hello random people i dont know

what has my life come to?

[hows-itgoagain]

glass.

woah, day making an edit that’s not a ship OR any of the main 5???? crazy i know! i found my goat kaden mackay’s spam on tiktok and heard this and went “ohhh i NEED to edit someone to this” and mulled over it for a while before remembering about these two

[hello-random-people-i-dont-know]

God wouldn't eat pork

...you're completely right. God's gonna be a vegetarian in this fic from now on

[hello-random-people-i-dont-know]

hypothetically, if God were to order a hot dog from a hot dog stand, what would his order be? definitely not asking for a stupid fanfiction im writing.

[hello-random-people-i-dont-know]

Sorry, to follow up my last answer -- It seems like in your AU, it would be important for Jesus and God the Father to share a last name, in which cause I would probably go with Baradam ("son of man").

hi anon! that's a great idea! i'll discuss it with my partner and we'll see what we go with. if you have any other ideas or questions, feel free to ask.

so far, it seems we're leaning towards abrams, but, you never know.

[hello-random-people-i-dont-know]

help i can't decide something

what do you guys think would be the best last name for God (related to previous post)

abrams

yahweh

elijah

other (give me an alternate in the reblogs or comments)

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

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IMPORTANT UPDATE

hey so i know i've been gone for a while but i have important news to share.

i'm gonna be co-authoring a fanfiction about Jesus and his 12 Apostles in a high school AU with @the_tired_bisexual on ao3. it's a crack fic where God is the principal at the high school (trinity high), the Holy Spirit is the school mascot (a ghost the students affectionately call the Holy Spirit), Jesus is God's son so he and his friends get special perks at school like better food, grade curves, etc... (God might have a favoritism issue), Jesus and Judas are gonna be in a relationship, etc...

it's not out yet, but we expect the first chapter to be out by next week so i'll be posting the link here.

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You were just a bartender—until a portal dropped you into a world of magic. Now, your cocktail skills blend potions like no one’s ever seen. Healing with a twist of lime. Fireballs with a salted rim. You don’t cast spells. You serve them.

[kupa-konstruct]

I wouldn't say I hated my previous life, for all intents and purposes, it was a cozy one. I got to mix drinks to my hearts content and watch the customers faces light up with excitement from the drinks I served but something always felt like it was....lacking. And now, I found it. After plummeting through the portal that opened up right beneath my feet during my shift, swallowing me, uniform and all, I found myself in an unfamiliar room with several curious people all looking me over for cuts and bruises. Once I was insured to be fine, they all started to ask a strange question: "What is you magic affinity?"

Easy to say that I was more than a bit confused and told them that I don't have one, which they shrugged off, one man explaining to me that the summoning ritual only worked because I should have a magical affinity, something that I've worked with for most of my life or studied immensely.

I went quiet as I thought about it, leaving woman some time to speak up, blaming the first man that the spell didn't work because of his magic, to which he scoffed, claiming to that his magic was 10 times more refined than her own since she wasn't of noble blood.

They argue back and fourth, the rest of the group standing in awkward silence as I think about what I was told and trying to make sense of all the new information.

On one hand, I did want to bring up my mixology but I only got the current job I have, or rather had, a few months ago. A few more months and it would've been a whole year with that company.

I let out a sigh as I keep thinking as the two people that summoned me keep arguing louder and louder, mentioning something about money and needing extra potions if this "plan" doesn't work. And that's when it hit me. But I needed to be sure. I quietly speak up only to be snapped at and promptly apologized at by the people that summoned me and I explain to them that I might have an idea as to what my affinity is but I would need to test it first and asked if anyone would be willing to gather me some ingredients. The group looked around curiously at each other before agreeing to let me run this strange experiment and lead me to the nearest kitchen.

After passing a few windows, I noticed that the world I now inhabited was more of a medieval fantasy instead of something more familiar but with this new knowledge, I now knew what I could and couldn't find in this new world.

Once we got to the kitchen, I asked for ingredients that felt all to familiar to me:

sugar some oranges an apple a lemon brandy red wine With everything together, I started my work. Everything came so natural to me as I squeezed some of the oranges for the juice, leaving the rest of the fruit to cut and dice into a large pitcher. I could feel the group's eyes on me as I mix the sugar and fruit together before also adding the brandy and fresh orange juice and the slowly adding the red wine. As I slowly pour the wine, I could feel something flowing though me into the mixed drink as it glows faintly after completion. I offer the drink to the summoners, explaining that usually in my world you'd have to wait at least 2 hours for the flavor to set but that if i was right, and this was my affinity, it should be fine to drink immediately.

