#background jercy

[t1oui]

i fully believe jercy are the weirdest fucking couple who do their weird fucking pda 24/7 and they just don't notice. if any of their friends are like "yeah y'all goofy" or mention their pda they're both like wdym??? we have never even perceived each other in public before?? we literally do not touch outside what?

and so eventually their friends, piper and annabeth specifically bc yk as the ex girlfriends they have to make fun of jercy the most, start collecting evidence. they start taking vids of jason chewing on percy's hand or the two of them biting each other on the cheek/neck/etc. instead of kissing. at one point piper gets a picture of jason shirtless at the beach and circles all the visible bite marks and rates them based on how weird their placement is.

ofc there's also a thousand pics of them just sitting on each other's laps, one with them at a fancy restaurant where you can see sally with her head in her hands in the background

so eventually percy and jason have to admit that they are the gross, weird pda couple. and they change absolutely nothing.

[sunsets12]

Annabeth/Piper for the shipping game?

Ship it:

What made you ship it?

They’re genuinely one of the few sapphic ships that got popular that didn’t involve any of the hunters of Artemis… Anyway I love a good sapphic ship

What are your favorite things about the ship?

Their personalities mesh strangely well. Like I could picture them as a real couple

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

It’s a common trope in Jercy fics to have background Annabeth/Piper, and I honestly hate it. I think it’s an effort to not seem misogynistic (which is a problem in slash spaces when the male characters canonically have female partners), but it’s just so “pair the spares” to me

[rosesradio]

for the Halloween drabble event! jercy where percy is showing jason his favorite horror movie and Jason gets unexpectedly totally Spooked and Percy comforts him. im picturing soft and fluffy but hey your call 🧡🖤

"I thought," Jason started weakly. "She defeated him by not being afraid, so why did…that was so sudden, and…"

The son of Jupiter grasped Percy's shirt in his sweaty hands, trembling ever so slightly. His gaze was distant, focused on the hardwood just underneath the TV stand. The end credits to Nightmare on Elm Street rolled on the screen.

"Aw, Jace," Percy laughed softly, running his fingers through Jason's hair. "Are you scared? You're one of the strongest people I know, I didn't expect you to actually get scared…"

Jason pulled away slightly, fixing Percy with a disapproving look that nearly made him laugh again. "Well, sorry to disappoint."

"You didn't disappoint," Percy insisted. "'S just surpirising, that's all. I don't blame you. That ending scared the shit out of me when I first watched it."

Jason appeared to calm down, little by little, by Percy's words. "Why did you have us watch this?" A smile tugged weakly at the corners of his lips. "How am I supposed to sleep now? The whole point is to not fall asleep…"

"Easy," Percy replied. "You fell asleep every night before watching this movie and didn't die. Nothing's changed. Also, I can stay up and protect you."

"You don't have to do that," Jason insisted. "But…maybe you could hold me while we watch something a bit more light-hearted before bed?"

Percy smiled softly at that, leaning in and pressing a kiss to Jason's lips. He allowed the gesture to linger, the feeling comforting him where words could not. He then pulled away, cupping his cheek, his thumb running along Jason's cheekbone.

"Of course," Percy murmured. "As you wish."

Really, Percy knew what he was doing, quoting The Princess Bride like that. He knew it was a favorite of both of theirs, as they put themselves in the shoes of both Westley and Buttercup.

As The Princess Bride played in the background, Percy pulled Jason into his lap, holding him under the warmth of their blanket.

"What would you say," Percy started, his voice low and warm near Jason's ear. "If I told you there were seven Nightmare on Elm Street movies?"

Jason let out an exhasperated sigh, though Percy could hear the smile in his voice. "I'd say you're on your own for that. I'm sticking with classics and rom-coms."

Percy grinned at that, resting his head on Jason's shoulder. He would not complain about that arrangement at all.

[yonemurishiroku]

child of jercy is made a living symbol of peace between the Romans and the Greeks.

And then there are their two dads bickering like children in the background. Years of marriage and they seem to only take their banters up the notch.

Okok but just imagine Zeus/Jupiter and Poseidon have been in this feud for like. thousands of years. and then their grandchild is hailed the symbol of peace with the sounds of Juno's cheering in the background. Oh and the fact that Hera did help Poseidon plot to usurp her husband back in the days. The family gathering would be absolutely a circus.

[writingalice]

I'm simultaneously exhausted and enraged at the utter lack of available lesbian fiction - meaning fiction in which the main couple is lesbian, not a background lesbian relationship. It's utterly appalling.

