#re: athena

[bethyyoung]

Starter for @xthenasinclxir

Location: Athena's radio station

In Use.

Beth grinned at the shed's sign. Athena was too clever by half. Pity most folk'd just ignore the sign.

Exactly as Beth was fixin' to do.

In Colin's absence, she'd been looking through miscellaneous found items to see if there wasn't something to bring home and surprise him with. Even though he'd run off without her permission. Could be out there having lord-knew-what happen, and Beth no help at all. Just stuck here, doing-

Her expression soured with concern, something she pointedly smoothed out. No point getting her tail in a knot over possibles. She'd found the something, but it needed work. Something that gave her a chance to spend time with someone else.

One brief knock later, Beth leaned in through the door and sang out, "Athena?"

[epicthemusicalstuff]

The way that in the remastered version of Warrior of the Mind you can tell the “enlighten me what’s your name” is stressed, because so many people heard it as “you lied to me” in the first version-

[what-in-procrastination]

rick riordan referring to nico in a prophecy: king. prince. angel. star. slay

[echo16reads]

Percy....... stop it.... of course she likes you

[mayasaura]

I've finally finished the six games in the main Ace Attorney series! That's right!! It's time for my review!

I think it's fairly common knowledge that Ace Attorney is a political commentary on the Japanese legal system as it existed in 2001. I know I knew that going in.

What I didn't know was just how topical the games were. I didn't figure that out until I started looking into what the fuck was going on in Apollo Justice, and what I discovered makes Apollo Justice my favourite game in the series.

At the time the Phoenix Wright trilogy was first being released, Japan did not have any form of trial by jury, and boasted a conviction rate to make Edgeworth and Von Karma's records look almost credible. Four months after the release of the third game, the Japanese National Diet passed a piece of legislation implementing judicial reform with the explicit intention of “the promotion of the public’s understanding of the judicial system and … their confidence in it.”

The next installment of the series—Apollo Justice, released in April of 2007—builds the themes of legal corruption explored by the first trilogy into a passionate argument for reform by restoring judicial power to the citizens.

Phoenix Wright, seen through the eyes of the new protagonist, appears to be a jaded shell of his former self: retired from the legal profession, beaten down by trying to champion truth and justice from within a broken system. The circumstances leading to his forced retirement come to light in the game's climactic final case, hand in hand with the revelation that Phoenix never really gave up on his ideals. He just gave up on the system. Speaking directly to the player, he casts the player as one of a panel of six civilian judges in a new reformed system of trial he and Edgeworth developed together. At the end of the trial, the player directly casts the final vote to decide the verdict.

In May of 2009, two years after Phoenix Wright handed the player direct power over the outcome of a trial, the real Japanese legal system conducted its first trial utilising civilian lay judges under the newly reformed judicial system.

I don't know nearly enough about how the current Japanese system works to judge the accuracy of Apollo Justice's vision to the final real result of real Japanese lawyers and judges' efforts, but from my casual perspective, it's pretty close. Close enough for it to be clear the game developers were following the progress of the real reform. Perhaps the game was meant as a celebration, or maybe they hoped it could work as an educational tool to introduce the concept to the public. Either way, these games were made by someone or someones who cared deeply about criminal justice, and I love them for it.

I also love them for their fun and immersive mysteries, of course, and their ludicrously charming cast of characters. It's no wonder the series has withstood the test of time, thriving on their own solid merit as games even far removed by both time and distance from the context of their social commentary.

[happyk44]

To me, children of Zeus are natural strategists in the same way children of Athena are. But the difference is that Zeus and his kids have multiple plans and contingencies if a plan fails at a certain point and needs to shift gears. So like they employ Plan A and get all the way to stage four of the plan when suddenly there's a deviation from expectations for whatever reason. So they shift gears from Plan A1 to Plan A2, which accounted for this deviation and continue on.

Athena and her kids, however, come up with one solid, somewhat broader plan and refuse to deviate from it at all unless there is literally no other choice, in which case they will improvise quickly and efficiently to accomodate the change and get back on track to the original plan.

[livinginhyrule]

I adore the new recordings of the Troy and Cyclops saga. There is so much cool stuff. But I will forever miss Athenas 'DooOoon't!' In Remember Them. It was such a guttural Don't that it utterly convinced me of Athena trying desperately to stop Odysseus. It is what it is, but I will forever miss the single Don't.

