#calypso tag

[shreddheir]

cringetober day 5: MS paint

[marrowage]

calypso turning rusty in the sunlight :’)

[seaofspirits]

one day, i'll actually draw my any/all deity oc, calypso and actually add her bio lmfao. this is what he looks like on roblox tho :3

and ofc, their true form!

[magdaclaire]

MY DEPRESSION IS DUST MY CAT IS HOME

[awnrii]

odysseus and companionship

(based on the post below)

[lyculuscaelus]

BY INSERTING ODYSSEUS’S MENTAL BREAKDOWN AND HIS SUICIDAL THOUGHTS JAY HAS ACTUALLY MADE LOVE IN PARADISE SO MUCH MORE ANGSTY OMG???

The dissociation—Odysseus was in no shape to carry on. Jay didn’t even need to bring up anything abt s.a. that happened on the island—just a simple comparison between the behaviors of Odysseus when he arrived and that of Odysseus seven years later: just look what happened on this island that caused him to breakdown so thoroughly. This is so perfectly done.

[thearchangelwrites]

38!

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

It's not that I'm uncomfortable, I just don't think anything about my routine process is particularly strange. So, I think my cat in particular is begging for attention most the time. This is because she is. She also chirps when approached, so I think that's a greeting.

[nerointhecorner]

women want me for my deceitful nature and fine thighs

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[willthespy]

do you ever just sit in a group and realize everyone is some flavor of homo. that’s how i feel reading anything rick riordan. fuck, not every one of them is friends, but that just makes it more accurate

[caleohateclub]

me explaining that the fates only send people who are already in love to calypso's island, and that NO ONE who landed on the island is meant to be with her. And no matter how she acts, looks, or what she does, it only reminds the people there of their loved one, and they always leave BECAUSE SHE'LL NEVER BE THEM!!! AND THEY KNOW THEY'RE DESTINED TO BE WITH ANOTHER!!!

Caleo doesn't work, not just cause they're not romantically compatible, but because they're trying so hard to stay together when that's not what they're supposed to be doing...

Calypso and Leo won't work in the same way that a relationship between Calypso and every other hero who landed on Ogygia wouldn't work.

But the two have like similar love life issues so they're like "Omg someone who tolerates me. I'll never find anyone better, so we're meant to be. blah blah i only accept the love i think i deserve."

TL;DR: Basically, Leo was sent to Ogygia, where Calypso is constantly "falling in love" with people who are already in love.

You get what I'm saying? wink wink. WINK WINK. YOU GET IT???

I'M SAYING LEO IS IN LOVE.

WITH JASON.

[marrowage]

calypso lately… my angel

[persephoneist]

Odysseus and his girls idk

Design notes beneath the cut

Circe is inspired by minoan frescoes in her wardrobe, but her overall look is kind of "witchy surfer girl that smells of patchouli" as the main inspo lol since shes the daughter of Helios.

Penelope is supposed to be an ideal woman so she is largely inspired by minoan snake goddess/mycenean frescoes. very typical bronze age depiction of a woman. shes very ornate bc she doesnt move a lot. Lots of blue that is specific to Odysseus.

Calypso is supposed to be from the tyrian/carthaginian region (northwest africa) with berber inspiration for her face tattoos. lots of purple in her designs due to carthaginian inspo. All this is bc her father Atlas is believed to have etymology from North Africa/the Berber language (his name may come from "Adras" which is the word for mountain.)

Nausicaa is the least ornate bc shes unmarried, so she hasnt recieved a lot of gifts that would come from marriage like jewelry. she is dressed like the classical period, and has no makeup to show that she's younger than the other women. idk why shes a redhead i just like the idea. She'd be probably from modernday Corfu, which has associations to Artemis (which she also has!), and has the oldest Doric style temple, which added to her classical appearance.

Odysseus’ “prize” (read: sex slave) is from the neighboring cities around Troy, so she’s already not as ornate as the rest of his women as seen in her dress. girl was probably a goat herder before being taken as a prize. the metal she wears is bronze. her hair was shaven to indicate she’s a slave and i intend to redesign her to keep that shaven hair quality. Minoan frescoes are design inspo there.

Odysseus is just purely vibes based. His hair is wavy bc waves, with two noticeable scars from youth. Something about "despite everything, it's still you". The gems in his necklace are the same color as the bodice of Penelope's dress.

[magdaclaire]

there is something so cute about the fact that my cat can smell that i'm sick and so she's vibrating her vocal chords at me about it

[mikimeiko]

Our Flag Means Death Season 2 - one gif per episode (with the first gif from their first scene and the last gif from their last scene) | Wee John

[bugwolfsstuff]

I love giving minor characters little quirks, interests and backstories it's so fun :)

Like yes, Lacy from the Aphrodite cabin writes fanfiction and regularly commissions Leo to draw fanart for her.

Yes, Christopher and Nyssa Barrera from the Hephaestus cabin were made from clay like Pandora (Christopher's mortal dad was bi and he has a cool step-mom now)

Yes, Travis Stoll from the Hermes cabin saw Hermes take his mom to the underworld at 4

Yes, Shane from the Hephaestus cabin absolutely loathes lore olympus and will angrilly rant about it for hours. (my boy has a powerpoint about it)

Yes, Kayla Knowles from the Apollo cabin has beef with Shane from the Hephaestus cabin (tho she's the only one that'll listen to him rant)

Yes, Drew Tanaka from the Aphrodite cabin is best friends with Pollux from the Dionysus cabin

Yes, Porkpie the pegasus was Castor from the Dionysus cabin's pegasus before Castor died

Yes, Jerry from the Apollo cabin makes badass video edits and music for his friends (and the seven)

Yes, Harley from the Hephaestus cabin watched his mortal family get killed by monsters and that's why he's at camp so young!

YES, THE DIONYSUS TWINS WERE BEST FRIENDS WITH ANNABETH BECAUSE THEIR DAD DOESNT LET THEM GO ON QUESTS AND THEY'VE BEEN AT CAMP LONGER THAN HER!!!!!