One thing which genuinely bothers me is Annabeth's perception in the fandom. How she's seen as this cold, stoic, emotionless, reserved and intimidating girl. When in reality, she's a character full of love.

Annabeth, who immediately cried and felt attached to Cerberus after playing with him for a few minutes because she wouldn't get to play with him again.

Annabeth, whose deepest desire, which the Sirens lured her with, is saving Luke and having a good relationship with both her parents.

Annabeth, who believed in Luke's goodness, even after all the countless terrible things he did simply because she had faith in his humanity.

Annabeth, who cried in Percy's arms before entering the labyrinth and refused to reveal the last line of the prophecy because it said to lose a love worse than death and the idea of losing any of her friends is too painful, heartbreaking and worse than dying.

Annabeth, who kissed Percy before parting with him in St. Helens because if he's going to die, she at least wants him to die knowing she loved him.

Annabeth, who took a poisoned knife for Percy during the war because she'd rather die herself than let him die.

Annabeth, who convinced Luke to switch sides by reminding him of the promise of family he gave her. Which in turn, influenced Luke's decision to end himself to destroy Kronos. Hello, she saved the world with the power of love.

Annabeth, who spent months after months losing sleep and searching desperately for Percy when he went missing.

Annabeth, who kissed Percy to eternity in public at their reunion, not caring what anyone is going to say or think. An asteroid could've hit the earth, and she wouldn't have cared.

Annabeth, who told Percy “I love you” when falling in Tartarus because if she was going to die, she wanted them to be her last words.

Annabeth Chase is a sweetheart, who has always felt things deeply and she's so full of love. And I think it's time we let go of the “cold-hearted annabeth” headcanon because it's not true, that's not her.

Percy at ease

Percy calm, but a little on edge

Percy when mildly angry

Friendly reminder that Percy jackson - our beloved silly adorable seaweed brain - is absolutely terrifying. When he’s angry, when he’s scared, when he’s on edge - he’s not warm and fuzzy.

No other character gets that reaction from people. Jason (the sweetie) is perceived as calm and in control, nico (our favorite self-outcasted outcast) is perceived as solemn and creepy, reyna (girlboss queen slay) is perceived as confident and assertive, and annabeth (our girl) is perceived as fierce, clever, and formidable. They are all intimidating to an extent.

But not like Percy. No. Becasue even when he’s at ease, he’s described as wild and disobedient. And when he’s not at ease, even if just little bit, he’s perceived as powerful, dangerous, and scary. Someone who NOBODY wants to mess with. Nobody even questions his power. One look from him has literal gangs running the other way. One look from him has Leo so scared that he’s literally shaking, and feeling the same innate fright and alarm that he does when jason summons an ear-piercing, earth-shaking, deadly bolt of lighting.

like… HELLO??? can we all just sit on that for a moment?? good lord

One angry look from percy has people thinking one thing: Run.

Percy is, canonically, the character that people find the most frightening and intimidating.

And unless he’s in a good mood - which you better hope he is - the reality is that most of us would be completely terrified of him if we met him.

see the problem w adaptations is that they get too confident. if you're changing something, it needs to be better than the original. it needs to add something. every. single. change. if you start changing everything bc u want to or bc you can, you start losing the things that made the original story good and unique.

it’s amazing to me that people are justifying/defending the pjo show being a snooze fest by saying that it’s aimed at kids like. girl. bestie. bestierina. the books themselves are aimed at kids and they’re still enjoyable and we’re still here talking about them decades later. i don’t think the problem is aiming anything at kids i think the problem is acting like your audience is stupid and cannot handle tension or even the slightest bit of conflict and then try to blame it on it being aimed at a certain group. like sorry even if that was true you are STILL failing because you dumbed it down and ALSO made it boring so kids can’t even watch for the flashy sfx or anything. like i’m so sorry it’s just a flawed show it’s fucking disney you do not need to bend over backwards so much to defend it lol

i don't think i quite realized until now just how vital it was that gabe's odor masked percy's scent from monsters.

