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You're not wrong, but all the gods are terrible in Blood of Zeus. It's why Gaea goes scorched earth.

Actually, I'd argue that we only see a case for the older Olympians* being terrible and even then, it's not all of them: Poseidon, for one, is a really good example of someone who understood that mistakes were made, that something had to give, and was more that ready to set old conflicts aside in order to move forward in the wake of Zeus' death. Hera also seems to be genuinely reflective and apologetic for the crimes she wrought and wanted, more than anything, to be given the opportunity to make amends for her actions by doing the one thing everyone thought she never could; give up her power.

Going down the line, the talking point of "oh, all the gods in Blood of Zeus are terrible" becomes weaker and weaker: Apollo's only actual crime is being too filial/his contempt of Hera, but he shows more compassion and understanding than anything - both while comforting Electra about the nature of her son and by welcoming and supporting Heron, Hermes is also similarly shown with a very strong familial loyalty, but prioritises his work above all else, Hephaestus is a councillor and assistant, Athena is protective and shown, not only rallying together her siblings in order to properly inform them of the nature of the foe they were facing (even when they had been on different sides of the Hera/Zeus conflict and even when it casts Hera in a good light and plainly makes it known that she's being framed) but also getting Persephone to fess up her part in the scheme without resorting to violence.

The only gods that were portrayed poorly in Season 2 were Ares, who feels like he'd be better off being called Damian Wayne with how intensely he's preoccupied with blood purity and being Zeus' legitimate son, Aphrodite who sides with him (but even then is shown feeling ill at ease at going along with his treachery prior to the Eleusinian Stone trial), and Demeter who is so far removed from simply 'being an asshole' that she's hurtled headfirst into being a sadistic supervillain.

(Of course Hades is also a tyrant and an asshole but I also consider him too wishy-washy and inconsistent to figure out what angle they were trying to take with him. I can't think of him as good or bad, merely confusing)

Anyway, I think people hold on to the idea that the gods in BoZ are all assholes too closely because Heron and Seraphim, our main characters, hold on to the idea that ALL gods are assholes due to being the pawn of -counts on fingers- exactly two of them. With the exception of Ares, all of the other gods have been nothing but welcoming and supportive of Heron! And what Hades does to Heron in S2 has nothing to do with his feelings about Heron himself but rather with his own goals and desperations that have been multiplied by Demeter's machinations and his own frustrations at being unable to keep his family together.

[catindabag]

TBOSAS on Crack short take (33)

*How the Tribute-Mentor first official meeting went*

Coryo: Hi, Birdy.

Lucy Gray: Hey, Snow White~.🥰 How’s it been? You still drunk?

Coryo: Not great, not terrible. Disappointingly sober.

Lucy Gray: Do you have food by any chance?

Coryo: Yeah. My super rich boyfriend brought me an extra sandwich earlier.

Lucy Gray: Can I have it?🥺

Coryo: Sure. I’m willing to trade it for a song.

Lucy Gray: Snow On The Beach?

Coryo: You know it, Bestie~.😌

Sejanus: Marcus~! Hey, Marcus! It’s me, Sejanus!😀

Marcus: *Still in denial* Who’s Marcus? I’m not Marcus.

Sejanus: Oh, c’mon! We literally met at the train station the other day!

Marcus: That wasn’t me.

Sejanus: I’m pretty sure it was you.

Marcus: Nope. Never met you before.

Sejanus: Stop lying, Marcus! I even introduced you to my gorgeous boyfriend!

Marcus: Nah, bro. That was a different Marcus, from a different District 2.

Sejanus: But- but there’s only one District 2?!😭

Festus: Yo, Carl! Carl from District 4, remember me?😀

Coral: Ugh! It’s Coral, stupid!

Festus: Well, whatever. Wanna go steal some food from the school kitchen?

Coral: Are we even allowed-

Festus: Never stopped me and my friends before. So you in?

Coral: Sure. Why not. Lead the way.

Persephone: What’s your favorite food?

Mizzen: Weird question, but fish, I guess? And you?

Persephone: Maid stew.

Mizzen: You mean meat stew, right?

Persephone: Sure! Maid stew is the best and cheapest meat in today’s market.

Mizzen: You mean meat stew, right?!

Persephone: *grins* If that’s what you want to hear.😈

Mizzen: Are you a canni-

Persephone: Wanna taste my homemade “beef” jerky?😀

Lysistrata: Hi, Jessup! It’s me! The Great Lizzie Vickers!

Jessup: Yo, Vitamin Girl, do you have more of those sugar pills you gave me the other day?

Lysistrata: Oh, those pills? That would be 4 cabbages and 2 cans of beans, please.🙂

Jessup: I thought you gave them to me for free?!

Lysistrata: Free? In this economy?!

Livia: If you haven’t heard of me before, I feel so sorry for you. So sorry.🙄💅

Facet: Slow down, girlie. We haven’t even introduced ourselves.

Livia: Fine. I’m Livia Cardew and my mama runs the biggest bank in Panem. And you?

Facet: I’m Facet the fantastic fashionista of District 1.

Livia: A fashionista?! What’s your favorite color?

Facet: Girl, hot pink is the only valid color in Panem.

Livia: Omg! I totally agree with you, bestie!

Facet: Do you like shopping?

Livia: Like?! I love shopping!

Facet: Heels or flats?😏

Livia: Heels forever!

Facet: Feathers or leather?

Livia: I live and breathe for both.

Facet: Girl, same.

Livia: You’re officially my new best friend. Let’s get out of here and go ✨shopping✨!

Facet: Lead the way, bestie!

Palmyra: Do you like tomato soup?

Velvereen: Yeah?

Palmyra: Do you want to try my homemade tomato soup?

Velvereen: Umm. . . Why does your “homemade” soup looks so weird?

Palmyra: It’s totally normal. I made it myself.

Velvereen: Girl, I’m gonna be honest with you.

Palmyra: Sure! I love honesty.😀

Velvereen: Your soup smells like rat poison.

Palmyra: It’s just for aesthetics.

Velvereen: I’m not sure-

Palmyra: Oh, don’t be scared! Do you want to try it or not?

Velvereen: *Sweats nervously* Is it fresh?

Palmyra: Define ✨fresh✨.

Felix: Hi, my name is-

Dill: Oh, please don’t tell me you’re a stupid Ravinstill!

Felix: Wha- Why?!

Dill: I would rather die than be mentored by one of President Ravinstill’s family members!

Felix: Oh.☹️

Dill: So are you?!😠

Felix: A Ravinstill?! Nope. Never. We’re not even related.

Dill: Prove it!

Felix: My name’s Philip Raven’s Bill and I’m just an ordinary law abiding citizen!

Dill: Raven’s Bill? That sounds fake-

Felix: I swear I’m Philip Raven’s Bill. Just ask the Dean.

Dill: Ok? *turns to Casca* Yo, Dean, is my mentor Philip Raven’s Bill?

Casca: Yeah! You got a problem with that?!

Dill: Oh, thank the heavens! My prayers have been answered!

Felix: So-

Dill: You’re now my new best friend, Philip!

Felix: *sweats nervously* Sure, Dill.

Clemensia: Hi. I’m your Mentor.

Reaper: *Glares* Are you normal?

Clemensia: Pretty much.

Reaper: Oh, thank Panem! Thank you, Panem! I got the normal one! The normal one! *starts happy dancing*

Clemensia: Sh*t. I got the weird one.

Florus: Sabyn, is it?

Sabyn: Yeah. And you?

Florus: Florus Friend, at your service-

Sabyn: Let me guess, your parents are a bunch of wealthy gardeners, who are secretly disappointed with you.

Florus: Dammit! How did you know?!

Sabyn: Honestly, just look at you.

Florus: Ughhh! I need to call my therapist!😩🔪

Sabyn: Sign me up too.

Io: Hi. My name is Io Jasper-

Circ: Are you smart?

Io: Yeah.

Circ: How smart?

Io: I can create a mini nuclear missile with a 2B pencil.😊

Circ: Marry me! Please, marry me!

Urban: *Bored AF* So Teslee, tell me, what’s your talent?

Teslee: Hacking.

Urban: You know how to hack?!😀 That’s quite amazing-

Teslee: Hacking your loser ass, you stupid ass nerd!😂

Urban: *flips the table* F*ck this!

Casca: *walks in* That’s another demerit for you, Mr. Turban!

Urban: It’s Urban! Dammit!🤬🔪

Dennis: Hey, Hy. I’m Dennis.

Hy: *coughs* Hi. I’m dying.

Dennis: You’re dying?! But we just met?!

Hy: Asthma is a b*tch.

Dennis: Asthma?! In this era?! I’m calling my doctor!

Hy: I think the Tributes are not allowed to-

Dennis: It’s fine! My doctor works at the Black Market.

Hy: Works where?!

Dennis: It’s totally legal, bro.😉

Iphigenia: Hi, Soul! I’m-

Sol: It’s Sol.

Iphigenia: Sal!😀

Sol: Sol.

Iphigenia: Ok.

Sol: I’m hungry.

Iphigenia: Ok.

Sol: Are you gonna feed me or what?

Iphigenia: Of course! I even bought a truck load of doughnuts just for you!

Sol: You what?!

Iphigenia: And here’s a basket of grapes and oranges-

Sol: Where the heck did you even harvest these?!

Iphigenia: And here’s a box of chicken nuggets and chocolates-

Sol: Slow down-

Iphigenia: And here’s a large bag of garlic fries and-

Sol: Are you the food fairy?!

Apollo: Hello, sunshine! I’m your-

Otto: Can I pet your hair?

Apollo: Sure!😀

Otto: It’s so smooth and fluffy.

Apollo: Thanks!☺️

Otto: What did you use to make it so soft?

Apollo: My dog’s shampoo!😊

Otto: Your dog’s what?!

Diana: Hello, moonshine! I’m Dia-

Ginnee: Where’s the booze?

Diana: I think I’m not allowed to-

Ginnee: Give me a bottle of posca and I’ll trade you a secret.

Diana: What kind of secret?😀

Ginnee: A spicy one.

Diana: About who?

Ginnee: About the Tributes.

Diana: Deal!

Vipsania: Hey.

Treech: Hi.

Vipsania: Cool hat, bro.

Treech: Thanks, bro.

