#percy's senior year (mis)adventures

[skywalking-through-life]

My dearest, darling friends: thank you for your innumerable kind, encouraging messages this past year: it is to you all that I dedicate this chapter, which is, 12 months and 10k later, finally done. 💙

[percabethtruther]

Percabeth Fic Recs

Part I

Canonverse - Annabeth Centric

You Can Hear It In the Silence - bipercabeth

In which Annabeth realizes she has feelings for her best friend mid-breakdown. A bit of angst and a lot of fluff ensues. Word Count: 5k

Snip my Thread (Bleach the Linen for my Bed) - Darkmagyk

After Mount St. Helens erupted, Annabeth weaves a funeral shroud. Scene from BotL from Annabeth's POV. Word Count: 1.3k

Heartbreak mixed with heart-wrenching references to the Odyssey.

notes on laundry detergent - peculiarblue

It’s like a math problem, really, if she thinks about it. a + b = c, and all she has to do is fill in the variables. She’ll get an answer. Easy. She’s good at math. Its a problem to solve. One answer. Reasonable. a (Percy washed her favorite sweatshirt) + b (it smelled like him when she put it on) = c (she’s in love with him) (or, one night before she and percy head to camp for winter break, annabeth realizes there's three words she wants to say to him for the first time. and she's totally normal about it, of course.) Word Count: 10k

Helianthus - husborth

Percy and Annabeth have a shitty week, and wind down in their own way. Word Count: 6.3k

Bonus: Misc. Fics That I Really Enjoyed

Series: Percy's Senior Year (mis)Adventures - Skywalking_through_life

Love the characterization of our main couple and our canon characters, but man do the plot relevant OCs SHINE in their stories!

Family Man - everdeen6

Paul had never imagined himself as a family man. He had always thought he would travel, write books occasionally, maybe get a dog. The concept of being a married man had never appealed to him. Until he met Sally Jackson. ~ Or alternatively Paul's story from a bachelor to proud husband of Sally Jackson and amazing dad to Percy Jackson Word Count: 3.6k

[skywalking-through-life]

Hi, Do you have any updates on conduct?

Love your fics!!

When I got this ask, I knew I was close to finishing the chapter, so I forced myself to wait to answer it until I was done.

Here you go, dear anonymous friend. 💙 I hope you enjoy it!

[skywalking-through-life]

I JUST FINISHED COTG AND I AM BESIDE MYSELF. I HAVE DISSOLVED INTO A PILE OF HAPPY GOO. I HAVE WORK IN THE MORNING BUT I CANNOT SLEEP BECAUSE I AM SO OVERCOME WITH FEELINGS.

I just can't even describe the sheer joy I felt at hearing Percy's voice again, after all these years. In some moments, it was like I was a teenager again, reading along and cry-laughing at his sarcastic perspective on how utterly preposterous his life continues to be. (Nostalgia played a huge part in that of course, but it also just was genuinely refreshing.)

However in other moments. I was very aware of the fact that I'm an adult now, and that my life, like Percy's, has only gotten wilder and more exhausting as it has gone on. So it was honestly quite comforting to read Percy say that he still looks forward to living his life fully, despite all the bitterness and chaos and confusion and pain, because joy and love and friendship help to balance out those darker moments. I think that's become clear to both Percy and I as we've gotten older, so I really appreciate how much time Rick spent driving that point home. It's not something I would have valued as highly when I was younger, but time has deepened my appreciation of aging - another theme I adored.

And even though I just tried to calmly offer a few themes I found meaningful, I'm back to screaming, because I CANNOT BE NORMAL ABOUT THE PERCABETH. It was SHEER PERFECTION. It was THEM. Growing together, maturing together, figuring things out together. Being utterly BESOTTED with each other! Teasing each other! Finishing each other's thoughts! Embarrassing Grover! Using a couple of random pet names! Being so COMFORTABLE with each other! Half of Percy's thoughts being how much he loves her? His love for her literally saving his life MULTIPLE TIMES?! Their love destroys me, in every possible good way.

