#ed being the tired father of the mars team

[witchofthemidlands]

DOCTOR WHO || The Waters Of Mars

[a-dreamer-named-mars]

Imagine Jamie Meeting His and Eddie's Daughter

The incessant sound of the beeping machines were messing with the electric synapses in his brain, Jamie Reagan is sure of it. He's damn sure that by the time he leaves the hospital he's not gonna be able to hear anything, although he doesn't know when that will be.

Seven hours and two minutes. That's exactly how long it took for Meghan Janko Reagan to come into the world and bless her parents' lives with her existence.

The feeling of guilt eats him inside as he takes a few more steps around the room where his wife is resting after such a hard, prolonged labor on her own, by herself, all alone. He takes a good look at her and notices her tired expression, her frown and her closed eyes and thinks she's probably going to kill him once she wakes up and sees him, confronting him about what happened and asking him why on earth he wasn't there for her, holding her hand, supporting her through the whole process.

And the feeling of guilt rises in his chest again, his throat constricting at the thought of purely being honest with her - he was working. He was working and missed the birth of child because of it. Damn it. This job has already taken so many things and so many people away from him, and now it took the unique experience of seeing your wife bring your daughter into the world.

Beep. Beep.

He looks at the monitor where the annoying sound is coming from and relaxes once he reads her heart rate - 122.

He bents down to kiss her temple before leaving the room to go check on his little girl who was staying in the NICU for the night, solely for observation. Once she was born the doctors checked her out, everything was fine with the exception that she needed suction after breathing in some liquids through the process, and turns out, her small lungs didn't enjoy the intervention and so she was sent to the Intensive Care Unit in an incubator.

"You're the father?" The words register in his mind and he turns around to meet the nurse in pink scrubs.

"Yeah. How is she?" He asked so fast, too him still not fast enough. The worried expression in his face fading once he noticed the professional smiling.

"Meghan's doing great. She really was struggling in the beginning but she's doing fine now. I suggest we take her to her mom's room and let her meet her, properly. What'd you think?"

He felt a few tears burn in his eyes but he blinked repeatedly in order to keep them at bay before sharing a small smile and nodding in agreement.

"Yes. Sure, let's go."

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"Jamie?" Eddie's voice was barely audible, her head was feeling heavy and she closed her eyes before opening them again, gathering her thoughts for a little while.

"Hey, Ed. How are you feeling?"

"Tired." She replied with a loud sigh.

"I got someone here to meet you." He said with a smile as he turned to the side, showing her their girl laying on the little hospital crib, looking so peaceful, probably feeling as tired as her mother was.

"Oh my..." Eddie whispered as she looked at her baby for the first time. After those long seven hours and two minutes she only got to take a glimpse at her but failed to actually see her since the newborn was surrounded by doctors and nurses and tubes, and eventually she was taken away.

The blonde rested her palms on the hospital bed, on either side of her body and propped up, changing to a sitting position, yearning to feel the touch, the contact with her daughter.

Jamie picked her up and held her in chest carefully before placing her on Eddie's arms.

"Hi princess..." She whispered as she looked down on her arms, admiring her daughter, unable to direct her gaze away from the baby who immediately nuzzled in her chest. "Jamie, I was so scared, they took her away from me and it all happened so quickly... I-How is she?"

"She's doing great. They kept her in the unit for observation but she's good now. You know, looking at her right now makes me think all she ever needed was her mom holding her."

"She is so perfect, have you looked at her?"

"Yeah... She is perfect. She's exactly like you.  A perfect copy."

"We're so blessed, Jamie... Oh my God. We're so blessed."

A silence filled the room and Jamie took the opportunity to apologize. It was probably not the right time now, but he needed to get that out of his chest.

"I'm sorry." He said, his words catching her attention and making her look up at the so familiar baby blues.

"I was really scared."

He expected something, anything, but not that. Those four words cut him inside like a knife. If he was being honest, he'd much rather have her scream at his face, he was pretty sure it wouldn't hurt him as much.

"I-I can only imagine. I am really sorry."

"Why didn't you come when I texted you?"

"I was... working. It was a hostage situation. It got bad, I was unable to leave the building for three hours and that was only until the back up team showed for one of the guys. The other one was holding a gun to my head the whole time until SWAT arrived."

An audible gasp came from Eddie's mouth and he regretted telling her the whole thing immediately, knowing it worried her and she's had enough of concern for one day alone.

"Are you okay?" She asked, and he could tell by the look in her eyes that he had all of her heart and her forgiveness.

"Yeah, I-I am fine. I am perfect, this is the happiest day of my life."

It was whirlwind of emotions for him as well - twelve hours ago he thought he might never get to see the love of his life again or meet his daughter. Of all his days on the job, today had been the one that had really scared him and had him question everything he knew about wanting to be a cop. Risking his life? Risk losing the most important day of his life? Risk abandoning his wife when she needed him the most?

He knew that telling Eddie the whole story of what had happened to him and the reason why he couldn't come to the hospital when she had asked him to was going to do something to her, she was going to be worried, and she was going to understand and she was going to forgive him.

He did want that, but he still felt like he was cheating by telling her the events of the day knowing it would trigger something in her and it would get him of the hook easily. But at the same time there was no way he could lie to his Eddie - their relationship was based on honesty and trust.

"I really wanted to be here, Ed. I did."

"I know." She nodded with a smile. "That's all water under the bridge now, we got her with us." She lifted her arms a little, showing him Meghan up close.

He bent down to kiss the girl's forehead, causing her to shift a little in her mom's arms before smashing his lips against Eddie's in a soft, gentle and passionate kiss.

