[greekmythstan]

Durendal is a ruthless sword while Cortana is merciful

[greekmythstan]

These traits can influence the wielder behaviour, like when Emma refused to kill Zara in qoaad

Yes, both Emma and Cordelia can be ruthless(from what I remember) by nature and some of their merciful decisions are influened by Cortana

[greekmythstan]

Durendal is a ruthless sword while Cortana is merciful

[tippytaptaps]

One of the most interesting things about TOA for me is Apollo's relationship with his father. Like, the parallels between Zeus and Nero are abundantly clear, and it's impossible to deny that Zeus has done some horrible shit to Apollo and countless others. What separates him from Nero for me, though, is that while Nero has no love in him at all, Zeus seems to have doted on his son in the past (book 2 lullaby scene), and is suggested to still worry for him even now, albeit only once his very existence is at risk (book 5 council scene).

I think that there is love in Zeus, but that eons of being a tyrant have made him so angry and paranoid that it's been buried pretty deep. Does this make him a good person? No. Does this mean Apollo should forgive him? No way! The dude's a mess, and I think Apollo's choice to distance himself from him is the best thing he could have done. All I'm saying is that I don't think Zeus is quite the bastard some fics make him out to be, and that it makes me sad to always see him portrayed as a simple villain. I think he's more complex than that. Does that make any sense?

[oblivvyon]

I just wanna learn what the language teaching practices are for shadowhunters since they need to learn latin & greek and such AND all of them seem to be really good at languages. either shadowhunters are just naturally linguistically talented or then they have amazing language education system that the real world would benefit highly from. And why do people in idris speak english

[portraitoftheoddity]

The problem with having OCs is that sometimes you wanna read about your little guy being in situations but unfortunately he is YOUR little guy and no one is gonna put him in that situation but you. Tragic.

[lostinlind3nmere]

what if "the last king of faerie" wasn't talking about Keiran but about the last ruler of Faerie before it was split into Unseelie and Seelie

[greekmythstan]

I like this…

[greekmythstan]

"Magnus had always been able to see well in low light, and in recent days his eyesight had become even sharper."

Cassandra Clare, The Lost Book of the White

Hang on. Are you telling me that Magnus's cat eyes work like the one of an actual cat?? Imagine how that must've been like.

*Dark room*

Catarina : *staying quiet to scare Magnus*

Magnus: I can see you, Catarina

Catarina *fumbling with anger*: Fuck you, Magnus!

Also:

Malec's house: *pitch black*

Alec: *comes home late after hunting demons

Magnus: Hello, Alexander

Alec: *screams*

[greekmythstan]

"My dear comrade's dead— Patroclus—the man I loved beyond all other comrades, loved as my own life—I've lost him."

The Iliad, book XVIII

[cyberxarchives]

agamemnon in the odyssey ... talk about aura ✨

[cinematicexcursions]

sorry what did you say? I was too busy thinking about that shot of Agamemnon once the gates opened in the Odessey

[bvckbiter]

the pjo saga increasingly blaming the failings of olympus/the gods on zeus alone (especially in toa) is such a disservice to the original story. in pjato and some of hoo, all the gods get to be messy and petty as fuck at some point and generally not-good parents. maybe zeus as the king has additional culpability as the one who upholds and embodies the system, but the rest of them aren't fucking saints. even the minor gods in pjato are not entirely sympathetic; nemesis essentially dismembers ethan, and the titan army is pretty much just minor gods sending their kids to war for their personal glory. that's what makes the tension of calypso's question of "do you side with them because they are good, or because they are your family?" so haunting.

this over-focus on zeus as the root of the bad stuff inside olympus is honestly also the reason why apollo's entire thing about redemption in toa always fell flat to me. everytime apollo has to be "redeemed" about something, it's always either one of these two: 1) something that happened so fucking long ago to characters we never or barely get to know, usually because they're from the myths (ie daphne, hyacinthus, trophonious) instead of apollo having done wrong and make amends towards a character we actually care about; or 2) can be boiled down to his line in tower of nero about how zeus rules olympus with a tyrant's fist. either way, the complexity is contrived, and the emotional catharsis feels unearned. apollo needs to be redeemed because the story says so, then he's redeemed because the story once again says so.

if rick had wanted to write a story about apollo really righting his wrongs, what about halcyon green, who's one of the cornerstones for luke's eyes being opened to the gods' cruelty? what about actually having some members of cabin 7 carry uncertainty or resentment towards him, about the fact that it took their siblings thanklessly dying in a war for more of them to be claimed and brought to camp? or even voice out awkwardness over how living with their half-siblings just regularly reminds them of how their mortal parents aren't special to apollo? what about camp jupiter being on edge around him, considering that apollo had a major hand in driving octavian mad, and octavian was a prominent ruling figure whose actions had consequences on legionnaires? how about apollo harboring guilt over how things turned out with the oracle of delphi, how maria di angelo and may castellan were caught in the crossfire? instead, one of the few times apollo actually references recent events/conflicts in the pjoverse, it's to mention luke's name in a joke about how apollo was the one to actually win the titan war.

circling back to the first point: fingerpointing zeus as The Olympus Bad Guy is a symptom of how flat pjo's narrative now is. it seems to be joining this recent-ish trend of media blorbo-fying the gods (like epic the musical) and, in general, prioritizing likeability and palatability in a character's supposed "redemption" rather than true tension. it's not even like apollo did anything concrete about zeus by the end of tower of nero so what was the fucking point!

[greekmythstan]

Epic was playing in my head the whole time while I watched the odyssey

[greekmythstan]

If the odyssey movie brings back an appreciation for the classics and I get called basic for liking something trendy, I am going to have a fit

You may have started liking it due to this movie. I have been here in this appreciation for over 10 years

[totallynotashieldagent]

chat I'm just finding out that there's no lotus eaters ?? There's no "my name is nobody"?? There's only one Cyclops?? There's no Poseidon??

[jeyneofpoole]

ALSO ODYSSEUS LITERALLY JUST GOES TO TROY HE JUST GOESSSSSSSS they don’t even TRY to put baby telemachus in the paper shredder he just dips without a fuss. they change odysseus hanging the maids to penelope kicking melantho out for girlboss reasons and they TOOK AWAY MY BAG OF WIND #mybagofwind they also took away the dipshit that falls off of circe’s roof and dies. deeply shallow meaningless movie.

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[greekmythstan]

percy jackson.