(It was the perfect inspiration for my next chapter of '[conduct] not unbecoming' - Annabeth sneaking in through Percy's bedroom window at 4AM and Percy knowing his mom wouldn't care if she caught the two of them in there together? Fic GOLD. 👀👀 I'm also honestly SO PLEASED that Percy's Senior Year (mis)Adventures have remained essentially canon! 🥳 There are 1-2 tiny, tiny changes I'm going to make so the series perfectly aligns, but I really think Rick and I were sharing a brain cell at a few key moments! 😂)

But finally, let me be real for a second:

I know not everyone is going to love it, for reasons that they have every right to expand on themselves, in as much detail and with as many feelings as they want. Go forth and vent, if that's what's fun for you! But that isn't fun for me, and I want to be pretty clear now that will not be hosting any discourse on my blog, because I no longer have the ability or motivation to engage patiently, kindly, and in good faith with those who do not seem able to offer that same courtesy to others. Once upon a time maybe, but I'm too old and tired for it now.

Tldr: I'm really excited to talk about Chalice of the Gods. ☺️ I can go on and on and on if you are also looking for someone to be excited with! 💙

[skywalking-through-life]

WIP TITLE GAME

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by both @ashilrak and @60sec400, which is honestly fantastic, because I love this idea! My wip folder is deeply hilarious and probably incomprehensible to anyone other than me, so enjoy! I have titles, but also describe scenarios, and use lines I've written that I like as fic placeholders. There is no order to this, it's just how it appears in the folder! Italics indicate what I'm currently actively working on! Feel free to ask questions, lmao!

Post-HoO Truth or Dare beach party

'Percy Jackson's Six Steps to Seducing Your Girlfriend'

Post-HoO summer Chariot race

Titan War Memorial service + bonfire - explore grief ritual?

'[conduct] not unbecoming men who [strive] with gods'

Percabeth wedding

'still half-perfect' - working title for dark as shit wip, feat. percabeth fuck or die

'The Firefighter of the Month Club'

Poseidon and Ms. Lafayette parent- teacher conference

Percy graduates high school!!!!!!!!!!

'a name adds context, not truth'

Percabeth strip poker, Annabeth cheats

'kindness justifies itself'

Percy&Poseidon&Paul, wedding day shaving/ritual

Annabeth&Rachel&Piper&Hazel&Sally&Clarisse&etc, wedding day bath/getting ready ritual

Percabeth first time, in Percy's dorm

'like two birds on a power line'

'I drown in you' - kinky percabeth hotel sequel to 'to burn and to boil'

Percy teaches Estelle how to swim

Demigods talk to Estelle about death

Percy talks to Estelle about differences between mortals and demigods

Percy/Annabeth/Apollo negotiations? Just sex friends or more - have to decide

Percy/Annabeth/Aphrodite negotiations? Just sex friends or more - have to decide

Fed kidnapping fic - dark, long, big angst, outline currently: 20k

Jackson-Blofis Family winter cabin trip multichap

Whale pregnancy wip lololol

Percy&Calypso missing moment conversation in TOA; follow up, Percy's missing moment conversation with Chiron - 2 shot?

College Percy, Annabeth, Frank, and Piper 'rent' a sailboat for the day and go exploring, there are shenanigans, Hazel has to send the Roman navy after them

"Oh, bite me.  Why should I have to choose between being a lover or a fighter?"

"I'm not sure of much, but I know my body can take a pretty good beating and then just get up and keep on going. There's always been something comforting about knowing that. It keeps me moving."

"If actual hell couldn't separate us, then what makes you think that you can?"

"Face it, dude. You have the eyes of a lovable aquatic mammal."

"I've seen what you like as a corpse, "Annabeth. Did you really think I wouldn't recognize you when you look like a queen?"

