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[bayetea]

I am a little drunk write now so sorry if this post is too incisive and eloquent to be understood by anyone but there is an unsolved mystery in the percy jackson universe ghat urgently needs solving and it's rhis:

where is He getting the fucking candy from

I'm shaking this is Serious. i have proposed some theories and evidence for everyone to look at but feel to share your own theories so long as they are pg-13 and rooted in Facts and Logic

THEORY 1. he gets the candy from a supplier who is one of his mortal "friends"

this excerpt is from botl but the illegal candy trade bit js from tlt and it's never mentioned again. percy is a total outcast in tlt and as far as I can remember he doesn't mention befriending a single person at yancy academy besides grover. so while percy may have pulled together a classroom friend or two by the time botl rolls around and he's newly attending goode high (paul's school) it just doesn't seem like percy had friends besides grover in tlt - especially given that he's gone to many different schools by the time tlt starts

grover has no need for mortal money and he eats fuckign. soda cans. he is probably not supplying the candy to percy

this doesn't mean that percy could not have been roped into an illegal candy trade by someone who is more of an acquaintance rather than an actual friend

THEORY 2: percy buys the candy himsef

percy has some cash in tlt. he may have used this cash to buy his candy in bulk for cheap to then sell it back to his peers at a higher rate for profit

we can safely reason that sally just gives percy some cash in case of emergencies or whatever else, so this holds up well enough

if sally told percy to only use the money for emergencies then I think he would feel too guilty to use it for other reasons. but sally is nice and fairly chill so she may have also told him that he can use it for other things he likes, including illegal contraband

THEORY 3: he steals the candy

percy jackson is a lot of things but he is NOT a thief;!!

THEORY 4: SALLY JACKSON is his illegal supplier

sally works at a fucikng candy shop. this is compelling evidence because she would just Give percy the candy for free. he can eat it himself or sell it back to his peers at unethical resale rates.me personally I am choosing tbe latter

is sally complicit in his crimes...? giving him "free samples" that she can grab at work and then encourage her son to sell them back to his schoolmates...? probably not to be honest because doing this could get percy in trouble, and with all the likely expensive private schools sally has to send percy to I don't think she's risking extra reasons that might get him expelled

this doesn't remove the possibility that percy might just keep a few extra gumballs from sally's free samples and sell them to his sugar-starved peers at yancy

CONCLUSION: theories 2 and 4 are rhe most viable and may even be occurring in tandem. either way though I am impressed by his business acumen percy jackson's broke ass belongs in JAIL

[bookobsesseds-things]

Am I the only one who thought that when he said 'illegal candy' he genuinely meant 'illegal candy'. Like, yk, the edible kind? It's a twelve year old from Manhattan. Be so fr. They are WILD. The kid mentions special mushrooms multiple times in the first book and he did grow up around certain type of people.

Not to mention, in tlt, it's actually Grover who's said to be the one being constantly bullied and Percy is actually his defender! Gods, this kid was definitely threatening to withhold supply from the delinquent kids if they don't stop bullying his friend!

[bookobsesseds-things]

Maybe we're lucky that Rick Riordan chose to write Percy Jackson and the Olympians for kids because I just randomly reimagined it as a Greek tragedy and let me tell you, I am UNWELL.

It's 5 am and I haven't been able to sleep.

In a typical myth, heroes do not have happy endings. They gain glory, they make mistakes, they fall to hubris or greed or love or lust etc. etc. then they die.

Okay, picture this. The throne room scene in the Last Olympian. That's it.

Now, imagine Percy. Imagine Mr. Percy-fatalflawispersonalloyalty-Jackson.

(Or even, pre tlo Percy, the one who didn't really have many friends or confidence or a good reputation. Who was weirdly suicidal, and in a devil may care but I really don't way. The one who really didn't have much to lose and somehow even less to look forward too? Who spends most of his time, the majority of his time, alone and lonely hoping either one of his two friends call. Who didn't have any semblance of normalcy or escape like Rachel.)