regardless of whether we're talking about book gabe or show gabe, sally jackson's decision to keep gabe around almost certainly saved percy's life. the first time i read the books as a kid, i think it was easy for me to say "gabe is a garbage human being, sally should've dumped him way sooner", but looking back — and knowing what we now know about other demigods' childhoods — I understand it.

take annabeth, for example: she runs away from home at seven years old because the amount of monster attacks she'd been victim to at that point were enough to make her family ostracize her. some of these attacks were from monsters that athena had created/offended in some way, like arachne, but nevertheless — annabeth is not even a child of the big three, and yet she was constantly sought out by monsters as a teeny tiny seven-year-old child.

so imagine how much worse it would've been for percy, the son of poseidon, if monsters were able to detect him? if sally hadn't found a way to mask percy's scent, there's a good chance percy wouldn't have survived long enough to make it to camp half-blood.

(once again, this proves how absolutely crucial sally jackson is to percy's development as a person and as a hero. percy may be the son of a god, but it was his mortal mother who protected him from the monsters in his father's world until he was old enough to fight them himself.)

genuinely, i think watching live theatre can improve your media literacy so much

like people who look at doctor who and are like 'lol the effects are so rubbish'

maybe watch a stage play where there's no backdrops and half the characters are played by the same three guys in different hats and maybe you will calm down

im really not a fan of Rick's recent trend of recycling bits of his writing that got a good reaction the first time and acting as if that's a valid substitute for. actually bothering to write something original a second time around. It's clearly just there as a callback and nothing more.

It's "Nico's rage exploded" and "Percy's rage exploded" with the exact same paragraph formatting. It's CoTG having titles like "My Singing Makes Things Worse, and Everyone Is Totally Shocked" (reference to TLO, when Percy says he thinks his singing would cause an avalanche) or "Pretty Much the Best Good-Night Kiss Ever" (reference to TLO "Pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time") or any other number of near word-for-word references to the first series. It's Nico calling Percy "seaweed brain" in Un Natale Mezzosangue (when Percy says in TTC that anybody but Annabeth calling him that is a major offense). It's Nico and Will falling into Tartarus in TSATS word-for-word referencing Percy and Annabeth in House of Hades, despite it not making any sense for their characters (and otherwise being written as Percabeth 2™). It's the show making huge changes but keeping random "fan-favorite references" (mostly overusing "seaweed brain" and "wise girl" and emphasizing percabeth) only because they're popular in-jokes and considering that a faithful enough adaptation to market it heavily as such. It's lazy writing.

And it's a disservice to the series and to the audience, because it clearly shows Rick doesn't have original ideas anymore (though given all his writing is heavily derivative to begin with, it begs the question how much was original in the first place and how much he has difficulty when he doesn't have a structured mythological plot to work from) and that there is an expectation that the audience will just sit down and accept that behavior hook-line-and-sinker. Everything recently is clearly such lip-service to the audience, either in retcons that are overt speaking-to-camera acknowledgements of things he's been criticized on or wink-wink-nudge-nudges of community in-jokes that have no business in the actual text (see: over-use of ship names in canon). Especially since Rick tends to be about 5 years behind on the fandom uptake. It's just so disappointing to see.

oh, a series is getting a TV/movie adaptation? they didn't make it dark and gritty and lifeless with characters who lack their original flaws that define their character arcs, did they?

they didn't make it dark and gritty with "perfect" characters, right?

they didn't make it dark and gritty with "perfect" characters right-

i'd argue the whole 'did percy reject godhood bc of annabeth' thing is more of a 'in a way yeah' situation rather than being a straight yes or no answer

when percy rejects godhood he's choosing to live the life of a demigod, he's choosing them and that life over the gods

to percy, annabeth is the person who best represents that life

she's the first demigod he ever meets, she's the most consistent demigod presence in his life, she's been with him through the worst and best parts of it, she's the one he's closest to by far

to percy she's the one who best understands what it's like to try to live this life of towing the line between the mortal and godly

and in that throne room he looks back at her, at everything she represents, remembers all the other demigods who died as they so often do and he rejects the offer; he looks at her and thinks of everyone and says 'no, I'm choosing them, I'm going to see this life out'

so while I dont think 'percy choose annabeth over immortality' is so simple and straightforward I do think his choice to look back at annabeth before he made his decision is significant in his relationship with her

just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

Friendly reminder that Percy Jackson tries his best to follow the rules, while Annabeth Chase just breaks them

look obviously i don’t know the guy but i feel like 2009 rick riordan would fist fight 2024 rick riordan

one of them looked at me, and even though she didn't say anything, my life literally flashed before my eyes. suddenly i was twenty. then i was a middle-aged man. then i turned old and withered. all the strength left my body, and i saw my own tombstone and an open grave, a coffin being lowered into the ground. all this happened in less than a second.

it is done, she said.

