#this is NOT a knock on Percy Jackson

[nateconnolly]

The gods are not aware of us. That’s what I like most about Aristotle’s cosmology. The gods are perfect, and therefore they only think about perfect things (themselves). We are imperfect, therefore we are not worth thinking about. They don’t know that they caused us. 

You’re probably more familiar with the Olympians—figures like Zeus, Athena, and Poseidon, the sort of Greek gods that appear in Percy Jackson or Disney’s Hercules. Those gods are deeply invested in human affairs. Homer portrays the gods sponsoring armies, and making alliances with humans. Aeschylus has Athena begin democracy. They have children with us, they accept offerings from us, they even lash out at us in judgment. But Ancient Greece was a huge civilization that lasted an incredibly long time. Sometimes they disagreed with each other.

For Aristotle, praying to the gods can’t ensure a good harvest or military success. It can’t even get their attention. We are able to relate to the gods, but it is a completely one-sided relationship. If your motivation for practicing religion is purely transactional, then there is no reason to care about these solipsistic prime movers. But for Aristotle, the gods can help us achieve virtue. 

We can imitate them. We will never win their favor, we will never have their love, but we can follow their example. Although we will never be perfect, we can observe perfection and try to learn from it. We can be a little better than we are today. Perhaps that is enough. 

[somewhereincairparavel]

The funniest thing about Jason slander, for me, is that it's so fucking contradictory, people would hate on Jason for being "too perfect" "too flawless" "too gary stu-esque" and that he's too boringly good and then will proceed to hate on him by nitpicking his already existing flaws that they claimed he never had (like being mistrustful towards Nico, "leading Reyna on by dating Piper", being too "serious and cold" )

Like mf, didn't you just say you wished Jason was flawed?? So now why r you yapping about what a "terrible sadistic egomaniac" person he is for thinking he can defeat Percy in a silly duel??? Lmao

[whatsitzface]

I think once the fandom realizes that Percy is more of a grumpy cat of a person and Nico is more of an over-energetic dog of a person, the world may finally heal

[secretlytherealsonicthehedgehog]

this is what twitter has done to me and i do not like it

[introspectivememories]

i wish you guys could feel the way i felt when reading HOO and realizing in real time that "oh, riordan clearly does not care about the romans". like the downplay is insane!!! as if the greeks and romans were not two separate cultures!!! you cannot one-to-one the gods!!! jason never gets all his memories back, percy ends up remembering everything. jason struggles to fit in at chb, they make percy praetor in one fucking week! not to mention the very weird addition of saying that camp jupiter was part of the confederacy???? like he very clearly does not care about the romans

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

Why do so many people want Luke to be Percy’s rapist when Gabe is literally right there.

[yonemurishiroku]

Apollo saw the dodgeball meme and decide that from now on Rachel can only do prophecy via ball to the face, which mean she throws the ball and the prophecy just imprinted to your brain

Anon are you sure they would remember the prophecy after getting a ball in their heads because I reckon the concussion would just knock it out right after that.

[rebel-spacecadet]

Camp Hero: NPCs Our Heroes Have Interacted With

Minnie Mills as Chloe (Aphrodite) Grace Van Patten as Lilibette (Aphrodite) Isabella Merced as Alexis (Aphrodite) Jordan Fisher as Riley (Dionysus) Paulina Chávez as Sephie (Dionysus) Kaitlyn Dever as Sydney (Artemis) Paulina Alexis as Hunter (Artemis) Auil'i Cravahlo as Avery (Artemis) Megan Suri as Zoya (Athena) Milly Alcock as Nora (Hephaestus) Josh Hueston as Wyatt (Hephaestus) Ashley Moore as Callie (Hephaestus) Imani Lewis as Makayla (Ares) Froy Gutierrez as Jax (Ares) Jorge Lopez as Sebastian (Hermes) Wolfgang Novogratz as Xander (Zeus)

[theminecraftgay]

Hey I saw it. Time to lose my mind!

[squeeblub]

apollo is like that one kid whos name u only found out later wasnt actually their first name but was instead their middle name bc their first name was embarrassing as hell

[tinygenderfluid]

What are the limits on Leo's belt?

Because like, I don't think breath mints count as tools so that means that the belt can just conjur shit up

Could Leo conjur up nuclear material?? I wanna know if he could make a nuke. I don't think Leo would make a nuke but if I had a magical belt that could magically summon whatever the fuck I needed but small I'd make a nuke.

Fuck fighting like ancient heroes, hold al of Olympus hostage.

Principle of M.A.D. I die? We all die

Cold war, Leo vs all of mythology, no more monster fighting because if anything even remotely happens then bye bye world.

[awesome-shoes-with-wings]

Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land, That you understand~

Yup, it's Poseidon. Again. And you'll see him again!

[literallylink--who-tf-is-ravioli]

okay so i need help,i'm making a epic(the musical)/percy jackson oc,i'm try to decide between two skirts

which one????serious question!!

[drksanctuary]

Person @ Alabaster (who is looking very fancy and gender): um I don’t sorry I don’t think we can assist you…sir er madam?

Alabaster: I prefer Madsir as it has the dual function of combining the two honorifics as well as describing me perfectly *flashes the crazy eyes with a menacing smirk*

Nico: pfft ok. Pretentious

Al: hey, when I land a cool line like that your supposed to shut up and let it be

Nico: ;:) awww…you that was cool?

Al: it was cool!

Nico: I mean doesn’t it kinda undermine itself? You say you’re both but then you admit to being a mad “SIR”

Al: I- y-you’re not supposed to think about it so much. ;:/ that’s what makes it cool.

Nico: :/

Al: now where were we? *directed at person*

Person: I don’t think we can assist you, Sir

Nico: pfft

Al: *exasperated side eye* not a word Di Angelo not. One. Word.

[mo-mode]

As someone who’s viewed exactly 0 of the trailers for this show (cuz I wanted to go in blind) it should astound me that I can instantly recognize the audio to the Percy trailer, KNOW it’s the Percy trailer, and mouth it perfectly. Why can I do that?? How many PJO TikTok’s did it take before I could do this?? Why do people keep crying over it?? Why is it so good?? I’m like a feral animal chewing on the bars to my enclosure, but I’ve gone this far. It’s go big or go home now. I’m not watching it until the final episode.

[serafilms]

idk y’all i’m still a poseidon hater.