#some pics aren't Autumn but I made Autumn ;) ;)

[leonisandmurex]

The Windsors + Autumn

[fourseasonsfigs]

Springtime Snowy Mountain Frame (Handcrafted)

Today we have another piece from my favorite ultra light clay artist.

I had previously bought a scene-in-a-frame from this artist that was a little smaller, and a little more chibi style (Mid-Autumn, Snow Mountain Edition):

I really like the cute chibi style - you know cutie smiling figs are my weakness! But, I saw this little frame in her store and was immediately taken by how sweet the scene was. I do prefer full body figs, chibi or otherwise, so this half-body size was something I had to wrap my head around. Eventually I was like, wait, why am I dithering around about this? It made no sense! So I stopped, and tossed it into my cart.

The fig maker sent it in a hard box, and also well wrapped and padded to protect it. Additionally, once I unwrapped the plastic there was some synthetic cotton batting all around the figs. This is the infamous "pearl cotton". Why infamous?

Let me tell you, I was pulling out microscopically small, invisible coils of this stuff for AGES. I kept thinking I had gotten everything, and then I would take pictures and find a big coil threaded through their hair or curling around their neck, or tucked into one of those little folds.

The plaque wasn't affixed very strongly to the frame, and freely moved around. It ended up being held in place mostly by the little flower branch. I can't take this kind of anxiety, so out came the glue.

Before I fixed it into place, though, I thought I'd take a few pics so you could see the detail that it was hard to get otherwise.

Here we have the underside of the layers and layers of robes. Just amazing detail.

Without the frame I was able to get the best shot of Lao Wen's face.

I glued the piece down, and it's pretty solid. This thing isn't going anywhere anymore!

These little displays aren't easy to photograph, so I'm going to do my best to try and get as many angles as I can.

Here we have A-Xu's beautiful face with his hair utterly perfect, and the a rosy bloom in his cheeks. His hair really is amazing here, with some individual strands arranged into his neat high bun. He's also wearing a beautiful white pin in his black hair. I very much think of this as his married hairstyle!

A close up of the painting on the faces. I don't know how this artist manages to get so delicate a look, but she does an incredible job.

Here we get Lao Wen's mass of white hair, pulled back in his simple mountain hairstyle. A-Xu's hair also looks great from this angle! I also really like the open expression on his face - he looks light and free of worries and cares.

Lao Wen looks singularly focused on A-Xu's beautiful face. Who can blame him?

The top down angle gives a lot of nice detail on their hair styles - you can really see the bangs and the the wispy, soft look of the twists of hair. That hairpin alone is just so delicate.

For scale purposes, here the frame is with the original Snowy Mountain figs.

Material: Ultra light clay

Fig Count: 433

Scene Count: 30

Rating: Endless happiness

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[86stagram]

🙋‍♀️Good evening!🗾🌃Ham's servant here~ I'd be great if you'd know about Japan! I'm enjoying my Obon(or Bon)*1 holidays! However, oh I feel a bit blue because today is last day hehe...😂

Natsuyasumi marutto tanoshimu keikaku has adopted the moves of Bon-odori partly. It's a style of dancing performed during Obon(this time of year). I enjoyed to making people in Happy happi coord's OCs dance to that song back in the good old days of about 2017-2018. (*This is not my work*)

This happi definitely have the memorable charm to me but I'm unhappy because we can't use in adpara...🐹💦 and, this hair accessory they accessorize in pripara is different from real in Japan. We wrap and bind string(we call it "hachimaki") around forehead🎀

The origins of Bon-odori and Obon are unknown. But Bon-odori is secular though influenced and mixed together by Buddhism and Shintoism and has made for all to enjoyment!💃ヾ(´Y｀)ノ"🕺

Well, I don't want you to feel weird, but it's mean to be enjoyed and has very little religious mean. This dance has nothing to do with constraints. That's just feel to near to us, such as Pripara too haha. (😏???)

During Obon is the time when Japanese people believe ancestors spirits visit the living world and where we pray for the repose of the souls of ancestors. Oh, I'm here today thanks to ancestors.  I dunno but think the heaven looks like keeping cool and pleasant. So please spirits, I think it's better not to come here because summer in Japan is little too muggy well right now haha.

If you want visit to Japan in order to see Dai Pripara ten, I recommend to come on about autumn. Ah of couse, if you have a more purpose of the trip is to the new movie of KinPri, I can't stop you! haha

Believe it or not, when the humidity's really high and like cling me, it's such as in banya(the Russian steam bath - extremely humid)!! Additionally, no matter where we go during now, it's very crowded until sometime around the end of this month 25th because children have a summer holiday.

