#rhamnous

These trees are striking even from a distance—like two lovers turned into trees by a jealous god…

This is a stunning archeological site—the sanctuary of Nemesis is there too, 100% worth a visit

🧩 What tiny habit of the other do they find unbearably adorable?

Piper thinks Leo's Morse Code thing is very sweet and I think she'd make some sort of effort to try and learn a bit so she could tap small messages back to him. She doesn't tell him that she's learning, so the first time she sends back a response to one of his messages his face lights up like it's Christmas and she thinks it's adorable. The sweetness doesn't last long as they immediately start using it to shit-talk people when they're in the same room.

🩸 Who would literally kill for the other & who would help hide the body?

They'd do both for each other but Piper is much more vengeful and rightfully so.

🧸 Who still has the very first gift the other ever gave them?

Temple of Nemesis

Rhamnous, Attica, Greek

5th century BCE

Peripteral Doric

The sanctuary of Nemesis lies on the road between Rhamnous and Marathon, around 630m south of the later city. Two temples to Nemesis and Themis can be seen at the site situated very close together.

Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia ("the goddess of Rhamnous”, her most important in ancient Greece), is the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris (arrogance before the gods) 

Construction of the temple to Nemesis began around 460-450 BCE and continued until 430–420. It was built as a Doric peripteral temple during the reign of Pericles when the Parthenon was built in Athens, and on a platform with a massive polygonal terrace wall. It is believed that it was designed by the architect Callicrates who designed the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, the Poseidon Temple at Cape Sounion and the Ares temple in Acharnes.

The euthynteria and lowest level of the crepidoma were made from local dark marble, while the rest was constructed of white marble.

The Peloponnesian War must have interrupted the completion from 431 BCE and carving of the column flutes was not done and the stylobate blocks were left unfinished, retaining the protective excess marble on their easily damaged corners and upper surfaces. There were no pedimental sculptures, nor were the metopes decorated with sculpture. The roof was decorated with sculptural acroteria, however.

Unfinished fluting and carving on the 5th century BCE temple.

At some point after the original construction, the Temple of Nemesis was severely damaged at its eastern end and the upper courses were subsequently repaired with new blocks. The damage to this and other temples in the region and the destruction of monuments in Athens is thought to be caused by the armies of Philip V of Macedon during his raids in 200 BCE. The blocks which were used to repair the Temple of Nemesis are distinct from the original blocks and the tooling is quite different which suggests that the repairs were made in the Roman period, when interest in the old Classical temples was renewed. The central block of the architrave on the east end of the temple bears an inscription of rededication to the goddess Livia by the Demos, which may be associated with the repairs. This reconstruction must have been costly since it involved replacing the east end, which required making duplicate blocks for the frieze, geison, perhaps the tympanon, the raking geison, the akroteria, and perhaps part of the sima, rooftiles, and ceiling coffers. Unlike other temples in Attica which had fallen into disrepair, the Temple of Nemesis was not stripped of useful parts or removed whole to Athens. Instead, it was restored with pride as an important local monument.

Statue of Nemesis

The cella of the large temple housed the cult figure of Nemesis, sculpted by Agorakritos, a pupil of Phidias, from the block of Parian marble alleged to have been brought by the overconfident Persians for their triumphal stele. This famous statue of the goddess stood within the cella of the temple and was around 4m high. The Roman historian and connoisseur Varro rated it the finest example of Greek sculpture.

The badly damaged remains of an over life-size marble head from a cult statue of Nemesis, with perforations for attaching a gold crown, was discovered by the British architect John Gandy in the early nineteenth century and is now part of the British Museum's collection. This has a stylistic similarity to the pediment sculptures of the Parthenon of 440-432 BCE.

There are a couple of fandoms that I’ve entertained the thought of writing for, but inspiration hasn’t struck hard enough for me to finish anything of note (I’ve had tlc, omgcp, and haikyuu drafts floating around for yearsss). Within PJO I’ve technically written something for every ship/character that I’ve seriously wanted to explore. Whether or not I posted/finished what I wrote is a completely different question 😭

It’s hard to remember my thought process behind love to the tune of moonlight bc I feverishly wrote it all in one night, but back then I was very fixated on the films The Illusionist (2006) and Anastasia (1997)!The idea of conman in the early 20th century was lodged into my head by those movies, and I couldn’t get it out until I wrote it down. I'm fairly sure that I imagined Leo performing his magic act first, and then the quiet moments that followed with him and Piper at the piano in the empty bar eventually became the heart of the story. I originally envisioned the fic in his perspective, so Piper's pov and the theme of memory really took me by surprise!

meet me beneath the christmas tree is inspired by the singular day I was a waitress at a retirement facility for rich people, the whole "tree buddy" thing in branches is loosely based off of a buddy system they had at my first uni, the scooby plush in every scooby needs a shaggy was a real thing that i owned and mutilated as a child, and I named the dog in chips after one of my mom's childhood dogs :') a huge chunk of making the cut will be loosely based on real life experiences as well haha

I have but I have no idea how I feel about it!!! My style is very easily influenced by the things that I read/watch and I feel like that's shown up really frequently in my recent work. There have been a few times in the last five years where I read a fic that I liked in a fandom that I didn't write for and then immediately opened a document to try and capture the style with characters that I liked more. And lately I've been thinking in dialogue more than ever, mostly because I'm more immersed in the film/comics world now and I've been slowly rewiring my brain to keep my thoughts visual. It's weird and it's fun but sooo different from the flowery prose I used to know and love :')

35: how is writing making the cut going!!! (im still thinking about that last line. you can’t do this to me)

I still think about it too dw!! Idk if it's good or bad that I'm debating cutting it into 4 chapters (I'm trying soooo hard not to), but I'm still in the Frankenstein stages where I'm throwing down scenes and writing whatever comes to mind before rearranging everything into something that makes sense. If it helps, I've locked down the final scene and all of the key moments I'd like to include so far. It's supposed to be really long, so choosing what to keep/cut will take a minute, my apologies. Chapter 3 is somehow farther along so I hope that grants you peace!

Y’all know me so well, here it is babes 🥰 @partiallypearl