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If we're going to talk about parentification in PJO,Luke feels like the prime example of it,lol. Not only that,but he never seemed to have any reliable authority figure in his life. In fact,I'd dare say most of his "pure evil" moments in early books were him snapping after all the trauma he had to go through.

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. I think most readers of the books just completely gloss over the fact that Luke never once had someone to look after him properly, yet he always had to look after others. May was insane, she couldn't have raised Luke properly even if she loved him. That boy was basically forced to raise and take care of himself ever since he can remember. Then he ran away at the age of nine, he hadn't even reached the double digits, and was already out on the streets. During that time he meant Thalia and Annabeth, and based on The Diary of Luke Castellan we know that Luke pretty much immediately took to taking care of Annabeth from the get go. He knew her for less than a minute and already compared himself, Thalia and her to a family, with him as the Dad. Luke was fourteen when all that happened, you really think that this is healthy? Then when they do get to camp there's still no adult to take care of them. Thalia dies, he gets separated from Annabeth and shoved into the overcrowded Hermes cabin. Can you imagine what that's like? All your life you are forced to take care of yourself and are the only one looking out for someone even younger, and then when you get to the place that's supposed to be safe for you, you realize all the other kids still have to take care of themselves. Just now you have another kid who's supposed to look after you. Luke becoming the Hermes counselor really was just the last straw in his long line of parentification. Imagine being a teenager and suddenly the adults around you tell you that from now on, you are in charge of a HUGE group of other kids. The Hermes cabin was the largest cabin of CHB with MANY demigods of different backgrounds and parentages, yet Luke was still completely left on his own to figure it out. You think that doesn't fuck with you? Most bemoan Bianca's fate having to look after Nico during that time in the school or so, imagine how horrid she would have had it had she been homeless with the guy for a while and then was also forced to take care of like- 30+ different Nicos. 'Cause this is exactly what happened to Luke.

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Help me to stay off from thinking about thaluke and how Rick messed up Thalia.

Okay, what fandom (and Percy Jackson News acc) loves to say? Thalia was revived, discovered that Luke joined Kronos and the boy she once knew is no more?

But! Thalia still talking how Luke never would let her down! So let me tell it straight: Thalia isn't mad at him for poisoning her tree. She's actually pretty chill about Annabeth being kidnapped, aka, "yes, she's in danger but not in the way they can kill her, cause Luke wouldn't be okay with that" (which true, since he talked Atlas out of killing Annabeth and healed her).

And after all of that she's suddenly worked up about the whole “He's a traitor” thing on the cliff cause Luke asked her to join him and Kronos—

Why? Why the fuck Thalia gives a damn about Kronos and the gods? As a kid Thalia spent two years on the run, hunted by monsters on the orders of Hades, cursing the gods and believing that they has no right to rule the world, died because of this fucking Hades, fell into a coma, and now — for some reason — she's give a shit about some Kronos and The Olympian gods? Why?

And do not give me that "Kronos is evil" shit — Thalia doesn't know. While what she is know — the person she loved joined that Kronos. And do you want to say she had no hesitation? Distrust towards Chiron and all he said? Yeah, there was Annabeth, but let's be real — Thalia knew this 7-year-old child for a month or so. They never were friends, much less best friends as with you-know-who.

Rick fucked up everything he could.

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But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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Morning Doodle: “You don’t look remotely fatigued. It’s not normal.” “I think fatigue suits you, Zoya. The pallor. The shadows beneath your eyes. You look like a heroine in a novel.” “I look like a woman about to step on your foot.”(Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)

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What if Kaz joined Sturmhond's crew

Listen, hear me out.

Kaz is bored as fuck in Rule of Wolves. That's so obvious. He built an underground tunnel under half the city, he expanded Dregs territory, he bought a new gambling parlour, he upgraded the Crow Club. He steals things for fun. But it's getting so boring.

