#the tyrant’s tomb

[apollosothertwin]

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[hyacjnthus]

nico finding out about reyna joining the hunters is gonna break me

[solahflare]

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

*cough* Harpocrates *cough*

Apollo, I love you, but…

[windwwhy]

toa is hilarious

[dissonantharmony]

finally read the tyrant's tomb today

[lesterapollogist]

quick reminder that while lester was literally laying on the floor dying, he decided to sing a duet of "sweet caroline" with a talking arrow only he could hear

[guardianspirits13]

Apollo, my cringefail loser son,,,

[thelilylav]

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

(He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, The Hollies)

My art, The World at Its Beginning (Dustin Pearson), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), The Fall of the House of Usher (Steven Berkoff), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Leto and her Children (William Henry Rinehart), The Moon Had No Light of its Own (Imaginary Future), My Love Mine All Mine (Mitski), Untitled (Lyra Wren), The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), Electra (Sophocles), To Forgive (The Smashing Pumpkins), Unknown, The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), The Sun is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon), Doomed From the Beginning (@/veniennes on tiktok), On learning to write professionally (Interview with Jazmine Hughes by The Creative Independent), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), My art

[churrofoxart]

They are siblings your honor!!

[neekos7]

Shout out to lester for being the only bitchless mc in the pjo universe

[apollosothertwin]

This is called “character development”

[blujaymi]

hello again locked tomb fandom. read the masquerade series by seth dickinson pretty pleaseee :'))

[kermitthesog]

All the series combined, (pjo, hoo, toa) I think Trials of Apollo might be my favorite. I’ve said Heroes of Olympus for a while, but after finishing toa, I was actually really sad in a way that I wasn’t with the other series. This is my reasoning: *TOA SPOILERS AHEAD*

Lester/Apollo’s narration and character development was top notch. In The Hidden Oracle, at first I thought the book series was gonna be full of arrogance and whining. Oh, how it was the complete opposite. He went through stuff that no other god will ever go through. Pain, and grief. The empty feeling of not being yourself anymore. And he finally realized how the gods are, how clueless they have been about mortals and demigods. Everything that happened in toa was just building up to the perfect Apollo, the Apollo that’s not in fact perfect.

The characters. Like, these characters are so good? First of all, they are so fleshed out. Meg McCaffrey, who saw her own father dead and got mentally abused by the emperor who killed him. “The Beast,” was just himself, but Meg was too scared of him to stand up for herself. And like, how is an arrow kind of making me empathize with it? The arrow of Dodona was supposedly the worst piece of wood in the forest, and so Lester needed to prove the others wrong, and I think he did. Especially in that final battle against Python.

The amount of different stories and adventures. Obviously you would have sooo many adventures, because you need to get a different oracle in each one! In every single one, we’re introduced to a new character and new goal. It doesn’t really start in the first one, as it’s just introducing the main characters. In the second one, it’s Emmie, Jo, Calypso, and Leo. In the third one, it’s Piper, Jason, and Grover. In the fourth one, it’s Lavinia, Reyna, Hazel, and Frank (a lot of characters from SoN). In the last one, it’s just a lot of chb campers. Will, Nico, the Troglodytes, and more. See what I mean? There are so many different stories in just one series.

And lastly, how powerful it is. The fact that it could make me cry is impressive, because I don’t cry at much (book and movie wise). Jason’s death, Lester’s misery, Meg’s abuse, and so much more. It’s just so sad but powerful at the same time. If you prefer a different series, (PJO, HOO, TOA) then tell me why!

[ukelele-boy]

Art I did for my part (1/3)

[wayward-wren]

There is an interesting shift in The Tyrant's Tomb in how Apollo/Lester talks about his father.

Cos in the previous books, i got the vibe that Apollo and Zeus never got alone, but that was more of the 'dysfunctional olympiad family' vibe, maybe with a slight added power dynamic of Zeus being Apollo's father and the ruler of the Olympians, which meant Apollo tended to get the short end of the stick.

Even when comparing his relationship to Zeus to Meg's with Nero, which is blatantly and narratively painted as abusive from the start, I didn't necessarily get the vibe that Apollo necessarily was ready to admit that Zeus was outright abusive, which as we're seeing it from his pov, meant I didn't fully put the pieces together.

But then we come to book four and Camp Jupiter, and now Apollo is outright saying 'yeah, he abused me and it was traumating,' to the point where he's almost triggered by the presence of his father's symbols at Camp Jupiter.

And I think it's a facinating shift and brilliantly written. It takes him a while to be able to look it fully in the face. It's only after he sees some examples of good parenting, after he meets and loses Jason--his brother who stood up to their father-- after he sees Meg slowly confronting her past, after he finds himself in the slightly triggering environment of Camp Dad that he's able to fully face it and name it.

Its also interesting to me that this is fully brought up in the same book that touches on a lot of the most horrible things Apollo did as a god. It's the victim becomes the victimiser theme, its paralleling those two sides of him, and its making the audience continue to sympathise with him, even though he admits to doing horrible things, and I love it.

[hpandcarbs]

Percy will forever be my favorite narrator but Apollo is a VERY CLOSE second