Maggie Nelson from The Argonauts 

The argonauts are fightingggg and they haven't even set off yet!

"So he spoke, but Idas son of Aphareus burst into laughter and with scorn in his eyes he replied abusively:

'Come now! Tell me this through your prophetic skill: will the gods destroy me in the way your father bestowed the destruction upon the Aloiadai? Take thought for how you will escape my hands if you are found to have uttered empty prophecies!'

So he attacked him angrily and the quarrel would have gone further had not the son of Aison himself restrained their dispute with words of rebuke. Moreover Orpheus took up his lyre in his left hand and began to sing.

- Jason and the Golden Fleece, Book 1 lines 486-494, Apollonius of Rhodes as Translated by Richard Hunter.

Idas really said chat shit get hit. Atalanta is not present in this translation but I simply want her there.

Battle of the Ships :

Round 1 Part 4 Poll 5

Description for the Argo : Jason and the argonauts sailed this ship

Propaganda for the Argo : It's like, the og fictional ship. Transported Jason and his bros to get a Golden Fleece and they brought back also Medea who then murdered her and Jason’s kids. Legend

Description for the Antelope : Sloop. From the song's lyrics : "the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen" "a sickening sight" "a list to the port & her sails in rags".

Propaganda for the Antelope : She an iconic mess

hypothetically could any of the Argonauts have looked after baby Achilles and/or baby Odysseus at some point or another? Like could Herakles or Orpheus or whatever have met them as babies? I just find the idea of these legendary heroes unintentionally training the next generation as so heartwarming

(Also I really wanna paint Orpheus and Achilles playing the lyre and wanna know if that COULD’VE happened at any point)

My villain origin story is that Hylas and Atalanta are the most underrated argonauts so much that I didn’t know about them until very recently despite being into Greek mythology since I was five years old. Every book went “and all known heroes joined like Heracles and Orpheus and the twins winged sons of Boreas” FUCK the flying kids why did no one tell me about pretty boy Hylas who had the no. 1 Greek hero Heracles crazy over him or absolute badass queen Atalanta who hunted alone and took shit from no one?

“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability… …whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,” it’s meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.”

- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

My Medea and Jason aus (because I love them and l like to yap sorry not sorry)

Immortal!Jason au

So, l actually thought of this while on a trip in Italy. In this au, instead of leaving Jason behind like in the myths, Medea decides that Jason would be more tortured by being immortal and never dying, so Jason is immortalized against his will and Medea kinda keeps him around like a pet and Jason just sticks around out because, naturally, she's more powerful than him. Medea still loves him but he acts cold out of spite knowing she will take it. She will take anything if it means he will be willing to stay. You might say "op that is toxic!" and to that I say "yeah no shit. It was toxic from the beginning. A mortal x immortal in Greek mythology is most likely toxic because of the HUGE power dynamic. (Also l wrote a fanfic about this au but it's explicit)

Modern retelling of Medea the play

THIS IS MY FAV. In this au it's Medea the play but modern and a little different. Medea is a rich woman named Maddie and Jason is... Well, Jason. Glauca, the princess Jason leaves Medea for in the play, is a rich college girl named Grace, babysitting their kids because her dad is tired of giving her money. And, as you might guess, Jason and Grace have an affair out of Medea's knowledge. I have so much ideas for this au but I don't know what to go with. But in the end Maddie kills her children and Grace in blind rage, that much l decided it had to be in the au.

Jason and Medea are the Bonnie and Clyde of Greek mythology

This is just "What if Medea trusted Jason that he still loved him and Jason was as crazy as her?". It goes like in the play, Jason gets engaged with the princess, BUT! Medea is surprisingly calm about it. The king worries her calmness = she has already planned our murders so he wants to set her to exile but Jason convinces him shes just fine. Anyway, Jason gets married, kills the king and the princess, and is like "Oh darn! I need a queen for this kingdom! Luckily, my ex/l am still married to wife is alive and well!" So they rule together. Happy ever after.

how many fucking queers were there on that boat.

Ok so. I borrowed a book of greek mythology from the library and in the beginning of the section on Jason and the Argonauts, it said this:

And this immediately made me think of a scene in the beginning of The Lost Hero,

A missing shoe being the identifying feature that Annabeth was looking for was always really weird to me, but now I think it’s just really cool that Rick tied in the original Jason myth into his new Jason.

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What we read in 2022!

In order: 1. This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 2. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin 3. Gideon The Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 4. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie 5. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 6. Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities - Elizabeth Otto 7. The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson 8. She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 9. Buffalo is the New Buffalo - Chelsea Vowel

oak/acorn + the golden fleece

Talos is a giant metal man tasked with guarding Europa. The sorceress Medea tortures him with visions of vengeful spirits until he takes his own life by disconnecting a vein on his heel and letting himself bleed out

Battle of the Ships

Round 2 Part 4 Poll 3

Argo : It's like, the og fictional ship. Transported Jason and his bros to get a Golden Fleece and they brought back also Medea who then murdered her and Jason’s kids. Legend

No description and no propaganda were provided for Mr. Briney's boat.

character aesthetic -> Atalanta, from greek mythology

Champion of Artemis, goddess of the hunt and the moon

“You've punctured my solitude, I told you. But the time for its puncturing had come. “I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away.”

If one does solitude right, this is the prize.”

- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts