#an oracle's odyssey

[hat-shu]

@z-nightshade

Pardon the quality and colors (I swear the eyes are blue-green! but when I downloaded it everything shifted in color), I don’t know how to fix that :-:

Love your story! This idea had me in a chokehold until I finished it and thought why not share it— yes, I made an account solely to post fanart, hope you like it.

I took some creative liberties with the narrator voice, I wanted to set the mood and mention fate in some way, we do know fate has some kind of hold on Cass and it did guide them at times so I imagine them to at least be on Cass’s side, hence the amused image. Maybe fate sees them as their child of sorts (them being an oracle and all) Just my theories and takes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My thoughts/creative process bts for anyone who is interested:

—The odyssey book: I though Cass would have wanted to include everyone in the process since it’s their adventures as a crew, so I added everyone’s fingerprints [Cass and Luffy are next to each, and Luffy of course, the lil straw hat is to make sure everyone knows whose thumb the captain’s is] the panel as a whole is of the far future but not the end. The book is hand bound since I think Cass is fancy like that.

—Franky’s is a screw because he wanted something that had FRRANKYYY ENERGY! Don’t ask me, I am just the messenger.

—Cass just got out of the sea, so their hair is dripping and slicked back, water running down their face (hope it was obvious, since I wanted the hair to be fluffy I had to indicate with draw water drops).

— reading order is like a classic manga (probably should have started with that).

—the desk has a built in shelf for easy access to reverence books while writing, maybe even for their completed works.

—I ALMOST FORGOT THE NOSE PIERCING! I didn’t in the end but it was close. And I looked at already existing art of Cass and thought I saw an industrial piercing…so I added that, if it is not…ignore it.

—The Ring should have probably been lighter but I didn’t notice that it got colored in with the shirt. The jacket is just laziness, it looked weird without it.

—I am info dumping because I am hoping to appease the creative gremlin in my brain, I would like to have my thoughts back.

excuse any writing errors, I have no energy to check.

[ophierian-vp]

[m0th-person]

Poseidon and a young Homer

(King Telemachus au)

(extra below): ⬇️

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Besides the Illiad and the Odyssey, what other (literature? media? idk) could I read/consume to learn more about Greek mythology/Ancient Greek culture. I use theoi.com to look up specific things, but I want to get into reading the actual sources. Like I see so many excerpts or cool facts people post, and how you incorporate a lot of lesser known Greek mythology things (like your recent fic with Koios), I feel so ignorant in comparison! So please enlighten me!!

(Also I wouldn’t mind if a lot of your recs had Apollo featured in it, he’s my fav!)

heya!!!!

besides the Iliad and odyssey, I highly recommend the Homeric hymns! A lot of the gods are featured in them, especially Apollo! :D also the Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod! Those four are the foundational texts of Greek mythology and intrinsic to learning about it <3 (I own all four :3 I am still on the Iliad though because I have been busy 😭 rip Alder)

Pseudo Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca is another good read! It compiles the majority of the known mythological world into one book! (I also have this one ;) used it for my Marsyas research :D)

after that, I also suggest Euripedes’s plays, as well as *checks spelling* Aeschylus’s!

Aeschylus’s plays are all compiled into The Oresteia, and Apollo is a prominent figure in it!

But I would also suggest reading Euripedes’s The Trojan Women with it, because Cassandra features in both and I, personally, am a sucker for her and Apollo’s tragedy ✊😔 (I also have the Oresteia hehe!)

Euripides has other good stuff too! Medea is a BANGER of a play from what I hear, and Hecuba, Alcestis, Electra, and all his other works can really help understand Greek culture by reading between the lines :3 (I do not have any of these rip)

there are so many other texts and fragments too, though! But I think these are a good springboard for diving into Greek mythology :3

I also recommend looking into Greek philosophy for understanding Ancient Greek culture. The Delphic Maxims are a good place to start, and I actually reblogged a post here with all of them listed…should be able to search ‘Delphic maxims’ to find it (hopefully, if tumblr isn’t weird).

anywho, this has been your Getting Started With Greek Mythology packet by Alder! :D

[mercury-is-indefinite]

Fanart for @z-nightshade Roger Pirate AU for Sunny D. Cassandra.

So this is finally done!

Uh if you look past my god awful lighting, you can see that Roger is glowing. Sorry to Luffy but Roger was the OG sunshine smile guy (fly high king)

[ragnar0c]

Alope still tugs him 19 years later…

[onceuponasetember25]

Why I added the new character of the Oracle in my Sisyphus musical

So when I started writing the show, one of the first things I realized for the show, Sisyphus would need to have more people to communicate with.

I considered having his brother and father in Mytholgy, Salmoneous, and Aleous, but I removed them both because what do they add to this specific story/myth? It was more so filler to pad out the musical. 

