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[lazy--lillies]

Blog Intro

Damn didn't make one of these for my first blog, so trying to get ahead of the curb with this one lol

Hi guys! I'm Lily, and this is my side blog for specifically PJO related stuff. I'm gonna be posting my pjo headcannons, ships, etc on here, so if any of that interests you feel free to follow! I'm also going to be using this to talk about some of my issues with Rick Riordan and his writing, and complaints about the PJO universe as a whole, so if you're an Uncle Rick fan, this might not be the place for you. Below is gonna be the specifics of what I'll be posting about on this blog, so if you would like to see, feel free to forge ahead.

Onto the ships! Ships that I will be posting about:

Jasico

Percabeth

Valgrace

Jiper (platonically)

Theyna

Ruegard

Ships I'm not a fan of:

Pernico/Percico

Solangelo

Caleo

*if you're fans of these then you probably won't have a good time on this blog, as I will be complaining about them. No hate to y'all, just maybe don't scroll further down.

Tags and their meanings:

pjo/Pjo/PJO - general tag for the pjo series and all relating content to it

percy jackson - individual character tag

pjo rants - my issues w riordan/the series/any general complaining and criticisms

[vyky]

I say this with full offence to Rick Riordan. I don't consider Octavian gutting teddy bears as a way to interpret the will of gods as canon, and there's nothing anyone can say to make me consider it canon

[chazchaschad]

I do not have a "side blog”, I do not “schedule posts”. I torture my followers with random bullshit and if that doesn’t work I KILL MYSELF

[phoenixystix]

we were so robbed of the events of the titan war haunting the hoo narrative. like so robbed. so robbed.

not only in the fact that the entire sequence of events amounted to actually NOTHING in the end because the gods are back up to their antics in like LITERALLY three months when they close olympus.

but you also expect me to believe that percy and annabeth wouldn't have gone up there and POUNDED THE DOOR DOWN despite the fact that annabeth is literally. DESIGNING it (a project which she should still be working on, incidentally, but i guess it got finished off-page, bc why should THAT moment have any narrative significance, right?). you're telling me percy jackson, who in august posted up with 40 demigods in the lobby of the empire state building and demanded access up because he needed to talk to zeus, is just like 'oh well' when zeus closes olympus in december. makes NO sense and i hate it. i could get over this if hera just like took him off the board early before he could do anything about it but i regret to inform you that this is not the case because olympus was closed for a month before he went missing and we are told this explicitly in the lost hero. and percy just like went to camp to enjoy winter break, i guess. he would never

and then we also have about three (3) moments when percy and annabeth combined display like any sense of loss or remorse or even a thought to what happened last summer. because it was LAST summer for them! like you're kidding me you're kidding me. annabeth is still fighting with the knife luke used to kill himself and they're flying around with on a ship that has the head of the bronze dragon that ANNABETH put back together and BECKENDORF adopted and percy feels no sadness at all when he looks at him. we have the love of annabeth's life getting possessed with an entity that makes his eyes gold and she has no feelings about this. annabeth befriends piper and never thinks about silena past like idk chapter 5 of the lost hero. percy loses the curse of achilles and annabeth like doesn't even know and they never talk about it not one literal time. are you kidding me

[call-me-medusa]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “jasico in house of hades” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

five minutes later: "You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?" and jason didn't hesitate when he drank the cup of POISON

[hazellvsq]

[faytears]

the "will resenting percy for what happened to michael yew" headcanon would be SOOOOO good if solangelo stans weren't so annoying about it

[butt-puncher]

Nico falling in love with jason pre hera kidnapping and continuing to love him after. The person jason was in camp jupiter is so different from who he is in chb but nico loves him anyways. Jason is heras tool for her to play with and mold as much as she likes but no how much he changes through it all, he's still just jason to nico. Hes not just the "golden boy," "Praetor" and pipers "Perfect Boyfriend," he's his own person more than the roles he was forced into

