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RRverse Summer Bang Signups!

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These all close on June 8! You can (and are encouraged to) signup for more than one role. Read the guidelines for each of these roles before filling out the form, all of which are found on the masterpost.

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happy pride to the pjo fam! <3

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the chb pride month posts are adorable but ive convinced myself chiron is homophobic

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dark percy headcanons need to include clarisse la rue, because she's either the ultimate ride or die friend or she's the only fucker crazy enough to take him on, and that's facts.

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tower of nero gang and pt2 of the lineup

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Best Buds!!

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Part 1 of the tarot card series : Percy Jackson

I made him emperor because the emperor represents, power, stability, protection, etc and felt that suited him so much!

Up next will be Annabeth ✨

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shhh... they r sleepin...

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In my head they are besties 😏

I remember that i can scan my sketches :') so, probably i'm gonna do this in digital later mmm

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hello pjo community

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so is it bad that I’m a black person and haven’t heard of anti rick Riordan until a few days ago? I only really read the books, and even though I’ve been on tumblr for a while I’ve never interacted with 99% of the pjo fandom

sorry i think i got this yesterday and didn't answer. so, first up, nearly all of your tumblr experience is dependent on who you follow. i've been aware of rr crit for years because of the people and topics i follow. there's a huge chunk of fandom that won't reblog or talk about the racism in rick's works because they believe "fandom should be fun". which it should be- a lot of my friends in pjo i made because of their talent and i enjoy their content. however, because of that attitude, rr crit gets silenced or passed around the same 15% of fandom that cares. so consider this: 🤔 who are you following? 🤔 are any of your pjo bloggers people of color? 🤔 do they only talk about certain topics? 🤔 how have they been involved, if at all, this past week?

regardless, you did mention not being that involved in tumblr pjo fandom. when it comes to pjo, tumblr is probably the most critical fansite. so just get more involved then! read up and follow, think and analyze. it's that simple.

finally, you asked if "it was bad because your black". it's not particularly bad, merely unfortunate. but sometimes it takes a little push- you're not the only one who needs it. alright, so since you're black, let's do a quick rundown of explicitly black characters in pjo and hoo: beckendorf, kelli, hazel, and hazel's mom, marie. in ten books, we've got (only) four explicitly black characters. here's what's so crazy about these characters:

beckendorf dies.

→ fandom wise, despite being kind and compassionate in canon, there are some fans who will display beckendorf as the angry, rough black guy stereotype

kelli is a monster.

hazel's from the 40s, says little about the romans involvement of the confederacy, is written like someone way more mature than her age (this is called adultification and is extremely prevalent with the treatment of black girls), and tossed into a love triangle with older teens. she is the only black girl in pjo/hoo but is given white and exotic features.

→ fandom wise, hazel is consistently white washed or simply ignored, despite being a main character in hoo

marie is a poor caricature of a voodoo witch, while being an awful and manipulative mother.

these are only the black characters- if we were to pinpoint the other marginalized groups rick disrespects with harmful stereotypes and blatant racism, this ask would be ridiculously long. in the books, it might not be able to get the issues so quickly, but when written out like this, it's very plain to see. 🤔 as a black person (or anyone nonblack reading this), consider how this could ever be considered good representation. but yeah, if you want to rectify this problem of not being aware of rr crit, then here:

📖 reread the books, and read the 'rr crit' tags

🤔 think about if you feel represented. but also consider that your experience may not be universal

🖱️ follow bloggers who openly critique rick. these are often blogs of color, but there's some that aren't

🔍 learn more about microaggressions, stereotyping, and representation. search what you don't understand, and find actual diverse books and authors

📝 write your own posts about problems you see

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Hazel Levesque my beloved<3

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imagine how relieved will must have been to have kayla & austin back to him after they were tied up in the grove like it could not have been easy sitting in his cabin alone at night afraid of all that could be going wrong with his siblings and also the fact that his dad is mortal so he could easily be dead. wild.

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still working on a bunch of other stuff but heres babie nico

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percabeth au where they’re tumblr mutuals, and Percy thinks wiseassgirl's picrew icon is low key cute 🥰 but also he has a massive crush on Annabeth from school. From revealing enough information to each other but not too much (because internet safety) they realize they live in the same general vicinity 😳 And then when wiseassgirl does a face reveal for her “1k follower sleepover celebration 🤪😜😝” Percy realizes that wiseassgirl and annabeth are the same person 💔 he’s very conflicted about this because her carrd specifically states “dni if you know me irl” 🙁 he puts these aside and then he asks her out in school and she says yes 👍🏼 on their first date he slips up and makes a joke he made as son-of-the-sea and Annabeth realizes who he is and she breaks up with him because he violated the sacred rules of the dni list 😰 but he manages to win her back by making an instagram infographic on “all the reasons they should be together” 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 then they get married and have kids named after their mutuals 🧜🏻‍♀️

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apollo really was a funny narrator. not that he was funny, but the way he kept going 'curse xxx for being evil... he was never this evil when we hooked up' and like every other chapter he'd go 'yes dear reader, you see, i was fucking HOT and love is REAL but only for me, life is so CRUEL but not as CRUEL AS MORTAL PUBERTY'. lester was 10/10

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Listen, Daedalus is Nico’s foil. Because they’ve both lost someone they care about (Icarus and Bianca) and blame both themselves and the person who they think is responsible (Minos and Percy). Although Percy isn’t responsible for Bianca’s death and Minos is responsible for Icarus’s death, both Nico and Daedalus became obsessed with revenge and let it rule them for a while. Daedalus kills his nephew Perdix and buries himself in his work, while Nico runs to the underworld to commune with ghosts and come up with a plan. They both turn to revenge to get them through their grief and it takes them to a dark place.

But the ultimate difference is how they choose that revenge. Daedalus chooses Minos’s death, Nico chooses Bianca’s life. Ironically, they both need to take a life to do this and while Daedalus goes through with it, Nico does not. And before he dies to destroy the Labyrinth, Daedalus asks Nico

“will you take my soul for ransom then? You could use it to reclaim your sister.”

But he’s really asking are you like me? Will you let this rule the rest of your life? And Nico ultimately refuses because he’s seen how dangerous holding onto that can be.