#the seven gods series

[ariaste]

So excited to announce my next book!!! If you've never read any of my books before, no worries--this is a standalone, so you can jump right in without any extra context. (And for fans of my previous books, great news! This book is set in the same world, and it's even in the same region as the two novellas SOME BY VIRTUE FALL and THE LIGHTS OF YSTRAC'S WOOD, so you'll recognize some familiar worldbuilding :D) SUMMARY: Tam Becket has hated Lord Lyford since they were boys. The fact that he’s also been sleeping with the man for the last ten years is irrelevant. When they were both nine years old, Lyford smashed Tam’s entry into the village’s vegetable competition. Nearly twenty years later, Tam still hasn’t forgiven the bastard. No one understands how deeply he was hurt that day, how it set a pattern of small disappointments and misfortunes that would run through the rest of his life. Now Tam has reconciled himself to the fact that love and affection are for other people, that the gods don’t care and won’t answer any of his prayers (not even the one about afflicting Lyford with a case of flesh-eating spiders to chew off his privates), and that life is inherently mundane, joyless, and drab. But then, the very last straw: Tam discovers that Lyford (of all people!) bears the divine favor of Angarat, the goddess Tam feels most betrayed and abandoned by. In his hurt and anger, Tam packs up and prepares to leave the village for good. But the journey doesn’t take him far, and Tam soon finds himself set on a quest for the most difficult of all possible prizes: Self care, forgiveness, a second chance... and somehow the unbelievably precious knowledge that there is at least one person who loves Tam for exactly who he is—and always has.

This book might be for you if:

You like enemies-to-lovers but you think it would be improved by being one-sided and meanwhile the other person is living through a "hopelessly yearning for childhood crush" trope

you like it when two people are so, so, so stupid that they've been fucking for 10 years and Person A hasn't figured out that Person B is in love with him, and Person B hasn't realized that Person A doesn't even know about his feelings

You know how fucking hard it is to Do The Work In Therapy and you want some catharsis about it

you want to read about an imperfect, truly difficult person who still gets loved, because being perfect is not a requirement to deserve affection and care

you know that apologizing for wronging someone doesn't just magically take away the bad feelings and automatically repair the relationship, and you want to read about someone having to do the extra steps that come after the apology

this one's for the wlw: fat harvest goddess milf. my gift to u

you like gods who don't have anything better to do than stick their noses into human business

when you see a gorgeous man holding an infant, it takes you out at the knees

you like queernorm fantasy AND small-town gossip, and you find the intersection of the two delicious and intriguing

a religion based on pre-Christian Brythonic England. That is, they've got henges and standing stones instead of churches and altars. it's cool

plant magic!!!!!

"god of temptation and evil" actually "god of self-care and personal boundaries and taking responsibility for the consequences you consented to".

Stay tuned for the cover reveal next month, when general preorders will go live! If you're already excited and you want to make sure you don't miss that announcement, you can sign up for my newsletter or join my Discord server: https://linktr.ee/alexandrarowland.

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[the-eclipse-is-in-me]

Artemis Loves Apollo

Need I say more

(im crying)

[what-you-like-about-the-moon]

can we have blitzstone and valgrace instead of whatever the fuck this is

tw caleo

[tomwaterbabies]

takin a little stroll

[im-still-watching-anime]

kakashi: i know orochimaru is here but you need to remain calm naruto

naruto: you’re right, i’ll control myself

orochimaru: sasuke—

naruto: YOU ARENT GOOD ENOUGH TO EVEN SAY HIS NAME ASSHOLE

[z0mbiew00d]

Bdubs and Jimmy are such an underrated duo I’m gonna chew on them

[adriiiiiii19]

This is based on a scene from a fanfic called Varian's Tangled Trials by @IFoundYouJustineTime and TheArtistsMuse. You can read it on Ao3.

[the-ghost-sin]

Ban: you look tired

Meliodas, casually: well, the torment is relentless and the horrors never cease

Meliodas: *sips coffee*

[thatstoomanysausages]

I HAVE FINISHED THE ENTIRE OVERALL LIFE SERIES KILL COUNT‼️‼️

I started at 3pm with a break a quick scran and it is now 11pm. My back hurts, I need to sleep for days long, my eyes hurt and my fingers have cramped three times from scrolling through the Limited life death list like 20 different times.

I’ll release the final results once Wild Life has finished so we can have an up to date version. I’ll also probably include another in which it takes in the Real Life kills into account as well.

To be clear on why this took so long I was listing off their kills specifically on who it was they killed. Also some of the counts were off on the wiki so I wanted to do it properly. Which meant doing it manually.