I've discussed the lack of lesbian presence in bookshops, libraries and academic discourse but I feel like it's the same in fanfiction, you know? There's usually a lower count of F/F fics than Gen fics, and the lesbian couple is usually some background couple. As an example, I've been filtering HP works, mostly because it's convenient for that : despite That Unnamed Writer's internal misogyny and various problems, it's still a fandom with which most of us grew up and which includes more noted females characters - as in, female-presenting characters that the reader/spectator will remember - than, say, LOTR (this has nothing to do with LOTR, which I love and respect). So I thought - alright, there should be something. The first fics were always - always featuring lesbian couples instead of having women as their main characters. (I should note here that I sorted the fics by kudos). When I looked in the Gravity Falls fics, the first fic was a Billdip, for crying out loud!

And I feel like I should add most of the works I found in the F/F category of the Original Work tag were rated E.

Now, there's nothing wrong with Explicit, sometimes you just want mindless PWP (gosh, my AO3 history's between me and the government agent who's monitoring my Internet and wishing they could wipe their mind with Javel) but sometimes you want fics with thought-out relationships instead of yet another fic about someone's forced bimbofication. Ok, dumb out your characters all you want but I want fucking knights and coffee shops - gosh, I shouldn't even have to complain about the fact that I want what M/M fiction does have. I'm not even complaining about the fandoms in themselves though, let's be honest, a lot of the more popular ones involve male-presenting male characters and masculine relationships and little to no significant women relationships.

As I said earlier, HP's got some girls and women but I won't be pretending there are a lot of significant woman-to-woman relationships that aren't family-coded. Same goes for PJO, although it's more friendship-coded - just ask yourself why we got Jercy and very few Pipabeth.

Same goes for a lot of the fiction we're consuming, actually, especially in my Western culture. Take a minute and think about a work of fiction you enjoy, and then find not family-coded relationships between female characters. And I know I'm part of it : I happily consume fiction in which there are little to no women, especially if they're not part of a family whatsoever. (although I did always think Jo March is meant to have a lavender marriage with Friedrich and thrive with various women relationships, but that's not the point)

Look, just - think about it. When is the last time you consumed lesbian fiction that was explicitly lesbian fiction, featured a lesbian character as the main character and was not simply porn? (also, do you have recs?) Comparatively, same criters with gay fiction? I'm not saying het or gen here because it's besides the point.

And if you don't really care about it, ask yourself how you'd react if the roles were switched.

I'm leaving this here, probably not to be seen by anyone. And if someone has recs, then by all means, drop it.

(when I think about it, this whole venting session basically boils down to : I want lesbian fiction to be allowed not to be about sex, and to be visible)

[melancholic-pigeon]

I've seen the take a few times that jercy makes no sense because they don't have that many interactions in canon and that Jercy shippers are making things up

which, firstly, skill issue; I come from the era when two background characters with like three lines each were one of the biggest ships in the entire Naruto fandom (I can't even remember what Genma's boyfriend's name was)

Secondly: no, by pure math, they don't have that many interactions. The interactions they DO have, though, are moments like when they cross swords and summon a hurricane, or when Percy describes fighting alongside Jason as feeling like he'd been a cyclops his whole life and suddenly had two eyes.

Their interactions are few but gravitational, because they're foils. That's the whole point. Each one's brightness reflects the other's natural luminescence and builds to a glow neither could achieve without the other.

Like to be clear, I don't care what you ship! Ship anything you want! (Yes, really, even That Ship!) But text does not support the notion that Jercy is a crackship and I think people who fall for Jason's front don't find Jason interesting either don't remember these scenes because there weren't that many of them or missed the implications the last time they read them.

[perseusjackson-jasongrace]

what is your background from? I love it dearly :)

hello lovely anon :)

my background (I assume you’re talking about my header?) is this picture, from my jercy pinterest board

if you were talking about something else, please do pop me another ask so I can be less confusion😵‍💫but yes I do love this image I think it captures jercy perfectly!

what an honor, says jason, the roman soldier

what an injustice, says percy, who knows of a life better than this.

[goldenqingxin]

oh dear another one

relationships: jercy + background solangelo

summary:

He breathes in and shudders through the intake. His lungs hurt, and so does his back. His shoulders are so tense they feel like they’ll snap soon. He’s doing it again, he figures. Gods. Nico’s going to kill him, if Percy doesn’t get to him first.

when jason can't take care of himself, his roommates (and boyfriend(fiancé?)) are happy to step in and do it for him.

tumblr notes: artistic burnout is so real and its so rare to see fics where jason is overwhelmed by his work so i wanted to try it out, plus mandatory fluff because i can’t write them sad after everything. part of a bigger series (see ao3)!

[ptb-composer]

I'm gonna force myself to work by putting on background noise that can't possibly distract me. A peice of media so horrible we all agree it never existed. Jercy Packson and the reigning lheif movie.

