lost trio supremacist

grace, 20s, she/her, icon: piedpip3rrr

[infertilityidol]

it's always "why do you pace so much" and never "how was the pacing was the pacing fun"

[phoenixystix]

there are so many absolutely insane things about heroes of olympus, some of them are so good that they're bad because they don't carry enough weight in the text lol and some of them are just insane and like dropped in there and never resolved. like it makes me feel crazy look at all of this:

main characters plucked out of lives brains wiped meant to start over as a blank slate. the horror of this. and we're just like 'well that was fun! time to move on :)'

jason's mom being revealed to be a mania, restless spirit grasping, welcoming him back home, he's like 'if this is where i come from how can i trust myself to make a good decision' okay i'm shaking. this is crazy. he's sixteen.

jason being dropped off by his mommy and handed to a wolf when he's 2 and being a toddler soldier. ok what

camp of child soldiers.

young native girl grew up on a reservation but her dad is now famous she's plunged into a life almost certainly very different from the one she knew growing up. she is used to racists bullies and she obviously is lashing out at her dad and her mom and she has severe identity issues. some of these issues would appear to manifest in her chopping off her own hair (and yes i realize lack of research is probably what motivated this but is it possible she's doing it to hurt her dad? could that be possible?)

piper's dad being incapable of reconciling his worldview and this breaking his mind so badly that she has to parent him and give him a potion to make him forget. she's fifteen.

piper having an entire fake daydream scenario implanted so firmly in her mind that she believes it really happened and it feels like it really happened even once she knows it didn't

piper has a siren power that is so strong she can bring people back to life and animate machinery and sing primordial goddesses back to sleep and she like uses it occassionally on mortals and her friends but only for good i guess :) except that sometimes she does it on accident to the people around her :)

leo being groomed by juno into being a hero. being baited by gaea into accidentally causing the death of his own mother. what

hazel levesque death girl who died. dead girl walking. cheating death girl. second chance to live girl. gaea telling her her second life is an illusion. being shown what she might have been if she got the chance to grow up. girl plucked out of time girl. WHAT

hazel's mother being the daughter of a slave who herself gets enslaved to an evil entity. hazel being exploited by her own mother but perceiving her mother's trauma and being unable to resent her for it, loving her mother still, forgiving her mother, wanting her mother to find peace in the afterlife, sacrificing herself to give her mother peace. she was fourteen

hazel and her mother suffocating by their lungs filling with oil hazel remembering this frank witnessing this hazel and frank then sitting for what feels like an eternity experiencing the afterlife together. what

frank's life being tied to a stick frank giving the stick to hazel hazel keeping it next to her heart

frank's mother sacrificing herself in war like a month before the series starts frank being rocked by the grief and so full of anger at her for leaving him and he apparently needs to come to terms with the sacrifice and accept it and learn to do the same thing with his own life. then his grandmother dies. he's sixteen

quest to free death frank directly putting his life on the line to free Death. hazel knowing the grim reaper is literally coming for her throughout the entire book and just like going and setting him free anyway.

nico being clearly still unable to cope with bianca's death and still in the bargaining phase. like as an introduction to hazel. nico's eyes being like shattered glass after tartarus. nico losing control turning someone into a ghost. getting harassed by eros

reyna's dad becoming a mania her watching this process being terrified of him her having to kill him to save her sister her carrying guilt around from this her being told no demigod is going to heal her heart

frank being afraid of fire leo being afraid of fire but leo controlling fire but sometimes it getting away from him and killing a loved one. ok

hazel and sammy had a life together that was essentially stolen from them and this being told to hazel directly by gaea and then hazel witnessing sammy realizing he never forgot her never stopped thinking about her and she just has to hang out with his descendent who looks like a reincarnation of him.

annabeth whose identity is like formed around being a daugher of athena getting disowned by athena. finding out a monstrous immortal spider has been stalking her for years and has this unrelenting hatred for her. this hatred dragging her into tartarus

nico letting octavian die despite it being incredibly obvious that octavian does not understand the consequences of his actions

percy choking a goddess and then trying to kill himself for it because he believes he deserves punishment from the fates and the narrative just moves on like nothing happened

annabeth admitting that she's scared of percy and what's happening to him and again the narrative just moves on like nothing happened

the psychological horror of tartarus

one of the premises of the series being that death has been stopped

[rednines]

I’m putting estrogen in the jet exhaust to crop dust the world with femtrails

[mitrakats]

[raven] boys, come find me

prints of this r on my etsy and i’ll be bringing a few to share at Maggie’s sf event in august :’)

[victusinveritas]

[parcai]

im just a girl, girl math, girl dinner, girlboss, looking for a man in finance, girly pop, all the feminism leaving my body when he xyz, etc etc have done more damage to our society in the last few years than you could possibly fucking imagine.

[parcai]

on a side note smth so insidious abt using the term "girl" too over "woman" for example.