"We got all we need."

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Author's Note: Hey readers! I know it's been a long time since I've written an imagine but oh well, here it is! I hope you liked it and stay tuned for more 'cause I still got quite the list of the last time y'all made a request 😉

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What Went Wrong: A Belated NFL Black Monday Piece

Joey

Jan 11th

Black Monday in the NFL came and went and despite my best inclinations to write a somethin', I had a nothin' to offer. In many ways, most of the firings were easy enough to figure out. Guys who probably deserved to get canned did get canned. Teams that felt the pressure to save their fanbases made the moves to do so. All in all, it was kind of an expected grouping of firings when you add in the in season removals of Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy and Cleveland coach Hue Jackson. So since it's been a while, I wanted to approach this from a different perspective. Here I want to talk about the eight coaching jobs, what went wrong (on a grander level) and what their replacements need to do to avoid suffering a similar fate. Hold onto ya butts, folks:

Cleveland Hue Jackson

What Went Wrong: Everything

Seriously. Cleveland hired Hue Jackson under the philosophy of taking a long and painful route to relevancy, amassing draft picks, essentially tanking without admitting and hoping that Hue Jackson could in theory keep the organization stable enough until the time came. Depending on who you ask, Cody Kessler was either Hue's idea or some massive analytics based gamble that backfired on Sashi Brown and company, made worse by Cleveland trading BACK in the draft and away from the likes of Carson Wentz. At the end of the day, the plan had some merit to it (as seen by the successes of Sam Heinke and the 76ers eventually) but like most plans that require patience, that patience eventually runs out pretty quickly. It doesn't help that giving Hue Jackson, a guy who was fired from the Raiders after an 8-8 season where undisciplined penalty laden football marred progress, a young team and expecting him to get them up to speed to become eventual contenders was probably a bad idea overall. The arrival of former Kansas City Chiefs GM John Dorsey meant that the patience was out and Hue needed to produce something, especially when hiring a proven OC in Todd Haley and #1 overall pick Baker Mayfield. This job was going to be lost eventually but when Baker looked flat and the team continued to play this broken level of uninspired play, the plug was pulled. Everything that could've gone wrong in Cleveland did go wrong under the watchful eye of Hue Jackson and while I don't fault a guy for taking a gig, immediately jumping over to Marvin Lewis and the Bengals as an assistant probably did little to squash the belief that Jackson was a weasel of sorts who had no problem looking out for #1 at the expense of everyone else. It would take a novel to state everything what went wrong from 2016 to 2018 but just know that at the end of the day, nobody stood up for Hue Jackson when he was ousted and the team took off when he was shown the door.

Enter: Freddie Kitchens

Kitchens' ascent from lowly RBs coach to offensive coordinator to head coach from Jan of 2018 to Jan of 2019 is shit straight out of Narcos. In many ways, I wonder if the thought process went a bit like this: Cleveland had a bunch of candidates in mind with the thought process being that they could find the best offensive mind for their bright generational QB. At the same time, teams began calling for Kitchens to potentially interview for either their head coaching gig or their offensive coordinator position. Cleveland wants to keep Kitchens, other teams want Kitchens and Cleveland probably wants a head coach who will keep Kitchens but can't find him. Cleveland looked around, realized the guy they wanted was probably  in house already and they didn't want to lose him SO Kitchens gets to be the head coach. Kitchens is actually surprisingly well traveled; a coach under the likes of Bill Parcells, Ken Whisenhunt and Bruce Arians. Kitchens and Mayfield created some beautiful magic together and so I imagine continuity (as well as a supremely improved offense) pushed Kitchens over the other candidates. There are three factors at play here; 1) Cleveland has expectations now. The 5-3 end of the year plus the young star QB who should only improve makes a lot of people believe you can win. Kitchens will probably not be afforded two abysmal years to figure it out the way that Hue Jackson was. 2) Kitchens has just 8 games worth of play calling experience to his name which means he's got a lot to learn in a short period of time. 3) Kitchens just canned Gregg Williams which means he'll need a new defensive guru of sorts to handle that side of the field.

Green Bay Packers Mike McCarthy

What Went Wrong: #12

Mike McCarthy deserves a lot of credit for what he did in Green Bay from milking the final years of elite play out of Brett Favre and then grooming Aaron Rodgers into one of the best QBs to ever play the game. I think people forget the job McCarthy and company did when the Packers lost seemingly half of their team to injuries and still won the Super Bowl in 2011 or how he got into the playoffs relying on Matt Flynn in 2013 when Rodgers got hurt. All things go sour eventually though and the whispers that Rodgers was carrying McCarthy year in and year out got a bit too loud. Those whispers combined with the body language yelling whenever Rodgers and McCarthy seemed to have something go wrong became a bit too much and so McCarthy's reign in Green Bay ended unceremoniously after a loss to lowly Arizona. McCarthy might just be a case of "How can I miss you if you won't go away?" and about how everybody in sports eventually gets tired of one another. Aaron Rodgers is a veteran QB who probably did plenty of checks and audibles at the LOS which in turn pissed McCarthy off and conversely I'm sure McCarthy's outdated gameplans and suspect development of talent over the past 2-3 years drove Rodgers crazy. McCarthy's outdated gameplans cost him in the end, especially when it became readily apparent that Rodgers' decline (be it due to age or injuries) made him incapable of overcoming those woes.