Percy, who is standing in front of Luke/Kronos. Next to him, Annabeth. Annabeth, who spent the better portion of the summer trying to convince Percy that Luke can be saved. Annabeth who just took a dagger for him. Annabeth, who told him he was right but is again trying to reason with Luke. Annabeth who he loves more than anything. Annabeth, who is his anchor to life. Annabeth who is hurting. Annabeth, who thinks she's right because her fatal flaw is hubris and would never be wrong. She's stubborn, an insistent little thing but really just sixteen year old girl.

Percy, who is very deeply, profoundly loyal. Percy, who carries Styx's blessing, which amplifies greed, selfishness, love, lust and every flaw dangerously. (Or just Percy, who's always hated himself, has been prepared to die for so long, was told he was a mistake and took that shit personally and fucking internalised it.) Percy, who's blessing/curse amplified every flaw, including his inability to be selfish.

His loyalty has never been challenged. He always overcame it. For once, he cannot.

He's never accepted defeat, not even if it would come at the cost of his life. And true victory is destroying Kronos, anyway. He doesn't even care about Luke.

So, Percy does what he does best. Self sacrifice.

He offers Kronos his body because Luke is failing him. Kronos is high on victory, he does not realize he's being tricked. The son of Hermes starts coming back to himself and Percy is holding a titan in his mind. Annabeth is obviously horrified because this is NOT how this was supposed to happen. Percy was on their side. But then right as all the color in his eyes is about to turn gold he whirls as fast as light, he catches her wrist and stabs that dagger into the small of his back.

The wound is not even a finger nail deep.

He's just sixteen too.

When he dies, he tells her that he only did what she so desperately wanted.

He saved Luke.

For the first and final time, he falls victim to his fatal flaw. And with that one time, becomes the greatest consequence of hers.

[bookobsesseds-things]

Nobody ever talks about the fact that Annabeth told Percy she loved him. Like, actually said 'I love you' first and said it like two or three times before Percy finally did in Blood of Olympus and we never got Percy's pov describing how that felt!?

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Luke & Annabeth's relationship in the books has a lot of poor writing

As much as I like their dynamic in the last three PJO books, this relationship has a lot of issues

Platonic vs romantic: It's normal for young girls to have crushes on older boys. And Luke is hot so can't blame Annie. But...Luke is supposed to be her brother in all but blood. Which girl has a crush on her brother? Rick having Luke as a Percabeth rival cheapens the familial bond Luke and Annabeth are supposed to have. I know all the canon couples are incest...but I thought siblings were off the table? I guess Luke and Annabeth are fake siblings after all.

Annabeth's 180 in TC: Annabeth's bond with Luke in the first two books were kind of shallow? If Luke and Annabeth didn't say they were siblings, I would not have guessed. Luke betrays Percy and Annabeth's immediate reaction is to throw him under the bus and curse him to the gods. Book 2 was a hot mess where Annabeth told Luke to rot in hell. Then in book 3, all of a sudden Annabeth cares enough to take the sky and getting all worried? What happened between book 2 and 3? Maybe having Thalia back gave her hope? No clue.

Post Luke's death: Luke is not haunting the narrative enough in HOO. Luke is a major source of conflict for Percabeth but they never talk about it and resolve it once Luke is dead. I also find the optics of Percabeth getting together so quickly after Luke died to be strange. I know the pain of losing a loved one (my dad) and it's the worst pain I have ever felt in my fairly short life. Where is the grief and mourning? The whole thing feels a tad icky to me. Annabeth loses her knife...nada. When Annabeth thinks about Luke in MOA, it's all about how he had a crush on her 🤮. I'm not saying Annabeth should be crying everyday but Luke was supposed to be a major figure in her life. Oh well, I guess that's what fanfics are for.