[xixovart]

assigning my favorite pjo characters songs based on vibes :))

ignore the lyrics in these. it’s vibes. all vibes. rythm, melody, motifs, instruments

this somehow (unsurprisingly, because it’s me) ended up becoming a psychoanalysis of certain characters but the motif is essentially the same so enjoy!!

NICO DI ANGELO

my all time fav. love him so much.

there’s somehing so gentle but real about the melody in this. the way it feels like early winter at dusk. the way it feels like gentle solo dancing in the kitchen to a melody stuck in your head. the way it feels like braiding a loved one’s hair and talking.

WILL SOLACE

my beloved underrated child

now this one feels like a summer in the suburbs. like puzzles and cheap juice from the market. like the sun blazing on your skin and you’re laughinh and running. like playing that game on the road with chalk. it feels like nostalgia, like longing for an infantile giddiness that is long gone.

ANNABETH CHASE

the woman you are 💗💗💗💥💥😍😍

there are probably better options, but this one can be interpreted as either calm and nostalgic or melancholy and painful. “everything reminds me of you” but do the memories hurt or heal?

HAZEL LEVESQUE

please show this woman some love. she really deserves it

i have no idea why. maybe it’s the way it’s so upbeat? not saying that hazel is a “sunshine character” as the fandom usually puts it, cause she isn’t, it just reminds me of how much she overcame and how much happier she is now than before. she got her happy ending despite literally every single odd. ugh i love her so much.

JASON GRACE

stupid little amnesiac. gotta love him.

again, i dont know why??? maybe it’s the instruments. it’s probabl6 the instruments. but jason is just such a beautiful and kindhearted soul and i think this song embodies that. this song reminds me of every time jason told leo he was important. every time he somehow made reyna laugh before everything happened. makes me think of how he was the first person to unconditionally support nico and the first to make him feel like he’s not the person he’s made out to be. makes me think of how he and leo were the first to actually see and recognize piper. how he made temples for every minor god(dess) he could think of because he understood what it’s like to be forgotten. im not sorry that this turned into a jason grace appreciation post btw.

KAYLA KNOWLES

pls talk about her more plsplsplsplspls

you know im right. you know im right. i dont think i even have to elaborate. this song was written for her. the beat? the instruments??all her

REYNA RAMIREZ-ARELLANO

she. 😍

the feeling of letting something—maybe a person, an era, maybe your whole life in her case it’s all—pass you by because you took it for granted. a melancholy and quiet regret and longing something that is burned and can never be rebuilt, no matter how much you try. it won’t feel the same.

ALEX FIERRO

el mapache humanizado

i have no idea why i said that in spanish but alex is latino so it stays

it’s so? alex?? pls tell me i make sense. becuase like some parts of the song are like just pure teenage dirtbag shenanigans and the prime of your life, but others feel like screaming underwater and pleading for help. ykwim?

anyways yes i never shut up and i love all these songs and i really should go to sleep now because it’s 12:15 but i’m gonna continue reading the odyssey because time is an illusion. see ya losers. love ya.

[watchyourbuck]

What the fuck is Buck saying are you fucking serious

[the-eclipse-is-in-me]

Justice to Percy Jackson in COTG

Hi peeps, I'm already way past this chapter but I need to ask a very inportant question, what would have happened to Jason Grace.

If Jason had survived long enough to go to college, what would he have had to do to get in, cause Percy almost had to get 25 recommendation letters, and I'm qouting here, so let me know what you guys think, cause this has been rotting my concience all day and now it can rot yours

[orionsd00dles]

I'm reading the And They Were Roommates (Oh My God They Were Roommates) Ever After High Varigo au fic by @DreadPirateUrania13 and it's so good bro. I've been eating it up.

[bakedbananners]

I think any criticism you can apply to Jason being a boring main character could just as easily be applied to anyone else in the Seven because the entire Heroes of Olympus series lacks a strong definitive narrative voice in general

[weirdprophetess]

tlt is so funny because yeah these ten thousand year old people hate each other because they've committed mass genocide, created an empire with so many faults built in and they've fought god knows how many times over the eons they've known each other but also one of these bitches ate peanuts in a meeting once and somebody else has NEVER forgiven him for it

[luriuan]

Au where the magicians take Percy in and they just think “Wow he’s really good at water magic, maybe he’s following the path of Sobek or Tefnut.” And Poseidon is just secretly sending him messages in his dreams like “Okay, don’t tell them but you’re Greek. But my brother shouldn’t bother you if he thinks you’re Egyptian.” And sending him gifts (riptide).

(Aged down Percy, like two years younger then Carter, so he’s twelve when he’s taken in, after Apophis)

But even despite this he keeps somehow getting dragged into Greek adventures, and has to sneak away from the nome to do them.

This causes the older members much stress.

Horus/Isis: You come from Greek origins!

Percy (sweating): yeah? My moms Greek, doesn’t make me any less of a magician.