#me with a microphone: DO BETTER!!!!!!

[humanoidtyphoons]

hah. you really start suitor armor with such high hopes for kirsi&lucia

and knowing what's to come, i'm just depressed about them.

[humanmorph]

i'll find you one day / washed out in your head we'll be holding hands / with nothing in the air

[nopantscook]

ahem.

[noctilu-uca]

I was looking through an old sketchbook and found things actuslly worth posting

These are OLD wow remember when i used to date art piece LMAOAOA

[emmavakarian-theirin]

"how do you always do that?" "do what?" "break apart my perfectly gathered clouds of doom"

[rosicheeks]

Aka Riders Lullaby from Centaurworld

Lay your head on my chest so I can sing you a lullaby and gently run my fingers through your hair until you slowly drift off to sleep 🥰🫶

[checkthebox]

fansong abt veronica santangelo

[misqnon]

i am so stressed rn lmao

[jvpiterstears]

this is going to be pointless for me to write, because i’m not in source anymore, but i really feel like i need to say it nonetheless.

i am sorry. truly. i’ve done and said things that were never necessary or called for and many people dislike me for it. i was a bad person to both of them, i will admit that. but i want to make things better. i grew up thinking that manipulation was the way to go, that if i made something go my way i would be happy, but i was wrong about that. i had two documented chances and sever un-documented chances to fix myself and make my life right again and each time i failed. i lied to myself so much that i lied to others, which was what brought me to where i ended up being. scrapped letters, old friends that hated me, and a life that i tried so hard to survive by myself in.

i know sorry isn’t enough for what i did to mic and pickle in source, but i want to apologize either way.

-🌮

[imaginepostingonsideblogs]

name ONE crime cas has ever committed.

any "crimes" done out of love don't count, that's just how he shows affection, okay. i'm sure scarab and all of cas' other happy, well adjusted lovers would agree with me

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll..............maybe we shouldn't neutralise EVERY crime hes comitted. for. the sake of love. hes erm. thats um. its a lot.

...

all of them. its all of them, apparently.

[dan-crimes]

My sibling is trying to out Link me, you DARE QUESTION THE OG!! THE MASTER !! THE HOLDER OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF LINK !!!!!

[homophyte]

not trying to be mean . not trying to be mean. watching an asmrtist test a kids asmr toy that comes with one of those mini mics and they test it against their own microphone that they use in all of their stuff. and the thing is the microphone is for a toy so its not good. but it sounds better than their normal micNOT TRYING TO BE MEAN. where did all the 3dios go

[tiny-huts]

Idk what has gotten into Bob for the Neverwinter Quartet but every single time he has talked about Artemis he has called him short and it's so funny. It's like constant?? Bob, gripping the audience by the shoulders: "He's a manlet. He's a tiny little man. Miniscule piece of shit. He's amazingly short. Diminutive. Teensy-weensy. Chihuahua of a man. Do you understand?"

[ei-mugi]

i enjoyed getting heated over something silly for fun but im just now seeing some past distress ppl had over the poll on the blog & i feel a little bad haha i dont actually have any problem with ii or its fans like ive said i was one myself in the past

[noctilu-uca]

"I live in the snow, the scent of what was and what never will be, filling me once again. The clear skies remind me of you, hopefully one day they'll cloud and turn into something new." "..." "Happy Birthday."

HAPPPPYYY BIIRRTTHHDAAAYYYY SMAMAAMAMTMTOTOKKIII !!!! !

WOOOOAAHAHHH !!!!!!!! I love him sooo much !! been hauling all day for this guy, listened to only hypmic and had MTC on repeat LMAOAOAOA

but anyway ~ I maybe may or may not have written that poem myself. to keep with the theme I have going today with "something old" considering all the art below is... well, old. I decided to take an excerpt from a poem I wrote last year. I think it fits him well ~

for my lovely little princess, here is a gallery of all (most.) of the art ive made of him over the years !

Some are unfinished, some are finished. This is also a good way to see my art progress, i think... Anyway, the guy !!! The guy ever !!!

There is definitely more out there in my sketch books they are either ugly or horribly unfinished.

But i love this little guy a lot !!! Hes always been a little bit of a muse to me. I really love his design and often times find myself gravitating toward making similar features on my own characters, even before i knew him...

Samatoki will live forever guys i promise

[dreamstar-moonlight]

👆👆👆

The himbo, malewife, goofball -fication of percy jackson is such a crime by both the fans and riordan. It has made Mr not like percabeth as a couple because in all posts and in later books annabeth is such a girlboss, while Percy's dumb and can't fight his way out of a paperbag without her. All the posts are about how annabeth will be an architect and percy would love to be a trophy husband.

Even the humor in the books went from Percy's sharp wit and snark to 'my pancakes can't drown because I'm a son of poseidon.'

And now this recommendation letter bullshit.

Honestly now I'd wish percy just separated from annabeth (but they remain best friends.) He stays home with his family, becomes a camp counselor, helps young demigods, holds God's accountable and eventually becomes a social activist. (I also dislike him doing something marine biology related. It's clear he hates academics but he always wants to help people. Him helping demigods and mortals is such a wholesome profession for him.)