The group look around at each other nervously before the woman from before grabs a cup to pour herself a drink, filling the cup to the brim before drinking the entire thing in one go. The silence afterwards was almost palpable as we all waited in silence only for her to start giggling, mumbling something under her breath. The man from before sighs and scolds her for drinking random things, reaching a hand out to her before she ducks out of the with speed neither I, nor her friends, have ever seen before by the looks on their faces as she then decks her associate into the far wall, his body leaving a dent in the wall as she squeals with glee. With new found excitement, she points at me and with a giant smile declares me as her personal potion maker.

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i never understood why people try to get you to eat something that you dislike because "i like it so you should like it too". like, if i tried it the first time and i tell you that i don't enjoy eating it, stop trying to get me to eat it. because it's a win/win for everyone if i don't eat it. you get to eat more of a food you like and i don't have to eat a food that i dislike.

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if you're at school or at home doing something that you're not meant to be doing and get caught switching tabs, here's a tip to get into less trouble.

here's an important thing to keep in mind: you're going to get into trouble anyways. the least you can do is minimize the amount of trouble you're getting into.

for example, if you use tumblr a lot and you're caught browsing on it but you close the tab before your teacher (or someone else) can see, tell them you were on a website you use less OR say you were reading something online, doing work for another class (make sure you actually have that tab open though.

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i don't even know why there's a debate about whether monday or sunday is the beginning of the week, like everyone knows that saturday and sundays are considered weekends right? weekENDS. which means that sunday is considered the END of the week. monday is the real start of the week.

[notinsurviceanymoreosrrygues]

so if children of Dionysus can turn water into wine does that mean Jesus was a son of Dionysus?

[hello-random-people-i-dont-know]

no but dionysus is associated with religious ecstasy  (a state of consciousness that involves an altered awareness of the world and an expanded sense of the spirit. it can involve visions, euphoria, and a feeling of union with the divine) <-literal google definition

and jesus literally made people feel more connected to God and was more holy and divine than the rest of us.

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i think i've come up with the best possible thing to wish for if a genie suddenly appears and offers you a wish. you could wish for the ability to change any aspect of yourself at any moment. you could change your appearance, your iq, your wealth, whatever you could think of.

i don't really know though. someone can try to find the loopholes for this.

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ok so it has been a hell of a week so far and we're only on monday. great. so, here's what's going on.

it's midterm week!!!! yay.

i'm pretty sure I failed my science midterm. i still have a little bit of hope though

my social studies project is due tomorrow? help?

my social studies midterm is gonna be hell

i need to do corrections for a test and it's due today

i'm stressing about my report card. science, english, and math should be 94+, but i'm not sure about anything else

there's more but that's all i can think of for now

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im 6 days late but happy new year.

[reynaisalesbian]

Percy Jackson & The Curse of Achilles

Namely, why it isn’t talked about enough, and why it should not have been dismissed so easily.

Firstly, some reminders on what the curse of Achilles actually is, and why it’s such a big deal:

You get the curse of Achilles by bathing in the River Styx. The River Styx forms the boundary between the Underworld and the Earth. In Greek mythology, it symbolizes the passage of life to death. Swearing on it is the highest form of an oath that you can make in Greek mythology, partly because the goddess Styx sided with the gods during the Titan War and it was how they honored her for that, but mostly because you don’t mess with the buffer between life and death.

The River Styx sucks your soul out of your body. If you drown in the River Styx, your soul ceases to exist. Since the Styx is between life and death, if you drown in it, you get trapped between life and the afterlife, which, in Greek mythology, is a zone that souls can’t exist between.

But, if you can survive the River of Styx trying to rip your soul out, then you get a reward: invincibility… or, at least, conditional invincibility.

You need one spot on your body to remain vulnerable, because that’s where your mortality, otherwise known as your soul, is anchored. True invincibility is considered a form of immortality, because humans die in one of two ways: aging (which, for this purpose, includes illness), or they get injured. So if you can’t get injured, you’re partially immortal. And, in Greek mythology, immortals don’t have souls. So, if you want to avoid losing your soul in the river, then you need to anchor it to a spot on your body.

