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@sapphic-summer-riordanverse-2023 day 4: stargazing
ID A drawing of Zoë Nightshade and Artemis on a dark starry night. They are lit by a campfire. Artemis is looking up at a shooting star but Zoë is only looking at her.
Zoë is a teenage girl with light brown skin and a long dark braid. She has a sheath of arrows slung across her back.
Artemis appears as a black teenage girl with braids, her braids each have a silver star or moon charm at the end. She’s holding a bow loosely in one hand, the other holds Zoë’s.
They are both wearing silver camo jackets with white fur lining the collar and a silver circlet on their foreheads. END ID
#PJO#Artemis#artemis pjo#Zoë Nightshade#zoe nightshade#pjo art#hoo#Heroes of Olympus#percy jackson fanart#myart#pjoart#artists on tumblr#Percy Jackson and the Olympians#sapphic summer riordanverse#zoe/artemis#could also be queer platonic
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Apollonough ☀️
Buy me a coffee! ☕️
#this is probably the best one out of them all#i slowly lost my ability to draw#probably from drawing so many apollo kens#lol#i am apollonough#apollo pjo#toa#toa apollo#titans curse#pjo#pjo fanart#zoe nightshade#artemis pjo#nico di angelo#pecy jackson#thalia grace
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My piece for the @pjoyearbookzine !! Leftover sales opens up april 1st (no joke i swear) so don’t miss out on buying a very limited very cool zine 💦
I painted the polaroids from my favourite book of the series, The Titans Curse! Background and spot art were made by the wonderful @caelanglang 💪🏻❤️
#zoe nightshade#bianca di angelo#artemis#Apollo#nico di angelo#thalia grace#grover underwood#percy jackson#pjo#zine
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Thinkin about Bianca di Angelo. She was just a pre-teen girl who was forced to be a mother. Was she attracted to death because it brought her closer to her father? What would she have become with freedom and time? Would she have chosen the Hunters if she’d had a chance at a normal pre-teen life? Maybe she just wanted to be a girl forever because she already missed her chance. 12 year olds shouldn’t be mothers.
#bianca di angelo#pjo#hoo#rick riordan#percy jackson#nico di angelo#will solace#zoe nightshade#artemis#hunters of artemis#thalia grace#annabeth chase#hazel levesque#reyna avila ramirez arellano#the titan's curse#ttc#illustration#digital art#my art
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Drawing Zoë cuz she so purty ⭐️
#zoe nightshade#my art#digital art#my asks#percy jackson#pjo#heroes of olympus#percy jackon and the olympians#trials of apollo#pjo hoo toa#hunters of artemis#⭐️
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More Percy Jackson headcanons
-Hazel’s favorite modern artist is definitely Laufey.
-The Seven roasted marshmallows over Leo at least once.
-Tyson’s favorite desert is chocolate and peanut butter brownies.
-Annabeth listens to Paris Paloma.
-Percy used to make fun of Jason for only being able to grow stubble.
-Nico has Saint Bernard by Lincoln on repeat at least once a week.
-Percy is either the driest or most animated texter, it just depends who you are.
-Piper listens to Dazey and the Scouts.
-Zoë Nightshade’s favorite fruit was the blackberry.
-Bianca’s was the blueberry.
-Nico absolutely hates pomegranates.
-Annabeth and Hazel both like earl gray tea with a bit of vanilla.
-Reyna’s favorite bird is the raven and she has a small whittled sculpture of one she carries with her.
-If someone exposed Ella to Wikipedia, she’d be on it all the time.
-Rachel gives Ella any interesting bird feather she finds.
-Will gets called Rapunzel.
-Annabeth has one of those huge ass tasers that look like an enlarged flashlight.
-Piper has one too, but it’s pink.
#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#heroes of olympus#tumblr#annabeth chase#jason grace#leo valdez#will solace#nico di angelo#hazel levesque#frank zhang#piper mclean#rachel elizabeth dare#ella the harpy#Trials of Apollo#magnus chase#hunters of artemis#artemis#zoe nightshade#bianca di angelo#Tyson#percy jackson spoilers#Percabeth#solangelo#the seven pjo#pjo#hoo#toa#pjo hoo toa
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The hunters of Artemis, Reyna, and Asexuality in Riordan's writing
I kinda started thinking about this since Reyna became a hunter. I could never articulate why I hated this Choice. I was asexual after all. Shouldn't I be happy about this rep? We Ace people barely get any after all. Then I realized that it's because I just didn't like the hunters as ace representation. And I didn't need to be grateful for mediocrity.
