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apollosgiftofprophecy · 4 months
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^literally iconic lmao
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phoneheadedemployee · 4 months
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What I think ToA characters would do if you called them a name
(SPOILERS WARNING)
Lester: he'd probably either agree with you, cry, or both simultaneously.
Meg: she'd probably call you something worse.
Lu: She'd crush your skull probably.
Lit: depends where he is in his arc. Pre-saving? He'd kill you. Post-saving? He'd probably not care.
Leo: he'd probably get really offended or sum.
Emmie and Jo: I think they'd both lecture you.
Georgina: okay, what the actual fuck is wrong with you? What did she do to deserve this, bro??
Jason: He can't do anything, he's dead /j
Reyna: she'd probably beat you up idk.
Any of the gods: you're probably dead on sight 💔
Commodus: he'd probably force you into the arena and if that doesn't kill you he'd either get Lit or his other prefects to do it.
Caligula: Realistically speaking, he'd probably call you a slur and use your spine as a back scratcher.
Nero: He'd set you on fire and watch you burn to death while eating his exotic ass rich ppl ice cream.
Python: yummy yummy ig
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toasecretsanta · 5 months
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TOA Secret Santa 2023
Welcome to the second TOA Secret Santa event!
What is TOA Secret Santa 2023?
TOA Secret Santa 2023 is an exchange event that will run through December focused entirely on creating new content from each other’s prompt!
How does it work?
People sign up with 3 TOA-centric prompts they’d love to see someone use
After sign-ups have closed, everyone who has entered will be given one person’s prompt list
Everyone then has five weeks to create at least one piece of fancontent of their own, based on or directly inspired by at least one of the prompts they have been given
Once completed, all newly-created fancontent will be submitted to this blog, where it will be posted for everyone to see!
What counts as “fancontent”?
Anything!  Fanart, fanfiction, fan comics, animatics, meta/canon analyses, videos, music… if it’s created by you because you love TOA and want to contribute to the fandom, it’s fancontent!
When is this happening?
Sign-ups are open from 6th to 16th November 2023 (GMT)
All matches will be sent 17th to 19th November 2023 (GMT)
Submission deadline for new content is 23rd December 2023 (GMT)
How do I sign up?
Fill out this google form!  Or if you cannot access google forms, Message this blog and I’ll ask you the same questions.
See the RULES and FAQ posts for more information!
As always, if you have any questions, the askbox is open!  Everything will be answered publicly unless specifically requested otherwise.
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Python: Going to the US for an anti-missionary trip, those people need less god.
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amiti-art · 9 months
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The fact that Python is Apollo's greatest enemy and snake is Asclepius' sacred animal will always be funny
Part 2
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hogoflight · 2 months
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young pollo / Pythian Apollo having a forked tongue after possessing the oracle from Python!! either to show off his win. Smugly sticking his tongue out. (imagine if this was TOA Apollo and post-Toa he does this in response to Meg sticking her tongue out at him. And she FREAKS OUT (excited)!!!! Probably the closest she’s ever been to admitting he’s cool.)
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(young pollo ^^)
OR! a constant reminder of what happened. Baby pollo sobbing and crying to his mother and Leto instinctively flinching when she sees his tongue. AUGH. AND BABY ARTEMIS GIVING HERSELF ONE AS WELL (it’s very poorly done) SO HE DOESN’T FEEL AS ALONE. AAAAAAAA
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Let me know if you want me to put the posts for any of the pictures
Read Riordan ToA art:
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apollo will fall, but apollo must rise again
(click for higher quality, reblogs appreciated)
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kermitthesog · 4 months
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Python: Haha I have control of your dreams again, so you will die-
Lester: I don’t have time for you I’m trying to save my bestie
*Drives dream away*
-an actual scene in Tower of Nero
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moodyseal · 11 months
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It's sad that after all that's happened (and even after he said he'd rather die than turn to Zeus for help) Apollo still prays to his father first when faced with immediate danger
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apollosothertwin · 15 days
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Even when he is completely insane and can’t even remember his own name, Apollo remembers that he doesn’t like Python.
“I found this reference vaguely unsettling. I was pretty sure I’d known who python was a few minutes ago. Now I was blanking. I flashed on the name Monty Python. Was that correct? I didn’t think the monster and I had ever been on a first name basis” (320).
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apollosgiftofprophecy · 4 months
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ToA Theory 1 - Apollo's Waking Visions
First official theory post, here we go! :D
Alright. So. After rereading The Dark Prophecy, I started wondering about something. In TDP, Apollo experiences waking visions, where he conks out for a bit and has prophetic visions.
