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In the first volume, ''A Snag in the Tapestry'', Thalia and her eight sisters have been ordered by Zeus to leave their home on Mt. Helicon and move to Mt. Parnassus under the governorship of the god Apollo. When Thalia and Apollo raise a cursed nymph from the dead, Thalia starts to wonder if the Muses have greater powers than anyone realized. The Fates, threatened by this possibility, put her to a test. But Thalia cares less about the Fates’ games than the behind-the-scenes drama of the Olympian royal court.
You can read ''Thalia's Musings'' [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.com/ here].
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* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Hera, Demeter, and Mnemosyne. Their divine children look the same age as them. Calliope was this to her late son Orpheus who, as a demigod, ended up looking older than her.
* [[Agent Peacock]]: Apollo, bishonen God of the Sun, Medical Science, Archery, Theatre and everything else. When Thalia puts gold eyeliner in his eyes before a debriefing, he leaves it there. To quote Eros the god of love, no girl could not want Apollo.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Lampshaded by Thalia as it happens to her and Apollo.
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Aphrodite, though she has no [[Girl Posse]] and is excluded from the other Olympian cliques.
** Hera is a straight example, being the queen of the gods and having her [[Girl Posse]] of Demeter and Hestia. Also she often puts down other gods and goddesses. She also often suffers humiliations due to her husband's chronic infidelities and having to put up with his bastard children on a daily basis.
* [[Asexual]]: Hestia. Artemis claims to be this, but she's secretly in love with Athena.
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Hera is very fond of visiting this fate on Zeus's paramours. Io in particular was turned into a cow and then given to Thalia as a pet.
* [[Better
* [[Bishonen]]: [[Long
* [[Bi the Way]]: Apollo, in [[Anything That Moves|contrast]] with [[Depraved Bisexual|Dionysus]].
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Aphrodite.
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** Athena is more femme, but her status as a battle goddess and her penchant for armor as casual wear don't quite make her a [[Lipstick Lesbian]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: It can be argued that Thalia is one. Wedding peacocks, nuff said. Also she glued herself to her chair.
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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Thalia's method of answering her worshipers' prayers for comedic inspiration.
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* [[Cool Horse]]: Pegasus. Athena gave him to the Muses because he was too smart for her soldiers.
* [[Curse]]: The one Hera had placed on poor Echo was a particularly nasty one.
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Ares.
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]:
** Zeus and Hera's family, both with their legitimate children and Zeus' bastards to whom Hera is the [[Wicked Stepmother]].
** Hephaestus, Aphrodite, and Eros.
** Averted with the Muses, [[Happily Married|Hades and Persephone]], and Asclepius and Epione's family.
* [[The Empath]]: Psyche. Revealing her observations to [[Alpha Bitch|Aphrodite]] may not have been her brightest move.
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'''Aphrodite:''' Have you considered that I could snap my fingers and make sure you die a lonely, bitter, virgin crone, you presumptuous little bitch? [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/1-7-please-be-seated/\] }}
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Let's see, Apollo and Thalia have feelings for each other. Hephaestus sympathises with her during the Daphne debacle, Eros and Aphrodite keep offering to set them up together. Even Artemis knows that her brother becomes aflicted with a case of [[Love Makes You Stupid]] when he is showing of for Thalia. Also everyone in Olympus speculates about them.
* [[Exact Words]]: Aphrodite's [[Genre Savvy]] blessing on the Pythian Games: {{spoiler|"To whichever two among the gods and goddesses here whom the Fates will choose, may you each meet your true love at the Pythian Games."}} [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/1-5-let-the-games-begin/\]{{Dead link}} Thalia, being equally genre savvy, knows that if she or Apollo are chosen, {{spoiler|they won't end up together since they've already met.}}
** The first to be chosen is {{spoiler|Aphrodite's own son Eros, who finds love at first sight with Psyche.}}
** The second is {{spoiler|Hephaestus, Aphrodite's ''husband''. She's more than happy to let him go.}}
* [[Eerie Pale
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* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Hephaestus tries to invoke this in his marriage to Aphrodite. It doesn't work. {{spoiler|After his divorce, he falls for Aglaea, a science-obsessed demigoddess who's had a crush on him for awhile.}}
* [[Green Eyes]]: Aphrodite, Aglaea.
* [[Gray Eyes]]: Apollo, Artemis, Athena.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Hera, to Zeus' paramours, their children, and any of their sympathizers.
* [[Golden Moment]]: Apollo attempts to invoke this trope after Thalia has a narrow brush with Hera's wrath. Thalia can't take it seriously and doubts he does, either.
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'''Thalia:''' [[It Makes Sense in Context|I've learned I am never giving birth.]] [http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/1-3-my-kingdom-for-a-pet/\] }}
* [[Goth]]: Persephone and Hades. Hades is, after all, the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|god of metal]].
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* [[I Just Want to Be Badass]]: Thalia concludes this must be Calliope's reason for dating [[War God|Ares]]. That and [[Mr. Fanservice|Ares is hot]].