In the Last Olympian, Achilles explains this to Percy: “Hero, if you must do this, concentrate on your mortal point. Imagine one spot of your body that will remain vulnerable. This is the point where your soul will anchor your body to the world. It will be your greatest weakness, but also your only hope. No man may be completely invulnerable. Lose sight of what keeps you mortal, and the River Styx will burn you to ashes. You will cease to exist.”

The point is, essentially, no man can be completely invulnerable because then he isn’t really a man anymore. And, since there are divine rules about achieving immortality, you aren’t allowed to obtain it without the gods’ consent. That’s actually a huge part of the Achilles story: the reason his mother dipped him in the Styx in the first place is because she was trying to make him a god, but she wasn’t allowed to do that, so the heel remained vulnerable.

The problem is, there’s only one vulnerable spot. Other than that, you are completely invincible. So, if you lose sight of that one mortal point, you become arrogant, and begin to behave as an immortal, because, for the most part, you kind of are.

Think about it. You act more recklessly if you know you’ll come out unscathed, but without risk factor, life quickly becomes mundane. That’s why the immortals are so bitter. There’s a quote that Achilles says in Troy: “The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed.” And the reason why he says this quote is because he sympathizes with how the gods feel, and he understands this concept on a personal level. Because he’s fought battles his whole life, watching his comrades and enemies die, and he always, always comes out fine, because he cannot be killed.

The myth of Achilles is commonly told as a cautionary tale: don’t lose sight of your weaknesses, or they’ll be your downfall. And Achilles did lose sight of his mortality… because it’s incredibly easy to do. And this is what he tries so desperately to warn Luke and Percy of before they decide to take the curse. That’s why his warning is so significant: he lost touch with his own mortality, and it cost him his life.

Taking on the curse of Achilles is a radically life altering event, which is reinforced by Hestia, Chiron, Nico, and Achilles himself. Because not only is the process of bathing in the Styx incredibly dangerous, but because bearing the curse totally changes the way you fight, think, and view the world. By taking the curse, you’re right on the edge of immortality, which can cause recklessness, arrogance, and even boredom, since you cannot die in battle.

The curse of Achilles has a lot more to do with immortality than it does invulnerability. Last Olympian makes a lot more sense when you look at it in this light. The reason Luke needed to bathe in the Styx before hosting Kronos is because Kronos cannot be contained in a mortal body. And the reason Percy needs to bathe in the Styx is because he can’t fight an immortal in a mortal body. The curse of Achilles kind of gets treated like a wicked edge in battle, but it’s a lot more complex and important than that. Now, the theme of immortality is hugely, insanely relevant in Last Olympian. As is the concept of learning to yield. That’s the entire point of the book.

And we see that the pull of immortality has an effect on Percy. He is a very humble person (and very prone to self-loathing and insecurity, which is not the same thing, but it definitely prevents him from getting a big head), which is probably the only reason that he doesn’t immediately become arrogant. And even Percy has some less-than-humble moments, although they are fleeting: laughing while he fights the army on the Williamsburg Bridge, and being tempted to wipe out the whole army on the bridge, even though he knows he should pull back. He literally almost dies on the bridge, because he’s already lost track of his mortal point (and also because he didn’t have time to get armor and was literally fighting in jeans and a t-shirt, but).

There’s also a very interesting moment in Last Olympian when Percy is thinking about the hopelessness of the war, and suddenly feels strange about bearing the curse: “There was hardly a single demigod who hadn’t already been wounded… except me.”

The curse is shown to have an impact on Percy and Annabeth’s relationship, because there are a few moments where Annabeth finds that… she really can’t keep up with him anymore. This comes up on the Williamsburg Bridge, when he tells her to help the Apollo cabin set traps while he holds off the army. It also comes up before Percy goes to visit the East and Hudson river gods, while Annabeth sits on shore twiddling her thumbs, and is far from happy about it.

Of course, Percy still desperately needs Annabeth, maybe more than ever. She’s his anchor, after all. It’s not a coincidence that Annabeth is Percy’s anchor to the mortal world and she’s also the one to take the knife that would have killed him. She’s his anchor for precisely that reason. He relies on her to keep him grounded, and keep him in check (he does the same for her, which is why their relationship works).