Vipsania: You work out?

Treech: Yeah. And you?

Vipsania: Every single day, bro.

Treech: Cool. Me too.

Vipsania: Wanna skip this boring meeting and go to the gym, bro?

Treech: Sure. Lead the way, bro.

Pup: Hi. I’m your Mentor-

Lamina: *starts crying*

Pup: My name is Pliny.😀

Lamina: *is still crying*

Pup: But my friends call me Pup!

Lamina: Like a puppy?

Pup: Yes. That’s right!

Lamina: Can I have a puppy?🥺

Pup: I- I’m not sure if that’s allowed-

Lamina: *starts crying again* But I want to pet a cute puppy!😭

Pup: I told you that you’re not allowed-

Lamina: *is now wailing like a madman* Give me the cute puppy!!

Pup: *starts panicking* Apollo! Yo, Apollo Ring, help a brother out!

Apollo: what’s the problem, bro?

Pup: Let my Tribute pet you.

Apollo: Pet me? Oh, sure. No problem, bro!😊

Lamina: A puppy! I’m so happy! *starts petting Apollo’s head*

Pup: Yup. Problem solved.

Juno: Hello, peasant Bobby. I’m-

Bobbin: It’s Bobbin.

Juno: Whatever. I don’t care. I’m royalty.

Bobbin: Royalty?! Are you a Ravinstill?!

Juno: Better. I’m a Phipps!😎

Bobbin: A what?

Juno: A Phipps! The most ancient and noble family in all of Panem!

Bobbin: I still don’t get it.

Juno: Ughhh! I’m surrounded by stupid peasants.🙄💅

Hilarius: Hello, fellow human.

Wovey: What’s your name?

Hilarius: Umm. . . Don’t laugh. It’s Hilarius.

Wovey: Ok. I won’t laugh. So what is it?

Hilarius: I already told you.

Wovey: No, you didn’t.

Hilarius: Yes, I did. It’s Hilarius.

Wovey: What’s hilarious?

Hilarius: My name!

Wovey: Seriously, what’s your real name?

Hilarius: Hilarius!

Wovey: Are you joking right now?

Hilarius: Ughhh! Fine. You can call me Hilari.

Wovey: Hillary?! Now that’s hilarious!🤣

Gaius: Yo! You’re Pablo, right?😀

Panlo: It’s PAN. LO! P. A. N. L. O. Panlo!

Gaius: Like the bread?!

Panlo: Exactly!

Gaius: Can I call you “Bread Boy” instead?

Panlo: No.

Gaius: Pretty please?🥺

Panlo: No!

Gaius: Oh, c’mon, Pablo! Bread Boy is the perfect stage name.

Panlo: If you want me to die from embarrassment!

Gaius: But think about that sweet sweet money, Bread Boy.

Panlo: I do love money.

Gaius: And fame!

Panlo: Fine! But make sure I get more than half of the shares.

Gaius: No problem, Pablo-

Panlo: It’s Panlo.

Gaius: Whatever you say, Panini.

Androcles: Hi! My name is Andie. I’m a Kleptomaniac and I like to steal stuff.

Sheaf: You like to what?!

Androcles: Sh*t! That came out wrong. Can I try again?

Sheaf: Umm. . . Sure?

Androcles: Ok. Deep breath. Don’t be weird. She’s just a girl.

Sheaf: I’m ready when you are?

Androcles: *exhales* Hi! My name is Andie and I’m a proud delinquent- Sh*t! That came out wrong again!

Sheaf: It’s ok. Take all the time that you need. I’m just here to help.

Androcles: Ok. Let’s try again. Hi! My name is Andie and I stole the President’s dog once.😀

Sheaf: You stole a dog?! You monster!

Androcles: Ughhh! Why am I failing so bad?! What is wrong with me?!

Sheaf: Maybe you’re just nervous because I’m pretty?

Androcles: Nah, bro. Felix, Coryo, and Clemmie are prettier.

Sheaf: Well, it was worth a try. So take four?

Androcles: Yeah. I think I’m ready.

Sheaf: Ok. Go!

Androcles: Hi, Tribute! My name is Andie and my mom blackmails people for a living- Nevermind. I give up.

Sheaf: How about you let me introduce myself first?

Androcles: I’m cool with that.

Sheaf: Alright. Here we go. Hello, Andie! My name is Sheaf and I like to dance for money- Sh*t! That came out wrong.

Androcles: Yep. I think we’re doomed.

Domitia: Hello, Tanner. How’s the-

Tanner: You know my name?

Domitia: A little birdie told me.

Tanner: Brandy was right! I shouldn’t have trusted Lucy Gray!

Domitia: Lucy Gray didn’t snitch on you. Brandy did.

Tanner: What?! Why?!

Domitia: I gave her a big slice of my family’s premium ham.

Tanner: That little snitch! When I get my hands on that neck-

Domitia: Tanner, do you like cows?

Tanner: Yeah. I slaughter them from time to time. Why? You like cows?

Domitia: I’m a Whimsiwick! My whole family loves cows!

Tanner: A Whimsiwick?! You’re that famous but crazy Dairy Heiress?!

Domitia: Yup! That’s me!

Tanner: My whole District practically works for you! I work for you!

Domitia: That’s true!

Tanner: That’s great! You’re rich!

Domitia: Do you want to see my exclusive dairy cow collection?😀

Tanner: Are you single?

Arachne: I can’t believe that I have to introduce myself-

Brandy: Where’s my sandwich, little girl.

Arachne: You rude little sh*t! I’m still talking-

Brandy: Are you gonna cry home to mommy?

Arachne: Shut up, farmer!

Brandy: Oh, don’t be such a whiny loser, circus freak.

Arachne: How dare you call me that! You’re the loser, you District scum!

Brandy: Is that all you’ve got, you certified Capitol b*tch!

Arachne: Oh, you just crossed the line, you dirty animal!

Brandy: You pampered little banshee!

Arachne: You impoverish ugly creature from the sewers!

Brandy: You-

Casca: Oi! That’s enough insults for today. You’re embarrassing yourselves in front of Panem.

Arachne: She started it!

Brandy: Yes, I did.

Casca: And both of you may continue tomorrow.

Arachne: Fine!

Brandy: Whatever.🙄

Casca: Also, Brandy won this round.

Arachne: Dammit!

[thesungod]

Hello I would like your opinion and all possible spoilers for will nico book pls I don’t want to read it but I wanna catch up 🙏

hello anon! prepare yourself for my unadulterated, raw opinion and be warned: it’s not pretty.

BIG SPOILERS AND HARSH HARSH NEGATIVITY UNDER THE CUT please don’t read if you don’t enjoy hating and being mean let yourself have fun if you liked the book <33

So.

Let’s start with this: I had the BEST INTENTIONS about this book. Yeah, I bullied the preview like anyone else, but I had really been intrigued by Nico’s dream sequence and I do love, despite everything I say, Solangelo. Nico has been one of my favourite characters for my entire life and I have wanted a book about him ever since I was 12.

You see how much was at stake for me to enjoy this book?

And I didn’t.

I didn’t, because this book SUCKS.

First of all 1) This shit was boring. Like, I’m sorry. Believe me, it breaks my heart to say something like that because Nico?? BORING??

But yeah. I dare anyone to tell me something actually meaningful that happens in the first half of the book. Will getting coffee on his shirt? The Percabeth pep talk? (And I’m quoting). The infinite, repetitive dream sequences that did nothing for me because they were, you know, infinite and repetitive?

There was also constant reiteration of things that had already happened in previous books, both in the form of dreams and flashbacks, both because the authors never let anything be implied or understood by the reader on their own. Every single thought and feeling and past experience of Nico is shouted at us ad nauseam because god forbid we forget loneliness is part of him and he could never be loved and his sister died and and and.

It’s almost like Mark and Rick browsed the online pjo fandom, took a look at all the things we like about Nico and said “hey, what if we constantly make him think and say exactly those things with an off-putting self awareness and a dramatic tone? I’m sure people will love that!”

I finally thought we were going somewhere with them getting caught stealing by Persephone (yeah that happens) but it transformed into yet another tirade about love and friendship and how important they are. Which brings me to the second point.

2) Someone put tape in the mouth of every single character in this book. I’m so serious.

How many endless, therapy-talk, this-is-an-adult-speaking-not-a-weird-teenager conversations did we get? I don’t know. A million?

I’m reading a fantasy book. Do I need to be reminded about the importance of healthy boundaries and communication every time I turn the page?

I know, I know. The book is for kids and kids need to learn that friendship is magic and whatever.

But, yk, PJO and HoO and ToA are for kids too and while they have their flaws, I never felt like they were giving me a lecture.

This book was downright insufferable. I didn’t have pure, unadulterated fun for a single moment and it wasn’t because I had outgrown the target, which would have been a much more understandable reason, but because it was so slow and didactic and moralistic and lacked any humor except a couple of forced meta jokes. It was fucking sad.

And that serves me point 3 right on a silver platter.

3) Will and Nico have 0 chemistry and I wanted to beat the shit out of them

Seriously when did these two start hating each other. When did they start giving “why are we together” energy. I don’t get it. What happened.

They were so great in the Tower of Nero. They were fun, and colourful, and dynamic, and different, and teenagers, but also you could see that they were two people going through a lot. It didn’t feel as if Nico’s trauma was cheapened just because he occasionally enjoyed spending time with his boyfriend.

In this book… I mean, we get told they are in love. We get told approximately a million of times.

But what we are shown is two people constantly on the brink of beating each other with sticks. We didn’t get one big explosive stress fight, or the resurfacing of a couple of buried issues, as I expected. What we got was an exhausting death by a thousand cuts where Nico was angry at Will for breathing (seriously, count how many times the words annoyed or irritated are said about Nico in regards to his boyfriend) and Will apparently doesn’t understand Nico at all after a year of dating.

Basically, Nico is constantly mad at Will because Will doesn’t like the Underworld and never fails to make it known, while the Underworld is Nico’s home, and that could have been a kind of potentially interesting point of conflict if it hadn’t become draining at page 20. Was it realistic? I mean, I guess!! But that doesn’t mean I wanted to see that shit the entire time.

This was an urban fantasy book for middle schoolers!!! I wanted to have fun!! I didn’t have fun!!!

