Tumgik
#NO MORE HAZEL HATE
goldrushenthusiast · 4 months
Text
friendly reminder you’re probably older than Hazel Levesque when she literally saved the entire world before any of the other 7, before she knew what she was, and before she knew about the mission
like she was out here fighting actual demons at 14 and you’re fighting bisexuality let’s be real here
194 notes · View notes
Text
I'm not obsessed with Jason Grace. I'm merely giving him the love he didn't get all these years. 💅
235 notes · View notes
skitskatdacat63 · 6 months
Text
no because these are deeply unwell
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
99 notes · View notes
thatonefandomjumper · 2 years
Text
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.
643 notes · View notes
jankwritten · 3 months
Text
Jasico Bingo Challenge: love letter
A sheet of paper, folded into thirds, dotted in places with what must be water and grass stains. The handwriting is legible in some places, and shaky in others. In the margins are small doodles of birds, clouds, trees, and other miscellaneous, abstract shapes, as if the writer’s mind kept wandering. 
TO: Nico di Angelo 
FROM: Jason Grace 
Hey, Nico. If you’re reading this, something probably happened to me. Maybe I hit my head again and lost my memories, or something, and you went through my stuff to try and find things to remind me of who I was. Maybe this fell out while we were hanging out, one day, and you saw it was addressed to you and you picked it up. Maybe I died—
However you found this, I guess, surprise! :) 
First thing’s first: I’m sorry for leaving. I know I begged you to stay, and then turned around and left, and I really hope you understand - I didn’t leave because of you. I needed to find Leo, and leaving with Piper was the easiest way to do that. I had to try and get him back. 
I wanted you to come with, but you were still healing and things were going really well with you and Will. I hope things still are, in fact. Wherever I am, I’m so proud of you for how far you’ve come, and how much I’m sure you continued to grow even after I left. 
I really love you, man. I never got to tell you that, but you’re one of my best, closest friends. You mean so much to me. You showed me a side of the world that I never would’ve seen otherwise, and gave me a space to be myself, and I will never, ever know how I deserved that. How I deserve you. 
Is that out of left field? Haha it definitely is. Sorry. 
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Nico. I didn’t want to leave. I’m so sorry for leaving you. I’m sorry I had to go and I’m sorry it had to be me, but it couldn’t be her, Nico, it can’t be her, it can’t be. It has to be me. 
It has to be. 
Here, some of the words are smeared from the water marks. Lines cross through some words that have then been re-written, as if in after-thought the author realized they were too important to delete. 
If you really are reading this, after the worst case scenario, I understand if you’re angry. I understand if you never want to think about me again, after what I’ve done. I’ll understand if you storm to your father’s palace and demand I be placed in the worst of the worst punishments for being so stupid. 
Gods. Gods, Nico, I’m never going to get to tell you how I really feel. About all of this, about everything I’m going through, I’m never going to be able to tell you and that hurts. It hurts more than knowing I’m going to die, it hurts more than getting stabbed and poisoned. I’m going to die loving you and you won’t even know until it’s too late. 
Maybe this is a stupid bad idea. Maybe I should let it die with me. Is it cruel, to tell you how I feel if I’m gone? Does this make me an awful person? 
Shit. I think I’m an awful person, Nico. I’m awful and I’m selfish and I can never choose things for myself, it always has to be for the greater good, so this is it. This is as selfish as I can be. This is all I can be for you. 
I want to see you on the other side. I want you to punch me for getting myself killed and hate me for being a hero and I want you to know that I didn’t want this but it needed to be me. It has to be me. 
I’m still wrapping my head around it, but it has to be me, okay? So if I’m really gone when you’re reading this, okay, you have to let me stay gone. Please. If you get hurt, if you die, and it’s my fault, I could never— 
Here, the letter abruptly stops. Then, it continues: 
That’s all I wanted to say, anyway. That I love you. I love you in any way I can, and even if I’ve done it silently, and stupidly, from a distance, just know that it was there, the whole time. It’s still there, wherever I am. Dead, or lost, or whatever. I love you, Nico. I’m sorry.