"You are alive. Let me celebrate that, won't you?"

"You are only a man, but one who could have been a god. I'm sure that weighs."

"Wisdom's daughter, afraid of new knowledge?"

"And so he acted, out of that place of peace and clarity and resolve within him that one might call a conscience."

"One of the best things about Percy Jackson was that he rarely said something he didn't mean. It was also one of the worst things about him."

"A soul like his is more alive than most."

Lolololololol. I hope you enjoyed this? I'm going to tag as many people as I can, but I don't know if I have enough, given the number of wips I have! Tagging everyone who pops into my brain: @tater-tots-last-of-the-romanovs @timemachinechaos @timelesslords @finalgirlmoment @judoflipped @imaginmatrix @mrthology @celestialepiphany @phykios @darkmagyk @no2ticonderoga @ashilrak @moonlacess @moonfrost41 @templarhalo @soleil-in-retrograde @campercabeth @percabeth4life @sappho-of-space @perseannabeth @ananbeth @annabethy @punkflame @zambomarti @hellomomo @duender-writes @melancholic-pigeon @captain-jackson @posallys @faemischief

[skywalking-through-life]

Hey I just wanted to say hi and that I loved the new chapter of [conduct]! I got so excited when I saw it in my inbox last night that I immediately went to bed so I could wake up this morning and read it, and it did not disappoint! I especially loved the ending, it had me gasping lol. I hope you’re doing well! <3

Thank you so much, my dear friend. 🥹🫂 I was equally excited to share it with you all, and I have been so moved by everyone's response! It feels so good to have more to say, and more to explore with y'all! I'm so glad you liked the end, haha - I have a lot of ideas for what I want to do with the next couple of scenes, but I also love a good cliffhanger, lol.

I AM well - and even better for your asking! 💙🫂💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Y'all.

I wrote stuff for '[conduct] not unbecoming' today that I ACTUALLY think is going to stay in the chapter! We have turned a corner! I'm not just deleting everything I write now!

This is PROGRESS! 🥳

[skywalking-through-life]

A thin barrier between two worlds for the fic ask game?

Ah, this is a great one, because there is SO MUCH behind-the-scenes info I could reveal about this fic.

I'm sure it won't come as a great surprise to know that I looked up SO many pictures and schematics for urban water-based transportation systems to try and get my ferry repairs right, and also talked to a fabulous fandom friend who knows more about boats than I do about any details I couldn't quite figure out.

But what maybe WILL come as a surprise is that I 100% expected most of y'all to hate it. 😂 Like, I was ACTIVELY psyching myself up to get hate comments, worried that everyone would be mad that Ms. Lafayette didn't feature, that no one would like Giovanni, that everyone would tell me a slightly cocky Percy was too OOC...I very nearly didn't post it. Now, was this probably my imposter syndrome/internal critic just trying to sabotage my creativity? Yeah! But I was so panicky about not turning out a perfect product for y'all that if it weren't for the timely reminders from friends and Mr. Sky that nothing is perfect but all things can be good, it might never have seen the light of day! I'm not even sure I have words for the relief I felt - and still feel - knowing that y'all have actually enjoyed it 😂

Thank you for asking about this one, anonymous friend! 💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Hi there, maybe you've already answered but I'm not sure.

I loved the Percy's Senior Year (Mis)adventures - I think that was the title. Are you still working on that series or have you abandoned it?

Best Wishes & Let the words come easy in whatever you write

Dear anonymous friend, I did answer this relatively recently, but I will certainly answer again. 💙

As a general rule, I will never abandon anything I have started publishing, because if I have started publishing, then I have the entire fic mapped/plotted out ahead of time, even if it isn't fully written yet. (The one exception to that was the first fic I ever posted, because I got COVID while writing and fucked up my outline, so then I decided to scrap it and reuse part of the outline for a currently-undisclosed fic of another type. But no one was waiting on that fic. 💀)

I will ESPECIALLY never abandon anything without letting you all know, in very plain terms, what is happening.