[thatfrenchacademic]

Characters that are dead but are *everywhere*. They haunt the narrative to the point of possessing it. Characters that move the plot forward like they are physically pushing it. That might as well whisper in the ears of the living. That people hesitate to mention because they their constant presence is so strong is becomes taboo. That are the anchor of every thread that got tangled together. They died and from that moment the plot marches on, and on, and on, and toward its inexorable end.

[aliciavance4228]

Don't know if it's just me, but the depictions of Athena as a shy, socially awkard nerd in a lot of fanfictions and retellings aren’t my cup of tea because a) she isn't like that in the original greek myhts and b) I'm sometimes imagining her having Re-L Meyer's personality (to some extent).

[echo-stimmingrose]

MARK OF ATHENA SPOILERS

If you're having a good day try not to think about Percy breaking down in Annabeth's arms that night in the stables, the first night he has his memories back. All of the loss and guilt hitting him all at once all over again.

[wise-blue-cookies]

Do u think the Eldest 5 children ( not Hestia tho) of Rhea hates or borderline dislikes Athena 

because they are tripping on the fact that she is kissing Zeus' ass even after he swallowed her pregnant mother and therefore her based on a flimsy prophecy.

Demeter lowkey disliking her. Maybe letting a growth of thorny bushes or poison ivy near the places Athena circulates, like 'oopsie daisies can't control what plants will grow teehee'

Hera fuelled with the fact that is not her child even tho Metis was married to Zeus way thn and angry over the fact that Athena isn't even lightly rebelling against Zeus.

Hades holds grudges like anything and majorly confused why SHE isn't holding a grudge, also she has a seat on the council when he can go to Olympus only once a year; and she is Zeus' fav.

Poseidon, who first gave her a chance, guys maybe she will be like us, take her under his wing indirectly by leaving her in Triton's care. But she causes the death of his granddaughter, even tho the fault mostly laid on Zeus, she never apologized and blamed Pallas for not dodging. Fights over a million things, Medusa, Athens etc. etc. Her still sticking close to Zeus and soothing his ego instead of raging at him for swallowing her and her mother ( who faded in Zeus' stomach and was poseidon’s bestie).

Boy do they have a list of not liking her,

"Athena, chose to wear an vambrace with olive branch engravings instead of wheat one, mmmm another strike."

[wyrmswears]

been thinking of weird girls again (as always)

[athenasparrow]

B4 & B10

Ask a reader meme

Who is your current favourite author? What is their best story?

This is SO TRICKY!!!! SO HARD! WHY DID YOU PICK THIS??? I'm going to skip over the big names that EVERYONE is reading because everyone already knows about them (CYOsA and ALG!). Right now I'm subscribed (and dropping everything) to read @wearingaberetinparis Love Is a Lie. It's hard to pick a favourite, because every fic she writes is actual genius and they just (somehow) keep getting better! The fic she's releasing at the moment is phenomenal and I would say Shout Out To My Ex is the one that stands out to me (the entire series!).

I may have had a more difficult time wrestling my favourite up if @itsjamespotter had posted an update recently, but my Thursday came and went with NOTHING and I'm really (lovingly) mad at him rn because WE NEED TO KNOW!

EDIT:

Lol I was so upset about choosing a favourite I forgot this ask had a second part!

What is the best plot twist you’ve ever seen?

Okay, this has nothing to do with fanfic and SPOILER if you haven't seen this movie. "Promising Young Women" is about a woman who seeks revenge on some old classmates who sexually assaulted her best friend. In the end she's killed BUT IT TURNS OUT SHE WAS PREPARED and he gets all these text messages she's prepared and it's so satisfying to watch the cops turn up and release she'd planned the risk of her own murder. HOLY SHIT! It wasn't an ending I was expecting and was extremely horrifying and at the same time satisfying.

[echo16reads]

That's fine, take my heart. I didn't need it anyway.

[echoes-of-kemet]

Not THE wierdest. But magic lettuce shenanigans and popping out of your dad's forehead are for sure up there.

[ourolite2]

do we get more alhaitham pls pls . . . literally me when him.

AAAAHHHH HOH MY GOD THE PANTIEEEESSSSSS. you're so real. now if the people want alhaitham then well.. 🤔😏 who am I to deny any *requests* i may Possibly Receive... *wink wink WINK*