#hermes exists

[noirsofy]

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[navyinks]

Olympians postcards w/ brush markers

Artemis > Apollo > Aphrodite > Hephaestus > Hermes > Dionysus > Ares > Athena

[yikesy]

I'm aware of how random this sounds

But because rrverse Apollo and rrverse Hermes have a tense and distant relationship, I was thinking about how differently they interact with their kids, and my thoughts spiralled until I thought of Luke.

I feel like an Apollo and Luke interaction would be so interesting. Luke probably wouldn't like him due how May got all messed up from trying to be his Oracle, but I feel like Apollo would be a kind uncle BECAUSE he knows what Luke's fate is (and probably disapproves about how Hermes treated the whole thing).

Like remember when Apollo once said that he would of adopted Frank if he could? I would like to think he would of wanted to adopt Luke too.

Your thoughts?

oh luke DOES NOT have a good impression of apollo. apart from the may thing let's not forget the event that kinda radicalized him was HALCYON GREEN. it's very interesting actually because he sees hermes as uncaring and neglectful but he sees apollo as actively malicious

so he thinks hermes is The Worst bc of his inaction but then comes apollo who he perceives as too involved, in the bad way (he's not, luke who by pure coincidence witnessed two apollo related atrocities before sixteen is an outlier and shouldn't be counted) Lots of wires crossed

but sadly I think bc of that his reaction to apollo would be very,, measured?? like, he thinks he's evil!! apollo would come down to see what's the deal with this kid everyone's making such a fuss about and luke would be very polite and amiable and and apollo would get hermes vibes™™ that he's just acting like that to hide he's scared and uncomfortable and then apollo would leave bc he doesn't want to keep subjecting him to that by forcing his presence. but he wouldn't know just How Much he was lying then and the depth of his Issues

but if they somehow got into a situation where luke gives up any attempt at preservation and GOES OFF at apollo (which he would) apollo would, well he would respond very calmly and pointedly take responsibility for everything which would confuse THE FUCK out of luke

and then he would go directly to hermes and tell him he needs to get down here now this shit is serious and hermes would be like "you know I can't why are you making it more painful than it already is" and apollo would be like "you're being an extremist and oddly stubborn about this" and they would go at it for a looong time.

apollo's opinion on luke's fate is that hermes may not be able to control or change it but what hermes can control is his own relationship with luke and the way he's hurting him right now, that if tragedy is going to happen anyway and you love the one it's heading to, then it's your duty to balance the scales and steal moments from between the lines of prophecy, so that happiness WAS there, even if it didn't change anything. that hermes is not only withdrawing his love but causing more misery to an already doomed person... he cannot stand for it

in the end apollo would end up routinely dragging hermes to see luke bc hermes does want to but he won't admit anything to apollo and he'd be sooo awkward and pathetic with luke and luke would stare at him with disdain and judgement. in the end apollo ends up acting like a kind of particularly forceful family therapist

so lmao from luke's perspective it would be like "this guy I don't like and I don't understand, for an unfathomable reason, took my dad being absent as a personal offense and now keeps dragging him here like some kind of cat who keeps bringing dead mouse and keeps dropping by to give me weekly updates and lessons on godly psychology and politics"

[filialdisciple]

your last hermes post is making me think of yandere/possessive!hermes by any chance do you have more ...

here's a very messy sketch i made a few weeks ago HAHAHA i was thinking of an au where hermes' grief at the end of tlo breaks time and he ends up in the past 👍

[azulhood]

Tryna write a fic about Chris Rodriguez and I've been wondering, what was Hermes reason for not claiming him?

Like you could argue that he forgot he even had Chris but the guy knew he had two daughters in Louisiana or smt, so why wouldn't he know about the kid who literally lives on his doorstep for years.

So that got me thinking, Hermes knew of Luke's fate right? What if Chris was Lukes replacement.

What if Hermes was like " if I mistreat this kid enough he might be angry enough that he joins Kronos before Luke" taking lukes place as Kronos's meat suit and hero of prophecy.

He does probably care about Chris, but he's still gonna choose Luke, the favourite, over him.

