#and he's like NOT NOW ANNABETH GOD UR SO IRRITATING

[incorrect-riordanverse]

final part (tg)

did nico just get mad at will for tricking amphithemis ru joking? nico is not this soft can we bring back him being cool please

like will just outsold with that. it was a very peeta mellark if-it-werent-for-the-baby move. and nico got angry??? he really is better than me…

now theyre arguing and crying again. hehehe. more hurt/comfort for me yayyyy

wish this was written in first person. the characters just don’t feel like they have their own voice within the prose. i feel like first person pov mayyy have helped it better

small bob is literally CARRYING them dude. these two would be so dead if not for this cat

“i remember annabeth and percy saying cheesy stuff helps” “lay it on me, i’m your grilled cheese.” <- that’s terrible omg. and not in a funny haha way 😭

sorry i can’t imagine anyone hitting a high note mid fight. apollo child cringe

“i am the ghost king!” <- doing too much

LMAOOOO NOT NICO BEING NYX’S BABY DADDY AYO LAWSUIT

WHAT KIND OF PLOT TWIST IS THISSS 😭

‘you are the father’ type of moment 💀🙏

“no i can’t abandon them” <- nico seriously annoying the shit out of me. soon as disney+ bought pjo every character actually started acting like a disney character. and here yall go telling me ‘this book is for middle schoolers’ a middle schooler can understand running away from literal demons trying to attack you and this is the… like… fourth time nico’s been so soft on the things he has to fight in tartarus. like i get the meaning of redemption and healing but cmonnnn. this shit’s for pussies 😭

cocoa puffs is such a cute name to call ur demon kids stop

if these mfs dont start skedaddling

nico kissing bob had me flinch ngl 😭 were those two always so close?

will had to open his fatass mouth asking some shit like “did we do it?”

these bitches are crying every two pages and im sick of it. like i know its an emotional time but jesus 😭 every single chapter???

i take back what i said in the first reblog. bob is cool asf

the cacodemons warming up to will makes me so… aww. theyre so cute tbh.

are we ever going to actually know what the sun and the star is. like what. such a stupid metaphor if its supposed to represent will and nico LOL

THAT DREAM SEQUENCE?? with bianca and maria and hades?? jailllll (im in tears)

“i need to let you go” <- GOD IM IN TEARS

i feel like this book is so tell-y about the meaning of healing but it is for middle-schoolers so im gonna lay off it and go kick rocks

something about nico being a hugger now makes so much sense actually. bro would hug anyone real and true

why is mr d. so nice? make him mean again cmon

nico & piper bromance was something i never knew i needed until now (still random as hell though— where was reyna or hazel? why is nico opening up to characters he hadn’t known well until this book instead of the ones he alr knows?)

nico and will now married with kids lets go

such a full circle ending i love it (wish the insecurities will had at the start of the book were more developed towards the end)

conclusions: the plot was good, all the concepts were good, but repetitive minor things from the writing really irritated me ranging from the stale dialogue to the cringe humour (pop culture references should be illegal to include in books), especially humour added at the wrong times of the book. like they could have so easily been fixed and the story could be much stronger as were the emotionally compelling scenes (because nico is suchhhh a good character), but its always offset by a badly timed joke that i could never really get into it. making the characters cry is not going to make me cry. find a build up and a release and dont break it up with humour, i swear the middle schoolers reading the book will survive some darker parts. like damn. it also didnt have the magic the other pjo books had imho, maybe because it was cowritten.

either way tsats is mid, and it’s disappointing because it didnt NEED to be mid. im going to gaslight myself into forgetting the bad parts though

finally reading tsats here are my live thoughts (spoilers, obviously):

i’m so excited because some pages are darkly decorated and its so cool. still don’t vibe with the title though (the sun IS a star and its peeving me)

why are we talking about dating darth vader 😟 where are we rn (anakin is a yes, but DARTH VADER???)

