Intro post because I’ve been on here for months at this point and I need to just do it already! So!👏🏻 Here it goes:
Hi! My name is not that hard to find but I avoid saying it on here so you can just call me Ape! Or some variation of my user, because it is indeed very true; I’m literally insane rn
Ships:
Shocking news but my favorite ships are Valgrace and First Prince! I absolutely adore all four of them with my whole entire heart.
Fandoms:
Percy Jackson and all the various things in the Riordanverse
Red, White and Royal Blue (even if I think the title should use the Oxford comma)
Occasionally Minecraft! Specifically the Life Series and even more specifically Joel/Smallish Beans. I mostly reblog stuff randomly on my side blog for that though!
Characters:
Jason Grace. He is everything to me, definition of a blorbo. I love him so much you don’t understand.
Leo Valdez. I love Valgrace, what did we expect, really? He was actually my favorite before Jason, I was a cliché 😔
Piper McLean. Her and Leo are best friends and absolutely inseparable in my mind. You can’t have one without the other. Actually, you can’t have any of this trio without the others.
Henry Fox-Mountchristian-Windsor. I love him and Alex equally, even if Henry literally is Jason in another life.
Alex Claremont-Diaz. He’s so stupid in love with Henry and acts like he’s not. I love an oblivious idiot who’s not an idiot at all, what can I say? Literally Leo in the same other life.
Percy Jackson. This might be a surprise, idk. I just love him so much, he was one of the first main characters (as in the narrator) to ever be my favorite.
Fanfiction:
You can find me on ao3 if you want to read terrible Valgrace stuff. And also my series that I swear I’m writing I just can’t get past this one part 😔
Ao3: ErraticApe89
Fics:
Gifts: A Valgrace week 2025 fic that I swear I’m writing the second part to, guys I swear.
What Did I Miss?: The first installment in my RWRB x PJO crossover series that, again, I am writing for, I’m just stuck. Alex POV!
Marshmallows and Petty Squabbles: A fic I wrote for the 2025 PJO Equinox/Solstice Exchange. I don’t think it’s that good, but people seemed to like it, so. It’s there.
About me!
I love the color blue to an unhealthy degree
I’m a lesbian who loves reading about fictional queer men because. Well, I still don’t really know, but it’s fun!
Ace-spec and Demi-romantic! Those hyphens probably don’t belong there but it’s fine. Probably
I have OCD. It sucks, but it’s great for projecting onto fictional characters in my notes app at 2 AM
ADHD and Anxiety I guess. Or whatever 🙄 Just little things. No impact on my life or anything
I love to learn things. About people and history and places and psychology and philosophy and fucking. Like. Art and shit. I really wanna see Michelangelo’s David
I love statues they’re so cool
Southern! I like to hate on Northerners for not selling sweet tea at every fast food joint. And for never saying y’all. How do you even live like that, honestly?
Disabled and proud but also it still sucks but y’know. No official diagnosis yet so I don’t prefer to talk about what it is in clinical terms since I could be wrong, but we have our suspicions.
I make posts way too long (like this one)
I will always, always, always drop a comment on your work. I love commenting and I love comments
I am a huge stickler for grammar and punctuation, even if I get it wrong fairly often. I change things to be correct in my head when I’m reading, it’s bad y’all. I won’t correct you though because that’s rude and also the aforementioned anxiety
Also! I feel like it's important to express just how bad my anxiety can be. I love interacting with people on here, it's been one of my favorite parts about getting into fandom, but I have dealt with severe social anxiety for most of my life and sometimes that makes it hard to talk to y'all. No matter what, know that I see your tags and reblogs and I love each and every one of them ❤️
This post is way too long! I hope this is a good intro post, but uhhhh. Am I supposed to tag people in this? I’ve see people do it before, so I’m gonna do it.
