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lalalalupia · 4 months

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no children of the labyrinth escaped out alive.

LISTEN, LISTEN TO ME, I WILL MAKE ICARUS AND MINOTAUR TO BE FRIEND….AND ALSO Apollo 🔥🔥

#icarus fanart #icarus x apollo #oc: icarus #icarus and the sun #icarus and apollo #icarus and minotaur #minotaur #Asterion minotaur #Asterious #Minotaur fanart #OCs?#greek mitology #greek mythology fanart #greek myth retellings

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friendoffrogss · 4 months

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I'm fucking tired of the jegulus Achilles and Patroclus parallels, give me the Icarus and Apollo Parallels! That shit is fire (literally), fly too close to the sun and you'll get burned Reg

#incorrect marauders quotes #maraders era #marauders #jegulus #james x regulus #starchaser #sunseeker #james potter #regulus deserved better #regulus black #icarus and apollo #icarus and the sun #the flight of icarus #patroclus #patrochilles #achilles #equating ships to Greek myth #my favorite pastime

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lonlylook · 2 months

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Like Icarus and Apollo

we could be in love

like Icarus and Apollo

you could be the sun

and i could be the one

who flies so close

that my wings get burn

but deep down

i knew that i was going to fall

cause if i say "i love you"

you would say "leave me alone"

and i loved you

like Icarus loved the sun

i loved you too close

i loved you too much

and i loved you

like a mortal loves a god

i know you don't love me at all

but i still cry when i get hurt

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By me. Pls tell me if you think i should turn It into a song. I hope you liked it

#icarus and apollo #icarus and the sun #greek gods #greek mythology #my poem #my poetry #poetry #my songs #my music #apollo #icarus #love #icarus and apollo are in love #icarus loved the sun #apollo loved icarus

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ghxst-birds · 2 years

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“Icarus Percy dreams of falling”

Heavily inspired by @mrthology fic “Long Ago, That Current Caught Us” 💚

#percy jackson #pjo fanart #perpollo fanart #Perpollo #perpollo comic #Icarus #icarus and the sun #icarus and apollo #digital art #art #reincarnation au #tragedy #greek tragedy #poetry #prose

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taciturnpoet · 1 year

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okay here is the promised anderperry Icarus and the Sun/Apollo post because @73647e enabled me lol

this will be mostly rambling because I love this comparison (and use it a lot) so be happy if there is even a single coherent thought in this okay? talking about this makes my brain go FAST and I went over this about a thousand times so bear with me here

When I had first started thinking about this, I had originally thought of Neil being the Sun and Todd being Icarus. But then I realized no, their dynamic shifts and actually switches roles after Todd does the poem in Keating’s class.

In the beginning, Neil is the one that draws Todd into the group and persuades him to join the poets, all while also encouraging him to be himself and speak up more. While Todd is not only falling for Neil, he’s also trying to take Neil’s advice to heart since Neil is what Todd wants to be.

Neil could befriend a brick wall if left alone with it long enough. Everyone likes him and believes that he is made for great things (though not the same great things he wants to do), and you can tell that Todd wants to get to that point himself eventually. Todd’s been told his entire life that he will never amount to anything unless he becomes this thing he doesn’t even like, and Neil is more of what he aspires to be.

Then the poem in Keating’s class happens and things change.

After the poem, Todd starts to come into himself a little more. He’s gaining confidence in himself and his work—the work he wants to do, the work he’s passionate about—and he’s joking around and talking more with the poets. (Even though this scene is deleted, and I think that’s a crime) he reads a poem out loud to them and Keating at the end of the movie without Neil there.

Now, we know why Neil isn’t there, but that’s not important yet lol

Neil has been Todd's safety net, the person that kickstarted his self-confidence growth and made him truly embrace himself in the long run. By the end of the movie, Todd can show other people his work without Neil having to be there, which is a major development from Todd in the first poets meeting too afraid to speak and always looking to Neil for guidance.

When Todd is helping Neil practice his lines on the dock—another criminally deleted scene—he’s excited. He’s teasing Neil and playing around with him and becomes what he had the potential to be at the beginning of the movie with the help of Neil and Keating.

Todd’s decided that he wanted to be his own person. He’s not going to try and live up to his parent’s expectations of him becoming a second Jeffrey, he’s going to pursue his writing and be his own person, and he appears to become so much freer after that realization. He’s embraced his passion for writing and poetry and pursues his art without hesitation, just as Neil wants to do with his acting, becoming a shining light of possibilities and potential, and most of all, freedom.