[bookobsesseds-things]

Do you ever wonder if Annabeth's sudden sadness and grief for Luke had something to do with him taking on the curse of Achilles and her being one of the things that connect Luke to mortality. So all of a sudden, things become a lot more sensitive between them. Which is why Annabeth, despite it being very obvious she was in love with him, suddenly starts thinking he was like a brother to her when he was dying and she was also connected to Percy by being his anchor? I know it's a reach but rr didn't really emphasize Luke and Annabeth's relationship in the first two books and suddenly he's so important to her that she's willing to fight about it with Percy (who, mind, has been almost killed multiple times by this guy).

[justaneedle]

It would be a cool explanation, but Luke bathed in the River Styx between the third and fourth books, so it doesn't fit.

[bookobsesseds-things]

It was in the third book, right? Because he survives that massive fall.

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Luke & Annabeth's relationship in the books has a lot of poor writing

As much as I like their dynamic in the last three PJO books, this relationship has a lot of issues

Platonic vs romantic: It's normal for young girls to have crushes on older boys. And Luke is hot so can't blame Annie. But...Luke is supposed to be her brother in all but blood. Which girl has a crush on her brother? Rick having Luke as a Percabeth rival cheapens the familial bond Luke and Annabeth are supposed to have. I know all the canon couples are incest...but I thought siblings were off the table? I guess Luke and Annabeth are fake siblings after all.

Annabeth's 180 in TC: Annabeth's bond with Luke in the first two books were kind of shallow? If Luke and Annabeth didn't say they were siblings, I would not have guessed. Luke betrays Percy and Annabeth's immediate reaction is to throw him under the bus and curse him to the gods. Book 2 was a hot mess where Annabeth told Luke to rot in hell. Then in book 3, all of a sudden Annabeth cares enough to take the sky and getting all worried? What happened between book 2 and 3? Maybe having Thalia back gave her hope? No clue.

Post Luke's death: Luke is not haunting the narrative enough in HOO. Luke is a major source of conflict for Percabeth but they never talk about it and resolve it once Luke is dead. I also find the optics of Percabeth getting together so quickly after Luke died to be strange. I know the pain of losing a loved one (my dad) and it's the worst pain I have ever felt in my fairly short life. Where is the grief and mourning? The whole thing feels a tad icky to me. Annabeth loses her knife...nada. When Annabeth thinks about Luke in MOA, it's all about how he had a crush on her 🤮. I'm not saying Annabeth should be crying everyday but Luke was supposed to be a major figure in her life. Oh well, I guess that's what fanfics are for.

[bookobsesseds-things]

Do you ever wonder if Annabeth's sudden sadness and grief for Luke had something to do with him taking on the curse of Achilles and her being one of the things that connect Luke to mortality. So all of a sudden, things become a lot more sensitive between them. Which is why Annabeth, despite it being very obvious she was in love with him, suddenly starts thinking he was like a brother to her when he was dying and she was also connected to Percy by being his anchor? I know it's a reach but rr didn't really emphasize Luke and Annabeth's relationship in the first two books and suddenly he's so important to her that she's willing to fight about it with Percy (who, mind, has been almost killed multiple times by this guy).

[bookobsesseds-things]

So we all agree that the Percabeth dance at the end of Titan's curse will be to 'Honeybee' by Olivia Rodrigo, right?

Sad but hopeful.

[bookobsesseds-things]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/70474821

There's a shell of numbness around him, an invisible boundary. Colors, sounds, feelings muted, muffled, dulled to a distant ache. He felt indifferent to his own presence, he felt indifferent about any presence.

No scrounging for news, or pouring over letters. He could find the motivation to if he wished and he really doesn't. Emptiness had planted itself within his chest for the time being, and there it would reside until the monotony of Privet Drive gives way to whatever awaits him back at Hogwarts. Hopefully. Or it may even remain, a constant companion.

[iamnmbr3]

hot take: harry potter IS a cinnamon roll, it's not his fault everyone is so horribly mean to him. He has a surprising amount of restraint.

by which i mean he's justified in snapping back i phrased that weird

Eh. I mean. To each their own interpretation. But for me this doesn't quite work. I definitely hate the idea that Harry was just being angsty in 5th year for no reason. Clearly he was suffering from severe and very justifiable trauma and PTSD and reacting accordingly.

