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Harry potter fandom: the ships should be beautiful names: wolfstar, starchaser, moonseeker,etc
percy jackson fandom: alr alr hear me out, lightning mclean
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springmagpies · 1 month
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Piper: Can I ask a stupid question?
Jason: None of your questions are stupid.
Percy: Can I ask a stupid question?
Annabeth: All of your questions are stupid.
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overanalyzer · 2 years
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Broken Hearts
If Piper and Jason were to break up, it should have been in their own story not squished into Apollos. That way, we could see and treat both kids with respect.
We can see Piper struggle with her previous assumptions about love and romance. We can see Piper grapple and overcome her insecurities about being like her mum and breaking people's hearts. We could get a beautiful story about a girl realizing her own self-worth is not tied in to being in love, and her search to find herself (sapphic Piper included).
On Jason's side, we can see a kid with abandonment issues, struggle with having been left again. We can see him struggle with his self-worth. We can see him learn and move past it. We can see him accept it and accept himself. He gets closure and isn’t shafted in the support department. At the end, he too learns that being loved romantically is not a sign of your worth.
Then when it's finally done, we can see them reach out to each other, tentatively and awkwardly. Because now they're ready. Now they've both moved on. And now it's time to stay on as friends. Because while the romance might not have stayed real, their love for each other has only grown stronger. 
By squishing the breakup into Apollos tale, we don't get as strong a narrative. We get a broken Jason Grace who everyone (including himself and excluding Lester who just wants the gossip) hates for no reason and no one listens to. We get a Piper desperately invalidating her past feelings and the past four HoO books because obviously love that doesn't last has to have been fake (sarcasm). In short, we get a narrative that doesn’t have enough time to properly be a sequel to the books before it.
At the end of the day, the ToA breakup is not the refreshing 'not all love lasts' story it could have been. It doesn’t have the time to delve into the nuances of a story like that and so relied on assumptions. And thus, the breakup has all the potential that Jasper had, the potential of a piece of writing that expects you to come with supportive head canons prepared.
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snorpy-fizzlebean · 1 year
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Omg it’s the trans man Lightning McQueen from the hit 2006-2017 trilogy Cars  
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angelsodreamy-no2 · 2 years
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idk why you guys hate jason and piper as a ship so much like imagine just chilling on a rooftop at night when everybody else is already asleep. just professing your love for one another and dancing as if the world only belongs to the two of you. that's like some super romantic shit.
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zestysthoughts · 1 month
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ravenexy · 1 year
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leo valdez is that one kid that says shit like “stretching isn’t enough, i want to disassemble my body” and percy is the one that goes “oh my gods like legos”
and honestly i think that says enough about their friendship
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Me because the Percy Jackson series is actually about the different cycles of abuse, which include abuse within romantic partners (Sally and Gabe), abuse between “family” (Percy and Gabe, Meg and Nero), abuse from people in positions of power (the gods over the demigods), and so on, oppression than ranges from having adhd in the public educational system to being forced to perform quests for your entire life for people who could not care less about your well-being, how camp is both somewhere safe but also the bittersweet taste of arriving there and realizing you can never escape, you can never be normal your life will never be the same. There’s no turning back. How Luke was right on theory but not on acts, how these kids got around the idea to never make it to 18, and how there was nothing they could do about that. How many of them sat in their cabins, counting down the days until their sibling/friend/partner came back, only for them to not come back at all. Was it ever their turn to leave someone waiting behind? Annabeth, Percy, Grover, Thalia, the whole deal with Nico, Bianca, Silena, and every single demigod. Children of Apollo were the camp healers, was it a choice? A moral obligation? In camp Jupiter there’s Jason, there’s Reyna, Piper’s story, Leo’s story, the way Jason and Piper’s relationship was heteronormativity pushed by Hero because both of them were queer but she wanted a perfect couple. After being gone missing, people searched for Percy, but Jason? The devastation of Leo and Jason’s relationship, how Leo never knew his feelings for him were required, how both Leo and Piper thought they knew Jason but it was all fake memories, how Jason never fully got his memories back. Hazel’s story, Frank’s story, how Nico and Leo’s mutual dislike for each other comes from a place of understatement. How they both see themselves in each other and look away as one looks away from a mirror when they dislike their reflection. They are both so similar, almost the same. They both are also autistic, except Leo is always masking, and Nico never really learnt how to. Neurodivergence, adhd and dyslexia. Being a demigod is a metaphor for neurodiversity. Was Dionysus actual punishment looking over camp? Or was it spending years and years seeing demigods come and grow and die? Knowing there was nothing he could do about it? Knowing than if he was with the gods, he would be causing their deaths, instead of grieving them? Does Chiron feel hopeless? Memory, names, ghosts. Blades, swords, arrows, blood. So many blood, blood-stained hands. Monsters follow you before coming to camp, did they hurt you family? It was all your fault. They don’t want you to come back, you bring danger, you’re more dangerous than the monster, you are a monster yourself, after all the Minotaur was a demigod too. Leo killed his mother, Zeus killed Maria, Sally got taken to the underworld, Tristan was held hostage, Fredrick and his wife and sons got attacked by monsters, and who’s fault it was? You run away you keep on running but you’ll never outrun the danger because the danger is yourself, you are at fault, how do you run away now?
