#red apollo

[lesdeuxmuses]

Red Apollo - The Laurels Of Serenity (Moment Of Collapse Records, 2018)

[ashoss]

this idea wont leave my brain please help me !! YIPPEE HADES BATKIDS !!!

without the bg and text under the cut :))

asdhj probably gonna post like,, two at a time because thats ,, a lot,,,, of drawing ,,,,,,, so heres tim and jason! i think i got the hang of it more with jason lol

ALSO ALSO!!!

thank you to those who helped me with the titles for the batkids!! they were all really good :D (all on insta lol)

timothy: the tenured - thomson_at

[rinamata05]

T-Boy Swag (from my sketch dump)

[poppitron360]

Thinking about names having power in the Riordanverse- because it’s exactly the kind of literature motif that I LOVE.

Thinking about “Leo” being short for “Leonidas” who was a Spartan King who sacrificed his life fighting to save his people in the Battle of Thermopylae.

Leo, similarly, gave his own life to stop Gaea and save the world.

That comparison has already been made before, but there’s more-

Leo rejects the name “Leonidas” and chooses to go by “Leo”- in a way, rejecting the fate he’s assigned to. And he doesn’t suffer that fate in the end. He lives.

Yeah, names have power. But what you choose to name yourself has even more power. For example, the fact that Thalia rejected the last name “Grace” because it associated her with her mother, but then taking it back up again when she found out Jason was alive. And Leo chose to not go by “Leonidas” and he also chose to take the physician’s cure and come back.

And here we get onto what Calypso’s doing. By calling him something that he asked to not be called, she is taking away that agency of choice. She is taking away that power.

It’s a small moment, but it REALLY bugs me. Because, like Leo, I go by a shortened version of a longer name, and often one of the ways bullies used to hold power over me was by calling me by my full name repeatedly, even after I asked them to stop. It’s also a way a lot of transphobes hold power over trans people- by deadnaming. By taking away the power of their name, their choice, their identity, who they are, who they’ve built themselves to be, and their right to control all of that.

Now, I’m NOT saying Calypso is going as far as deadnaming Leo, but it’s a similar premise. It’s a manipulation tactic used to knock people down.

Now friendly nicknames -e.g. “Seaweed Brain”- are different, because Percy consents to it. It’s a term of affection between them (and notice how it’s different when Thalia used it. It’s a name that symbolises percabeth’s love, and it’s a name only Annabeth can use). But this is a name, while said in a jokey, banter-y manner, that Leo has SPECIFICALLY ASKED to not be called. And she does it anyway, ignoring the boundary he’s set, ignoring his choice to shape his own identity, ignoring everything that symbolised INCLUDING the fact that it’s literally Leo saying “I choose life” by rejecting the name that fated him to death. It’s just a big red flag for me. And if you put that on top of the fact that she also physically hurt him in this (enough to make him say “ow”) then you just get a whole host of Reasons Why This is NOT Leo’s “Happy Ending”- which the narrative paints it out to be.

[acerunaway]

also the just married klavier bike. if you even care. (also for @aaweddingzine)

[copperbadge]

From the looks of things, AO3 is back up this morning! I’ve seen a few reports that the DDOS attack has been successfully circumvented, though I’m not an insider or anything.

Now, what I’m about to say is pure speculation. But given the relative certainty that this was a Russian hacker collective and the rumors that it might be connected to Putin, and given the reporting that AO3 essentially, and primarily with volunteer staff, pasted them to the fucking wall....I think the funniest possible outcome of this would be if the attack on AO3 led to an authority of some kind tracking down the hackers, who roll on their boss, and Putin’s regime falls because of the robustness of AO3′s DDOS response. 

I’m not saying it should happen, I’m not even saying it could happen, I’m just saying it would be the funniest of all outcomes if it did happen.

[hellenhighwater]

I had a dream where I went to an art show and you had all your mythology series out. The room was dark so your oil lamps could be bright and then my sibling KNOCKED OVER A TABLE and some of your art fell on the floor and broke (although not as much as one would expect, it only broke into 3 or 4 pieces) and you were not distressed in the slightest, but I cried. Congrats on invading my subconscious, I suppose.

The plan at art prize is actually to have Prometheus under a bit of an overhang so that he's in a darker spot so that yes, the light is more visible. And display pedestals are...not always as secure as one would hope. I am really, really hoping that nobody backs into one of them and tips it over, because that would be a bummer.

But honestly, it happens. Your subconscious is correct, I would not freak out about it. Please stop having prophetic dreams, I'm worried.

[bigtimedaddy111]

What a way to make a comeback.

[lesdeuxmuses]

Red Apollo - Altruist (Moment Of Collapse Records, 2015)

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Apollo and Artemis.

Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup

By the Brygos painter, 470 BCE

[apollosothertwin]

Apollo cannot control himself when he sees a cow he just needs to pet it and snuggle with it

[pcktknife]

these guys

[gentlebeard]

gonna throw this prediction out there: the renewal announcement for season 3 will happen on january 1st, 2024. they’ll use a video with scenes from “calypso’s birthday” like roach setting off fireworks, the crew celebrating, ed and stede kissing, followed by a line of text that says “our flag means death returns for season 3” and then lucius’ voice saying “i actually love this” or buttons screaming “YES QUEEN” or stede asking “champers?” or something like that.

[goethial]

Homosexual priests in Hallowfall 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[forcuriousguys]

[balimode]

Loving the art deco vibes of this. Stellar on an otherwise rote fit.