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still confused why everyone thought Reyna was trying to make a move on Percy she just wanted him to be a praetor. literally the biggest honor in the legion but he said i have a GIRLFRIEND in the most self-righteous way and she was like okay that’s nice but i didn’t ask

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when they landed in croatia nico mustve been like what the fuck isn’t this yugoslavia???????

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zia is reslly described as having "vaguely arab features" in the red pyramid asdgkj rick...

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it is possible to hold the thoughts "luke was right. the gods never cared for their children and never wanted to change so why not uproot the status quo" and "luke was a terrible person who hurt people in his quest for glory" and "luke was flawed and as human as any other character in the series was, which is what makes him such a compelling antagonist" and "luke was an antihero who overcame kronos by his own will when he realized that family was more important than destruction" and "luke can still rot" at the same time. source? theyre all floating around my brain right now

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so when we are first introduced to leo, we get this description from jason:

Leo looked like a Latino Santa’s elf, with curly black hair, pointy ears, a cheerful, babyish face, and a mischievous smile that told you right away this guy should not be trusted around matches or sharp objects. His long, nimble fingers wouldn’t stop moving—drumming on the seat, sweeping his hair behind his ears, fiddling with the buttons of his army fatigue jacket. Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough sugar and caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo.

leo is a main character, so yeah, it's good we have a picture of him. the problem with this is that its the ONLY description of him. we see jason's muscles described a million times, as well as annabeth's princess curls, or piper's and hazel's unfortunate colored eyes- but leo? that's it. the only description of his features. at some point after leo comes back in hoh, hazel says this:

His hair had grown out longer and shaggier, and his face was leaner, so he looked less like an imp and more like one of those willowy elves in the fairy tales. The biggest difference was his eyes. They constantly drifted, as if Leo was trying to spot something over the horizon.

another keebler elf comparison for some reason, but the point is that leo's hardly ever described in the books- yet alone with different adjectives. this is weird!!! why would you only described your main character a handful of times compared to your other characters? especially leo, who we were supposed to care more about since he is the one who fulfills the prophecy!!! it's not adding up

(interestingly enough, he's also the only main brown character from the 7 not given white features that are endlessly described and adored. yet he is never described! 🤔)

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me thinking about how rick decided lesbians weren’t allowed in the hunters

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Anyway here’s Piper

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due to personal reasons i will be accidentally vaporizing my pre algebra teacher

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hoo would have been So much more fun if the seven just. hated each other.

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Unpopular opinion: The fandom (and then later Riordan) keeps forgetting Thalia is not a punk rock young adult. Thalia is actually a 15 year old with the mentality of tops a 13 year old.

Thalia became a tree when she was 12, while Riordan try to pass the whole thing as “her body grew up” and “she looks like 15” it wouldn’t really fully since her brain didn’t mature: hence why she is acting like an immature 13 years old that she is. Thalia went back to being 12 years old mentally and become an inmortal 6 months later, her brain couldn’t have developed that much in those 6 months.

At the end of TLO when Percy turns down inmortality he says he doesn’t want to be stuck at 16 forever, it’s heavily implied he would never mature or change. So Thalia, who is now an immortal, is stuck in the same way 15 year old body with an inmature brain: proved by the way most hunters (that are canonically 10-14 in TTC with the oldest being Zoe) act in the first series

And you can see it the way they act, they are inmature girls, some of them barely teenagers, most of them not even being teens and they have been stuck like that for centuries. They don’t grow, they don’t mature, they don’t anything. So there is no way Thalia is the mature punk ass young adult every want her to be.

Then we have my next issue: The vibe of the Hunters feels so different in Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo (please have in mind I have not read the latest book of TOA and I’m writing from what I have seen online):

The hunters don’t longer feel the group of little girls they are (avarenge age is 12-13 since that how Artemis look like) instead it feels like a bunch of group of 16-20 years old. I have seen posts sexualizing the Hunters when it feels so wrong because canonically they are 10-14 years old.

Everybody (Riordan included) seems to forget about the inmature girls we met in TTC. These girls don’t grew up, these girls don’t mature. This girls are no older than 14 (15 with Thalia but really she is 13) and why Reyna joining them is...weird.

Reyna could have easily join her sister with the amazons. Not being the only 16/17 in a group little girl. And this is why I also don’t feel comfortable shipping any of the hunters, Thalia included. They are little girls.

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percy jackson would say fuck 12 and so should u

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no that sounds perfectly fine to me

the way jason got broken up with and then died while leo came back from the dead and has an immortal girlfriend just…… doesn’t sit right with me.

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remember when percy met triton and it was super awkward and triton was like “i’m poseidon’s heir” like what does that even mean! ur dad is immortal dude he’s not gonna die and leave u his kingdom 😂 stop flexing on ur teenage brother you’re 3000 years old

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Us in 2014: can’t wait for blood of Olympus!!!

Us now: if rick has mischaracterized your favorite character you may be entitled to financial compensation

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fake youtube screenshots for the soul

(view full size on my blog to see the videos on the side better)

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LEO VALDEZ BEING CUTE IN A SCRAWNY WAY — and yes, his goggles are prada sorry I make the rules

percy | annabeth

HOPE YOU LIKE IT! loved making this one x x

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top ten iconic lines i think about every day before bed

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