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Words Said, Unheard by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
13 Apr 2022
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Hektor and Paris have a long overdue conversation. Pity Hektor's asleep for it.
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- Part 6 of Sketches of the Trojan War
- Part 10 of Children of the Rivers
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Ganymede has something he'd like to try out. Zeus is more than pleased to play along.
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Kindness and Ease by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
20 Mar 2022
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Iphis goes from Skyros to the shore of the Troad, even if she has no idea what the land is called or what city the army she's in the middle of is besieging, or why. It doesn't really matter to her, for the work she did at Skyros is the same as in the army camp, if with one, all-important, unpleasant, difference; Achilles has given her to his companion.
At least he's kind, whatever that counts for.
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- Part 4 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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Sacrifice At Troy by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
10 Mar 2022
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Aphrodite is angry.
Sacrifices promised and forgotten, Sparta and the whole of Lakedaimonia is suffering under disease and a lack of growth. Menelaos is charged to make up for the lack by sacrificing at the tombs of Lycus and Chimaereus, to be found on Mount Ida. He's helped on the way there and back by a young Trojan prince, who is, to Menelaos' consternation, quite interested in him.
Menelaos is sure Alexander will lose interest in him before the stay is over, but their feelings aren't the only complications the trip offers.
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- Part 2 of Tales of the Kyprian
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Paris and Philoctetes' duel comes with some divine maneuvering behind the scenes, even if it doesn't go as Aphrodite would like it to.
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- Part 10 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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Ourania has a gift for Ganymede, and as a consequence Zeus and Ganymede go on a date...
In outer space.
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- Part 3 of Modern Olympos
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Bellerophon catastrophically attempts to reach Olympos, and Pegasus ends up living quite contentedly on the mountain. But in-between those two points there is more than just Pegasus landing on the grassy sward and settling in. He had to be coerced into taking Bellerophon upon his back by a golden bridle; now free of it, he's quite displeased. Is there any reason to trust anyone at all close any more?
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- Part 8 of Beginnings
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Two For the Price of One by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
21 Jan 2022
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A relief mission to a nearby town goes awry when a group of Achaeans capture first Paris, then Hektor. They might not be dead, and are guaranteed some small amount of safety while waiting for the arrival of the Atreidai, but there is a vast space between not dead and completely unharmed. There's also a couple days until the Achaean commanders arrive.
A couple days in the hands of the enemy. A couple days chance to find an opportunity to escape.
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- Part 9 of Children of the Rivers
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Like a Golden Net by the Lovers Cast by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
13 Jan 2022
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Menelaos finds Helen and Paris in bed together, caught in each other's passion.
Whatever should he do about that..?
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Alexander is dead.
Menelaos stands beside the corpse and feels nothing of what he surely ought to feel, but at least Helen will be returned, now.
And yet...
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- Part 11 of Sketches of the Trojan War
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Klytaimnestra has killed her husband, and his war captive sex slave is next.
Should be next.
Klytaimnestra instead decides to test the worth of the prize her daughter's spilled blood paid for.
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Ganymede, coming back to Zeus' bedroom and bemoaning Eros' current issues, which everyone else gets to take part of as well, finds his god in a mood for drink. And drink is exactly what Ganymede is officially on Olympos to serve, of course.
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- Part 4 of Adventures in Antiquity
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Leuke is dying. She would like to see trees and light again before she does, but she can't leave the Underworld.
The Underworld has pomegranate orchards and the Asphodel Meadows, but neither her daughter nor her husband find that to be enough. Perhaps there is a way to gift the dying Okeanid with what she wishes for, even as she's finally fully becoming one with the Underworld.
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- Part 7 of Beginnings
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Aphrodite has many tricks and Helen, in the end, is still so very human.
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In a version of reality where humans are born with additional ways to order society and interact between them, Paris still leaves Sparta with Helen. Even the most beautiful woman alive and alpha female born of a divine father can't make two betas share a common alpha; it's an impossibility. And so things must take their course, for Alexander of Troy isn't an omega, no matter how he might present himself.
Dreams of what ifs are only that, what ifs. They can alter nothing, for nature is absolute. Nature is, also, ephemeral. The only thing you need is a willingness to change.
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What's Left Behind, and What Will Always Be by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
15 Nov 2021
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Olympos stands eternal, no matter what goes on below.
At least, all of the blessed immortals are behaving as if that is true, and while Ganymede would not really have any reason to distrust that and get buried in worries, he still wonders. He remembers very well what Zeus said about divine spheres, what can affect them and what can't. He's also aware the gods would not acknowledge the situation, if there truly was nothing they could do.
In the end, something has to give, and certainty of the future will at least give a chance to prepare for it, whatever it might be.
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- Part 10 of Adventures in Antiquity
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Two different circumstances where Paris flirts with Menelaos in public, and their outcomes.
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It's 1204, and thanks to the unpleasant awareness of what is going on below, Ganymede starts to wonder about the Palladium. Zeus agrees it shouldn't stay where it is, and so they go on a little adventure that, at the beginning, seems like it should be much easier than it ends up being.
Stolen things must be restored, but sometimes not everyone agrees on what has been stolen, and what has not.
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- Part 1 of Modern Olympos
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Embassy Derailed by sparklight
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
27 Oct 2021
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A year gone since she left Sparta, the Achaeans are amassed outside Troy and sends an embassy to demand reparation and Menelaos' wife back.
Helen, knowing she doesn't want where things undoubtedly will go if nothing is done, yet also doesn't want to give up what she now has, decides on a rather drastic course of action. Men always take what they want, so why should not she, too, do so?
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Princes and Cowherds by sparklight
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
20 Oct 2021
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Hektor, hunting on Mount Ida at fifteen, finds something very unexpected on a mountain meadow. Bringing Paris back to Troy is the only thing he can see himself do, and in the years that follow, while he never regrets that decision, there is plenty of times to despair over his little brother's quirks, to marvel how he fits in, and be frustrated over how he doesn't.
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- Part 6 of Children of the Rivers