[youarestellarverse]

Still Come Back to You

Or: Grover and Percy bro it up over pot brownies.

Final word count: 6109

Summary: "I don't know what the fuck I was thinking. I was eighty pounds in a wet t-shirt and about as intimidating as a fluffy baby harp seal."

"You were a wolverine." Grover shakes his head vehemently. "You'd never even met me, and you still dove in headfirst to rescue me without any concern for your own safety. It's not every day the universe throws someone that special into your life. I couldn't shake the feeling that you and I were meant to know each other. When you turned out to be my roommate, I knew I was right."

Read here!

[rosesradio]

When it comes to Aus (assuming you have like a list of aus you enjoy) is there any aus you enjoy mostly with a specific ship?

Or is it any ship is equally okay

(fair warning i ended up yappin a lot more than usual which is saying something lol, i apologize :') )

i don't think i have a list of AUs that i enjoy right off, though any typical longfic/more in depth AU i come up with tends to lean towards valdangelo as the best choice narratively (i'm thinking the archive au as well as a gravity falls au i was microwave-potatoing around my brain, though i'm yet to make a post on that if i do).

tbh i think a lot of the AU-spaces that get made up for more, uh, explicit fics in general get kinda slept on because they're seen as a means to an end (and they are, lol). personally though i enjoyed exploring the implications of universes even outside of smut in those fics such as take a gamble, 'til death do us part, & the power of neptune.

take a gamble is a jercy fic that explores a darker universe in which the monster attacks don't stop when a demigod becomes an adult & in fact get worse. it's implied (at least to me lol) that annabeth (percy's love interest) and leo (jason's love interest) died, along with mostly everyone else, leaving them to grapple with like the tension and resentment and struggles that come with that.

'til death do us part was my first lukercy fic/first luke lives fic/first arranged marriage fic. it explores a universe in which (as stated) luke lives and is basically a missing person for 3 years until he's rounded back up & percy is forced to marry him to keep them both in line (realistically i feel like they'd both kill the gods for this arrangement but uh...something something consummating the marriage, something something means to an end, cough cough). i just think it's interesting to look into how luke would act if he survived the war & how he and percy navigate having to be together.

the power of neptune is similar in the whole lukercy/navigating friends to enemies to strangers to friends to lovers kinda greek tragedy nonsense, though this is the most tame of the AUs listed. i'm not one for university AUs, much less ones with a background ship (this one being valgrace) because background ships have always felt a little off to me, like it's unfair that i don't get to explore things with them too. that being said i'd be down to write more into the new rome uni AU even if it's a wee bit underwhelming compared to darker and/or more fantasy-based AUs.

so yeah, kinda long-winded but to answer your question, really any ship is okay as long as the concept interests me. i always said i wanted to write a longfic for valgrace, though i've never thought of an AU for them and i never like writing that close to canon. i have a lot of ideas that don't come to fruition, but that's part of the fun! thanks for the ask :-)

[renee-ruby-j]

Also Ruby totally does a boudoir photoshoot for Percy as a wedding present 👀

I feel like Leo is a shutterbug and he probably helped out, but he got kind of weirdly shy about it because it's one thing to casually see your guy BFF's butt in the locker room but taking photos of one of your girl BFFs dolled up in fancy lacy underwear is a VERY different experience.

He gets over himself, though, because it's cute watching her and Piper flirt with Annabeth and make her blush. the tension-breaking giggle fit helps a lot too.

[kiragenta]

What if Jason went to the arcade and won Percy a shark plushie?

[melancholic-pigeon]

bonus wip #1

Because it’s mother’s day and I happen to be writing about Sally’s birthday (which I made up) in a multichapter of mine: a longer excerpt (same one I published last time, plus revisions) to show some appreciation to everyone’s favorite mom. (No context needed.)

In the morning, Paul makes coffee while Estelle helps unwrap. She's at the age where ripping paper makes her squeal with hysterical laughter, which worms its way into Percy's heart and melts it into pudding. 

Several of the presents are from Percy's friends, including a handbound book of original recipes from Leo, a lovely silver bracelet inset with mother-of-pearl that Beckendorf made himself, and a huge sheathed knife with a matching decorative handle from Clarisse. The last one makes his mom snort as she gets up to put it on the bookshelf, out of reach of curious toddler hands. 

"Decorative. Sure." 

"I bet she'd teach you how to use it if you asked." 

"I know how to use a bowie knife, dear. Your father and I used to catch and cook our own fish when we went camping."

"Which reminds me, he still hasn't taken me out," Paul cuts in, frowning. "We've got dad jokes and stories to swap, and you can't teach me to fillet a herring without a herring to fillet."

"I'll bug him about it the next time we talk," Percy promises. "It's probably the ADHD." 