How could anyone ever have fun with a 400 page long account of two idiot teenagers getting on each other’s nerve with the occasional therapy communication-kiss-therapy communication-kiss interlude? NOT ME.

If that’s you, good for you, truly. But how is this Percy Jackson? Percy Jackson built an empire on being funny and cheeky in an effortless way and ToA followed suit, no matter what personal gripe one may have against the series. HoO is a bit of a wild card, but it was never close to being this flat and depressing. Not. Even. Close.

And as if two protagonists who I used to love being a giant pain in my ass wasn’t enough, the meager plot one can occasionally find between a dream sequence and a flashback and a stupid argument and a conversation about how humanity is love or whatever isn’t even compelling or engaging.

4) And are the interesting new characters in the room with us, Rick?

The only bad guy of the book is Nyx. Nyx is bad because she’s Darkness. She was born Bad and will die Bad and she’s Baddy McBad.

But don’t worry if the villain underwhelms you, because we will meet new interesting characters too!

… yeah, no.

We won’t.

Again. This is a kids’ book.

But. Have we forgotten Percy Jackson is for middle to high schoolers? Like, I know of people enjoying it well into their 20s because it’s nice fun. When did it become for 2 year olds?

Let’s leave aside the fact that Nyx’s motive makes little sense (no worries anon, we will be talking about this later) because there’s no way she cares this much about Nico Di Angelo. Not even I care this much about Nico Di Angelo and he’s been my entire personality ever since I was eleven. Be fucking for real. You’re not that guy, pal.

Any other character who’s not Nyx that is shown is sweet and kind and is changing and is in love and has been to therapy and loves other people. I could have vaguely accepted this (honestly, ToA often worked on a very similar premise), if it hadn’t meant making every single person or monster or whatever Will and Nico meet painfully boring. Literally fucking blank states.

I spent the whole book begging for Apollo to show up just so that someone could admit to drowning his ex in a bathtub and make a sex joke immediately after, because no one else was doing anything remotely cool whatsoever.

Even Persephone and Hades became Disney characters and wistfully raved about the power of love. What. The. Fuck.

It’s so wrong because ToA did the whole “love is everywhere, humans (and creatures) are cool” thing so much better while its characters still managed to have a personality, or were at the very least funny, and some were even villains.

This was all so blah.

Okay, now. Prepare yourself anon. Get a seat. Get a drink.

5) The finale.

Super short summary: Nyx wants Nico Di Angelo to live in Tartarus with her because Nico is special and unique and no one is like him. She makes babies out of his worst nightmares and traumas (because she can… do that, I guess?) and tries to guilt him into staying.

Yeah I know that this is weird as fuck but stay with me.

Nico Di Angelo is special and unique and has the power of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic on his side, so he tells her to fuck off AND keeps the trauma babies, without any sacrifice required at all. If you’re asking yourself what role Will has in this, it’s zero. Zilch. He was literally useless for the actual plot, but we’ll get to that later.

After escaping Tartarus with Bob, Small Bob, Will and trauma babies, Nico finds out this entire thing has been plotted by Hades, who faked a whole prophecy to send his own son back to Tartarus and save Bob, because he knew Nico could do it and he loves Bob or whatever. Hades also hugs Nico and tells him he’s proud of him because he’s special and unique, and for some incomprehensible reason that I’m still attempting to concoct Nico doesn’t kick his ass for it.

He re-traumatised Nico just to get Bob out of Tartarus (because his voice was bothering him or whatever) but… I guess that’s okayyy?

I’m not going to comment any further on Nyx and trauma babies because frankly it’s just plain weird. Like I don’t even know what to say, except that it seems kind of far-fetched for a primordial goddess to do all that for Some Guy. I do have something to say against the Some Guy, though.

6) Someone sucker punch Nico, please.

Never have I ever seen a character act like such a dumb asshole for the entire run of a book while somehow being worshipped for being the Best Person Ever.

You know what was great about Nico? The fact that the books weren’t constantly yelling at you that HE IS GOOD HE IS GOOD HE IS GOOD HE IS GOOD LOOK AT HIM BEING GOOD DOING A THANKLESS JOB BECAUSE HE’S GOOD. You just kinda had to put 2 and 2 together. He acted like he wanted nobody and cared for nobody but we, the readers, called bullshit because everything he did went against that narrative. And when he was outed in HoH, we all said “oooooh”. Him loving Percy made so much more sense than him hating Percy, because his actions spoke louder than his words.

He was a kid, and he was going through it, but he was never completely won over by the bad side because he cared too much about people, even when they didn’t care about him. To quote myself, Nico has never won the idgaf war.

Well, in this book he won the idgaf war. He treated Will like shit, which we’ll attribute to nerves. His thoughts about dead people desperately looking for redemption or release were disturbingly unsympathetic, and he just did things without ever thinking of the consequences for others.

To be fair, this wasn’t a total 180 for him: Nico was previously shown to be touchy and defensive (hence the being mean to Will, who occasionally makes the grave mistake of expressing a thought that isn’t overwhelmingly positive on the literal worst place on the planet), cold (him killing Bryce and Octavian etc) and impulsive. Character flaws, we love them!!

Except that the final moral of the book is that Nico is The Best Person Ever Who Never Asked For Anything In Return For His Whole Complete Goodness And Now Gets An Army Of Little Trauma Babies Who Worship Him.

Ummm… Nico canonically commited murder? Hello?

Sure, he was never Bad, and Love Was In His Heart and all, but the entire point of his character arc was deciding that love was enough. Nico has, again and again, flirted with the bad guys, and been sketchy. He’s not PJO’s Jesus, and this last minute treatment of him was so weird.

We all wanted Nico to have a Win™️ , but it could have been anything less on the nose (NICO IS SO GREAT GUYS OMG) and it still would have been fine.

Also just… idk there’s something that rubs me the wrong way about pretending that pre-tsats Nico was trauma trauma trauma pain pain pain. Life is complex. Nico was a character that happened to go through things, not a character that things happened to with nothing else going for him.

What about Will, though? Well…

7) Will, get behind me.

Is he dumb? Yes.

Does he understand Nico perfectly? No.

Do I like him? The jury is out.

But he did not deserve this slander. Like, omg. He spent the book getting bullied and being useless in battles because he’s not a fighter and Tartarus makes Apollo’s kids weak (wow who would have thought!).

Nico made him cry, for fucks’ sake. A full on sob cry. Admittedly he had acted foolishly but damn.

He’s just a silly little guy, your honor😭

He also, inexplicably, didn’t expeditiously call his father or his mother or the firefighters or someone to kidnap Hades and flog him, despite the fact that Hades tortured his boyfriend for months and sent them both to Tartarus on a fake prophecy.

On a bright note, his pov was actually pretty okay.

So yeah, anon. This book is a pile of genuinely weird, kinda mean spirited and annoyingly moralistic garbage that created PJO Jesus, gave said PJO Jesus babies (?) shoved a couple of gay jokes in the middle of it as if I wouldn’t notice the rest, unwatered my crops, uncleared my skin, single-handedly managed to kill my PJO fixation that has been going on since middle school in six hours and kicked my dog on top of it.

Thanks for reading.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

adam from trc? (for the characters ask game!)

Why I like them: Difficult to sum up since he’s one of my favorite characters of all time, I mentioned he’s probably my second favorite specifically male character in media and I stand by that <3. He has a lot of traits that appeal to me between the control issues and emotional repression and being curious and wanting to know what is up at all times and being a resourceful smart bb who can probably (the traits that most make me vibe with male chars tbh), his ambition and drive and desire for autonomy is really admirable to me but I enjoy that his arc in original trc is about learning he’s worthy of loving and being loved and about the value of that, that vulnerability isn’t automatically going to lead to being ruined in a sense. And his whole journey/arc in original trc is really beautifully done, one of my favorite character arcs ever to this day. On the flip side he’s a freak and a menace and I adore that as well, his internal monologue and pov is truly unhinged in the most fascinating and fun way. I definitely wouldn’t be nearly as attached to him without that. And I love stories about identity and masking and characters who feel alien and other having malleable relationships to identity to conform… so that might have started a bit with my love for Adam I’m realizing.

Why I don’t: I’m satisfied enough with how the arc played out in canon to not hold this against him when it comes to my feelings about his char especially since the breakdown of Blue and Adam’s relationship is pretty compelling to me in general, but anytime I see fandom takes that act like he Never treated Blue badly during their relationship at all and blame her for everything … Bombastic side eye doesn’t begin to cover it. But that’s only related to fandom bs, in terms of moments I actually dislike him which are not reckoned with by the narrative at all obviously it’s the racism re: Henry in TRK, ugh.

Favorite episode (scene if movie): tbh so much of my favorite Adam content comes in his internal monologues and PoV rather than what he’s Doing in a scene… but DC Party scene is incredible <33. If you made me pick another scene would go with him blackmailing Greenmantle nefarious king <3. Oh but also being unbothered by Kavinsky’s death iconic… wait I actually changed my mind pretend I never said those things it’s definitely the sacrifice scene in TRB yes that is my final answer.

Favorite season/movie: I love his entire arc and journey in trc so much so it really could be any book each for different reasons but I’ll say TDT, I love a Downward Spiral that’s interesting and messy <33. But also his BLLB arc rules… but it is the more obvious answer since it’s more positive/uplifting so yeah will stick to TDT answer and unpopular opinion but he’s the best part of that book for me.

Favorite line: lonesome internal monologue is iconic for a reason it’s incredible… also his whole internal monologue about being jealous of all combinations of his (hot) friend hanging out without him is soo real and iconic. Oh also ik I slander TRK but his monologue about loving magic and not knowing he was capable of love before and then Cabeswater showing him the images of his friends in moments linked to heightened emotions surrounding them… went off. If we’re going with just dialogue World’s Ending Folks! tirade is iconic + the internal monologues surrounding it… so much fun to dissect together.

Favorite outfit: the white shirt and cargo pants from BLLB ig my man has no drip… actually changed my mind it’s the secondhand tweed suit Gansey’s dad gave him he wears at Harvard for symbolism reasons.

OTP: Adam/Gansey. I love him with Ronan too and find stuff to be compelled by re: him and Blue but Adansey just hits on a different level emotionally and narratively they are everything…

Brotp: Persephone I love their psychic mentorship in BLLB.

