#clodiuspulcher

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Favorite Posts

Mainly this is so I can find these posts easily (for future reference) but also wanna make a place for all these great posts :3

this is definitely not complete and I don't think it ever will be haha

Mythology

Apollo is Best Dad by @whatasunchild

Artemis & Ipheginia in Aulis by @specialagentartemis

Mythology is Flexible by @tuurverheydepoetryandprose

Defend Apollo Hours by @whatasunchild

Apollo & Cassandra Fanfic by @odiko-ptino (i need more nuanced Apollo & Cassandra they give me LIFE)

The Hyacinthia by @sephospaganplace

Cupbearer Zeus by @theoihalioistuff

@my-name-is-apollo

Apollo & Admetus I

Apollo & Admetus II (with extras!)

Marsyas

Apollo & Cassandra Analysis II

Apollo & Cassandra Analysis III

Apollo & the Succession Cycle

@amiti-art

Apollo & Rhoeo

Eumelus

@gotstabbedbyapen

Hyacinthus's Age

God-Mortal Power Imbalance

The Hyacinthus Iceberg: EXPLAINED

Amyclas

@gingermintpepper (will be scowering for more later asdfjkl)

Cassandra

Apollo Rambling (plus more!)

Psamethe

Apollo Killing Python (As God of Law & Order)

Coronis (with Songs!)

@madwomanxx

Apollo & Aphrodite

Intelligence: Athena, Apollo, and Hermes

Apollo in Rome Fanfic

SFS Commentary

Multiblogs

Apollo & Cassandra Analysis I by @poemsandmyths @theoiaesthetics and @wasspword

Apollo & Hera by @sukizula, @/my-name-is-apollo, @greek-suitehearts, @pjgreeksblog, & more!

The Eumenides Analysis by @clodiuspulcher and @crisisoninfintefandoms

Asclepius’s Personality by @superkooku & @/gingermintpepper

Hyacinthus’s Personality by @/madwomanxx & @/gotstabbedbyapen

Artemis & Apollo: Commentary on Romance & Sex by @a-gnosis & @/madwomanxx

ToA

Artemis & Apollo's Relationship in ToA by @worlds-oldest-teenager

TTT Apollo V Commodus Fight Analyzed by @newathens

Demigods POV on the gods V Apollo's by @the-primordial-archivist

Keyseeker's Abundance of Analysis by @flightfoot

Reread PJO/HoO/ToA by @hashtagloveloses

Apollo Headcanons by @ukelele-boy

Copollo Art That Inspired A Fanfic (And My Reaction To It) by @newobsessioneveryweek

Copollo Incorrect Quote by @moodyseal

The Apollo Iceberg by @lubble-underscore

ToA/AtLA Fusion by @colorsunlikeanythingseen

Rachel & Apollo by @hogoflight

Things in Toa by @sadlynojellybeans

@thesungod

"the fall of the sun; the final verse"

Apollo Slay Moments

@aeithalian

The Estelle Theory

Apollo's Fatal Flaw

Middle Child Hermes

@literallyjusttoa

Sunny's Timeline (part 1) (part 2)

Copollo ToApril 2023 Fanart

The Delphic Family (With Some of My Headcanons)

Caged God Art (that i wanna make a fanfic of) (that i DID make a fanfic of-)

Top 7 Exes From Ancient Greece

Apollo Headcanons

Zeus & Apollo

Greek & Roman Culture Differences

@fearlessinger

Apollo & Zeus BoO Analyzed

The Halcyon Green Elephant

ToA: What To Know Before Reading

What Apollo's Arc Is Really About

@tsarinatorment

Apollo Kids are Greek AND Roman

Apollo & Octavian

Michael Yew's Fatal Flaw (Ao3)

The Twins & the di Angelos (Ao3)

Michael Yew's Death (Ao3)

Kronos Wins AU (But Also Not)

