#apollo answers stuff

[king-apollogy]

Hellom my dear fremd I would like to give some questions-

(I had to place this meme here, I couldn't resist)

So 3, 5, 6, 8, 30

I know I gave you many questions

But you are nice and I wanna know you a little better :3

I hope you'll have a great day <3

STOP UR SO NICE IMM GONNA SCREAM

3. What ideas come from when you were little: Oo many things! but mentally I am still stuck in my warrior cats phase the most. I started drawing because of it and I still have some cat oc's that I doodle! I was (and still am tbh) also super obsessed with space, so now every time I draw I have to draw stars. Doesn't matter where, I have to. A lot of them disappear after the sketching phase but they're there in my heart.

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself: Honestly I'd say a good 60/40? I post a lot of my art here and the ones that get kept to myself are either oc things or doodles! Not that much gets left in the offline world, even then I share a lot of them with my friends :>

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously: oo I mean,, probably the movies and series I watch! both art style wise and story wise. There's a lot of times where I look at either my art or a story I wrote for a character and just go "hm,,, I've seen this before". TMNT and spider-verse being the most often of offenders

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in: The Beyond the grave AU I think pff. It's a shame because I think I could salvage it,, maybe, but! My spirit (ha) just isn't in it at the moment. Also I was really into embroidery for like a month and now I have a bunch of unfinished pieces in my closet :(

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated: DONT MAKE ME ANSWER THIS hfdj I feel bad saying this because like I appreciate any amount of notes on any of my art posts! The fact that I get any is awesome and I honestly didn't think I would get this far <33 If I do have to choose I would maybe choose this one ! I spent a lot of time on it (read: I spent a lot of time trying to pick outfits lmao) <333

I HOPE YOU HAVE AN AWESOME DAY!!!

[lopsaii]

Ongoing stepladder debate

[sheriffmango]

I thought you were really cool! Then I found out that you ship NaruMayo and Plumpollo... Yikes.

The ships I ship doesn't negate how cool I am, they're just but ships! I am and will always be the coolest.

Enjoy these doodles I made. Also Anon i'm genuinely intrigued what you find wrong in Plumpollo, it's just a crackship that I enjoy and i'm curious what is there to hate.

[literallyjusttoa]

Could you tell us more abt ur au where Apollo doesn’t come back exactly right after surviving being so close to chaos 👀

Yes!! Actually I had a fic that I really wanted to write about this, and I am planning on still doing that but I will tell y'all the gist of it bc I cannot contain myself. (Also this is a bit different from some of the things I've said before about this so I hope you still like it lol)

Ok so, the fic was gonna be a 5 + 1 fic, where Meg and Apollo both realize that something's ... off about him after the trials. His powers and abilities are fluctuating for seemingly no reason. Sometimes he's just a normal god, but sometimes it's like he's still a mortal. And he's also having times where he's way stronger than a god should be, like, near primordial levels. It's causing him a lot of issues, for example:

Gods don't need to eat or sleep, but mortals do. If Apollo doesn't realize his energy levels are going down, he will just end up crashing from lack of food/sleep. This leaves him perpetually exhausted and shaky.

His blood is now all kinds of crazy colors, and it changes based off of where he is on the mortal/immortal scale.

When he's in a "mortal" state of being, he's pretty similar to a demigod. Meg and Apollo learned this when Apollo accidentally did some lightning bending one day. This is not something Apollo has ever wanted to be able to do, and he freaks out appropriately.

One day, Apollo woke up sick and tired of this whole situation. He jokingly wished that someone else could just take over the sun for the day. However, Apollo hadn't realized that he had just gotten a huge power boost overnight, and his harmless little wish just created a second sun. Haha whoops.

Eventually, Apollo ends up breaking his father's rules and visiting Asclepius just so he can get some answers about this, so here's a little rough comic based on the scene I wanted to write explaining this whole mess.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

What you refer with "Cassandra's misinformation"? The source clearly mentioned that she was cursed by the god that "loved" her. She was his loyal priestess and he punished because she rejected him or just because she promised and then broke that promise, but is pretty normal to not want to slept with him....? Apollo is clearly bad and problematic here so i don't know where is the "misinformation"?

