An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In which Apollo crash lands in Aeithales, once again mortal, once again Lester. Now if only he could figure out why.
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if i look back, i am lost
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Love Begins

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In which Apollo crash lands in Aeithales, once again mortal, once again Lester. Now if only he could figure out why.
TOA fanfic archive?
So! As some of you may know, I've been working on a traditional fansite for The Trials of Apollo, and at some point I'd like to have a fanfiction archive there.
Thing is... it would likely be a very antiquated style of fanfiction site. Instead of the authors publishing directly, like on AO3 or Wattpad or even Fanfiction dot net, the author would instead e-mail the fanfic directly to me & I would update the archive once or twice a week with any new fanfics I received.
It's not ideal, but the tradeoff would be complete freedom with customization. If you were to e-mail the fic to me as an HTML file, you could make it look however you want. I'd even accept accompanying images & CSS files.
Not that coding would be required, of course. I'd also accept plain text/rich text/etc, it would just look like the rest of the site.
(This is, of course, part of my grand evil plan to teach the entire Trials of Apollo fandom to code.)
Would this fandom be interested in something like that?
(The website, for those curious, is apollog.ist)
saw that ask about apollo fan art and immeditaly assumed it was about pjo apollo bc thats who i am as a person i guess and begun to frantically scroll thru ur blog thinking 'theyre doing percy jacksin fanart again?????' But no it was for ace attorney which is also poggers thank u for ur service king
u know what anon, u reminded how fucking much i love apollo pjo. so here . i missed u my king.
will and austin who cried
Happy Pride! Some Pan art of my boi Lester Papadopoulos! Re-Reading Trials of Apollo and it is still just as peak as I remember!
Serious question : is apollo’s insta profile a picture of himself, or something else?
Pre-TOA: himself, probably
Post-TOA: a poorly cropped photo of allllll his besties lmao
I'd like to add to this and headcannon that all of the posts on his insta page pre toa were just photos of him doing random shit
and they were all clearly excuses to post pictures of himself where he looked rlly cool
like its a very obviously posed photo of him shooting his bow with a caption like "artemis took this candid photo of me while I was hunting"
where's that photo
pov: it's all falling apart
and this SPECIFIC part of the other photo:
#feelingfab
YESSS
And then after TOA it's just like any time he hangs out with his friends.
Like he'll post a photo of him and Meg wearing flower crowns they'd made together
and then later that day meg posts a video on her story of him failing to make a flower crown and her having to do it for him
A random drawing of a random scene in TOA
I love this duo.
All of my Trials of Apollo Notes(more or less in order of mention)
Apollo yaps about himself:
Dislikes water
Artemis likes to wake him up with a bucket of cold water on camping trips
Water reminds him of the day he drowned Commodus
Ordered a pizza to Camp Half-Blood once
Likes Alabama Shakes “Rise to the Sun” (well duh)
Made the Camp Half-Blood orientation video in 1950
Speaks Italian
Don’t think his children do, though
Loves and misses his sister Artemis a lot.
Likes to calm himself with songs
Good with kids(see Harley and Georgia)
Kinda likes Paolo
Dislikes swords; prefers archery
Likes red cows and used to have a herd of them(well duh)
Find tigers to be sensible creatures
Dated Commodus for a month before he became king
Dislikes scaled reptilian creatures (cause Python)
Dislikes slavery
Always liked spiders, despite what Athena thinks.
Can’t remember all his children
Mozart is not his child
Georgina might be his child
Likes red carpets (duh)
Believes 2:00 am is a optimal time to practice the zither
Dislikes felines cause they are “smug, self-centered, and think they own the world”, in other words because they are competition (catboy but cats are competition)
Understands a little bit of wolf
Is a self proclaimed cow expert
Hates going backward in moving vehicles
Pop Culture
Blessed Babe Ruth with 3 home runs in the 1926 World Series
Cursed Britney Spears at the 2007 MTV Music Awards
Broke up the Beatles because of jealousy
Invented mansplaining
Used to perform YMCA with the Village People
Has spent a lot of time in fast food restaurants
Found Pink working in McDonalds
Discovered Queen Latifah at Burger King
Unintentionally made a trip through a sewer treatment facility that led to a jam session with Lead Belly in Mississippi
Promised Bill Nye the Science Guy to always promote safe laboratory practices
Sang with the Beatles in 1965
Put together setlists for Kidz Bop
Sang with The Rat Pack and A Flock of Seagulls
Told William Shakespere no one will accept the Shaksperian sonnet
Disliked the 1590’s
Went on vacation once and entrusted the realm of music to Nelson Riddle.