Enter: Matt LaFleur

Matt LaFleur's hiring is simple enough I suppose. Aaron Rodgers is in the twilight of an amazing career and "offensive guru" is a hot to trot catch all term. LaFleur cut his teeth under Kyle Shanahan and then moved onto Sean McVay before leaving for the Titans to call his own offense. It was an up and down run for him as the playcaller, probably hurt in no small part by the injuries to Marcus Mariota. LaFleur is a gamble on upside with a somewhat impatient QB who is battling the aging curve. It's a risky move but if LaFleur can get the best out of Rodgers before Father Time takes over? It just might be worth.

Denver Broncos Vance Joseph

What Went Wrong: 50% John Elway 50% In Game Management

Vance Joseph being tabbed to replace the retiring Gary Kubiak always felt like a somewhat shaky hire. Vance Joseph in my estimation was a totally qualified hire but perhaps not quite the hire needed for this specific team. John Elway's teams were mostly veteran squads headed up by veteran head coaches like John Fox and Gary Kubiak. Vance Joseph was a rookie head coach who had proven himself to be an adept and solid defensive coordinator riiiight when hiring THOSE kind of guys was going out of fashion. Elway hired a young coach and then gave him an aging offensive core, opening the pocket books to bring in veteran free agent talent that hasn't quite worked out. Of course we'd be here all day talking about the QB situation from sticking with Trevor Semian a bit too long to the Paxton Lynch draft spot (want to have a fun alternate history for a minute? Picture a world where the Cowboys actually successfully outbid Denver to get Paxton Lynch and Denver has to take another QB later on) to the Case Keenum gamble. Denver in a way tried to replicate the Cowboys formula; run the ball a lot, have a ball control QB and rely on a tremendous defense. It just didn't work as the offense struggled under Joseph (in large part due to the RBs not being Zeke, the QB not being Dak, the OL not being peak Dallas and Demariyus Thomas falling off) and his inability to figure out what he wanted out of Case Keenum throughout the season has left him out of a job and Denver in need of a new QB. Joseph was dealt a bad hand from Elway but in game management was such a glaring problem for Denver, often made worse by their team absolutely not showing up in prime time games. Vance Joseph was the wrong guy for this job and then proceeded to remind people of that every single time he made a bad decision late in games.

Enter: Vic Fangio

First the obvious; Vic Fangio has paid his dues, done his part and at 60 years old, it's very much now or never for an NFL lifer. I have zero qualms with Denver hiring him. I just hope he's being hired because he's the guy they want and not because they had this compulsion to keep Gary Kubiak in some sort of capacity. If Vic Fangio edged out Mike Munchak because one was fine with Kubiak and the other wasn't then it's a bad call. If that's the case then just hire Kubiak to be your head coach again because this sort of helicopter head coaching is sort of unnecessary. Fangio and Kubiak make for a very old duo but also a very credible couple of coaches at the top of the helm. If they manage to get Ed Donatell to become the defensive coordinator then you're now talking about three qualified long term NFL lifers running a young roster.  It's a gutsy move by Elway at a time where young hip offensive minded coaches are all the rage. Hopefully it works out better than Vance Joseph did.

New York Jets Todd Bowles

What Went Wrong: Bad drafting + bad optics

I think Todd Bowles is somewhat of an overmaligned figure in Jets land. After the Rex Ryan Era, the more low key Bowles was probably more of an overreaction to not having to deal with Ryan's madness anymore. Todd had tremendous success in his first season and rallied the Jets to a 10-6 record before the wheels fell apart. In a large part, the talent fell apart around Bowles and the QB situation never truly situated itself with veterans not being good enough and the Jets spending actual draft capital on guys like Christian Hackenberg and Bryce Petty. Bad draft picks led to bad talent on the field which in turn led to the optics. The Jets in 2016 and 2017 seemed to end every year with people wondering about why the Jets looked so disinterested and broken under Bowles, complete with plenty of shots of Woody Johnson's stadium looking emptier and emptier as the year went on. Bowles entered 2018 as basically a dead man walking with a rookie QB and a brand new fill in offensive coordinator. Bowles did about as well as he could but by week 10 or so, the writing was on the wall. Bowles' laid back persona compiled with the Jets' lethargic October and November painted the picture of a team that had given up and given in.

Enter: Adam Gase

The Jets candidates for the most part all have a similar theme. They're offensive minded QB whisperers; guys like Jim Caldwell, Mike McCarthy, Kliff Kingsbury, Adam Gase and Todd Monken. Some are old, some are young, some are retreads and some are college guys (Matt Rhule and the aforementioned Kingsbury). Kris Richard, Dallas DB coach and playcaller, is the only defensive guy to this point who seems to have a shot. The Jets want somebody who a) fits the New York atmosphere that for some reason seems to be harder to figure out than any other spotlight seemingly and b) a coach who can connect with young talented arm Sam Darnold. They'll see if Adam Gase is that dude.

Arizona Cardinals Steve Wilks

What Went Wrong: The defensive guy didn't have a good defense

Black Monday brought a lot of very open discussion about the fact that the famed cut down day for coaches featured five African American coaches getting canned. Of the crew, I feel like Wilks is the one where there is a justifiable grudge to be had. Steve Wilks inherited a middle of the road team that embraced a full rebuild when they moved up to grab Sam Darnold and let some of their star defensive players walk. In response, Wilks was given an undermanned team with a broken Sam Bradford and a green Josh Rosen behind him with some sketchy coordinators to keep everything afloat. It didn't work out, the Cardinals were jabroni'd for pretty much the first eight weeks of the season and OC Mike McCoy got canned halfway through the year even if Byron Leftwich wasn't much better. Cardinals star RB David Johnson struggled after a big deal, defensive players were unhappy with just about everything, Josh Rosen looked horrendous for 85% of the snaps he was on the field for and the Cardinals OL was rough in all facets of the game. I believe Wilks deserved another year (only because of what was given to him at the onset) but if you get the 1st overall pick, you clearly did nothing right during the season. I bet if Wilks' defense wasn't the worst in the league and he fielded a competitive defense while going through rookie QB growing pains then I'd feel pretty confident about his chances to stick around. As it is, he's gone and per the GM, it boiled down to a disagreement on what Wilks considered to be the plan of attack for 2019. Still how do you allow the GM who put this situation together AND chose the head coach to pick the next guy? That's some utter tripe.