Head Canon: would not have said this was my take before this reread but I do actually think of Adam as having some more internalized homophobia than most of the fandom, not as intense and exacerbated by religious shame as Ronan’s but there in a subtler way. I think Adam at the beginning of the series has some level of awareness about his attraction to men without fully registering it/accepting it, when he thinks about a model for success in TRB&TDT it’s this very heterosexual WASP ideal him watching Declan and Ashley as a model is very this to me for instance and I reblogged some older meta posts about this I agree with (stopping myself here because I kind of want to make a separate post about my thoughts here at some point).

Unpopular opinion: He’s quite an emotional mess for most of the series so fanon portrayals of him as totally cool and collected and put together rub me the wrong way especially after rereading where it Really stood out to me how much fanon and canon tend to diverge... He’s a logical, pragmatic person and a brilliant problem solver but that boy is emotional as fuck (Not soft at all which is totally different from emotional imo) and his efforts to deal with that logically make it worse (I can relate but that’s beside the point), he’s also really not smooth it’s just that Ronan and Gansey’s disasternous is more telegraphed and it makes Adam’s easier to downplay, also a trademark of Adam narration is that He prefers to see himself as a totally logical in control of emotions person and will downplay his emotional investment/emotions as a factor even when his feelings come out in other thoughts and especially especially when you look at his actions….

A wish: makes me deeply sad that even though he clearly values knowledge, loves when other people love knowledge for it’s own sake and get’s a taste of that passion himself when it comes to how much he loves being a powerful psychic/doing magic, he never gets to have that in his academic pursuits because they’re all tailored to get him out of Henrietta / help him win at the capitalist American dream… I so want for him to find a major he’s actually passionate about.

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: well from the Greywaren spoilers I heard (I read CDTH and MI when they came out and now that I’m done rereading the original series am rereading them and will then read Greywaren so will.. try to reserve judgement but what I’ve heard to me is 😬) but aside from that I did always hate the idea of him losing his psychic powers and I’m glad that specifically didn’t happen.

5 words to best describe them: ambitious, observant, obsessive, practical, neurotic

My nickname for them: don’t have one, but I did call him a Freak (affectionate) a lot while rereading so I guess you could count that

thank you so much! (send me a character for ask game)

[ginnyrules27]

Hey Ginny, two questions is it safe for asking for snippets?

And do you have any snippets for ToF, HaH, Choosing Life or Stof?

Hi!

I mean you guys can always ask for snippets--I may hold off on answering until Snippet weekend (which this week is today-Monday since it's a long weekend and I'll be completely away from my computer tomorrow)

No snippets for ToF I'm afraid but let me see what I have for the others.

“Um…yeah you can say that…no Jay, put me down I am more than capable of walking to the car!” 

-Choosing Life (chapter 45, currently 1096 words)

“Some of the VKs took to pelting me with them when I arrived here,” Beast said. “However, judging by the way Leah’s been treated, I think the VKs have a new target. I can’t say I’m complaining much to be honest.” 

-Half and Half (chapter 32, currently 2646 words)

He sighed, as he’d begun to do, as he thought of Mali and Persephone. The Goddess had promised she’d be over as often as she could so that Elle could bond with her cousin but so far, there hadn’t been a peep out of Persephone. 

-Small Twists of Fate (chapter 33, currently 448 words)

[frostgears]

The prisoner looked miserable, Ada thought, but twenty minutes at gunpoint tended to have that effect on people, especially when the gun was enormous and mounted on a faceless flight armor that didn't even need it to do them damage.

"Right," she said. "Cinq, at ease."

"Yes, Miss," the armor speaker buzzed. Cinq lowered the gauntlet-mounted cannon, but the hulking weight of the armor still dominated the room. Ada trusted that her pilot, once again thinking independently, would keep her covered with the armor's more precise systems while she had a talk with the captive.

"You want to surrender."

"I'd very much like to surrender," the woman said. "I just saw several of the alternatives. Believe me, surrender is very high on my list of things to do today." She chuckled wanly.

"Smart," Ada said. "Unusually smart for a Federal goon. Seems like your standard conditioning doesn't normally leave you the smart option."

The woman flushed, obvious given her pale freckled skin.

"Shit, really?"

"Really. You must have noticed."

"I'm new. Literally my first week out of boot camp and I never noticed any conditioning. Nobody said anything about any conditioning. Yelling, yeah, there was plenty of that. But they mostly yelled about when to salute and how to load an EP-33."

Ada frowned. "That doesn't sound like the Federal Empire. They didn't invent it, they didn't perfect it, but they sure use it a lot."

"God's honest truth." The woman looked at her, then the armor, then her again, and then down at her own boots. "So, uh, are you gonna ask me my name, rank, serial number…"

"Oh, of course. But we only need those as a baseline. We'll see how those answers change as things progress." Ada paused. "If you want to admit that you're a Federal Intelligence plant now, it'd save me a little time and I'll count it as a point in your favor, but in the end it won't matter all that much."

"Uh, ma'am, I'm not sure I follow." The prisoner looked even shakier than before.

"Aw, no problem. Don't worry. You will," the armor speaker buzzed.

"About time to leave, I think," she said to the armor. "Cover until I get our new friend situated."

"Sounds good, boss."

To the prisoner, she said, "Don't move." To Cinq, she pointed and said, "A demonstration, please."

A searing line of light tracked over the shelf of supplies to her left, and what didn't shatter or burst came apart, smoking, sliced in half. The prisoner turned and winced at the last flare of light before the beam switched off.

"Cinq has an array of point defense lasers in that thing's head; she's quite a fast shot, and that was a very low power setting. If you're thinking of a brave last stand, taking me with you if you can, don't, unless you actually want to join your compatriots on the floor. I'm going to put you in stun cuffs and a stun collar, just for now. Remain still unless I move you."

This was met with silence.

"I need you to acknowledge that order."

"Uh. Sure. Yes, ma'am."

"Good girl," she said, and approached, pulling the cuffs from a pocket on her jumpsuit.

She wrapped them around the prisoner's wrists, which were surprisingly soft, and then knelt to attach more to her ankles, pushing down thick uniform socks.

"Not too tight?"

"Uh, no, ma'am."

Ada checked with a finger anyway, feeling under the slick black polymer surface for the electrodes. Enough gap not to cause damage, not enough gap to slip out or fail to make contact somewhere. Good.

Ads repeated the process with the collar, tilting the prisoner's chin up with a finger before she snapped the catch in the back. She thought she saw a little familiarity in the prisoner's eyes, like she'd spent some time in restraints like these recently.

Finally, she said, "Cinq, we're done here. Load up."

As the armor trod up the Shadowsea's loading ramp, Ada told the prisoner, "It'll take a few minutes before she gets that thing locked down for takeoff. Might as well get the name, rank, serial number stuff out of the way."

"Olivia Persephone Mersey. Pronouns she/her. Private. Federal Service number," she rattled off a string of hex digits.

"Here are mine: Ada. Just Ada. She/her. No military rank. No serial number."

"No military rank? No military rank. But military gear… Oh, fuck, you're pirates," Olivia breathed.

"More like concerned citizens." Ada smiled a predatory smile. Pirates. Let her think that; it's amusing. "But yes… if you had any hope of a prisoner exchange some time down the line, you can put them out of your mind. You're not going home, Private Olivia Mersey. You're mine now."

Private Olivia Mersey put both fists together and swung at her. Ada twisted to the side, letting her miss, and almost as an afterthought, clicked the remote for the stun restraints.

Stun restraints were progressive, and the first step aimed to deliver maximum muscle disruption with minimal injury and few nervous system effects. (She'd tried a few steps past that herself, just out of curiosity, and was in no hurry to repeat it as a recreational experience.)

So there was a short stuttered buzz, and her captive crumpled groaning to the floor.

"I'm almost beginning to buy the green recruit story, Olivia," she said. "That would have been a pretty sorry escape attempt by a Federal Intelligence agent."

"Fuck, I can't move…"

"It'll wear off. Try that again and I'll leave them on a low-level trickle until Cinq's ready to take off."

"Bastard." The captive was breathing heavily, her chest heaving. "You gonna keep me cuffed forever? Don't see that I'll be much use. Sell me to someone? Break me up for transplants?"

"Please. Nothing so tawdry. I'm going to brainwash you. I'm going to condition you so thoroughly that you're going to decide to be useful because it will please me," Ada said, matter-of-factly. "I'm going to thread your psyche through with my own customizations so deeply that you'll respond to my voice before you can think, and you're going to thank me at the end of it."

A voice came down the loading ramp: "Oh, I remember this speech! And y'know? I did thank her for it."

Outside of her flight armor, wearing a T-shirt and coveralls instead of several tons of malevolent machinery, Cinquain was shorter than either of them, with black hair in a shaggy undercut, and an easy grin. She looked down at the prisoner.

"Had to use the stun cuffs, huh?"

Ada shrugged. "She insisted on being foolish."

"Foolish got a name?"

"It's Olivia, you pirate fuck!"

"Aw, cute." Cinquain smiled broadly. "Maybe she'll let you keep it. She didn't like mine. Hey, Olivia, I promise it's nicer in the ship than on the floor. Even in the brig. You get one end, I'll get the other, boss?"

From the bridge of the Shadowsea, Ada watched the monitors and gritted her teeth. The camera drone was barely keeping up with Cinquain's flight armor, and on top of that, throttling down its bandwidth to the relay to stay beneath the station's detection threshold as they approached, so the picture was getting steadily worse. She keyed the mic.

"Cinq. How are you holding up?"

"Green across the board, boss. Thermals where they should be. Deflek geometry solid, aerodynamics smooth like butter."

"Not the armor, Cinq. You."

"Green across the board, boss," her pilot repeated. "You nervous? You sound nervous."

No point in hiding it. "Always."

"Don't be. You trained me for this. Tell the mission jitters to fuck off."

"Wish I could. I don't have your triggers."

"Hard life you live, boss." Her pilot paused. "Coming up on the go/no-go line. We doin' this or what?"

She released the mic switch for the duration of one long intake of breath, held it again. "We're doing it."

"Right."

"And here's me," she told her pilot, and flicked a quartet of hardswitches across the width of the console. The Shadowsea's automatics took it from there.

