#the arrow of dodona <3

[literallyjusttoa]

During my breaks in drawing class today, my human design of AoD gave me the biggest brainrot, so here’s the doodles I made of them + a cool pose of some rando with a scythe

[toa-character-tournament]

ROUND TWO BRACKET A

[iliveinyourceiling65]

Trials of Apollo incorrect quotes

part 3 :)

Apollo: I’ve come to a point in my life where I need a stronger word than fuck

Arrow of Dodona: Here's some advice Apollo: I didn't ask for any Arrow of dodona: Too bad. I'm stuck here with my thoughts and you're the only one who can talk to me

Will, tending to Apollos wounds: How would you rate your pain?  Apollo: Zero stars. Would NOT recommend.

Meg A: I slept for almost 12 hours but I might still be tired so lets go for 12 more just incase. Apollo: Meg, that's a coma. Meg: Sounds festive.

Reyna, driving Meg and Apollo: So how was your day? Apollo: We almost got surprise adopted! Reyna: What? Meg: We almost got kidnapped. Reyna: Oh, okay. Reyna: *slams on the breaks* WAIT WHAT?!

Meg: You love me, right, Apollo? Apollo: Normally, I’d say yes without hesitation, but I feel like this is going somewhere and I don’t like it.

Shapeshifter: *transforms to look like Apollo*  Apollo: Okay, are you like BLIND? You look nothing like me. First off, I'm way taller. Secondly, I DO NOT look so sleep deprived and lastly, if you could drag comb through that hair you're like a 7 on a good day and I've been told I'm a constant 10.

Leo: What’s up guys? I’m back. Literally everyone at camp halfblood: What the- you can’t be here. You’re dead. We literally saw you die. Leo A: Death is a social construct

Apollo: How do I deal with my enemies? Meg: Kill them Apollo: That's a bit extreme, I was hoping for a more passive solution Meg: Kill them only a little?

[misterbardman]

I think the Arrow of Dodona and Jack the Sword would either get along really well or hate each other. I wish they got to meet </3

[newobsessioneveryweek]

A fun thing I thought of: TOA Edition

Month you were born

Jan - I booped [...]'s nose

Feb - I stole a shoe from

Mar - I stole candy from

Apr - I ticked

May - I challenged [...] to a duel

June - I visited my wrath upon

July - I attacked

Aug - I hugged

Sept - I bullied

Oct - I cursed

Nov - I complained about

Dec - I threw [...] across the room

Day you were born

Hemithia

Will Solace

Jo

The Meliae

Austin Lake

Nico di Angelo

Apollo

Nero

Kayla Knowles

Leo Valdez

Piper McLean

Meg McCaffrey

Georgie

Percy Jackson

Calypso

Zeus

Artemis

Hazel Levesque

Frank Zhang

Grover Underwood

Jason Grace

Commodus

Thalia Grace

Python

Annabeth Chase

Medea

The Arrow of Dodona

Caligula

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

The Sybil of Erythaea

Crest the pandos

Colour of your shirt

Red - Because I'm compromised

Orange - Because my horoscope predicted I would so I couldn't just NOT do it

Yellow - Because I have no impulse control

Green - Naked

Blue - Because I wanted to see what would happen

Purple - Because the planets were aligned

Black - Because they deserved it

White - Because my emotions got the better of me

Grey - Because I thought it would be funny

2 colours - In order to secure the bag

3+ colours - Because I was told not to

Unsure - Because fear could not stop me

Striped - Because Hermes dared me to

Polka dot - Because I'm a good person

Floral - because I am an incurable scoundrel

Print (other) - Because I'm a bad person

Sequins - Because I am controlled by the unbridled rage that courses through my veins

Graphic - As a convoluted form of risk management

Bonus matching pants: ...and because I've always wanted to do that

[emachinescat]

A Year in Book Review: My 2024 Reading Journey 📚

#23 - The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

Fantasy / Trials of Apollo #1 / 385 pages / published 2016 / Finished Feb. 16 (reread)

One Sentence Review: Another brilliant installment in the Percy Jackson universe, this book boasts loveable characters - familiar and new - as well as truly loathsome villains, a hilarious narrator, tons of Greek mythology, some questionable poetry, real heart and emotion, and, of course, our beloved Camp Half-Blood.