-- Jason Grace :)
43 notes · View notes
yonemurishiroku · 1 year
Text
I think that if Nico were to bath in the Styx, his anchor would be Hazel.
237 notes · View notes
led-bloody-zeppelin · 8 months
Text
something something piper mclean's "i'm not like other girls" mentality could possibly be the result of her growing up both in and apart of hollywood due to her father's career and her, as a woc, not being able to relate with the heavily stereotyped, oversexualized, and majority white portrayal of women put out by the usamerican film industry. also considering in the fact that native american women experience significantly higher homicide and sexual violence rates when compared to the national average and that her rejecting "traditional femininity" and purposefully trying to appear less "conventionally attractive" isn't necessarily her being against girls who do subscribe to these conventions, but could be interpreted as a means of self defense against a cruel and unforgiving society and her place in it as an indigenous woman.
27 notes · View notes
buckleydiazmp4 · 2 months
Text
people in fandom are... illogical sometimes
8 notes · View notes
sweetdonutsart · 5 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
new years 2023 🎉✨
yes i know it's almost the end of the year but i have to share Juniper in her new year's bunny suit before it's over and it not be out of place lol
15 notes · View notes
dozydawn · 2 years
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Green eyes photographed by Ron Galella, 1980-1998.
Row 1: Rachel Weisz, Demi Moore, Joan Collins.
Row 2: Jennifer Connelly, Catherine Deneuve, Dolly Parton.
Row 3: Esther Williams, Connie Sellecca, Jane Seymour.
128 notes · View notes
magicalgirlsasuke · 1 year
Text
rr wrote bianca into the series and killed her off solely for nico’s characterisation/as a way to progress the plot without making her part of the plot -- and that makes her the most intriguing character in the whole series for me.
she was a 12 yo solely responsible for her younger brother for 70 years!! her character motive was to be free of that responsibility. to only have to worry about herself for once in her life, to finally have a support system backing her. yet even after she’s joined the hunters and percy is on a quest with her seeing her act for herself, the narrative always notes her thru reference to nico.
we see that despite being notably drained by him, she deeply cares for nico and only feels comfortable leaving him bcos she fully believes percy and the rest of chb are capable of taking over her role as caretaker. with the hunters we see her grow more confident, taking off her hat - yet her tying her hair in the same braid as zöe and some other ways she shown to fall into the line with the hunters, actually suggest that whilst she’s found a place with them, she’s trying to belong sm she’s pushing down her personal identity. i would’ve loved to see how she came into herself throughout the series.
after she dies (doing something for nico), except from the initial search, her death is always framed as ‘oh no poor nico losing his sister’ instead of focusing on how horrific it is that a 12 yo died on her first quest after spending a week at most at chb. it should have been a radicalising event for percy yet instead it’s just a source of guilt at not fulfilling his promise to nico.
nico spending months in the labyrinth trying to bring her back, and years later making another attempt when the doors of death open, are written in solely as a way to forward the plot but that extent of love for his sister that’s always driving nico is by far the part of his character that makes him most endearing to me. and when he finally makes contact with her ghost and she’s like ‘even in death you won’t let me rest’. PLSS.
hades negatively weighing nico against bianca and saying he’s the one that should’ve died instead, is totally just meant to be a way of milking nico’s sadness BUT LIKE keep talking hades i really want to know more. hades went against the rule that says gods should stay uninvolved in their demigod children’s lives and had a direct presence in bianca and nico’s upbringing but ur just not going to expand on what his relationship with bianca was like?? what he means be telling nico this?? the aspects of her personality and the memories he has of her that are weighing on him so heavily?? any indication of who she was as his daughter???
also the hints that she knew who her godly parent was??? EXPAND ON THAT. did she come into some of her power?? did she remember some of her past despite being bathed in the river lethe?? (why wouldn’t children of hades have some power over the river???)
i genuinely want to know her. the sole reason i’m excited for the upcoming nico book is to learn more about her, i’m not even exaggerating.
