#Graceful Enjoyment

[candylandphotos]

Beautiful girl wearing high heels and eating noodles❤️

"Savoring every moment: A beautiful girl in high heels relishing noodles with a dash of elegance and heart ❤️."

[sailorsallyart]

divine blessings 💦

full & very kinky version over on my patreon

[redlyriumidol]

a lot of the writing around sera is not great, more so in the sense that it's ~problematic~ or insensitive, but as someone who has spent time trying to emulate sera's speech patterns in writing, there are so many moments of brilliance where I've had to stop and say "how did that guy come up with this." a lot of sera's dialogue is just very creatively and cleverly written, imo. I consider myself pretty decent at writing specific accents/dialects but what makes sera difficult is she has her own dialect that this guy made up for her, her own way of speaking that is uniquely sera and matches no known dialect known to man or god. which makes absolute sense for her character, someone who has grown up with such a varied hodgepodge of influences and who sees and understands the world in a particular way that nobody else does.

this is just from an objective standpoint about sera's dialogue itself, i obviously have issues with a lot of her writing. particularly the dialogue choices in response to sera and the way I think her character arc was mishandled (or not handled, as it were.) but I personally don't think she was entirely terribly written. just because there are so many times when i see her dialogue and i'm like ughh that's so good.

[coffeegnomee]

that was the most fucking mapicc thing to ever mapicc.

[randomsufff]

Ok I’ve seen like three separate medias containing these two fandoms and now I’m really wondering how much overlap there is-

So…

[humming-fly]

was gently reminded threatened to share some more oc art from the discord server and figured i'd start with this fun little comic of stell and prism's adventures at a mirror world fight club (in a dimension where respawning is the norm fights tend to end with yields or a much more dramatic variant of K.O., and if someone from the prime plane who Should yield is refusing to intervention might be required (prism is never inviting stell to one of these again))

((Stell belongs to @aseuki))

[curseofdelos]

I was rereading the 'should we let Nico suffocate in a jar' scene, and I was struck by Hazel's relationship with Jason in this scene and in this paragraph in particular:

Because Hazel and Jason WERE friends pre-canon!! In TLH, when Jason gets his memories back, Hazel is one of the characters he lists as someone he was friends with back in Camp Jupiter. Then, in SoN, Hazel is among the campers who looked up to Jason as a leader - both as a praetor and the former leader of the fifth cohort - and was eager to get him back.

...But then, in this scene, he doubts that Nico is trustworthy and questions if rescuing him is the best course of action.

What's interesting too is Hazel, in SoN, also doubted how trustworthy Nico was. He was keeping things from her and was annoyingly cryptic, and this was something that frustrated her. However, the second Nico is in serious danger, she sets all her reservations about him aside and rescuing him becomes her primary goal. (Rick's writing can be so inconsistent sometimes that I'm not confident this was intentional, but my interpretation of this is that Hazel was so afraid of losing Nico that she forgave him for all the lies, half-truths, etc. Petty squabbles don't seem important in the face of potential tragedy.)

Hazel approaches the "should we rescue Nico" debate from the perspective of someone at risk of losing her brother. Nico is the only family she has left, and the only demigod who can relate to her struggles of being a kid from the 30s/40s transplanted into the modern day. She loves and cares about him. Her own feelings and her own relationships take priority over the quest. It doesn't matter to her that they're walking into a trap; she'll do whatever it takes to get her brother back.

Jason, on the other hand, is approaching the debate from the perspective of a soldier. His biggest concern is whether or not Nico is someone they can trust, and if he's worth risking their lives (and the quest and the world) to save.

Jason has no personal relationship with Nico at this point and no reason to trust him - especially considering Nico was travelling between both camps and said nothing to him during those several months Jason lived at CHB, and especially considering the number of times he's lied to and betrayed Percy over the years. Yes, the reasoning behind Nico's actions are sympathetic and valid, and the decision to keep secrets was out of his hands to a certain extent, but Jason's (and Percy's) hurt and distrust of him is valid too. WE know Nico can be trusted, but it makes sense that Jason doesn't given his experience with him.

