i am. so very normal about this man.

absolutely LIVING for @speeedreiding ‘s hades!narrator au! it’s super cool, i definitely recommend going to check out their fic, take your time (all we have is eternity)!

plus an additional lil sketch of the baes, i love them with my entire being <3

Zagreus

not as a boss fight ❌

not as a boon giver ❌

not as a companion summon ❌

but as Mel's incredibly proud narrator exaggerating all his little sister's accomplishments as she fails over and over again ✔

BG3 narrator? in my hades supergiant?

A summary of my journey reading Heroes of Olympus:

Before reading: I've just speed red five books in a row and I'm kinda tired, I don't care about this second great prophecy that much, and I have a long tbr list I wanna get to, but also THE PERCABETH IS FINALLY PERCABETHING I NEED MORE

The lost hero: I don't think I've ever theorised this hard reading Pjo before, but also we're head hoping now??? That's new. More importantly, I love Leo he's my son now.

Son of Neptune: I am very biased in saying that I despise everything about Camp Jupiter without exception for one reason and one reason only: it's not Camp Half-blood. Also Frank and Hazel's romance is very, very boring. On a more positive note, Yay Percy's back!! He called his mom!! That's my boy!!

The mark of Athena: I LOVE LEO. But also is that a love triangle I see? How dare you! I guess the Romans can stay... Annabeth's POV was boring at first but it got fun later :) The final fight scene was fun. Leo saving Hazel and Frank was also fun.

House of Hades: OH MY GOSH I HAVE NEVER SHIPPED ANYTHING IN PJO AS HARD AS I AM SHIPPING LEO AND CALYPSO THEY ARE SOULMATES. I'm starting to warm up to camp Jupiter I guess, but dang I feel bad for Reyna. Also Cupid saying Jason has found true love kinda put me off, like yeah he and Piper have a solid relationship but I wouldn't call it true love, unless they're gonna twist that around and they're actually talking about some other relationship. Also SMALL BOB.

The blood of Olympus: YOU CAN'T END IT ON A CLIFF HANGER LIKE THAT WHAT THE HELL UNCLE RICK

Final thoughts: I have no desire to read trials of Apollo. I have Pjo burn out. It would have been nice to have been given a choice in the matter. Unfortunately, I was not. I guarantee I won't burn through it as fast as Hoo, tho. Cause, y'know. I actually wanted to read those.

Oh no! He turned into a questionably made quencher tumbler! Help! (This was way funnier in my head)

shush, homer!

i love hermes of course and obviously but consider: persephone narrating hadestown

she takes orpheus under her wing

the sweet maternal smirk as she watches him lovestruck for eurydice, remembering what that felt like

during epic i, we learn that she told orpheus the story of her great love (the thought of her singing a song of love from long ago, long time since i heard it though lays me out)

she rages and leads the chorus all through condemning hadestown in way down

even more direct horror and pain at eurydice being taken down

DISILLUSIONED AFTER HER OWN BETRAYAL DURING HEY THE BIG ARTISTE (you'll find another muse somewhere)

a whole new layer and familiarity to our lady of the underground as she introduces the audience to her domain (and what is her crack in the wall for but telling stories and sowing hope?)

more power/standing for the confrontation of how long?

watching the seeds she planted by telling orpheus stories come to bloom in epic iii

then breaking the good and bad news to orpheus and eurydice after his kiss, the riot and giving hard-earned advice

witnessing orpheus fail as she and hades did and retelling the story despite it being an old song. because it's her song to sing.

A friend and I were talking the other night and stumbled onto a genuine theory completely by accident. Ok, so hear me out:

Everyone knows about the theory that the Shoebill you see around the Crystarium is Emet-Selch in disguise, right? Something that's supported by the fact you get the shoebill minion from the Amaurot dungeon. Like, of all things, why THAT minion in THAT dungeon, y'know? Seems like the Ancient One minion would be better suited for Amaurot over Shoebill unless there was a REASON.

ANYWAY we got to talking about the Adventurous Ambystoma you can find in Endwalker, and we realized you don't find any of them until AFTER you've been to Elpis, meaning you've already released Hythlodaeus's spirit from the moon. And the fact it's called an ambystoma as opposed to an axolotl, as they were called in Elpis where Hythlodaeus took a bit of a liking to them, seems suspicious. So what if this Adventurous Ambystoma is actually just Hythlodaeus? We know he and Hades were watching your adventure, it's just never specified how or where, so maybe it was literal and Hythlodaeus was following you around as this ambystoma much the same way Emet-Selch kept tabs on you as Shoebill.

Love that as soon as i reached lvl 70 i JUMPED at the reaper to kick that giant blond boy's ass then some expansions later Zenos' dramatic copycat ass said "great idea :))" and now he's also a reaper. I had a cool coat now he also has a cool coat. No peace and quiet in this fucking star

Way Down Hadestown - Lillias White as Hermes

Amelia Tyler voicing Hecate let's gooooooo

anyway i decide to just move on from tsats but if anything came out of this is that maria di angelo people i think i’ll finally write that maria centric fic ive been wanting to write since i was 13

"I've got 24 hours to get rid of this bozo, or the entire scheme I've been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke... and you... are wearing... HIS MERCHANDISE?!"

— The Narrator, pissed at Tippet

(Source: Hades, Hercules)

at first i thought zag was just discovering that hades had had a wife other than nyx,

and then the narrator referred to persephone as his mother and i was like "oh, i guess when he called nyx mother it was in the 'mother of all' sense?"

and then zagreus responded to the narrator with shock and horror and i finally figured out why this note was actually a revelation.

has it ever been found out who the narrator guy in hades is? like, why can only zagreus hear him and why is he so ok with some weird old disembodied voice spectating his entire life?? idk how it took me 80+ hrs and a few years of pondering to realize how strange this is.

There is no greater pain on this earth than having a media hyperfixation you can't draw