The Obon holidays are in the middle of August in Japan. It depends on the year, but in the case of this year from August 13-16 and working adult can take at about 3-7 days off straight. I can only send my thoughts for ancestors from distance my home because my rule is to only not go to trips since the Covid-19 started to spread.

I'm not sure if I can writing it clearly, but Japanese people are not scary!🤗 umm, Do you think about Japanese people don't follow a religion? haha, but that's is not accurate. I need to clear up any common misconception haha! If we pray at the shrine, then we are not atheist, aren't you? ummm... For example, a lot of Japanese will end up unintentionally working too much and some people said "We can take off from work if we only under the pretext of go to put one's hands together in front of a grave".  However, when I live in Japan, I think a bit there are many customs that are merely a formality but Japanese people can't be say as atheist because they pray to the all nature itself🌺☘🌾🥂🍊🍆🍅🍙

I'm tired from written in English, hehe... Thank you for following and goodnight!🙋‍♀️💤💤💤🐹🌟 *1 Adding "O" (or "Go")at the beginning makes sound more polite in Japan but not all words feel this way.

Placing an unrelated pic for here thumbnail, because why not? hehe

[rose-likesto-write]

Masterlist...

Hey Guys, it's Riyu...

So, I have made one complete masterlist for all the groups I be writing for. At first it may seem messy but in future, if required I will create separate links for all groups :)

In the description, I have the link of 'welcome to my blog' which talks about me and the fanfics I write. The genres and the alternative universes I write for. My ask box is always open for you to send me the requests or if you want to talk to me (◍•ᴗ•◍)

Please forgive me with cheesy titles and members tag lines but I hope that you like it! These titles aren't just my interpretation but I have taken some words used in their interviews and interactions :)

ALSO, ITS PURELY FICTIONAL. THE IDOL'S NAMES ARE JUST A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MALE CHARACTER AND A SHORT IMAGINATIVE TRY ON HOW WOULD THEY HAVE INTERACTED WITH THEIR PARTNERS... It's NOT based on real life... It applies to both whether it's FANFICS or CHATBOTS/RPs

*None of the gifs/ pics I have used are mine, they belong to the respective owners*

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Fluff- ♡ Angst- :/ Suggestive- ⊙.☉

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Aroha's Astro

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• Angelic Smile Jinjin-

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• Happy virus MJ-

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• Face Genius Eunwoo-

Stolen Glances♡ part 1 part 2 part 3 (soon)

• Puppy Cat Moonbin-

Always there for you♡

• Chef Minhyuk-

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• Beagle Sanha-

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Fake Texts:-

To their gf wearing a short dress and showing her legs  p1 p2

Saying I Love You in their partner’s language 

Atiny's heaven Ateez

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• Min-Hong Hongjoong-

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• Mars Seonghwa-

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• Engeriser Yunho-

9:30 pm (timestamp)

• Sweet tooth Yeosang-

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• Moodmaker San-

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• Incheon's Leo Mingi-

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• Noisiest Wooyoung-

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• Monbebe Jongho-

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You confessing that your ideal type is Seonghwa but he is oblivious Part I Part II Part III

B.A.P

The Guy in Black Outfit (Yongguk Series)- Part 1

Enhypen Cuties...

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Cold bf reaction to their s/o planning a cute date hyung line maknae line

Handsomest Monsta X

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•Strong boy Shownu-

A Promise part 1 part 2 (soon)

•Moodmaker Minhyuk-

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•Multitalented Hamster Kihyun-

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• DJ Hyungwon-

Sweet kisses ♡ 

• Handsome bee Joohoney-

Gotchu Babe ♡

• Dual personality IM-

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• Cute soloist bunny Wonho (former member)-

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To you being a English literature professor 

Their gf actress having a make out/sex scene

Carat's serenity Seventeen

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• Calm LA Boy Joshua-

Oblivious...♡

• Homeboy Jun-

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2PM...

