[punkeropercyjackson]

I'm begging y'all to remember Percy Jackson is canonically urban,poor and alternative and not suburban,well-off and sheltered.I'm equally begging y'all to read the SLIGHTEST bits of punk history so you can find out one of the main point's of the subculture is 'power is inherently bad due to the inevitable corruption it leads to in our society' so Percy can't be punk and a god or accept his true potential gifted by Poseidon's superior ichor manwhore genes or whatever

[theamazingmaddyas]

Thinking of which Apollo kids (and suspected Apollo kids and Apollo legacies) can and can't ride a bike because I've been on mine more in the last three days than I have in the last three years.

Let's start with the most obvious one: Jerry can; London is absolutely filled with bike riders, it would be quite surprising if he couldn't to me. He and his mom (mum, sorry) probably spend afternoons before her shows riding around London.

Michael also can. I don't have solid evidence for this one besides the fact that Michael feels like he can ride a bike.

I've never been to Hong Kong, but according to research, bikes are very uncommon there and it's hilly so bikes aren't very easy to use. Therefore, I hc Yan cannot ride a bike. Maybe Yan'll learn at CHB since I've decided that they deserve a ride share.

Austin also cannot ride a bike. He was far too focused growing up on his music to care to learn without training wheels. He did used to ride Oberlin with his training wheels as a little kiddo though, so maybe he'll learn at CHB.

Will can; he had his bike attached to the back of the music van as a kid and would ride around the parking lots of venues Naomi performed at during set up before people started arriving.

I've also never been to Toronto, so I don't know its true bikeability, but Kayla can ride; Darren would take her on bike trails growing up. I feel in my soul he's close to nature.

Gracie can. The town I hc she's from (Sun Valley; for the puns of course) has on it's website it's numerous bike trails for the summer. (It's normally a ski resort town). So, I trust the website.

Lee can. Like Michael, I can't pinpoint why, just that he can.

Octavian cannot. NR does have bikes, and their pretty popular, but Octavian gives the vibe of a kid who would've rathered use a horse-drawn carriage to get to school because it's more Roman than a bike.

Georgina can; she was taught by Leo post-TDP and it isn't an uncommon sight now for her to ask Waystation for a mini bike park.

Hal could, as a kid, but hadn't ridden in like 50 years so I doubt he still could. Besides, being stuck at home kinda hinders your biking ability if you're not at Waystation.

Victoria cannot. Why? I dunno. I know nothing about her besides the fact that she exists, I'm going on a limb here.

[amili-aa]

Honestly I feel like Lee was the one to teach Michael how to ride a bike. Idk why but in my mind Michael had a difficult childhood so if there wasn't anyone to teach him before he came to camp Lee definitely stepped up as the big brother and showed him how to do it. Anyways yeah those are accurate

[best-hamilton-song]

The Results are In! And The Winner Is.....

The Room Where It Happens !!!

Honestly I can't even say I'm surprised because I know well enough that it's a fan favorite but now it is OFFICIALLY THE fan favorite. Thank you so much to all the people who voted in any of the polls of this project, and thanks even more to the fans who'd I see share their thoughts (and go crazy over not being able to pick a favorite) every week. You guys have now awarded TRWIH its well deserved title of the Fan Picked Best Hamilton Song (in the official soundtrack) (and also Non-Stop as the runner-up).

A poll for the third place will be released soon, and with that this poll tournament will be officially over :(

Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed being a part of this, I sure know I did. Even though it was a relatively small project and some polls didn't get much traction, it meant a lot to see so many people being so passionate over their all time favorite songs of the soundtrack. Have an amazing day everyone !

[best-hamilton-song]

Third Place Has Been Awarded! Wait For It won!

The official podium for the very first Best Hamilton Song poll tournament on Tumblr Dot Com is:

The Room Where It Happens

Non-stop

Wait For It

With the conclusion of this last poll to determine the 3rd place, this poll tournament is hereby officially closed. *sad noises from the crowd*

Although I did see a few people asking me to come back next year and re-do the tournament, which I'm still not sure of (bc I doubt that the results will vary much in just one year) but let me know if y'all would like to see that!

