#apollo when i catch you

[kexytimes]

Little work in progress of Cassandra's rejection of Apollo.

(also, one of Apollo's animals are wolves, and something something, "Bite little wolf", something something. )

[akhillaous]

Hyacinthus and Achilles genuinely make me so upset because imagine being immortalized for something that you didn’t even do and then imagine being immortalized for the worst thing you ever did.

[theallianceofcelestials]

New chapter time! Was a little delayed by the TSAMS episode (Rest in peace Nexus and Sun's mental health), but oh well!

We're nearing the end of SEA's first book actually, but worry not! Moongleam has four other stories you can read on our Ao3 account and many more on the way! :D

[notmoreflippingelves]

Actually going insane over the implications of Jason asking Dick to be the Robin to his Batman in Battle for the Cowl.

Like I initially took it at the purely surface-level of Jason wanting a partner in the general sense. Which made sense, it's a huge responsibility and a lonely one so an assistant/sidekick/partner seems a no-brainer if you can get one.

But then I really thought about it, because Jason is not asking Dick to be his partner in the general sense; he's not even asking Dick to be his Nightwing. He's asking Dick to be his Robin.

And they both know exactly what Jason means: "Be the light to my darkness. Be the smile to my scowl. Be the hope to my fear. "

He's saying "Be 'Robin'; be the embodiment of Love and Justice and Goodness. Be the exceptional person that you have always been. Be the slightly-less exceptional person that I was when I wore your colors. Be the person that I was in the process of becoming and might have been (or might still be), if only Joker hadn't clipped my wings."

He's saying "I am prepared to become vengeance, become the Night. And I will go further than Bruce ever dared to, because it is what is needed. I will be the necessary evil. But you don't have to be. If Batman is Gotham's curse, Robin has always been its blessing. I will be the brutal punishment to our world, and I am asking you to be its incandescent gift."

He's saying, "Be for me, what we were for Him. Be my anchor, my comfort, my hope. Remind me what it's all for, why it's all worth it. And remind yourself as well."

He's saying "Be 'Robin' again--for both of our sakes."

[katiefromcabin7]

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE IN THE CLEAR TO FINISH THIS BOOK (i’m crying at work)

PLEASE RECOMMEND ME THE FLUFFIEST VALGRACE YOU GOT 😭😭😭

[the-tortured-fangirl-department]

I always get a bit sad when I see people talk about ToA and how it’s “about Apollo learning to be human and to care for others” without ever acknowledging that ToA is also about trauma and breaking the circle and dealing with abuse. It’s such an integral part of the books* I actually give a bit of a trigger warning when it come to Meg and Nero(and later on the snippets we get of Zeus).

* Percy Jackson series as a whole to

[somewhereincairparavel]

oh.

[vanisa-ray]

oh the tragedy it is to be the grace family.

[telemarketing101]

I wish people talked about the contrast between Clytemnestra and Penelope more. Their stories are so different, and it all comes down to the way their husbands left for war. Odysseus wasn’t willing to kill his son. He went to war because he had no real choice. Meanwhile, Agamemnon literally had his daughter killed just so he could go.

Sure, people say it was because of the oath, but come on, imagine your daughter being sacrificed so your husband could go fight in a war that started because of his old crush. ALL For ANOTHERRR woman. I'm sorry, but I’ll always feel for Clytemnestra. Yeah, she made awful choices. But she was also a grieving mother, someone who lost her child and was expected to sit quietly, smile, and wait for the man who let it happen.

And I get so sad when Orestes is called a hero for killing his mother. I don’t think he was a bad person either. He was just a kid, doing what a god told him to do. He was trying to make sense of something way too big for him to carry. Honestly, they were all victims. Even Agamemnon. Everyone in this story was just trying to do what they thought they had to do and it makes me SO sad

[abbysaltar]

NEW SOLANGELO BOOK NEW SOLANGELO BOOK NEW SOLANGELO BOOK

[kexytimes]

rough sketch of Cassandra passing the Trojan horse before the fall of the city. Kinda liked the idea of her doing her own little sun themed war paint since she knows what's coming.

[incorrect-riordanverse]

the problem with all these white authors like rick riordan who are revealing their stances on the israel-palestine apartheid is that they barely do anything but virtue signal when they claim “i’m on the side against war” “i’m anti-violence” “i abhor terrorism.” zero people are going to disagree with you. zero people believe what hamas did is justified. zero people think israel shouldn’t have a right to defend itself against terrorism. but that isn’t what israel is doing when they collectively punish all of palestine, who doesn’t even have an official army. when rick riordan says some wishy-washy bullshit about the violence suffered on both sides of the conflict, and words his whole dumbass blog post like it’s violence that is in any way equal, that literally helps no one. in fact, it’s so damn negligent of the 75 years of violence that palestine has suffered and been oppressed for. yes, there are innocent civilians in israel who are suffering, no one is disagreeing with you. that doesn’t erase the fact that israel is a disgusting state that has used state-sanctioned violence on a systemic scale since its conception, and the oppressed people have responded to that in violent retaliation (because OBVIOUSLY they would). israel is built on the subjugation of palestine, there is no equal suffering between the two.

[gingermintpepper]

I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict 👀 for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)

SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??

OMG OMG THIS ASK IS A GIFT. IT IS A GIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS

I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).

Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers 😂Part of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? 💀

Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.

(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)

(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)

Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder!!!

A tear welled up in his eye. “Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriweather found me. Met you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother.”

<33

[femmefangirl]

i (don't) hate you - localcryptidlivinlife - The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan [Archive of Our Own]

daphne and apollo's complicated relationship through her lens. it's a story about forgiveness above all.

[sonofapunk]

To me, the shock Jason felt at the stabbing was because a good Roman is not supposed to stab someone in the back— or perhaps he believed that even someone as evil as Caligula would still fight honorably, even if it’s only for the sake of tradition (and really, someone as old as Rome itself should see the value in tradition, or so an actually good Roman would think)— so he was always planning on facing Caligula when he died. He was shocked when he realized he’d be staring at the faces of his friends, instead.