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Jun. K-

Is it Love?  ♡ :/

Taecyeon-

Meant To Be ♡ :/

Nichkhun-

Wooyoung-

Junho-

Autumn Leaves chapter-1 Chapter-2

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Them being werewolves and meeting their mates Part 1 Part 2

Stay's Kingdom Stray Kids

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•Kangaroo leader Chan-

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•Lyricist Changbin-

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•Cutest boy Lee Know-

난 너를 좋아해  ♡

•Prince Hyunjin-

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• Squirrel Jisung-

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You’re My Paradise- Chapter 1 Chapter 2

•Handsome Aussie boy Felix-

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• Morning boy Seungmin-

Warm Feelings  ♡ :/

• Maknae on Top IN-

Love at first sight ♡ :/

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Cold Boyfriend:  Bang Chan Lee Know Changbin

Fake Texts-

Hyunjin’s crush asking him if Changbin is single

Watching your cold husband fall in love: Lee Know

Winner

Mino

You matter the most  ♡

K-Drama Actors

Kim Seon-Ho

In love with you.. ♡

[hwajin]

𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 — !# : lmh

genre: fluff

pairing: minho x gn!reader

wc: 1.3k

note: happy minho day to everyone and most importantly HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MINHO. i love this boy with all my heart and decided to write a little something for his special day. enjoy >v<

not my pics, credits to owner

You knocked at the door of the dorms, waiting for someone to open for you. The cold temperatures this autumn brought covered your skin in goosebumps and painted your nose red. You sniffed and stepped from foot to foot to keep yourself warm, cursing the boys inside for letting you wait for so long.

Finally you saw the door open energetically, revealing Chan's face, a bright smile placed on his lips. You couldn't help but smile back, entering the dorm and hugging him tightly.

"Ahh, I missed you.", Chan greeted you.

"How you doing? Was the flight okay?", he asked, helping you out of your thick scarf and jacket, hanging it on a chair in the entry hall. You rubbed your hands together, wishing for some kind of warmth.

"It was way too long but I slept most of the time, so it was alright.", you smiled at him.

The flight from Australia, the place you've stayed at for the last two months to work abroad, to Korea was definitely easier than the other way round. When you had to leave two months ago, the almost 11 hour flight was exhausting for you, you didn't want to leave the boys, especially your boyfriend Minho. It was hard saying your goodbyes to him, knowing you won't be able to see him for 60 days. Not being able to have him around you 24/7 seemed impossible for you, 60 days felt like a lifetime for the both, you and him.

Chan smiled and went towards the kitchen, turning on the water heater to make you some warm tea since he noticed how cold you were.

"You're not used to cold temperatures anymore, huh? Australia is pretty warm.", he laughed.

Your eyes widened while you followed him.

"Warm?? It's burning hot. The moment I got used to the temperatures there I already had to go back again.", you whined, making Chan laugh.

You sat down at the kitchen counter, waiting for your tea to finally warm you up.

"Where are the others?", you asked. You couldn't help but notice how quiet the normally busy and loud dorms were.

"They're training but they'll be home like every second. Oh, by the way, Minho wanted to train a little longer today, but we convinced him to come home early. Don't ask how we did it, it wasn't easy.", Chan laughed while throwing a tea bag into a cup he took out of a shelve above him, pouring water into it.

You joined Chan's laughter, imagining how the boys were trying to convince a really determined Minho to change his plans.

You couldn't help but feel guilty, though. It was Minho's birthday and he didn't know you were here today. In fact, he was a hundred percent sure you weren't, since you made it clear that you couldn't make it and come back in time for his birthday, the time you would arrive would only be three days later. You could clearly see his upset and angry state when you told him, but he reassured you that it was fine and that he was excited seeing you nevertheless. Since you knew better it was hard for you to hide your excitement whenever you face timed, but you somehow managed to keep your plans a secret from Minho the whole time.

But here you were, and knowing that you would see you boyfriend every second made nervous and giddy? and a big smile uncontrollably appeared on your face.

Chan finished making your tea and gave you the cup, noticing the expression on your face.

"Your really excited, aren't you?", he asked, cocking his head at you. You only nodded and held the cup to warm your hands before taking a sip out of it. The hot water almost burned your insides, but you were too cold to care.

"God, I bet Minho will freak out. And he will kill us all for not telling him.", Chan said, a sense of nervousness in his voice. You laughed at his words, until an idea popped into your head.

"Hey, can I go and hide in Minho's room? It would give the surprise an extra kick, wouldn't it?", you asked with wide eyes and an excited smile. Chan didn't need to know, but your plan was just a bad excuse to go into Minho's room and lay down on his bed. You missed having his scent around you, and the fact that you were so close to him after all those months almost made you dizzy.

Chan looked at you, and for a moment you thought he figured out your real intentions.

