#callida

[princefleabitten]

R.A. Salvatore’s Traveling Guide to the Northpole, featuring the Ice Oasis Callidae! (Legend of Drizzt: Starlight Enclave)

[viaphni]

The Shrouded Shards memes that a) nobody will understand b) are extremely low quality c) have characters nobody has heard of d) are very real

[tiny-huts]

One thing that brings me a lot of joy as someone that owns a spider is picturing how drow priestesses or whatever would have to put up with huge spiders everywhere that are sacred and meant to be scary but with how spiders actually act. Sometimes spiders are afraid of their own food so you need to watch them eat so they'll actually do it cause what if that mealworm kills them actually. Sometimes they recognize the food as food but miss it entirely in really lame ways. Sometimes they get afraid of the webbing coming out of their own ass. Sometimes they weirdly stance up in place after eating. They can sploot! OFTEN they shit in their own water bowls and act like you are offending them so much by taking the water out. Someone get Bob on the phone I want to talk about how this should be incorporated. Praise be to Lolths' sacred animal

[defnotjarlaxle]

Callidae

[the-shrouded-shards]

A new face, a long time friend.

[everybodyloveshippos]

he should be sent to the club for his health

[wolffox-makes-art]

Take this meme i made in 2 minutes because drawing is making me hate myself rn

Seriously Esperanza was either desperate as fuck or Hera was using magic on her

Because why the fuck did Esperanza keep letting her watch Leo?

Also yall are sleeping on the things we can create with Hera and Leo's relationship same with Esperanza and Leo.

CUS WHY IS THERE ALMOST NOTHING ON EITHER ON A03?

[the-sadcowboy]

Leo Valdez and Tía Callidas realationship:

[jaybirdstab]

My dumbass (who fluently speaks Spanish) has been pronouncing Tia Callida’s (from Heroes of Olympus) name wrong!

I’ve been saying “Call-i-da” instead of “Ca-lli-da” with the weird soft Spanish double “L”.

It’s Callida like Fallen or Fall.

Callida is literally “fall” in Spanish. And it just flew over my head.

[llcsecret]

When you put it like this it's actually crazy all the shit this kid has been through. Like, he's only 15! (He turned 16 on the Argo II, the summer of the war), he's just a little baby!

The fact that Leo can be like "Hera babysat me for a while before mom fired her because she realized what she was doing, Mom died a few years later when I was 8, my aunt convinced the rest of my family it was my fault and gave me up and I've been in the foster care ever since. The on my first quest, the day after finding out I was a demigod, my dad revealed himself in my dream and that he's been watching me since then and doing nothing about any situation I was in, then after that first part, I was named head counciler of a cabin I don't know, and head lead of building a giant ship that I drew when I was 4 that started the bigger part of the quest where I eventually learn my family is complicated and Nemesis was right! I'm the seventh wheel and always will be, and then I killed myself to avenge my mom because Gaea also had a part in killing her!" And go about his day normally. (That's only half of it too!)

[missrosiewolf]

I wonder if Salvatore is taking inspiration from Erin Evans. It’s been a long while, but iirc she referred everyone as man or woman in her Brimstone Angels books — regardless of whether they were human or not.

I bring it up because I've noticed Salvatore is doing that in his recent books too.

[somewhereincairparavel]

Jason's lack of backstory is easily bc we got introduced to him as an amnesiac tbh. New characters like Leo immediately had past flashbacks within a few pages into his POV about his mom and Tia callida. Now I'm just realising how different it would've been if SON was published first with everyone mentioning the mysterious perfect, Jason Grace, and included a few "leader Jason" flashbacks from reyna, or just general childhood flashbacks of how he refused to join the prestigious first cohort and joined the twelfth instead to bring glory to it, while defending the unpopular kids from getting bullied, when he led the battle of mount orthrys and killed krios, and THEN we got to meet him in TLH. Where he's all clueless and silly, nothing like how "heroic" he's described by Reyna and others, he'd be unaware of how much ppl look up to him in a camp that's miles away, and noble he actually is, while we know it. It would make him more endearing to read about since we know everyone knows him as the mighty golden boy.

He'd even be considered stronger if rick has done this, to the point that even the brick jokes wouldn't affect the reputation against Jason's power. Since we got to SEE his fighter moments in flashbacks. So we KNOW he's a tough guy.

Gosh that would've fixed everything. Ppl would've loved him.

And the majority of the readers only hated Jason bc he was introduced so randomly, making ppl wonder where Percy was, causing nobody to care about the new protagonist, so by releasing SON first, that would've been solved as well, since we'd know where Percy is, and would gain curiosity as to what's going on at camp half blood with this mysterious new boy as a camper. Making us interested in Jason, I feel like the audience would've gotten much better reactions to this as well, and the Thalia being Jason's sister revelation would've been even more epic.

[kastalani123]

I know that PJO Hera is an absolute bitch and even in mythology she isn't among the best, but. But.

Tell me that Hera, Goddess of Motherhood, wasn't completely enthralled when Leo Valdez, a few months old and so tiny and fragile, grabbed her finger for the first time and giggled like it was the best thing to happen in his life.

Tell me that Hera, Mother, doesn't replay the first time Leo Valdez, a year old and always covered in bumps and bruises because he climbs everything, said "Tía" years after it happened.

Tell me that Hera, Patron of Women, didn't have cuckoos following Esperanza, young and alone and discarded by her family, when she had to lock up late to make sure no harm came to her.

Tell me that Hera, Goddess of Motherhood, didn't feel worshiped to the highest degree when Esperanza, tired and dirty and bleeding, worked nights so that she could afford to spoil her son for his birthday.

Tell me that Hera, Tía Callida, didn't care when she put Leo, all of two years old and burning with a flame so bright the Earth Mother herself felt the need to intervene, in the fireplace as though to burn away his mortality.

[minitherin]

Día 4: AU de cuentos de hadas, en este caso caperucita roja y el lobo.

Day 4: Fairy tale AU, in this case Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf.

The speech bubble says I don't think the aunt callida will get mad if I eat a loaf of bread.

[hamiltonandpercyjackson]

rereading tlh post #3:

leo had to watch tia callida (hera) ruin his life at EIGHT YEARS OLD and spent YEARS trying to get over that and then had to watch his best friends’ lives be destroyed by her too???????? AGH

[daughterofanolympian]

It’s just occurred to me that we never got an explicit realization from Leo figuring out that Tía Callida was in fact his godly grandmother and thus no interaction involving “Hello Tía Callida, or should I say, Abuela Hera”