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Commission on Instagram:)

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this is every bit as crushing as "family, luke" to me. she's a girl who loves hard and wants to be loved. a girl who loves even when it's hopeless.

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The supposed leaked scripts for Nico audition has me worried we're gonna see Will fucking Solace before Beckendorf and Silena on the tv show and I feel like shooting someone

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Do you have any percabeth fic recs? Please and thank you!!

Hi friend!

So, I know some amazing writers, and I'm always terrified I'll forget someone. But here goes

The Marble King by lammermoorian (@phykios) is incredible and amazing.

In addition Five Times Percy Jackson Cheated at School is hilarious and I love it and the sequel is just...*chef's kiss*

I could list all of her stuff, it's all amazing.

And she works with @darkmagyk on some amazing stuff like If I Were a Blackbird and Honesty and Promise Me which are both incredible.

I could list everything @darkmagyk has written, but some of my favorites: Singles Awareness Day and Russian Roulette. Special shout out to Love in a time of Quiz Bowl, though.

I am a big fan of the Intertwined series by @perseannabeth.

@skywalking-through-life has some amazing Percabeth spice, if that's your jam, including her Winter Solstice series, and the new Waterbound

And @demigodsanswer (Gluten_Full on Ao3), has some amazing ballet fics, which I adore, and the new modern royalty fic, Princess, I Found You At Last.

I know I'm forgetting some but these should keep you busy!

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redrew the last olympian graphic novel cover bc this concept is..so powerful

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oh and ANOTHER interesting thing that Riordan does with Percy in the tartarus chapters to never ever bring up again is Percy achieving seemingly impossible(?) physical feats.

Like when Percy kills Arachne, he does so so quickly that Annabeth can't comprehend it. She literally asks him "How did you move so fast?" and he just shrugs and is like "Gotta watch out for each other right? Anyways..." and immediately changes the subject.

Then later he jumps over a river with Annabeth on his back and again, right before it, she's like "How are you going to do this??? It's twenty feet across. How can you possibly do that?" and he straight up is just like "yeah I can do it just close your eyes" and then does it???

of course these moments happen during Annabeth's pov so we'll never know for sure but its just so fascinating cause Riordan goes out of his way to indicate that Percy was displaying strength, speed, agility, etc way beyond his typical threshold while also implying that not only was Percy aware of it but he was either trying to downplay it to Annabeth or avoid discussing it altogether.

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okay, buckle up, this pjo rant-post will be a bit long! this is gonna sound a bit melodramatic but what genuinely saddens me about percy’s characterisations and portrayal by the narrative over the years since the last olympian was out is that... the very nuance that was written into this character in the original series is slowly being stripped away and moulded into the caricatures that percy has been flanderized into in popular fanon. i remember having debates over the whole “can’t function without annabeth”/“has one functional braincell”/“is constantly self-doubting himself into a pithole” characterisations and opposing these perceptions with canonical content. because the beauty of percy’s character is how his strengths have always balanced his weaknesses. he’s impulsive but battle-smart, he’s ignorant (about the greek ways) but has a tough as shit skin, he’s new to everything but he’s mindful enough to keep up with the new inlet of information. he’s loyal to a fault, but brave beyond measure. he’s a smart guy, a wisecracking guy, a loving, caring, wonderful person. the aspect of himself that doubts himself always read part-trauma, part-humility. his perception of himself was generally skewed, yes, but we had a counterbalance of it in terms of how people reacted to him, even in the original series! annabeth sure as hell didn’t fall for him for being a dumbknut who can’t tie his shoelaces without her assistance. their competence was implicitly and explicitly shown to be equal! percy had opinions that went against annabeth’s all the time, he had stances on matters that he remained so firm on he gave up immortality for them. he respected himself enough to respect his own views on different matters.