MultiBlogs

Nico & Apollo by @tsarinatorment & @fearlessinger

Apollo is CHB's Patron by @tsarinatorment, with additions by @stereden (here) & @fearlessinger (here)

Commodus Redemption Arc: How It Could Happen some clowning between @moodyseal and myself :)

[combines]

hello again!! as someone who comes from the 2020 fandom resurgence I am. SO SORRY. that happened a lot unfortunately. yeah we did NOT know how to act early on (ToT). I had the vibe it was a lot of people's first online fandoms.

the ship with two guys in it being dubbed butter pecan because of something something 'a lot of nuts' is again, so, so funny. Thank you for enlightening me on this, I know it's probably wild to be asked about this stuff like a decade after. This is like honestly a bit of a mystery in the fandom so it's insane finding out the source!! A real miracle the person who coined it so long ago is still active on tumblr

And speaking, it is and was INSANELY hard to dig for any 'fandom history' or even just any sort of Old post on here and I hate it.

another little question if that's okay- I'd assume that seeing the change in reception to freemance and freehoun kinda swapping around must've been bizarre as an older fan considering this was a fandom for a fps game in the early 2000's-early 2010's, in my head the vibes were kinda reversed where freemance was the big ship and freehoun was less well received by most

hiii again!!! i'm so sorry it took me a few days to answer this sdkfsmdk

i think it's super funny because both half-life: alyx and hlvrai came out within weeks of each other so you had this sort of resurgence on here of old fans returning/posting and getting excited for alyx and then a huge wave of people getting into hl in general because of the audience that hlvrai introduced. personally, i still haven't watched hlvrai because it doesn't really seem like my thing, but i'm still glad that there were so many people who enjoyed it to the point where they actually ended up playing and loving the games too!!

freemance definitely was the big ship on tumblr back in the day so yes it was very interesting to see that reversal!!!! honestly i don't think i was on tumblr too much during that time where hlvrai/freehoun really took off, and so the drama surrounding ship wars or whatever was mentioned to me secondhand. 2020 was just like the worst year of my life for personal reasons, as i'm sure for a lot of people, and i can't remember really any of it tbh LOL but you've got nothing to apologize for! i think you're definitely right, it seemed like a first fandom for many people, and that generally skewed younger. i think (hope) it's a better now at least!

tumblr's tagging/tracking/search is HORRIBLE i completly understand. i still think tumblr is the best place for fandom centralized stuff (pictures, art, gifs, etc) and until there's a new platform that does it better, i'll probably still be here, if super sporadically!

if you are interested in uncovering past hl fandom posts or just looking to follow some great people, i've tagged just some that were active in the hl fandom back in the day!!! :') i'm sure they wouldn't mind if you combed their archive looking for hl stuff/shitposts <3

@mbelyakova @littlewitchbee @temunade2 @loplins @angels-heap @anndromedea @skellagirl @bioticbear @cortnan @duamuteffe @protokol @cerviceps @axiolotl @clodiuspulcher @caramujotan @drgertiefremontphd @jauffre @owligator @saikkunen @utopianoverlord @failssafe @brogineer

[halleycomets]

@clodiuspulcher its amazing how people can become so connected online

[madqueenalanna]

the running bit @clodiuspulcher and i have about maester qarl markes and who would read him will never fail to make me laugh

[aeternitimperi]

five songs! tagged by @loveofdetail :)c

1. Sandy - Murder By Death // on repeat as i build out a little Shadowheart mix for myself. to be honest i have mostly been listening to Murder By Death lately, but in the interest of variety i’ll only mention their incomparable, orchestral, folksy, deliciously layered tunes this once

2. Highwayman - Murder By Death // ok i lied, but their cover of Highwayman is so good

3. gravity - Montaigne, David Byrne // filed under songs that make me cry bc i am in love with @magnvmchasma

4. Lagoon - Horsey // i haven’t listened to much of their stuff but i do love the shouty glam jazz ? that they bring to the table. this one’s on my mix for charlie (see tumblr user magnvmchasma) and my vtm vampires who are divorced