But he only gave you a big smile and nodded at you eagerly.

"Yes! And we can tell him that we have a huge present hidden in his room and when he goes in there's you standing there... that's perfect.", Chan said, and you saw how you infected him with your excitement. He looked like a little child on Christmas, your heart melted at how happy Chan was to make Minho happy. You nodded, burning your throat while finishing the tea in one gulp and you were on your way to Minho's room. When you opened the door you could already sense him, only seeing his unmade bed brought a sense of warmth and coziness to you. You walked over and sat down on it, his scent surrounding you and you couldn't supress the urge to lay down. You felt so comforted and cozy that you could have fallen asleep this exact second, especially after your long flight, but loud footsteps and deep voices brought you back to reality. You sat up quickly, knowing that Minho and the others finally arrived. You couldn't sit still on the bed, fingers fiddling with the hem of your shirt, foot tapping nervously on the floor. Not a bad nervous but rather the kind of feeling you have when you're overly excited. You heard them laugh and talk outside and you wanted nothing more than go out and join them. But you held back your urge and already started to curse Chan internally for taking so long to tell Minho to come into his room until you heard footsteps coming closer. The door knob was lowered and you could hear Minho ask a thousand question, telling the boys to give him a hint, when he finally opened the door properly, stepping in and finding your eyes right away. Your self control left you in this exact moment and you jumped up, waling towards Minho quickly and falling into his secure embrace. You heard the boys talk excitedly in the back, but Minho's strong hug around you, his heart beat and the sound of his breathing close to your ear faded out everything around you completely.

"What are you doing here?", he muffled quietly into your hair.

You swore you could've started crying hearing his voice in person again, pulling him even closer to you.

"It was a surprise for you, I knew it all along that I would be able to make it... Happy Birthday.", you said, voice quiet, almost a whisper.

Minho pulled his upper body away from you, smiling from one ear to the other before leaning in fast to kiss you passionately. You heard loud noises in the back before Chan instructed the others to go back to the living room, but it was all quiet background music for your ears since all your senses circled around Minho. The both of you pulled away, looking at each other.

"God, I missed you so much. This is the best present ever.", Minho said, caressing your cheeks with his thumbs.

You smiled before giving him another peck on his soft, curvy lips.

"But I hate you and the boys for not telling me, I swear I'll get back at them.", Minho said, making you laugh before connecting your lips once again.

[notfeelingthyaster]

Imagine (inspired by the incomplete fanfic Son of Underworld) (2/5) (Son of Hades! Percy AU)

Check the other parts in the masterpost - read the warnings before proceeding. Good reading!!

After the worse summer, Percy goes home.

Luke's proposal keeps swimming in his head - the blonde is not wrong, but Percy has been scammed before - he remembers once that a "friend" convinced him to be a lookout for him to do something shady at the Dean's Office and then put the blame on him.

And he was blamed - Percy is black, and black kids are never the innocent ones - but now he knows better.

Being a child of the Underworld gods is not that different from being black. 

Percy is comfortable with his skin though - his mother is incredible, and most people at Camp are mixed up. Charles is African-American. Selena's father is Muslim, and the Stoll's mother is Jewish (half the reason they are year-rounders). Clarisse's mom is from Nicaragua. Michael Yew has a Brazilian grandma with Japanese heritage.

He isn't friends with most of them - Charles is like a big brother to him and Michael Yew taught him how to shoot an arrow, but Clarisse is at most a good spar partner and nor the Stolls nor Silena care for his company very much.

Percy tells himself that he doesn't care.

He packs his bags - a blue and red backpack and a few surf shirts from the amusement park where he destroyed a pool and made the ground swallow mechanic spiders, both the Minotaurs horns, now fashioned into very cool knives, his Warhammer and his ax slung across his back. The only sweater he has, the one he came here with, the blue one, is warming him up to the chill of autumn.

Chiron asks him if he doesn't want to stay. He touches the willow standing in the furthest shore of the river, the one that marks the barrier of Camp Half-Blood. It used to be Thalia Grace, daughter of Poseidon.

Chiron looks to him with pity. He doesn't need to know that Percy is planning to murder Gabe Ugliano.

Percy goes to do that. He travels, by car. He has enough money - he has money appearing in his pockets all the time now, his father must be truly guilty.

Then he opens the door of his old apartment - but Gabe is not there, in the living room. There's just his mom, on the couch.

His mom

Alive

Percy cries, and they hug, and then they trade stories. She tells him she was asleep in Olympus, and Zeus gave her back when the bolt got to his hands.

