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Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

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Trials of Apollo is a book series close to my heart, and it has been a treat to interact with fans from all around the world in our shared interest. This art collab that I started impulsively on 22 August 2025 in the ToA Discord is the result of 2 months of hard work by 26 artists. Despite the different fandoms we have branched out to in the 4 years of this server existing, one thing is for sure: ToA united us all. Artists credits under read more:

Hello - I'm drawing a little guy I found :) cute yes?

Long semi-informative passage ahead

So this is an apollo butterfly or mountain apollo. It's a rather pretty little butterfly, characterised by the red dotted pattern. It lives in mountain regions and sometime vineyards all over Europe, parts of Asia and Skandinavia. It was germany's butterfly of the year 2024!

And it's strongly endangered.

The reasons for it's drastically shrinking numbers aren't entirely clear, but it's very likely, that climate change plays a key role in it. A subspecies found at the moselle valley went almost extinct because of pesticides used for the vineyard in the 80s, but due to the united efforts of activists and lepidopterologists (lol butterfly scientists) the usage of pesticides was banned and the butterfly saved.

Since 2012 it's numbers are dwindling radically again and noone really knows why, but climte change likely is at great fault. This isn't something as easily fixable as controlling aggricultural toxine use, but something that can be dealt with to an extend, if everyone does their part to stop it.

The Burning Maze is real. And it's not a magic sun god essence induced fantasy place, it's a very real, human made issue and this butterfly is dying because of it. It's happening right now, everywhere and we can only hope to stop it, if we all work together. Wear second hand, use public transport, kill convince your local mega industry CEO of blasting less factory waste into the environment - just do whatever little thing you can to contribute, so hopefully we can all band together and safe this butterfly, as well as all the other endangered species and our damm planet, just like that group of activists has already done before.

Imagine how sad it could've been if Apollo couldn't go back to godhood. Like I wanna see him losing his mind thinking every little thing is one of his friends coming to find him. I want him to get so distraught at the constant reminders that he begs them to stop sending signs, because he never believes they're real.

(Big long angsty post ahead <3 If anything seems wrong let me know - I'll either correct it or explain it!)

i need you to know that any references i may have made about apollo being the light of truth were completely unknowning of this game i was not copying it for my metas i swear

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think