Which leads me to the Oracle 

Sisyphus is a villain, so he needs a sidekick. Since Sisyphus is a man who wants to be ahead of everyone, it only makes sense for his personal confidant to be an Oracle.

In the show, Aleous makes her Sisyphus’s caretaker from birth. The Oracle wants to guide him into becoming a noble king, but as he grows older, Sisyphus starts to disregard her predictions due to his thirst for power. 

I view the dynamic between Sisyphus and the Oracle as similar to Captain Hook, Smee or Lord Shen and the Soothsayer. 

They both assist their master, but also want them to find a better path in life. 

Adding the Oracle gives Sisyphus someone to bounce off of while also enhancing the themes of the story. 

[havoxel]

finally getting back into AO, which means respeccing my characters to be their canon classes. problem is. my paladin was an ice mage. he is merciful. merciful characters get gold spirit energy. do you see the problem.

[hoyotunes]

Oracle from Oracle Wink XY, TetraCalyx, Vinchi, HOYO-MiX

[chilaquilesheel]

Oracle of Delphi ahh post

[z-nightshade]

Night’s Fic Corner

I’m Night | They/Them | Adult

My fics: Sunrise & Moonfall

Heart Before Hand

An Oracle’s Odyssey

Dawn Revised

Feel free to come talk to me at any time!

[ophierian-vp]

[loregoddess]

Live A Live continues to be a wild experience.

I finished up Cube's Ch1 (hi, what the fuck was that, what the fuck what the fuck HE'S JUST A LITTLE DUDE WHAT IS THIS), and then completed Oboromaru's Ch1 and that uh, Oboromaru's Ch1 was literally just a MGS game? Like, even Frog Cthulhu was MGS-coded to me (100% would not have questioned that boss if I had run into him in a MGS game), but like stealth, the option to kill or not kill everyone (not sure how this will eventually affect the story, but I mean, I've played MGS so I decided to go for the lowest possible kill count), that was just MGS but set in Edo Japan with a less-jaded and not? genetically engineered? protagonist who is not named snake but COULD have been if I had input the name differently

anyhow I'm still having tons of fun

[z-nightshade]

kdhableiurfhweou;haliudfgh

THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!

Luffy is Luffying all over the page and Cass looks so pretty!!!!!!

There is definitely something going on with Cass and Fate. Only time will tell what exactly that means, however

The fingerprints on the book is so cute! I love it actually

Cass does have a lot of piercings, an industrial being one of them. It's just not mentioned a lot because their headphones are always covering their ears

@z-nightshade

Pardon the quality and colors (I swear the eyes are blue-green! but when I downloaded it everything shifted in color), I don’t know how to fix that :-:

Love your story! This idea had me in a chokehold until I finished it and thought why not share it— yes, I made an account solely to post fanart, hope you like it.

I took some creative liberties with the narrator voice, I wanted to set the mood and mention fate in some way, we do know fate has some kind of hold on Cass and it did guide them at times so I imagine them to at least be on Cass’s side, hence the amused image. Maybe fate sees them as their child of sorts (them being an oracle and all) Just my theories and takes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My thoughts/creative process bts for anyone who is interested:

—The odyssey book: I though Cass would have wanted to include everyone in the process since it’s their adventures as a crew, so I added everyone’s fingerprints [Cass and Luffy are next to each, and Luffy of course, the lil straw hat is to make sure everyone knows whose thumb the captain’s is] the panel as a whole is of the far future but not the end. The book is hand bound since I think Cass is fancy like that.

—Franky’s is a screw because he wanted something that had FRRANKYYY ENERGY! Don’t ask me, I am just the messenger.

—Cass just got out of the sea, so their hair is dripping and slicked back, water running down their face (hope it was obvious, since I wanted the hair to be fluffy I had to indicate with draw water drops).

— reading order is like a classic manga (probably should have started with that).

—the desk has a built in shelf for easy access to reverence books while writing, maybe even for their completed works.

—I ALMOST FORGOT THE NOSE PIERCING! I didn’t in the end but it was close. And I looked at already existing art of Cass and thought I saw an industrial piercing…so I added that, if it is not…ignore it.

—The Ring should have probably been lighter but I didn’t notice that it got colored in with the shirt. The jacket is just laziness, it looked weird without it.

—I am info dumping because I am hoping to appease the creative gremlin in my brain, I would like to have my thoughts back.

excuse any writing errors, I have no energy to check.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

What translation of the Iliad and Odyssey would you recommend?

sorry if you’ve answered this before somewhere else!

The translation I have is by Samuel Butler (idk if that's good or not XD)! However, I do know that the Emily Wilson (I believe it is) translation is very popular, and is considered to be one of, if not the, best version.

[mercury-is-indefinite]

I am,,, an absolute dumbass @z-nightshade , idk what happened to the accidental submission, I don't even know what that does I'm sorry

This is the video!!

It's my first art of the year I hope you like it!!