#post toa

[heyhoneyfox]

Hermes: I miss my kids :(

Apollo: then go visit them? Tf?

Hermes: don't feel like it :/

Apollo: fuck you mean you "don't feel like it"?

Hermes: just cause I miss someone or something doesn't mean I have to feel like seeing them.

Apollo:

Apollo: Hermes. They are literally your kids.

Hermes: so?

Apollo, exasperated: I'm gonna go visit your kids. Gods know they need it.

[kimpsyelp]

Woop just my Post!ToA Apollo design :3

his hair is shorter— and cut by yours truly (Meg) it was honestly a really sudden decision based on when Apollo was having a life crisis about his relationship with daddy dearest, Zeus. And after his crisis was over- he kept the short hair and styled it (unintentionally) to look something of a mix of Helios and Poseidon hairstyles.

he’s also wearing a friendship made my meg- he cherishes it dearly— meg has a matching one but in yellow.

[asleepinglaurel]

Rachel Dare and Apollo friendship…

Mr.Dare : Rachel who is this Rachel : uhhhhh my friend Lester Apollo (her drug dealer) : stop calling me that Mr.Dare : why is he 23

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

apollo, post toa, after listing to an unclaimed camper, who passed their 13th long ago, rant about how they hate the gods and how their godly parent probobly sucks anyways and how most of the gods are terrible parents and crying and practicly giving up on trying to make something good of themselves, because they were only doing it for their parent, and apollo, seeing the aura that connects them to their parent, then barging into the gods throne room and yelling twords that god:

GET YOUR FUCKING CHILD OR CAMP HALF BLOODS GONNA HAVE ANOTHER APOLLO KID

[cows-and-crows]

Apollo and Meg go to the boardwalk. He’s good at just about anything requiring aim.

(He’s not actually mad. Just that he can’t keep it)

[deadlyrose9086]

During the final battle against Gaia, and then later in the infirmary, when he’d been told he was risking imminent death, and then again in the Labyrinth while participating in the infamous three-legged race, Nico had had a realization: he wasn’t scared of anything.

The one where Nico can’t feel fear after his trip to Tartarus, so he and Jason decide to watch ten iconic horror movies together (and fall in love in the process).

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[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

paul blofis you will always be famous for being excited and supportive of percy when he dinged your car while gabe threatened him with violence if he touched his car.

[spookedbees]

everyone make way for the prince and princess of spooky season!!!

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.

[delicate-sketch]

Grow old (with you?) What a privilege (a pleasure).

[peabodysautobodyrepair]

“Nico Di Angelo is a token gay! His coming out scene sucked!” babes I’m BEGGING you to remember 2013 gay characters were not allowed in children’s media.

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

All of your gay heroes in children’s media have Nico Di Angelo to thank. It was important, and good. It deserves to be celebrated, even if we’ve progressed past it since.

[arley-ology]

I like to think that Apollo kids immunity to sunburn isn't actually an individual power but just an extension of Apollo's love for his kids, he always subconsciously makes sure the sun chariot can't hurt them. When Apollo disappeared before becoming Lester Will, Kayla and Austin got sunburns for the first time and all freaked out thinking their powers were disappearing.

[willthespy]

resisting the urge (and failing) to quit art so heres some OLD solangelo doodles (mortal au)

[artisthoi]

i dont have access to drawinf however i do have twinote so