The really interesting component to Last Olympian, which was an excellent touch, is that even though Percy is more powerful than ever, in the end, the most important thing he does is step back when necessary. This is the significance of Rachel’s, “Perseus, you are not the hero,” prophecy. This is also what Hestia teaches Percy, particularly when she says, “Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.” In the end, it doesn’t come down to a grand, spectacular fight, but instead, to a single moment, when Percy hands Luke the knife.

The book also really hones in on how to use power responsibly. Percy challenges three separate gods to help defeat Kronos: Leneus, Poseidon, and Hades, all of whom wanted to focus on their own realm. And all three of them join the fight. Percy also challenges the gods to treat their children better, which we see realized in the oath.

Immortality comes up again in the end, however: because Percy is asked to become a god. And he turns it down, because that’s not what Percy wants. It’s why he’s the best suited to bearing the curse of Achilles, because he’s the least likely to be tempted to lose touch with his mortality.

The real key is that Percy doesn’t want to be immortal, but he almost is. Percy just wants to be normal, and now he never can be. It shows just how much he’s willing to sacrifice for this world, and, more specifically, for the people he loves. Percy is actually afraid of taking the curse; he calls Nico’s idea scary, and puts it off for an entire year, because he doesn’t like it. He does end up taking the curse, but not because he’s thirsty for power, but because, “I have to. Otherwise, I don’t stand a chance.” He’s willing to sacrifice a part of his own mortality to keep these people safe, despite the fact that his highest ambition in life is to be a normal man.

Sacrificing part of your mortality isn’t something that can just be undone. It’s a seriously intense decision, and that’s why Achilles personally comes to issue a warning. Because it’s life-altering, and could potentially end in disaster. So although Percy doesn’t want it, he needs to live with it now. He needs to learn how to live with it, because that’s how life works.

Except, Percy doesn’t have to learn to live with it, because he gets it conveniently removed a few months later. This is by far the most ridiculous part of Son of Neptune, and represents a major fall out of series-to-series continuity.

Curse of Achilles in Last Olympian: radical, life-altering, dangerous, costs you part of your mortal life.

Curse of Achilles in Son of Neptune: oh, that old Greek blessing? The Tiber will wash away, no biggie.

If you go straight from Last Olympian to Son of Neptune, you can see that this is some seriously ridiculous bullshit. I mean, just think about it from an analytical perspective. Seriously, are we supposed to believe that had Achilles himself walked across the Tiber, he, too, would have lost his invulnerability? The curse of Achilles doesn’t come with a warranty. It’s a life deal. It costs you a piece of your mortality. That’s not something that can be overlooked. Does the Tiber have powers to restore your mortal soul back into your physical body? Does the Tiber have the power to remove your physical anchor to the mortal world? How does that even make sense? It’s literally explained that you can’t hold onto the curse because the Tiber is Roman, and the curse is Greek, and…. and why in the world should that be true? It’s not true about anything else. It makes no sense. It’s not even explained.

The loss of the curse isn’t explored at all. Percy doesn’t even think about it once it’s gone. It never comes up again.

You’d think that Percy would care more? He hasn’t been injured in months? He’s been fighting with it for months? His fighting style adapted, and now he has to quickly figure out a way to revert to his old style, because, oh, yeah, now he bleeds and gets broken bones and bruises. If you can’t be injured, then your fighting style would be all offense, simply because it makes sense. Now, suddenly, he’s back on the defensive. Except there’s no learning curve, there’s no mention of this process at all.

Does Annabeth even know? I mean, she was upset that the gray hair was fading because she felt like she lost a symbolic bond. Imagine how much more of an impact the loss of the curse would have. She was his anchor to the mortal world, and he trusted her with his only weakness, and then it’s just taken away, and they don’t even discuss it. She’d also have to adapt too, because I’m sure she was a lot less worried about him when she knew he couldn’t be injured. I bet they fought back to back more, so she could defend his only undefended side. I bet she’d started to work it to her advantage, because it’s a massive fucking advantage and you’d be stupid not to utilize it. But again, no learning curve, no compensation for this at all.

Most significantly, though: there was absolutely no reason to remove the curse.

The only, the only, reason I can conceive of to remove the curse is so that Percy would have less of a wicked advantage over the rest of the seven. Namely, Jason.

It essentially boils down to, oops, I accidentally made my main character way too powerful, and now I need to think of a very convenient way to take this power away, and then not explain it!