Moots that I love and don’t feel an explosion of anxiety about tagging in this <3: @imminentchaos @iwannascreameurekaa @obsessive-procrastinator @the-yaoi-princess @froglyberrys @halfseaweed
I love thinking about Jason with a youtube channel fully dedicated to explaining the history of the roman empire and all the aspects of the life of a roman legionaire, the evolution of weaponry and armor, the daily use of classical Latin (he also speaks it in most videos), the different ranks and their jobs and importance to the civilization, all that stuff, in like- extreme detail, in a way so causal it makes it seem like it all happened just yesterday.
It gets to the point where his audience questions if he's some sort of ancient roman deity sharing their life story with the world. It's kind of a running joke between them and he does not help with disproving that theory
omg I love this so much. I also think in speaking latin, he would be using words that don’t exist in most latin courses — because new rome has had a living, growing version of latin whereas most latin studies now don’t really create new words for new things. (also, I’m curious about your specification of classical latin - I would assume he, and the population of NR/CJ, would speak vulgar latin in most situations, but if you have a reasoning for the specification of classical latin I’d love to hear it!!)
I agree with ur tags, I think he would call in friends from NR/CJ to talk about different aspects. I hc that he’s good in the senate, so I figure he could talk about ancient roman legal practices in depth, and could borrow some lares for videos since they were there (he’d probably have them as like an “anonymous phone-in”, for simplicity).
it would be SERIOUSLY funny if he randomly would post things like “roman aqueduct tour” and give tours of the internals of the aqueducts in NR/CJ which are 1. unlocatable by viewers, 2. completely accurate to ancient roman standards, and 3. fully functioning and not at all in ruins
(Before anything I will warn you I'm no expert and I'm pulling all this info out of my head so take this with a grain of salt pls 🙏)
When I mentioned the use of "classical" Latin, I mean the overall pronunciation of words and the sounds of certain letters. I follow a guy on yt whose channel consists almost exclusively of the use of ancient dialects and languages (Scorpio Martianus, I've mentioned him before idr when, he's really cool tho) and through his channel I learned the existence of Ecclesiastical Latin ("evolved" pronunciation you would hear nowadays) and the classical Roman Latin (closest to the latin spoken naturally by the ancient Romans)
The main differences of the two, at least the most prominent of the ones that I noticed, had to do with the letters C, J and V. Ecclesiastical would attribute a [S] sound, a [J] sound and a [V] sound to each letter respectively, while in the Classical dialect, those same letters would produce a [K] sound, an [I] sound and a [W] or [U] sound (the fact that the letter U was written as V and J as I in ancient latin scripts only further proves this)
Given this and the fact that Jason and all the roman demigods are direct descendants of ancient roman deities, I always imagined that the latin they speak would be akin to that of the ancient romans, which means they would adopt the dialect native to their ancestors
Again take this with a grain of salt 🙏🙏 if you wanna know more abt this i recommend checking out the channel I mentioned before and MetatronYT as well, they're experts in this field and i love their videos :D
honestly the most difficult thing about imagining solgrace is the fact that they're both blonde. I have never seen two blonde people date each other. everyone would assume they're siblings
My life is still mostly the same level of insanity rn, but the difference is that instead of being in Valgrace tumblr constantly now I’m just speedrunning the batfam fandom on every other platform
WVERYONE STOP SCROLLING RIGHT NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT
I JUST HAD A SHOWER THOUGHT OF WHAT ANNABETH’S POWERS COULD BE IN A SUPERHERO AU
so ofc she doesn’t really have powers canonically in the way percy or jason would but hear me out
imagine if her power was to mimic (not steal, so the other person would still have their powers) anyone’s power through physical contact
the power she has is at about half power when she first touches the other person, and decreases the longer time goes on while she is not in contact with them. it gets stronger the longer she is in contact with the other person until it is at max power.
this means every fight is (mostly) different for her as she has a new power she can use and has to strategize on how to use it to its fullest extent, with how she can touch the enemy, her allies, and what powers her allies have that she can use