[bayetea]

truly one of the biggest letdowns in piper's writing in hoo specifically is how it doesn't dig deeper into charmspeak and what a disturbing thing it is to have the power to control someone's mind. like I swear this is interesting stuff and more people would get into piper as a character if this were explored a bit more in the text. you definitely see piper disturbed by her own power and hesitant to use it (and note that like many other characters, i.e. leo and hazel, her powers have always been a source of trouble in her life - like how she got in trouble for stealing a car even though all she did was ask for it), but in my opinion the books spend way too much time in piper's perspectives on other stuff when charmspeak is such an unusual and fascinating and terrifying power that offers so many interesting avenues of character exploration

and I really wish the books would have talked more about the canonical fact that charmspeak is more effective against people who are (or could be) physically/sexually attracted to the user. this is a power that children of aphrodite have - a power that is implicitly tied to sexuality as a defense or offense. like this inherently necessitates that piper weaponizes her sexuality against monsters and deities and giants and any other antagonist that want to harm her. which is crazy. especially because she's a teenager and especially because piper is initially characterized as an underconfident girl who goes out of her way to downplay her appearance (do you guys remember how much harassment piper goes through in the books and what little gravity is afforded to those moments... like she has dangerous characters aggressively flirting with or expressing attraction to her A Lot, and she has to play into that attraction to save herself or her friends no matter how uncomfortable it makes her)

I think there's such a dark undertone to all of this that's worth investigating. we know that piper doesn't like herself, doesn't like her powers, and doesn't like demigod life. hoo has her on a journey to become more confident in herself as a person and as a daughter of aphrodite but it's always going to be fucked up that part of her role in the prophecy seven is becoming confident enough in herself that she gets better at weaponizing her ability to violate the free will of others - and her ability to use her sexuality as an armament of war

[pearlssz30]

70 years was about how long Hazel was stuck in the fields of asphodel, waiting, carrying the burden of ‘eternal’ loneliness because she wanted to be a good daughter

[losergender]

"what's your favorite horror story" i don't know possibly hazel levesque age 13/14 committing suicide by chosing to drown in oil and die in her abusive and explotive mother's arms to save the world just to then be shown how she could have found love and life a happy life despite having grown up poor and discriminated by all her peers and therefore be justly offered a blissful afterlife which she rejected purely to make her mom's one better

[lady-menrva-deactivated20250628]

[rumov]

redraw of that archie panel 🙈

[tagthescullion]

Unpopular opinion but I don't think Nico was treated as badly at Camp Half-Blood before THO as the writing says he does. Clovis seems to like Nico fine (and Nico seems resigned at their meeting, suggesting that this isn't the first time he and Clovis have chatted in the dreamspace), and when he meets Cecil and Lou Ellen they get along with him perfectly well and don't seem creeped out by him at all even though this seems to be the first time they're meeting (since Will had to introduce them).

the way rick retconned nico was unforgivable and the worst part was assuming he needed to make him "unloved and marginalised" in CHB just so that.. him being gay was "worse"? by the end of TLO the whole point is that CHB learned to appreciate allies regardless of whether they're underworldly or not!! they respect nico, they let him have his cabin there, people were okay with him and that shite arse line "for a while they were chill, then they grew wary" was cheap, lazy, bad writing

so by HoO, it really, really just looks like that scene

[tagthescullion]

@lazy--lillies love the tags

Nico grew up in a catholic family, probably going to catholic school, under a fascist regime, in a homophobic time period, that kid didn’t need to be ostracised to feel less bc of his sexuality, you’re very right 👌🏼👌🏼

((And I get it, people say, ‘oh but his mum wasn’t religious, she shagged a greek god! She was so open and relaxed about those things!’

But the fact is that well, the religion was imposed, so debate on whether one could be both catholic and believe in other deities aside, that’s part of nico’s culture

and also most people don’t want to accept that even if maria was super chill, she would’ve most likely still have made microaggressions against gay people, not out of malice, but bc it’s ingrained in people’s brains! It happens nowadays still, ofc it would happen in the 40s!!!))

[lazy--lillies]

Yes!!! Plus even if you discount Maria being homophobic (like even if she wasn’t cause it seems like it’d be out of character for her) Italian society is VERY culturally Catholic, and in WW2 the homophobia would’ve reached Nico with or without his mom being homophobic. It’s just so weird for him to give Nico his memories back and then not do anything with the trauma he would for sure have from that time period

[greencatalystcomet]

im a little less than halfway through son of neptune and i just gotta say. theres no way nicos real fatal flaw is holding grudges because i would kill percy jackson myself before i let another of my sisters go on a dangerous quest with him

[gatesofember]

Jason “Nico’s arms were surprisingly taut” Grace and Nico “Jason Grace’s protective arms” di Angelo

[greekjasico]

"you're my best friend, now ive got no one to tell how i lost my best friend" is so Nico after jasons death you cannot convince me otherwise