I fully agree with the first half of this, though I slightly disagree with part of the latter.

The later-series and fanon mischaracterization of Percy is at least a solid 50% ableism minimum, full stop. He's being warped into a very stereotyped ADHD character and the exact reason why he's being characterized as "dumb" is because of ableism. Percy is a very intelligent character! That's exactly why he's so in sync with Annabeth and they're such a strong duo! It's just generally Annabeth is more book/academically smart.

I disagree with where you say he hates academics - because that's one of the common misconceptions about his character. Percy doesn't hate learning or academic subjects! He's not even bad at them! We know explicitly that when he is in an accommodating environment he is interested in learning and gets significantly better grades! Percy only dislikes school because it is generally an environment that systematically he struggles with. It's literally just he has a learning disability (two, actually)! That's it! When his learning disability is accommodated for he does well! It's almost like that's what accommodations are all about! We know this from the first series! It's discussed pretty in-depth! Percy isn't a dumb character and he doesn't hate learning, he's just been let down by school systems so much that he's inherently distrustful of them. If they actually accommodate him though then he does just fine!

And that's exactly what CHB was all about and why New Rome University was supposed to be such a big thing for him! CHB is a learning environment geared for demigods. NRU is a demigod college. Both inherently imply an environment meant to cater to and accommodate students with ADHD and dyslexia! They are both systematically structured to be able to accommodate him! Heck, CHB and CJ even both address in the wider themes of the series a metaphor about how ADHD and dyslexia are commonly seen as childhood disabilities, and how it can be more difficult to find accommodations into adulthood because of that attitude but those disabilities don't just go away - that's why CHB is a summer camp but they talk about how demigods outside of CHB don't often fare well. The metaphor there is those who are not getting help or accommodations are struggling. Because that's how that works! This is a fully intentional metaphor from the first series! CHB is never framed as being perfect for demigods, because one of the entire central conflicts of the series is Percy and Luke going back and forth about this flawed system meant to help and support them but still letting people fall through the cracks. The "claim your kids by 13" thing is a metaphor about how acknowledging a child's disabilities (and possibly getting a diagnosis) earlier/as early as possible means they will have more time to learn and build up resources and support for themselves to be able to use later in life. One of CHB's major flaws is that it can accommodate demigods to a certain point, but it can only do so much before those demigods have to leave (the metaphor being accommodating school systems when those disabled students do not have any other forms of accommodations in their lives.)

And that's why Camp Jupiter was framed as being so revolutionary for Percy because it had an environment acknowledging that this is not just a childhood disability, adults with ADHD/dyslexia exist too and still need and deserve accommodations, AND is a place where those accommodations are available. That's why Camp Jupiter and NRU are treated as such special and important things to Percy, because it's essentially Percy being shown this type of thing can and does exist and it is available to him. It is an option he never thought was possible. Percy never thought he'd be able to go to college because he would not be able to go through school without accommodations, but NRU proves otherwise.

The part that's absolutely stupid is Rick then proceeded to retcon NRU so that apparently it's not a full college and Percy still has to take classes at normal mortal college which DEFEATS THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF NRU EXISTING. Rick has fully retconned that demigods struggle past the ages of 16-18 when they're on their own (see above elaborated metaphors) and in doing so we have fully killed all symbolism in literally all of that. It's so stupid. And by having the plot of the CoTG trilogy entirely be that Percy is not actually allowed access to NRU in the first place because he is a son of Poseidon and has to do extra to even be accepted is stupid!

All that to say, I agree the marine biology feels like a huge cop-out and a disservice to his character by reducing him to just a son of Poseidon. The literal only reason why it's the default option people take for him is because oh, fish thing, fish guy. But I feel like everyone ignores the really obvious answer for what Percy would want to do which is - writing. Both his parents are writers/authors and he clearly admires that about them. Percy likes telling stories! He canonically is already a published author in-universe! That's what the books ARE in-universe! The first series fully exists in their universe and Percy is the author! This is explicit canonical information! Percy canonically has help physically writing it down (accommodations) but he is still the credited author! Percy is a writer! Already! Canonically! Why are we making him a marine biologist he already has a profession that ties into his character significantly more. Like you said, Percy likes helping people. That's what the books in-universe are supposed to be for! It's point blank at the beginning of the series! Book one! The thing everybody quotes all the time! The books exist because it is Percy trying to give advice to other demigods who don't know what's going on yet! It's Percy's writing down his experiences to help new demigods understand and contextualize their experiences so they can understand themselves better and figure out what's going on - WHICH IN ITSELF IS ALSO A METAPHOR ABOUT ADHD/DYSLEXIA! Because the core of the series has and always will be built around ADHD/dyslexia! Percy as a protagonist EXPLICITLY was created so that ADHD/dyslexic kids could see themselves as a hero!

Sorry that all was a very tangential rant but my point being: Absolutely. Percy in newer stuff in the franchise and in fanon is horrifically mischaracterized in ways that are functionally either fully ableist (shoutout TSATS for just outright claiming Percy is intentionally lazy and skips school out of disinterest, which is like the number one ableist attitude towards kids with learning disabilities) or a complete erasure of Percy's disabilities. Also I think he should be a writing major not a marine biologist.