You want to know why the hunters of Artemis suck in general? And as Ace rep specifically? Because Riordan did not write them with that mindset.
Like people are so busy hailing this man as the king of representation in literature(blegh) that they forgot how heteronormative and white(sometimes racist) the original series was. Y'all really think this man was thinking about writing asexuals in the year 2007? Get real. What Riordan was doing was a white man trying to write feminism and failing (there's a reason most of his female characterization of female characters boils down to tough "not like other girls" characters who are dicks to the boys around them yet also to the girls around them if they're jealous)
Now onto the hunters.
The hunters when first presented in TTC are not a group of asexuals but rather religious celibates. Fantasy Pegan nuns if you may. The first problem arises when their ages are brought up.
"Then the archers came from the woods. They were girls, about a dozen of them. The youngest was maybe ten. The oldest, about fourteen..."
Remember, before ToA gave us Emmie and Jo, the hunters WERE all young girls. Now why in the world are they so young? Especially when in the actual myths, the hunters could come from any age whatsoever? Well the reason is a doozy.
"Are you surprised by my age?" she asked.
"Uh… a little."
"I could appear as a grown woman, or a blazing fire, or anything else I want, but this is what I prefer. This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray."
"Go astray?" I asked.
"Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure. Forget themselves."
Hooo boy. What a way to phrase it. Going astray. Losing themselves. This kinda confirms that the reason why Artemis goes after young girls specifically is because she only wants girls who have yet to finish puberty. Girls have yet to discover their own sexuality. Now I'm not a representative of Asexuals everywhere, but I'm pretty sure most of us don't discover our sexuality at the age of ten. Let alone have the maturity to decide to become celibates about it. And let me reiterate: celibacy is not sexuality. Sure asexual people CAN choose to be celibates but it's not the same thing at all. In fact Zoe and Thalia are big cases for this. Both of them had liked men before(herakles and luke) but joined for their own reasons. Thalia to escape the prophecy and Zoe out of heartbreak. Hell, Bianca herself is mostly swayed by the idea of having no responsibility and a new family.
Now Rick does another thing that goes against the myths. The exclusion of make hunters. Artemis frequently hung around or taught male hunters who respected her. Daphnis, Scamandrius, freaking Hippolytus whom Artemis greatly cared about. Oh but we need to come up with bullshit reasons why Nico can't just join the hunt with his sisters so the hunters of Artemis are all: Ewww men. Also note how at no point does Riordan mention people who fall in love with women.
Now the next point is the oath itself. Artemis says this:
"What oath?" I said.
"To forswear romantic love forever," Artemis said. "To never grow up, never get married. To be a maiden eternally."
When I tell you that Emmy and Joe were retcons . Rick was freaking INSISTENT on the hunters being kids. Also note the three points: to never fall in love, to never get married, to stay a maiden.
I mean I think I don't need to explain why obsessing over the virginity of young girls is creepy. Does Riordan think girls older than fourteen can't keep it in their pants? And let me be adamant here Riordan only cares about the virginity Clause here. He mentions falling in love and marriage because he sees them inherently intertwined with sex.
Now onto the wording of the oath itself:
'I pledge myself to the goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt.'
I mean you might be able to interpret men here as mankind and therefore excluding women as well. But I have many reasons to believe that Riordan didn't even CONSIDER women as a possibility(someone inform this man that lesbians existed smh 😞). Also note that falling in love is not mentioned in the actual oath but maidenhood is.
Now onto the next big issue. Percy Jackson's Greek gods and its chapter on Artemis. It basically confirms all of my problems.
"IT’S NOT THAT ARTEMIS HATED ALL MEN, just most of them. From the moment she was born, she knew one critical fact: Guys are kinda gross."
No mention of girls. In this chapter Percy(Rick) brings up Artemis' disdain for dudes over and over again.
“Let me be a maiden forever, Father,” Artemis said, twirling her finger in Zeus’s beard. “I never want to get married.---- But you can grant me a bunch of followers: ocean nymphs, river nymphs, wood nymphs—what the heck, how about mortal girls, too? Any girls who want to join me can become my followers, as long as they remain maidens like me. They should probably make the decision when they’re about nine years old, before they get interested in boys, because after that, they’ll be all distracted and of no use to me.”
Yikes yikes yikes. Ladies and gentlemen the age has been lowered to 9. Freaking 9. Also I guess girls older than that don't need Artemis' protection then? (the real problem is that older/married girls should be out of Artemis's jurisdiction and under the protection of other gods like Hera, Hestia, and Ares. But Hestia is barely there. Hera is terrible and the Amazons also suck)
Now when I tell you that Artemis' big point was about virginity, I mean it. This actually has mythological evidence.