and towards the end of the series, i always got the impression that percy’s self-doubt had been improving and that is exactly how an upward progressive arc for a main character should be! and i did think that was rick’s idea too during the heroes of olympus, especially because the outsider perspectives were heavy on appreciating percy as a powerful, capable demigod. but i think, in hindsight, the seeds of what we now see in the new trilogy had already been planted. the constant pointed remarks about percy’s intelligence are irksome enough but the backpedaling of percy’s self-perception is probably the most egregious to me. because how do i argue my points from above anymore when the newest canon supports that fanon pov?

when the people surrounding percy have been reinforcing views that undermine him–primarily his intelligence and his competence–the very same people who you’d think would know better because they actually know percy the most intimately, it makes sense that percy himself is still stuck in the routine of undermining his ownself. but also... this should, from a writing-continuity perspective, make NO sense whatsoever. because this kind of superficial reading of percy from the other characters only made sense at the very start of the original series. by the end, i do not think annabeth was in the dark about percy’s “surprising intelligence”. that’s a laughable notion to have. and she’d be the first to shut down anyone implying that percy couldn’t function without her because again, so much of their original fascination and bonding with each other was about how well they could keep up with each other! they don’t need each other and that makes it all the more wonderful that they’re gonna help each other out regardless!

ugh, i just do not understand the logic behind having the protagonist revert back to self-esteem issues that he has already been shown to overcome to a noticeable difference by the conclusion of his original arc. i get regression in self perception is not some uncommon, unfathomable concept. but i cannot wrap my head around the fact that this view of percy of his ownself is not treated with enough gravity by the narrative, instead it’s just a part of his pov now. i do not think rick’s trying to paint annabeth or the friends as enablers of this self-perception and if he is, that’s bullshit. someone like sally would not allow her son to continue thinking of himself in such a manner anyway.

also, like, forget everything–the writing, the logic leaps, the plot holes. is it too much to ask for percy, a beloved main character, to have a confident outlook and have that reflected in the books explicitly meant for “fun”? if this series is how we send-off the golden trio and say goodbye to them, why do we need to see percy with a self-deprecating perception? why can’t we have banter that doesn’t horribly contradict established characterisations in the past? the fun of percabeth was, for me, that even if they were on some pedestal, they were on it together. but lately, it’s like rick is trying his best to throw percy off that pedestal from all directions possible and i think that’s such a disservice to this character we all have cherished for decades now. there are ways to go about writing, what is essentially, an “unserious” trilogy without compromising on character traits and interpersonal dynamics. it was never dumb vs smart, clumsy vs competent, grumpy vs sunshine, whipped vs unbothered when it came to percabeth. but slowly, so many of these black-and-white popular tropes have been bleeding into their canon dynamic and at the cost of sounding crude: fuck this, just fucking FUCK THISSSS.

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maybe we were all just expecting too much of a show that had a 15M per episode budget

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Leo Valdez if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!

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tbh anytime i think about pjotv my mind just. gets absolutely fucking boggled. the amount of shit they didnt explain. why sally stays with gabe, how adhd and dyslexia are fixtures in a demigod’s life, LUKE’S QUEST, the mist, WHY THE PACT OF THE BIG THREE EXISTS, why the gods are in america… for a show that has an ungodly amount of exposition dump they sure glossed over a lot of important plot and lore details!

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sometimes when i’m super stressed and on the brink of crashing out i remember in my heart of hearts that s2 of the pjo show is coming out this year and i feel even worse <3

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Does anyone think about how Percy Jackson maybe the only main character who is also the fandom's favorite and most popular character?

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if we look at the original timeline (aka annabeth and percy being born in 1993) then 2009 was a big year for annabeth bcus not only did the battle of manhattan take place and she finally started dating percy, but also minecraft came out and i think that would be a big deal to her

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Solangelo fanart

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“solangelo is patrochilles reincarnate this, solangelo is orpheus and eurydice reincarnate that”

solangelo is hyacinthus and apollo

ruegard is patrochilles

valgrace is orpheus and eurydice

percabeth is odysseus and penelope

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I miss Percy Jackson, time to reread all 15 books?