I found this interesting because, well...isn't Apollo supposed to be cut off from prophecy? With Python back in control of Delphi?
Because think about it. Python controls Delphi, the root of all earthly prophecy. This would include Dodona, Trophonius, Herophile, and Sibyl - sure, they aren't strictly connected to Delphi, but it's pretty heavily stated that Delphi just straight-up Makes The Future. It's prophecies are The Big Deal and you Should Listen.
Meanwhile the other Oracles seem more guiding and "beware!" instead of "this is how it's gonna be".
(sidenote: found out there are MORE oracles and I wanna know WHERE THEY ARE IN RRVERSE CANON because I want my boy Branchus okay??? Okay. Branchus's oracle was second only to Delphi let's give Apollo's first boyfriend the attention he deserves!)
So of course, like all great members of this fandom, I started thinking.
Let's do a little family history first. ;)
Buckle up. We go down a deep rabbit hole 😎
Apollo and Artemis are twins, born to Leto and Zeus. Zeus's parents are Kronos and Rhea. Leto's are Koios and Phoebe.
Rhea has connections to Dodona, as we learn in-series, but she doesn't really seem to be all that involved with prophecy.
Her siblings, meanwhile...ho ho ho, they are a WHOLE NOTHER STORY!
Let's start with Phoebe. Phoebe, like all first generation Titans, is the daughter of Gaea and Ouranos. She married her brother Koios. Her children consist of Asteria, Lelantos, and Leto. As well as Artemis and Apollo, her other two grandchildren are Hecate (Asteria) and Aura (Lelantos).
Her name means "bright" and is the root of Apollo's most famous epithet - Phoebus. She is often described as "golden-crowned" and is the Titan of bright intellect, the overseer of Earthly Prophecies, and is the second guardian of Delphi, after her sister Themis. She gifted Delphi to Apollo for his birthday after he defeated Python.
Classic grandmother move.
Anyway. There's a bit of Phoebe lore. Time for her elusive husband :3
Koios. His names means "question" or "questioning", probably because he's the Titan of inquiring intellect. He's also the overseer of Heavenly Prophecies, and has an oracle up in the North Pole guarded by an earth-dragon - you'd know this serpent by the name of Draco, the constellation btw. Additionally, Hyperborea (where Apollo goes in the winter times) is part of his domain.
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Unfortunately, we have very little mythological lore on these two, and even less in the RRverse (I cling to that one (1) Koios scene) which sucks because I love them already BUT it does give me lots of legroom to mess around with canon >:)
Back to the theory now. As you may have guessed, I'll be taking us in a direction concerning Apollo's mysterious grandparents. But what does this have to do with Apollo's visions?
Well. Remember when I mentioned that Delphi is the root of all earthly prophecies?
...look at Phoebe's paragraphs. She's the overseer of Earthly Prophecies, right? So it makes sense she's been affected by Python's takeover too.
(if you've read my fics you'd know this already lmao)
Asteria, Apollo's aunt, is a little trickier. She, too, has a hand in divination, but mainly through the night/stars and dreams. <-will come back to that later.
Koios, again, is overseer of Heavenly Prophecies, and is heavily implied to be able to commune with Ouranos's spirit. This is, apparently, a Big Deal because nobody else is mentioned to be able to do this.
...Except...remember this throwaway line in The Hidden Oracle?
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^Apollo can see Ouranos too.
Within this theory is a sub-theory, so to speak - that immortals with the gift of prophecy can see Ouranos, since they can see what cannot be seen. This would include Phoebe, Asteria, Koios, and Apollo.
And it'll make sense why they'd keep it to themselves. Kronos wouldn't have been happy to hear his dad was still around. Neither would Zeus, for that matter.
So here I was. Contemplating. Wrote a few fics based around this idea. And one in particular got me thinking (fic in question being When The Stars Align), and a little ways down the road I realized something.
If Phoebe, the overseer of Earthly Prophecies, would have been affected by Python's takeover...was Koios? Could he even be affected?
Because here's the deal: Koios is the overseer of Heavenly Prophecies. Prophecies from the Sky.
Phoebe's are of the Earth - the Earth that Python has taken control of. And Delphi is the root of Earthly Prophecies - not Heavenly.
That would be Koios's oracle, up in the North Pole with Draco.
...So that means Heavenly Prophecy must have still been in business during ToA.
But then comes the question: If it was still within the gods' control, why didn't they use it?
Well...Draco's there, for one. He's probably the Python-equivalent of the North, and clearly he's still there since no myth has spoken of his death (that I know of).