For a quiet minute, nothing happened.

Then, when the moment was right, the firing solution perfect, the ship shuddered as its twin railguns hurled cobalt slugs in perfect over-the-horizon arcs. Elsewhere on the planet's surface, Cinquain had entrenched weapons where Ada commanded; now buried hypersonic missile launchers ripped their way to the surface to launch a a follow-up barrage of smarter, heavier ordnance.

The camera feed lit up white and then went to SIGNAL LOST. On the voice link, Cinquain whooped and then her signal was gone too.

Ada bit her lip. Nothing to do but wait. And oh, how she hated waiting.

The signals came back, eventually.

The camera drone had survived, and in its feed, defense drones fell burning from the sky. Pillars of ash spread from where railguns and missiles had blasted the station's air defenses to dust. The black wings of Cinquain's armor in approach configuration showed briefly against the steel and glass of the station itself, and then, nothing.

She put the drone into signal relay mode and switched to Cinquain's armor's camera just as Cinquain smashed through the station's walls. The video feed was chaotic, patchy, contrast blown by weapon flash. Most, not all, from Cinq's own weapon.

It was over quickly. She watched every second, room by room, unflinching, reminding herself what this all cost in the end, what was gained, what was lost.

"—day— … —ender—"

"Say again, Cinq."

"I said, that's something you don't see every day, boss. Finally got one of the bastards to surrender."

The armor's camera showed a room full of metal shelves, and a young woman, wearing the usual black and gold but cringing, arms crossed in front of her face as if to ward off Cinquain's cannon.

That didn't happen. Their indoctrination ran deeper than she'd ever been able to figure out a way around — at least, in the field. "You're kidding."

"Nah. Somebody's lucky day, I guess."

"Is the station secure?"

"Other'n this chick, yeah. Everything matched up with our blueprints and personnel records."

"Good. Hold for pickup. I'm bringing the ship in."

"Urgh." She could hear the grimace in her pilot's voice. "Be careful, will ya?"

Despite the chain of command being obvious, short, and to push the metaphor, tightly wrapped around a certain pilot's neck, Cinquain still considered the Shadowsea hers.

Pilots.

"Funny of you to tell me that."

"I'm the one who has to fix the paint job. And last time, two layers of armor underneath—"

Ada spoke a phrase into the mic.

In a voice entirely drained of its irritation, as well as its accent, Cinquain replied: "I hear and obey, Miss."

"Good girl," Ada purred. "Continue to hold. I'll be there shortly."

She reached up to pull the flight controls into position…

[zu-is-here]

The Return of Persephone

Happy wedding & AU version anniversary! ♡

Hades!Nightmare & Persephone!Dream by @help-im-a-gay-fish

Dream & Nightmare by @jokublog

Original Greek AU by eli-sin-g / kolesjoie [n/sfw]

[finelinevogue]

fox n styles

this was an ask but i forgot to answer it!! so here it is oops!! <33

762,928 likes

eNEWS It’s been 7 years since the devilish romance between Fox and Styles took flight. Now, despite their age gap and Styles’ love for older women, they are celebrating their anniversary! Read more here…

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harrystyles @/megan_fox Only you

meganfan2 im getting hades x persephone vibes

harryfan2 @/meganfan2 omg write a fanfic

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harrystyles Lads

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harrystyles @/ashtonirwin :|

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megan_fox Red kisses today

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harrystyles I don’t mind

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user1029384 Those lips🔥🔥

harrystyles @/user1029384 Aren’t yours.

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dailymail Megan Fox and Harry Styles make an appearance at the chairty fundraiser in aid of their new ‘Help for the Homeless’ project. See more details here…

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meganfan1 she could run me over and i’d say thanks

harrystyles ❤️

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megan_fox Love you, baby

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markronson @/harryfan3 🪁🪁

meganfan1 she loves him so much

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harrystyles She lives in daydream with me

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[lorewritesandcrique]

ReWriting LO: Hades/Minthe Relationship and Break Up

TDLR: The Slap that lead to Hades/Minthe’s Break Up is just there to further paint Minthe in a Negative Light. Minthe before this was able to be somewhat Sympathetic but with the Slap it’s a very clear Moment to cut off any Sympathy for her. You can have the same steps with doing that by properly setting up issues like Persephone in their Relationship. Minthe has been established as Toxic and a little Verbally Abusive but never Physically Abusive, so the Slap is OOC and UnNeeded.

Moving from Minthe to Hades. Hades has always been shown in a slight Victim Light but in Previous Episodes 1 and 33, he has no problem arguing with her. He is Angry, Brash and Argumentative only in Sexual Situations, Episode 8 that he gets Submissive. So, for him to be so scared of her is somewhat unusual. Hades also had Feelings for Persephone throughout the whole Relationship and it’s never Framed as a Bad Thing. 

This Break Up should have been about a Mutual Toxic Relationship but turns into an Abuser (Minthe) and Victim (Hades) Relationship instead.

ReWrite in Read More:

Ok, so here is my First ReWrite, Minthe/Hades Break Up Rewrite:

First let me lay out my Problems with the Break Up and By Extension their Relationship.

1. The Slap Minthe gave Hades. 

Not for the Slap itself but because the Framing is obviously showing Minthe is a Bad Person. Which I don’t feel was needed. In LO, Minthe was already shown as Toxic there was no need to make her Physically Abusive. It is honestly OOC for Minthe.

2. Personally, I feel Hades was left off the Hook way too easily. 

The fact that he have Feelings for Persephone back in Episode 47, where they first enter the Relationship mind you, isn’t brought up. Only the fact that Hades was Feelings. I would have like if Hades agreeing to the Relationship with Minthe while not Loving her was a Bad Move and don’t like that it wasn’t Addressed.

3. That Drinking Incident with Thetis is really UnNecessary.

Kinda tying in with “1.” but, yeah, the Incident to Spur this ReWrite wasn’t the Slap but Thetis. Thetis is a Toxic Friend but even I feel that this Drinking Incident is,,, a little OOC? I don’t know, doesn’t really feel right for her. 

So, with my Problems laid out time to ReWrite.

Episodes being ReWrote: Episodes 71 (The would be Dinner of Hades/Minthe), 73 (The Drinking Incident), 76 (The Slap), and some Light ReTouches to Episodes 104, and 105 (Hades/Minthe Break Up).

First, just to be clear, everything in the Series Before and After is the same. Only the Previously Stated Episodes changed. Episode 71 (Where Hades was stood up by Minthe because of Thetis) and 73 (The one where Thetis keeps ordering Alcoholic Drinks for Minthe causing her to miss her Dinner with Hades)

Episode 71, Hades/Mine Dinner

The Night is going well, Hades is cooking while Minthe helps out by setting the table. They are making conversation, taking about work, themselves, and the Future. Then Dinner starts and things change. Minthe brings up Persephone much to Hades surprise. She brings up How much time they were spending together and How it us causing her trouble at work in reference to Episode 59 (Minthe had to keep rescheduling a Meeting because Hades and Persephone were busy hanging out after the Tour) Hades brushes it off saying how the two are just Friends. Minthe continues to push the Persephone topic bringing up the InternShip start date. Hades says it was direct orders from Hera. They go back and forth. Minthe gets upset and says she is gonna go stay with Thetis for the Night. Hades tries to convince her otherwise but Minthe still leaves.

Episode 73, Thetis and Minthe’s Night Out

The plan stays to what it was originally. Minthe and Thetis get After Work Drinks and Minthe leaves with Hades picking her up. While at the Bar, they do indeed catch up and Thetis is still a Toxic Friend, like in the Original Episode she still brings up all the Persephone points. How none of TGOEM Members actually follow the Chastity Vow (expect for Artemis). How the Olympus/UnderWorld InternShip doesn't start for a few Months. And How much time Hades/Persephone spend together. Minthe pretends to shrug it all off but now has Seeds of Doubt in her mind. Just as Hades comes and keeps her up for their Dinner.

(Episode 74's beginning could be the same but because the Dinner happened it's just that Minthe really really over slept. I don't know Thetis turned her phone alarm off? Not really important.)

Episode 76, Hades/Minthe Confrontation

Minthe is still in a Bad Mood, from her date and now, going into work late. Everything mostly the same with Minthe’s Surface and SubConscious Thoughts just adjusted to fit the New ReWrited Episode 71 and 73. Instead of the Thoughts Focusing on her missing Dinner they are more Focused on how she should have just kept her mouth shut about Persephone. So, when the confrontation happens at the Fates Building in the Hallway Minthe DOESN'T slap Hades. She and Hades have a conversation which devolves into another argument about Persephone. Minthe Verbally Berates Hades and still compares him to Kronos and Hecate stops her.

Episodes 104, and 105, Hades/Minthe Break Up

Mostly the same, but Hades is given just as much Fault as Minthe was. All the stuff on Minthe stay the same, just change the Slapping References to her Verbal Berating. Now Hades, he get a bit more work.When Hades states “As much as you can love someone you’ve known for two weeks...” Minthe calls him out. She asks, Why. If he was in love with Persephone, Why did you get into a Relationship with her? This is all to Balance out the Toxicity of their Relationship. Putting Equal blame on both Parties. Hades, will say to not bring Persephone into the Conversation and then you can play the Rest of the Episode the same.

And that, is my first ReWrite.

[gatesofember]

hi, I know you're no longer doing the AM, as of now, but, y'know, will asterion ever uh. Die. Within whatever you've got planned.

That would be tragically sad but he got so old it FEELS like it was set up that way, and, good Nico angst, unfortunately, and I kind of want to see how Hades would've attempted to comfort him (if he would), I love how you wrote their relationship! The AM is perfect in so many ways jdkskf but I love that, arguably the most <33 AND OH MY GOD I LOVE THE CLICHECORE AU SO MUCHBDKDKKF

Also, yes, absolutely, lesbian bianca, always.

HAHA so funny you should ask about that

yeah Asterion dies. I've said that a couple of times on here so I'm not worried about spoiling that, plus I just think that it's nice to be prepared for pet deaths because they're hard. but yeah, bloodhounds are one of the shortest-lived dog breeds and Asterion's already pretty old, so he won't live much longer. SO! Here are some details about this fic because while I've said that he's going to die, there's also a lot of other stuff that happens in the same fic and I want to be upfront about what to expect because this is probably going to be the hardest thing I've ever written.