But like. Harry can be pretty deadly. In book 1 he murdered Quirrel and never felt bad about it. In book 2 he took Lockhart hostage and forced him to walk first into the Chamber so if the basilisk popped out it would eat him. In book 3 he considered killing Sirius. Especially when he was young, Harry was feral af. And it continues. In book 5 when a Death Eater's head gets regressed to baby age, Harry is still fully ready to curse him and it's only because Hermione stops him that he doesn't. In book 7 he stuns Death Eaters in and air-born battle where he knows full well that doing so will likely result in them falling to their deaths (confirmed by the fact that he holds back from attacking Stan Shunpike because he doesn't want to kill him.) In book 7 he also makes no effort to locate Crabbe after he's rescued Draco. And goes into the final battle with Voldemort fully intending for him to die. You could definitely justify all this. But like. Canon Harry is very much in ;looks like he could kill you and could actually kill you' territory vs the pure cinnamon roll soft boi Harry we often get in fanon.

[chilledcitrus]

Yeah, Harry never struck me as the cinnamon roll type, so it's kind of surprising that that's how the majority sees him. Book Harry is actually much more ruthless, and he's definitely okay with killing if he thinks someone deserves it. It's a complete contrast to Draco, who talks big but struggles deeply with doing real harm. And personally, I think Draco fits the 'looks like he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll' type much more.

[rowena-rain]

I say ERH (Everyone is Right Here). Harry IS a Cinnamon Roll who COULD kill you! If you give him a good reason and get in his way he could definitely kill you and not even feel bad about it. He IS ruthless and feral. BUT, if he feels even the tiniest, most microscopic bit sympathetic to you--if you DON'T give him a good reason to kill you (and often even if you do!)--he will put his own life on the line to save you.

He is a category unto himself, your honor. The sweetest fuckin selectively poisonous cinnamon roll.

[bookobsesseds-things]

I love him💖

[hptmriddle]

I don’t get how people watched Coulson playing Tom and thought that man would be the Christian Grey of the WW. Like, no matter how insanely persuasive and dangerous he is (and he’s way more intense than just these words), he clearly exudes this bratty, sharp-edged—cunty—manipulativeness, weaponized yearning, disguised as authority.

And book Tom in CoS seemed almost needy in the way he fixated on Harry as he needed to know the one who matched LV’s power just as much as he craved, deservedly, to outmatch him. I mean, he’s not dominant, he’s desperate, he’s the cunning, demanding, obsessive little shit trying to seduce his obsession’s source into going down the path he desires. Tom actually behaves like someone who thinks domination is a performance and obsession is his consumption, believing control is something you perform until the other person believes you have it to.

[bookobsesseds-things]

Finally, someone who understands.

[bookobsesseds-things]

When I think of older Harry Potter, I think of either Oscar Issac as Mark Spencer Or Daniel Radcliffe himself in Kill Your Darlings. What about you?

[untitled31666]

thinking about how in gof, sirius says “ever since i found out snape was teaching here, i’ve wondered why dumbledore hired him” and goes onto explain how snape was famous for the dark arts at school and part of a slytherin gang that all turned out to be death eaters (who we later find out were attacking students with dark magic). so he’s one of the only people to immediately be like “why the fuck is dumbledore letting snape teach children”. then says that as far he knows snape was never even accused of being a death eater but many of them were never caught. but when ron keeps insisting that snape must be a death eater, sirius disagrees and reasons it out, because he doesn’t think it makes sense based on the facts, and also because: “there’s still the fact that dumbledore trusts snape, and i know dumbledore trusts where a lot of other people wouldn’t, but i just can’t see him letting snape teach at hogwarts if he’d ever worked for voldemort.” (so even while questioning dumbles, sirius clearly still has way too much faith in him. which makes everything in ootp extra infuriating). anyways, sirius was willing to give snape the benefit of the doubt on being a death eater, like, he’s perfectly capable of being rational about snape and not jumping to conclusions despite his hatred of him!