He is less angry. But the heavy weight of indignation seats in his stomach. 

There's no time for it now: Percy is going back to Yancy Academy - his grades were not bad - and Gabe is now a very charming statue for someone very rich (later, he will discover it was Persephone who bought it).

He tells her everything, safe in her arms, no shirt, no gloves. His mom can touch him everywhere - not even a cell in his body would attack her.

He is so touch starved he keeps sleeping in her bed for a week, and, at night, he cries. Percy has horrible nightmares - he is just twelve and he has killed.

He tells her about his meeting with his father in hushed whispers at an evening where the sky is blue and pink - just how he likes it.

Sally almost goes to the Underworld herself smack sense in her ex-lover, but she knows Persephone would do so for her.

Percy tells her about Luke - not about the Rebellion, lest any gods hear him, but about Luke and Alabaster and Ethan and those kids, alone in a Cabin of rejects.

She says she is going back to college - and that she'll do her best to go see him every weekend at Yancy.

He tells her about his powers. Sally doesn't like the risks but say he should start practicing for his own safety.

They cuddle and Percy clings to his anchor like a lifeline. Percy wants to go to the Underworld again sometime - more to play with Cerberus than to do anything else.

He takes the bus reluctantly - he offers to stay and go to public school, but he knows his chance lays at Yancy.

Percy study Math. He is in seventh grade now - the real Math is here, the financials and calculus and they keep putting him in "Gifted and Advanced" classes for it.

His English still sucks. Biology, for all that should be easy for him, its way too boring - he prefers dead bodies, thank you very much.

He excels at Math and Health&PE (which summer camp took care), passes with acceptable grades in World History, Geography and Social Studies (he nails a project about demographics with some really helpful ghosts), does badly in Science and fails tragically at English and Literature.

They call him a genius - and a genius has areas they specialize in. His grades in math are enough to push him to the eighth grade.

At weekends, when his mother can't come to see him, he locks his dorm and practices his shadow traveling and his powers over the earth and metal manipulation.

His shadow traveling is a mess - once he ends up in Ukraine, and panics trying to come back, just to end up in Wyoming. Again.

Thrice, he manages to reach the underworld. It's winter - Persephone is somewhere down there, but he doesn't want to see his father. He plays with Cerberus when he has some energy - the first two times he just cuddles up with the dog and sleeps a little.

The last time he goes to the Underworld, it's the last day before summer break - he still has not made any contact with his dad, he still doesn't know if he wants to join Luke, he still doesn't know if he wants to go back to CHB.

He goes back to his Mom's house with a hellhound puppy and makes kitten eyes until she lets it stays - if he trains and feeds him and whatnot.

He has dreams about Grover in a bride's dress. It freaks the hell out of him because there's a cyclops in it.

Percy is crossing the street with groceries when he sees a cyclops. He doesn't give the creature a chance to see him - he goes to his room and start packing - it's too dangerous for him, and he can't lose his Mom again.

He cuddles his Mom and the puppy - which he named Blackjack - and calls Chiron.

Chiron is sending Annabeth - apparently, something happened to the borders of the camp.

Percy decides to help, for Annabeth, for Grover, for the small kids at Cabin 9 and 11, and the newbies (there's one, Will Solace, who isn't even eleven yet and he has been there for a year).

He packs his colorful sweaters (rebelling, but in the opposite direction of his father’s aesthetic), put his puppy in a leash (it's bigger than a mastiff now, but all dogs are puppies) and wait for his best friend.

She meets him with an expression of someone who is announcing a funeral - Grover is lost in his searches for Pan.

Percy thinks the little tremor that shook his building it's a good enough hold in his powers, nothing is broken and no one is dead, so it's fine.

He hugs Annabeth and feels warm inside. Health classes covered changes in his body, but he didn't expect to be that quick. Annabeth is taller than him by at least five inches and much prettier.

He picks up his Warhammer and his ax (how does the mist occlude that? do everyone think he is doing cosplay?), throws a duffel bag in his shoulder, his loyal puppy beside him.

"Are you getting into the dark vibe, Corpse Breath?"

"Shut up Annie"

The camp is being attacked - they get a weird taxi thing, pay extra and are given three random locations in the mainland.

Percy doesn't forget the names. There's Agramonte, in Cuba; Okeechobee, in Florida; and Pic La Selle in Haiti.