5. captain alberti bundi (of the SS EZ Bell) - Ezra Bell // jaunty little pirate tune that’s been on my mind because charlie is running Waterdeep Dragon Heist for our group and their supremely demented and equally charismatic Jarlaxle has been haunting my every waking moment

tagging @magnvmchasma @brightbluedot @clodiuspulcher @dicaeopolis @antonsokolov and @sciencefiction-doublefeature :)

[antiquery]

can you give some constructive criticism to Vergil

i have one thing to constructively criticize vergil for and that is tastefully fading to black when aeneas and dido shelter from the storm in a cave in book 4

[despazito]

FLYGON :)

[amphitritie]

nothing will ever top clodius getting cicero exiled and then just fucking demolishing his house - and not only that but then going ahead and building a whole fucking temple to liberty on top of the site. the drama. the boldness. the panache. 

[naomimakesart]

just read fire and blood in like 5 days and I care about the Targaryens SO much more now so I had to go see if you’d drawn some of my favorite scenes and you DID so THANK you!! (Also I just wanted to say it’s totally valid not to like aegon II much and like.... I didn’t for most of the dance BUT THEN in true GRRM fashion I couldn’t help but deeply empathize with and pity him when Sunfyre crawled back to him and he lived the short rest of his life in agonizing pain... George how COULD you...)

It definitely broke my heart when Sunfyre died, and Aegon wept; I WEPT. Aegon isn’t one of my favorite Targaryens but I can appreciate he was in a hard position. If my advisers and mother were telling me that my sister’s husband/my uncle would undoubtedly order my entire family’s execution or orchestrate their  death once he became Queen Consort (we all know that Lord Fleabottom would have made sure that anyone standing in the way of his son’s claim to the throne would have been annihilated) UNLESS I became King, I would have probably done the same.

I also know that he was unstable after Sunfyre died, but I thought it was kind of funny how he kept changing his mind about Baela’s execution. Ultimately I’m very grateful he didn’t have her killed. 

Also I’m glad that Fire and Blood has given a new perspective on House Targaryen to some who may not have felt as strongly about them before. And there are still many more scenes from the book that I want to draw and hopefully will in the future! 

[dicaeopolis]

Tagged by @coffinbutch to post the first ten songs that come up on shuffle! I... feel like this is a very generous representation of how interesting my music taste is LMAO

Inside Out - Eve 6

Feed the Tree - Belly

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Shake Me - Toni Lynn Washington

Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl - Chappell Roan

Ele - Debo Band

YA YA - Beyonce

Willow Witchin' - Nat Myers

Four Walls of Raiford - Justin Johnson

Until You Come Back to Me - Aretha Franklin

Tagging !!! @clodiuspulcher @aeternitimperi @magnvmchasma @snaps-wexley @clonerightsenthusiast @wingedscribe @tangled-pixel-harpsichord @vriskarlmarx @bymyprettyfloralbonnet and @gavelenvy !!!

[catilinas]

Please write a limerick about Clodius and or Clodius and Fulvia in Particular gratias Tibi ago

without fulvia, to his dismay

clodius (airpods in) went that day.

oh my god he can’t hear her,

oh fuck, milo gets nearer—

Stabbed To Death On The Appian Way.

send me a topic and i’ll write the shittiest limerick i can about it

[slaygentford]

clodiuspulcher replied to your post: ugh every time I read a bran chapter I am filled...

Me: I want Brienne to peg Jaime. Me when reading from Bran Starks POV: Alexa kill this fucking clown (clown being jaime)

me when I then turn around and see jaime looking gallant and repentant on the moors:

[catboyrightsdefender]

I LOVE YOUR GAY ETRUSCANS!!!!!!!! Etruscans rise up I love them so much :,))))))

aaahhhh thank you so much!!!!!! etruscans are the best.......

