#mt tam

[insleywinsley]

End of the Year. 2023. ph. Insley Smullen

[coldbrewbutch]

By Phamuelphoto

North of San fransico, CA

[best-views]

Cataract trail to Alpine Lake

Mt Tamalpais State Park, California

[joqatana]

Semi random selection. No filters, no edits.

[painfuldischarge]

Highland Aire

Highland Aire I just finished a row. It’s about 99% humidity this morning, which, to credit Chris Wedge, reminds me of having just rowed inside someone’s mouth. Chris and I used to ride our bikes together when we were at CGRG. That was back in my racing days, I was decidedly a mediocre racer1 but I had a lot of fun. That was right when Greg Lemond became the great hope, 7–11 flew the US flag, I…

[new-rome-historians-association]

Do you know if there were any demigods at Mount Othrys when the Romans attacked? Or were all of them in Manhattan with Kronos?

Well, first of all, thank you for the ask anon! Now about the question;

Upon the dawn of the second day of the siege on Mt. Tam; 245 legionnaires were met with the Titan army.

A.C. Albus, The Siege of Mt. Tam, page 463

Of course we weren't aware of the Greek camp's existence at the time nor were we aware about the Battle of Manhattan. However, this didn't mean the troops of the 12th Legion waltzed in Othyrs unchallenged.

It is estimated* the defending forces consisted of 3/8 of the monsters and a quarter of the demigods, along with the Titan Krios.

*By the time of this paper's publishing

K. Marcus, On Traitors: An Essay

TL,DR; Yep! There were. Although the majority of Saturn's forces were located in Manhattan for their invasion.

— Arnold P. Miles

[thyeternalhunger]

I‘ve been playing TOA

Acererak/Szass Tam nsfw below↓

[carfuckerlynch]

i need strong cheese soon or i’ll explode

[babyjeenyus]

mt tam 2.27

[insleywinsley]

Mt. Tam. 2023. ph. Insley Smullen.

[siyanalicious]

Baguio City Spots

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[brucewaynehater101]

I had this dream where Tim asks M'gann to shapeshift as himself so that he could go on vacation with the rest of YJ. I forget what happened next but the cutest love story between Tam and M'gann flourished, and then headlines of Tam and Tim dating/being engaged came back on the news. I woke up the moment Tim looked at his phone, shrugged, and went back to exploding the rest of Mt. Rushmore with the rest of YJ

Okay... But I never knew I needed Tam/M'gann until now. This is such a cute premise and full of fun chaos and misunderstandings.

Like obviously Tam is gonna know from the get-go that M'gann is standing in for Tim for some reason. They'll have to work together to pull off Timothy Drake-Wayne's appearances as Tim probably does the work remotely.

Because Tim is going all the work, M'gann just has to pretend to be doing it... So she'll have a lot of downtime with Tim's PA. His very cute, very competent PA who doesn't let anyone give her any bullshit.

Tam wants no part of the cape business, but she's in the know and willing to help (on the civilian side of things). For M'gann, this is both intriguing and refreshing. There aren't many people her age who fit those requirements.

Just M'gann and Tam affectionately making fun of Tim's habits, Tam bring M'gann drinks hidden beneath Tim's regular orders, and the two of them having to navigate a media crisis. M'gann still goes out to do superhero stuff, but she keeps coming back for as long as Tim is gone.

Fuck this is so cute

[joqatana]

After 6 days of smoke quarantine, I went OUTSIDE

[aroaceleovaldez]

"5th cohort gets banished to the Car Barn" is a joke that only exists to me but it's been plaguing my mind for like 2 years so enjoy doodles of Camp Jupiter at the Mt. Othrys/Mt. Tam fight

[thorntopieces]

assorted pjo/hoo headcanons pt 2

part 1 - part 2

A popular one, but Percy grew up speaking Spanish with Sally. Once Gabe came into the picture it became something shameful and something to be hidden. In the same vein as him never talking about Gabe, he never gives any indication that he knows any Spanish, not even when people speak it around him

Annabeth and Percy 'adopt' Will. Annabeth the winter session following TLT, Percy and Annabeth together following the Battle of Manhattan. They don't properly parent him or anything, but they check in on him and help him come to terms with being Head Counsellor. At first Will thinks they do it only because he saved Annabeth's life, but no, they really just care about him that much