88 notes · View notes
Text
I'm actually appalled at how gatekeeping, aggravating and Percy obsessive the pjo fandom is when you say you like Jason as a character or say ANYTHING good about him at all. I've had such horrible experiences, like why the dirty look ffs? I'm not a "true" pjo fan if I like Jason?? Bffr it sounds like something an 8 year old would say
Like I came across a YouTube comment appreciating Jason and Nico's closeness as friends and the replies HAD to be "oh L take. Imagine liking jason. Percy was much more brotherly and affectionate with Nico than Jason was" like ??? This is isn't about Percy?? Not everything revolves around him?? People can like and appreciate others too? How come I NEVER see these comments in a Leo or Nico post?
Or those stupid Instagram reels where ppl go "The people who like Jason isn't one of us" like this ain't a cult ma'am you aren't special for for making Jason lovers feel unwelcome. It seems to be some kind of trend.
Liking Jason isn't a fucking disease and people aren't obligated to have Percy as a favourite. Get over it, the world isn't going to end. I swear I didn't want to come off so aggressive here but this is seriously a very toxic and offputting trait the fandom has that NEEDS to fade over time.
48 notes · View notes
amcrimera · 2 years
Text
Random friend things: pjo/hoo edition
Friends who match:
Reyna and Jason — they don't plan it, it just happens. It's a subconscious thing. They usually wear the same uniform all the time, so maybe they just subconsciously match when they wear civvies too. Reyna hates it and Jason loves it.
Percy and Leo — also do not plan it (most of the time). When they get older, they get similar haircuts, wear similar suits at formal events and even wear similar tshirts. It gets so bad that Piper claims that they are each other's style icons. Percy denies this and Leo claims that Percy stole his look.
Percy and Clarisse — once in a while, they wear the exact same outfit and they both hate hate hate it.
Piper and Leo — this is mostly at the wilderness school and if they end living together as adults. They just have such similar energies when they're around each other, of course they match all the time. Neither of them mind. Piper thinks it's cool that she's Leo's style icon. Leo thinks it's kind of hilarious.
Hazel and Frank — it's not intentional, it just happens sometimes. It's weird for the both of them.
Reyna and Nico — it is very much intentional. They shop at the same stores for that specific shirt or jersey, then they wear it whenever they see each other. Nico was against it at first, but warmed up to it pretty quickly. Reyna thinks its sweet that Nico wants to dress like her.
Percy and Grover — complete mistake, but it's their own faults honestly. They both have the habit of sharing clothes whenever they sleep over, so now it's like they have a shared wardrobe of similar clothes. Percy thinks it's weird at first, but warmed up to the idea after a while. Grover thinks it neat that he and Percy have similar tastes.
Bianca and Nico — when they were younger, their mother would dress them in the same/similar clothes. When they got older, the habit stuck until a little after Bianca turned twelve and Nico entered his goth/emo phase. It picks up again a little after that, but it's so subtle only the two of them (plus Reyna and Hazel) notice it. They both hate it so much, like can you develop your own style i will kill you dead why do you wanna be me so badly–
Annabeth and Frank— not at all intentional, they just have the most basic wardrobes.
106 notes · View notes
jasontoddssuper · 2 years
Text
I know the 'characters of color not being as popular as the white characters isn't because of racism,it's because they're less developed!' excuse is bullshit and that's because i SAW y'all making fic after fic and fanart after fanart of Harry P*tter characters who had literally nothing to them but names
137 notes · View notes
doyeons · 10 days
Text
i think maybe there’s a bit of misery swirling around in me
4 notes · View notes
kn11ves · 5 months
Text
how do you know someone has hazel eyes well before you even ask they have already started describing how they have a golden ring with flecks of green around their iris and a half brown and slightly grey in the sun and turn violet when theyre angry and cry limpid tears and how a lot of people tell them they look like amy lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!) and
2 notes · View notes