Jason has been at Camp Jupiter since he was a literal toddler. The Roman legion is the only life he knows. He was born and raised to be a weapon for the gods. His entire story happens precisely because Hera/Juno wanted a champion. He was moulded to be the kind of person who follows the gods unquestioningly, and at this point in the series, he's only beginning to break out of that mentality (hence why him standing up to Zeus later in BoO is such a big moment for him). He prioritises the quest over Hazel's feelings because as a Roman leader, he was taught to prioritise the quest over all else.

And it's so interesting to me the way that this difference in opinion - Hazel prioritising Nico's life over the quest VS Jason prioritising the quest over Nico's life - ultimately leads to a fracture in their relationship and completely alters the way Hazel views Jason for the rest of HoO. In Jason's defence, he does apologise to Hazel fairly soon after this moment, but it's interesting to me that in HoH she's still clearly (and understandably!) bitter about the position he chose to take - to the point she wonders if Jason would abandon her too if he deemed it necessary for the quest - and in a way she isn't bitter towards Leo (iirc) despite him making the exact same points.

Because Jason was her friend. She looked up to and respected him. When he disappeared, she was among those who missed him and wanted him to come back. He was a fair, good, and just leader, so she assumed he would be on her side and fight for what she believed was right, but he isn't and he doesn't. When the time comes for Jason to support Hazel in rescuing someone important to her - in much the same way she supported his rescue - he fails her. He doesn't take her feelings or her trust in Nico into consideration. He weighs the cost-benefit analysis in his head, and isn't sure rescuing her brother is worth potentially walking into a trap.

And Hazel is hurt. Who wouldn't be? And Jason does try to make things right by apologising, but not immediately agreeing to stop your friend's brother from suffocating to death in a jar is a difficult argument to bounce back from.

idk. The way their different approaches to the "should we rescue Nico" debate causes their friendship to fall apart in this scene is so interesting to me <3

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

it’s interesting to see how taylor has always imagined her ideal partner as being courageous (“headfirst fearless,” “this love is brave and wild,” “you walked in wearing a football helmet and said okay let’s talk,” “don’t blame me love made me crazy if it doesn’t you ain’t doing it right,” “standing broad-shouldered next to her was a love that was really something….”) and how i think at first she thought that joe simply being willing to be with her felt courageous but then as she grew she realized that it wasn’t enough of that feeling because he wasn’t always standing broad-shouldered next to her, only when it was convenient for him. and that’s not fearless. that’s just doing what’s easiest

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Impulse isn't a demon. Sure, he has bat-like wings and can be summoned, but his eyes are too yellow, and his wings are too gray-green to be a nether demon.

He doesn't talk about his origins much. Maybe once in a blue moon, it will come up, like when he told gem her swamp area reminded him of home. But he won't say more than that. After all, would they believe him if he told them about a hell between worlds?

One thing he'll happily tell the others is that he's beyond sick of the mud and stench of swampy areas, and gladly spends preferrably zero time in a swamp if he can help it. The shadows just... move differently, to him.

- Mod Dragon

[zukkaoru]

too long since i've been a fool

“Would I not look hot with an eyebrow slit?” There’s a beat of silence, and then— Kunikida sighs deeply. “How long have you been considering this?” “Not important,” Chuuya waves the question aside. “Look me in the eye and tell me an eyebrow slit wouldn’t be hot as fuck.”

aka chuuya with an eyebrow slit propaganda

🪒 2.2k words 🪒 kunichuu, established relationship

[maitaitiu]

it's raining

maybe

(piece to go with my sadfic here)

[candylandphotos]

Beautiful girl wearing high heels and eating noodles❤️

"Elevating flavors and elegance: A beautiful girl in high heels savoring noodles with a touch of heart ❤️."

[raineyraven]

freddie may be my favourite romance option in stray gods, but it's so cool to me how much narrative depth the connections between grace and her love interests have.

grace and freddie? their years of never telling each other how they feel directly mirrors the idols' struggles of never changing and never taking risks. also, throughout the story freddie is the only person grace is absolutely certain she can trust.

grace and persephone? persephone loved calliope but they split, and never reconciliated before calliope was abruptly murdered. now part of calliope is in grace, and persephone falls in love with the last muse all over again, and gets that second chance.

grace and pan? he helps grace at the beginning to save his own hide, to make sure he's devoid of blame. but at the end, when she's threatened, he chooses to risk his own hide to help her again.

grace and apollo? ....okay look i see the appeal i just think apollo needs some friends and to stop being a sad sack before he gets a lover alright.

