#herm rambles

[nico-di-angelato]

live reaction of hermes dropping off the package

[laritamiauu]

Tele realizing that Hermes gaydar was right

saw this and i had to draw him it's literally him

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[workingonasongbird]

Hermes being the only one not to sing "wait for me, I'm coming" along with everyone else during Wait For Me Reprise but joining in with "show the way" and their solo lines always hurts because the lines Hermes does sing are instructional — they can tell Orpheus how to get out of Hadestown and let him know exactly how to succeed — but the lines they don't sing are the ones full of hope.

"Wait for me, I'm coming" is Eurydice, the workers, and Persephone reaching for a happy ending, and Hermes can't join in with that because they know it doesn't come.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

one of the reasons why i love ToA so much is the little bits and pieces of the gods we get to see.

so i guess this is really more of a 'this is why i love the gods so much' rather than my usual 'this is why i love ToA' post lmao

but fr, the gods are just sooooo much more fleshed out in ToA. they're more complex, and have these layers to them that pjo and hoo just Did Not convey (and really, only conveyed those things post publication of ToA, which came with the tools on how to decode the gods and read between the lines).

and i'm not even talking about Apollo here. he is by far the most fleshed out god we have because he's the pov character, but i also mean all 12 of the other olympians - they're just so juicy!!

like okay, sure, in pjo and hoo we get glimpses that Dionysus may care more than he lets on, but ToA CONFIRMS this, but not in an 'in your face' way - but in the 'Dionysus picks at Apollo like a little brother would' way, and in that FIRST interaction between Apollo and Dionysus, we can SEE what their relationship was like!!

Hermes is another VERY layered god, ESPECIALLY with pjo's context. but that context ONLY gains its own importance BECAUSE of the story ToA gives us - we would NOT have 'resigned to fate' Hermes without it. or embittered at his favorite brother Hermes. we love this Hermes eheheheheheheh

Artemis also gains more character, and is no longer just the stoic cool badass #Girlboss she's largely presented as - she's scared, she fears for Apollo, so much so she SPLITS. she comes RUNNING to help him in TTT as soon as she could, giving her a softer side, while simultaneously expands on her previous appearances and allowing us to see how she is unconsciously enabling the abuse Apollo's experienced. LAYERS !! !! !!

DEMETER. OOOHHH DEMETER ILY, IN MYTHOLOGY AND THE RRVERSE. BUT FOR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASONS LMAO

we can infer Demeter has basically shot herself in the foot by obsessing so much over Persephone, where she NEGLETS her other kids (ex: Lityerses, Meg). myth Demeter would NEVER but rrverse Demeter is still a fav BECAUSE of how flawed she is.

ARESSSSS do i even need to say anything. we KNOW Ares and Apollo are bros because of how often Apollo takes pot-shots at him in his dialogue LMAO true brother behavior

Hades is a chill uncle with Apollo in particular. i mean. *gestures* he used to purposefully mess up Apollo's aim when shooting for no reason. need i say more?

looking back i'm also a little intrigued by how little Poseidon was mentioned - perhaps lending credence to the idea that he and Apollo grew apart over the centuries?

also Hestia's position as the goddess of the hearth and home calls into question how passive she is on olympus BECAUSE of the shitshow it's become!! she defends it!! what has caused the hearth and home, the FIRSTBORN OF KRONOS, of the ENTIRE PANTHEON to be so stagnant in the face of this toxic cycle? the people want to know and so do i.

Hephaestus is trickier to pin down for me because he has little mention, but there's one SPECIFIC one that has stuck in my brain and its the "apollo missed an entire decade watching Hephaestus's newton's cradle INSIDE HIS OFFICE"

what was apollo doing in his office. and why did hephaestus - notorious introvert - let him stay in there. these are the questions we are all dying to know.

ATHENAAAAAAA !! !! !! !! !! that nod she gives apollo at the end. her bet on his SUCCESS. need i say more? she's bros with him trust <3 add in the mythology and it gets SPICY

Aphrodite is arguably a tricky one to pin down too, and honestly we as a fandom have probably taken more from the mythos to pin down her character than with the others, but she's sooooo interesting too!! the eldest olympian. powerful goddess. extremely cunning and ruthless. and yet she's seen as airheaded and vain by practically everyone.

makes you wonder who else is like that. *quick glance at our favorite god* i dunno who that could be. *whistles innocently*

and do i need to say anything about Zeus? about the tragedy of him falling into the cycle he was meant to break? ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF HOW HE DEF WANTED TO BE A FATHER BUT HIS PARANOIA GOT THE BETTER OF HIM UNTIL HE NO LONGER WAS ONE??

*seizes you by the shoulders* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS. HOW.

and ofc. one of my FAVORITE gods...Hera. oh, ho ho Hera. you do NOT deserve the hate you get <3 okay maybe a bit of irritation is warranted because you do pull off risky things in hoo but we stan a goddess who takes charge in this house.

YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME SHE'S GONNA BE - well, nicer? is that the right word? - BETTER WITH APOLLO POST-TOA. AFTER SEEING EVERYTHING HE SUFFERED? AFTER SEEING HIM SHED THE MASK? AFTER JASON GRACE?

*pounds mercilessly on the table* I WILL NEVER NOT BE ANNOYING ABOUT THEM I LOVE THEM ALL INCLUDING THE BITS OF CHARACTER FROM THE MINOR GODS WE GET TOO!!

[cozy-crow]

Then they had a 5 hours gossip session

Btw bonus doodle of hermes, the cookie monster!

[dootznbootz]

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

i think the fastest and most effective prayer to any God in an emergency is just "[insert name], please help me". specifics are good in like, formal situations, but let me tell you: i parked my car in mud which froze overnight (temps in my area dropped from 50 degrees fahrenheit down to about 10 degrees with windchill), and after trying for almost a full hour to get my car unstuck from the mud, i just stared vacantly to the sky and said "Hermes, please help." and wouldn't you know it, about three minutes later my car's wheels somehow managed to gain traction and the frozen mud around them loosened enough to actually allow me to back out.

i have more thoughts on this whole (very good) incident namely involving a tiktok by olympianbutch on invocations (not tagging him because i'm not writing that essay yet), the power of the names of the Gods, and how the Gods are very, very, very good. but it's almost 3am and my brain is potatoes, so we'll post that all some other time :)

for now, i'll give a simple thank You Hermes for getting me unstuck from the mud <3

[wingedfoolnearthesun]

i’m gonna have to be selfish and ask my deities to please help me keep a steady mind while i work through this research project i have. i had an absolute meltdown and sobbed my heart out for the first time in so many weeks because i got overwhelmed and felt like i’ve no clue what’s going on. please guide me through this assignment successfully so i can have some peace of mind

[blueskiesandstarrynights]

Hermes: Yeah that's the thing about being a god, we can't just have good relationships with our kids or any of the mortals we have relationships with 😔

Poseidon, tripping over himself to get to Sally the second she prayed for him: You rang? 😍

[solchariot]

hey guys this shit keeps appearing everywhere so I'll say it once:

I WILL ALWAYS DRAW HELIOS AS THE ONE WHOSE COWS GOT SLAUGHTERED !!!!!!!! I CONSIDER BOTH APOLLO AND HELIOS SUN GODS, BUT HELIOS' COWS WERE THE ONES KILLED !!!!

[the-fire-within0]

I'm a Hermes devotee, of course I stutter and struggle to communicate my thoughts and feelings from time to time.

[laritamiauu]

HII OMG

WYL REACHED 500K VIEWS AND GITW REACHED 300K HOLY SHIT THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH

I've never had this much support on my stuff before I feel so honored that you guys like it so much!!😭😭😭

Thank you to all the people who have reacted and made edits and fanarts to my stuff it helps me reach the stage that im at and im so happy how popular silly ol hermes is getting!

i hope you still enjoy the next things that are coming like the 600 strike animatic, i promise that is going to be literally EPIC

also if you haven't seen my animatics, please consider to check them out!

anyways, thank you so much!! see ya!

[th3blind-prophet11]

Smash or pass but it’s just a twink messenger god

SMASH SMASH SMASH NEED I SAY MORE??

I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE HIM BUT BY GODS IS HIS VOICE HOT

[grape-jucie-dog]

-sips hot cocoa-

So how many times do you think a drunken Athena has gone to visit the family, only to realize they're all dead?

Do you think she sits in the ruins of the Ithacan palace while drunkenly crying for her friends?

I wonder who has to bring her back to Olympus when this happens. Maybe Hermes, considering Odysseus was his family. They both just sit in the ruins while Athena tells him stories in her intoxicated state.

And Hermes listens to them all, trying to coax his sister to start going home to get some proper sleep, because he knows she hasn't had that in so long.

Just a thought.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

“Apollo is Zeus’s least favorite son-“

Me: *grasps you by the shoulders* NO. HE IS THE FAVORITE SON. LITERALLY WHO ELSE WOULD BE THE FAVORITE? ARES? THE GUY ZEUS LEFT IN A JAR AND SAID TO HIS FACE HE DESPISED HIM? HERMES? THE GUY WHO IS JUST THERE? HEPHAESTUS? THE GUY WHO AVOIDS OLYMPUS LIKE THE PLAGUE? DIONYSUS? THE GUY WHO IS CHAOTIC?

listen to me. LISTEN TO ME. *frantically shakes shoulders* THIS WILL SOUND BACKWARDS BUT IT MAKES SENSE.

ZEUS. PUNISHES. HIS FAVORITES. WITH. THE WORST. PUNISHMENTS.

therefore, we can conclude Apollo is the favorite and Dionysus as second favorite son.

also Apollo is mythologically the favorite son. so.

BIG OL’ PILE OF ANGST POTENTIAL!

[pixxl-sunsets]

people talk about apollo's dodgeball of prophecy but they don't talk about hermes's dodgeball of Sudden Loud Message

(this meme is my attempt to combat said seriousness)