aleks

~LESTER SUPREMACY ~ they/them | 21 mostly just pjo stuff

[lesterapollogist]

introduction bc why not

hi my name is aleks, i’m 21 and i mostly go by they/them (although any other pronouns are fine really)

this blog is mainly things from the riordanverse (mostly TOA), and maybe some other things here and there

i also talk a lot about lester papadopoulos and i love angst (that’s not really important but i felt the need to tell you) you have officially been warned (/j)

[taylorswift]

I had the time of my life fighting dragons with youuuu! Celebrate 34 with me by watching The Eras Tour (Extended Version) including “Long Live” 🐉 “The Archer” 🏹 and “Wildest Dreams” 💙 at home!

PS troll me all you want about my excessive and literal millennial emoji use but A) no one’s prouder to be a millennial and B) it’s my bday and today I am exempt! 🎂

https://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheErasTourAtHome

[lesterapollogist]

kind of sad how a lot of people in the pjo fandom don’t know that piper is actually canonically queer/sapphic and that it’s not just a hc

[edvinsmirror-deactivated2023111]

Riordanverse timeline

I know that some of the birthdays don't line up with the Canon ones, but that's just gonna have to be okay because I did too much research on this pointless chart just for it not to line up with fandomwiki. You can see my notes under the birthdays

[ukelele-boy]

Far Shooter, rouser of armies.

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[lesterapollogist]

kind of sad how a lot of people in the pjo fandom don’t know that piper is actually canonically queer/sapphic and that it’s not just a hc

[persassychase]

Will Solace, our sunshine ☀️

[mayzuu]

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

I know it says that when Apollo reawakened as himself he no longer had any of the scars or bruises from his trials on his arms, and he was sort of sad about that because they were a mark of the sacrifices Lester made for his friends - HOWEVER, it says nothing about scars on his chest, so I have a headcanon that one scar did remain for the rest of his godly eternity - the one he got from stabbing himself with the arrow of Dodona.

[100wizard]

wizard time

[velinxi]

Children of the Underworld

My cover for @cosmiccowzine ’s PJO zine! 

[lesterapollogist]

Apollo met Will Solace’s mother (Naomi Solace) in Austin Texas and the next kid Apollo had a few years later is name Austin

[solangeloforeve]

Funart is from Llamangos

[bakedbananners]

i think what i love most about alex fierro is how she explicitly loves shape shifting and considers it a part of her identity, but also pretty explicitly doesn’t use it to change her physical appearance to aid her gender presentation. like, she has the perfect power for making her body magically cis-normative, but she doesn’t use it that way, she doesn’t use it to “pass” more. rick could’ve easily written the “genderfluid shapeshifter changes their secondary sex characteristics as they change their gender” trope but he didn’t. alex has a transgender body and is proud of that. i think that’s so so cool

Anon it’s like you read my mind because I had something about this in my drafts brewing anyways AGSGDJDBSJ

My Big Ol’ Rant about Alex’s Genderfluidity and Shapeshifting lol

I agree! Firstly, one of the first points she makes to Magnus is that yeah, she could look any way she wanted, but her gender identity is the one thing she can’t change at will. She’s come to terms with it, and doesn’t ever try to fight it. She embraces it, and if anything divorcing her gender from her shapeshifting is so important.

A HUGE BIG MASSIVE part of her character is that SHE IS NOT WHITE. SHE IS MEXICAN WITH INDIGENOUS HERITAGE. She takes a lot of pride specifically about her genderfluidity from an ancient Mesoamerican (Tlatilco) belief system that is inherently Latino/Mexican! NOT from her Norse parentage! To make her conform to not only cisheternornativity, but Eurocentric gender concepts, is such a blatant disregard and frankly colonialist way of thinking and perceiving her character. Alex Fierro is a person who is makes a conscious effort to decolonize her entire self. You could even tie in the way Loki attempts to exert power of her and Samirah as a form of Viking colonization/appropriation. Alas, essay for another day I guess LOL.