maybe i’m too old but the jokes are not funny 😭

“this whole place feels like my soul. empty and dark. dark as the pit of the underworld.” <- i don’t care if he’s joking nico would never say thissss 🙏😭 we’re only 10 pages in but please stop butchering my fav character he’s not himselffff i am cringing so bad

i know i’m being dramatic but if they do nico dirty in this book i’m going to end it all

oh my god i don’t think i’ve thought about the words “significant annoyance” in so long. bringing back good memories for sure.

i can tell which parts were written by riordan and which parts were written by oshiro. i don’t think their voices are blending very well together…

also, maybe it’s because it’s the start of the book and they’re trying to familiarise new readers quickly with the characters but it feels like they’re making nico the caricature of ‘emo and shadow and ebony darkness dementia raven way 🥀⛓️🖤’ and will the caricature of ‘happy and sunshine and blonde and flower gleam and glow ☀️🌈🫧’ and i usually like this dynamic when it’s not blatantly pointed out every other page. i have faith they’ll show more complexity than this later on though. future yan will let me know by the end.

oh ok so it is bob the titan

since when was nico’s actual name niccolo??? how did i forget this detail??

“you have to listen if not you’ll share my fate.” “ominous much?” <- ok he’s finally himself again guys it’s all good

the one-sided beef nico has with percy will never not be funny

“cookie monster appeared over the mouth of the jar, reached inside and gobbled up nico like the chocolate-chip cookie he was.” <- nevermind i’ve gone back to hating this book again

“what was one straight boy when you spent your whole life longing for the impossible?” <- i’m reminded of that time a few years back where everyone made ‘having an unrequited crush on percy’ nico’s whole fanon personality, so i’m glad they addressed this somewhat. this boy has been through so much and people really thought crushing on percy was the biggest thing to focus on about ‘nico angst.’

“we made a mistake. you have to fix it.” <- call me a red flag but if i was nico i would do anything and everything to not go. i would medicate myself so highly on sleeping pills that i can’t dream (doctor bf can go kick rocks). i would track percy and annabeth down and haul their asses into tartarus instead to do it. and if i had to go i would only go in to kill bob myself for sending me those traumatic ass nightmares. no thx. bro willingly jumped in himself and now wants me to save him. nuh uh.

not cupid being will 😭 its like his aphrodite 😭 i am not well.

they always have a really good and emotionally moving scene and they ruin it with a dumb joke. let it be heavy 👏👏

something’s really fishy and i have a feeling that it might not be bob calling for him

if this whole “grumpy ball of darkness” thing continues i will actually lose it

you can’t tell me the percabeth pep talk was actually needed. i will forgive it because i miss them though

im sensing tension in the gap between nico’s connection to the underworld and his relationship with will and i’m here for ittttt. give me the dramaaa

who is the gorgyra girl and why is she in their business sm?

oh shit a will solace pov??? christmas came early 🙏

nevermind that whole nightmare sequence was so fucked up 😭😭

somebody HELP HIM i never thought we would get will angst (nico angst fs, but will???)

DONT JUMP IN THE STYX PLEASE

SOMEBODY TELL HIM HE’S HELPFUL OMG

nico strangling epiales in his sleep is so fucking cool he’s literally HIM he’s literally THAT GUY

[perceabeth]

i have cracked the code i cannot believe it. i kept wondering why people called annabeth annoying because most of her lines in pjo didn't seem annoying to me personally? like she really isn't half as in ur face as people in fandom make her out to be and i just COULDN'T figure it out.

but i just realised what it is– it's because percy personlly gets irritated w her over just about everything. she's rly just pretty much a normal girl I think but percy has the shortest tolerance for her than anybody else

[stanning-reyna]

can you write about Annabeth coming back to see ceberus. it's after tartarus, and she's all nervous to be back in the underworld (to punch luke or smth idk) until she sees cerberus again and he's so happy she came back? 💗 when ever you feel like it I just thought of this promo and ur my fav writer

First off, IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY THAT I'M YOUR FAV WRITER. LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH SEROTONIN THAT GIVES ME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Second, yes I can write that! While I do love the idea of Annabeth punching Luke, for this fic I decided on her and Percy going to visit Beckendorf and Silena (Also I think Beck and Percy’s friendship is super underrated and I want to give it more love). Here ya go!