And when the labyrinth happens, and with Chris no longer being with the TA, Hermes sees that his plan has failed and so claims him.

But imagine Chris growing up and Hermes not being able to look him in the eye because he is literally raising his son to die in place of another.

The guilt eating him up inside but knowing that he's still going to have Chris take Luke's place and knowing that if their roles where switched it would not be the same. Trying to stay distant but getting attached anyway because that's his kid!

The angst potential!

[mosdrash]

Hey! I decided to participate on the #dylee8k DTIYS (if you want more information go to @dyleeart blog, it’s very well explained! I chose Hermes and Tiresias to draw in this AU, Hermes being not exactly an airbender per se, but a spirit (and i think the airbender style fits him!) and Tiresias being a waterbender (he doesn’t fight, he is more focused on healing and has some link with the spiritual world). I tried to give them details from both ATLA and my actual Epic designs for them.

Little backstory for them in this AU: Tiresias somehow ended up in the spirit world and Hermes met him there and helped him get back to where he lives. Tiresias got his hair color and the hability to see the future after this and Hermes just likes his company (and loves to annoy him).

[apolloccentric]

old stuff just to feel something

[womanwhoembracesfolly]

Let’s ask the real questions- In the PJO TV universe, does Hamilton and any LMM project exist? Or does LMM exist and Hermes was like “yes, I’m gonna look like the guy from Hamilton”

[arosebyan0thername]

If there are a million Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, I am one of them. If there are only two Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, I am one of them (Eva Noblezada is the other). If there are no Reeve Carney as Orpheus fans in the world, Eva Noblezada and I are dead 😔

[akirakirxaa]

Wild that for every other society and country in the game their atrocities and "bad sides" are ignored or the society at large is given a pass because "they're not all that way", but one man on screen refused to ask for help in the ancient world and now the whole society is deserving of genocide per some people in the fandom.

Would you guys have been chill with all of Gridania or Ul'dah being destroyed the way Amaurot was?

[they-hermes]

[tf hyperlink] jester sinnertwin

[thisiswherethepaingoes]

I’m so COOKED WHY DO I KEEP GETTING OBSESSED WITH SHIPS THAT HAVE ZERO EVIDENCE FOR IT IN ACTUAL GREEK MYTHS/SOURCE IN THE FANDOM

I genuinely have zero reason to ship these ships except for pure vibes and delusion

It’s so embarrassing when I wanna discuss it with ppl cuz like it’s uncle/niece incest if you REALLY think about it

But Hades/Persephone is pretty darn popular so like I get a pass right

I can’t believe I’m saying this heck I can’t even believe I’m admitting this I ship Poseidon/Athena

This is like those 2 am confessions and it just turns out to be something lame

BUT ANYWAYS the main point here today is I started liking Hermes/Circe… (epic)

I wanna explode when i think about it

WHERE DID IT EVEN COME FROM MY BRAIN JUST STARTED LIKING IT

I don’t know what’s worst Poseidon/Athena having ZERO fanart but at least 20 fics on ao3 I guess, or Hermes/Circe having fan art (yay!!!!) but SEVEN works on ao3.

SEVEN.

Do I really have to start making content for myself I’m so busy with life rn

Maybe posting this will cure my brain rot cuz the last time I posted about a rare pair I was obsessed with I immediately stopped thinking about it the next day

Anyways if you like the ships mentioned above please talk to me!!!!! I’m going insane

If u have Greek myth rarepairs or even crackships you really like still feel free to share! Don’t be shyyyy (Penelope whyyyy)

[deathlessathanasia]

Regarding the exceptional strength of Herakles

I constantly see it claimed that Herakles owes his extraordinary strength to the fact that Hera breastfed him, but so far I have been unable to find a single source stating this. Here are a few that mention Hera unknowingly nursing Herakles (or other sons of Zeus), in no specific order:

Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Epitome 44: "It was not possible for sons of Zeus to have any share in the honours of the sky unless they had been suckled at Hera's breast; and that is why Hermes, so they say, brought Heracles along after his birth and placed him at Hera's breast, for him to be suckled at it; but when Hera became aware of it, she thrust him away, and the rest of her milk spilled out accordingly to make up the milky circle."

Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomy 2.43: "There is also a circle in the heavens which is white in color, and which men have called the milky circle. Eratosthenes recounts in his Hermes that Hera unknowingly gave milk to the infant Hermes, but when she came to realize that he was Maia's son, she pushed him away; and that is why a bright trail of spilled milk can be seen among the stars. Others have said that Heracles was placed at Hera's breast while she was asleep, and she acted as has just been described when she woke up. Or according to other authors, Heracles was so greedy that he sucked in so much milk that he could not keep it in his mouth, and what spilled out from his mouth is shown in this circle."

Diodoros of Sicily, Library of History 4.9.6-7: "After Alcmenê had brought forth the babe, fearful of Hera’s jealousy she exposed it at a place which to this time is called after him the Field of Heracles. Now at this very time Athena, approaching the spot in the company of Hera and being amazed at the natural vigour of the child, persuaded Hera to offer it the breast. But when the boy tugged upon her breast with greater violence than would be expected at his age, Hera was unable to endure the pain and cast the babe from her, whereupon Athena took it to its mother and urged her to rear it And anyone may well be surprised at the unexpected turn of the affair; for the mother whose duty it was to love her own offspring was trying to destroy it, while she who cherished towards it a stepmother’s hatred, in ignorance saved the life of one who was her natural enemy."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.25.2: "There is shown a place where according to the Thebans Hera was deceived by Zeus into giving the breast to Heracles when he was a baby."

(Geoponika 11.19 -Concerning the Lily: "When Jupiter had Hercules by Alcmena, who was mortal, he wished to make him partaker of immortality; and he laid him to Juno's breast, when she was asleep, while he was in the state of infancy; and the infant being satisfied with milk, turned away from the breast, but the milk spewed copiously when the infant was removed-; and what was difused in the sky made what is called the milky-way; and what flowed on the earth and tinged its surface, produced the lily, which is like milk in respect of colour."

None of these suggest, let alone state outright, that Herakles got his strength from Hera. In the Dionysiaca Hera is forced to breastfed Dionysos, and the benefit he is said to get from this is not strength, but access to Olympos (and a cure ffrom madness?): "Do not fail your provoked husband; but go uncaught to the fertile slope of the woodland pastures of India, and offer your breast to Bacchos as once did my mother Rheia; let him draw with his lips older grown your holy drops, and by that draught lead him on the way to Olympos and make heaven lawful ground for the feet of earthborn Dionysos! Anoint with your milk the body of Lyaios, and cleanse the ugly stains of mind-robbing disease. And I offer you a worthy reward; for I will place in Olympos a circle, image of that flow named after Hera's milk, to honour the allfamous sap of your saviour breast."

The only explanation I've found for Herakles' strength is this, From Diodoros of Sicily's Library of History 4.9.2: "Consequently the sources of this descent, in their entirety, lead back, as is claimed, through both his parents to the greatest of the gods, in the manner we have shown. The prowess which was found in him was not only to be seen in his deeds, but was also recognized even before his birth. For when Zeus lay with Alcmenê he made the night three times its normal length and by the magnitude of the time expended on the procreation he presaged the exceptional might of the child which would be begotten."

So does anyone know of a source for this idea? Plz help, I'm feeling gaslit by the world!

[my-name-is-apollo]

Btw, you guys should totally check out Sophocles' Ichneutae, even though it remains in fragments. Besides being a comedy, it also has Apollo being really sad over his lost cows and wandering all over Greece in search of them

(Trans. Richard Johnson Walker)

Just...Apollo and his cows 🥹

[mannythemunchkin]

I have fallen deep into the Epic The Musical rabbit hole, and Ximena Natzel's Hermes design (and all the others, let's be honest) has me in the biggest chokehold.

I'm nothing if not self-indulgent as hell, so have a snippet of a Hermes fic I'm writing.

[oleander-neruim]

Don't you want to eat a totally normal flower from the unhinged man you ran into in the woods?

Snippet Saga 4:

Circe Saga: Wouldn't You Like

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