CHB is being attacked when they get there - by bronze bulls no less. Percy goes to battle with a weapon in each hand, like a war god.

Clarisse does way more damage than him, bashing bull metal skulls left and right like a master. But he kills one of five and does damage to other two.

She claps him in the back - he is glad he has a sweater on, even if it is a horrible shade of brilliant orange.

Charles and him take the weapons to the Forge to correct any damage. Charles hugs him and then starts gushing about Silena.

Charles and Annabeth takes him to see the new Camp Director.

It's Tantalus.

Percy laughs so hard he almost falls down, and Dionysus looks bored - but Percy isn't dumb, he sees mirth in his eyes.

He wants so badly to do a smart comment. He wants to see if his powers can rip a ghost that his father reinstated. He wants to taunt Tantalus.

"What are you laughing about, metic?"

"Nothing, you remind me of someone."

But Percy fends off other questions, and sits at the Cabin 11 table obediently. He wants to startle that man so badly he won't ever sneer at Percy anymore.

He knows just the people for the job. They aren't in any way close, but they all up for mischief. His opportunity comes with the chariot race announced - Percy corners the Stoll Brothers.

"Let me race with you" He starts, and they look surprised by any emotion coming from him in their direction (Percy smiles were reserved for Annie and Grover and Luke and Alabaster and Ethan).

"I want to startle Tantalus and you want victory - I can give you any chariot, if you let me swarm the whole road with skeletons"

The Stolls look at one another, and mentally say something, before doing a random coin toss.

"I'm racing with you" Says Connor.

They mark a time to see the chariot in the next day. They take the whole Cabin 11 with them to prevent attention - Percy is not letting this game go.

Percy gets a chariot directly from the underworld, black obsidian (not Stygian iron, way too rare) and silver, with blue gems that glisten under the sun, a Helm with wings marking its front.

There are four horses pushing it - skeletal horses, incapable of feeling pain or thirst.

It's the first time Percy feels like he belongs - this is a competition, and he is going to win.

Connor and Travis have an array of contraptions and grenades and smoke bombs.

They arrive at the start line at last, for maximum impact. No one is expecting this - they're waiting for Hermes' old chariot, a rickety thing that should be scrap years ago, with any Pegasi they managed to gather in the stables.

They forgot something: Percy exists. It's normal, and Percy it's okay with it in this instance.

The Stymphalian Birds appear - and are countered by his skeletons hitting their spears and swords on their shields. None of them hit him, and the Cabin 11 arrives at first followed by a disgruntled Clarisse after she fought at least 20 skeletons.

Tantalus tries. He really tries to accuse Percy of cheating, but it's pointed out - with approval of Dionysus to boot - that the Demeter kids used their vines to place third and Pollux and Castor did the same to get the fifth spot - just behind the giant contraption that was the Hephaestus chariot.

Clarisse is not happy with the second spot and the silver laurels, but she claps him in the back anyway - Ares is the god of war, not bad sportsmanship.

The Hermes Cabin is in euphoria - Apollo, who placed last, after Aphrodite since they unleashed a dozen doves with a sleeping potion in their faces, it's doing all of the Cabin 11 chores for a month - and they are having a feast of the gods.

Just that night, Percy sacrifices a big pomegranate for Hades and one for Persephone - forgiveness, can you imagine?

He sacrifices to Hermes, as always, for taking the small kids. He sees the joy in their faces - and while Percy is a person reserved to his friends and now he is mostly stoic Perseus, son of Hades, forge gremlin, he always hugs the kids that have nightmares.

It's not what he wanted - it's weird to be touched. It's weirder to have someone want to be next to him. Percy is a cactus, he is prickly. He never smiles. He misses his mom - she would know what to do.

But the little kids trust him. Lou Ellen is unclaimed since the ending of last summer - Percy doesn't know if she has someone to return to.

Those kids at Cabin 11 deserve more then a couple of teens taking care of them. Those kids deserve better, they all deserve better.

There are seven-year-old children there. They barely know how to read. Percy teaches - Annabeth teaches history and myths and Greek, but is he who takes on math to the younger ones, the ones who barely know how to multiply.

He considers staying year-round. They all had Chiron - but it isn't enough. It isn't a family. It isn't. Percy is not their family either - he doesn't overestimate himself - but at least he cares. Not because of their godly blood, but because they are children.

He still hates touch. He is never without his sweaters and gloves. He never smiles at anyone that isn't Annie or Grover or Luke or Alabaster or Ethan.

These days, he only has Annie.

