she can put the pieces together from there and is incredibly confused and scared to be back. she doesn't want to perform or dance anymore knowing how it ends.

3) otto doesn't know what to do about ginnee who bursts into tears when their mentors are trying to get them to do a dance. apollo and diana feel really awkward when ginnee doesn't even acknowledge them & ends up offering the food they brought to try to cheer her up. ginnee pushes it all to otto and keeps crying.

4) otto can't make himself eat all the food (no matter how hungry he is) and saves a portion of it for ginnee. ginnee ends up confiding to him about bombs in the arena, but otto still thinks that it's just a nightmare that she's having. he does help convince their mentors to move when ginnee gets jittery during the tour though.

5) when the bombs go off, ginnee and otto end up saving apollo and diana's lives. it earns them a lot of goodwill because the ring twins are grateful and talk them up (both to elevate them as tributes for sponsors and because they didn't expect it). with lysistrata also talking about how jessup saved her, there's a louder outcry to "pay them back" for saving their lives. they're able to get the tributes a doctor rather than just a vet with their combined efforts.

i don't think that it'd cause the games to stop, but it does leave apollo and diana feeling much, much worse when ginnee and otto die in the arena & they are grieving hard about it. the other mentors aren't used to the ring twins being so mopey & don't know how to handle it.

thanks for the ask spiral! :D

[xcziel]

Thank you for the tag @foxofninetales ! I'm stealing one of yours bc I just can't leave it out (I'd also steal Tang Fan and Chrestomanci but I don't want to just copy your list)

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

Murderbot - The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Vlad Taltos - The Dragaeran Cycle by Steven Brust

Liu Sang - Daomu Biji

Midnighter - The Authority, Vertigo comics

Dutch (Yalena Yardeen) - Killjoys

Aelliana Caylon - The Liaden Chronicles

Sam Vimes - Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Diana Tregarde - Mercedes Lackey

Black - Not Me the series

Rodney McKay - Stargate Atlantis

(btw @fox, have you read the Liaden books? bc i was unpacking my copies just now and it occured to me they might be right up your alley)

tagging @mejomonster @thewindsofsong @hesayshesgotboyfriend @heymeowmao @nope4ever @lockedinabookstore @justawanderingbabbit @moonlovingvampire @humanlighthouse @likeinfinitea