Favorite Quotes

"Live fully and without fear."

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"Aquaman driving / Couldn't possibly be worse / Oh, wait, now it is"

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"Seven-layer dip / Chocolate chip cookies in blue / I love this woman"

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"Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be."

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"I could feel the magic taking hold, despite the Arrow of Dodona whispering to me like an annoying Elizabethan stagehand, SAYEST THOU, 'PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY!' ... FIE! TOO STRONG IS THY PLAGUE. The Dodona Arrow hummed with annoyance. THY CHANTING SUCKETH ... METHINKS THOU HAST BLOWN IT, said the Dodona Arrow, my source of infinite wisdom. MOREO'ER, HIE! TAKEST THOU THE REINS."

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"I spluttered something like, 'Nuh-uh, dun-doot!' I may have waved my Brazilian handkerchief with the hope that its magic would destroy my enemies."

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"Listen to the trees / The trees know what is up, yo / They know all the things"

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"A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes."

My rating: 5/5

A Few More Thoughts (Spoilers):

Like all of Uncle Rick's books, it's fantastic. Of course, the fact that Percy Jackson makes an appearance makes me very happy, but the book is incredible in its own right. Apollo is the best kind of narrator - hilarious, loveably conceited, with excellent growth - and Meg is a joy. It's the perfect mix of action, tension, and humor.

For me, the most surprising part was that Meg was working with Nero and was leading Apollo into a trap. It's not just the betrayal that got me, though. It's the darkness of Meg's situation and abuse, that Nero - her "beloved" stepfather - and the Beast - her tormentor - were the same people, but separate to her.

Anyone can change and grow if given the opportunity, especially if they have someone to fight for, someone to believe in them.

Also, Nico and Will were beyond adorable and deserve the world.

Finally, I need a short story of Annabeth taking care of Percy as he recovers from that nasty head cold!

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Official List of Apollo's Lovers I Have As Characters In The Hunger Games AU So Far (Not Necessarily As Lovers Tho. In most cases they are just There because I want them There lmao):

Hyacinthus

Daphne

Commodus

Calliope

Clio

Melia

Branchus

Cyrene

Boreas

And for the crackshippers-

Arrow of Dodona

:3

[citrusreadstoa]

Reading The Dark Prophecy: Chapter 40 (SPOILERS)

"Shakespeare, don't bring that / Iambic pentameter" Either the Dodona screaming arrow starts spouting poetry or Meg does. Is the ultimate goal of this series to teach kids poetry?

"'A little warning, perhaps?' Jamie called." Yeah, the greatest danger a person falling out of a window poses is to the people below they may crush. How high up is it, anyway?

"We didn't see him." Oh, so he did fall into the void. Wtf?

"He Lityerses-ly flew out the window." Leo, you pull a muscle from that stretch? A for effort, though. I'll cut him some slack for the hostage situation he was just in.

"The two bumped fists as if they hadn't just spent the last few days talking about how much they wanted to kill each other. They would have made fine Olympian gods." Omg that's literally my family! We'd make great Olympian gods!

"[Thalia's] new gray highlights from my solar blast looked quite fetching." Did anyone else get gray highlights? Do Hunters' hair grow out? And again, skin cancer?

"We're going to need a bigger notepad." Why? Is iambic pentameter usually long?

"must the Lester go;" I'm fucking sorry? That caught me so off guard. I didn't expect his name to be so bluntly stated in the prophecy.

"Apollo starts to jive." Does jive mean something different here than I'm used to? I thought it meant to be on the same page as someone. JIVE (v.): 1. perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music 2. (Informal, US) taunt or sneer at 3. (Informal, US) talk nonsense

"But a full Shakespearean sonnet, complete with ABAB rhyme scheme, ending couplet, and iambic pentameter?" Oh, the horror! Not the couplets! These prophecies and chapterly haikus are slowly convincing me this whole series was an excuse for Rick Riordan to stretch his poetry-writing muscles.

"We will parse our doom later" PARSE (v.): analyze (a sentence) into its parts and describe their syntactic roles / examine or analyze minutely

"It kept me from thinking too much about the lines of the Dark Prophecy." Ay, he said the thing!

