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i have ALWAYS promptly looked forward to jason grace's povs in the hoo books to the point where'd I'd flip the pages till I find the words "JASON" and would count the amount of povs he has in the whole book before I even finished reading, so I feel excited knowing that I'll get to his povs soon. there, I said it.
#there is no 'i skip jason's povs' allowed in this household sorry I love him too much#if im a loser for liking no LOVING his povs then so be it idc#I genuinely felt interested in reading his povs bc he was the only one without memories#like we don't know who is how got there what he's in chb for?? his mind was so blank that even I felt confused for the poor guy#the sheer devastation I felt when I saw people hating on him online after I read the hoo books 😭#even yesterday I saw a person comment on a jason pinterest post about how he is so uninteresting unfunny and insensitive-#and that they felt bad nico had come out to jason of all people. like okay what did jason ever do to deserve this treatment dam#all poor young me wanted to do was discuss how much I love him and what a great character he was-#i genuinely loved his povs??? he is so dry chill and sarcastic I love it sm bc same jason#whenever he analyzes people's behaviours and notices their habits>>>#pjo#pjo fandom#percy jackson#pjo series#jason grace#pjo hoo#pjo hoo toa
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Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
#pjo#percy jackson#nico di angelo#Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?''#and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus#but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3''#and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to''#only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it#and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book#Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out''#Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.''#''this has been so bad for my health''#Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested.#Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him''#Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him.#and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE#though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it.#he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure''#nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards.#which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for
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Hazel has the earth and gems, Nico has the dark and dead, so what does Bianca get from her fathers cold blood and hands?
#sorry for posting so much about Bianca#Im literally crying#i love her so much#shes so little#so young#in her dying seconds she was caring for her brother#looking after his feelings#is that how ill live?#how my life will end?#giving away yet another piece of my existence to the siblings that i hate with all my heart?#bianca di angelo#hazel levesque#nico di angelo#pjo#percy jackson#ttc#hoo#son#pjo books
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Just finished reading house of Hades
Emotional trauma galore
#heroes of olympus#percy jackson#nico di angelo#annabeth chase#hazel levesque#frank zhang#leo valdez#jason grace#piper mclean#reyna avila ramirez arellano#goodness help me#cupid is a dickhead and i hate him more than octavian#i will kill him#bob is amazing and deserves the world#i want a whole book about reyna#she is so brave and perfect#also i felt like nico ment he was going to kiil himself when he told jason he was leaving forever once the quest was done#someone please tell me im wrong#i know he dosnt but still
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the boy everyone ran scared from turned out to be the inspiration of many i am breaking down on the floor
#everybody shut the fuck up im still in page 180ish i got much homework#POBRE DE USTEDES QUE ME SPOILEEN#also i dont wanna hear ur critics im not ready to hate the book yet#at least lemme finish it first#tsats#the sun and the star#nico di angelo#rick riordan#pjo#hoo#tsats spoilers#percy jackson#solangelo#mark oshiro
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Btw if you want more solangelo content that doesn't make you want to commit crimes against Rick and Mark you can just ignore whatever they write and read fanfiction. There's over 10,000 solangelo fics on AO3 alone. You don't HAVE to read the cash grab book.
#pjo#riordanverse#percy jackson series#pjo hoo toa#tsats#the sun and the star#solangelo#nico di angelo#will solace#seeing solangelo fans crying bc they hate what the authors are doing to their ship#but babies you can simply not read the books and still get good quality solangelo content
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First of the bat, let me say this as a disclaimer. I love the og Percy Jackson series. Secondly, my fav character is Nico and then the Percy from the og series.
Do you know why I make this distinction? Because, Heroes of Olympus ruined Percy's basic characteristics.
Just think, this is the percy who was bullied in almost every school he attended (except, maybe, Goode). Even, camp half blood,till he came back from the first quest. This is the guy with so strong a sense of loyalty that he was willing to get into trouble with the teachers for Grover when they studied together, was willingly an outcast because he would rather be friends with the one guy everyone picked on and thus be bullied himself. He was pretty excited to have a brother once he got over the whole Cyclops thing, too. This is the same guy who spent all his free time looking for a runaway kid who said he hated him. Maybe it was out of misplaced guilt. Maybe it was due to the fact this guy big brothered everyone he could get away with. (Atleast, I felt like that.)