Besides, Apollo is one of the most cruel gods, so is normal... And his relationship with women aren't the best. Aren't you read the Oresteia? What a mysoginist... But he saves his mother one time and "Oh, he is feminist", no... Don't try to defend a god who did many bad shit.

awwww look who’s never had a critical thought in their life, let alone applied it to another culture’s mythology!! ❤️

🫵 it’s you anon!! :DDDDD the egg is on your face!! Lmao show me your sources before talking shit about another culture’s god, a god you clearly have zero understanding or knowledge on :DDDDD

[gingermintpepper]

hi, i haven't read the iliad and the odyssey but want to - do u have a specific translation you recommend? the emily wilson one has been going around bc, y'know, first female translator of the iliad and odyssey into english, but i was wondering on if you had Thoughts

Hi anon! Sorry for the somewhat late response and I'm glad you trust me with recommendations! Full, disclosure, I am somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to translations of the source text of the Iliad + Odyssey combo wombo, which means I tend to prefer closeness in literal verbiage over interpretation of the poetic form of these epics - for that reason, my personal preferred versions of the Odyssey and Iliad both are Robert Fitzgerald's. Because both of these translations (and his Aeneid!) were done some 50+ years ago (63 for his original Odyssey tl, 50 flat for his Iliad and 40 for his Aeneid) the English itself can be a bit difficult to read and the syntax can get confusing in a lot of places, so despite my personal preferences, I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is looking to experience the Iliad + Odyssey for the very first time.

For an absolute beginner, someone who has tried to read one or both of these epics but couldn't get into it or someone who has a lot of difficulty with concentrating on poetry or long, winding bits of prose, I fully and wholeheartedly recommend Wilson's translation! See, the genius of Emily Wilson's Iliad + Odyssey isn't that she's a woman who's translated these classics, it's that she's a poet who's adapted the greek traditional poetic form of dactylic hexameter into the english traditional poetic form of iambic pentameter. That alone goes a very very long way to making these poems feel more digestible and approachable - iambic pentameter is simply extremely comfortable and natural for native english speakers' brains and the general briskness of her verbiage helps a lot in getting through a lot of the problem books that people usually drop the Iliad or Odyssey in like Book 2 of the Iliad or Book 4 of the Odyssey. I think it's a wonderful starting point that allows people to familiarise themselves with the source text before deciding if they want to dig deeper - personally, researching Wilson's translation choices alone is a massive rabbit hole that is worth getting into LOL.

The happy medium between Fitzgerald's somewhat archaic but precise syntax and Wilson's comfortable meter but occasionally less detailled account is Robert Fagles' Iliad + Odyssey. Now, full disclosure, I detest how Fagles handles epithets in both of his versions, I think they're far too subtle which is something he himself has talked at length about in his translation notes, but for everything else - I'd consider his translations the most well rounded of english adaptations of this text in recent memory. They're accurate but written in plain English, they're descriptive and detailled without sacrificing a comfortable meter and, perhaps most importantly, they're very accessible for native english speaking audiences to approach and interact with. I've annotated my Fagles' volumes of these books to heaven and back because I'm deeply interested in a lot of the translation decisions made, but I also have to specifically compliment his ability to capture nuance in the characters' of these poems in a way I don't often see. He managed to adapt the ambivalence of ancient greek morality in a way I scarcely see and that probably has a hand in why I keep coming back to his translations.

Now, I know this wasn't much of a direct recommendation but as I do not know you personally, dear anon, I can't much make a direct recommendation to a version that would best appeal to your style of reading. Ideally, I'd recommend that you read and enjoy all three! But, presuming that you are a normal person, I suggest picking which one is most applicable for you. I hope this helps! 🥰

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Artemis would totally chase people around to touch them with her broken arm while Apollo and Athena try and wrestle her to the ground so they can fix it lol

The gods had done dirty works before, so blood and muck wouldn't startle them much. However, seeing fellow deity charging at them at full speed with her sharp, fractured bone poking out of one arm will definitely give them nightmares :)))))))

Apollo and Athena know full well of Artemis' freaky hobby so they always prepare a first aid and get ready to ambush her before she get the chance to terrify the other Olympians after a hunt.

[somepsychopomp]

Is there any world building in pjo that you just don't fuck with?

the fact they can't use fucking cellphones 😭😭😭 it's so unbelievably stupid and it's the piece of PJO lore that's aged the poorest, in my opinion

Like I don't fault Rick for writing the Lightning Thief in 2005 and including the idea that demigods can't use phones because uhhh..... monsters can somehow detect them that way. Cell phones back in the early 2000's were not at all what they are now, and I don't blame Rick for not being able to predict just how dependent on smartphones all of modern society would become just a handful of years later.