"I redesigned him so he's like a Lego kit, built for quick assembly!" Thank-freaking-goodness! He knows Festus is gonna get crunched, so he plans ahead!

"dissolving them into light. Could a quasi-deity such as Commodus do something like that to himself?" We haven't seen much of any of the Triumvirate's godly powers yet. This could be one. I'd be surprised if he died so easily. Anyway, important thing is that the triple-threat battle is still possible!

Hey, wait, why aren't Hades, Persephone, or Thanatos on the Triumvirate's case yet? They're escaped souls! I know we've established that souls escape all the time, but this should be pretty high on the ghost-wrangling list!

"Their bodies desiccate when their spirits pass on" DESICCATE (v.): remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry "Heloise's body crumbled to dust." Okay, so it was just holding together for the funeral. Maybe that means she'll regenerate eventually? Let me cling onto that hope.

"Made this for you. You can take it with you when you go away." Noooo I just know they're gonna pull at our heartstrings with this little doll later down the line.

"if you ever want to talk--" "No, I'm good." Mood.

"Yet I could no longer feel annoyed with her for giving up my gift of divinity." Yeahhhhhh he's understanding

"hide his bald pate." Probably means head or scalp. PATE (n.): a person's head

"What of the Dark Prophecy?" Did everyone just unanimously agree to call it the Dark Prophecy? Do they all just hate it because it's too long?

[sierice]

I posted 1,900 times in 2022

135 posts created (7%)

1,765 posts reblogged (93%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@ukelele-boy

@glassamphibians

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I tagged 1,900 of my posts in 2022

#rb - 1,748 posts

#i will be there for queue - 1,412 posts

#asks - 110 posts

#fave - 62 posts

#🤍🖤🤍🖤 - 48 posts

#mutual asks - 40 posts

#anon asks - 39 posts

#toapril - 36 posts

#toa - 24 posts

#mutuals ask - 22 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#p sure this is wrong but i am very sorry 😭 trying to think of who uses punctuation in the toa discord and the number is surprisingly low

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

See the full post

245 notes - Posted February 13, 2022

#4

This is the single most funniest line out of context

251 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

#3

267 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

#2

See the full post

344 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

actually now that i think about it..... what on earth was going on with the arrow of dodona and lester

410 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

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[solahflare]

I posted 45 times in 2022

That's 45 more posts than 2021!

9 posts created (20%)

36 posts reblogged (80%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@ukelele-boy

@archive-of-our-own

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I tagged 15 of my posts in 2022

#lester papadopoulos - 9 posts

#rick riordan - 9 posts

#trials of apollo - 9 posts

#riordanverse - 8 posts

#apollo - 7 posts

#toa - 7 posts

#percy jackson - 5 posts

#pjo apollo - 4 posts

#lester/apollo - 4 posts

#apollo my beloved - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 42 characters

#please just let him be the kid he still is

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

(the Hidden Oracle, Trials of Apollo, page 331)

*cough* Harpocrates *cough*

Apollo, I love you, but…

22 notes - Posted June 27, 2022

#4

Anyone remember that time when Apollo/Lester made Commodus turn to ash simply by screaming at him and it was never talked about again?

Yeah, me too

129 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

#3

The first thing Apollo does when he becomes a god again:

137 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

#2

And I thought I couldn’t respect the arrow of Dodona more. I should’ve known better.

333 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Ok, but all I really need to happen in the solangelo book is for Will to just lose his shit, because that kid has been way too calm for someone in his situation.

393 notes - Posted July 14, 2022

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[choerryhype]

say whatever you want but the arrow of dodona singing sweet caroline with apollo to try to keep him from dying while telling him to hold on to life will forever have a special place in my heart <3

[lordamaranthus]

Moments in ToA that live in my head rent free:

Apollo singing truthfully about his life and it being so sorrowful the myrmekes and Meg cry

Him hugging his son when he got him out of the cocoon

Freaking out when he found out his kids have been taken

Him saying “Cauterize... I need-“ and his hand bursts into flames. And doesn’t even question it.

Blinding Commodus with his true form and then panicking afterwards because “omg what if I just gave myself skin cancer!”

