#and don't get me started on the complains of Zeus casting

[lily-s-world]

It is unbelievable to me that two months away from the release, people are still complaining about the casting of Annabeth Chase. Specially, when the only justification for their complain is “she needed to be blonde”. Because no. She didn’t need to be blonde.

The whole reason for her appearance was to represent the girls that get overlooked or face bad stereotypes just because of her physical traits, and not only blonde girls face these issues. Do you know who else does? Women of color, especially black girls.

The casting of Annabeth is perfect to show representation of black girls being wise, driven, resourceful, strong… and all the great qualities she has. Yet, you keep reducing her as if only her hair color mattered.

Honestly, Book!Annabeth would totally throw you to the floor judo style if she saw you saying that being a blonde is all she had to offer.

[mdccanon]

I hope BP3 goes even more mystical, just to spite every Black guy who only watches The Wire, Empire, and Scarface and wants Black people to stop having fun

Some people are so boring.

Some guy said Wakanda Forever is too fantastical and it would have been better to focus on the CIA side and to introduce realistic racism like propaganda, US sanctions, and destabilization and assassinations attempts. A fantasy underwater Mayan lost world is just too silly! And they tried to make that absolute bullshit make sense by making up this as an example of going too far: "What if, in the third movie, the sky just turned purple or a unicorn turned Shuri into a wizard. Do you see how crazy it gets if you just throw around "fantasy" things, it starts sounding ridicu--"

THIS IS A COMIC BOOK.

Me: Did you just subconsciously invoke "the ski turns purple," forgetting that already does happen IN the story-world as a sign of being in the ancestorial plane? If you showed me a snippet of a trailer with the normal sky being purple, I'd assume that the dimensions between life and death broke down by some demonic means. I'd HOPE that means the cast could all have meetings with their ancestors, which would be freakin' emotional, plus Shuri and M'Baku could meet face-to-face with Bast and Hanuman, like how Moon Knight got to interact with Egyptian gods -- and Bast, who was cast and had a cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder in Zeus' meeting of the gods, would be the perfect person to teach Shuri some "wizard"-shit. X-Men's Storm comes from a line of Kenyan witches, so Bast introducing it would keep that door open for any future storylines... ... I mean, I'm excited for a political thriller war against the CIA and the Thunderbolts, too, but Shuri defeating them with magic from her goddess is actually a pretty dope resolution. Good job brainstorming that.

They responded that that's not a realistic enough for the MCU.

No, that's not realistic for being about Black people because you don't know what to do with yourself if a story about Black people isn't about slavery, suffering, and 1990s hip hop stereotypes. The Emmett Till movie was playing next door, maybe you got confused and wandered into Black Panther? Thor is a Nordic god who just got into a pissing match with a Mediterranean god, Egyptian gods just had a kaiju fight in Giza, the Eternals pissed off their gods a few months ago, but it would be too cw~azy for the Black people to meet their gods? (Especially if it wasn't being used as a scathing allegory against Christianity.)

He even complained that Anderson Cooper's positive-neutral, professional news coverage of Wakanda "isn't realistic" either. "They would say anything they could to make Wakanda sound barbaric and backwards. They wouldn't report Ramonda at the UN like that. They'd be on the UN's side."

You are saying anything you can to sound dumb. If you hate white people so much that you think Anderson fuckin' Cooper would talk like FOXNEWS if Wakanda was real, you just sound dumb. Anderson Cooper does NOT normally do these "real reporter in superhero world" cameos, which means he probably asked to be in Black Panther. If Ramonda was an IRL African queen, Anderson Cooper would swipe his personal credit card to fly to her whenever she cleared her throat. He'd be her personal biographer. You have to have an astronomical, desperate resentment to want to see Anderson Cooper say anti-African propaganda and twist the narrative of the Mali mercenaries scenes. You sound dumb. No, you sound sick.

Get therapy.

Why would Disney have a real reporter who people... children... see report real international news say anti-African propaganda? That would be haunting, disorientating, and possibly triggering. You need therapy for being mad it didn't happen.

[novemberwasgrey]

Random PJO/HOO hc's

Will isn't naturally blonde. His light brown mop just lightened progressively after he was claimed

Percy is the one teaching the youngest campers how to swim

Annabeth was sad at some point when she thought Percy's baby sister Estelle didn't like her. But the truth is the little girl was just a bit jealous of all his brother's attention on Annabeth. But they started to conspire against Percy to bother him and Estelle now considers her as her older sister

Nico became more and more confident about his sexuality after a while. Younger campers often come to him when they struggle about coming out or lgbtq stuff in general

Rachel and Leo are close friends

Chiron catches campers making out or having sex all the time and he doesn't even punish them anymore because there are so many of them.. Teens and their hormones.. So he just ended up providing the infirmary of condoms and other contraceptive methods for them to be careful

Two couples got married at camp with Chiron as their wedding celebrant: Percy and Annabeth, Travis and Katie

At some point, Percy asked the Aphrodite kids to help him dye his hair blue and he rocks it, he kept it for a year until Sally complained she missed his messy black hair

Apollo kids never get sunburnt

Travis and Connor really miss each other when Travis is attending college and Connor stays at camp; every time Travis comes back there's this huge reunion hug where they run to each other like in movies.. Everyone thinks it's cute and funny the first few times but then they're just jaded by their antics

Clarisse is pierced. It will not be revealed where exactly but let's just say it's a body location her boyfriend Chris appreciates very much

Athena kids tutor other campers a lot with homework and everyone's favorite is Malcom 'cause he's really patient and never puts them down if they don't know the answers

The Hermes cabin finally gets a new floor integrated to it and more bunks to welcome more campers

Relations between the Aphrodite kids and Ares kids can vary: either they have a close bond and are super close like Clarisse and Silena were, or they hate each other. Like, don't ever put Sherman and Drew in the same room if you don't want shit to happen; they can't stand each other.

Frank has become what we can call a Disney encyclopedia, he knows ALL of them. His favorite is, without any surprise, Mulan

After a while, Jason and Piper realized that Leo feels cast aside because of them being a couple and often being the two of them together.. They just don't want him to feel like the seventh wheel anymore. So all three started to have more movie nights together at the Zeus cabin, spar sessions or even just Piper complaining about her sisters during an hour in the Hephaestus cabin while Leo's fixing something. It reinforced their friendship more than ever

Hazel is the kind of person who flinches every time she hears a curse word. She's the one who puts her hands on kids' ears when someone is saying a curse word

Nico and Chiara always talk in Italian with each other because it feels so good to talk in their mother tongue, it feels like home. Paolo feels the same when he can talk in Portuguese with Valentina

Clovis used to have a crush on Nico before him and Will started dating and so did many boys at camp. But none of them ever made a move on the son of Hades because they all saw how Will was glaring at every single one of them to say "back off this one's for me"

Leo overworks himself too much sometimes because he doesn't want to disappoint anyone. Usually his siblings have to order him to go to bed, especially Nyssa and Jake. One time, Annabeth had been kinda harsh on him because he hadn't done finishing repairing a chariot yet so he worked on it for two nights without eating enough. She felt so bad and apologized a million times when he fainted and didn't wake up for the entire day afterwards. But Leo wasn't mad at Annabeth at all when he woke up from his long needed rest; he's just too nice for that

Travis and Katie is the type of couple who breaks up after a stupid argument but always gets back together, then breaks up again... Everyone just rolls their eyes because they're like soulmates anyway

Nico gets along very much with Ares kids. If anyone were to say something bad about Nico... Sherman, Mark, Ellis and Clarisse would make sure your body won't be findable

Annabeth regularly sleep with Percy in cabin 3, and Will with Nico in cabin 13. Reason? Tartarus nightmares

It took years but after so much designing work (mostly from Annabeth and help from Reyna to get based on New Rome), New Athens was built

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This!!!

It is unbelievable to me that two months away from the release, people are still complaining about the casting of Annabeth Chase. Specially, when the only justification for their complain is “she needed to be blonde”. Because no. She didn’t need to be blonde.

The whole reason for her appearance was to represent the girls that get overlooked or face bad stereotypes just because of her physical traits, and not only blonde girls face these issues. Do you know who else does? Women of color, especially black girls.

The casting of Annabeth is perfect to show representation of black girls being wise, driven, resourceful, strong… and all the great qualities she has. Yet, you keep reducing her as if only her hair color mattered.

Honestly, Book!Annabeth would totally throw you to the floor judo style if she saw you saying that being a blonde is all she had to offer.