and then at the end of gof he finds out that snape WAS in fact a death eater, and sirius has no proof or reason to believe that snape has actually changed, all he has to work off of is that Dumbledore Trusts Snape, even though all sirius knows is that snape literally tried to hand him (and remus) to the fucking dementors and outed remus, and witnessed snape going unhinged at his godson and two other teenagers in the same scene.

and now he has to work alongside snape knowing that he apparently paid no consequences for his death eater past, wasn’t even so much as accused of being one (not unlike lucius malfoy and karkaroff and the others who did deals with the ministry and clearly haven’t changed their ways, who sirius shows bitterness towards in gof) while sirius was branded as one by the ministry and the whole wizarding world and unjustly imprisoned for it for 12 years without even getting a trial.

and snape is constantly taunting him about the fact that he can’t leave the house and help the order because of the world STILL thinking that sirius is a death eater and murderer because of that very same unjust imprisonment that the fascist hate group snape joined directly fucking caused, and snape the actual former death eater is able to do these things and live freely because he got away with it all. and he might complain about it but sirius still puts up with all of that for months along with all the other shit he has to deal with in ootp.

then he’s told that snape has to teach harry occlumency, and makes sure to sit with harry rather than letting snape talk to him alone, and is apparently the ONLY one to question this clearly terrible stupid ass decision and ask why dumbledore can’t teach him instead. yeah sirius starts off with a petty comment or two but harry even looks to sirius to intervene on his behalf, and sirius does. sirius calmly and firmly warns snape not to use occlumency lessons to give harry a hard time, to which snape responds by insulting not only his fifteen year old godson but his dead best friend, that voldemort, who snape WORKED FOR, literally murdered, to sirius’s face. OF COURSE SIRIUS IS GONNA LOSE IT. ANYONE WOULD. and the first thing sirius says is “i don’t care if dumbledore thinks you’ve reformed, i know better” and refers to snape being lucius malfoy’s lapdog bc he knows they were fellow death eater buddies at hogwarts and during the war, like wow i wonder why sirius would have doubts about snape’s loyalties, especially after what he just said??!? this is not an example of sirius’s supposed ~crazy uncontrollable temper~, any normal person would want to throw down at something like that, personally i think sirius showed an impressive amount of self control for managing to wait that long to try to hex snape. AND he makes sure to give harry the mirrors specifically so harry can contact him if snape treats him badly, because that’s all sirius can do at that point when he’s powerless and his input is being completely ignored.

anyways it’s truly a tragedy that sirius never even got to find out that snape was the death eater who told voldemort about the prophecy, i think sirius deserved to know and go completely unhinged at snape!!! as was his right!!!!!

[sparsilees]

the switch from sirius leaning back on the rear leg of his chair, peaceably cheeky, ‘it’s my house, you see’, to when harry instantly looks to sirius for support after the reveal, and he readily activates protective godfather mode—

‘I’ll get to the point, then,’ said Sirius, standing up. He was rather taller than Snape who, Harry noticed, balled his fist in the pocket of his cloak over what Harry was sure was the handle of his wand. ‘If I hear you’re using these Occlumency lessons to give Harry a hard time, you’ll have me to answer to.’

[bookobsesseds-things]

I love this!

[bookobsesseds-things]

Can you guys guess someone who would be a PERFECT choice for Lily Potter?

Because hear me out-

Elizabeth Olsen.

Because red haired witch who would burn down the world for her kid? Are you kidding me?

Lily Potter and Wanda Maximoff are the same person. Change my mind.

[bookobsesseds-things]

Is it just me who remembers the 'Lumpy Elephant Dung' from All the Young Dudes and laughs at least twice a day. It was simply glorious.

[willgrahamscock]

I think there should be a KISS button next to the kudos button on ao3 so I can smooch op for blessing me with their fanfic