So, therefore: 'Percy's Senior Year (mis)Adventures' are ongoing! Not abandoned, not on hiatus, just moving quite a bit slower than I originally intended, rip me.

...but here is a little piece of news for you: I am quietly confident that I will have a new chapter of '[conduct] not unbecoming men that [strive] with gods' by the end of this month. 💙

I am grateful for your patience, and for your kind words! The gentle encouragement is indeed encouraging. 💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Hi, how are you today?

I was wondering wether you could show a snippet of conduct.

I love your fics, they are all fantastic.

Have a lovely day!!

Hello sweet anonymous friend! I'm tired today, but otherwise quite well - thank you for asking!

And thank you specifically for asking about 'conduct'. 💙 I know. It's been forever since I updated. I never thought I'd be that person who took a year to update a fic, but here I am, 10 months from my last update, still fighting with the next chapter. Tbh, I may end up taking some things out and moving them to another chapter, which will make this one shorter, but might help get me unstuck from the one or two plot points that I've really been fighting with. So there's a chance this little snippet won't be in this chapter, but will be in a later chapter! But I'm always happy to give one, so always feel free to ask. 💙 Enjoy!

"There were very few things that Sarah Lafayette missed about the ramshackle little town that had once been her home, but the coming of spring was one of them. 

Up in the mountains, spring had been a process, predictable and steady. Icy patches of snow in isolated meadows slowly melted into equally pale patches of bluets and bloodroot, and the ever-present smell of woodsmoke became less heavy as the sharp, green scent of moss and mud filled the air. Sudden cloudbursts made water pour down the sides of the mountains, turning back roads into creeks and frozen cow ponds into bubbling, roiling cauldrons of algae and tadpoles. And when the sun re-emerged, hot fingers lazily weaving crowns of leaves to drape over the naked trees, people stood in fields and streets, tipping their faces up to try and catch a caress of their own.

There was nothing nearly so idyllic about March in New York City.

The concrete and steel buildings that the city was known for struck her as cold and stark and impersonal in every season, but even the charming brownstones, colorful murals, and glittering, flashing lights that brightened the streets seemed dull and muted in the gloom of heavy clouds and near-constant, biting rain. Instead of welcoming the moisture they needed to thrive, lone plants seemed to shrivel back into the ground, trying to escape the acrid gray water that drove into the hard soil. It seemed to take so much longer for life to re-emerge here than it had at home, and while it huddled beneath bark and branch, the city remained stuck in the grip of winter. 

Even native New Yorkers, who took so much pride in their city that it bordered on delusion, could admit that March was probably the worst month of the year.

And though that had been true every one of the ten years she had spent here, it seemed especially so this year. 

Meteorologists had been puzzling over the bitter cold, howling rain, and the even-more-noticeable-than-usual lack of light for months. Quips about the sun going missing had become common as the newscasters tried to think of more and more creative ways to say what they all already knew: that it was still raining - still storming, really - with no sign of any let up.

But they also continued to repeat an important dictum to their wet and weary watchers: there are a thousand meteorological explanations for why storms form, why they build, and why they devastate - but they do all dissipate in time." 

[skywalking-through-life]

oh. my. god. the new chapter. THE NEW CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m in love with your characterisation. they are just simply teenagers plighted by hard shit!!! you get it!!! plus bonus annabeth proving she can be scary too that’s my girlboss that’s my complex female character right there

Ahhhhhhhhh hello darling anonymous friend! 🥹💙

I am THRILLED that you love the new chapter so much! You're absolutely, 100% right - Percy and Annabeth truly are just teenagers who have had to do completely bizarre and horrifying things to survive to this point, and at least in my mind, that means that they're eventually going to need to sit down and try and process that! So that is what I have been trying to give them - space to process and talk and reflect and become the people they want to be! I'm so glad all of that rings true to you, too, because I wanted it to feel real and accurate to their characters. 😌