The myths actually DO mention what happens when female hunters fall in love. Rhodopis and Euthynicus were two hunters who offended Aphrodite by choosing a chaste life so she had Eros make them fall in love. However note that they weren't booted out of the hunters for falling in love, but rather after having sex in a cave. THAT was what Artemis took offense to.
Another myth is the story of Aura. A huntress who offended Artemis by comparing their breasts(Greek mythology am I right?). Saying that her breast were better than Artemis' because they were smaller and hey maybe that means that Artemis isn't actually a maiden. Artemis punishes her by making her lose her VIRGINITY. She goes to nemesis for revenge. Nemesis goes to Eros who makes Dionysus fall in love with Aura and when Aura refuses his advances he ties her up and... Yeah you can guess where I'm going with this.
But hey! Those myths aren't in the Greek gods book. You know which myth is? The myth of C(K)allisto. And this one angers me so much I want to chew on the drywall.
The way Riordan writes it. Zeus turns himself into Artemis, brings Kallisto's guards down with the disguise, gets close to her and then when Kallisto REJECTS Artemis' supposed advances, forces himself on her. I need to say this again. Kallisto does not fall in love, she isn't seduced, she does not break her oath. But we still need a reason for her to be yeeted out of the hunters so her lack of maidenhood it is
“You were my favorite,” Artemis said. “If you had come to me immediately, I could have helped you. I would have found you a rich, handsome husband and let you settle into a new life in the city of your choice. I would have allowed you to retire from the Hunt with honor. You could have gone in peace. Zeus’s assault was not your fault.”
Kallisto sobbed. “But I didn’t want to lose you! I wanted to stay!”
Artemis felt like her heart was breaking, but she couldn’t show it. She had rules about her followers. She couldn’t allow those rules to be broken, not even by her best friend. “Kallisto, your crime was keeping the secret from me. You dishonored me, and your sisters of the Hunt, by not being honest. You defiled our company of maidens when you were not a maiden yourself. That I cannot forgive.”
I want to slap this man so hard he flies to the opposite side of the universe. We are not here to blame victims of assault guys! Except we are! But with extra steps. If you get attacked, it's not your fault, but If you are too scared to admit the truth then you deserve to lose your only safe space and turn into a bear. Oh nooooo Kallisto DEFILED Artemis' company by being an icky non virgin. The moment you lose your virginity even if it's not your fault you get punished. But not because I'm gross but because YOU lied. How terrible! And he expects us to feel for ARTEMIS???
But rosabell! This is how things go in the myths. What was uncle Rick (bleghhhh) supposed to do? I don't know... Choose a different version of the story? There are versions were Zeus/Hera are the ones who transform Kallisto into a bear. There are versions where Kallisto actively CHOOSES to sleep with Artemis. Granted it's still assault because she's being lied to but at least then, she'd have a degree of autonomy in the events. At least Artemis could rightfully accuse her of breaking her oath. But noooo, Riordan doesn't know lesbians exist. He actively makes Zeus into a canonical Ra*ist. Why is he on the throne again?
(the fact that this book came out AFTER HoH y'all 😭)
Once again, Riordan sees maidenhood(virginity)/love/marriage as intertwined. This is NOT what being on the aroace spectrum means. You can fall in love but not have sex. You can have sex but not fall in love. You can have sex AND still be an asexual. You can be married and still be a "maiden". Riordan doesn't get to claim to be such a progressive ally for retconning the hunters in 2017, TEN years after he first introduced the hunters because he suddenly remembered that lesbians exist.
Or more like because he doesn't know what to do with his female characters. The hunters more than anything are Riordan's heroine dumping ground. If you don't want it put them in relationships, either kill them(Bianca whose main purpose is to die) or make them eternal virgins(the hunters, Rachel). The fact that some people genuinely think that Calypso should have joined the hunters astound me. Girl suffered for years because of the gods and you all think that the best thing outside of Leo for her(not that I like Caleo) is to become a servant to the gods? Because you can't perceive a female character doing anything else if she's not in a relationship. Like with Thalia, this at least made sense on a strategic level because she didn't want to reach sixteen. Oh but we also don't know what else to do with her so she needs to want to be a hunter after the war is over so we give her a half-assed argument with Luke and now she can be all: wah wah Zoe you were totally right about boys. And the cherry on the cake is that she doesn't even get to be in the final confrontation with Luke or say goodbye to him because of a freaking STATUE. And after pjo her personality becomes Zoe 2.0 and her and Jason get ONE measly meeting.