Something I will elaborate on in a different post: both Jason and Nico have DID (dissociative identity disorder), presenting in very different ways. Nico's alters are all him at varying ages, except for one introject of Bianca and one of Percy (that never fully front, they work internally or influence passively). It could very easily be confused for just very severe mood changes and PTSD. He's not really aware of it and considers himself to just be moody. Jason has a more 'typical' presentation in that the different alters have different names, genders, ages, roles. He becomes aware of it around the time of the Battle of the West Front/Mt Tam, and again learns about it following TLH. It is the only way to cope, caused by both of them being exposed to continuous and repeated trauma at a young age. Nico is aware that Jason has a thing, while Percy knows something is up with Nico. They both just lack the terminology to explain it well. This is one of the reasons why Nico and Jason quickly get along at Camp Jupiter before the kidnapping and then again following the encounter with Cupid

After starting to recover from dissolving into darkness, Nico slowly starts going back to school. He's too busy, too ill and too behind to go full-time, so instead he goes two days a week for core subjects at Goode. To do this he spends two nights a week at Sally and Paul's place. It helps give him some of the normalcy he so desperately needs. The rest of the week he spends at CHB doing various things (teach classes, infirmary work, head counsellor duties, therapy). Will goes to a different school in NYC during the week but they make plans for him to transfer after Christmas break

Will doesn't like crying because it literally hurts him. Whenever he cries it's like his eyes are on fire so instead of trying to figure out why that is, he will do anything in his power to not cry at all

Healing and medicine are two separate traits for Apollo kids to inherit. Lee could heal, but Michael was the one with the field medic skills and thus the one to mostly train Will. When Lee died, the infirmary went to Will because divine healing is prioritised above mortal medicine. Will's not special because he can heal, he's special because he can heal and has an innate talent for medicine. Combine that with the photo- and nosokinesis and he's technically inherited four separate skills, whereas most Apollo kids would only get two (basic good aim/vitals reading/minor powers of prophecy does not count, those are universal). He really is all of Apollo's best and none of his worst

In the Last Olympian it's mentioned that Hades met Maria di Angelo in Washington D.C, but in House of Hades that Nico and Bianca grew up in Venice. Headcanon that Bianca was born in Washington D.C in 1930 but shortly after being born Maria di Angelo moved back to Venice in hopes of escaping the worst of the Great Depression. This didn't work (the Great Depression hit Italy in 1931 and peaked in 1932), but by the time it got bad it was harder than ever to leave fascist Italy, especially through official channels - which they would have to do considering Nico's nonno was an Italian diplomat and fleeing would put him in danger. Nico was born in Venice and in 1939, less than a year after visiting Diocletian's Palace they were cleared to reunite with his grandparents in the States, avoiding the outbreak of WWII.

The reason why the conversation with Venus horrified her so much wasn't because she was upset about not being destined to be with Jason, it was because she interpreted 'no demigod shall heal your broken heart' as having to date someone fitting the criteria (not a demigod, powerful because she has power) and the only person she can think of is Octavian. She absolutely thought Venus told her she was doomed to date Octavian

Percy who is the demigod most similar to Jason in terms of wolf traits developed because they had the same amount of 'established identity' when arriving at the wolf house (young age vs amnesia). Percy who learns to be entirely certain of initiating physical affection without fear after being at the wolf house because he learns that even dangerous beings can be gentle. Percy who is scared of initiating physical contact because he saw how Gabe was and how demigods used to react to him knowing he was a son of the Big Three

[tagthescullion]

In TLO, Percy sees Nico spying on the Titans at Mount Tam and later asks him about it. Nico says he was in the neighborhood “following a lead on” his family; he's kind of cagey about it and doesn’t give more information. Now, the di Angelos were never anywhere near San Francisco...but Hazel was. Or soon would be. I'm pretty sure it says in SON that Nico brought Hazel back to life in September, which would be a month later, give or take since we don’t know the exact date (which is weird to 1/3

the boring, simple answer is "he has a great grand nephew/niece in san fran". but that's a shite answer so my take is based on my idea that nico is terrible at lying up front, but he's not bad at twisting words to technically tell the truth

"a lead on nico's family", nico's mortal family has no ties to california that we know of, and retconning to be so is just.. plain. but nico's immortal family happens to have a well known blond, blue-eyed cousin in san fran

the question then would be: did hades tell nico "go to mount tam, you'll get a lead on your family", or did nico feel weird shit going on in mt tam, got close, saw the romans and then hades either tried to cover up by saying "yeah, they're some cousins you have, stay away" or rolled his eyes and said "yeah, okay, there's a roman version of us and a roman version of demigods, stay away" (whichever it was, nico ignored him, but not the point here)

I'd assume it's more of the latter, nico accidentally stumbles into a group of roman demigods, gets curious, asks his father, and hades sort of panics and tries --unsuccessfully-- to keep him away