And lastly, canon evidence points to the contrary. When Magnus first meets Alex, he uses an inkblot metaphor, a simple inversion of perception. Reality-warping and changing one’s perspective is a big theme throughout the trilogy. Minds either bend and adjust, or they break entirely. The way it is written, it is Magnus’ perception that changes as he learns what gender she is, not Alex herself. She’s the same as always, just contains more facets. To write her like Alex is the one who adjusts and changes to fit into others’ world views is such a misunderstanding of the whole point of her character and many major themes in the series entirely. (Also to have transgenderism explained in such a simple and magic way… Rick what were you ON LMAO /pos)

Continuing: In HoT, when Alex is masc, Magnus notices that his hair seems to have gotten a bit longer. It indicates to me that even if he were to shapeshift minutely in appearance, it wouldn’t be in a Eurocentric cishet manner. Also, in the study, Magnus notes that while she is fem she reminds him of his mom- who is blatantly gender non-conforming (as Magnus also is). In Nine from the Nine Worlds, during Alex’s POV when he experiences a gender shift, he explains that it just simply happens. There is absolutely no change in appearance from him. That should blatantly indicate that there literally is no physical shapeshifting or dysphoria involved, at least a majority of the time for Alex.

Ok end of rant. I love Alex Fierro. 😭

[fuzzystudios]

yk when I started reading toa I was kinda disappointed at the lack of power that apollo / lester had, bc pjo and hoo had their main characters be basically op, and this is literally a (former) god. apollo in tho made me cringe and reading his perspective was like looking at pills in an orange prescription bottle. but he was the whiny teenager that felt like an out-of-depth teenager more than the actually lived for years-in-teen-numbers, because they were more heroes and soldiers than teens, like they were supposed to be. he is simultaneously whiny child and responsible adult.

the moment I really latched onto him was when he basically dropped everything and tried to dive into the forest to go save his kids. bro wasn’t actually a selfish idiot like he kept making himself look like. bro was an emotionally constipated loving loser (affectionate) and loveable. he would risk the wrath of styx to save these kids. positively skrunkly

oh and his power! look guys the former protagonists always had some power to back them up, some good strength. this guy? first not demigod protagonist and he goes from straight up zero to launching a guy to the clouds with his bare hands. and tfw he uses his voiceTM. BEGONE SNAKE! and he acts so pathetic lol and if you look through whatever sunglasses he’s wearing and you look at the things from 3rd person pov dude what is he doing. he just flew off a road driving a car, and puts himself in front of the gremlin child to face one of those creepy zombie things that scream FOOD!!. bro straight up stabbed himself. bro sings the most heart wrenching song that even giant ants that don’t even understand what he’s saying get the point to the extent that they go catatonic with depression.

and holy cheez-its what kind of pain tolerance does this guy have?? dude??? you fell from the literal sky above the Empire State Building which like literal greek heaven (ouch) straight into a dumpster and then gets beat into unconsciousness by a pair of thugs under Nero like??? and with broken ribs, injured nose, hurt shoulder, etc. he walks up the stairs, runs through the woods insane. dude is literally insane. he gets flayed alive, forgets his other half, trapped in place by molten chains all at once and still trying trying to walk wth like this guy’s pain tolerance is beyond ouranos. idk how he does it I can’t even tolerate a hot summer day.

bro gives advice to a lost gremlin child who betrayed him anyway, helps her defeat her abuser the way he never could. and he grew, like everyone around him, to something better, something hopeful. “you’ve changed” heck yeah!! we love to see it

and humor?? like random mentions of things no one else in pjo would give you like playing the zither at 2am, godly toilet seat, ares roundhouse kick, waking up in Argentina. I love that they’re so offhand but they’re so funny and random

the haiku. they’re hilarious, works of art.

the characters. Chiron. Chiara. Damien. Austin. Kayla. Cecil. will. nico. Rachel. Lavinia. emmie. Josephine. heck even Commodus. lityerses. Abelard. Diana. frank. Jason. piper. the trogs. lu. reyna omg. meg. aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA I love them so much! just how they fit in with his own journey of self and how they grow with him, like a garden, like an orchestra building its crescendo together, in unity. little things like reading frank’s admiration of apollo first in hoo, and now we get apollo’s side of it, and he’s so cute. Reyna’s whole journey of “finding the one who will heal her heart”. (gods I loved that thank you rick.) and will’s “dad!” and making apollo literally weep and meg: “the beast is dead. I killed it.” and taps her head and I’m just so proud of them.

“YOU ARE NO GOD!” he isn’t the same god who fell to earth in the winter. he likely won’t be ever the same ever again. ‘cause he’s gonna work to being better. he’s saving the world, but he’s also having a journey of his own self, rediscovering himself, building onto himself like everyone else, they’re all gonna be a better version of themselves.

k one problem: not enough content. I am starved for content. please feed pet. ty

[hyacynta]

Always. The sun always comes back.