#anyways. apollo my son

[hershelwidget]

Big fan of when Apollo

I love how one instance of this is very adorable and the other is oddly terrifying

Either way he looks like he’s asking for a hug and of COURSE he will get one!!

[bajaja-blast]

finally finished this fucking book

it took me almost a year because it’s so hard to get through oh my GODS

[seagull9111]

i like the idea of nico trying to convince himself he has a crush on annabeth

so much so that he acts like it around her.

he tries to convince himself but in the process starts to convince everyone around him, even annabeth

till it hits him one day, hard like a brick. that he does not like annabeth, he thinks shes cool. he wants to know her as a person

but he doesnt like annabeth, not like that. but he did like percy, like that

[blackknight-100]

More Apollo fic excerpts for you all, because I'm on a roll:

Looking at Father is hard. Apollo has learnt this early on, but Apollo is also either incorrigibly foolish, or insurmountably stubborn. Either way, he tries and tries and tries; the truth is his, and he will look into the King's eyes while he gets it.

Lightning crackles around Zeus's lashes, fine white scars upon his dark skin. He sighs unhappily, and somewhere around Cretan Ida, rain-black clouds are blown away. "Why do you ask that, child?"

"Hekate thinks it is unjust."

"Did she say that to you?"

"No."

Apollo does not mention that she said that to his sister and his mother, because that was not what Father asked. He does not speak of her grief either - the King is a forge of hot power thrumming with ill-supressed rage, a rush of deadly cloudstrike and bitter ozone under his tongue - and Apollo is... apprehensive, if not afraid.

Zeus sighs again. The rain clouds return, and drought is averted. His beard droops, and the riot of spiked hair curls into itself. "It is fate," he says. "There had to be a safe place for you to be born."

"And fate is greater than justice, then?"

"You know the Fates. You know Fate is greater than everything."

Apollo says nothing. In the following silence, father and son stare at each other, picking away at the other's minds.

As always, Father breaks first. "I could not lose you," he says. "You are to be a great god."

Perhaps Apollo should be kinder, perhaps Apollo should be blind. But he is not. Here too the Fates are unfair - he can see Ares' quiet pain, he can see Hera's righteous rage. And his memory is terrible in its divinity - a hundred thousand words of fatherly love will not wipe away all those days of his mother's tears.

Or perhaps it is not fatherly love at all. Apollo is to be a great god, a mighty cog in the automaton that is Fate, and like Hephaestus, Zeus its builder cares little for who the cogs are, or where they come from. They must only exist.

Or perhaps it is just him - Apollo, the Destroyer. Under his hands is the ruin of a hundred women, and then some more, and Hekate is one notch among many others. Perhaps Apollo blames fruitlessly, for it is his father who chased his aunt, and his birth that holds her down. Perhaps his father loves them - him and Artemis and Mother Leto, and has only sought to turn fate in their favour through his ruthlessness. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. So many chances, so many answers.

Apollo looks at Father, and does not believe even one.

"I see," he says. "Thank you for your time, Your Majesty."

Zeus-King frowns. He holds out a hand as if to call out, then drops it and turns away. "You may leave," he says, and Apollo does.

[gingermintpepper]

I was reading the Orphic Argonautica last night and the author has mentioned the various methods of divination Apollo knows and guess what? One of them is prophesying by studying the entrails of organisms. As soon as I read that I was reminded of your headcanon of Apollo being into hepatoscopy for divination and I giggled.

Awww 😳😳It's so nice of you to think of me!

Hehe, so fun fact, the overall practice of divination by studying the entrails of animals (including blood, lungs, intestines and so forth) is extispicy while hepatoscopy is specifically using the liver in prophecy and divination readings.

If, like magic in old text exactly like the sort Medea is described as using, the types of divination spoken about in the texts are reflections of the popular divination cultures of the time, I much rather prefer ascribing those to Apollo than I do some vague, somewhat mysterious power which he uses to see the will of the fates, especially since it's mentioned a few times that he'll teach his sons the language of the birds and how to read their signs and so on and so forth.

In short: HEPATOSCOPY APOLLO IS COOL!! HE'S SO NEAT!! Apollo at the altar who predicts the coming droughts and famines from the entrails of his flock!! It's just such a neat little image (to me)!

Also the Orphic Argonautica bangs, genuinely I hope you enjoy it! Orpheus is an insane man and I do not think him along with the collective subspecies of mythical man known as 'sons of Apollo' get enough credit for how truly unhinged they are at any given point in time.

[your-local-squip-fanatic]

hey wait if lester can feel apollo's emotions then he's gonna feel just how much of a simp he is over commodus

he's gonna get so uncomfortable knowing that apollo is in his body and still feeling things for the guy that really wants them dead

IMAGINE POOR LESTER PUTTING TOGETHER THE FACT THAT APOLLO WAS UNDENIABLY A BOTTOM OH NOOOO

AND HE LITERALLY CANNOT HELP HIS BLUSHING AT ALL THANKS TO APOLLO'S FEELINGS EFFECTING HIM HAHAHAHA

ohhh god tdp is gonna be so fucking funny when I get to it

[thaliasthunder]

i hate it take it back i dont want it TAKE IT FUCKING BACK

[adriles]

agamemnon “wine sack” son of atreus too busy enjoying his glory and spoils of war to care for the souls of our men who succumb to apollos plague

[king-nyx]

Sometimes all you need is two delusional gays...

.....that are mentally ill and in love

[heresronnie21]

Apollo could dropkick a baby and I would still love him actually

[thefandomcassandra]

Finished Apollo Justice

I'm fine

[encrucijada]

you know maybe i should rewatch the queen's gambit and continue my dreamers au for that. and also because i just love the show and wanna watch it again

[hoteats-cooltreats]

having some Thoughts and Feelings on the sun and the star

[flippedorbit]

mm i think i will go draw now

[gingermintpepper]

They got interrupted on their date 😔✊🏾

Had to draw the very talented @namidew 's designs for Apollo and Hyacinthus after their most recent post of them!!! I'm SO in love with these designs y'all!! Absolutely want to kiss both of their cheeks!!

[malkaviian]

I can't stop imagining this character in situations so I'll share him now