#i could've put this in the tags on the last post i reblogged i simply felt like making this its own post

[somewhereincairparavel]

Annabeth Chase and Jason Grace - two sides of the same coin, an analysis post.

after a long wait, I've finally posted my analysis on jason/annabeth being similar, and mirroring eachother as rivals/potential sibling figures more than percy/jason's 'bro rivalry', based on this post of mine which has crossed over a THOUSAND notes in the last week alone, and I've been getting so many reblogs and comments asking me to expand on my tags in that post and do a full analysis. so here it is. I've been procrastinating this for quite a while now for some reason but I'm glad I'm over my writer's block and I got to articulate my post well enough.

annabeth and jason have had very minor interactions throughout hoo, but the parallels and similarities in their character is jarringly noticeable, which is why I hoped for a jason/annabeth rivalry and not a percy/jason rivalry. they've both been raised at their respective camps since they were literal kids, they were well versed in their respective fields of knowledge, and were well respected/intimidated in their camps.

let's start off with the lost hero

when jason first meets annabeth, he says that her eyes were really intimidating and fierce, so right off the bat, we have jason who's pretty put off by annabeth because she very obviously looked angry, especially since she was frustrated about jason's arrival instead of percy, and looked like she could kill jason to get percy back.

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this parallels to a lot when hazel kept going on about how difficult it was to warm up to jason because his eyes were always calculating and cold, and he gave off an untrustworthy vibe, that he'd sacrifice anyone for the sake of the mission.

both annabeth and jason have a certain similar ‘look’ in their eyes, which have nothing to do with the color. they both have the tendency to make people nervous simply with their eyes, because they always look like they're thinking of new things every few seconds. Ironically, jason first perceived annabeth, the way everyone else perceived him. scary and intimidating with an icy glare and hardened eyes.

They were both said to be ‘studying’ each other in distrust many times throughout. A part of why they didn't trust each other, was, in my opinion, because they embodied their least favorite shared personality trait of each other, secretiveness and guardedness. which is why annabeth got on so well with percy, and jason with leo/piper.

they didn't admire the closed off-ish vibe that they gave eachother. they both needed people who were open and carefree.annabeth said that jason looked like he knew too much information, but chose to keep it all a secret, very similar to her own guardedness from time to time, keeping it a secret and wanting to deal with it silently.

we also know that annabeth and jason are extremely knowledgeable in greek/roman mythology, they both love debates and were quite passionate about history. they were both assigned architecture projects by the gods themselves as a mark of honor and favour.

moving on to the next most important point, they reminded eachother of the people they missed, causing them to feel resentful.

jason, barely met his sister after they reunited. he was bitter when thalia said he had to go look for percy to help out annabeth with the search. he was aware that thalia and annabeth were childhood friends, getting closer to eachother than jason and thalia ever did. she found a home in luke and annabeth, not even a few months after baby jason was thought to be ‘dead’, that knowledge would've weighed a lot on jason. annabeth became the sibling to thalia grace that jason could never be.

while annabeth? the only thing annabeth thought of, after jason had a face off with his mother's remnant in boo, was the fact that jason, who looks eerily similar to luke, could've experienced the exact same fate as him. luke was jason if he had more wrath and held grudges, jason was luke if he had less anger and resentment. annabeth could connect the dots so easily, and that was truly the moment where she gained immense respect for him.

and, when jason told annabeth that his sister was thalia? she had a very odd sort of expression on her face.

annabeth also quotes that looking at jason made her feel bitter, because he reminded her of heras exchange, and the fact that she lost percy for months. whenever she looked at jason, she would only see her two childhood friends, a found family that was broken, and a love that was challenged.

whenever jason looked at annabeth, he would be reminded that thalia had a closer contact to her than she did jason, and had to accept that he would never know thalia as much as annabeth does.

annabeth and jason also appear very confident and sure of themselves, but have second thoughts all the time. they had to put on a fake facade, to live up to their expectations and lineage.

they were both also sort of people pleasers, annabeth couldn't really say no to anyone who asked her for help with things, like carrying the sky for luke especially, because not only where they giving her a chance to execute her knowledge and skill, the thought of helping someone made her genuinely happy. jason also loved seeing people happy, always wanting to say the right thing to satisfy someone, even if it meant he had to sacrifice his own struggles to help them.

fatal flaws:

annabeth’s fatal flaw, is hubris. when you are confident and sure that you can do something, and have a sense of excessive self pride.

and jason's fatal flaw is the temptation to deliberate. hesitation and second guessing, to put it in simpler words.both fatal flaws are so different, yet so similar, and they have both flaws, just in a different viewpoint.

as a child of athena, annabeth appears super confident and even conceding at times because of her wisdom, but at the same time, annabeth had to make sure she was one step ahead of everyone. she had to rethink everything and had to have a plan in her mind all the time, fearing that things wouldn't go smoothly.