Enter: Kliff Kingsbury

We can begin with the obvious reasons for why this move doesn't make any sense. For starters, Kingsbury was just an average head coach at Texas Tech. You can give me plenty of excuses for that record of 35-40 ranging from "It's hard to recruit in Texas when you're not the top school" or "The defenses were bad!" but the record speaks for itself and isn't his job to a) figure out recruiting and b) find a way to fix your defense? I mean Mike Leach and Tommy Tuberville both won more games than Kingsbury at Texas Tech. The question is whether Kingsbury can find a way to get Josh Rosen back to UCLA levels and still somehow win at the NFL level despite his lack of success at the collegiate level.  The Cardinals weren't the only team willing to take the plunge obviously but they'll be the ones who get laughed at if this doesn't work.

(Also real quick let's take a second to acknowledge either the absurdity of this situation or the honesty of at least one NFL team to embrace the change here. After years of hearing how QBs and OL and WRs were being hampered by collegiate schemes, we now have pro teams hiring college coaches to run their gimmicked offenses at the NFL level because they can't develop QBs or OL anymore at the pro level. Either the NFL has learned its lesson or it's just about given up. Either one is an acceptable choice.)

Cincinnati Bengals Marvin Lewis

What Went Wrong: Everything over time

Kudos to the Bengals organization for their loyalty to Marvin Lewis, likely in no small part due to Marvin rebuilding that franchise and then keeping them stable from the Palmer to the Dalton eras. I have zero doubt that Lewis is a good coach but like Mike McCarthy, eventually you run out of rope and time. It didn't help that Lewis was incapable of stopping the gradual decline from consistent playoff team (lack of success aside) to mediocre team, in no small part due to his inability to replenish the well along the coaching staff. Marvin Lewis was just too old, too stubborn and too incapable to overcome the changing NFL scene.

Enter: ?

The current word is the Bengals are looking at Rams QB coach/passing game coordinator Zac Taylor. Taylor was a disaster as the Dolphins interim OC under Dan Campbell but resurrected his stock as a key hand in the development of Jared Goff as well as his tutoring under Tommy Tuberville in Cincy. Taylor is at least an intriguing hire as a 35 year old passing game guru and, of course, the Bengals could be back on the market for a QB eventually as Andy Dalton enters his age 31 season.

Tampa Bay Dirk Koetter

What Went Wrong: The QB

Lovie Smith and Dirk Koetter ultimately shared the same fate after all. Despite paying Smith a lot of money and giving him the keys to the kingdom, Smith was gone after two seasons and Dirk Koetter was retained by Tampa Bay due to the feeling that 1) they were going to lose him elsewhere and 2) he could get the most out of #1 overall pick Jameis Winston. He couldn't. Winston off the field was a mess and on the field he didn't fare much better either. When you're the QB guru and the star QB has to be benched, you're probably going to get fired. It doesn't help that Koetter and chosen defensive coordinator Mike Smith struggled to field a competent defense for three years.

Enter: Bruce Arians

This...is interesting. Arians is a pretty damn proven and downright solid head coach who has technically won in two different locations (Indianapolis as an interim coach and in Arizona). Arians' health and his declining results in Arizona led to a year in the booth for Bruce but now it seems like he thinks he's ready to handle it again. Arians teams have only finished under .500 once at the pro level and while his success is somewhat overstated recently, there's no doubt that Arians will bring stability and fire to an organization that has felt marred with drama under Koetter.

Miami Dolphins Adam Gase

What Went Wrong: Greg Schiano-itis

It would be far too easy and perhaps even a touch unfair to simply say that Gase's problem is his player-coach marriage to Ryan Tannehill. A coach getting hooked on a QB and believing he can unlock him leads to a lot of firings and Gase may be no different. Gase's bigger problem, at least from my standpoint, is a problem most coaches have in various forms or fashions. I'll use Greg Schiano as an example because he's the one that's more readily apparent to me. Schiano took a bad going nowhere spot in Tampa Bay (Raheem Morris had 3-13 and 4-12 sandwiched around 10-6) and with a young roster, Schiano improved them to 7-9. That improvement combined with what most people consider to be a natural tendency to be a bit of a dick, lead to Schiano getting more egotistical and more aggressive as a coach. The second year everything cratered and Schiano was fired. Adam Gase took over a Miami Dolphins club that had gone through a pretty rough run over Tony Sparano and then interim coach Dan Campbell. Gase started off poorly and then earned some plaudits for cutting offensive linemen mid week after Ryan Tannehill had been pretty much caved in by pass rushers. A winning streak followed and Gase made the playoffs in his rookie year----but that apparently led to Gase becoming more and more of an authoritarian. Players seemed to hate him (There wasn't much love for Adam Gase after his firing with key offensive players past and present openly gloating about his removal) and the owner got tired of Gase seemingly toward the end of the season. That to me strikes me as a coach who got a little too successful early on and struggled when the NFL eventually humbled him as is often the case if you don't have Tom Brady.

Enter: ?