* [[I Want Grandkids]]: Mnemosyne to the Muses.
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Thalia tries this with Apollo when he asks for an explanation of the noise from a [[Wild Teen Party]]. She claims her sisters are just singing each other to sleep - [[
* [[Immune to Fate]]: The Fates wonder if Thalia and thus the rest of the Muses are this. They don't like the idea.
* [[Irony]]: When Hera says that during a wedding the attention belongs solely on the bride and groom and on the goddess that made the union possible. What she does not know is that it was Thalia's blessing (At least in part) that made that particular union possible. Thalia of course lampshades this in her thoughts.
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* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Apollo and Calliope, except on rare occasions when Calliope is drunk.
* [[Love Goddess]]: Aphrodite, of course. And her favorite lover is Ares, the [[War God]].
* [[Marry for Love]]:
** Persephone did this with Hades, in spite of being sought after by most of Zeus' sons.
** Eros and Psyche.
** Aphrodite resents not being given this option.
* [[Massive
** The Nine Muses.
** Aglaea is the youngest of Asclepius and Epione's nine children.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Demeter to Persephone.
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Zeus and Hera. The Titans are beings of pure spirit who paired off and joined their energy to create the first generation of Olympian gods. Zeus and Hera, as well as Hestia, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon, were created by Cronus and Rhea.
** Athena and Artemis. Artemis is Zeus' biological daughter, and Athena is his ward and ex nihilo creation.
* [[Parental Marriage Veto]]: One of the laws of the Pantheon, even for the Twelve. Apollo tries to invoke this as Governor of the Muses, but is quickly shot down by Calliope. It's strongly implied that Artemis, as Apollo's legal guardian, can invoke this to him.
* [[Parents in Distress]]: Leto, often, to Apollo and Artemis. This is the origin of the Pythian Games.
* [[Pervert Dad]]: Zeus, to his sons as well as his daughters. He mocks Apollo for not making the Muses his harem and {{spoiler|shapeshifts as Apollo to seduce Calliope.}}
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Twins Apollo and Artemis became this to each other when Zeus took them from their mother. Artemis appointed herself Apollo's legal guardian.
* [[Relationship
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: Both Aphrodite and Aglaea are blondes and they have green eyes. Also Apollo aparently saw Hestia as a replacement for his [[Missing Mom]] Leto.
* [[Royally Screwed
* [[Seers]]: Apollo and Hera.
* [[Shipper
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The play Thalia sponsors at the Pythian Games is Type 3. It provides a safe means of {{spoiler|revealing Eros and Psyche's whereabouts, repenting to Aphrodite, and asking that Psyche be made immortal. Aphrodite and Hera take to the stage to grant both requests.}}
* [[Stalker
* [[Straight Man and Wise Guy]]: Apollo often ends up playing the [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine|straight man to Thalia's wise guy]].
** Though, strictly speaking, he's not a [[Bi the Way|straight]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|man.]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Ares. His half-brothers, with the exception of Hephaestus, lean more toward [[Bishonen]].
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: It's the Greek Pantheon.
* [[Team Mom]]: Calliope to the Muses and Apollo, though Mnemosyne was a very involved mother during her daughters' childhoods and complains that they don't call her often enough.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Psyche, it is not a good idea to point out psychological issues in public to a vain Love Godess known to smite any mortal that is too pretty. Arguably all the mortal girls that participated on the beauty pageant in the Delphic games. As Thalia put it, Aphrodite hosted that event to know who to smite.
** Also Chione, mortal lover of both Apollo and Hermes, at the same time. Not only did she two-time a god but she also insulted his overprotective sister Artemis. Honestly, telling a goddess that she is a virgin because no man could possibly want her? That is just asking for death.
** One nymph Thalia met while on Poseidon's court. She bragged to have bedded Zeus and mocked Hera for not realising her. She also pressed Thalia's [[
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: How Aphrodite sees her marriage to Hephaestus. Hephaestus is considered the least attractive of the Olympians, especially compared to his brother Ares. However, it's implied that this designation is highly relative.
* [[Ultimate Blacksmith]]: Hephaestus. Eros inherited some of his skill, but since his biological father is probably either Ares or Hermes, it's likely more nurture than nature.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Thalia and Apollo, and [[Beta Couple]] Artemis and Athena.
* [[White
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Thalia answers a mortal's prayer for comic inspiration by ordering him to throw one of these on Mt. Parnassus, which will infuriate Apollo.
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'''Eustachys:''' A feast, Lady Thalia?
'''Thalia:''' Yes, a feast, a festival, a party. Not just any party, a party so awesome that Dionysus will wish it was his idea. Loud, crazy music; tons of wine; a huge bonfire; and, of course, the most uninhibited dancing imaginable. Oh, and do it tonight.
'''Eustachys:''' But if I do this on Apollo’s very doorstep -
'''Thalia:''' You can’t see why this is a good idea? Man, no wonder you can’t write comedy.|[http://thaliasmusingsnovels.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/playwright-laureate/\
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: One idiotic nymph made the lethal mistake of saying this to Artemis of all people.
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