"What are you without your vengance" "What will you do when there are no more scores to settle?" Kaz's whole life has been about revenge, and now that Pekka is gone, he doesn't know what to do with himself. This was made clear in both show and book (the quotes above) when the Jordie hallucination and Inej both ask him what he will do when there's no more revenge to exact. He never really thought about it but now his revenge is done. It's completed. Early. Kaz mentions how he was going to use his haul to start a new gang and destroy Pekka, but he clearly never thought it would be so soon. Now, he doesn't know what to do. He's rich. He's the king of the Barrel. He's got his gang. There is nothing left to do.

There's nothing in Ketterdam left to occupy him. He wants to be the king of it, and he loves the city, but he's bored out of his skull. So he goes on a voyage. He leaves his lieutenant in charge, and his gang have orders to continue terrorising the Barrel whilst he's gone, but Kaz personally slips away onto the sea. With Nikolai.

I chose Nikolai and not Inej because of how similar Kaz and Nikolai are. Nikolai slips away from his kingly duties, Kaz from his. Nikolai has an unquiet mind, so does Kaz. They both love to put on a show and a disguise and Nikolai's reputation on the sea is pretty ruthless. He fed a guy's fingers to a dog. Kaz would love that. Also when Inej finds out he went on the sea but on a ship that isn't hers it'll be funny. Do you see my vision?

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Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

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Percy Jackson's fatal flaw

You know, I really wish that Percy's fatal flaw would have come into play and would actually have consequences.

Because, the thing is, I just saw a post about Percabeth saying that Annabeth has abandonment issues but Percy whose fatal flaw is loyalty will ALWAYS choose her-

and I feel like that is such a beautiful, bittersweet concept.......

Except it's never actually executed.

We never see Percy having actual consequences for his flaw. We never see him choosing Annabeth over something very important. We never see him pay the price for that.

Imagine Percy choosing Annabeth over a group of demigods and said demigods dying. Imagine how that would impact their relationship. It would be so sweet and haunting for both of them.

Maybe not something fatal. Maybe have Percy choose Annabeth again and again-over important events or friends, have him choose her?

I'm not saying that he shouldn't spend time with his friends and family, I'm just saying that Percy always choosing Annabeth ultimately falls flat if there are no consequences as a result of it.

I mean, OG PJO Percabeth could definitely have been written better (CAN ANNABETH NOT HIT PERCY ALL THE TIME?!) and this would have been the cherry on top.

Percy's fatal flaw could have been so interesting, but in the end, it went nowhere, which is very disappointing.

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I seriously do not trust Ricky-doo-daa to write this but. A Luke Castellan book that’s basically just his and Halcyons diary entries. It starts off with a bit of Halcyon but we see the dates are getting farther between them like Halcyon just doesn’t see a pint in writing when there’s nothing happening. and then we see Luke’s first entry. And then we see a lot more of Luke and his troubles and we see him start scheming things and we slowly watch the entries get angrier and sloppier while the dates become farther. But then they get closer but content remains about the same. But then it gets even sloppier and more so scared anxious depressed suicidal than angry. He starts forgetting to put the dates so we don’t know for sure when he wrote it but we can imagine it’s near the end. We watch his slow descent into madness. We watch him go from trying to destroy everything to only trying to destroy himself or at least only destroy the entitty that wants to use him (Kronos). We see him saying goodbye and that this may be his last entry. But there are a handful more. The few moments of clarity while Kronos was in control. These last few entries vary from the scribbles of a madman scheming and plotting an obviously failure and a scared teenager regretting everything and crying for help. Then they just stop. Then the rest of the pages in the book are just empty. There is no ending. Well there was an ending. It just wasn’t able to be recorded in this diary because the narrator Luke finally succeeded in destroying himself as well as the cruel entity that used him. No more Luke. No more Kronos. No more reason to write in that diary. The end.

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I never thought I'd say this but Rick being so involved in this tv show was the worst thing that could've happened to it.

First, it makes close to impossible to critique anything without The Cult of Riordan jumping you and shutting down each and every discussion with responses like this one.