she had to hesitate and second guess herself alot, despite her knowledge, like she did when she knew she had to look for the mark of athena. piper and percy had to boost up her confidence with affirmations, to let her know she's on the right path and to just follow her gut. annabeth feels obligated to have a temptation to deliberate, because, as a child of athena, she has to be all knowing and wise, and most definitely cannot fail her mother.

and jason? despite having a very low sense of self esteem and hesitation, he was so used to leading the people who were considered slightly inferior to him in camp jupiter, and basically getting treated like a celebrity for 12 years of his life in camp jupiter, that often, he thought what he did was right, he had his own perception of what a hero should be, and I quote

[“No, no,” Jason said. “I made my choice. You’re not to blame. You don’t owe me anything except to remember what I said. Remember what’s important.” “You’re important,” I said. “Your life!”Jason tilted his head. “I mean… sure. But if a hero isn’t ready to lose everything for a greater cause, is that person really a hero?”He weighted the word person subtly, as if to stress it could mean a human, a faun, a dryad, a griffin, a pandos… even a god”- Tower of Nero]

which was normal, since he had everyone basically following his lead without question as a kid. he's expanded on this in his conversation with piper in mark of athena, where he said he felt weird to suddenly be around people who were either equal/or superior to him in power, and not being in the ‘lead’ particularly.

jason had hubris, but certainly not in a way that you would call it an ego or excessive pride. he was hardwired and brainwashed into having his own perception of what is right and what is wrong, that he thought he was always making good enough decisions, at least from a roman child soldier’s standpoint. [Like when he was okay with not saving nico because it might sabotage their mission, he genuinely didn't think what he said was insensitive until hazel called him out, because he was brought up that way. he thought he was doing the right thing, by prioritising the mission and the duty, first. Like the dutiful roman he was made to be].

both annabeth and jason, have hubris and a temptation to deliberate.

annabeth and jason, also had an extremely difficult time breaking free from the thoughts that their godly parents were always right. It took on alot of disappointments for both of them to stand up to their parents (and not just godly ones, mind you)

they've both had disappointing absent mortal and godly parents with a hostile stepmother involved and monitored with each and every one of their moves. annabeth has had to deal with her stepmother playing the ‘bad cop’ with her father not even coming to her defence, just the way hera came butting into jason's life and giving him terrible memories, taking him away from thalia, with zeus not even caring.

speaking of which, they are both the only demigods who have harboured the most amount of resentment for hera. just the sight of hera pisses them both off, as it hera, stripped off so much time away from annabeth and percy, and memories from jason, which he never permanently got back.

this is sort of irrelevant but I'll add this anyway, in boo, athena also immediately liked jason for calling out zeus's unfairness to apollo, saying something like 'the boy is right' and she gave him an approving/appreciative look for his wisdom, which is pretty rare for athena to say or do to literally any demigod ever. this makes me wonder if she ever saw jason as someone who had some sort of athena legacy in him, which is why she was so pleasantly surprised with him. ugh we could've so gotten jason and annabeth as potential sibling figures bc of how many parallels they have, too bad that the percy/jason rivalry narrative was pushed too hard.

I hope I've drawn enough parallels with their characters, as a lot of you have been looking forward to this post for a while, hopefully this analysis hasnt been underwhelming for you all to read!

@thevoidcaller @karmaajr @onestorytorulethemall @newlyfoundwren @thesummerstorms

[rosesnink]

The elephant in the room

As many of you are already aware, there was an art piece by a mutual of mine that whitewashed Bryce. And I reblogged it.

Before I jump into addressing the elephant in the room, I'd like to say that all my friends have expressed my exact thoughts and I won't parrot what has been said already.

Firstly, what I am about to say does not excuse what I've done, but rather explain why I did it.

During September, I warned all of you that my last year of my bachelor's degree was going to be demanding and take up most of my time, and it can be seen in my content drought. These last two months (April till now) have been exhausting physically, mentally and emotionally. When I'm not studying, I'm doing exams, and when I'm not doing exams, I'm catching up on homework and earning points with my teachers and fellow students. All this to the point where everything else my brain does is autopilot. Including reblogging stuff I'm tagged in. I have no energy to look deeply into things. I haven't even read any fanfiction of this or other fandoms. And this autopilot mode led me to reblog said art. I saw it, thought it was cute in my exhausted mind, and simply reblogged it. It wasn't until the mutual who posted it asked me to take it down that I understood what was happening.

Now, onto my second point, I condone any type of whitewashing into the fandom. As a white woman, it is my job to make POC 's lives better and easier in my platform, and I failed. Miserably. Instead of putting it in my drafts and wait to look at it better, I simply vaguely reblogged it and moved on, and I was wrong to do so. However, I know OP, and I know that it wasn't her intention to do such harm knowingly. My thought is that, overly excited for her birthday, she forgot to think through how to direct the artist into drawing a MOC character. Which happened before, and will continue to happen. Not because they purposefully want to whitewash POC's, but because as humans, we are bound to make mistakes. And I hope that we continue to handle this maturely.