The Asterion fic in is the next part I want to write for AM au (when/if I get around to it) and what I have planned is sort of similar to My Dearest Prince. In My Dearest Prince, Nico came to terms with his growing feelings for Will as flashbacks concurrently told the story of Nico rejecting Hazel and learning to accept her, and the two stories kind of paralleled each other with the theme being Nico figuring out how to love. In the Asterion fic, a lot of Nico's grief is expressed through flashbacks rather than him actually talking about his emotions. Flashbacks tell stories of how he met Asterion and exactly how much Asterion meant to him, maybe times that Asterion protected him, and this is also the fic where you find out exactly what happened at the Lotussium (so far you know that there was dog baiting, Minos said verbally/emotionally abusive things to Nico, Hestia was a maid there, and there was a detail when Nico woke up the morning after his wedding night alone in bed and almost panicked because his brain automatically went back to a morning when he woke up to find Asterion missing, but I've been somewhat vague about a lot of what went on other than that.) So, not only does the dog die, but the fic is going to go deep into Nico's trauma because Asterion is deeply connected to Nico's past and he helped Nico heal. Between flashbacks, Nico is going to see Asterion die (haven't decided how I want to go about this, but rn I'm thinking I want it to be peaceful and he's probably going to die on screen) and he's finally going to tell Will everything that happened at the Lotussium. I had planned to show most of Nico's grief by showing you what happened in his memories, but now that you mention it, I might like to add some interactions with Persephone, Hazel, and Hades talking about what happened and helping him through his loss (maybe Hestia, too, because I think she'd want to visit him after hearing that he lost Asterion).

OH AND I ALSO LOVE THE CLICHECORE AU THANK YOU

[whatthefuckistevvs]

Chapters: 26/27 Fandom: Hades (Video Game 2018) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Charon/Hermes (Hades Video Game), Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Charon (Hades Video Game), Hermes (Hades Video Game), Hades (Hades Video Game), Persephone (Hades Video Game), Zeus (Hades Video Game), Demeter (Hades Video Game), Nyx (Hades Video Game), Hypnos (Hades Video Game), Thanatos (Hades Video Game), Zagreus (Hades Video Game), Ares (Hades Video Game), Maia (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Artemis (Hades Video Game), Athena (Hades Video Game) Additional Tags: Other characters and tags to be added, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Violence, Emotional Abuse, Parental Abuse, Eventual Smut, PTSD, Hand Jobs, Electrocution, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Anal Sex, Suicide, Family Issues, family trauma, Eventual Happy Ending, i swear to god this will have a happy ending, Masturbation Summary:

Hermes emerges from the pool of Styx

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What does it take, to Kill a God?

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But that was obvious, wasn’t it? Charon would always say yes, no matter what --- Height chart! https://twitter.com/thefuckistevvs/status/1363890543491694592

Playlist! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ENTbKeiqcozvTfzDO6BwD?si=XTdY1sCPQPuvn5ZldGWAeQ

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS AMAZING ARTWORK FROM SKULLPANCAKES THAT I COMMISSIONED!!!!!! ITS SO GOOD https://twitter.com/skullpancakes/status/1377092239445217286

oh my god okay so first of all im sorry it took this long to write this chapter, this past month was incredibly stressful for me, real life was VERY difficult, but here we are, and that's whats important.

Second of all, im sorry- this chapter is VERY long. I think it works well because of the pacing, but uh yeah heads up, this one is a Big one. I refuse to split this into more chapters, man.

The next chapter will be the Epilogue of the story and oh boy i am Excited.

I worked very, VERY hard on this chapter in specific. This is a very important chapter for several reasons. But, yeah, i worked a lot for this one in specific, and i would love to hear y'all opinions in it. So im sorry if its long, but I hope you guys like this chapter.

Thank y'all for reading, god we're so close to the end now. Thank you so much for riding for now, the next one should be the last one. Bye, ilu, mwua mwua <33

[pendraegon]

27, 33, 34!

27. What’s the nicest comment you’ve ever received?

FIJASOFIJSAOFSA okay i just remembered this comment on my one atla fic tomayto, tomahto and like. a bitch really fucked up because once again im thinking of the farmers market</3 this was like tHEEE first fic i wrote in years and even though it’s not like my best work i’m still extremely fond over it.

33. Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing or writing process?

i. oh god. everyone is going to hate this. but i will write a paragraph and then reread it and go “okay this is a good starting point. how much MORE pretentious can i make the language?” and then i go from there ODFJASOIFLKJASODLKJCSAAO

34. Copy and paste an excerpt you’re particularly fond of.

OH!! this part from persephone herself would have crushed the pomegranate into wine for you KILLS me. like i wasn’t subtle at all about what the fruit was representing but the fact that the first and last plum that are picked are rotten still makes me go like, yeah okay good one with that @ my brain oasijfdosak (but i also love the imagery of gawain cleaving a fruit in two, gawain who eats fruits to temper his own temperament, and then to contrast that to how lancelot kills lancelot and how in a way gawain too steadies lancelot and how after gawain’s death and after guinevere casts him aside, lancelot becomes well...a shadow of his former glory) oH i also had this one section where lancelot cups the back of gawain’s head with his berry stained hands and that was supposed to like...be a parallel to the blow lancelot lands on gawain at the end that was a good one oaisjfdosdjsa

35 questions for fanfic writers prompt list<3

whoa :flushed: send me an ask maybe?

[disaster-bay-leaf]

Ok so these were the cutest~ (ㆁωㆁ)

4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 19, 22, 23, 28, 33, 34, 46, 47, 52, 59, 60, 63, 66, 83, 87, 88, 93, 99

I kno I listed like....all of them lmao but feel free to answer whichever you want and ofc you can ask me in return Baybe ( ◜‿◝ )♡

uHUHUHUHU much content for me to answer, im happy bebe 💜💜💜✨

4 - how do you take your coffee/tea?

hm coffee either Very Black No Sugar (for the sleep deprived me) or iced latte three sugars and theres no in between

and as for tea its All Black Teas That Exist, cinnamon-flavoured especially (but basically all teas that come to mind when u think “autumn”), and rooibos!!! okay basically the only oke i dont like is any type of green tea (which is sad because they look cool but my tastebuds said ✨no✨)

6 - do you keep plants?

honestly id l o v e too because i love plants but,,, im kinda horrible at taking care of them though still way better than the majority of my family (research helps) so the only plant i own is kinda a small-palm-tree-looking thing in a bigass glass jar that i saved from my mother’s plant-destructing hands and its mostly doing well (the ends of its leaves are starting to be yellow tho and im worried:((( )

7 - do you name your plants?

yes!!! though the current one was named by my sister and its called “pickett” after fantastic beasts shsjjsj

9 - do you like singing/humming to yourself?

oh god oh dude you have n o idea

i have absolutely n o singing voice but its something i do constantly to give my brain the right amount of stimuli so basically i listen to music 24/7 and hum to myself 99% of that time

12 - whats your favourite planet?

oh i actually didnt think about this for so long but either pluto (hes a planet screw nasa) or saturn (RINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) or venus (girls,,,and libra,,,)

19 - do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw in it?

okay im gonna be completely honest with yall and say that my every single try at keeping a journal failed spectacularly and i lost motivation after like a few months so my only journals rn are my fancy fake-leather-bound calendar to note tests and assessments into, a kinda roughed up notebook that i uses for noting down poems or scribbling or passing notes in class, and a kinda fancy bullet journal notebook that i used as a book of shadows for a while but since my fountain pen died i didnt touch it

22 - are you a morning person?

n o

i am so not a morning person but i wish i could be because honestly dawns are beautiful

but as it is rn im either sleep deprived all the time and loathe every second of being in an awake state or (if i have a few days of schoolbreak) my biological clock moves forward a few hours and i sleep 2am-10am

23 - whats your favourite thing to do on lazy days with zero obligations?

except for the fact that i dont remember the last time it happened, i would probably spend it drawing outside, watching anime with my sister and riding a bike around the forest

28 - sunrise or sunset?

i love sunrises because its so peaceful and everyone is asleep but also i subconsciously immediately correlate them with waiting for a train to take me to school (because thats basically the only time i see them) so its a bittersweet love especially with my fucked up biological clock

but sunsets are really really pretty too and i see them more often so i cant choose

33 - whats your fave pastry?

and isnt that a millior-dollar question dhsjjsjsj

either cinnamon rolls (i absolutely adore them) or that one specific type of cupcake-shaped-thing made out of shortcrust/bread/whatever its called and filled with vanilla pudding

34 - tell us about a stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it?

awwww this is cute

okay so basically my two favourite stuffed animals (i still have them, they sit in my wardrobe) were two teddy bears (like maybe 20cm high each of them) and one was pure brown and the other was silver-brown and they had stereotypical polish male names “Waldek” (read. Valdek) and Stefan (i think tho im not sure if i remember correctly, my memory is a feeble thing sometimes

46 - tell us the worst pun you can think of

what dog would never bite you? a hot dog *badumtss*

47 - what food do you think should be banned from the universe?

huh a year ago id say pineapple pizza but i guess i dont hate pineapples that much anymore (tho putting them on pizza is still an abomination) but i think that if id ever want to get rid of anything it would be parsley, i hate that freakin herb (does it count as food tho)

52 - what are your favourite memes of the year so far?

the ever given for sure shsjshjsjsjsjjsj

but bullying tramp stamps is gold and pure tumblr energy too

as for fandom memes: im in love with all keeping-up-with-the-todorokis variations and the fact that the entire bsd fandom looked at fukuchi and said “biTCH” and thats one of the only things we’re unanimous about

59 - whats your favourite myth?

i always liked the kora/persephone myth (though demeter is an overbearing parent to the nth power), loki and thor crossdressing at a party to get mjolnir back, atalanta because shes a queen and id politely ask her to kick my ass, and cassandra because she deserved better, and theres a l o t more because alas i was a mythology nerd but this post is long enough for me not to make this section 20 times longer sjjsjsjsjsjks

but there are a lot of slavic myths that are very cool too, though we dont know that much about them as about the greeks for example

60 - do you like poetry? what are some of your faves?

