the Oracle is laughing at us

Been loving Percy Jackson since 2008, now I'm in love with the TV show. Loves foils, parallels, and all kinds of meta. Header&icon by me

[idburnitalldown]

hello there 🌊 🦉🍃

Anyways had no choice but to make this sideblog after the latest episode (S2 E5), so after loving the Percy Jackson books since 2008, welcome to the sideblog!

Quick rundown:

Am very queer (aroace, trans, gay, etc); I use he/they pronouns

I'm mostly focused on the OG PJO books. I haven't reread Heroes of Olympus since 2015 and haven't kept up with any releases since.

I do love the PJO musical dearly, though.

Despite being a book fan, and there being elements of the books I prefer, I also 100% think the show elevates and improves upon the source material overall, so there may occasionally be posts discussing how/why.

If something is show or book specific, I'll note it. Otherwise, you can assume it's all versions of characters (book, show, musical, etc)

Fave books: The Titan's Curse, the Last Olympian

Fave ships: Percabeth, Thaluke

Fave characters: show!Grover Underwood, Percy, Annabeth, Clarisse la Rue, Luke, Frank and Hazel

[forrpercyy]

you’re familiar like my mirror years ago

[rosedavid]

#percycore Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Season 2

[emziess]

Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson Percy Jackson and the Olympians - S02E02

[daniellarusso]

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS S02EP04 — "Clarisse Blows Up Everything"

[emziess]

I met Grover. Percy Jackson and the Olympians

[nicothespy]

ok *hadestowns your percabeth*

[leabethchase]

New poster for Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse!!

[leabethchase]

They're coming back to us soon 😭

[idburnitalldown]

Your fatal flaw is very rare and very dangerous. You always put your friends first, don’t you? How is that a bad thing? To save a friend, you might be forced to do great evil. To save a friend, you might sacrifice a quest. Your soul. You might even sacrifice… the world. 

1x04 / 2x05

[phoenixystix]

The difference between Luke and Percy isn't actually their relationship to their dads, it's their moms!

May and Sally are explicitly linked by the text because they are clear-sighted mortals whose talents attract their respective gods.

Hermes adored and loved May and he tried, he tried desperately to discourage her from becoming the Oracle and she would not heed his warning. We are told by Hestia that she "went too far." She wasn't content with her "beautiful baby boy." She thought she could do it, she told Hermes that she knew she could do it. But she was wrong. It's her own hubris that brings her Fate, and by extension Luke's Fate, down on their heads. Luke blames Hermes for this - maybe because it's easier to be mad at him than to be mad at May who is obviously suffering, maybe because he just doesn't know what really happened. May's motivations seem to be trying to grasp at significance on her own terms - she knows she cannot keep Hermes forever, she believes she was gifted with clear sight for a reason.

Contrast that with Sally - Sally, who is offered a palace under the sea, and turns it down. She chooses the simple life, she chooses her son. Sally teaches her son not to grasp for power. Her famous line, "if my life is going to mean anything I have to live it myself" actually follows her telling Percy: "I think you're enough like me to understand." And this following Percy's decision NOT to do what a classic hero would have and use the head on Gabe, but instead to yield the power and reject that impulse because he realizes that this is (one of the reasons) why a hero's story never ends happily.

Luke dies because he was grasping for power, because he tried to take on more than he could handle. His fate mirrors his mother's. He hosts Kronos, like May tried to host the Oracle, and his mind is split in two, warring with itself. And Percy, like Sally, is offered incredible wealth and status by the gods, and turns it down. Chooses the simple life, chooses to live his own life.

[phoenixystix]

Percy's fatal flaw has a loophole. He respects people's autonomy too much to override their decisions, and I think this is potentially the only thing that keeps it from bringing about the disaster that Athena predicts in TTC. Percy:

leaves his mom in the Underworld because he reasons that she would make this choice herself and she would never allow him to sacrifice himself for her

does not save his mother from Gabe because he figures he is "leaving her in good hands - her own"

advocates for Grover to search for Pan - a quest no satyr has ever come back alive from - because he will not deprive Grover of his dream. Including advocating for Grover and Tyson to split off in the Labyrinth (extremely dangerous, Annabeth thinks it's a bad idea, they go missing as a result, etc)

does not ask Nereus about Annabeth because he knows she would never accept that decision and she would be furious about it

sends Annabeth off to a solo death quest and stuffs down his angstier feelings about it for her sake, sensing she needs him to believe in her, and, even crazier: realizing that he has such influence over her that he even could potentially convince her not to go and refusing to use it because he does not want her to have to live with knowing she backed down from her greatest challenege.

And these are the people he loves the most in the entire world!

So very fitting that Percy's story culminates with handing his antagonist the metaphorical and literal instrument to reclaim agency over his own destiny

[forrpercyy]

annabeth enchanted

[idburnitalldown]

I haven't spent enough time in your world to change that.

2x02 / 2x05

[axewithl]

quick messy redraw of this old Nico fanart, bc aparently the venn diagram for the pjo and vld fandom is a circle

[pjosource]

Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase Percy Jackson and the Olympians - S02E07

[keylostkey]

“Heroes Of Olympus” italian cover, by Daniele Gaspari

That’s are beautiful. 

The house of Hades has yet to come out in Italy (the cover was released, like, yesterday morning) … but my favorite - which is also the background of my desktop- is the cover of “The Mark of Athena” * ω * love the contrast of colors.

Especially like that never seeing their faces. ・▽ ・

[Visit his site (click on the name) for see other his artwork!]