-percy jackson and the olympians, the last olympian

percy jackson is 20 years old. jogging down the streets of new rome to make it to his class on time, for a moment everything clicks and it's like he's lived this moment before. it's only later that day when he meets annabeth for lunch that he realizes he had seen that moment what feels like a million years ago but was really only four. ever since his 16th birthday he had imagined that if those flashes were real, if he could ever live that long, he'd be running for his life. 16 year old percy never would've guessed he was safe, nevermind that he was in college. he squints up at the menu and quickly forgets the whole thing

percy jackson is 43 years old. he is the spitting image of his father as he always appeared to him. he swoops down to pick up his 9 year old son, just on the cusp of being too big to carry, and has another moment of intense deja vu. but he's done this a million times, of course it feels familiar. he doesn't spare it a second thought

percy jackson is 86 years old. he's nowhere near as active as he once was, but he's stronger than most his age. that never stops him from dramatically asking his grandchildren to help him up the stairs, he's so old. he needs extra hugs for strength. they laugh at him but do it anyway. a moment passes without notice. it's been 70 years, and he's lived a lot of life since that day on olympus

percy jackson is as strong as he's ever been and freer than he ever was. he runs into elysium to see annabeth and so many other people he'd missed for so long. it is done

🚨🚨🗣️BURDGE IS BACK, THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🗣️🚨🚨

literally the original backbone of this fandom and the blueprint for 95% of percy art…a (show critical 😌) legend returns!!

i looooove characters who are sacrificial lamb coded. characters who have never lived for themselves. characters born to be a tool, a weapon, a sacrifice, all of the above. a character raised by the heroes to save the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. a character raised by the villains to end the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. characters who are denied personhood so they can be used as tools instead. characters who never even had a chance to be people because they were shaped into something else from the moment they were born. characters who were born to die.

early days

I am so sorry to bother you with this stupid question, but Bisan has asked for a complete stop in economic activity. Can I still donate to help Palestinians or is it better to avoid any transactions for the week ? Thank you so much for what you're doing

hello anon. don't apologise, you're a breath of fresh air after the recent visitors in my inbox. I think a slightly more accurate description of Bisan’s ask is to stop or minimise all economic activity not in direct support of Palestine. Now more than ever, I would encourage people to donate to escape funds for Palestinians, to direct aid organisations like CareforGaza and the PCRF, and to buy e-sims as they’re running low.

Below I’ve compiled a list of resources below but this is definitely just a small sample size of what you can do to help during this strike. This post here is an extremely comprehensive resource that I’d recommend you have a look at.

credible organisations that are doing work on the ground in Palestine:

Care for Gaza:non-profit charity that distributes money, food and other resources directly to families in Gaza.They maintain a regular presence on Twitter and Instagram. You can donate to them via Paypal here.

PCRF / Palestine Children's Relief Fund: non-profit organisation that distributes essential food and resources to families in Gaza. Most recently, they delivered 30 tons of vital medicine, and 82,000 pounds of flour.

Medical Aid For Palestinians: deploys medical teams to treat Palestinians suffering under Israel's malicious bombardments.

Donate e-sims to Palestine: massive post with tutorials and relevant links, with discount codes included in the post and in the replies.

help people leave palestine (donate what you can)

Help a Family Evacuate Gaza (GoGetFunding)

Save Sanaa and her Family (Gofundme)

Save Amjad Saher and his family (Gofundme)

Help a family of 13 escape Gaza (Gofundme)

Help a Palestinian children's book illustrator save her family of 12 (Gofundme)