o o o o h yeah i do like poetry because to create such a beautifully sounding thing with only words someone has to be a genius

some of my favs are: some works of nakahara chuuya (thank u bsd for introducing me to this man’s beautiful imagery in his works i swear to god the descriptions do it for me) (also his poem about having hangovers is a mood like i feel you buddy), the raven by ea poe (i know everyone likes it but hOLY DAMN THE INTER/INTRAVERSE RHYMES ARE LIKE,,, BREATHTAKING) (and aso im a slut for gothic horror), and many more but also That One Poem From Welcome To Nightvale about reaching the island in the west,,, only perfect vibes from it

63 - are you fussy about your books and music? do you keep them meticulously organised or kinda leave them be?

okay heres the thing. for anyone else both my playlist library and my bookshelf would be considered pure chaos of a mad man b u t they actually have a highly focused system which means that i sort them based on their vibes, lovability and (in case of books) their age and whether or not theyre a part of a series so i would say my bookshelf is rather organised (when a quarter of it isnt occupying my desk that is) and my music is more organised than not but sometimes it gets out of control and i have to sort it entirely again

66 - what would your ideal flower crown look like?

either entirely constructed of simple white daisies, entirely constructed of only white roses, or something that probably would win a “how many different coloured flowers can one fit in a flower crown” competition

or something purple (maybe not belladonna)

83 - whats some of your favourite album art?

god i dont know if it counts but hozier’s wasteland baby is probably one of my absolute favourites and no one shall beat that

“thrifted youth” (dalynn) and “standard deviation” (danny schmidt) have very aesthetic covers too

also the iconic p!atd too weird to live, too rare to die! album cover,,, its just iconic what can i say

and last but not least matt meason’s pink-and-black album covers (though bank on the funeral is really pretty too but like,,, “who killed matt meason” d o e s it for me and so does the 2017 tribulation single)

87 - what are some movies that you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?

this is such a hard question because im not a really cinematography-oriented gal but i suppose that (at the risk of not going deep enough into the cinema world):

- the princess bride

- inception

- night at the museum

- SPIRITED AWAY

- forrest gump

- truman show

- E.T. (i cried okay)

- the lord of the rings (because damn me if this isnt one impressive adaptation)

- parasite

and one more personal recommendation: “ready or not” with samara weaving because goddamn i dont usually watch this genre but holy s h i t is it good

93 - whats the hairstyle you wear the most?

honestly just plain hair down (because having curly hair is a menace), split in the middle when i have longer hair and split on one side when its short

also low ponytails or half-up-half-down when im exercising, or double french braids when my hair doesnt cooperate enough to look presentable in any other form

99 - list some songs that resonate with your soul whenever you hear them

this is difficult because my music taste is a goddamn rollercoaster on a good day, but heres some:

- me and the sky from “come from away” musical (this is sort of a test song for my mental stability, if i cry i aint stable)

- dancing after death by matt meason (okay most songs by matt meason except for like,,, hallucinogenics maybe)

- tears and rain by james blunt

- i will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie

- almost home by mxmtoon

- anything by hozier really but shrike especially

- payphone, the cover by alex g (i cried to this song so many times)

- burning pile by mother mother (can i roast all my problems please)

- long way from home and cleopatra by the lumineers

- autoclave by the mountain goats

oooh that was c o o o o o o o l as fuck thank you sm so much bebe (and sorry for the long post @everyone else)

[pomegranates-and-blood]

🎵everything’s coming up ivar🎆🎇 what a morning of fortunate revelations for him! i know i must say this after like every chapter, but you have truly done such an exceptional job building up these characters and this relationship. there were so many neat little tie ins to other things i noticed in the story! and every other line, i was just struck by how well theyd come to know each other. i remember after the first time he broke a bone (and smth similar in ch36??), she thought something to the extent of “if i try to push him on this, ill just hurt him. if i don’t, then he’ll just accept this situation as immutable, so im at a loss.” but she absolutely could not miss in this chapter. after all this time together, she knew exactly what to say—and he finally felt like he could completely sincerely trust her! “Of course you wouldn’t leave, he knows you wouldn’t leave him” 😣🥺😭 he’s got a new certainty!! also cracked me up to read half the lines and think “you’re gonna give him a heart attack!!!” only to move to the ivar pov to find that he was in fact having a heart attack. i Love that for them💕 sub ivar is like inspired choice #17266 for this fic but damn!! does it go hard you do just an excellent job!

it’s been such a convincing and satisfying journey for them. theyre really doing it!! i feel like my child has learned to ride a bike. you have been cranking out bangers only since the hiatus so thank you very very much for another fantastic chapter!!!❤️(bit of a tangent but i briefly looked up some baseline historical symbolism for lavender bc i was so struck by freydis and the mint smell and i wanted to get ahead of the game and like the first meaning that comes up is silence lmao—somehow i don’t think that’s it so ill have to keep looking!)

OMFG ILY  ❤️

I’m so happy you liked the newest update! That morning was A Lot™ for Ivar lol, all positives but still, his mind tapped out halfway through Gǫfga and none of us can blame him, poor guy was a tad overwhelmed lol. And yeah, her not really knowing if she should push or not is a thing that happens a lot (that will happen a lot more in a certain AU lol) because there really is no way to navigate around that until there’s the established trust and vulnerability that they have by now.

I’m so glad the fact that he now holds on to the certainty of her promising to stay by his side was noticeable!

Omfg yeah, the inside of Ivar’s head anytime she started talking was probably just a loop of a very loud alarm going off lol

I’m so happy you like sub!Ivar, it is a blast to write him actually surrendering to his lover like that. I cannot see him any other way to be honest, especially with my priestess. She’s been thinking about making him hers for a long time: “Even after he has imprisoned you, it would be a lie if you said you didn’t wonder what it would take to have the Viking underneath you, or the different ways you could make his proud façade crumble."

Thank you so so much for your kind words, they mean so much!! I am so happy you have been liking this so far, and that you enjoyed the latest updates. Thank you so much, you wonderful person!

I answer your intrigue about Lavender under the cut by the way, if you’re interested. It is not as interesting as with Mint and Freydis I’m afraid, but if you were curious as to why Ivar lingers on it, and why specifically Lavender, under the cut is the (very rambly, but that’s expected of me by now lol) answer 😉

As for the lavender, I commend your resolve to get ahead of any plot twists, but surprisingly this isn’t one. Lavender is actually the scent she uses in her baths, and thus her skin smells slightly of lavender. In a deleted scene of one of Ivar’s PoV’s it goes into how he has started to relate this slight lavender scent with her so much that walking into their room already makes him feel like she’s there even if she isn’t; and in his newest PoV he just lingers on it because it’s just one more way she clouds his senses.

As for why lavender? Ah, that’s where my irrational need to research everything comes into play. Lavender is a flower that symbolizes Persephone first of all, and it was (according to some of the sources I handled) one of the flowers used in the temples in Ancient Greece, so for the Priestess it has a strong meaning regarding her faith (and her retracing Persephone’s myth in the Goddess’ role, but she doesn’t know that lol). Also, Lavender was fairly common, and it has a lot of medicinal uses, including relaxation and the such, but most importantly for this story, it is one of the many herbs used to heal burn wounds. Lavender was one of the flowers used on the Reader (and that once she was better she used on herself) after the Eleusis thing, and either consciously or not she uses it still, it is a source of comfort in a way.

Cause here’s a thing/headcanon of the Reader/Priestess that really means nothing but I always snuck into my work: she is a healer first and foremost (is the one thing across all AUs and all the places she has been that remains consistent, from the Roads to Greece to Kattegat and beyond, in Nostalgia, and Hope and Alatheia and all others), and her insistence on keeping plants close to her is mostly because she wants life to be around her in a land like Kattegat, yes, but it is also because she trusts/relies on the herbs and what she can do with them. Her own sword and shield, her own way of fighting, like Sieghild told her in the flashback of Ch 33.

At the beginning of her time in Kattegat, stretched to her marriage to Ivar even, she mostly just kept plants like Lavender, Poppy, Summer savory, Field scabious and the such, which are all used medicinally to treat burns and as antibiotics. She is more scarred by what the Byzantines did to her in ELeusis than she would like to admit, or that she ever would in her PoV, that’s why I like sneaking in comments by Ivar and Freydis in their PoVs about how she flinches when someone breathes too much life to a fire, or how when she feels unsafe (even when she is freezing her ass off, bc she is not used to Scandinavia’s cold) she sits far away from any fire. Keeping plants like this is her way of irrationaly wanting to keep herself safe if they ever do the same thing to her again, even if it is incredibly unlikely. Slowly, she starts to be able to let go of that, and really all that remains by now (~Ch 42) of those plants is the Lavender.

When she marries Ivar (and more importantly when she starts truly caring about him) she starts keeping plants like Comfrey, Chickweed, Buckeye, which are used for broken bones or for rheumatic/arthritic pain, or for pain general, like Willow or Elderberry. Freydis makes a point of it in “Until spring comes.”, of how she has been relentless on keeping both the common/accesible ones like Comfrey and Willow around, but has also secured plants from the East, like Ganglong (which was traditionally used for bone fractures). Again, the plants and her ability to heal is her own way of fighting, her own way of keeping the people she loves safe and protected, limited as it may be. Which, around Ch 31 she uses (in a different way) to try to keep the man she loves safe, which is by making the wreath of flowers and praying to her Gods.

And once she really starts settling into her life in Kattegat, even if she doesn’t realize it, she no longer keeps plants only for the use they may have, and brings things like that Marsh Violet (that as far as my limited reseach told me has no real medicinal uses). Her own way of making the world around her a little more hers is by putting plants around her and caring for them (she did this in the Roads a lot too), and with time the stubborn little shit accepts letting this world make her a little theirs too by caring for plants like that one.

You are on point that I use plants and symbols a lot, most of them you know about by know. Ivar/Hades and snakes, Melinöe/Freydis (especially once the revelations of Ch33-34 happen, which is when the Minthe parallel comes to an end and she embraces the role of Melinöe in the Priestess’ eyes now that the lies are discovered) and howling dogs, Hermes/Galla and hawks/falcons. I used Snowdrops a few times I think, towards the beginning, which was a little nod to Freyja’s myth and the Priestess’ threading the line of it, because I like the parallels between some of Freyja and Persephone/Hecate (which by some sources could sometimes be intertwined, or one and the same, much like Melinöe and Persephone).