The odyssey, the iliad, the statues in museums, you look at them, do you see yourself? Do you see any resemble? Your nose kinda looks like theirs, the shape of their lips, the width of their hands, but that’s a lie you’re nothing like them, never will be, is that a tragedy? Do you want to be like them? Do you want to be a hero and die a heroic death? Or do you simply wish to visit your family on Christmas and live the life your little cousins will eventually live? Maybe you’ll never see the life they’ll live, maybe you’ll die before seeing it. There’s nothing to be done about that, you just have to accept it. Don’t you feel the rage, bubbling inside of you, making your hands shake? What can you do with it? Not much, remember last time, remember Luke, what did he accomplish? Nothing, blood, screams. You remember the war, you remember the city, maybe it was the first or the second time you set a foot on it, now every single time you do (if you do) in the future, it will be tainted. Look in that corner, that used to be destroyed. Look at that building, my friend died against that wall, that road was filled with blood. Was it ours? Theirs? Is there even a difference between us? Should there be? Why were you on your side? Why were they in theirs? Who was right? Who was wrong? You can go anywhere but home, maybe you’re not welcomed, maybe there’s no home to return, maybe it’s better for everyone if you don’t return. Nico keeps Bianca’s jacket, Leo taps iloveyou on Morse code. Piper was forced to be someone she wasn’t, she thought she was someone she was not, she was forced to think that. Who is she? Is she even who she thought she was? Jason still don’t remembers everything, and him? Who is he? Nico will never get his memories back, he wonders about his mom, did he have more family back then? Grandparents, aunts? Hazel is a walking curse. Silena and Clarisse as Patroklos and Achilles. Apollo seeing the brutal reality of demigods’ life on trials of apollo.
Your hand shakes, the sword you hold moves, you feel it’s weight, do you want to hold it? Do you have to?
The dead come back to haunt us, Nico sees Bianca everywhere, Leo still remembers his mother’s voice, Hazel came back from the dead, Frank holds his life on his pocket, Thalia lost a brother twice, Leo didn’t really die, Jason died instead, Percy wished to drown himself, half of camp still waits for their brother to come back, even if it has been months, even if it has been years. Luke’s mother still waits, was she crazy? The campers who thought to recognize their friend’s face for a second before remembering than it couldn’t possibly be them, were they crazy too? Who was crazier? Luke’s mother who did not remember, or the campers who did? The underworld has no mercy only justice, but the world has no justice only mercy. You might get mercy, but you never will get justice. Was it fair anything than happened to them? You might be spared in a war or in a battle out of mercy, out of pity, out of recognition, but that didn’t stop you from having to fight in it, that didn’t stop you from having to wield the sword. Spare all the people you want, turn a blind eye to whatever you want, mercy? sure, but you were still holding the sword, you were still supposed to fight, you still weren’t in charge of your life. How was that justice? How was that fair? Names had power, even their names had more power than your life, even the letters making up their names were more powerful than your fists, could you ever win? Could you ever win when their names were so powerful they could not be pronounced but your life was so worthless they didn’t even care to learn yours? To learn the names of the ones than died because of them. You can’t say the name of you sister’s killer, but you’re still expected to burn an offering to them each night at dinner.
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percy: *mumbling in latin*
grover: for the last time, i’m not a demon and you can’t exorcise me
percy: worth a try!
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aglacieronmars · 2 years
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The moon will sing a song for me, I loved you like the sun, bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own, I shine only with the light you gave (I could have been anyone, anyone)
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grievingwithnoreason · 3 months
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I don’t like Jason as a protagonist because he’s just so bori-
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ADMITT YOU JUST DONT LIKE CHANGE
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im back on my bullshit
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overanalyzer · 11 months
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To be honest I think the reason I shipp(ed) Piper and Jason is the fact that they both shared the same ideals. They both wanted to be normal. Jason didn’t know how to be anything but the golden boy and epic hero but he just wanted to be normal. Piper just wanted a normal life, where she had an active relationship with those she cared for. Her dreams with Jason were always normal girl with normal guy living a normal life.
Piper and Jason both didn’t care about rich, fame, or prestige. What mattered more for them is being able to be with the ones they cared about.
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lonely-fried-art · 7 months
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shout out to this show for driving me fucking insane
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stygianiron9 · 2 years
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Percy throughout The Lightning Thief because no one will explain shit to him:
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maple-tree-hills · 27 days
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This is what Dionysius is like right? I've only read book 1.
Dionysius: I care about all the campers. -looks at smuggled writing on his hand- Peter Johnson, Annabelle Paste, Nick Angel, Lice Cast a Villian, Jaceon Pace, Talla Peace, Roger Undergrove, Claritin the Rules, Tiger Mr. Clean, Tank Tang, Theo Palpez, Pill Shoelaces, Ray Shell, and Haybell Levelcue.
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