[clingyduoapologist]

Thinking of Jason and Percy as foils of each other is really interesting to think about sometimes, because it’s made very clear that what saved Percy, what kept him going throughout all the original books, was that he refused to fit into the box of “hero”. He only went after the lightning bolt because his mom was in danger. In the final battle against Kronos, he isn’t even the one who kills him. He’s very specifically a subversion of the classic hero archetype.

But Jason isn’t like that. Jason was a soldier from birth, who rose through the ranks the way a good soldier was supposed to. Before the amnesia, Jason didn’t really have much of a definitive identity of his own. He was the Classic Hero.

But he broke out of the mold. He met Piper and Thalia and Leo and Percy and faced his mother and, for the first time, started to realize who he really was, beyond just his parentage and his rank.

But it was too late.

Jason was always going to die, because Jason was The Hero. The Son of Zeus, the one that they would have written plays about. He was always going to be the one to fall.

But for a just a little while, near the end, he wasn’t. For the first time basically ever he wasn’t the praetor of New Rome or the prophecy child, he was just Jason,

And that’s where the real tragedy lies. Because his fate was already sealed.

[tame-a-messenger]

I'm not gonna lie I've been stalking your damngela post and it reminded me of a idea I had before, so I think I'm actually gonna do it now.

Imagine: Grace Chasity meets Simon Bootles.

I came up with the idea of Grace Chasity meeting Mr. Grub as well. Now that one would be really funny!

DOG

When you finish it SEND IT TO ME! I think that is SO FUN!

(I'm a huge Grubber, so if you end up doing that as well LMK)

(Y'know what could go CRAZY KOOKOO BONKERS? Mr. Grub & LEX FOSTER !!! I think it would be similar to them in BAF:L 2004 with Mr. Grub and "Final girl")

[nicoathogwarts]

Been thinking more about the roman nico au I came up with awhile back. Specifically about Hazel and her role in everything.

I think Hazel and Nico would switch places just a bit. Instead of Nico getting captured in the jar it’d be Hazel. Kept alive by Gaea for strategic purposes to be used later either to lure the demigods into a trap or maybe as a weapon. Either way Hazel’s just barely alive in that jar. And Nico can’t stop dreaming about her so obviously, there needs to be a rescue mission.

Nico’s also one of the seven in this, mostly by accident. The fight between the greeks and romans breaks out in New Rome and Nico tries to flee, he ends up shadow traveling onto the Argo II and by the time he emerges to see where he ended up, they're in the sky and everyone realizes that he's the seventh demigod.

Thing are tense on the Argo II. Nico refuses to talk to either Annabeth or Percy, every time the approach him he finds some way to get away from the two of them. Mostly by hiding away in his room and/or spending time with Frank, who shoos the two of them away.

He talks to Leo and Piper, but any attempts to learn more about him are immediately shut down. Talking to Jason is odd, because it's not Jason. It's not his friend who saved him from the titans and took him under his wing. Jason is worse then a stranger but they find some common ground on Jason wanting to know what he was like before. Nico tells Jason what he was like before, and in return Jason never asks Nico about his own past.

Back to Hazel. The seven rescue her, though it takes a little convincing on Nico's part.

But she gets rescued, and she tells everyone she doesn't remember her past. But she's seems to avoid Leo, when confronted she chalks it up to de ja vu and the questions stop for awhile.

Until we get to the cupid fight. But instead of Cupid, Janus (god of beginnings and ends) is the one that Nico and Hazel have to fight.

And instead of Nico admitting to being gay, both of them have to tell the other what they've done. Nico has to tell Hazel that he'd joined Luke before being found by the Romans. Hazel knows the basics of who Luke is because someone (probably Annabeth) told her about the Titan war and who Luke was.

And Hazel has to tell Nico that she's the reason that Gaea's waking. She died trying to prevent it, killing her mother in the process.

They come back with the scepter (or whatever cupid was guarding, I don't remember) and are a lot closer then before.

Eventually, their secrets will come out and the others will find out what happened. But for now, their secrets are safe with each other.