[parcai]

because the moment you start calling yourself girl instead of woman, you shrink yourself. you signal softness, harmlessness, non-threat. you make yourself safe for consumption again. “girl” is easier to market, easier to infantilize, easier to dismiss. “girl” can giggle through exploitation and call it lifestyle content. “girl” can cry on camera and still be desirable. “woman” demands to be taken seriously, and that’s never been profitable 😐

and not to mention the gendering of it all. every trend, every meme, every “girl ___” slogan re-etches the same fucking old lines we claimed to have erased or tried so fucking hard to anyway. suddenly everything has a gender again, dinners, math (?!), drinks, breakdowns (?!). everything coded pink or blue, delicate or stoic, soft or rational 😒 “girl math” vs “boy math.” “girl dinner” vs “man meal.” it’s parody that's not a fucking parody anymore, it’s regression covered w glitter & pink as if thats revolutionary

the irony is how the language of empowerment got hijacked into another sales pitch. “girlboss” wasn’t liberation (IT WAS NEVER LIBERATION BTW!!) it's capitalism beautified to perpetuate the pressure of maintaining men's aesthetic appeal despite it all to women. “girl math” turns financial precarity into a meme instead of a crisis that it fucking is. did you know women couldn't open their own bank accounts till 1974. that is not that fucking long ago, stop talking abt quitting & marrying rich & what are taxes anyway haha #girlmath and get some financial literary and make your own fucking money. “girl dinner” turns exhaustion into aesthetic minimalism, not to mention yet again women taking up less space, less food, less resources. everything becomes irony until there’s nothing left to critique..

it’s insidious because it feels harmless. because it’s funny..or so you think it is. because it gives the illusion of choice haha “i know it’s regressive, but i’m in on the joke.” but the joke always ends with women smaller, quieter, cuter, easier to sell so idk I'm not fucking laughing??

the language itself is doing the work patriarchy used to outsource to institutions. it’s keeping women small through syntax, teaching them to identify through cuteness instead of complexity. to rebrand fatigue as relatability, to turn survival into content for other women to blindly follow & also ultimately, as with all things now apparently, For Men!

and the men love it!!1!! because every “girl” slogan is one less Womanndemanding accountability, one less threat, every “girl dinner” is proof the culture still expects women to starve prettily. emotionally, intellectually, literally!! every “girl math” reminds them that women are supposed to laugh at their own dispossession & laugh off lack of skill or knowledge instead of reforming and being self-sufficient

it’s terrifying how quickly language drags us backward. how fast girl power became girl failure but make it cute!! how feminism got declawed, branded, and sold back as “self-awareness” literally fuck you. mistaking irony for rebellion slowly rewriting OURSELVES back into caricatures

infantilization is NOT empowerment. irony should NOT disguise surrender. language should NOT turn you into a costume, it should be a force you use appropriately and with extreme caution. you are not a girl you're a fucking woman. act accordingly.

[d-j]

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[sashonara]

"No debiste morir tú"

:3

[dogpuppy]

[w00z13sbackup]

logan roy - rolling with the LGBT

[ijaazat]

summer

1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes

2. complete 40% of it

3. eat every fruit u can

[butch-ramblings]

pussy understander so they call me cliterate

[bookishjules]

once again thinking about piper's memory of going up to the roof with jason at the wilderness school and wondering if it was actually leo there with her and if hera simply replaced the friend in memories like that, using them as a template and shifting a detail or two to fit her narrative, and (if so) if she just took those memories away from leo for good measure. and if leo, who didn't need to be convinced of a romantic relationship, received only the alterations that added jason and made them a trio, or if he received the same treatment as piper, losing memories with her for the sake of a forged friendship. and how this would leave both leo and piper emotionally aware of the other's importance in their life while stripping much of that relationship's foundation and the evidence of reciprocation. and how the realization that jason was never actually a part of their equation would leave holes they might not think to fill in. and then it's all just.. loneliness.

[learadora]

the grace siblings, my very own roman empire 😔

[cowardgrace]

tlt // wottg

[cowardgrace]

poseidon cares about percy in his way, but the only future he could imagine for percy was tragedy, and so he regrets him.

sally not only didn’t regret percy, but saved him repeatedly from that hero’s fate by refusing to let him or herself be wholly absorbed into the world of the gods. when poseidon offered, she refused to join him in his underwater palace. she loved him but knew she would not belong there with him. she refused to reject her mortality—not in terms of lifespan, but as the world she belonged to. and percy followed in her footsteps.

when percy stands in his room with medusa’s head in a box, he considers that a greek hero from the stories would have taken it and used it to kill gabe right then. then he remembers how his father said heroes’ lives always end in tragedy, and he decides he’s not going to do it. he rejects the path his father presented as inevitable, and he makes his own.

he has the chance to stay at camp year-round rather than return to his mom and mortal life, and he chooses to go back. he has the chance to remain on ogygia, escape the prophecy, escape war, escape mortality and humanity and conflict, and he chooses to leave.

when he turns down the gods’ offer of immortality, he chooses mortality the same way sally did. he says this is where i belong—this is the life i’m supposed to lead. it would be unnatural for him to join the gods. to endure for all of eternity while the possibilities for his future blink out of existence and the people he loves fade away would have been just as tragic an ending for him as an early death.

percy’s mortal side is powerful, and he is protected by it because sally showed him how to embrace it.

[ryebreadgf]