HI

i hope i don't sound too weird. so my brain has been taken by valzhang for months now and i can literally find no content at all. so i was wondering whether you have any ao3 fic recommendations? or anything else valzhang-related? i'm working on a fake dating au right now but it's gonna take years a long time to be finished

thank you :)

hii not weird at all, valzhang is a very small community and we don't have that much content. but i know leovaldezdefender has some fics i've read them and they were amazing you can def check it out. other than that i don't really go on ao3 after finding frazeleo smut🤠🤠 but i'm really looking forward to your fic!!!

—valzhang : “one must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.”

the flesh putrefies, the machine rusts, and the divine corrupts, and so the rot remains supreme

this one's got a little kick to it

did the show just delete the fact that percy was a wanted criminal in the entirety of the lightning thief? gabe gave an interview, blaming percy for sally's dissappearence, which made him the primary suspect. like the police was after him when they blew up the bus and his iconic 'my stepdad is a really sweet person' speech to a journalist after jumping from saint monica arc, people conspiring that they were manipulated into a t*rrorist group after his fight with ares. like????? where's all that?? where's the good stuff???

this is how it feels to think everyone is okay after finishing hoo, then getting to the burning maze

And great souls are always dangerous.

Nikos Kazantzakis, from ‘Report to Greco’, tr. P. A. Bien

instead of flying off to ogygia, imagine if leo was stranded in an island with frank for a week. in the woods as a hunter and a forgemaster, living the medieval dream fr

calypso having an emotion-centered character and being viewed & getting treated as the ‘evil woman’ is actually a reflection of how every woman's emotions are villainized when they’re shown vividly and are a main part of their character in popular media.

in general media and riordanverse specifically, women with emotions are always looked down upon because showing emotions is regarded as a dramatic act so when a female character shows and acts on their emotiotions they get degraded and instantly despised because of it. this is done with every single female character while male characters who show emotion are treated like saints and found worthy of self redemption. this happened with annabeth when she didn’t want to believe luke was the bad guy and wanted to try bring him back because she was manipulated by him her entire life, meanwhile luke, who did batshit crimes like causing hundreds of innocent deaths, manipulating little girls by flirting with them, admitting his crush to a 16 year-old at his ripe age of 23, is remembered as a hero and considered ‘redeemed himself’ after sacrificing himself while annabeth was called insufferable when she didn’t believe he was evil in the first place. let’s not forget piper, who’s a lesbian that was forced into a relationship with a man by a goddess and thought she was in the wrong for not feeling right with jason. during the entire relationship she was experiencing a very hard comphet and couldn’t figure herself out because of the fake memories, everybody was bashing her when she was acting confused, when she was, in fact confused. i have a longer post about this specific topic, so if you guys wanna check it out it’s right here. 

 coming back to calypso, first we need to clear out the misconceptions about her curse on percy that affected annabeth. she wasn't blind nor was personally attacking annabeth, her curse was to make someone feel like how she was feeling all time and that’s why percy and annabeth couldn’t reach out to one another while being right next to each other. annabeth’s blindness came from the titan she defeated in the sea of monsters and is actually the first curse to be put by the arai on them, so it has nothing to do with calypso. the curse was affecting annabeth because she happened to be the person percy loved and was right next to him. if percy was there alone either percy would feel alone and abandoned or the curse wouldn’t affect him at all, since there’s no person he can go back to save. and the curse itself wasn’t even a death wish type of curse she just wanted to be heard, be acknowledged and wanted free off her island. not to forget the curse wasn't harming or killing any of them yet it’s still demonized more than by literally every other thing that happened in the books. nothing luke has ever done is seen as evil as her curse just because it was by her and i’m pretty positive if something like this was shown in pjo by luke it would be glossed over and romanticized in the fandom. further proof of how a male character's actions get brushed off and forgiven easily but soon a female character does something even slightly questionable they get villainized on the spot.

she is also despised because she doesn't let everyone's favorite man get away with his misogynistic stuff. calypso doesn't treat leo any worse than he treats her. whenever she starts arguing it is a response to something leo has said or done, which in the most case she's in the right but leo gets so much slack from his past and being fandom favorite to be held accountable for the way he treats people. he's always been written as a misogynist, he never treated any women with any respect. he always had some sort of disrespect for every female character he seems have some sort of closure with like piper, hazel, calypso, the list goes on, but yet calypso is always expected to be more 'tolerable and understanding' bc of his trauma, as if every single character in the series isn't written upon a single trauma they had and have their character built on it. and he always had a problem dealing with others and their emotions and instead of expecting him to be working to change that, calypso is expected to adjust his manners.

oddly enough, she's also expected to show some gratitude towards leo for saving her, when she never asked him to do so and not for a second believed that he was actually going to come back when he said he would. is she grateful that he came back and freed her? yes. should she feel any obligations to make him feel greater because of it? NO. everything leo did for calypso was his and only his choice and nobody else's. calypso is happy that he did so, but expecting her to tolarate every single thing he does solely because of that is wrong.

oh-OH😭

hru, hun?

trying to make it good yk, hrUuu i hope everything's ok🫀🫀

i hope if/when they do a hoo adaptation they make actors voice characters inner thoughts because i need that valzhang inner monologue blasting in my ears 7/24

leo and frank arguing but it's that "what about you being built like a bus driver - and what about you being built like the bus" audio

Rhaenyra: So. I’m in love with Daemon.

Laenor: Daemon? Your uncle?

Rhaenyra: Yes? Thoughts?

Laenor: And prayers, girl.

—philosophers have written about the meaning of calypso in the world of ancient greece. one says that the story of calypso illustrates the link between eros and pride. some others brought attention to the combination of power over fate and the sensibility of "bourgeois housewives" in the depiction of calypso.

Strength is light ☀