#pan god

[childrenofpan]

Pan drawing I made a long while ago, some descriptions say he has a cloak of stars, and I wanted to draw that

[jejesoso]

This trilogy is bullshit part 2

"But when wounded humans begin leaving prayers at the tree that was once her body, a new law awakens in the ash:

Witness.

Not worship. Not ownership. Not obedience."

I'll be honest, this feels like it was written by a Reddit atheist who believe they know how to fix society

This has less pages than the first book but it's still more than what it deserves

The ai generated image on the cover is a pain in the eyes to analyse

This map is terrible

The sample only goes up until chapter 5

"If one hand could reach the surviving branch before dawn, then another could follow with a petition, a knife, a doctrine, a child, or a god's interpretation of what her survival was supposed to mean."

"Someone had stood before Daphne's old wound long enough to choose the branch, tie the knot, and turn her survival into a surface where another person's grief could be left."

2 pages in and we're already dealing with this bs

"That was how quickly a law become a theft when frightened hands found it useful."

The reason why this books has so many pages os because the "writer" shoves as many supposedly profound lines as they can while also over describing everything

"There it was: command trying to dress itself as concern. Daphne studied her, and Thaleia shut her mouth."

See?

"Some were prayers, some warnings, some claims pretending to be apologies. Some were evidence left by people who no longer trusted courts, temples, groves, kings, gods, or their own memory."

"『It is not testimony if it becomes worship,』 Thaleia said."

『Then we teach it not to kneel.』

"Ione, very softly, asked,『Can testimony be taught?』"

"『Yes,』 Daphne said. 『Badly, at first.』"

So... Daphne wants to eternally change human behavior. That sounds horrifying

"I brought rue, honey, clean linen, barley cakes, willow bark, and three temple bandages stolen from a room where priests were arguing whether people like me should be purified before or after testimony."

"Only what had already been purchased with tithes from people who bleed."

"A child asking the first honest challenge Heliodon has permitted him."

"Whether the god of truth requires defense from truth."

So yeah, Apollo is reduced to a petty tyrant here

"Daphne's voice was not in the chamber. He knew that. She was not sending him a command, and she would hate the idea of becoming another god inside his bones. The words were his own memory of her refusal, given edge by the gold-white wound she had left in him."

Seriously, what's the point of such exaggerated writing?

Don't think we needed 2 paragraphs talking about how Luun's injury isn't just a injury

"Hecate stepped into the Moon Chamber wearing one face this time, which was never a comfort. The goddess had chosen the mother's shape: dark hair braided with keys, eyes black at the center and silver at the rim, mouth curved as if amusement were a knife she enjoyed polishing."

I hate being reminded of this Maiden-Mother-Crone template

"Not impossible, then; only forbidden by the assumptions of men who thought inheritance meant sons because sons were easier to mistake for continuation."

You can't waste a chance for empty "profound" lines, huh?

Hecate wants this witch to use some whatever ingredients to create... a being

"It did not know no as rejection, not yet; no had been ingredient, no had been power, no had been stolen, ground, poured, sung over, shaped, and fed into the vessel as if refusal were a seed one could plant in any soil and harvest obedience from later."

Don't ask what's going on, it's not that remarkable

"Second rule. No one touches the tree without asking the grove, and the grove's answer must be interpreted by more than one voice."

"A single interpreter becomes a priest."

When I said this was written by a atheist, it wasn't supposed to be serious

"anything made from violation is owned witness before destruction, unless it is actively killing and there's no other choice."

"Dryads who had worshipped her in silence, humans who had feared her into symbol, even Kalliane, even Ione, even Thaleia—all of them had to rearrange themselves around the simple fact that Daphne's voice shake. She let them see it."

Urgh 🙄

[fast-feet-wild-heart]

[jejesoso]

This trilogy is bullshit part 1

"To him, Daphne is not merely a woman reborn from myth. She is the impossible answer: dryad, survivor, living sunlight, and the one power that could give darkness an heir."