The Dolphins head coaching interview list reads like a true mish mash. Offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains, special teams coach Darren Rizzi, Pats defensive ace Brian Flores and Cowboys play caller/secondary coach Kris Richard seem to be the candidates in the running and so you've got two holdovers, one guy hoping to become a winning member of the Bill B coaching tree and Kris Richard who helped take the Cowboys defense to new heights in 2018. All seem logical----but none seem like any sort of a pattern or a theme is emerging. Maybe that's the best way to go instead of trying to force a fit because you NEED a QB guru.

[tipsycad147]

Eos – Titan Goddess of Dawn

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In Greek mythology, Eos was the Titan goddess of the dawn who lived at the border of the Oceanus. She was said to have rosy forearms, or rosy fingers, and she awoke early every morning to open the gates of heaven so that the sun could rise.  

Eos isn’t the most famous of deities in Greek mythology, but she did play a very important role by bringing light to the world each day.

Who was Eos?

Eos was a Titan of the second generation, born to Hyperion, the god of heavenly light and his wife Theia, the Titaness of sight. She was the sister of Helios and Selene, the personifications of the sun and the moon respectively. According to some sources, however, Eos’ father was a Titan called Pallas.

Eos and Astraeus

Eos was well known for her many lovers, both mortal and immortal. At first, she was linked with Astraeus, the god of dusk, who was also a second generation Titan like herself and closely associated with the planets and the stars. Together, the couple had many children including the Anemoi and the Astra Planeta.

Astra Planeta –  the five gods who were personifications of the planets:

Stilbon – Mercury

Hesperos – Venus

Pyroeis – Mars

Phaethon – Jupiter

Phainon – Saturn

The Anemoi – the Wind gods, who were:

Boreas – the North

Eurus – the East

Notus – the South

Zephyrus – the West

Eos was also famous as the mother of Astraea who was the virgin goddess of justice.

Eos as the Goddess of the Dawn

Eos’ role as the goddess of the dawn was to ascend up to heaven from Oceanus at the end of the night, to announce the coming of the sunlight to all the gods and mortals. As written in Homeric poems, not only did Eos announce the arrival of her brother Helios, the god of the sun, but she also accompanied him during the day until he was done traversing the sky. In the evening she would rest and prepare for the next day.

The Curse of Aphrodite

As already mentioend, Eos had many lovers, both mortal and immortal. Ares, the Greek god of war was one of her lovers but they never had any children together. In fact, their relationship didn’t get the chance to go too far.

When Aphrodite, the goddess of love, found out about the two, she was enraged, because she was also one of Ares’ lovers. Aphrodite was overcome with jealousy and she saw Eos as her competition. She wanted to get rid of her and so she cursed Eos so that she would only fall in love with mortals.

From that point onwards,  Eos then began to be associated with the abduction of mortals she fell in love with.

Eos and Orion the Huntsman

Orion was a legendary huntsman and was said to be Eos’ first mortal lover after she was cursed by Aphrodite. Orion was abducted by Eos and taken to the island of Delos, after he had regained his eyesight. In some versions of the myth, he was killed on the island by Artemis, the goddess of hunting, because she was jealous of him and Eos.

Eos and Prince Cephalus

The story of Eos and Cephalus is another famous myth about her mortal lovers. Cephalus, the son of Deion and Diomede, lived in Athens and he was already married to a beautiful woman called Procris, but Eos chose to ignore this fact. She kidnapped him and the two soon became lovers. Eos kept him with her for a very long time and had a son with him, whom they named Phaethon.

Although Eos was in love, she could see that Cephalus wasn’t truly happy with her. Cephalus loved his wife, Procris and longed to return to her. After eight long years, Eos finally relented and let Cephalus return to his wife.  

Tithonus and Eos

Tithonus was a Trojan prince who was possibly the most famous of all Eos’ mortal lovers. Although they lived happily together, Eos was getting tired of all her mortal lovers leaving her or dying, and she was afraid that she’d lose Tithonus in the same way. She finally came up with a solution to her problem and asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal so that he’d never leave her.

However, Eos made a mistake by not being specific enough when she made her request to Zeus. She forgot to tell him to give Tithonus  the gift of youth. Zeus granted her wish and made Tithonus immortal, but he didn’t stop the aging process. Tithonus grew older with time and the older he got, the weaker he became.

Tithonus was much pain and Eos once again went to meet Zeus to ask his help. However, Zeus informed her that he couldn’t make Tithonus mortal or younger again so instead, he turned Tithonus into a cricket or a cicada. It’s said that in some parts of the world, the cicada is still heard every day at dawn.

In some variants of the story, Eos herself transformed her lover into a cicada, while in others he eventually became one, living forever but hoping for death to take him away. In other versions, she locked up his body in her chamber when he became too old but what exactly she did with it, no one knows.

Emathion and Memnon – Children of Eos

Eos and Tithonus had two sons, Emathion and Memnon, who later became the rulers of Aethiopia. Emathion was king first for a while but he attacked the demigod Heracles who was sailing up the River Nile one day. Heracles killed him in the fight that ensued.

Memnon was the more well-known of the two since he later played a part in the Trojan war. Dressed in armour made by Hephaestus, the god of fire, Memnon defended his city, killing Erechthus, the archaic king of Athens, and Pheron, the king of Egypt. Memnon was killed however, at the hands of the hero Achilles.

Eos was stricken with grief at the death of her son. The early morning light became less bright than it had been previously and her tears formed the morning dew. At Eos’ request, Zeus turned the smoke from Memnon’s funeral pyre into the ‘Memnonides’, a new species of bird. Every year, the Memnonides migrated to Troy from Aethiopia to mourn Memnon at his tomb.