Shooting Python in the throat while he was monologging

Stabbing Python in the eye with Dodona

Using said arrow to steer them through the River Styx like????????? Ow??????

Python trying to take both of them out into Chaos but Apollo using the power of 💫legs🌟 to escape his jaws

Stabbing himself in the heart

Dodona.

Specifically Dodona singing Sweet Caroline and trying to get Apollo to join while Apollo was dying

I don’t remember his name but the Orange library cat in TTT. He owns my soul.

Speaking of TTT I recall Apollo telling the silent god to kill him but let Reyna and Meg go.

All of TDP. But mostly Commodus’ murder scene, Apollo melting the door, and wearing the chair like a backpack

“Why certainly! Today’s password is-“ *smashes armpit headset into the ground, disgusted*

The image of what a Blemmyae looks like that’s in the back of the ToN book. It haunts me.

Apollo screaming so hard into Commodus’ face he disintegrates into dust.

Stabbing said man in the calves with his own shin knife.

All 3[?] piss scenes. Why Rick. Why.

The pancake recipe “curse”

Apollo’s lover apparently being blown up right next to him in a minefield

Fretting over Piper to make sure she didn’t get a concussion

Piper screaming at him on the beach

I’ve got a whole lot more but I can’t put them into words right now; add on if you want lol

[water-breathing-percy]

Who’s your favorite pjo and/or any other Riorden(I probably misspelled that) character?

Btw I love your quotes! They are so funny and accurate <3

My favourites wld be

Percy, Annabeth, Nico, leo/Reyna (leo is overrated ngl), The arrow of dodona in order. (Pjo only)

Beckendorf, Luke, Calypso, Poseidon, Magnus (wow, now that i think of it, i barely rmr the names of half of MCaGoA characters💀).....From Kane chronicles, Zia is pretty cool, I love Zia, and also the Anubis boy. Even Set is among my fav KC characters.

Also, you did spell Riordan wrong •́ ‿ ,•̀

Also thanks for the compliment (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

[crowleywasthedoctor]

Me <3 the arrow of dodona from toa

[moccawithsugar]

Few random notes about The Tower of Nero

(Spoilers ahead)

Nico. My poor boy Nico. Getting therapy from Mr. D was something I did not expect, but I’m glad he’s doing it. My baby deserves happiness.

The brotherly relationship between Dionysus and Apollo was something I did not expect either. I think I can finally understand better the god of wine and I’m glad for that.

Rachel and her brush will always be iconic.

Will is adorable. And the way he shines and then Apollo’s like “I’m so proud” and Will is there too flushed like “it’s not that I graduated med school with honors” and Apollo being a good dad for him like “I’ll be proud when you do that too” and I’m here like aawwwwww. But really, the fact that Apollo is proud that his son can shine is everything.

Will and Nico. They are so different and get along so good like wow. It’s amazing how they’re so perfect for each other. They know each other so much and they love each other so much and I love them so much.

There were two battle at camp Jupiter? Well, Percy and Annabeth are gonna stay in NYC. The battle is in NYC this time? Then Percy and Annabeth are going to San Francisco 😅 My babies deserve a rest.

Stelle is going to rule the world some day.

The cows... That was... so weird...

Also they mentioned Venezuela and I’m so happy for it.

Nico can kill just by touching people... WOW.

Meg is a little queen.

Her encounter with Nero was so heartbreaking but she was so brave...

Poor Lu.

“Nobody hits my boyfriend and nobody kills my dad”. Again: I love you, Will.

Apollo being sweet with his children was adorable. The compliment to Kayla and the cute little talk with Austin made me cry.

Also the other three new kids in the Apollo cabin meeting their dad. And Austin introducing them to Apollo like “they are the children you sired years ago, you probably don’t remember but now you do, you’re welcome” 😅 Also how do they know they’re Apollo’s children? He couldn’t have claimed them. Another god did for him? They’re just too good with arrows or medicine and make it too easy to deduce?