He misses Luke, and he wants to scoop all of these children and take them with him to Kronos, away from the gods. But for what? Another master to fight for?

Was Luke the one who poisoned Thalia? Would he do the same to Percy if Percy denied him?

A mission is issued to go after Golden Fleece - it's in the same place Grover is, it's what Annie and Percy agree on.

Percy is a calculating boy. He deals in numbers, in measures. He is completely oblivious when it comes to feelings and anything that's more subjective than an equation.

But she thinks he likes them. Her and Grover, and those little kids that follow him around sometimes.

She likes the way her yellow hair contrasts with his dark skin, the way his curls flop in his forehead. She likes the specks of green in his eyes. He is her best friend. It's not the love she has for Luke, but it's something akin to admiration.

Percy and Connor are chosen to go on the mission - and Tantalus tries and bullshits some reason for them to go alone, but Percy shakes his head.

"The oracle said, three people"

He is bullshitting them. Tantalus makes him take Clarisse, and Annabeth stays behind.

"I doubt you can get in the sea of monsters without crossing water, eromenoi"

Perseus laughs and laughs, and his eyes are dark as the night without moon. He shoves his hands in the pockets of his soft blue hoodie, and motions for Connor and Clarisse to follow.

Before he leaves, he kisses her cheek softly. It's going to be okay. He will bring Grover back.

He shadow travels the three on them for the closest location the Grey Sisters gave him. It’s difficult, even with a hellhound. He aims for Okeechobee and lands in Miami.

Percy needs to sleep for at least a day, so they use the time to reach their destiny by car. Connor is a very adept child of Hermes, and soon they’re on the road in a red old pickup.

“So Corpse Breath is the hammer, and you’re the polishing stone? Fitting��� snorts Clarisse, and just like that, they are bonding.

Percy expects them to trade shitty childhood stories and stupid hobbies or badmouth their deadbeat godly parents, but that was another trip, with very different people.

Clarisse La Rue is sixteen. Her favorite weapon is a javelin or a spear, but she will always prefer hand to hand combat. She loves Led Zeppelin and thinks Silena’s white hijab is the cutest thing in the world. She speaks Spanish - a relief because Percy barely speaks English.

Connor Stoll is fifteen. He prefers gas bombs to grenades - and he does a mean Molotov. He did graffiti until he was twelve. He thinks the Gardner Sisters from the Demeter Cabin are both cute - but Pollux got hot during the winter.

That’s how Percy discovers bisexuality - in a stolen car with a giant hellhound, a girl who has arms larger than his thighs and drives like a grandma and a boy who is two seconds away from spontaneous combustion.

He thinks that explains Luke and Annabeth - but he doesn’t voice it. 

Percy doesn’t smile to them for a long time - he knows not even muscular spasms are free of charge.

He stays stoic until they stop to sleep - and Connor has wings in the back of his underwear and its the most ridiculous thing ever.

They reach the city and wander. They do encounter someone - Hecate herself.

She says to Percy it is her last favor - and he knows she already left for Kronos. Luke’s drachma burns in his pocket. She opens a wall of stone - a passageway the Huntresses use sometimes.

“My son waits for you” his quest mates pretend not to hear it - and he pretends nothing is happening. At least Alabaster is okay.

They walk across the cave for what it feels like a day. He is almost sure Hecate has plans to kill them when they find the exit: In an island spa.

A girl comes and analyze them. She looks at them with a kind smile - but Percy knows smiles have prices.

They go meet with the owner: C.C. He doesn't recognize her, but Connor takes one look at those weird guinea pigs and tap Percy's hand twice.

It's a code: Danger.

They are patient. Clarisse is looking at the flimsy girls with their togas and golden braids - she is not going with them.

C.C. Apparently accepts that Clarisse is "more male than a female" like gender is something defined by dresses and makeup.

As soon as the girls are out of the room, Percy taps Clarisse's hand, and she runs her spear through C.C.'s belly. The woman bleeds ichor - but disappears in a cloud of golden sand.

They go through her things for money while Connor explains that he learned about her from Charles. Charles's first mission almost ended up with him as a guinea pig. At least now they know they are in the right place.

Percy takes all her money and their weapons back. He straps as many knives he can throw in his pants and belt: One can never have enough weapons.

They find some hoods and sneak out to the boats on the beach. Connor steals again. Percy hates water: But the Sea of Monsters is beyond Poseidon's direct control, and Percy is going to hole himself up until they get to the next island.