Representations and Symbols of Eos

Eos is often depicted as a gorgeous young maiden with wings, typically holding a young man in her arms. According to Homer, she wore saffron-colored robes, woven or embroidered with flowers.

Sometimes, she’s depicted in a golden chariot rising from the sea and pulled by her two swift, winged horses, Phaethon and Lampus. Since she’s responsible for dispensing dew in the early morning, she is often seen with a pitcher in each hand.

The symbols of Eos include:

Saffron – The robes that Eos wears are said to be saffron-colored, referencing the color of the sky in the early morning.

Cloak – Eos wears beautiful robes or a cloak.

Tiara – Eos is often depicted crowned with a tiara or a diadem, indicating her status as the goddess of the dawn.

Cicada – The cicada is associated with Eos due to her lover Tithonus, who eventually became a cicada as he aged.

Horse – Eos’ chariot is drawn by her special team of horses – Lampus and Phaeton, named Firebright and Daybright in the Odyssey.

Facts About Eos

1- What is Eos the goddess of?

Eos was the goddess of the dawn.

2- Is Eos an Olympian?

No, Eos was a Titan goddess.

3- Who are Eos’ parents?

Her parents are Hyperion and Theia.

4- Who are Eos’ consorts?

Eos had many lovers, both mortal and god. Astraeus was her husband.

5- Why was Eos cursed by Aphrodite?

Because Eos had an affair with Ares, Aphrodite’s lover, she was cursed by Aphrodite to only fall in love with mortals and suffer them aging, dying and leaving her.

6- What are the symbols of Eos?

Eos’ symbols include saffron, horses, cicada, tiara and cloaks. Sometimes, she’s depicted with a pitcher.

In Brief

The story of Eos is somewhat tragic, in that she  endured grief and faced many difficulties due to Aphrodite’s curse. Regardless, Eos’ story countless visual and literary works of art and she remains an intriguing figure. In some parts of Greece, people continue to believe that Eos still wakes before the night ends to bring forth the light of day and returns to her domain at sunset with a cicada for company.

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Idolized Preshooting Interview; MARS’ 𝓙𝓲𝓷𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰

          We caught up with the twenty-eight year old to get a glimpse into his thoughts for the                            upcoming filming of the highly anticipated Idolized documentary.

What is life as an idol like? What are the hardships? What is rewarding?

Jinyoung’s more than thankful that he’s chosen a shirt with so many tailoring details to wear for the sit-down; he’s able to pick at the buttons here and there and to rub his thighs when he’s anxious about an answer. He’s arguably the most professional in approaching his job as an idol; he gives just enough, knows when and how to smile after saying something and where chuckles are appropriate, but the notion of explaining that job is not such an easy thing to get personal about. He gives his manager a questioning look, who urges him to continue, and so he does after clearing his throat. “Ah. Life as an idol is probably as hard as everyone imagines, but the hardships aren’t so bad if you take everything in stride. It’s fun to be on the road but all of the flights get tiring, it’s great to perform but it takes a lot of practice before hand, and it’s important to stay fit even if your body feels strain. There’s pros and cons to everything, right? All of the difficulties go away when you finish promotions or something like that, look back, and think, “Ah, I did it.”” He gets a thumbs-up. It’s a workable answer and more than expected from him.

How would you feel if your future child wanted to be an idol?

The mere assumption of his kin is enough to make a laugh bubble on the tip of his tongue but he lets it die there like a passing wave and instead clears his throat again, turning his head to the side quickly as a cautionary gesture. It’s more than unnerving for the manager who draws attention to himself more and more by the passing minute; he’s coached Jinyoung for this and yet he’s trying to go against the cold, collected image he’s always had. Why now? “If my future child wanted to be an idol, I’d support them. My father supported me in the public eye because everyone else in my family already was. If it was what I wanted to do, he was fine with it. I think there’s a lot of ways to express your love for music, and if that’s the way my child wanted to pursue it, then so be it. As long as they understood what it took and did their best, I’d say that’s alright.”

Do you think the words “artist” and “idol” mean the same thing?

Jinyoung knows how he really feels about this, he’s told his manager in honesty while they were viewing the questions in advance. The man told him to lay it on easy, rather not to be honest at all and to be very non-descript as he always is. Straight faced with stiff nods as they’d discussed. Only he doesn’t do that, for once in his career. “Idol and artist of course aren’t the same thing. They can both work as hard, that’s subjective, but objectively they’re not. An artist channels a lot of creative expression and personal touch into a lot of things. They have to create a brand and a certain image. An idol does those things to a lesser extent. An idol has different responsibilities than an artist, a creator does.” They’ll talk about it in the car.

Are there sides to you your fans don’t see?

This is a question that calms his manager’s heart rate. There’s not much Jinyoung had to say about this subject and the solid look on his face seems to project that now. “I think everyone has sides and parts of them they don’t show everyone, so yes, I probably do. I’d like to think I’m very real in my presentation though. I don’t like changing myself if I don’t have to.”

What do you hope viewers will see through the airing of this show?

His manager’s nervous again to be honest and the way Jinyoung’s cuffing and uncuffing his sleeves shows that he’s not sure about this question. The lower half of the questions Jinyoung simply didn’t have a good answer for. “Um. I hope they see through the airing of this show that...idols are not as superior or perfect as imagined. It’s easy to forget that idols and musicians are people just like everyone else, no matter how talented. This might show a new perspective.”

What do you hope you’ll get out of the experience of the show? Are there any other groups or idols you hope to get the chance to meet more through the show?