The other gods can watch him in a proyector in the hearth’s fire... Like, since when have them been watching him and laughing and betting against him? Since his trials started? That is so cruel, they’ve known Apollo for thousands of years. Hermes disappointed me so much, I really liked him. I expected no less from Ares tho. Also Poseidon was just there bored to the core and yawning like... You had that punishment before once too! And with Apollo! You know how it feels, you should care. I want to think maybe he was just too tired (if gods can get tired) because of the rebuilding of his palace but honestly what are the odds? The decline in Poseidon’s character is very sad.

Apollo walking to Python almost unarmed and alone was so brave. He couldn’t have gone like that in the first book and I’m so proud of him, he has grown so much.

“I missed the shot. Don’t even pretend to be surprised” I was not, Lester. At least you tried.

RIP THE ARROW OF DODONA! IT WAS A FAITHFUL PROJECTILE TO THE END! APOLLO MUST FALL BUT HE WILL RISE AGAIN!!!! HAIL HIS LAST PROPHECY!

Ehh did I mention Artemis? No? Well... ARTEMIS ARTEMIS ARTEMIS ARTEMIS ARTEMIS!!! The best goddess!! She was so worried 🥺 begging Zeus to forgive Apollo 😭 and screaming to Aphrodite... She’s so awesome I just can’t.

The description of how Apollo and Python fall to chaos was amazing. I never thought Rick would touch the subject of Chaos but it was great. The perfect end for Python and (of course) the perfect timing for the goddess of Stix to appear. At least she saw that Apollo has really learned the lesson. He must be true to all his promises from now on, specially the most important ones. He will remember. And the fact that Zeus can’t see to the Chaos? Sweet.

The way Apollo wept in his sister’s shoulder broke me. Poor guy, he has been through too much. And Artemis was there just so happy that he’s back and well and alive :’) she’s the best. “Not a cuddler, my sister. But she allowed me to hold her hands” aaawwwwww. Also the way she dressed him up into a dress was the most sibling-relationship-thing I’ve ever seen in a god/goddess 😅

“The gods awaited” is such a good phrase. Almost as good as “Release the Kraken!”.

I can’t stop thinking about the image of the tiny gods with Mickey Mouse voice “Welcome to Olympus!” 😂😂😂

“Wisdom, comes in handy” omg Athena.

If I thought before that Zeus was bad well now he seems even worse.

Why was Hera crying over Jason? Was she really grieving? Why? Doesn’t she hate every one of Zeus’s children? What did I miss?

The fact that Zeus doesn’t care about his son’s death 😒

Apollo visiting every single one of his demigods friends :’)

Hazel and Frank are finally free of their curses and living life like never before :’) I’m so happy for them.

Reyna seems so happy now with her bff Thalia hunting that damn fox. Also “no puedes decirle mamacita a una mujer, ¿entendiste?” was perfect 😅 I need more of Reyna and Leo speaking in Spanish.

Calypso enjoying school? Adorable :3

How doesn’t Apollo know if Georgie is his daughter or not? He’s a god now, he should now. He knew Thalia’s age just by looking at her, just saying.

I need lots of stories about the Hunters of Artemis, specially about what happened at the end with that fox.

The fact that Apollo knew Artemis was the only one there actually happy to have him back... And the wink at the end... I’m just obsessed with these twins ok?

Apollo bringing blue cookies to Percy was adorable. And Percy doesn’t know what to study, he just knows it has to be something with the ocean. I’m glad to see he doesn’t think about his phobia anymore. And Apollo’s concern about if Percy and Annabeth were going to share a bedroom or no 😅 hilarious. But that’s none of your business, Apollo. Annabeth told you herself.

Piper is bi! 😱 She’s finally happy (even missing Jason tho, don’t misunderstand me) with her partner and Apollo is so happy for her and she’s so happy for him and wow :’) too much cuteness.

The part with Meg was the most emotional. He even appeared a unicorn for her. “Will you come back?” “Always. The sun always comes back” and that’s the last sentence he says and it’s so beautiful 😭

The last paragraph killed me. It does every time I re-read it. Apollo I want you to know that I’m smiling on you too. Specially on sunny days. I’m very proud of you. We’re friends now indeed, and I’m glad for it.

[ethannku]

top 5 non main rrverse characters?

1. rachel dare

2. charlie beckendorf

3. jack the sword (does he count)

4. and for that matter, the arrow of dodona

5. emmie and jo