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Nico di Angelo 💀☀️
•Reblog are highly appreciated ☺️😉
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so im finally reading percy jackson, after all these years, and im absolutely loving bianca, cant wait to see how her character develops through the rest of the book
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Shocked and appalled every day that this was my breakout post. Thank you all for the replies 💀💀
Seriously whose idea was it or camp half-blood’s colour to be orange. The reason orange is used in marketing or uniforms is for them to stand out and catch your eye, which in a quest is not ideal especially if you're trying to hide from both monsters and mortals who may question why these beat-up-looking kids are wearing matching bright camp shirts without an adult present. Does no one here know colour theory.
#percy jackson#leo valdez#hoo#annabeth chase#nico di angelo#pjo#pjoverse#grover underwood#luke castellan#will solace
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the sun and the star wants:
- will catching a collapsing nico numerous times
- bob!
- trauma and meltdowns halfway thru hell where nico is so close to giving up but will makes him push thru
- wills power going into overdrive trying to save someone
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why are you guys freaking out about the book title when you KNOW none of you will never refer to it as anything other than the solangelo book
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do you ever think about the night after the battle of the labryinth. do you ever think about how while percy and annabeth and grover are preparing for their next mission, a 12 year old boy is crying in the apollo cabin, because he had just lost his older brother: his best friend... and he wasn't quite sure how to keep going
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will: i can't find my phone
lester: okay i'll call you
will: no, wait-
phone ringing: you are my dad (you're my dad!) BOOGIE WOOGIE WOOGIE
will:
lester:
will: i can explain
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rr says "the sun and the star" like the sun was't a fucking star
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I feel like a big part of Heroes of Olympus was influenced by audience reaction.
I don’t think I’m grasping at straws here. I genuinely just don’t get why some decisions were made if this wasn’t the case.
The plot of the books themselves has always felt very muddled to me and that’s why it always feels like it’s supposed to be a story about characters and relationships, but it just kind of isn’t. Sure, on a surface level, yes, and we get some very lovely character dynamics, but it also feels slightly artificial in a way? The plot was built first and the characters thrown into it, but there wasn’t much thought given too how the characters should be with each other. Even the romantic ones.
Though I feel that I could tie this idea into pretty much every part of the books, there are two things that I personally think of the most while discussing this idea.
For one, there’s Octavian’s entire character.
I have always been confused as to what exactly Riordan wanted from Octavian. He really feels like a plot device most times, made solely for the purpose of stirring conflict between the Greeks and Romans. He as an individual never really mattered. Now, there are some very cool people on this website that have managed to squeeze a decent character out of the scenes we got, but with the way he was written, that in itself is a challenge, as post SoN, it feels like the only intent behind his character was to make him as unlikable as possible. He really was a real character in SoN, despite weird decisions here and there (The killing Gwen scene for example was purely to establish that the doors of death weren’t working, and to make Octavian unlikable, but Octavian himself really didn’t have any motive for the killing. It benefitted him in no way.)
In SoN, Octavian is manipulative and well spoken, but after that, he is portrayed as some sort of dim witted idiot, clouded by his desire for personal glory.
The only way I can rationalize this shift in character is in the truly visceral reaction the then fanbase had to his character. They loathed him, taking not a second to rationalize his actions, but simply hate. It also made it so Octavian became the but of a lot of jokes. Those jokes characterizing him as his idiot and megalomaniac that it he shown as in Mark of Athena, House of Hades and Blood of Olympus.
I always suspected Octavian was supposed to serve some sort of grander purpose, or his role in HoO was supposed to be at least a little more dignified or dare I say sympathetic, but there really was no turning back with how hated he was, making Riordan embrace it rather than giving him actual human qualities.
Then on the other hand, there’s also Leo and his relationship with romance in general.
I’ve touched upon it in my Caleo essay (That I kind of wanna redo with more points and evidence to back up my claims, because I am unhappy with certain aspects but I still stand by all I said) that Leo is a character that was written in such a way that getting a romantic partner before resolving certain things would actively detriment the development of his character, including healing from his trauma. The way he was written was just not meant for romance and I will take this to my grave. I’m not saying there was no room for romance, but the way they went about it was… very bad. (A girlfriend will fix my problems. That is his mindset. But he doesn’t grow out of it. Instead he gets a girlfriend. A girlfriend that he treats as a fix to his problems when she is not. A girlfriend that is bad to and for him in so many ways.)
But it is very interesting to note, that especially after Mark of Athena, the speculations and demands for Leo’s future girlfriend went absolutely crazy. I can’t speak from experience but from the tweets from Riordan and fanarts from that time that I’ve seen it was at least to the point that he took active notice of it.
Besides Nico and Reyna, there weren’t really any other characters just lying around to pair Leo monogamously up with (I doubt Riordan be willing to make any characters besides Nico explicitly queer at the time and then in the next book he decided to pick up one of the background characters and said, you will do, when pairing Nico up with someone. )
There are many more examples I could go into. The universe suffered in many ways from this. Sure, it’s not the only problem that were detrimental. I believe Riordan had a plan from the beginning with all the main plot points of the series, but I feel he didn’t exactly know where he was going with the characters besides the basics. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the HoO characters. That is why I spend so much time talking and thinking about them, but the issues with the series and characters are so many that it’s borderline ridiculous.
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Omg guys it's Jason
#percy jackson#hoo#leo valdez#annabeth chase#nico di angelo#jason grace#pjo#pjoverse#grover underwood#luke castellan#will solace#percy jackon and the olympians
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Seriously whose idea was it or camp half-blood’s colour to be orange. The reason orange is used in marketing or uniforms is for them to stand out and catch your eye, which in a quest is not ideal especially if you're trying to hide from both monsters and mortals who may question why these beat-up-looking kids are wearing matching bright camp shirts without an adult present. Does no one here know colour theory.
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Nico future jobs moral allignment chart just dropped
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an apollo kid with the gift of prophecy but they only use it to create incredibly specific banners to use when the moment arises
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Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service
Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:
Now you’ll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:
Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
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