Again, thank you so much to everyone who contributed by voting and reblogging and sharing and just overall being interested in this little project!

[theamazingmaddyas]

This is "Things that are not on CHB Official Map, but I am convinced are there: a list"

Here's the map for those who don't know:

A gaga pit

A horseshoe pit

One of those bike racks with free bikes/space for campers to put their own bikes

Basketball courts (I feel like I remember them playing basketball but it's not on the map, so, yeah) that double as a tennis/pickelball court (there's a detachable net)

A baseball field

Mapped out hiking trails

Mapped out biking trails

A mini skate park

One of those floating slides in the middle of the Long Island sound

A roped off swimming area in the sound/a swim dock

A zipline

A zipline that you jump into the lake from

A high ropes course (this is just me projecting my love of rope courses onto CHB, don't mind me)

A low ropes course

A few platform tents off to the side that are seldom used, but make a great gossip spot

At least fourteen tree houses

A random shrine dedicated to something extremely niche that has nothing to do with Greek Myths (an actor, a toy, or something like that)

A wall of world flags

A GIGANTIC world map where campers from around the world can stick a pin with their initials and cabin numbers where they're from.

A playground with a swing set, swings, spinny things, the whole shebang.

A dedication wall where all demigods who died in battles/quests are named since the dawn of time (the starting of camp) It's got like historical demigods like Achilles all the way up to modern day and the Battle of Manhattan and Gaea and Nero and such.

A second wall dedicated to roman casualties after the camps become friendly

A shed that's dedicated solely to things like hula hoops, jump ropes, and those spinny things around your ankles.

A random shopping cart in the forest no one really knows how it got there (dedicated to the random shopping cart I found behind the fence in my backyard once)

A library

A library hidden underneath the Athena cabin

A music room hidden underneath the Apollo cabin.

A beehive

A cacao tree no one, including the cacao nymph, knows how she got there, but it makes great chocolate

A maple tree dedicated to the Canadian demigods (they have a little plaque next to it signed)

A tire swing

An abandoned tent sight in the middle of the woods

A semi-abandoned cabin in the middle of the forest used for gossip sessions

A plot of grass everyone calls "Cartwheel lane" and tradition has it you must cartwheel across it. (People who cannot cartwheel must leave a singular wagon wheel pasta on the edge as a peace offering) (wheelies in wheelchairs are acceptable)

A fake garden with plastic plants that the agrarian cabins care just as much about as their real garden.

A rope climb

An American Ninja Warrior course after a Hephaestus kid got hyperfixated on it.

A little cooking shelter that Hestia often frequents

137 random stickers of Chiron stuck around in really random places, no one's quite sure who put them there.

A portal thingymabob that gets you to CJ or the Waystation in a jiffy.

[coquettemouseevil]

I never really understood people who found it weird being introduced to new characters in HOO. I didn't give a shit when Jason, Leo and Piper showed up

Like, I don't mean to be rude, but I don't see the point of why Rick would write 5 more books entirely centered around the original trio. I'm actually glad he explored with the new characters

[amili-aa]

No for real everyone was like "who is Jason where is Percy" and I don't remember it being that much of a shock for me

I had some spoilers tho so idk

[amili-aa]

The fact that, after years of fighting literal monsters and witnessing the deaths of his loved ones, Percy's biggest fear in Tartarus was the smell of Gabe is actually insane

[femme-plant-mom]

Imagine Will having a crush on Nico for so long that the entire camp knows—like the ENTIRE camp, because obviously all of Apollo found out and the older siblings cooed about it to older campers in other cabins because who could predict it would keep going? And the Aphrodite kids know, of course they do, and Lou Ellen and Cecil obviously, which means probably all of Hermes, which means EVERYONE knows—and they’re collectively groaning about it when (after Nico decides to stay at Camp) the two idiots are dancing around each other and dear gods just kiss already!!

[eaglesmeagol22]

Heroes of Olympus rewrite idea where the main trio is Hazel, Leo, and Frank. They're all Greek and they're the children of Hades, Hephaestus, and Nike respectively. They get drafted into a mission to find the missing Thanatos together, along with their resident violent chihuahua mentor, Gleeson Hedge. They're all peak unreliable narrators both to each other and to the readers reading their POV as they each have something to hide and endlessly misunderstand each other, obtuse to the real feelings of the others.