While we're on that issue. Was Nico right to blame Percy for Bianca's death? Absolutely, not. But he was also a grieving ten year old who just lost his only family (even though she had, in a way, already left him behind. But that's an entirely different rant on the Hunters as an institutions. Bianca was also a child, remember.). And considering that Nico changed his tune once he found the truth out and even helped Percy and the camp willingly afterwards, I like to think he more than made up for that mistake.
There's even a part where Percy refuses to burden Nico with the prophesy and claims it for himself. Considering that till then he was trying not to even think about it, I believe we can easily claim that Nico was in some ways important to Percy. Maybe not in the same way his Mom, Annabeth Or Grover was to him, but still an important person.
Then we have in the last Olympian, Percy using Nico as an example why Children of Hades shouldn't be treated as Pariahs. Because if not for him and the reinforcements his powers brought (not even counting the three whole deities he brought along) the casualties would have been higher. (It was Hades who locked Percy up. He even confirms that Nico hadn't had a clue. Nico in turn broke him out and got himself in trouble. Then in a turn of events, Percy starts to blame Nico for something that wasn't in his control. A reversal of roles so to speak. I had thought that it had been momentary anger on Percy's part, but apparently considering all the references to how Nico betrayed him in the HoO, it wasn't. He'd pushed it aside momentarily, it seems.)
Percy was not to blame for what happened to Nico in the original series. Life isn't fair and it just happened to be extra unfair to Nico. Even then Percy went out of his way to look after the kid, to make sure he had a safe space.
This is the Percy who I liked. The Son of Neptune only emphasised this. Even without his memories, he took Hazel and to a lesser extent Frank under his wings. He actually recognised Nico in a vague way. Not just Annabeth (which is something else I have beef with. What about his mother? Why didn't he remember Sally till a lot later and even then he didn't let her know he was safe till a lot later?)
Then comes the Mark of Athena. He apparently told so many horror stories to the 7 that there was a debate on whether or not they should save a 13 year old demigod, the brother to one of them, from a preventable death. This wasn't like the Titan war were demigods could be the enemy. Then why was there even a debate? It's like all that loyalty disappeared. This is the guy that was once bullied at every school he's attended. Doesn't he know the impact of telling tales when people aren't there to defend themselves? To tell the whole story? Then House of Hades. Every single person in that ship thought that Nico was spooky, creepy whatever and all that poor kid was doing was exist. He made himself scarce, barely spoke unless necessary and even then they were like ew, creepy. It's like Percy's personal loyalty became loyalty to just Annabeth. Fuck whatever happens to anyone else. It upsets me.
The later books ruined Percy as a character. And I will stand by this.
#percy jackson#nico di angelo#pjo#pjo hoo toa#i hate what they did to his character in the later books.