When I first spoke of not liking Renya joining the hunters this is what I mean. Riordan had so many options with Reyna. Why did she have to leave her esteemed position which she worked so hard for? Two boys rejected her? Why couldn't she go reconnect with her sister more then? She could have joined the Amazons. But nooo Riordan was so allergic to the fans asking him wether she could be Bi or a lesbian. For the stupidest reasons too? Oh Reyna being a lesbian would come off as stereotypical because she got rejected by two guys beforehand! My dude, do you think people don't say the same thing about us who are on the aroace spectrum? That we say we are aro/ace because we got rejected before? Come up with a better excuse next time.
My brother in Christ couldn't even allow Reyna to talk about her sexuality and whatnot. It couldn't even be fully about her. No. He had to turn Reyna into his own mouthpiece admonishing the EVILLLL fans who may have shipped Thalia and Renya. He literally had her say the word "shipping". How cringe can you get? And then he had the audacity to admonish the fans by saying: Why does a strong friendship always have to progress to romance?
It's a sentiment I agree with but coming from this man, it's extremely hypocritical? I don't know Richard maybe because YOU are obsessed with shipping? No character can escape your shipping hands unless they're eternal virgins or dead. You literally turned the Argo2 into Noah's ark2. So much attention focused on shipping that the seven barely felt like friends.
Why does Reyna need to join the hunters? She can choose to not relationship without having to become a servant to female Peter pan.
This is actually a really adequate metaphor when you consider that Emmie and Jo say that they have not met Artemis in YEARS and Apollo mentions that the two of them were lucky she let them LIVE. god can you imagine joining Artemis when you are 9? At an age when you have still not finished maturimg cognitively and therefore shouldn't be trusted on taking a freaking celibacy vow(were you even given the talk yet that age) and after 70 years you decide you want to leave? If you're lucky Artemis will part with you on good terms but SIKES every person you probably knew before joining is now dead. Where is THAT angsty Bianca fic?
Speaking of Bianca. How she was handled also angers me. In another post, I've already talked about how the hunters barely gave her adequate information before letting her join.
How Zoe was the main reason for her death. Zoe KNEW that at least 2 people might die in the quest she was given and yet she decided to bring the least experienced girl to the quest and couldn't even watch her properly.
But you know what else pisses me off? The fact that THEY should have been the one to tell Nico about his sister's death. I've always hated how Chiron made Percy the CHILD tell Nico the other CHILD about his sister dying. But more than anyone, it should have been the hunters' responsibility. Bianca was THEIR responsibility. She died in a quest to save Artemis. The least they could do was tell her remaining family of her fate. The Doylist reason of course is that we need to kickstart Nico and Percy's complicated relationship and have Percy discover that Nico is a son of Hades. But in universe, the fact that they immediately fuck off from the camp upon regrouping makes them come off as extremely selfish. We don't even know if Bianca was given a funeral by them or not. We see Artemis being upset about Zoe but we never see her react to the news of losing Bianca.
#pjo#percy jackson#the hunters of artemis#bianca di angelo#zoe nightshade#reyna avila ramirez arellano#reyna ramirez arellano#pjo reyna#asexuality#aromantism#aroace#lgbtqia#come on people#it's 2024#we don't need to be happy with mediocrity anymore#rr crit#rr critical#anti rr#rick riordan critical#anti rick riordan#rick riordan criticism#rrverse#riordanverse#pjoverse#percy jackson and the olympians#trials of apollo#toa#pjo hoo toa#percy jackson and the titans curse#the trials of apollo
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Zoë 100% gave this to Artemis ...or perhaps the other way around?
#omg the lesbians#They're so in love#wlw#the hunters of artemis#zoe nightshade#artemis#greek mythology#pjo#hoo#toa#my doomed yuri#im so normal about them#zartemis#nightemis#ttc#i can see the stars again m'lady#yes my brave one they are beautiful tonight#she said that while looking at zoe#someone hold me down#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#let the world honor you my huntress#live forever in the stars#zoe came back to life tho so they have a happy ending at least (delusional)
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this is your friendly reminder that it’s canon that zöe nightshade said “not all men” while looking at percy jackson
#who was fucking fourteen at the time#not all men#but it’s just percy being the exception#he’s my boy 🫶🏻🫶🏻#percy jackson#rick riordan#artemis#pjo#pjo tv show#walker scobell#annabeth chase#percy jackson and the olympians#zoe nightshade#zoë nightshade
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could you draw Zöe and Thalia?