Slight tw for the beginning of a flashback to tartarus

. . .

When Annabeth looked up, the sky of the Underworld was nothing but a black ceiling, a haze hanging low over their heads. There was no sun or moon to be seen and it resembled her last trip down-under just a little too much. Her heart in her chest clenched tightly, forcing Annabeth to remind herself that this wasn’t Tartarus.

Just breathe.

Gods, she hadn’t even reached the gates yet and she was already panicking. She knew she should have said no to this trip, but Percy had seemed so excited at the thought of getting to see his friends again. He hadn’t seen Beckendorf and Silena since they died in the Titan War, and those weren’t fond memories. She knew Percy was more than capable of making it in and out of the Underworld safely by himself. Alas, that failed to ease the tightness in her chest whenever they were apart.

A few things had been different since they got back from Tartarus, like the way Annabeth couldn’t feel at ease when Percy wasn’t with her. Or the way she couldn’t look at the scape of the Underworld without thinking back to that pit.

Just breathe.

She still couldn’t settle her nerves. Unfortunately, there was no turning back as they approached the far shore of the river Styx. Charon grunted, and the two demigods stepped off the barge onto the beach. The soft ground gave slightly underneath Annabeth’s sneaker as her weight pressed into it.

Rotten, red, and fleshy earth. That’s all she could picture as the feeling worked its way up her body. She looked up at her surroundings, praying not to see a river of fire. Instead her eyes landed on a mass of black fur, writhing within its constraints.

The bark reached her ears a second later. It was loud and deep, enough to shatter your ear drum if you got too close, although unlike what you would expect, it wasn’t angry or defensive. It was the yip of a puppy, ready to play. It was Cerberus, who seemed to recognize her from their game of fetch all those years ago.

Annabeth took in his full image now. His front legs were jumping up, raising high into the air until his metal chain of a leash pulled him back down. His tongue hung out sloppily against his fuzzy chin as he let out more excited barks.

She let out a laugh, feeling the panic leave her body. How could she be worried when this massive, monstrous dog was wiggling around in a furry frenzy?

Annabeth broke from the flow of people around her and took off towards her friend. The ground still squashed beneath her, but that didn’t seem to matter anymore. Neither did the irritated voices calling out behind her as she ran. When she reached Cerberus, she had to stop short to save herself from a lick that would no doubt leave her soaked to the bone.

“Hey there, big boy, did you miss me?” Annabeth asked in a baby voice, one reserved for her favorite animals, as she reached her hand up to the nearest of his basketball-sized noses.

Leathery coolness rubbed against her palm and her other hand came up to scratch his nearby fur. It was a little matted, but that’s ok.

“I bet no one down here brushes your fur for you, huh? I’m sorry about that, sweetie,” she cooed.

Footsteps arrived next to her and Annabeth knew Percy had caught up. As he reached out to pet Cerberus, the dog twisted his head away, but not before he huffed a warm, stinky breath onto Percy, who recoiled with disgust.

“I guess he likes me better, Seaweed Brain,” Annabeth said, trying to hold back her laughter.

“Ha ha, very funny. You two planned this, didn’t you?” Percy replied, fanning the rancid smell of dog breath away from his nose.

“No,” she spoke, a smile on her lips. “This was just a lovely coincidence, seeing my old friend again. You go ahead and find Beck and Silena, I’ll catch up later. I’ve got a game of fetch to play.”

At the sound of “fetch” Cerberus’ ears picked up, and she knew today’s trip to the Underworld would be worth it.