Hazel keeps making references to outdated things and sometimes acts like she is from the 1930s. Leo just assumes she has a boomer personality and is role-playing or something and jokingly starts going along with it. Frank takes it more seriously due to being a fan of sci-fi and starts absurdly wondering if she is a time-traveler before shaking his head because that's ridiculous. Hazel, meanwhile, is freaking out if Leo actually is a reincarnation of Sammy and remembers things, not realizing it's Frank who is closer to deducing the truth.

Frank is examining his life stick one night early in their trip when Leo stumbles upon him. Frank is then forced to explain what it is, and in a panic to hide his fear that he might accidentally kill his quest mate, Leo wavers between being speechless, sympathetic, and joking around about it. He then starts acting incredibly jumpy around Frank and flinches any time fire is mentioned and insisting that Frank team up with Hazel/Hedge more. Frank, who at first lets Leo's weird reaction go, starts to view this as Leo thinking he is abnormal and useless enough to need to be protected to an absurd degree. His insecure anger motivates him to start getting over his fear of fire. Leo starts desperately experimenting to find flame-proof material, also knowing he is accidentally messing up his interactions with Frank. The attempts at flame-proofing soften a still annoyed Frank. Hazel, lacking context, just assumes that Leo is scared of twigs burning up in flames for pollution reasons.

Leo starts trying to practice his fire in secret and Hazel catches him but he pretends he was flicking a lighter open and closed. Hazel doesn't fully believe him, but lets it go. After a second time, she mentions that Frank should know because they may need Leo's ability in the quest, but Leo insists on having more time. Whenever "fire" comes up, Hazel looks between Leo and Frank. Frank starts getting nervous and thinks Leo told Hazel about his life stick and she is upset with him for not telling her when he just didn't get the time to tell her yet. They get captured and Leo uses his fire to help Hazel and Frank escape from a trap. This kick starts a whole round of proper communication where they start fully opening up to each other.

Hedge is no help to solving their drama. He gives advice, but it's not the most usable of advice to solve their friendship issues. He's just there for the actual quest, you know?

[astrangeghost]

t.he character s

[bayetea]

I would go so far as to assert that percy's relationship with hazel is his second (arguably third) most demonstrably intense and emotional and mutually caring friendship in the books but people (including other percy fans) would scoff at this because they don't remember a single thing from son of neptune and are stunted by their inability to think about hazel for even one second

[bayetea]

percy never had a conversation in the first 5 books like the one he had with hazel in the old alaska shack. he called hazel's mother beautiful and said she looks just like her. his voice broke from emotion when he confessed to her how scary it was to nearly drown and hazel consoled him instantly even though she herself had died before. she assures him that he won't die, that he'll make it home to annabeth and that solace is exactly what he needed to hear. percy tells her how valuable she is and that he needs her by his side and that he and frank won't let thanatos take her back. hazel thinks to herself that she'd be okay with dying again as long as percy and frank survive the quest. chapters later percy states clearly that he trusts hazel and frank as much as anyone from his past and she kisses him on the cheek and tells him that he's her family. THIS is the kind of intense platonic friendship that people claim they want more of but don't acknowledge in practice!

[bayetea]

"believe me, I've been thinking about it"

[kingcatnine]

being the last one to send a message before the chat falls into sudden silence always feels like u just made the worst faux pas of your life and you go sorry guys was that weird and they're all like no sorry I was just looking at a leaf on tbe ground leaf.jpg like oh ok

[theamazingmaddyas]

The Camp Fish-Blood thoughts are rampant again, and I've been devising a camp activities list that the CFB campers do:

Sea-horse Chariot Racing: this one seems pretty self-explanatory, and is a favorite amongst campers. Winners gets the coveted seaweed crown and an extra plate of brownies

Water polo, kinda: obviously, the sport itself is a little different as you a) don't tread water and b) don't shoot above the water, but the score system is the same. Now, do I know the water polo scoring system? No. I've never played (I'd be terrible, my endurance is awful) and have never watched a game, but they know the rules.