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this fucking guy lmao
#let him go rick!!!!!!#let him be free!!!!!#write about literally anyone else!!!!#except don't because now we have a second nico book coming because you hate us!!!!!#i do love that he's upfront about telling the OG fans to fuck off because he has new kiddos and their parents to sell to lmao#also... sir how is this new series for 11-year-olds it is about APPLYING FOR COLLEGE#that is a YA subject matter not MG you FUCKING HACK aklsjadkljaskdlaj;kldjaskljad;lasj;#welcome to the semi-annual I'm Mad At Rick Riordan party#refreshments are downstairs#pjo#rr crit
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guys..... i KNOW that tsats wasn't perfect but please please please im begging yall to calm down with the hate of a book that hasn't been released!!! let us desperate solangelo fans EAT THIS SHIT UP
#lets wait for the book to release before we start hating on it k!!#so excited for tsats 2#i remember when tsats came out and i was so happy but SO sad it was a standalone...#MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE#and please NO ONE tell me to go read fanon#i love fanfiction (im a fanfic writer for gods sake)#but i still am sososo happy that nico and will are being explored in canon#tsats#solangelo#tsats 2#pjo hoo toa tsats#pjo tsats#william andrew solace#the sun and the star#will solace#nico di angelo#gay#queer#shipping#books
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me looking at everyone hating on tsats like yikes
sorry you couldn't see that this book was literally about nico learning to accept that his trauma is part of him but doesn't control him and he can live alongside it without shoving it down or letting it take the lead
sorry you didn't realise that the underworld was literally killing will and just overall being a physical manifestation of everything he was taught to fear, hate, and fight against but he still managed to do a complete 180 and accept his own darkness as well as nico's because he wants to be better
sorry you didn't realise how the mere fact that this book, part of an extremely popular franchise read by children everywhere, will help literally thousands of kids accept themselves and their identity by constantly showing us non cishet people and couples and talking about the struggles of being queer but showing that it's very much possible to achieve happiness
sorry you can't see how amazing this book is
couldn't be me
#libby rants#tsats#the sun and the star#tsats spoilers#nico di angelo#will solace#rick riordan#mark oshiro#lgbtq#literally if you hate on this book#there's the door bitch#do not talk to me do not engage with me just do not#go and seethe over there im just gonna be happy with my peeps who can appreciate this work of art
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I'm gonna froth at the mouth over this in the tags so bear with me but reason #1278038 why the way rick went about breaking up jiper was bad: rereading her povs in hoo where she gushes over jason feels like even more of an unreliable narrator queer girl comphet psychological horror story
#it's not that that isn't interesting (it's fascinating actually. especially for a daughter of aphrodite!!!)#it's that it Obviously wasn't his og intention. the ending of hoo is clearly intended to give a positive impression of jiper#this is worsened because shelper is wildly underdeveloped so it's like Dude what did you even do this for#literally just an afterthought. a footnote really. he said “ok here's your canon sapphic rep pls stop shipping theyna now” /j#she was a main character in one of the main couples in hoo it's so crazy? how can that happen. he would never do this to percabeth#can you imagine if percabeth broke up offscreen and 2 months later annabeth was with some complete rando and then percy died. girl what#it's the kind of setup/payoff issue that is difficult to put into words because he set up something (jiper and all its complex morality)#to ultimately be good because they're making the choice to love each other in the end (poorly executed but whatever I don't hate it)#and then in toa????? he just obliterates them for no payoff and creates a new impression of the most literal case of comphet imaginable? wh#toa is my absolute least favorite sorry#marginally related but if we can Be. Chill. and acknowledge that he originally wrote nico as crushing on annabeth#(we can argue all day about how Definite the crush was but come on. he did not put percy's speculation of it in there for no reason)#(and he obviously did not plan for nico to be gay back then you will literally never convince me of this)#(representation was NOT on his mind in the first 5 books that's why the cast is almost completely white except charles and ethan)#(the disposable poc who die tragically btw)#then I see a similarly confusing debacle but like. in the opposite way#something something sexuality is fluid you can be gay and feel confused about how u used to have a het crush but are still gay#nico says so himself to piper which is hilarious#it's just the lack of consistency and poor planning that I hate........... it is a ginormous pet peeve of mine and it's All Over His Books#piper already reads as having so much growing to do regarding her gender and sexuality because Somebody#(the man writing her) littered her pov with internalized misogyny/anti hyperfemininity and went nowhere with it#rr crit#percy jackson and the olympians#piper mclean#jason grace#pjo hoo toa#anti jiper#<- I PROMISE I am not actually anti-jiper I am very neutral about it as I am with all jason ships. they had cute moments#tagging that just in case#this comes from a place of deep love for the franchise and it's characters btw I have been a fan since I was 8
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I do think that it’s hilarious that fanon regulus black is LITERALLY just nico di angelo. When the mauraders girlies discover heros of olympus ITS OVER!
