tumblr should have a feature where if it’s someone’s birthday there’s a little party hat over their avatar so their followers can see it’s their special day

right person, not enough time.

(not a ship. hopefully, this was obvious.)

If I ask nicely who will rb this telling me what is the last song u listened to 🥺

Context: A few months ago I made a post mentioning my idea for this, and it’s picking up some traction. The event would involve parents of demigods & magicians, including the gods, and insight into to their thoughts about their children. This is in the vein of my anticlea series which focuses on the parents of demigods. I’ve noticed this is a very niche but popular space and I’d like to fill it out. There would not be a sideblog created but an Ao3 collection would be made and works would be grouped together like that. I would also be reblogging any other type of submission and making it a featured tag, although the tag #riordanverseparentsweek would be where it all should go.

god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldn’t even hesitate

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

imagine writing this. imagine writing percy increasingly losing himself to his anger and his resentment, sympathizing with Luke, spiraling, being immensely powerful, burning away at his mortality, and not knowing how to deal with any of it. Desperate for help and the one time he breaks down enough to try and get it (Jason) his worst thoughts and perceptions of himself are inadvertently affirmed. He never talks about it to Annabeth. He never talks about it to his mom. Oh but everyone is aware of it. Aware of his anger. Afraid of his anger. Concerned for him and by him. They give each other looks, worried, because they recognize what a danger he could be — to himself, to others, to the gods. But no one says anything, at least not to Percy. No one helps him. No one intervenes. They don't know how to, it seems. (Or maybe they're afraid to). And so they all pretend everything is fine. Percy pretends, bottling it all up inside until the pressure gets too great and that anger boils over and he loses it all over again. He's so desperate for normalcy that he'll take anything, believes in all of the sweet, sugar-spun tales of New Rome and looks away from the rotting underside. He lets himself believe that once he's there the gods will have to leave him alone, because he's done with it all, he's retired (and the gods always keep their promises don't they?).

Imagine writing what is arguably the well-plotted, compelling, and tragic beginnings of a fallen hero arc for percy and none of it being intentional.

RR's penchant for Percy to be explosively angry and scarily powerful, alongside characterizing him as jaded and resentful and desperate, mixed with his refusal to write any in-depth emotional resolution to any time Percy snaps has created an enthralling narrative of a hero just about to fall from grace. and it's all seemingly an accident.

Oh, and another, amazing, unintentional coincidence? if you're taking RR's word that Percy is still 17, that's also the age Luke was when he failed his quest, marking the beginning of his fall as a hero. Like. The narrative parallels are all there. And without any meaning for them to be.

I know Percy's desperately trying to escape the godly world but not only do I think the gods aren't going to leave percy alone once he's in New Rome, I also think Percy's in the situation now where he can't refuse at all because like, if he was in the mortal world at a mortal college he at least would be able to try and be like "sorry I can't do a quest right now I've already used up my three excused absences this semester try again in the spring :/" but in New Rome? They will be like "Percy! It is an honor to be hand-selected for a quest. And by the gods no less! Stars above, you should be grateful! I don't know what your little greek camp has taught you but here in Rome, we respect the gods' requests. Your absence will be excused. Now go."

Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

meanest person you've ever met: i'm so sick of being nice

*twirling my hair, kicking my feet* please share your image of Will with the class 👀

:3 absolutely!

When I think of Will, he's got an undercut, kinda a stealth mullet thing going on. Kinda like this:

And for me his clothes fall under this aesthetic mix of dark academia and techwear? Like, he's got shirts like these:

And his pants are either like the baggy and ankle tapered(like below) or they're real blue denim jeans. Shoes go either way for him. Mostly around the cabin or infirmary are gonna be the slide sandals or crocs, but if he has to be active around camp(or future residency/on his feet all day), he's gonna be in comfy tennis shoes (unless its a really heavy work day around camp, then he'll break out his Texan steel toed work boots lol).

His ears are also pierced in my brain. He's got two holes on his right lobe, two on his left but he also has his cartilage on his left. No rings or bracelets(it interferes with washing his hands in the infirmary) but he goes hard with necklaces and earrings(he can at least tuck the necklaces into his shirt).

But yeah! That's my Will visual headcanon! Thank you for asking and being interested in it lol!

yeehaw !! ☀️

talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

'Go to hell' is basic. 'I hope your favourite book let's a bad movie adaptation' is juvenile. 'I hope your favourite franchise has an announced movie, with a full teaser trailer, before immediately throwing it in development hell for seven years with absolute zero updates, and then being cancelled out of nowhere, without the possibility of another studio buying the IP to pursue giving the franchise a second chance to be rounded off in a satisfying way' is vicious. It's possible. It happened.

When you were born to make history but your studio preferred shonen

I wonder why

is it just me or do i wanna see nico coming to terms to the real world as an adult. after being trapped in his youth for 100 years. learning to do taxes and earn money with a job. when he learns that he is not young anymore. when he realises he doesn't even know what stream of careers he wants to go through. when he realises that he can't keep running back to the dead like he did when he was young.