After the poem, the glimpse of Todd’s brain, and his passion, Neil almost views it as something holy. In Neil’s eyes, Todd and his freedom are something to strive for, to look up to, and hope for like it's something divine. In a way, Todd becomes a symbol of freedom and passion, a beacon of everything Neil could be and wants to be/do.

I know we as a fandom talk about this a lot, but look at the way Neil looks at Todd after the poem, the way the sun is shining on his face and lighting him up only in the way it does whenever he’s having a Moment™ with Todd. No, seriously, it does that to him both when he decides to audition for the play and after the poem, but practically nowhere else in the movie.

Insanity. Anyway.

But then, during this same time that Todd is embracing his freedom, there is Neil. Neil who is practicing and alive and passionate while preparing for the play, making plans for the future, and dreaming of pursuing this life as an actor.

["God, for the first time in my whole life, I feel completely alive!" // "Most people, if they're lucky, live about half an exciting life. If I could get the parts, I could live dozens of great lives!"]

And yet, there is another Neil. The Neil who gets confronted by his father and told to stop doing the play, to stop acting, and give up his dreams, his passions, and what he believes to be his life, all to stay stuck in the existence his father wants him in. The Neil that goes to Keating for help and cries that he’s “trapped.”

The moment Neil decides to lie to Keating and tell him that he talked to his father, the moment he chooses to continue with the play and acting despite everything that could happen is the moment he cements his place as the Icarus in their dynamic. He chooses to ignore his father’s warnings against participating in the play and does it anyways. He chooses freedom and passion over safety. Neil chooses to fly.

Neil chose to take a chance, to try and escape and join Todd on the other side of freedom and authenticity, where he could pursue his dream and become an actor. He has his moment to shine, to taste the warmth of the stage lights akin to sunlight as he brings the play to life. All the possibilities, hopes, and dreams, all within his reach in the form of a crown made of sticks and leaves in a small-town theater. He can see his friends and his teacher in the crowd and feels invincible and in his element, bigger than life.

But then comes the melting of the wax and the plummet back to earth as he sees his father’s angry face in the back of the theater, and he knows.

He knew that there was no going back now, no reversing what he’d done, the fact that he’d lied to the two most influential men in his life for just a chance to join the other side. And yet, as someone pointed it out recently (I can’t find the post right now, I’m so sorry), there is a moment when Neil comes out after the play, and he smiles at his father, an attempt to see if maybe he won’t be falling tonight. But then his father doesn’t smile back, and everything goes by in a rushed blur of a freefall.

All of the poets try and reach out to him, to talk to him and congratulate him on his way out, but the only one he looks at is Todd. Todd, who’s so excited to see him afterward, tries to talk to him and get him to come back with them, but Neil smiles sadly at him and lets himself be dragged away. He knew he couldn’t put off this fight with his father forever and decided to stop hiding from it. He’s falling and isn’t trying to stop it.

I think Neil looks at Todd the way he does before they leave because a part of him knows he’s not coming back. He doesn’t want to go, but he can’t slow it down and spends his last moments with them looking at the boy whose become his Sun.

The descent is quick after the car pulls away, and Neil cannot stand up to his father. Every moment that led to Neil’s decision to be a part of the play, to follow Todd, is in the sun's bright light. It makes sense then that he’d die at night, with death embracing him with the sound of a gunshot rather than water splashing.

Todd finds out about Neil's death after sunrise. It's gray and quiet, but the sun still rises even after he knows Neil isn't rising with it.

And he's devastated, and he's angry, and he's no longer afraid to show that. He gets mad at Cameron for blaming Keating for Neil and believing he would kill himself under any circumstances other than his father. [“That is not true, Cameron, you know that. Keating didn’t put us up to anything. Neil loved acting!”]

Then, he gets mad at Nolan, talking back to him in front of his parents in that sham of a conference and in front of Keating's class as Keating is leaving. The same Nolan Todd nearly cried in front of on his first day at Welton because he was so afraid to speak his mind, to stand up for himself.

Todd is grieving, he is angry, and he is stronger than he was at the start. While he stands on his desk for Keating in a show of support, in thanks, he is also standing on his desk in thanks to Neil. For Neil.

Neil's gone. And yet, Todd shows his strength. He stands up for the ones he loves and is thankful for while also standing in defiance for those who played a hand in Neil's end and killing their dreams. He appears to smile ever-so-slightly when Keating looks at him, and Keating must know he'll be okay.

His best friend is dead. The actor who brought a play to life and cast light everywhere he went was gone, but Todd isn't. Neil's light only reflected what Todd still had and would dedicate to Neil.