Arts & Crafts: very similar to above water arts & crafts but their bracelets are made of seaweed and water lilies and rocks and stuff. Some of them are really creative.

Trident-fighting training: this one feels self-explanatory, so I'll leave it.

Capture the Flag: very similar to CHB's, but with a lot more swimming and trident-fighting. They usually do it in a coral reef.

Obstacle Courses: I feel in my heart they have obstacle courses, things they have to swim through with speed.

Brownie breaks!: very important indeed, Aphros makes sure of it, and extra brownies is a prize for good work.

Campfires: okay, so I use the word "fire" loosely. Thanks to the sunforge & leeluke server for helping me work through logistics with this, but it's basically a bioluminescent plant, I'm thinking sea sparkle, in the center as they eat desserts (brownies) and sing marine themed campfire songs and tell stories.

Ocean clean-up: They're very egofriendly and CFB, and one of their activities involves the cleaning of the ocean.

I'm open to more camp activities that people think of!!!!

[lilislegacy]

percy’s view of himself: i’m so stupid and ugly and useless. i’m such a lame demigod

literally everyone else’s view of percy:

[amili-aa]

Just realised how much fanarts affect my perspective on book characters cause wdym I imagined Malcolm Pace with dark hair and no glasses when I first read the books?

[freddie-77-ao3]

malcolm connor and drew being forcibly separated at counselors meetings because they start giggling at really serious or random times, they come up with dumb strategies on purpose, and connor keeps trying to sit on malcolm's lap.

[craftingtablee]

finding canon accurate leo valdez fanart (curly black hair, brown skin, army jacket) is like finding actual diamonds in a coal mine i swear. i domt know how euphemisms work but lord almighty its so rare. get whoever this brown fluffy haired suspenders wearing twink is out of my face and give me a real leo valdez with some acne thanks.

[bayetea]

tbh it's not even fully accurate to say that the son trio's bond is dropped after son of neptune. they're definitely not spotlighted as heavily and I still consider this to be a writing issue - but if you reread hoo you'll see that they still talk and think about each other very fondly. this is not everything but some examples include:

in moa percy notices how upset the hazeleo drama is making frank and asks him to join him on the mini quest to the aquarium, thinking that getting off of the ship for a bit will be good for frank's mental health. percy also continually expresses his confidence in frank and always hypes him up when frank is feeling insecure about his abilities

annabeth has a brief hint of insecurity when she sees how close frank/percy/hazel are when they're laughing together over a meal, worrying that percy might like his new friends more than his old ones

in moa after the chinese finger trap thing frank tells annabeth that percy is a good guy and that he'd "follow percy anywhere"

in moa in leo's pov, percy gives leo a "heads up" about hazel's backstory before he leaves with her on the mini quest with echo/narcissus, and leo feels like beneath percy's warning there was an undertone to it, as though percy was actually saying: "if you mess with my friend, I will personally feed you to a great white shark", indicating percy's lasting protectiveness towards hazel

hazel refers to percy as the demigod that she admires the most in hoh and hopes to make him proud + rejects hecate's proposal that would involve leaving percy and annabeth behind in tartarus

hazel and frank are obviously still close and still dating and interacting with each other for all of post-son hoo

percy is necessarily closely involved with annabeth after they reunite in moa which just means less screentime with frank and hazel (plus there's the annoying jason&percy drama that had to pan out), meanwhile hazel and frank have their screentime taken up with the leo/sammy situation. then in hoh percy is just in tartarus lol so he's physically not present with them at all (and I want to also note that frank and hazel only have 24 and 28 povs respectively in hoo, while everyone else in the 7 had 35+)

and then while all three members of the lost trio gets a pov in boo, we just don't get a single pov from any of the son trio in the final hoo book (which is still a fucking bonkers writing decision on rick's behalf 10 years later), meaning we have no access to the trio beyond the absolute briefest glimpses of them through other characters' povs and that's how the series ends. this is different from their friendship getting "dropped" - they're still friends and they are demonstrated in the text to still care about each other, they just had lots of other shit going on + don't have as many cumulative povs as other dynamics. it's definitely a consequence of hoo being overbloated with too many characters but the main point is that they didn't disappear altogether. people probably just didn't notice these things because they're more subtle than they used to be in son