#rip regulus black you would’ve hated percy jackson#his spin off book is literally titled the sun and the star for fucks sake#harry potter#remus lupin#sirius black#wolfstar#james potter#mauraders#mauraders era#regulus black#percy jackson#heros of olympus#nico di angelo#jegulus#solangelo
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it was a thing for awhile in the fandom (and still is) to focus on one demographic a character is a part of while ignoring others like they can only exist one at a time (primarily being erasing disability traits or experiences the characters describe, usually by taking a trait meant to indicate one thing and claiming it can only indicate a separate thing and never anything else)
but the absolute biggest offender will always be when Rick and Mark Oshiro just fully did that in The Sun And The Star. like. oh okay. this is what we're doing now. and fully said it too. "Nico only likes Mythomagic to look at the hot men on the cards" ah yes of course it's definitely not because. he has adhd (and autism coding) and Mythomagic is his hyperfixation/special interest. nah that couldn't be it. Because of course Nico's only trait is "Gay" and that's the only thing that can inform his character Ever. How could i be so silly as to think otherwise? (sarcasm sarcasm)
anyways the fandom could really stand to learn about intersectionality that'd be great. rick too probably. also just remember disability exists in general and is kind of very central to the series and nearly every character. thanks.
#pjo#riordanverse#nico di angelo#tsats crit#rr crit#in the case of what TSATS did that example doesnt even have an element of intersectionality to it really that's just purely erasure#they fully erased that Nico's connection to mythomagic is part of his disability/being neurodivergent and went ''no actually he's just gay'#''he only likes this game because Gay Reasons''#they both said that out loud at the book tour and it's also in the book itself and i hate it#anyways sorry theme of the week seems to be shaking my fist at lack of acknowledgement of intersectionality#and general erasure of the focus of disability in the series (primarily first series)#(including the franchise itself erasing the focus on disability which i will personally bitch about forever)
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ah, yes, the three people needed for a quest: will solace, nico di angelo and his skeleton cat small bob
#yeah we all know damn well that if rr remembers the 3 rule itll be jason#the only other stunt i can think hed pull is bianca#i mean he doesnt beed percy bc it being a solangelo book is already enough to draw most readers in#also id hate it to be percy that would be actually awful#i mean dont get me wrong nico and percy need to talk things through#but a#not w will around#and b#tartarus is the worst place for it#nico di angelo#will solace#solangelo#tsats#solangelo book#nico book
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I absolutely LOVE the fact that they're going more into depth about Percy's messed up version of friendship with Nico (and Bob). I've always thought Percy treated Nico kind of badly, especially during the HOO series, and I'm SO glad they're exploring that.
I really hope they explore it more. Almost everyone in the riordanverse sees Percy as this perfect hero, but I hope his flaws and the dismissive way he acts towards his more distant friends is explored more in Nico's and especially Will's povs. I promise I like Percy, but he's done Nico dirty multiple times, and I just can't forgive that. I'm sure Percy's back and forth friendship with Nico didn't help Nico's self-worth issues and his feelings of not belonging at Camp Half-Blood.
#listen i dont hate percy but i am so glad his not great behavior towards nico is being explored#i hope it gets explored more#tbh he needs to be humbled just a bit even if it's just in nico and will's minds#solangeo book#solangelo#nico di angelo#will solace#percy jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#heroes of olympus#tsats potential spoilers#tsats spoilers#tsats#tsats preview#the sun and the star: a nico di angelo aventure#the sun and the star
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One day more on my goal to not acknowledge The Sun and The star as canon ( the worst part of this thing it's that is official content)
#i don't even hate it as a read#it's ok ig#but i refuse to think that this thing it's more than a fanfic ooc and with a bad planned plot#honesly this book was just wasted potential for see Nico and Will relationship since the start or them having an actual plot for them#instead this is just a try to make them a percabeth 2.0#i like their relationship but we never get to see how they actually got together and we only got to see their dynamic with Apollo#who is not only an unreliable but also someone out of the relationship#anti tsats#nico di angelo#will solace#pjo#hoo#toa#solangelo#mrs soft rambling
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