To end this statement, I want to apologise to all my POC mutuals who have been affected or offended by me reblogging such harmful piece. My heart broke when I thought of the harm I inflicted, and I wish I could've been smarter about this. I can't promise you it will never ever happen again, but I can promise that I will be more watchful and critical of what I post in here.

I repeat, I am sorry, I made a huge mistake and will do my best to make it up to you. Please stay safe ❤

Xo,

Noe

[evil-gender]

i’m rapidly approaching 22 and frequently feel like i’m about to go off the deep end so like. i’m not saying anakin skywalker did nothing wrong i’m just saying. isn’t that just what it’s like to be in your early 20s.

[escapismsworld]

Hello, your description says you don't repost anything. What do you think repost means? Because in this post "escapismsworld tumblr com post 674030858256187392" you are using a piece of artwork that you did not create and that was posted on tumblr by the original artist back in November. Please tell me how you think this isn't a repost

I am fairly new to tumblr. So I did not know this artwork was on tumblr because I haven't seen it yet. I also did not know that that particular artist was on tumblr and did originally post it because I don't know out of the millions of people there are, that the artist may be on tumblr. I found the artwork on my hard drive from a post I saved from a random account on twitter last year. So the concern that I repost it is so huge but nobody calls out the other hundreds of people that are saving and sharing that exact artwork on twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook? But on tumblr it's a no no? I didn't know I could tag the original artist or that it was on here because again how would I know? I also didn't give credit to the artist like many people do because their name or handle name is signed on that piece of art, so everyone can see and know and search the rightful person who did it. And no one had the common decency to just message me and say hey the original artist is so and so and if you could just tag them, I'd happily do it. Or nobody asked me nicely. Sometimes people can get so upset or defensive on Tumblr over small little things but they can't just give people the common courtesy to say please can you remove because it was so and so's original post. I don't like conflict and my blog is a safe space. I simply did not know and no one can just be a decent human being and talk to me like I also matter. Simply put I wished, instead of putting me down or making snarky comments people can just politely ask me in private to take it down, ask me where did I get it and how or simply say I need to tag the artist. There are a lot of pictures on the internet so how should I know what picture is originally who's if it's been on a Pinterest board or an Instagram post and I just posted it here to keep tabs of my niche and what I like personally? I know what repost means and when I see someone says don't repost then I don't. But most of my pictures are from the internet itself like twitter or Pinterest or Google or Instagram and stored on my hard drive. I don't keep tabs on people's accounts or names except the ones I follow here. I simply reblog everything on Tumblr and post anything I see fit that I found somewhere else.

Like I said this is a safe space and I don't tolerate any hate. If you don't like my answer you can just simply block me but please don't backlash on me for something you saw here but is literally all over the internet as well. I'm but one drop in the ocean. If you can answer me with kind words further regarding this or anything else it would be much appreciated because I'm not a mean person.

Also like I said I'm fairly new to tumblr. I'm an amateur just saving and sharing my interests for myself and to help other people not feel alone. Not to get likes or reblogs or followers or outshine anyone. I know most people on here have been here for years. But for me, since being on here no one ever tried to give me tips or to help me understand it more or even like now just try and be nice about a post that I truly didn't even know about. The best thing people could've done that would benefit the original poster/artist is to tag them and just appreciate the fact that I spread their art, because they so have their name on the artwork. Anyone can see and search them. People can tag and give recognition to the original poster and say I shared it or kindly in private ask me to take it down. I don't know why people on here should be so public about their intolerance and hate for other people and make it known. What does one gain for being nasty and shaming someone out of ignorance if they can't even just ask that person a question instead of simply assuming the worst about someone.

I have seen so many kind people as well on here, and that in itself gives me hope that people that shares the same interests as me can be nice to me but I've discovered that it's quite the opposite. Instead they'll shame you infront of their followers and mutuals and make you a bad person when all you wanted to do was spread joy. I will believe there are kind people on this app when someone can message me and be polite about a post even when they disagree. I'm just a human being trying my best and this page is my escape. First and foremost for me and secondly for the people who feel alone.

If the original poster can see my point of view and see what my page is about and can privately and politely ask me to delete the post then I will. I will not be slandered and bullied by other people and I myself don't shame or bully anyone. I don't use fowl language and I don't disrespect other people.

I hope this helps you see my point of view. Once again, I won't tolerate hate. If nothing can be said out of love or positivity then don't say anything at all.

I hope you have a lovely morning/noon/night 🧡🤍

Kind regards love 🌻