Lmao, YES, Annabeth could be scary as FUCK if she wanted to (or if she ever snapped), and I really wanted to show that! There are a lot of fics exploring Percy's dark side (of which this is one, lol), but I haven't found nearly as many that explore the what ifs of Annabeth giving in to her fatal flaw. And that really isn't the focus of this fic, but I really wanted to just add in that little moment of her being scary too! Complex female characters, we love them. 😌 Also, another reason why she are Percy are well matched, but that's another point entirely...

God, thank you so much for reading! I feel so lucky to have you as a reader! 💙💙💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Poseidon and Ms. Lafayette parent- teacher conference. I'm gonna neeeeeed to know what you have planned for this. Or a sneek peak. maybe? *i am looking respectfully*

LMAO, why did I sort of expect this one to catch your attention? 😉

God, I REALLY wish I could give you a sneak peek for it, but it is sadly still in the bare-bones outline stage! It's going to be the next work I write in my (mis)Adventures series, set just after '[conduct] not unbecoming,' but I can't publically give away too much of why it's happening, because I'm not done with '[conduct]' yet! 💀If you want more, feel free to DM, friend. 💙

But! The idea came from a GENIUS of a reader who commented on one of the first works in (mis)Adventures and said something like 'lol can you imagine Poseidon going to a parent-teacher conference and Ms. Lafayette being like wtffffff,' and I've never been able to get the idea out of my head! I'm so excited to write it because it's going to be very light and fun, which will be a good break from all the dark shit I've been working on lately. 😂

[skywalking-through-life]

My loves. I have finally gotten my shit together, and so therefore let me present: chapter 3 of '[conduct] not unbecoming!'

I cannot even tell you how grateful I have been to get so many delightful, adorable messages of support from all of you while I've been working on this chapter! You all mean the world to me. 💙

I hope you enjoy it!

[skywalking-through-life]

You talked about how hard [conduct] is for you to write because you're juggling so many subtle themes, but I think yours is the best fic of that type specifically because you juggle those themes so well!

Well, now I'm going to cry. My dear friend, this means the world to me! I always worry that, at some point in the juggling act, I'm going to lose the balance and accidentally drop one of the balls. Hopefully, if I ever do, I'll manage to pick it back up again, lol! But it is such a relief to know that you think I have the skill to do it at all. 💙💙💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Know its a bit late hut can you do 🪲 for Conduct?

Have a great day

OF COURSE I CAN. In general, please always feel free to ask for snippets/sneak peeks, of whatever you know that I'm working on! I'm literally always happy to oblige. 💙 I added these 50 words just the other day!

“Balance is a choice. It is easier to fall one way or another - it is always hard to keep one's footing with one sandal in the mortal world, and one the divine. But it is harder still for a demigod with one foot that is far heavier than the other.”

I hope you ALSO have a great day, anonymous friend! 💙

[skywalking-through-life]

Hi! I love your series on Percy’s senior year so for the fic ask game, I’d love to know any fun fact about it! <3 <3

Aww, thank you my dear! 😊 I'm so glad you love it! I know I haven't added something new to it in a while, but it still occupies a very fond place in my heart, and always will!

Hmmm....let's see. Okay, this is kind of a big one! In every single installment so far (and in the 2-3 standalone fics in the series still to come after I finish '[conduct]'), there has been (and will be) a VERY subtle Easter egg that points to a very central part of the plot of the sequel fic, which will take place the summer after Percy's freshman year of college! Each Easter egg is so subtle that I doubt anyone will be able to actually predict how they are all going to come together, but I know the internet likes secrets, and trying to figure them out, so I offer you the chance to try! The only hint that I'll offer is that the sequel fic is going to be quite a bit darker in tone and theme and content than the '(mis)Adventures' are...happy sleuthing! 😉