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[bored-ent]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 6 of my fanfic, The long way home is up.

Apologies that it's taken a while and also that I've been inactive. lately my laptop was stolen and besides losing a lot of pictures and personal stuff I lost all the chapters I already had worked on and my outlines. So I had to start from scratch. But here's Chapter 6: Vox Senatus.

The trio finally reaches Camp Jupiter, but their homecoming isn't the relief Jason hoped for. While Nico faces the Roman Senate's judgment—and skepticism—about his place in their world, Jason must confront his own failures as a leader. With Marcus's death weighing heavily on his conscience and Nico's safety hanging in the balance, Jason discovers that some battles can't be won with lightning or sword work. Meanwhile, Nico navigates Roman politics with the help of an unlikely ally, and the gods themselves intervene in ways that will change everything.

A reckoning with grief, guilt, and the price of belonging—plus one very dramatic divine entrance that puts the whole Senate in their place.

[explicitlyrics]

Im getting emotional about this korean man who speaks in such poetic english

[persefoni-art]

wip

[madamewalburga]

maturing is being a jason grace stan and being grateful that he’s dead because he won’t ever have to suffer whatever character assassination percy jackson and nico di angelo are going through under rick riordan’s pen

[madamewalburga]

do not speak this into existence what the fuck

[princey-poetry]

Jason Grace is interesting I will not let the haters and Rick Riordan nerf him Jason Grace is interesting I will not let the haters and Rick Riordan nerf him Jason Grace is interesting I will not let the haters and Rick Riordan nerf him Jason Grace is interesting I will not let the haters and Rick Riordan nerf him Jason Grace is interesting I will not let the haters and Rick Riordan nerf him

[thecollectibles]

Art by XI ZHANG

[cartooncoyote]

do angel halos buzz like neon gas station signs

[charnel-grounds]

Roberto Ferri (b. 1978) - “Like Poison”

oil on canvas, 2023

[awkwardlii]

Okay so maybe someone else can help verify this but….. I don’t think…… this is real?

[dranktwocoffees]

this doesnt even look like solangelo fanart anymore just take it

[bored-ent]

An illustration of Thanatos to accompany my fanfic The Long Way Home.

In this scene, Nico needed a true Deus Ex Machina moment to be allowed to stay in Camp Jupiter and New Rome, and Thanatos delivered.

The first image is filtered to match the scene’s lighting: dark, lit only by cold blue torchlight. The second image is the same piece without the heavy filter, so the colors and details are easier to see.

This started as a drawing for an OC, but the more I worked on it, the more it became clear I wanted to draw Thanatos. I’m still learning clothing folds, but I love togas and tunics, just draping a bedsheet over a chair gives a great feel for how the fabric should fall.

In most PJO depictions, Thanatos is drawn as Black, but his book description always read to me as more Native American. As someone with Indigenous features myself, I thought that was pretty cool. For the face and hair, I drew inspiration from Chief Poundmaker of the Cree Nation, whose features have always struck me as deeply regal.

[vampyre-mutagen]

Evangeline Gallagher

[k62256]

my first offering to the merlin fandom, good god i'm so obsessed. look at what i've done to my boy.

[jvneseries-deactivated20260117]

Some glazers will really say Percy had it so much harder for having to fight his way through to get to Camp Jupiter. The same glazers will then forget the fact that throughout Jason's childhood, he never had a Sally Jackson, he never had a Grover Underwood, he never had the amount of emotional support Percy had. Sure, he might have had some friends but they were also expecting him to be a leader of Camp Jupiter and so on. Jason's childhood is so much harder because he didn't have a place to rest back on. His only safe space was a camp that wanted him for his abilities and forced him, knowingly or unknowingly, into the mold of a leader. And that says a lot about how relaxed he could be as a kid. Sure, Percy and Jason had equal feats but Jason still had it harder because he had next to NOTHING TO FALL BACK ON.

[bored-ent]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 5 of The Long Way Home is up and ready to read!!

In this chapter our heroes continue making their way west towards Camp Jupiter, but their quest derails in the Nevada desert when Nessus, the savage centaur of old myths, ambushes Jason, Ren, and Nico on a slowing train near Reno. As the wreckage smolders, Jason shoulders the weight of mortal deaths he couldn’t prevent, Nico fights to stay standing through poisoned blood, and Ren’s illusions buy them precious seconds to strike back.