"Do you want me to bug you about bugging him?" 

"If you haven't set something up by blueback season, yeah."

Percy and Paul went in on a pound of jasmine tea, which his mom reaches for next. She immediately asks for a cup— it's one of two days out of the entire year where she lets other people wait on her, for a change, and even that took a lot of cajoling. 

Paul makes the tea, since Percy usually scalds the leaves and it turns out tasting like grass. She probably wouldn't complain anyway, but it's her birthday, and she deserves to have the best tea that can be made in their kitchen. 

"Is the blue bag from Jason?" Paul sets the mug on a coaster in the middle of the coffee table, and Percy scoops the baby into his lap so she doesn't try to grab it. She mashes her toddler hand against his cheek.

"And Thalia. I'm not sure if they went in on stuff or he just packed them both in one bag to make it easy." 

Either is a possibility. He watches as his mom reaches in and pulls out a large frame, her eyes widening as Estelle rips away the paper.

"Please pass on that I am absolutely furious."

She turns the frame around. An autographed vinyl EP of Sign O' the Times by Prince— one of the albums Percy grew up on, though she skipped a few of the songs when he was little, most of which ended up in his library by high school anyway. Thalia must have spent a fortune on it. 

"That woman is incredible," Paul breathes, lightly touching the glass. "How does she even find this stuff?" 

"See!"

"Ebay genius, probably." Percy grins as Estelle reaches for the album, and holds her over the glass so she can touch it too. "She's also really good at barter chains."

His mother shakes her head as she puts the album aside and digs back into the bag. 

This frame is smaller and wrapped in the same paper, with Jason's careful print written out across it. The crinkling sound draws Estelle's attention, and she reaches over to do her job and tear it off.

Their mom gasps and puts a hand to her mouth, her eyes going bright.

It's a watercolor portrait of Percy and Estelle, laughing by the shoreline. She's dressed in a little bucket hat, a ruffled swimsuit patterned to look like a clownfish and the coolest shades in the world— sparkly blue frames shaped like seashells that he kind of wishes he could get in his size. He's in a wetsuit, having spent the morning of his birthday surfing, and he's holding onto her hands so she can jump at the waves. In the distant background is the Montauk lighthouse.

It's beautifully done, like everything else Jason's ever put to paper, but Percy's never choked up like this over one of them. 

"You remember that, Beluga? That was on my birthday, when you came and visited me and Jason at the beach."

"Beach?" she asks, expectant. Paul bursts into laughter. 

"You're your mother's daughter, sweet pea."

"Beach!" Estelle insists. Percy noses her pudgy cheek. 

"It's too cold to swim, baby." His mom's eyes are sparkling, still a little teary. He can see Estelle in the smile on her face. "But we could go for a walk and visit." 

"Brunch first." Paul kisses her— Percy averts his eyes, wrinkling his nose at his sister to make her giggle again— and gets up, heading back into the kitchen. 

It's a lovely way to spend a late morning. Pale blue araucana eggs, courtesy of Grover's new hens; a blueberry coffee cake from Nico by a fantastic hole in the wall in Hell's Kitchen; Paul's signature home fries, made from blue potatoes and seasoned to perfection; all of it delicious.

Jason calls while Percy's doing the dishes. After his deep, resonant performance of the happy birthday song, the five of them chat on speakerphone for a little while, though he has to excuse himself pretty quickly to keep banging through his reading. 

"Maybe next year," Percy sighs. His mom puts her hand on his hip, then crouches down to help Estelle with her light-up sneakers. 

"He's always welcome for a rain check." 

Percy ends up carrying his sister on his hip, snuggled into his jacket to block the chilly sea breeze. She points at seagulls, shouting triumphantly every time. 

"More bird!"

"That's right. A whole flock of 'em."

They watch for a while as the gulls fight over a discarded pizza crust. Then Percy feels an arm around his back and a head against his shoulder.

"I don't know how I got so lucky," his mother murmurs. "I have a wonderful husband, time for my passions and the best two kids in the world." 

Percy's eyes sting. 

For most of his life, her birthdays had been spent without fanfare. He was rarely actually there for them anyway, and Gabe complained so much it was easier to just ignore the day and focus on survival instead. 

She'd been triaging like that since before she even met Percy's dad, keeping herself afloat when nobody seemed to care if she drowned. It would have been easy to lie down and give up. Percy's pretty sure he would have.

He turns to hug her with the obligatory proclamation of a Stella Sandwich, leaning his cheek against the top of his mom's head while his sister wriggles with delight. 

"Luck's got nothing to do with it."

[elaborateruses]

you say you’re fine; i know you better than that

part 2 of stellarverse!jercy x you belong with me :)

part 1 | shitpost inspiration | for @youarestellarverse