Anyhow, sorry for the long-ass answer, I hope it doesn’t dissapoint. I really cannot put into words how happy it makes me that you’d care enough about this story to search the meaning of lavender, thank you so much for your support, and for the undeserved love you keep showering me and Nostalgia with! Thank you so much sweetheart!

Sending you my love!! ❤️

[welshdragonrawr]

For the Valentine's Day asks: 1-5, 7-11, 13-17, 19, 20, 22-27, 29-33, 35, 39, 41-43, 44 (fuck, marry, kill: Amanda, Audrey, Ally), 47-49 pleeeeeeease?? I know I said I wouldn't request a million but I'm a curious bean hehe ;)

Seeing as it is actually Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d finally answer these. Under the cut, because it’s a loooooong post and I didn’t want to overtake peeps’ dash. Well here goes;

(Also, the post format messed up, but I couldn’t be bothered to fix them because this already took ages so they’re just in the order asked and I bolded answers so they stand out)

do you have a crush on anyone? - I do indeed, and I am fairly certain they are well aware of it ;)

what’s your favorite candy? - It changes all the time because I have such a sweet tooth but right now chocolate-wise it’s probably cadbury or kinder chocolate, and actual candy probably haribo (tangfastics to be precise)

favorite love song? - There are too many to choose from or list here but right now it’s probably still ‘Wasteland Baby’ by Hozier, You Are In Love by Taylor Swift, or for entirely cheesy reasons a certain someone might know Hero by Enrique Iglesias 

what was your first kiss like? - Terrible because I didn’t know what I was doing and was with entirely the wrong person at the wrong time and I didn’t know it then

what was your last kiss like? - If it’s the one I’m allowed to think of in this context, pretty damn good ;)

do you prefer poems or love letters? - Both - I can’t decide, because I love anything remotely like that, when someone goes to the length of composing something like either of those because they were thinking of me? Incredible! 

favorite fanfic trope? - Slow-Burn if that counts, with a side order of fake dating or mutual pining, potentially both at once heheh 

have you ever been in love? Mayyyybeeee, maybe I aaaaam, I’ll just have to let you ponder that one ;)

favorite milkshake flavor? - Chocolate brownie, even if I can’t have too much because then it gets sickly but in small quantities? Yesssss! Or cookies&cream in any variation

dinner dates or brunch dates? - This one was tough because I don’t really have any experience with either, but I think Brunch dates, and not just because I would have much much less anxiety about awkward food ordering and stuff, plus I feel like Brunch dates have much less formal expectation about them, and you have the rest of the day after to do more things if you want to!

favorite perfume/cologne?  - Probably the Ghost one that has a bottle shaped like the moon, or Good Girl by Caroline Herrera (the bottle looks like a high heel?)

favorite candle scent? - There’s a seasonal Yankee Candle one they do around Christmas time that I cannot remember the name of for the life of me right now, but it’s just the right kind of sweetness in the air when you have it burning for a lil while? If I ever remember what it is I’ll come back and edit this post haha

what’s your ideal first date? - I’m not really sure, because all types of dates make me nervous especially first dates haha. I’d like to leave it up to the other person to decide what we do, as long as I could treat them in some way with whatever it is/wherever we go? 

favorite love story? - Are we talking classics or fandom or...? What currently springs off the top of my head though is Hades & Persephone - I’m convinced he didn’t ‘steal her’ to be a dick, he stole her away to somewhere cool and calm away from the pressures and terrors of life on the surface so she could catch her breath for a couple months, and can we blame her? And he makes her his Queen, like - if he was gonna be mean, he could have made her his slave, or his concubine or his pet or something, but instead he gave her his whole world to rule with him. Sounds like a better guy than that bastard ol’ Zeus, no? (Historians/Classics students please don’t fight me) 

what’s the most attractive thing a person could wear? - Happiness. Doesn’t matter to me whether you’re wearing a trash bag, or a Chanel dress or your faded ol’ pjs or not a single thread. So long as you’re happy and you’ve got that glow about you and that bright shine in your eyes? Yeah..

snow, rain, or sun? -  I love all three for different reasons (I’m indecisive, don’t judge me, or do) give me a snow day with my dog or my lover with hot chocolate and snowmen and flurries out the window, or an afternoon reading inside while it rains with blankets and a cup of tea, or a sunny afternoon walk with just the right amount of cool breeze to keep it balmy but bright? Yes please. But again, if I had to choose, probably rain... Because I live in England for one thing, but there’s something so comforting about the rain.

sweetest romantic memory? - My partner at the time took me to a second-hand bookshop and let me browse the stacked shelves as long as I liked, and I found a hardback copy of a book by a fave author but it was too expensive so just admired it and put it back, then when my birthday rolled around 2 weeks later, they turned up with that same book they had gone back for without telling me as a surprise gift

fictional crushes? - Cordelia Goode, Theo Crain, Mildred Ratched, I could keep listing but that means we’d be here forever and if you’ve been following me long enough you probably already know anyway...

what’s your dream wedding like? - This would need a whole post on its own to answer if I could actually be decisive and sit down with some thought over it. But alas... I don’t really know, I’d like things to be somewhat fancy and romantic, but I’d also like for it not to feel all stuffy and super serious like, that everyone can have fun and be a little goofy and a little merry and not have to worry about oh am I doing this certain thing right or feeling all self-conscious while dancing. So I’m not really sure how to narrow it down into specific details or events...? Except, there’s a really dumb nerdy part of me that wants to be able to do the cake slicing with a sword rather than a knife. Because reasons. 

what makes you blush? - Too much. Usually compliments. 

do you believe in love at first sight? - I believe in *attraction* at first sight, and *affection* you find or work for later. 

do you believe in soulmates? - Yeah, but I also believe a soulmate doesn’t have to be someone you’re in love with or a romantic partner, a soulmate can just as easily be a friend you keep on keeping on through this silly little game of life with, y’know? You’ve both been dealt shitty hands, but you’d be willing to share each others cards to get through, and some other cheesy af analogies...

denim jackets, leather jackets, or bomber jackets? - Leather jackets, tho technically I have worn and do wear all three so - I hoard jackets like some people hoard shoes and handbags, it’s a problem

are you single? - if you know you know, and that’s the that on that ;)

do you prefer to charm, or be charmed? - Both? I love to see the look on a partners face when they’re charmed, all blushing and cute and sparkly eyes and big smiles - I think I like to be charmed too but I would also get suuuuper awkward and not sure what to do with it or in response to it because I’m not used to being on the receiving end of attention like that?

guitar or piano? - I love both, and girls who can play either/both are heavensent sirens who can have me under their spell for hours (I think it’s the hand thing again, see?) but if I had to choose it would have to be Piano.

favorite romcom (or any romantic movie)? - Um... Does Love & Other Drugs count? Or Imagine Me And You - I’m not big on too many ‘traditional’ rom-coms because they make me cringe way too often, and often not in a good way, but there’s sometimes the odd one I enjoy! (Though I must admit, being British, Bridget Jones and Love Actually are like, historical treasures so...)

do you fall in love easily? - Nope. I mean, do I love people easily? Yeah I try to give the best of myself to the people I cherish as much as possible. But do I *fall in love* easily? Nah, takes a while before this oblivious lil heart realises it.

would you prefer to propose or be proposed to? what’s your dream proposal? - Oh gosh, honestly, I don’t know... I’m one of those people that *love* to do anything and everything to bring a smile to my partner’s face and make them happy and there’s just something so magical about seeing their face light up and their eyes sparkle, y’know? So I feel like I would want to do that by giving them the perfect proposal for them (but on the flipside this means I would also be incredibly *terrified* of ever doing it remotely wrong/not exactly how they wanted it, or getting the wrong kind of ring or all of that plethora of details and minutiae that could be messed up ahha). But also, I kinda wouldn’t mind being proposed to either? Like I’m so used to taking care of other people, it might be nice, at the risk of sounding like a bad pokemon promo. to have that validation of someone else saying ‘I choose you’ y’know? As for dream proposal, much like dream wedding, I’m not entirely sure? As long as it’s memorable and with the one I love? (Which is such a cop-out answer) I honestly don’t know, I’ve never really thought about it, probably because I never really thought it was happen so I figured why think about something that’s never gonna happen ahhah. Somewhere picturesque I guess? So I could really capture the picture in my mind for the rest of my lifen, not like for a social media photo post or any of that shit but just for myself to look back on, if any of that essay ramble makes any sense. 

kittens or puppies? - How DARE- Nope. It’s both. I’m sorry but it’s both. They are both adorable AF and I will love and pet and cherish them all. 

favorite soda? - Cola I guess? And don’t try to rope me into the Pepsi V Coke thing, because honestly I like both for different reasons and choosing one over the other seems silly when either of them tastes good if you’ve got enough whiskey or rum in them ;) 

do you prefer gazing wistfully out the window or lying dramatically over the sofa? - I rather like doing both tbf, but if I’m gonna be honest, give me ‘cosied up under a blanket, with a mug of hot tea/coffee gazing wistfully out the window at whatever weather is going on outside, any day.

favorite ABBA song? - How dare you - umm... Slipping Through My Fingers or The Winner Takes It All because I am at heart a soppy dramatic fool.

fuck/marry/kill? (anons name 3 people of your choice) - You meanie, how dare you make me decide such a thing. Buuuut Fuck Ally (cuz you just *know* that canon wlw got some mooooves), Marry Amanda (because she seems like someone I could get along with in all the day to day stuff y’know? Like, I could settle down with her, you feel me?) and don’t hate me but you asked the question but Kill Audrey (*runs and hides*)

do you think about love a lot? - Yeah, I think so, in all its different incarnations. As a writer I’m kinda obligated to? But I think I think about it even when I’m not super aware of it or the reasons for or why. 

a walk in the park or a walk on the beach? - It’s a tough once because I love it when the light filters *just so* through trees and looks so pretty, but the beach has the lapping waves and soft sand to walk on and pretty colours at sunsets and sharing ice creams/chips/doughnuts/pretzels and- Yeah so beach probably.

hand kisses or nose kisses? - Hand kisses, fo’sho, because haaaands