Secondly, and other people have said this before (including Rick himself), he's using the show basically as a rewrite — and unfortunately, he's a much worse writer nowadays. Maybe pjotv would be better in the hands of someone willing to treat it purely as an adaptation, and not a chance of a soft reboot of the books and to spite the movies

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Cabin 19: Nemesis ⚖️🗡️

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To keep me sane, and to keep my Zoyalai heart sated, I’ve been reading Rule of Wolves. The garden scene captures Zoya’s vulnerability with Nikolai so well.

“Now she turned and he could see tears on her cheeks. She lifted her hands, the gesture half-pleading, half-lost. "I'm running out of room." This was where Zoya had been seen sneaking off to all those nights-to a lover, but to this monument to grief. This was where she had shed her tears, away from curious eyes, where no one could see her armor fall. And here, the Grisha might live forever, every friend lost, every soldier gone.”

Zoya would never cry in front of anyone. Yet, she chooses to let her tears fall in front of Nikolai, her prince, her king, her confidant. As much as Nikolai tells Zoya he trusts her with all his secrets, she trusts him with hers as well.

I’m very sad we couldn’t see these scenes play out on the Netflix show 🥲

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I love that nikolai, the charming, handsome war hero with a tragic past is also totally undateable by anyone who isn’t zoya. he drives the people closest to him crazy because he talks too much while saying too little, he is always one step ahead and doesn't deign to explain his reasoning (one of the earliest scenes in KoS is nikolai telling david to make a prototype that doesn't work and david says "i don't like it when he doesn't make sense") and never does anything straightforward, which half the time makes him a brilliant strategist and the other half of the time makes him unhinged.

also, for someone so charming, he is also somehow so rizzless. he pursued alina by proposing a political marriage, and while we know his interest in her is somewhat genuine, it is also so blatantly serving his interest in power. and alina turns him down twice. he can't even properly charm princess ehri enough to make her want to stay in ravka and hold off war with shu han. so he's a good man and a good king and he’s also a slippery, power-hungry bastard, who is too clever for his own good and knows it, and has gotten rejected by the two women he has proposed marriage to. And zoya is fine with all of that. Doesn’t want to change him. Loves him for his hopefulness. Keeps him marching. Doesn't need him to charm her for her to love him. Accepts the monster inside of him. Sees him for who he is possibly more than anyone else.

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a scenario where, jason grace who fears raised voices even if it isn't directed at him, because he remembers his parents' explosive arguments as a toddler, he remembers beryl begging zeus to make her queen of olympus, and thrashing her alcohol bottles everywhere after zeus refused and left, leaving thalia and jason unprotected, to take the brunt of her anger. he remembers thalia crying in agony because of one of the glass pieces piercing her arm, but still stands in front of baby jason to shield him. she quickly picks him up and runs to her room, locking the door. jason stops wailing as she places him on the bed, and gives him a baby bottle while still crying herself whispering ‘its going to be okay, jason, you are okay, I am here. that monster won't hurt you as long as I stop it’

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i had the thought, okay. i love nico di angelo's name so much. like. what do you mean? what do you mean this man's name literally translates to victory of angels? what do you mean this man is walking poetry? who let him do this?

and then this fuelled me to look up the meaning of bianca's name and? it's not any better? bianca means white. it made me giggle at first but then i looked further and. oh my gods. her name is also associated with purity. like. the hunters. even further, her name is associated with winter, which was when she joined the hunters and followed them to her DEATH. and how fucking painful is that? that her very fate was placed upon her since her birth? a ticking time bomb, an inescapable destiny looming over her, and she didn't even know?

and where is the justice? why does nico get such a gorgeous name, and she gets a curse? i love you bianca di angelo you deserved so much better.

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nothing just the di angelo siblings and their eerie beauty. the di angelo siblings and their too big eyes, their cupid's bow that dips and curves. the di angelo siblings and their eyes full of sadness, their full eyelashes. the di angelo siblings with their soft and silky hair, their slight curls. the di angelo siblings and their slender fingers, their manicured nails. the di angelo siblings and their freckles, their constellations the spread across their face. yeah. the di angelo sibling and their eerie beauty.