Demeter and Persephone were the core of the story. It was about her grief as a mother losing her daughter to politics, her rage, and her eventual acceptance.

The story of Demeter and Persephone was and is reflective of all mothers in Ancient Greece that had to lose their daughters to patriarchy and politics. It was a comfort and an unfortunate lesson to them.

It’s a story about women, for women, and reducing it down to focus on only Persephone and Hades misses the purpose of the story.

I’m not saying that Hades and Persephone aren’t a great couple, but the story of her capture and marriage and how it’s perceived should have more emphasis on her relationship with her mother and how they were pawns in both Zues and Hades plans.

I feel like it makes sense if you correlate it with what should have been his continuation of agreeing with Luke. In PJO he chose to be included because it was the right thing to do, and because he knew the people involved and loved them. In HOO, he kind of knows the people? ((Like percy likes them, but he will never really love Leo or Piper like he loves Clarisse or Travis)) the whole things become larger than him and his friends that he’s known forever - now his people include those all across the country and everything’s become larger with larger stakes and he doesn’t really care about it like he did in PJO. He just continues because of his self-loathing and perceived “debt” based on the guilt he had from not being able to do enough in the first war.

In HOO percy realizes that the gods are never going to keep their promises and the gods are done pretending that they are. It might feel more sinister because now everyone’s done pretending, but Percy’s still hating himself and trying to keep alive what was important to him in PJO.

actually I’ve been trying to articulate this for awhile but another thing that bothers me about hoo is how Percy never actually seems to choose to be a part of the seven. He’s quite literally thrown into this great prophecy against his will by Hera, his memory wiped, and it’s just sort of intrinsically understood that he’s a part of the seven, and idk, there was something much more meaningful and profound in pjo where Percy had many opportunities to not be included in the prophecy and yet still chose to do so. idk. 

They’re making Jason Todd into muscley tiktok e-boy and I don’t vibe with it :/

Spider man putting on the symbiote suit is just him putting on black air forces

Every dude that grew up in Los Angeles

he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

I’ll be honest, I didn’t like Jason because he ruined the dark hair aesthetic the og big 3 kids had