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thebeigewitch · 11 months

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look this is gonna be a hard to swallow pill for the pjo fandom,

but the sun and the star is coming out at a really important time in the USA -- homophobia is on the rise, books like this are being restricted, and policies are being debated and passed to exterminate queer and trans people from the public sphere. having a positive example of a queer relationship in fiction, especially as part of a mega-popular middle grade series, is going to be important to a lot of the queer 10-14 year olds that make up this book's main demographic.

i have never, ever seen a percy jackson book have such a negative reception online. and it's just a coincidence that this is the first queer-focused installment of the series?

people are seeing the extent of the hate and thinking they shouldn't bother reading tsats at all, that they have already heard enough from people who hate the book. I have had people reblog my positive posts and say "maybe i'll give this book a chance, this is the first nice post i've seen about it." that's really fucking sad yall.

maybe tsats wasn't what you expected, maybe it contradicted your headcanons, maybe you prefer ships other than solangelo. you don't have to like tsats. but the amount of vocal hate for it is ridiculous. other pjo books do not get this kind of hate -- picking apart and complaining about every tiny little detail, ridiculing the writing style of both authors, mocking the attempts at sincerity, even sometimes mocking people who did like the book.

i have never seen this harsh of a response before (and i'm old -- I've been a percy jackson reader since the lightning thief came out in 2005) and especially not from such large portions of the fandom to the point where people who haven't read it are feeling discouraged from doing so.

Please look at the big picture. your opinions don't exist in a vacuum. maybe this is a hot take, but at some point the hate is indistinguishable from how homophobes talk about queer fiction. i'm just saying there are better things to turn your anger towards, and if you hated this book so much just do what the rest of us do and write fucking fanfiction to make yourself feel better. fucks sake

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thebeigewitch · 11 months

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thebeigewitch · 11 months

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It's so wild to me that apparently Small Bob has been around since TTC

#like we get both Nico and the cat in the same book #also how tf that cat end up in Tartarus?#but dayum #small bob living through 2 huge wars and just vibing #pjo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #the sun and the star #nico di angelo #tsats #percy jackon and the olympians #the titans curse

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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Will wearing this while walking the Cocoa Puffs

#absolutely not 😭#im dying #lmfao nooo #he'd wear it tho-#will solace #pjo hoo toa #pjo headcanon #solangelo #nico di angelo #pjo #percy jackson

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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okay, hold on now. i think we need to count on fingers exactly how many powers nico has because as much as i loved tsats i think oshiro and rick really depowered him in the book as compared to the previous ones.

(no tsats spoilers, except for the third and fourth bullet points under 'will can'.)

nico can:

(titan's curse) make cracks appear in the ground and summon skeletons from the underworld.

(battle of labyrinth) summon and control spirits with some chanting.

(battle of labyrinth) cleave the ground open with his sword, and send spirits back to the underworld even if they don't wanna go.

(battle of labyrinth) control the earth. he made those boulders collapse by clapping his hands. i think rick just forgot about it later tbh.

(battle of labyrinth) kill people just by staring at them (daedalus), given that they've been cheating death for 2000 years or so.

(last olympian) wield stygian iron, call hordes of skeleton soldiers to fight titans, and shadow travel.

(blood of olympus) project his negative emotions onto people to such an extent that it disorients them and makes them nearly faint. lower the temperature (what).

(blood of olympus) TURN PEOPLE INTO GHOSTS BY LOOKING AT THEM AND THEN SEND THEM INTO THE UNDERWORLD VIA FALLING STRAIGHT DOWN.

(blood olympus) CONTROL DREAMS. UHM. TF. (remember reyna looking at him and going 'just how powerful is this kid?')

(blood of olympus) overpower six fully armoured roman warriors in swordfighting and knock them all out in ten seconds flat.

(tower of nero) turn indestructible bulls into a living carcass that follows his every command.

(tower of nero) actually make a human's skin wither away until they're a mindless skeleton that again follows nico's every command. yes, you read that right, he can turn people into walking skeletons just by touching them.

nico can't:

not eath blue birthday cake.

might have missed some but that list is long. i once again am furthering my 'nico is the most powerful demigod alive rn' agenda. oh, and we can't not mention will solace in a post about nico di angelo.

will can:

heal people with hymns.

glow in the dark.

shoot out light from his chest. (he's so cringe, i love him.)

give the protogenos of night a very snotty hay fever.

will can't:

play violin.

refuse to give nico forehead kisses.

#they nerfed him in tsats bcuz he was too powerful

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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Finished TSATS and now I need an entire new book with just Nico being with/taking care of the Cocoa Puffs actually

#helpp its been like 3 chapters with them and im already attached #i finished the book a week ago but had to take a break to process #honestly it was so fun reading-#time to wait for chalice of the gods now 🏃#pjo #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #solangelo #the sun and the star #will solace #nico di angelo #tsats #tsats spoilers

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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New pics of Aryan from his friends’ birthday wishes!

Happy 17th Aryan!

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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heeyyyyy percy jackson/riordanverse fans, if you want to read the sun and the star for a really nice price (free) then you should definitely not click this link, which definitely does not contain an epub and pdf file of the book!

(in all seriousness though i’m not sure if the epub works outside of adobe digital editions but i did apparently remove the drm from it so…it should? let me know if it doesn’t though!)

#may the gods make both sides of your pillow cold tonight #time to readdddd #tysm

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thebeigewitch · 1 year

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Happy The Sun an The Star release date to yall!