[madqueenalanna]

ducky: the bona dea thing was pretty cringe

me: i think it was Epic

ducky: was it Epic?

me: it was queer

ducky: STOP.

[allbeendonebefore]

clodiuspulcher replied to your post: reading commentary on age of bronze and i like how...

Eric shanower fucking understands like there are points where we disagree but I can always genuinely chalk it up to a difference in opinion and interpretation rather than a lack of research and understanding which is the culprit in every other fucking Iliad adaptation

right!!! he gets it! like i have been influenced by my own prof’s distaste for the lack of mythical/supernatural elements in troy to a degree so at first reading years and years ago i was kind of like “why is everyone trying to be Realistic, how overrated” but you know what!!! shanower basically is just writing in eros as the primordial force beyond all other gods and since eros is a central theme of the iliad and thats VALID AF!!! Good Stuff. 

[antiquery]

For the d&d meme: 8, 23, 28, 31, 34, 41

8. What is the most memorable natural 20 you’ve ever experienced?

at one point during a larksmith session, we were camping in the woods between huperdule and iverstock, and a band of kobolds attempted to accost us (we were level three at the time). we were all readying ourselves to fight, until i asked, on a whim— “hey, can i try to intimidate them? i speak draconic, and i’m proficient.” my dm agreed, and i crit on the check, and the whole table lost it a little bit at the image of james, this tiny fancily-dressed dandy caster, just SCREECHING in draconic at like ten kobolds and making them flee in abject terror. i also tend to play james’s intimidation proficiency as him just being like “do you KNOW who i AM? do you KNOW who my FATHER IS?!?” so he was basically doing the same thing james ross did in that one episode of rusty quill gaming where bertie intimidates a riot. it was delightful

23. Do you have any art of your characters?

quite a bit, actually! i’m a hobbyist artist and i think i’ve drawn pretty much everyone:

elendar abaeir, drow necromancer

james mercy, halfling draconic sorcerer

marley mason, halfling adrenaline junkie barbarian

arietta chant, half-elf bard/rogue

praxidike reave, aasimar vengeance paladin/zealot barbarian

aletheia fortier, human devotion paladin

hjordis sureblade, half-orc blood hunter

jack bailey, halfling swashbuckler

28. What is the most memorable natural 1 you’ve experienced?

oh gosh, ones are very rare for me because 2/3 of my current pcs are halflings, so my chance of crit failing is 1/400! (as long as i remember to use the ability.) but i think at one point james crit failed on a strength check to avoid being dragged into the undertow as we were escaping a sinking ship, and it was hairy for a bit until our paladin scooped him up and carried him out (the single time yet a party member has picked james up and he hasn’t gone ballistic about it)

31. Tell me about your current party!

james’s party consists of him, nazrett the dragonborn ancients paladin of bahamut, hajo the half-orc berserker barbarian, and chip the human hexblade/rogue! our dynamic is just the best— we range in age from 18 (naz) to 23 (chip), and we’re all guys, which basically means that we’re pretty much a travelling group of frat boys having the wildest spring break in the realms. naz and james are good friends (naz being something of a moral beacon to james, who is Struggling at the moment with his own morality), hajo and james really cannot stand each other (james thinks hajo is a bit of a rude brute, and hajo thinks james is a posh stuck-up ass who doesn’t understand how the world works), and chip and james...well, james thinks they’re friends, but chip has all KINDS of things going on that we have no idea about, and has also cheated james out of a significant amount of money. but we’re amiable! also chip is teaching james the ways of thievery, which is excellent.

34. Favorite accent to do for characters?

let’s see— james has an insufferably posh british accent, elendar has a slight continental one, and marley’s is half brooklyn and half new jersey. i find british accents easiest to do, next to texan (which is actually my natural accent that i’ve trained myself out of), but i think i have the most fun with russian and french.

41. Give an out of context quote from one of your games!

“can we insight check jesus to see if he is also high?”