I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I look forward to your feedback and comments ❤️

[vampyre-mutagen]

Evangeline Gallagher

[bayetea]

extremely telling when people are capable of assessing how ooc percy is/isn't in post-pjo book depictions of percy but annabeth/percabeth haters (usually the same people) wholeheartedly believe that 1. post-pjo annabeth is infallibly accurate annabeth writing 2. post-pjo percabeth is an infallibly accurate depiction (or a good continuation) of their original dynamic. you can hate any character or ship for pretty much any reason but many people who attempt to articulate and justify their hatred in logical reasoning end up making it clear that their grasp on those characters/ships is too flimsy and biased to be making those assertions and criticisms in the first place, nor do they understand that many of the actual problems with the way annabeth (and percabeth) are written are rooted in rick's misogynistic writing - and instead of calling out rick, they blame the fictional woman for it

[bayetea]

oh so you don't like the judo flip scene? you think it only gets a pass because annabeth is a girl and percy is a boy? you think that physically attacking your partner is abuse regardless of gender? annabeth is supposed to be a good person, so why do you think rick wrote that then? why do you think the hunters' virulently antagonizing men gets a pass when that wouldn't fly if the genders were reversed? why do you think the amazons say that the chained men in their headquarters "know their place" when a group of men saying the same thing about women in bondage wouldn't be okay? is this maybe reflective of some hegemonic worldview about women and men whose echoes are blatant in rick's writing of women? are these writing choices perpetuating the belief that women are weak and harmless and men are strong and bad, therefore men can't be abused, therefore women's violence against them doesn't count? is it telling us that rick doesn't take women seriously, doesn't regard women as powerful, doesn't think women are equal to men and thinks he can only write strong female characters if they talk down to and beat up men a la 2010s black widow? is this why the aphrodite cabin is degraded for its femininity and piper's rejection of their conventions is framed as something that makes her superior to her siblings? is this why the longer pjo goes on percabeth turns more and more into the "competent girl/useless boy" trope? does that maybe say more about rick and his misogynistic writing than it does about his female characters? is this maybe why it's essential to interpret the books through the lens of feminist media theory so that we can avoid uncritically internalizing these worldviews or blaming fictional women and girls for their existence? oh you don't say

[bayetea]

^like some of you urgently need to get on this wave and I'm not joking even a little bit

[bored-ent]

I agree with the core of this post, especially the need to critique Rick’s writing rather than blaming Annabeth for the flaws in how she's portrayed. But I think it’s important to point out that the issues with Annabeth’s characterization don’t begin in Heroes of Olympus. They’re already present in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, just less obvious because of the limited first-person structure.

Annabeth works in PJO because she functions well within Percy’s narrative. She’s his foil, the clever and rational counterweight to his impulsiveness, and that dynamic is effective. But if you look closer, almost everything we know about her is filtered through Percy’s admiration. She’s described as the best strategist, the bravest, the most capable, but largely because Percy tells us so. Her role is defined in relation to him.

Outside of that, there’s very little built into her character. Her friendships are underdeveloped, her inner life is barely explored, and her interest in architecture often feels like a shallow attempt to give her a “quirky” but respectable passion, rather than something organically tied to her arc. It’s surface-level depth, not something the narrative ever truly invests in.

When the series shifts to multiple POVs in HoO and Annabeth is expected to carry scenes on her own, the gaps become obvious. It’s not that her character becomes inconsistent. It’s that the structure that made her feel complete in PJO is no longer doing the heavy lifting, and the lack of independent development becomes clear.

All of this is frustrating because I do like Annabeth. The concept of a normal girl surviving in this world through intelligence and strategy alone is compelling. But I’ve never been a fan of Percabeth, and I’ve come to actively dislike Percy, especially in HoO. Without the tight focus of his own POV to frame him sympathetically, his flaws are more grating and harder to ignore.

So yes, absolutely call out the misogynistic patterns in Rick’s writing. But let's not pretend that Annabeth’s writing only went downhill later. The real problem is that she was never given the depth to stand alone from the start.

[elizaisdunn]

“I’ve never seen brown eyes look so blue”