#HOOOOOH

[worldssmallestrayofsunshine]

What da hell does biggie big back even mean??? You youngin's and your gotdamn slanguage.

it means like, someone who eats a lot, dude! Think, like, Caseoh or something!

[ahollowgrave]

Febhyurary 2025 | Day 5: Color

Your heart may burst with joy for you've never seen a place so lush and colorful.

[chasing-the-persea]

Imagine Percy having a really rough day. His power, what he’s done, who he’s had to be to do those things, are weighing on him. Frankly, he scares himself. He doesn’t know how any sane person would want him around, much less around kids, especially as a counselor.

He puts on a brave face. Maybe if he looks happy no one will remember there’s a person behind that face who can’t look at himself in the mirror.

He doesn’t know how it happened; maybe he agreed to it when he was lost in his mind, putting on the “chill older counselor” face everyone expects, but he finds himself in the sand volleyball pit on the team of campers from the less populated cabins. The Demeter and Hermes cabin teamed up on the other side.

The game itself is a fog to Percy. The only breaks in his gloom come in the form of reminders: that’s only a volleyball (images of a giant hurling rocks at him flash in front of his eyes). they’re calling the ball (the sound of campers crying out for help in countless battles echo in his head). that’s just sand (the phantom touch of Gaia’s earth brush his legs)

Before he knows it his team is cheering: they won. He doesn’t know how–or if–he contributed any. He chastises himself. A good leader wouldn’t let themselves be distracted. Wouldn’t…his shoes are gone.

He could’ve swore they were right there? If he wasn’t so caught up with himself he would know where he put his shoes, that’s so stupid what would have happened if he was in battle and he got distracted, then it’d be on his head if another camper got killed again because of him, he shouldn’t have even played what was he thinking—

A Hermes kid was holding them up, taunting him, retaliating for their loss. He took one step towards them and they took two steps away. Their face was…playful? This was a prank. They’re pranking him. Don’t they know what he’s done, why their cabin is so empty now?

He took another step. This time the kid let out a excited laugh and ran a few feet away. This was a game. For fun. The kid knows but doesn’t care. They just want to have fun with an older counselor. camper. cousin. whatever the relation, they genuinely just want to mess with him.

But why would they—unless. Unless they aren’t afraid of him.

They see him as a leader, and like any other rotten kid, they want to tease whoever’s in charge. The kid is just being a kid, doing kid things. Like stealing someone's shoes and knowing they won't be hurt because of it. Because they believe Percy is good.

He tries to ignore the similarities on the kids face to one he knew so well, one he thought was good when he was the kids age.

I'm not Luke, he reminded himself. A tiny whisper in a corner of his mind hissed how are you any different?

He looked at the kid again, who was still holding out the shoes, attempting to lure him into a chase. The kid took a couple more steps away, grinning wildly as Percy’s face set in determination.

I’m going to be the person Luke needed, and the one he never was for me. We deserve better.

He sprinted after the Hermes kid, laughing lighter than he had in months.

[steinbit]

thinking about my childhood again lads.. ..

[frascospecimen]

Ohhhmy god just saw something really hot 😵‍💫

[sleepyrays]

i didnt givean update when the new keaton henson album came out becuase i was high as balls and felt like i was having a straight up meditative OBE when i listened to it but upon re-listening to Dorma after a couple days i can confirm this is CRAZY

[spaciebabie]

its really good

[glacierbash]

i stumbled upon. some wealth.

[mewintheflesh-2]

If you’ve seen my unhinged tags about Fuse in some of the stuff I’ve been reblogging I’m so sorry but I’m also not but I also am

[acid--inside]

Hnnngnhn h❄️dros with the absolute worst bloating, with these huge noisy burps that also include making the air like 40 degrees colder, and a little snow and frost… just this disgusting “BURRAAAAPH!” Punctuated with a downpour of snowflakes and a freezing cold in the midst of summer. Gnnnhhn…

[thegardengrows-infrozenrain]

oh. huh. so that's what that was. /neutral

[stardustsystem]

????????? ?????? ?????

[hatmiracle]

dual destinies would have been better if taka was an owl (this is the most reductionist way i can phrase my critique of the lack of attention given to mythology symbolism in aa5 compared to aa4) (ajaa you will always be famous)

[bengallemon]

okay so we made an order (now yesterday). standard shipping is 2-7 business days, it will leave warehouse *today*

if we are lucky, it gets here tomorrow. if we are unlucky, it gets here Thursday, where we will be in the city and unable to receive it on our own. if we are lucky, it might get here friday, where we *dont* need someone else to get it.

*ideally*, if it does arrive thursday, whoever gets it will just. stick it on the bed. (we could ask our brother to do it) that way. no questions we can't deflect.

now if we used the brain cell, we could have *waited* until we knew we weren't going to risk being in the city, but that's on thursday and then next tuesday. so now we will hope.

[holographicbutch]

Btw I may have bought the da trilogy since they're 99% off on steam...

[bayleaf-2]

Thank you past voci for putting the order of things in your campaign notes in 4thewords you are a blessing my good sir holy shit

The only thing that's missing is if anything major happened in the break between prosperity and killing Tiamat/Bahumet