The plot is Daphne has a special womb and due to that vampire King edgelord is trying to use her to get an heir immune to the sun

Of course it's ai generated image on the cover

Ps: I'm only reading the SAMPLE. Zero chance I'll spend money to read the whole book

If the ridiculous ammount of pages doesn't give you an idea, here's a comparison:

You can read the entire 7 books Chronicles of Narnia saga in less pages 🫩

Lots of chapters

"The second was that men assumed sacred things did not mind being touched.

They came in summer with bronze knives and clean white robes, laughing softly as if laughter became holy when carried beneath the branches of a laurel."

I can't believe I got to use this meme a THIRD time

"—not to be adored, not to be immortalized, not to become a symbol sung by men who never heard the terror in the song."

It quickly became clear this Daphne would be a terrible protagonist

"The name moved through the clearing. Not as Apollo had spoken it in pursuit. Not as priests had sung it in ownership. The dryads spoke it like a door being found beneath vines."

That's not the profound writing you think it is

I don't think this book had an editor or a beta reader. Because somehow Daphne knows that the warrior nymph is named Thaleia before the woman introduced herself

"They knew who she meant. Of course they knew. Every tree knew. Every nymph knew. Every girl who had ever fled a god knew."

It's one of those books that treat every female character as a victim of sexism and misoginy

Pan is here. For some reason

"The answer: not a woman, not a survivor, not Daphne, but an answer, a key, a womb with a myth wrapped around it before she had even learned how long her new hands could hold themselves steady."

Yeah, yeah, yeah

"Alone in the heart of Nocthrys, Luun wore only the shape Hecate had given him and Hades had permitted him to keep."

He's a emo edgelord

"She was not beautiful in the soft manner of court poets or priestly lies. Luun had owned, courted, fed upon, spared, and destroyed beauties enough to make the word almost dull."

So he's a serial killer but I'm supposed to see him as a good love interest?

"He had not ruled the Blood Court for a thousand years by mistaking appetite for vision, at least not where anyone could see him do it.

Not merely a womb.

A threshold. A bride of impossible consequence."

Hope this vampire King dies 😑

"I know every human Apollo has polished brightly enough to mistake himself for a star."

"Not fear. Not yet. Apollo had chased Daphne once and failed so spectacularly that poets had been needed to make his failure sound like romance."

If you told the "writer" of this book about the myth of Hecuba or Asclepius, this person would burst into flames

"Kingship is inheritance. Without that, a kingdom is only a long interruption before dust."

What makes this idiot better than Apollo?

"Phaeron had Daphne's problem in reverse. He had been made into a symbol before he had ever been allowed to be a child."

Oh great!! 🙄

Luun is the type of father that treats his sons as investiments and then get's annoyed when the sons don't achieve his impossible demands

"Luun could teach her something else.

Patience. Night. Revenge. A throne from which she would never again need to run.

He imagined her beside him in Nocthrys, not trembling and newly born, but crowned in black laurel, her sunlight veiled but not extinguished."

It get's worse, unfortunally

"He imagined Apollo watching from the heavens while the woman he had failed to possess chose the king his light could not kill. He imagined a child between them, dark-eyed and sun-crowned, laughing beneath noon while temples broke open and vampires stepped from centuries of shadow."

Don't know how the reader is supposed to care about this guy

"Every king required a private place of failure. Men who lacked one became stupid. Gods who lacked one became Apollo."

Dude, shut up, you're not that much better

He has a mausoleum for the experiment sons he had that failed to survive the sunlight

"I have found the mother of the heir who will avenge you."

This piece of shit has yet to have a first interaction with Daphne, but he already talks as if she belongs to him 🤬

And to finish this part with more trash, the author put the dumb Maiden-Mother-Crone template on Hecate...

[kittycutiedraws]

[maxieyyyy]

Commission for @satyricalclown !! I loved drawing this sm :D

[nymphenae]

From Jugend, 1912

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[satyricalclown]

dancing with the horned one