Came back and found violins in pop music and accordion on prime time tv
Disco danced with Travolta
Had to register his divorce from either Liz Taylor or Greta Garbo
Fred Rogers used to comfort him after a “hard day of poetry-goding”
Had a group hug with the Rolling Stones in 1969
Played with Dizzy Gillespie in Bop City in the FIllmore in 1950
Hosted a jam session with the Grateful Dead in Golden Gate Park in the Summer of Love
Advised MC Hammer on his fashion choices as he pioneered pop rap
Took a baseball bat to Flaco Jimenez’s accordion because of jealousy
Did research on Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash
Produced music videos for Blondie and the Go-Gos
Blessed Captain and Tenille with their hit single Love will Keep Us Together in 1975
Made the “honey, he gay” meme
Helped Marvin Gaye write “What’s Going On” in 1971
Favorite Marx Brother is Harpo
Played a gig with Duke Ellington in the Cotton Club in 1930
History
Inflicted a plague against the Greeks at Troy
Blessed Admetus with twin calves from all his cows
Indirectly killed Achilles
Invented gel capsule medication
Alexander Fleming didn’t give him credit for the invention of penicillin
Collided with a bomber in 1945 in Dresden
Fought with George Washington against the Hessian mercenaries that Ares created.
Accidentally made Hemithea and Parthenos minor gods
Dated Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov during the Russian rebellion
Has an autographed t-shirt from Charles’s Dickens 1867 Second American Tour
Other Gods:
Athena is still angry with him over the Trojan War
Demeter used to be his favorite aunt
Artemis once shot him in the groin for flirting with her hunters
Met a “smoking hot god”(Frey), in a Stockholm tavern whose sword (Jack) would not shut up.
Definitely tried hitting on him
The goddess Nang Kwak tried to teach him Thai over noodles, but he failed miserably
Britomartis routinely plays tricks on him
She promised to meet him in a forest in Thebes, but he was instead trampled by a wild boar
She set up a “date” with Ingrid Bergmen, but he fell into a Burmese tiger pit right outside
She told him Rock Hudson was waiting for him in the middle of a mind field. Then he exploded
Three-Mile-Island was caused by a chainsaw fight between Hephestus and Ares.
Tried to explain to Ares how vocal arrangement in military works
Didn’t want to play Marco Polo with contact mines with Britomartis at Triton’s pool party
Hermes tricked him into wearing his flying shoes
He took a nap in Athens and ended up in Argentina
Has a Mount Olympus invitation only summer camp called Method Acting with the Muses
Writes his mother Leto a song for Mother’s Day every year
Once told Demeter “They’re only sprouts”, which prompted her to curse him that any clothing he put on would immediately sprout
Used to sit next to Persphone at family dinners
Stuffed a sun dragon into a car, then asked Hephestas to check the brake pedal
Went swimming in a volcano at Hephaestus's pool party
Dionysus has told many stories about his escapades in India
He told Apollo to never ever try to fight pandai…
Says to never mention Scarlett Jonhassan around Aphrodite
Athena alway wins scrabble
Once she played abaxial on a triple, and Zeus lightning-bolted of the top of Mount Parnassus in his rage
Hades hates it when corpses wander around because it makes him look like a sloppy warden
New Rome, New York, and Cozumel during spring break are the most likely places to find Olympians gods in disguise
Hermes has a large shoe collection
Hephestus once made a virtual assistant named Alexasiriastrophona
Once asked Ares and Aphrodite if the khromadae were their secret children.
Missed the entire 1480’s staring at Hephestus’s desk toys.
Dionysus insists on keeping old casks of wine in his cellar that have long turned to vinegar
Dionysus claimed two is the best number for children, because after that, the children outnumber you
Hades is a grumpy napper
Wake Hades up prematurely and you were likely to end up as a nuclear-blast shadow on his wall.
Ares once dropped a cat from Mt. Olympus to prove it would land on its feet in Manhattan.
Athena teleported the cat to safety, then beat Ares with the butt of her spear for endangering the animal.