But the fact it's so poorly explained to this day drives me crazy. Like how do monsters actually use phones (and the internet/modern communication methods in general) to track demigods??? Do they have sensory organs that allow them to pick up radio or cellular waves? Is it intuition in the same way that you could summon a god by praying to them? Do they find a potential demigod and physically wire tap them like the fucking feds???

Rick has repeatedly implied that monsters have some unique means of just knowing when a demigod is using modern tech, but has never come out and firmly said how. It honestly suggests to me that all these years later, he's never figured it out or wanted to try. And instead of retconning this kinda silly and nonsensical idea in HoO, he kept it but never developed or fixed it, either.

Granted, there's ways it could make sense. Like the idea that modern tech kinda rejects demigods and leaves them vulnerable to monsters could be cool and creative if done well. It also enhances the idea that demigods are out of time and not really meant to live in "normal" mortal society. But again, only if it's done well.

I really do wish that Rick gave up on the "no tech" idea at some point and made it so that Leo or someone else designed a cell phone that's safe for demigods to use, or maybe something a magic SIM card that protects them from monsters. Or something like a monster-proof VPN that tricks them into thinking a demigod is in a whole other region than where they actually are. Or he could've had Daedalus invent a phone safe for demigod usage, or have Annabeth find the schematics for a prototype on his laptop after he bequeaths it to her so she could make it herself. Or maybe Rick could've evolved the concept of Iris messages and come up some new way that it could parallel smartphones. Hephaestus canonically comes up with all sorts of inventions in PJO all the time, you're really telling me that he AND Daedalus AND Annabeth AND Leo are all incapable of making a demigod-safe smartphone, or at least a fantasy equivalent?? And that apparently the idea has never ever once crossed anyone's mind?

Insane.

Look, I don't need Percy to be on a quest and pull out his phone to play subway surfers or scroll through TikTok, or do the 2010's equivalent of going on those meme apps with Philosoraptor or watching early YouTube poops. The demigods don't have to use phones. Maybe they could keep them just for emergencies since phones can be a huge distraction for teens (oh look at that, Rick could've made some commentary on society). But the fact that they cannot use cellphones or the internet for reasons that have been poorly defined for twenty years now.... is a bit much. And it speaks more so to Rick's abilities as a writer than to his worldbuilding at this point.

[unlicensed-field-medic]

can you tell the time without a watch? and do you have your own internal compass? and do you wake up n' sleep with the sun? and does daylight savings mess you up? and are you weak during eclipses? and are you stronger during summer solstice? are you a portable furnace? do you burst into flames when you're burnt out? do you hate the winter? are you bothered by these questions? should i stop? do you like mitski?

[Will blinks as the questions are thrown at him one after another before holding up his hands] im not bothered, just hold on or im going to forget them.

[Will starts counting on his fingers as he answers the questions] for the time thing, it depends? Like if im outside and the suns out kind of but only like to the hour or half hour its not that accurate.

[He shakes his head as he counts up again] and no i just use common sense. Sun rises in the east and sets in the west but its more north during summer and more south in winter. [Will seems genuinely unaware that this perhaps is not common sense]

Oh, this one is actually used to [will says, glad he can give a positive answer for once] my circadium rhythm is crazy strong so I have all these lamps in the infirmary for late nights. I can still sleep during the day if I have to technically but it feels like literally anyone breathing will wake me up so its not really worth it.

[That joy of a positive answer quickly fades though] yeah, no i hate daylight savings. They're not saving anything, just confusing people and making me late for things when I do sleep.

[Will pauses then, trying to remember before shaking his head] yeah, no, sorry I really dont pay attention to that, I have no clue

And im stronger in the summer [will lowers his hand as he loses count, going a bit more rapid fire] but the summer solstice doesnt specifically make me like super powerful or anything.

I am actually super warm, its pretty nice. Ive been told apparently I give good hugs because of it.

Flames seems a bit dramatic. Burnt out mentally wont do anything weird. Magically though I just tend to get really feverish and hot. Which im a lot more resilient to so it can get... pretty high. Furnace high. But I dont think ive ever reach flame high before passing out first.

I mean i dont hate it. I like the snow, which we dont really get in camp but whatever. Its just the seasonal depression and all. I dont think that has anything to do with... actually it might be an apollo kid thing now that I think about it.