He vomits. He is so seasick, it's not even funny. He hates boats. He hates large bodies of water. Anything bigger than a pool, and he is out.

Clarisse thinks it's funny. She laughs at him - and weirdly, he smiles back a little. The daughter of Ares plays with Blackjack, and they bond.

They are not friends - but they would kill for each other. They find it weird they had no godly intervention from Olympus - but then, Percy remembers he is just a son of Hades, and the Olympians hate him.

He burns food to Hecate. He doesn't burn food to Hermes, who appears in everyone else's quests, but avoid his own son's.

None of them has enough hubris to try and listen to the sirens. Clarisse's fatal flaw is bloodlust and Connor's is arrogance - the idea he can do anything, steal anything, and he'll never be punished.

They don't hear anything. Their next stop is the Isle of Polyphemus.

This time around, Connor is Nobody, Clarisse sneaks under a sheep to save Grover, and Percy gets the Fleece. They try to escape through a passageway that Percy's powers say lead to Haiti, but the cyclops colapses it with a boulder.

Percy hates cyclops.

They shadowtravel. Percy isn't any better at it, and with Grover tagging along, it's pretty obvious what happens, even if he is wearing the Golden Fleece like a giant blanket of strenght.

They end up in Wyoming. Percy sleeps for a week: he is starting to flick, like a ghost, and the magical sheep skin can only help so much. In this week, apparently, they meet the Party Ponies.

Chiron takes Percy in his back to CHB with the Fleece, but his friends stay behind because the centaurs won't let them mount, and they can't keep up on feet.

Clarisse, Connor and Grover meet Luke, Ethan and Alabaster in their way to an airport. It goes badly, but no one dies. They tell him Ethan only has one eye now, and that Luke looks tired and mad.

Percy thinks joining Kronos might be a bad idea. But then, he goes back to Camp, save the tree, and things don't change. The kids are still kids, alone and sad.

Will Solace was claimed. He says he misses Cabin 11, and some of his brothers don't want him to talk to Percy anymore.

It hurts. They try and keep contact for the following week, but peer pressure pushes Will away. Percy doesn't blame him.

The tree spits Thalia, daughter of Poseidon. She has black hair with green accents, green eyes, uses heavy makeup, and looks like a "Hades spawn" should look.

Percy likes her. He has no need for being the leader, and he has Annie and Grover (and Luke, and Alabaster, and Ethan, he thinks). Annie and Luke love her, so she must be amazing. He tries.

Thalia doesn't like him. She hates Hades, the one who killed her. She doesn't trust him or the fact that he never touches anyone.

Perseus tells himself he doesn't care. And suddenly, Thalia goes from "could be a good friend" to "better stay away".

The Camp celebrates Thalia. He is the hero, he brought the Fleece back, he is also a child of the Big Three. But they hate him, just like the kids in school hate him for his skin colour.

Annie has no time for him. Grover goes back to his search. He doesn't think he is going to join Kronos, but the drachma is still in his pocket.

He goes back to his mother, and then, to Yancy.

This summer, he was the hero. But no matter what, he was still the son of Hades.

[devildompotato]

So....um....I did a thing.

I was bored at work and started daydreaming, thing about directions I want to my OC Aisling. She's evolving... somewhat literally.

If you aren't familiar with her story, the important bit is, the Devildom amplified magic she didn't know she had, and after it started getting uncontrollable, she did some digging and found that she is a descendant of the Tuath dé Danaan, a race of Irish gods. Her "aunt", the goddess Airmed, has come to the Devildom to help teach her. Now you're caught up.

Right now she's still at a basic level, but I thought it would be cool if she had a "magic" form, like the demons do. And I can't remember who drew them, but you know the art on Tumblr with the boys having various levels or stages of their demon forms? I was inspired by that.

Aisling's magic is earth based, and she uses it mostly for healing or help things grow. So I decided her "stage one" is still just plain old human Aisling. But I decided that her ",stage two", or healing stage, is spring. It's what makes her happy, bringing things back to life or helping injured creatures. So she's light and happy.

So here we have Spring.

However, I've also decided that the angrier she gets, she's Autumn. The time when things start to wither and die, when it isn't harsh enough to kill outright but you can feel it coming.

And the more angry she gets, the more tree-like she becomes.

I don't know if I'll use summer or winter as stages, but I went ahead and made them anyway.

Also, you can't really see them in the pics because they blend with her hair, but her horns are adorable. They're tree branches.