If you ask me, I just think the gods are too nervous/afraid to try Koios's oracle. They were too scared to face Python, after all, until Apollo arrived. I think they'd be scared of a serpent who comes and goes from the stars as he pleases.
And as for why Apollo hasn't done anything about it...well, I think his fight with Python left him rather scarred, don't you think? He probably went "yeah grandma's oracle is enough" and the only time he ever got close to Koios's was during his time in Hyperborea.
So getting back to the main theory now. (So many rabbit holes to dive into with this post. The ADHD Urge is real)
Since Heavenly Prophecies is still active, but Earthly is in Python's control, I conclude Apollo's visions come from the Heavenly source.
Could they have come from the now-working Dodona? Maybe. But Dodona's all about those windchimes and trees. It doesn't have the Vibe, so to speak, for granting visions.
And remember. Trophonius, Herophile, and Sibyl aren't destroyed/freed yet. They have Zero connection to Apollo at this point because Python cut him off from them.
...but he didn't from the North. From Koios's divine power.
Because remember. Apollo is the god of prophecy.
Not of Earthly Prophecies, like Phoebe.
Not of Heavenly Prophecies, like Koios.
Not of nighttime divination and dreams like Asteria.
Of. Prophecy.
Prophecy as a whole. The entirety. The whole enchilada.
Every part of prophecy he's the god of, be it tarot cards to the Oracle of Delphi itself.
In my opinion, I think whatever Koios's Oracle is, it has just as must power as Delphi. The only problem was that...everybody just left it be. Nobody considered it because:
1) scary dragon
2) scary titan ruled the place
3) honestly at this point I think it's just straight-up forgotten about. Like Branchus's Oracle. I think at one point Apollo himself mentions there are other Oracles besides the ones in-series, but there's so many that his mortal brain cannot comprehend how many.
If the Grove of Dodona nearly faded into obscurity, then I think it's entirely possible Koios's Oracle was forgotten about (or so we think...I'm gonna be chewing on this for a while.)
Coming back round to TDP...I think this is a reasonable explanation about Apollo's visions. To summarize:
Apollo is cut off from Earthly Prophecy, his usual source of foresight that he gets from Phoebe
The unused, near-forgotten-about Heavenly Prophecy side of Apollo ignites to steer him on the right path
This is possible because Apollo is the god of prophecy itself, and not a single subset of prophecy, so he's not limited in the same way Phoebe is
Koios's Oracle is still out there and kicking and I will die on this hill
One problem. What about Asteria? She can interpret the future from the stars...aka the Sky. Like Koios. So couldn't she provide some insight to the future, since she, too, is connected to Heavenly Prophecy?
This is where things get a lil' tricky. And where I really slap on my tinfoil hat and start headcanoning my way through lmao
Basically, I think that since Asteria became the island of Delos (long story) a good chunk of her power is ingrained there. She's not as strong as she used to be, so her foresight isn't as strong.
This, in turn, I think could also serve as a reason why Koios's Oracle is "asleep" so to speak and nearly lost to memory in the RRverse - in fact, I think Asteria and Phoebe are the only ones who bother to remember its existence.
And Leto, of course. But I don't think she wants her son to know of another Oracle with a giant snake guarding it. She's had enough heart-attacks, thank you.
(Same with Lelantos, tbh.)
Canon is my sandbox and I am making some sweet sandcastles out of it XD
TL;DR
Apollo's visions in TDP stem from Koios's source of Heaven Prophecy because Phoebe's source of Earthly Prophecy (Delphi) has been taken over by Python. Koios's source firmly knocks on Apollo's mental doors and decides to kick back into gear to help its titular patron's grandson out. Because Apollo is the god of prophecy itself - every bit of it.
Extras:
I find it fascinating how magic and prophecy are both part of the same family tree (Hecate & Apollo).
and yes. You should expect a fic concerning Koios's Oracle at some point. but no promises on when :3
Thank you for coming to Insane Theory Time With Alder. I hope there will be more lmao
Websites you can look into:
Koios (Theoi)
Phoebe (Theoi)
Hyperborea (Theoi)
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ukelele-boy · 1 year
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Eclipsed
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toasecretsanta · 4 months
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Less Than Two Days Left!
A reminder that sign-ups close at midnight on the 16th GMT (or more accurately, when I wake up in the morning) so if you haven't signed up yet, time is running out!
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leafymajorarts · 9 months
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☀️APOLLO vs PYTHON 🐍
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Characters pulling their dear ones out of danger but, instead, taking the damage themselves
and smiling because their dear ones are fine and safe and—
why are they crying?
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