Used to have spa decades with the Nine Muses
Mars swore to him that Elvis Presley was alive on Mars
The gods only gather together on special occasions, like Saturnalia, the solstice, and the World Cup
Assorted Other Mentions
Wrote the poetry and music sections on the DSTOMP
Diseases are regulated with health permits
His mother Leto has a condo in Florida
Wonders why there isn’t a god of family therapy
Dislikes the Gray Sisters because of professional jealousy
Their favorite nectar flavor is caramel creme
Their favorite Beatle is Ringo
Th used to have a collective crush on Ganymede, but now like Deimos
Has used the “catch me, handsome” fainting trick before
Once dated a matador in Madrid that assured him bulls are courteous animals and bad at sharp turns
Has a farewell concert every ten years or so
*shows off my ToA bookmark*
(If anyone has any ideas for the backside lmk im trying to figure out how to include meg but also other important parts of the series)
ToApril 2026
Day 7: Beneath the Surface
@toapril-official
I consider myself the biggest Lester Papadopoulos fan here. Fight me.
Square up mf /jlh
I do not consider myself the biggest Lester Papadopoulos fan, but I'd still fight you for free if you want 🤷♂️
*Starts recording with a camera to broadcast the fight*
Folks we got three people ready to start a brawl live from the city of Manhattan over a large ball of firey gas! One two three.... FIGHT!!!
what discipline are we fighting in?
*Looks over the camera*
Street fight Buddy, duh. No rules. Do whatever you want,I'm just the cameraman.... Actually one rule : Don't hit the cameraman.
*Focuses on the camera again*
One....two ...three-
Okay
@lunadoggos @toa-sted tagging you because you don't get notes for this post
*ties her hair with a band*
*grits her teeth*
*takes out a knife saw🪚*
*waits for you to run*
Gurl you had a knife and switched it for a SAW? Nah, you pick that right back up! A saw is the most ridiculous weapon, what are you going to do, leave a ladder in my shirt?
If you have a knife you always, always go with the knife. Guaranteed high effect even with little to no experience. Even a professional will have trouble to fully defend against a knife. Gun is also great, but if someone manages to get within 10m of you basically useless and hard to handle if you have no experience.
But, to tell you the truth, you do not look like the criminal type. I believe you could be a good masseur
Goodbye Apollo, hello Lester Papadopoulos
Hello! I hope you're having a beautiful day. Can you perhaps suggest a fic or few where Apollo doesn't ascend to godhood (whether by his choice or not)?
Hey there! You can start with this post, and here's some to add to that...
I Pick an Age When I'm Gonna Disappear (Until Then, I Can Try Again) by y_vanille
Apollo finished his trials. But that doesn’t matter to Zeus. No, he’s still stuck on earth as a mortal until he dies, because the unfairness of Zeus knows no bounds. — Or, what if Apollo stayed mortal until he died, and now he’s running around doing gods know what, like helping a stray demigod!
Why am I mortal again, Zeus? by @justarandomcatlover
Apollo is turned into a mortal again! You do not have my consent to use the text in this work to, use to train AI, use this in AI, repost this to other sites such as Wattpad, translate this into other languages, or turn this into a podfic, the latter three can only be done with my explicit consent in the comments of this fic
I sat down on the street (took a look at myself) by @izzymrdb
I sat down on the street and took a look at myself Said where you going man you know the world is headed for hell Say your goodbyes if you've got someone you can say goodbye to ~"How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty AKA The Fates, upset at Apollo refusing to return to Olympus and regain his godhood, unwind the tapestry and return him to when the story started going off track. This was a fatal mistake.
Til Death Do He Part AU by ArtJunkyard
A Trials of Apollo AU in which Apollo finishes his trials, but is seen as unfit to rejoin the olympians after the embarrassing things he has done, the insults he has thrown at them and the sensitive, Olympian-only information that he has shared. Zeus doesn’t want him to rejoin them on Olympus, and his word is law. Apollo is cast back down to live as a regular mortal who’s forbidden to enter the camps and have contact with deities. Hopefully he’ll just forget about them… right? There’s more information/art on this AU on the ToA discord, my instagram (my_art_junkyard) and my Tumblr (artjunkyardsdoodledump) This takes place nine years after the end of the trials, Lester is now 25.
We hope you enjoy! Leave kudos, leave a comment, and happy reading!
-Mod 2
One more for you anon:
Rather flail like a mortal than flail like a god on a lightning rod by morrigancrows
Five times a god came to talk to Apollo about going back to being a god, and one time a titan did. ToApril Day Twenty-Five: Race Against Time.
forget monsters and gods, the most magical part of the riordanverse is that none of the characters ever get sunburnt despite the fact that they never put on sunscreen
meg mccaffrey is such an icon