I dont hate them. Im just confused if youre about to send an assassin after me or something. So you can keep going or stop either way.

I mean yeah she has nice music, its not really my favorite though

[roboyomo]

anyways. Erebus design drafts

[blackknight-100]

More Apollo fic excerpts for you all, because I'm on a roll:

Looking at Father is hard. Apollo has learnt this early on, but Apollo is also either incorrigibly foolish, or insurmountably stubborn. Either way, he tries and tries and tries; the truth is his, and he will look into the King's eyes while he gets it.

Lightning crackles around Zeus's lashes, fine white scars upon his dark skin. He sighs unhappily, and somewhere around Cretan Ida, rain-black clouds are blown away. "Why do you ask that, child?"

"Hekate thinks it is unjust."

"Did she say that to you?"

"No."

Apollo does not mention that she said that to his sister and his mother, because that was not what Father asked. He does not speak of her grief either - the King is a forge of hot power thrumming with ill-supressed rage, a rush of deadly cloudstrike and bitter ozone under his tongue - and Apollo is... apprehensive, if not afraid.

Zeus sighs again. The rain clouds return, and drought is averted. His beard droops, and the riot of spiked hair curls into itself. "It is fate," he says. "There had to be a safe place for you to be born."

"And fate is greater than justice, then?"

"You know the Fates. You know Fate is greater than everything."

Apollo says nothing. In the following silence, father and son stare at each other, picking away at the other's minds.

As always, Father breaks first. "I could not lose you," he says. "You are to be a great god."

Perhaps Apollo should be kinder, perhaps Apollo should be blind. But he is not. Here too the Fates are unfair - he can see Ares' quiet pain, he can see Hera's righteous rage. And his memory is terrible in its divinity - a hundred thousand words of fatherly love will not wipe away all those days of his mother's tears.

Or perhaps it is not fatherly love at all. Apollo is to be a great god, a mighty cog in the automaton that is Fate, and like Hephaestus, Zeus its builder cares little for who the cogs are, or where they come from. They must only exist.

Or perhaps it is just him - Apollo, the Destroyer. Under his hands is the ruin of a hundred women, and then some more, and Hekate is one notch among many others. Perhaps Apollo blames fruitlessly, for it is his father who chased his aunt, and his birth that holds her down. Perhaps his father loves them - him and Artemis and Mother Leto, and has only sought to turn fate in their favour through his ruthlessness. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. So many chances, so many answers.

Apollo looks at Father, and does not believe even one.

"I see," he says. "Thank you for your time, Your Majesty."

Zeus-King frowns. He holds out a hand as if to call out, then drops it and turns away. "You may leave," he says, and Apollo does.

[king-apollogy]

hi :) I bring asks for the art game! 4, 16, 24

HI!!

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw : I’m admitting this right now I cannot draw Donnie for the LIFE of me. He’s different every time. His forehead is incomprehensible to me. I feel like it’s very apparent if you look at my art I WANT TO DRAW HIM BUT I CANT

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing : ooo I wanna say shading! I’d like to think that I’m at least okay in that part, but it’s really not fun.

24. Do your references include stock images : Yes!! My references include a bunch of things, stock images included! Also honestly like some of them are such specific poses that sometimes they just inspire me to doodle them on their own

[stephofromcabin12]

Hey—still not dead btw—

I have a really stupid idea that wont leave my head but Idk if I want to invest ✨the time✨ into it if no one wants it/would rather have—yk writing and animatics and whatnot (bc yes I am still working on that, do I look like a greek god to you? You think I would abandon Little Camper content?? No😡)

so anyway:

[sheriffmango]

pls...pls more plumpollo...please ooh please....

Ask and you shall recieve

Admittedly i didn't have time to make a whole piece but I hope you liked it :3

[dizzybevvie]

HTTYD fandom i have important questions :)!!

[If selecting "other" do not include the books, comics, shorts, games, or post-thw content, such as Nine Realms or Rescue Riders.]

[Pls reblog for sample size! ^^]

[inkesse]

For the first time ever, I used tarot as a method to try and contact Lord Apollo. I've been anxious about it for a while, but today the sun shone brightly and I saw some beautiful art of him, so I just.. felt compelled to give it a try. It went better than I ever could have expected and I truly do feel cared for, and that what I do in devotion to him is enough.