It’s called Diabolus ex Machina: the introduction of an unexpected new event, character, ability, or object designed to ensure that things suddenly get much worse for the protagonists, much better for the villains, or both. (this happens a lot in Heroes of Olympus, but it would take me far too long to get into it here).

Ironically, the removal in Son of Neptune also makes the curse seem like a Deus ex Machina solution in Last Olympian. Deus ex Machina is when some new event, character, ability, or object solves a seemingly unsolvable problem in a sudden, unexpected way. Now, the curse in Last Olympian was handled really well, but since it was removed after it had served its purpose, it essentially turns into a shiny new ability that has no lasting impact on the characters or the plotline.

If you’re gonna give a character an ability like that, then you have got to go all out. If you take it away for convenience, you’re cheapening the storyline, and cheapening the character. There need to be repercussions from such a monumental decision, or you’ve lost all sense of continuity. There is a way to take power away, but this isn’t it.

The most hysterical part of this whole mess, and by hysterical I mean fucking infuriating, is that Percy doesn’t even get injured in a way that the curse of Achilles would have protected him from. He gets poisoned, suffocated, and restrained, all of which were perfectly viable options while the curse was still in place. The only significant time he draws blood is a fucking nosebleed, and even that could still have been done with the curse of Achilles in effect. (Frankly, though, there’s absolutely no reason that Percy’s blood has to be the one to wake Gaea, and I think it’s ludicrous that Annabeth is the only one who got wounded in that battle. It’s also never explained why Percy and Annabeth’s blood would be “preferable” to wake the goddess, so that whole scene is fucking bullshit to begin with.)

But, truly, the most ironic part is that the series would have been so much better if the curse was left in place.

Listen up: I think it’s generally agreed upon that Percy’s character was dumped on in Heroes of Olympus, in order to make the other characters (namely Jason and Leo) shine brighter by comparison (if you’re unfamiliar with that, there’s a little bit about it here, here, and here).

Short version is that Percy is given a bunch of new issues that he doesn’t really have (his weird Alpha Male personality switch in Mark of Athena that is wildly out of character for him), or, has skeletons pulled out of his closet (everything in Tartarus basically) and then conveniently shoved back in the closet to focus on the other characters. The problem is Percy had already grown up and undergone well-handled character development in PJO, and so what essentially happened is that fake development was forced by creating new issues (you can read a really good example of that here).

But if the curse of Achilles would have remained present, that wouldn’t have happened. Because that was the one loose end of PJO: Percy really didn’t have the curse long enough to fully understand it by the time the book ended. So, since he didn’t get that chance in PJO, that would have been the perfect thing to explore in HOO. But it’s not explored.

Can you imagine how much more intense everything would have been with the curse of Achilles? The scene with Jason in Kansas would have escalated that much more (did i mention that the only reason the curse was removed was so this scene could happen), and Percy would have been that much more unsettled over who the winner would have been (if we ignore the fact that this alpha male thing is massively ooc for him).

Imagine how insanely heartbreaking and intense the scene with the Arai would have been, since it had been so long since Percy felt pain. Imagine how much more disturbing it would have been, and how much more distressed Annabeth would have been.

The Romans would have feared him that much more, giving even more opportunity for Percy to feel like an outcast

Imagine Percy’s guilt when the rest of the seven keep getting injured and he is always fine??????

Percy would have had to deal with the concept that even though it seems like a blessing sometimes, it really is a curse, because he can never get back to the way he was. Fully coming to understanding, and eventually acceptance, of the curse could have been an incredible plotline.

Percy’s struggle for acceptance and normalcy is the most significant area that requires development, and keeping the curse would have been an incredible way to explore that.

I shed a tear for its potential. Someone write me an au, pretty please.

[burgerheadjones]

@parsecpotato

[bugpurity]

Jason Grace is basically like a victorian child bc everyone assumes he wouldn't be able to handle any kind of spicy food or slightly more punchy food (think like energy drinks or really hot cheetos) due to the combined white boy and growing up in a very secluded military camp (which is very culty and barely let him try anything from the outside world) like how ppl assume that Victorian children wouldn't be able to handle anything from the modern era. And then to test this Piper and Leo give him a McDonald's Sprite and he chugs it in 10 seconds and mentions it kinda tastes like the poison he had to take for endurance training when he was 7 and continues on with his day.