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thebigqueer · 1 month ago

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also idk im not really a fan of the way rick's writing annabeth man. its like why is the only girl in this trio the 'most responsible' and always ahead of everything adn why are the boys seen as 'not knowing anything' and 'knuckleheads' and always depending on annabeth for some plan like everything about the dynamic feels so off to me the way he wrote them in this book. its so difficult not to look at it from a gendered perspective cuz like why is there a section where were talking about how great a mother annabeth would be. like i get percy is all sentimental & family oriented & knows he wants to marry her and have kids w her and whatever but theres a difference btwn percys pov of her & ricks depiction of her.

#they never used to feel this stereotypical #sure you can say percy has cannonically stated he wants kids w her which is fine #but that time in hoo sounds so different than the way annabeth is portrayed in this book #not to mention in this book percy immediately follows up w 'im still focusin gon college man' like thats such a weird thing to includeeee #annabeth being portrayed as the perfect mother and percy complaining hes still got so much life to live.#like doestn that sound familiar hmm???#theyre literally 17 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#like yeah when youre 17 MAYBE youll consider a life of marriage and children but it just reads so weridly teh way rick wrote it #again like the difference between the character's voice/pov & the author's intention.#and this book is very much author intention heavy over character pov heavy #wottg #wrath of the triple goddess #riordanverse

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