Capture the flag
#thalia grace#Zoe belladona#zoe nightshade#her name is different in spanish? ahh#pjo fanart#pjo fandom#book art#digital fanart#percy jackson and the olympians#sketch#percy jackson#hunters of artemis
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The Hunters of Artemis from the PJO series.
#my art#fanart#thalia grace#bianca di angelo#zoe pjo#phoebe pjo#celyn pjo#naomi pjo#hunters of artemis#pjo#hoo#toa
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Apollo chronically uses terms of endearment.
#this isn’t even a headcanon this is canon#the trials of apollo#pjo apollo#toa apollo#trials of apollo#meg mccaffrey#thalia grace#zoe nightshade#toa commodus#pjo commodus#pjo artemis#he uses terms of endearment for at least these people#and look at that only one was a romantic endeavor…👀
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Nico is a Baby, Bianca is Alive (feat Solangelo and Angeloshade)
Nico, nervous: Will this is Bianca, my older sister.
Will: Hi :)
Nico: Bianca, this is Will, my... boyfriend...I'm gay.
Bianca:
Nico:
Bianca: Oh no.
Nico, scared: What?
Bianca: Oh, no. No, okay. Uhm... good for you two. I'm happy for you really. It's just...uh...
Nico:
Will:
Bianca: *sigh* Zoë!
Zoë: Yes?
Bianca: Nico, Will, this is Zoë. Zoë, you've met my brother, Nico
Zoë: Of course. I've been meaning to meet thee again. What seems to be the issue?
Bianca: Well, he just told me that he is currently in a gay relationship
Zoë: ...what?
Bianca: A homosexual relationship
Zoë: ...?
Bianca: He's in a relationship with this boy.
Zoë: Oh! I see! Well, that's nice.
Nico: Bianca, what's going on?
Bianca: *sighs* Well, I planned on telling you this today but I guess you beat me to it. What's going on is that I was planning to tell you that I'm gay and in a relationship with Zoë
Nico:
Will:
Everyone:
Nico: Oh, so...we're good?
Bianca: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thank you for telling me
Nico: Mm. Thanks for telling me, too.
Everyone:
Nico: Does papa know?
Bianca: Oh, gods no. I can already imagine how that'll turn out
Nico: *bodily shivers* That's gonna be a long talk
#i have no idea what ship name to give zoë and bianca#i wanted to go with either night angel or angeloshade#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo#nico di angelo#bianca di angelo#zoë nightshade#zoe nightshade#will solace#solangelo#gay#lesbian#baby nico#hunters of artemis#hades
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So when are we getting a “Hunters of Artemis” book uncle Rick?
#grover underwood#percabeth#percy and annabeth#percy jackson#percy jackson series#hunters of artemis#thalia grace#pjo thalia#rick riordan#pjo hoo toa#pjo fandom#pjo series#pjo#zoe nightshade#bianca di angelo#artemis
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Hi! You have some fabulous art and it's wonderful to see it posted. Keep up the amazing work and HUGS!!!
Thank you so much for your sweet comment!!! 💖💖Here's some Zoë and Thalia!!! Hope you like!!
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#my art#digital art#my asks#percy jackson#pjo#heroes of olympus#percy jackon and the olympians#trials of apollo#pjo hoo toa#nico di angelo#thalia grace#zoe nightshade#hunters of artemis
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It blows my mind that there's actually a pretty large section of Pjo fans who think Percy should've become a unbeatable powerful ass fuck off deity with a harem because 'it's in his blood as the son of Poseidon' and 'he wasted his powers and inheretance by choosing kindness and his normal friends instead of highups' like damn calm down Lord Ozai,you're talking about an afrolatino who grew up in New York and is probably transfem with undiagnosed autism not a back in the good 'ol days testosterone fulled nepotism baby
#percy jackson#percy jackson defense squad#black percy#latino percy#trans percy jackson#aroaceflux bi percy jackson#autistic percy jackson#bigender percy jackson#punk!percy#team parent percy jackson#poseidon pjo#apollo pjo#hermes pjo#hades pjo#kronos pjo#persephone pjo#zeus pjo#artemis pjo#aphrodite pjo#zoe nightshade#rachel elizabeth dare#nico di angelo#hazel levesque#frank zhang#thalia grace#dark percy is bootlicker percy#pjo#x black!reader#summerposting#when i had the url 'afrolatino zuko' i was talking about her actually
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