#RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY.

[softfeelingsandangstywriting]

my thoughts about how Stanley got into the In-Between in the HWINEBHABWNAJCAHOWEEATOWEUB au :3 bc he's my son and i am in terrible terrible pain. i just got a little silly and neeeeeded to get this out of my brain

@a-scary-lack-of-common-sense i'm lowkey (highkey) sure you didn't want 2 be pinged but here is my offering (ricky, when i catch you ricky. when i catch you ricky. ricky when i catch you ricky. ricky when i catch you ricky--)

uhh word count is ~600, just a little baby drabble

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Shadows. Gold and red, triangles and hands and overwhelming fear.

Stanley.

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley, the cause for Ford’s own terror, he was with the gold and not the scarlet, but he was not supposed to be there, so close to the screaming dangerdangerdangerdangerdanger.

So far from them, he could see his brother's lips moving, moving fast, no doubt speaking whatever he thought may get him out of the situation.

Good, Ford thought bitterly. The demon was his problem and his problem alone, born of his own foolishness.

He’d be damned if Stanley found his way into its maw because of him. He needed to get up, get going, movemovemove before he lost something so dear to him once more. Fidds had been enough to teach him his lesson right and proper.

(Stanford tried to ignore that he’d almost missed the universe’s cue. That he’d almost continued his work towards the likely end of his species.)

No, no– He was almost stilled by the choking darkness, as though he were moving through a sea of molasses to get to his brother. The great beast’s eye did not move, but he could feel its look upon his skin, boring through flesh and sinew and bone into the very depths of his skull. His struggles had drawn its attention.

Yet still, it did not look as starved as it did trapped.

And its newest victim was its only likely way out.

STANLEY!

His voice, though loud in his ears, rang out exactly nowhere. This damn place, trapping him as a witness. Could he fight it? Could he push against it? Where even was he?? A mindscape? If so, who’s? Stanley’s? Because this was a very depressing mind if so. But it wasn’t his, and he had incredible doubts it was Cipher’s. And that was hinging on the question of if they could enter his or not.

A dream, maybe. He prayed it was a terrible, awful, fever-dream vivid nightmare.

That he was very much consciously thinking about and aware of. He wasn’t one to experience lucid dreams, they’d never come to him as easily as they did–

Right, Stanley. Stanley. How had he forgotten? It was, quite literally, the most important task at hand. He needed to try and do something, fight against the oppressing disgust the place was beginning to cause him and the way it felt as though it was beginning to crawl into his limbs and settle there, weighing him down.

Shit. Keep moving, keep kicking. If he stopped he might not try again to get up and that would leave his twin all on his lonesome.

Red and yellow and white and black black black black black black black black– It was all alarmingly starting to mix together in his swimming head. It was getting to him.

What was getting to him?

Right. Stan. Stan. He had to move. The scarlet was being swallowed up by the grow of the golden glow and that was never a good sign.

Stanley still wasn’t looking at him, he’d hardly moved besides the short, uncomfortable fidgets Ford knew of him (they hadn’t talked in so long. Did he get any back from their childhood, out from under pa’s thumb? Did he lose any? How well did he even still know his brother?) and the occasional glance around when the triangle had moved.

Oh, but now he was hastily backing up. A good idea. Ford was closer, but still not close enough.

Not enough to reach Stanley. Not enough to stop the gilded arm that grabbed at his twin while Ford shrieked.

Up it went, the pyramid breaking its shape to bend backwards and

down

and

down

and

down.

And Stanley was gone.

[emmeriex]

girls when they remember that sally named percy after the only greek hero with a happy ending and beryl named jason after a hero who died alone and unhappy to appease a wrathful goddess.

[fagueroth-faeth]

and what if i cry?? what then?

RICK PERRY THE GENIUS YOU ARE

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that names have meaning in the pjo universe.

Percy/Perseus- to destroy or avenge, a Greek hero with a happy ending.

Leo/Leonidas - a spartan king who sacrificed himself to save his people.

Jason- healer/to heal, lead the argonauts to the Golden Fleece but died a painful death.

Thalia- an immortal muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.

Castor- to excel/to shine, killed while his twin brother survives (in the most common version of the myth).

Pollux- Crown/ very sweet, survives after his twin brother is killed.

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[stvrlitsky]

[onestorytorulethemall]

so im annotating chalice of the gods and i didn’t realize until now just how UNHINGED and PERFECT this book is

like

whatever rick was on when he wrote this i need it

maybe it was those snakie bakies

[sickbromeo]

percy saying i’m sorry to luke after accidentally hitting him cause he still sees luke as a friend and doesn’t want to hurt him only for luke to turn around and purposely hit him and lowkey try to kill him?? for annabeth reveal herself meaning she just watched someone she sees as family betrayed not just her but everyone they care about at camp ????

waste 30 seconds of my life 10/10 best piece of media ever created the most evil thing rick riordan has ever done wouldn’t make my worst enemy have to watch that emotional roller coast i’ll be watching that at least 5 times a day for the next month

[sophisticatedaiphos]

i will never get over this..

RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY RICKY WHEN I CATCH YOU RICKY

[rueisblue]

Jason Grace died because Rick was lazy and didn’t feel like dealing with the questions of how Jason was supposed to continue his life when everything about his old life was ripped from his hands and smashed to pieces

Sent tweet

[demigods-posts]

watching characters be so overcome by their flaws that it leads to their undoing is such a good trope. what do you mean annabeth was so blinded by her accomplishments that she didn't notice the string attached to her ankle that was going to drag her into hell? what do you mean percy saw his girlfriend being dragged into hell and leaped after her without hesitation? what do you mean annabeth was too prideful to see the fault in her plans?? what do you mean percy was so loyal to annabeth that he chose her over saving the world?? what do you mean their fatal flaws were actually going to get them killed????? ah, so good.

[spiderbats]

listen the potential of a deep, well balanced friendship between rachel and percy is soemthing rick is a coward for never showing (to my knowledge).

like, it’s been awhile since i’ve read heroes of olympus and after but doesn’t rachel just kinda make an appearance and drop off the face of the earth unless plot???

rachel and percy are bffs and i will take no criticism

[reegis]

hi since you have out on the brain and i wont be inflicting it on you here's a headcanon of mine:

after nastya leaves, aurora stops talking entirely

[ozzgin]

Curious, how many asks do you have in a day?

It varies quite a lot. Sometimes it's one or two asks, though it can get to ten or so. Mostly a number in between.

I'm not taking into account the recent, daily influx of Daos-related asks from one or more dedicated anons. I'll deal with those separately, just gotta catch them.

[sam-violet]

I am SICK and TIRED of getting killed by this bald ass eagle

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that Jason spent months looking for Leo and only stopped when Chiron forced him to enroll in school.

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[eir-trixa]

Alright … *gets the gun*

Percy Jackson, get behind me

(Ive always prayed for a book that may address Percy’s trauma and self esteem issues but it just occurred to me that I may suffer while reading it. Like Percy is definitely suffering)