“I hope that I can learn how to have fun with others during this experience,” He answers finitely and doesn’t speak for a while, which makes his manager groan. He’s mouthing ‘more,’ so Jinyoung gives him more. “I think sometimes I don’t talk to or text others enough like I know a lot of my members in MARS do. Sometimes I’m all work and no play, which can be a bad thing. Um, I think I’d like to meet anyone more.” ‘More.’ “ I musically admire the women in Lipstick and the men of Decipher seem fun to be around. It would be cool to say hello to them.” He’s shrugging.

How do you feel about the upcoming Hallyu Triple Fantasy Concert in Jeju City?

The what? He was only briefly told about this and perhaps chose to ignore it. It wasn’t like MARS was busy, he just hasn’t taken a look at his agenda book in..forever. “I’m looking forward to it.” He provides and gets a blank expression in return. “It seems like a great opportunity for a lot of fans to come together and enjoy themselves, which is always good.”

Do you have any worries about being followed by cameras for the show?

This is something he can tackle on his own and everyone on the teams’ more than grateful it’s the last question. Jinyoung’s quick and easy to work with, but it’s a bit tense with his manager frantically waving a clipboard around the entire time. “I’m only a tiny, little bit nervous about being followed by cameras because I’m a reserved person. I like down time and I’m not interesting during it, but I’ll do my best. I want to be entertaining. I feel mostly fine though because acting involves a lot of cameras, you know? Acting is like second nature for me, and I even have a few drama prospects coming up. This is a good warm-up, no?” 

He’s in his coat, gathered with the team, and in a car within the next five minutes.

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‘If He’s Not in a Fight, He Looks for One.’

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‘If He’s Not in a Fight, He Looks for One.’

On July 24, as special counsel Robert Mueller’s uneven testimony came to a close, Donald Trump clearly was feeling triumphant. He gloated and goaded on Twitter. He stood outside the White House and crowed. Mueller had done “horrible” and “very poorly,” the president said on the South Lawn. He called it “a great day for me.” He was, after all, rid, it seemed, of perhaps his first term’s preeminent enemy.

It took him less than 24 hours to flip to the next big fight.

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Because on July 25, according to reports, Trump pressured repeatedly the leader of Ukraine to help rustle up potential political ammunition on Joe Biden, the man polls at this point suggest is his most likely opponent in next year’s election.

That Trump would so quickly in the wake of the Mueller investigation commit a brazen act some critics say representsan egregious and impeachable abuse of power has mystified many observers. How could he have so blithely ignored the lessons of the nearly three-year investigation? But those who know him best say this is merely the latest episode in a lifelong pattern of behavior for the congenitally combative Trump. He’s always been this way. He doesn’t stop to reflect. If he wins, he barely basks. If he loses, he doesn’t take the time to lie low or lick wounds; he invariably refuses to even admit that he lost. Regardless of the outcome—up, down or somewhere in between—when one tussle is done, Trump reflexively starts to scan the horizon in search of a new skirmish.

“If he’s not in a fight, he looks for one,” former Trump publicist Alan Marcus told me this weekend. “He can’t stop.”

“He’s always in an attack mode,” former Trump casino executive Jack O’Donnell said. “He’s always got adversaries.”

“He does love a confrontation—there’s no question about it,” added Barbara Res, a former Trump Organization executive. “Trump thinks he’s always going to win—he really does believe that—and he fights very, very, very dirty.”

“A street fighter,” Louise Sunshine, another former Trump Organization executive, once told me.

Trump, of course, has said all of this himself, and for as long as people have been paying him any attention. For decades, he has been redundantly clear. “I go after people,” he has said. “… as viciously and as violently as you can,” he has said. “It makes me feel so good,” he has said.

As president, he’s changed … not at all.

“I like conflict,” he confirmed last year.

***

“Donald,” wrote Jerome Tuccille,in the first biography ever written of Trump, in 1985, “was a round, fleshy baby who howled up a storm from the day he was born.” He was “a brat” from the start, according to his oldest sister. In elementary school in Queens, he was a desk-crashing, spitball-spewing, pigtail-pulling playground boor. “Surly,” said one of his teachers. “A little shit,” said another. He was sent at 13 years old some 60 miles up the Hudson River to New York Military Academy, where he was cocksure and hypercompetitive—“so competitive,” his roommate recalled, “that everybody who could come close to him he had to destroy.” His favorite instructor at NYMA called him “a real pain in the ass.” But it was what Trump’s father had taught him to be. “Life’s a competition,” Fred Trump told his second son and chosen heir. Be a “killer.”

In the 1970s, when Trump was a young adult, Roy Cohn continued the tutorial. “What makes Roy Cohn tick?” journalist Ken Auletta once asked Cohn in an interview, the audio recording of which acts as a kind of spine to Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary. “A love of a good fight,” Cohn answered.

“Roy,” Roger Stone tells Tyrnauer, “would always be for an offensive strategy. Those are the rules of war. You don’t fight on the other guy’s ground. You define what the debate is going to be about. I think Donald learned that from Roy.”

“I bring out the worst in my enemies, and that’s how I get them to defeat themselves,” Cohn once said. Trump was taking notes. “A sponge,” Cohn cousin David Lloyd Marcus told me.

“He made Donald,” added socialite and celebrity interviewer Nikki Haskell, “very confrontational.”

Trump spent the 1980s constructing what’s proven to be an ineradicable foundation, opening the refurbished Grand Hyatt, building Trump Tower and buying Mar-a-Lago, the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League and a vast stretch of land on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that he would try to turn into “Trump City,” pile-driving into the cultural bedrock the places and props that would underpin his persona.