The freedom, art, and life that Todd now held were what Neil fell for, and Todd would spend his life creating in memory of the boy who fell trying to join him. Todd had to ensure that everyone would know the story of Neil Perry as much as they did Icarus. They were so similar, after all.

(this started to change halfway through, so idk if it makes sense but that’s fine. please talk to me about anything like this I get so excited about it lol)

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wierdaestheticsstash · 1 year

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°•○ICARUS IN LOVE○•°

I loved you as

Icarus loved

The sun-

Too close

Too much...

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°•°•Icarus Academia°•°•

Maybe...

Maybe Icarus wanted to fall. Maybe he wanted to graze Apollo's light and Poseiden's deepest sand. Maybe Icarus smiled when he felt Apollo burn his wings. Maybe Icarus laughed when he felt the wind whipped through his broken wings and the salty sea cooled the scorching wax. Maybe Icarus wanted to be free, to leave the steel cage. Maybe he was a young boy high on delight and fear, maniacal laughter leaving his lips. For who could say they had touched the edge of Apollo's garments and seen the bottom of Poseiden's palace...

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wormonastringtheory · 5 months

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can i be a moth to your flames or will you burn off my only wings

can the flame be cold as the night sky i get lost in

or is this the end, is this where tissue is turned into ash and my dreams turn to dust

can i live in your light or will i burn like icarus

is the wax melting already or are you bringing me to life

i am lost in your glow and yet so found

if I tumble over, over, down, will you wince if i hit the ground

or will you watch

or will you catch me

#poem #moths #my poetry #icarus #fire #moth #moth to a flame #icarus and apollo

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eucalyptgem · 1 year

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Young Apollo,

how your passion scorches.

Melting wax on a young boy's back;

Molten iron wreathing a lover's crown;

Your tears cannot extinguish celestial storms.

Blame that vengeful wind

though it did not throw the sparrow to the sea

nor toss the disk to the sky.

No, fate does not vindicate causation.

You did this.

Sing laments from afar;

Apportion your gift to others,

but don't let them spark.

Do not ask who is there to warm you -

the feathers are gone

(Ai, ai)

The flowers are all that is left,

and those can become ashes, too.

Don't you dare threaten their mourning.

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sunchasingstar · 1 year

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Icarus and the Sun except Icarus doesn’t fall this time. Icarus and the Sun except this time they’re named Regulus and James. Icarus and the Sun except the Sun doesn’t burn this time, he warms Regulus in his light. Icarus and the Sun except when the wax melts, it’s not the waves that catch Regulus, it’s James and all his sunlight.

The labyrinth is the walls that built the house Regulus and Sirius were trapped in. Sirius built the wings to fly, he warned Regulus not to fly too close to the sun, the fall is not worth the risk but Sirius was never drawn to sunlight like Regulus. Regulus craved sunlight as if he would gather the beams in his hands and drink liquid gold until his throat burned if he could. Sirius had never known that desperation that lived in Regulus since he was born with his blood already frozen. No, Sirius would never fully understand why to Regulus any risk was worth basking in James’ sunlight. There’s something addicting about craving the sun when you’ve been cold all your life.

There was something like fate that tied them together. Even in the sky, the Sun finds its path meeting Regulus, as if even the stardust they’re descended from feels that very same pull. As if the cosmos understands the desperation that lives inside of Regulus because it placed it there itself. Regulus would drown in every lifetime if it meant he would have the chance of being in James’ orbit for even a minute. James would rather burn himself and the world before he’d let Regulus fall anywhere that wasn’t his arms.

Icarus and the Sun except this time Icarus doesn’t fall. Regulus and James except this time they live.

#james potter #james & peter & remus & sirius #sirius and regulus #regulus black #jegulus #james and regulus #starchaser #james x regulus #marauders headcanon #marauders #sunseeker #regulus fanfiction #james is the sun #regulus is Icarus #icarus and the sun #icarus and apollo #the fall of icarus

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canticleforselene · 1 year

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"I'd rather die with two eyes open and two hands searching, always searching, than live with both feet on the ground."

-Swallow the Sun, Elizabeth McNamara

#ancient greek #greek mythology #greek myth #apollo #icarus #my art #mythology #apollo x icarus #icarus x apollo #fan art #art #icarus aesthetic #icarus and apollo #icarus and the sun #greek mythology aesthetic

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lostloverss · 1 year

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“Sometimes love feels like the sun. Other times, not so much. Sometimes love feels like water in your lungs… I miss you. I miss you so much it drowns me.”

— anonymous

#poetry #i found this online and had to share #unknown author #im obsessed with tragedy #jegulus #regulus black #james potter #icarus and apollo #flight of icarus #apollo #greek myth retellings #quotes

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