The consistency of his bellicosity, too, became impossible to ignore. He fought, and he fought, and he fought. Even after fighting the city for lavish tax breaks for his first two projects—and winning—he quickly picked new fights and new foes. He fought preservationists after jackhammering pieces of art on the building he had to tear down to put up the building branded with his name. He fought aghast residents of the neighborhood in which he wanted to plop his most gargantuan project yet.

And as the owner of the USFL’s Generals, he fought … everybody. Arrogant, impulsive and ill-informed, Trump wasted no time starting to fight with his fellow team owners in the second-tier outfit. He then set his sights on the larger, richer, much more powerful National Football League. He wanted to go head-to-head by playing games in the fall instead of the spring. He wanted to fight for players, for television time, for attention. “We’re definitely at war with the National Football League,” he said just six weeks after he acquired the Generals. He wanted the NFL in the end to take in him and his team, and he didn’t want to wait. And enough of his fellow owners finally capitulated. He sued the NFL—and he lost. “Everyone let Donald Trump take over,” one of the owners said. “It was our death.”

Trump, though, hadn’t even waited for the verdict to shift his focus. Two monthsbeforethe upshot in court, he kickstarted his next fight. It started with two words.

“Dear Ed …”

Mayor Ed Koch. His No. 1 antagonist all decade long.

For several years, Trump had been looking down from his Trump Tower perches, from his office on the 26th floor and from his triplex at the top, sometimes with a telescope, watching broken Wollman Rink sitting dormant in Central Park. The city had been fumbling in its efforts to fix it, a stupor of faulty Freon, damaged coils and construction delays. And it still was nowhere close to being done. Trump sniffed the possibility of a fight that could make him look good.

“I have watched with amazement,” he wrote in a provocation of a letter to Koch, “as New York City repeatedly failed on its promises to complete and open the Wollman Skating Rink. Building the rink, which essentially involves the pouring of a concrete slab over coolant piping, should take no more than four months’ time. To hear that, after six years, itwill now take another two years, is unacceptable to all the thousands of people who are waiting to skate once again at the Wollman Rink. I and all other New Yorkers are tired of watching the catastrophe of Wollman Rink. The incompetence displayed on this simple construction project must be considered one of the great embarrassments of your administration. I fear that in two years there will be no skating at the Wollman Rink, with the general public being the losers.”

He made his pitch. He wanted to take over the rink and make it work. “I don’t want my name attached to losers,” Trump said. “So far the Wollman Rink has been one of the great losers. I’ll make it a winner.”

And he did. The rink opened later in the year to great fanfare in the city and around the country. Beyond the specific accomplishment, though, the entire endeavor let Trump fan his feud with Koch. It was a milepost in their sour, never-ending back-and-forth, Trump calling Koch a “moron” and a “disaster,” Koch calling Trump a greedy bully, all of which only intensified later in the decade when Koch spurned Trump’s demands for more tax breaks for his plot on the Upper West Side.

Trump didn’t get the money from the city that he wanted, but the war alone was a sort of a win—a key slice of the Cohn syllabus, passed down. Reporters, as Trump put it, “love stories about extremes, whether they’re great successes or terrible failures.” All publicity was good publicity, he believed, and more than anything else, as he (with Tony Schwartz) would write inThe Art of the Deal, “the press thrives on confrontation.”

The ‘90s were no different. He fought his first wife through their high-profile split and acrimonious aftermath. He fought his lenders and creditors in a desperate attempt to stay solvent. Most people, perhaps all other people, would have concluded that this was more than enough strife. Not Trump. He picked a fight with casino analyst Marvin Roffman (and lost). He picked a fight with Atlantic City resident Vera Coking (and lost). He engaged in headline-generating legal tit-for-tat with Harry and Leona Helmsley. In 1995, still owing his lenders $115 million of debt he had guaranteed during his late ‘80s shopping spree, Trump teetered on the precipice of personal bankruptcy. Restless and unchastened, he spent the rest of the decade tangling with casino tycoon Steve Wynn in Atlantic City, filing lawsuits, calling him names (“an incompetent”) and attempting (and ultimately succeeding) to prevent him from expanding from Las Vegas into what Trump considered his territory.

“He is a man who will say anything,” Richard D. “Skip” Bronson, Wynn’s righthand man at the time, wrote of Trump in a book about this fight,War at the Shore. “It didn’t matter how baseless or how ridiculous the comments, Trump didn’t need to be proven right in order to win. All he had to do was be a nuisance and stall long enough so that the project would no longer be attractive.” Bronson added: “The whole feud had been a game to him and now that it was over, he was ready to move on.”

***

Over the last two decades, as his officious schtick on “The Apprentice” somehow forged a path into politics, he sniped with celebrities before he did the same with Republicans and Democrats alike.

“Trump is a predator,” Republican strategist Alex Castellanos asserted last spring. “When something enters his world, he either eats it, kills it or mates with it.”

“He is not interested in pleasures such as art and food and friendship, and he doesn’t seem to be motivated by love or creative impulses. The one exception is his drive to create conflict, which brings him the attention of others. When he says he likes to fight—all kinds of fights—he is telling the truth,” Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio told me earlier this year, pointing to a “discomfort” Trump seems to feel in “the moment of peace that follows a victory.”

“Yes,” D’Antonio texted this weekend as the Ukraine news was breaking. “It’s always a matter of a new extreme.”

“He’s more comfortable in an adversarial relationship,” O’Donnell, the former Trump casino exec, said when we talked on Sunday. “So he’s thinking about Mueller one moment, and he’s thinking about Biden the next.”

I asked O’Donnell why he thinks Trump is this way.

He told me to call a psychiatrist.

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