im begging the zutara fandom to ship with no regrets; i see so many posts by zutara shippers being like "i respect the canon but" or "the live action will probably follow the canon and that's okay but" and its like fuck the canon. lol zutara is better than the canon. ship that shit proudly. this fandom didn't last two decades because us og shippers cared about what bryke thought lol
I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:
Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed
Apollo: Babe, for the sake of our health, I think we should get ice cream
Percy: I’m not following. Isn’t the entire point of ice cream and other sweets that they are unhealthy?
Apollo: I’d say in this heat, it’s not only healthy, but necessary. Come on, we have to find a suitable ice cream shop before we melt in this sauna of a street!
Apollo: All in för Sverige!
Hermer: Go Netherlands!
Artemis: Pass the snacks!
Percy, who just walked through the door: What's going on?
Artemis: Sweden vs Netherlands!
Apollo: I'm rooting for Sweden, obviously!
Hermes: I'm rooting for the Netherlands, because Apollo is rooting Sweden
Artemis: I'm here in case their sibling rivalry gets out of hand, and it's oddly entertaining to watch these two cheer at a flat screen.
Percy: Okay... but what sport are they playing.
Hermes: What sport? It's the World Cup!
Percy: World Cup? You mean that soccer tornament?
Artemis: *Gasp!*
Hermes: Oh, no! You did not!
Apollo: Hang on! hold your horses! I'll deal with this.
Apollo: Percy, Love, the players move the ball with their feet. They're playing football. You Americans are arguing a pointless battle, let it go. What they play at that super bowl, that's a form of rugby, more precisely, it's group wrestling with a misshaped ball.
Percy: ...Yeah, I guess that's fair. May I watch with you?
Apollo: Of course! I've already prepared the yellow and blue face paint for you!
Apollo: Hi, babe! Oh! You’re baking chocolate chip cookies! Can I have one?
Percy: No, those are for Mother’s Day. I’m sending them to mom via Hermes Express.
Apollo: Oh, that reminds me! I have to get some wienerbrød for my mom.
Percy: I’m sorry, what did you have to get her?
Apollo: Wienerbrød, you know, the Danish pastry? You see, my mom’s from what the ancient Greeks called Hyperborea, which today is known as Scandinavia, which is three different countries, that all celebrates Mother’s Day on different dates, so on the Danish Mother’s Day, I get my mom wienerbrød, on the Norwegian Mother’s Day, I get her rabarbrapai, and on the Swedish Mother’s Day, I get her prinsesstårta!
Percy: Wow, so when’s those Mother’s Days?
Apollo: Norway’s February 8, Denmark’s May 10th, and Sweden’s May 31
Percy: I wondered what you were doing with all those rhubarbs back in February… Well, I guess you better hurry to the store.
Lucy: I don’t have a mom, so I just wish every mom I meet a happy Mother’s Day!
“you cannot ship these two fictional characters because—” actually I can because they are not real people. they are just toys I play with. you cannot apply real-world morality to fiction or how strangers play with their imaginary toys in their imaginary sandboxes.
you can, however, curate your own internet experience by minding your own business, muting/blocking/scrolling past what upsets you but does not hurt anyone in real life in any way, shape or form.
“ship whatever you want except xyz. there is a limit” so you miss the entire point of what I just said 👌🏻
there is, in fact, no limit. I may be uncomfortable with it, I may even find it unpleasant/disturbing, but my personal feelings are not rules that can be applied to other people, and they absolutely do not justify shaming or harassing other people.
It's canon that the gods are omni-lingual (if that's a word). They can speak any human language. So, it makes sense that Apollo and Artemis are multilingual. However, I think it's adorable that Lucy speaks in more than one language. Maybe Apollo taught her how to speak more than one language, and it seems this one makes her more comfortable. Apollo probably teaches Percy, too, and the family just speaks that language despite it not being their native tongue.
A little piece of lore for this AU of mine is that Apollo got Lucy a subscription for the Kalle Anka & co (Donald Duck & co.) and Swedish comic book Bamse världens starkaste björn, so she can read Swedish fluently but speaks with an accent.
Percy: I wonder what kind of animal the pink panther is
Hermes: Say that again-
Apollo: I know right?
Apollo: A panther isn’t its own species, it’s a genus containing the largest living cat species, jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard, and tiger!
Apollo: What we usually call black panthers are individuals of one of those species with the melanistic color variation, usually a leopard or a jaguar.
Apollo: There are white individuals of the panthera genus, called white panthers as well!
Percy: Precisely! You see what I mean! Simply saying he’s a panter isn’t a complete answer!
Apollo: Even better! There is a rare genetic mutation that causes reddish or pink coloration, called erythrism.
Percy: So the pink panther is probably one of those five cat species, with erythrism?
Apollo: Not necessarily one of those five. You see, unlike the melanistic color variation, large cats with erythrism still have visible stripes or spots, which the pink panther doesn’t have. Granted, lions doesn’t have stripes or spots, but they have their characteristic mane, which the pink panther is also lacking.
Apollo: I suppose he could be transgendered, but I think a ftm lion would still have a small mane, as there are documented cases of biologically female lions exhibiting more masculine behaviors and also growing manes.
Percy: So, what kind of cat is the pink panther, then?
Apollo: Well, there is another cat that in popular speech is often called panther, despite it belonging to the felinae subfamily and not the pantherinae, and that is the cougar, also called puma, mountain lion, or catamount. I’d say the cougar is the most likely candidate for what species the pink panther is. An erythristic cougar.
Percy: I love you.💕
Apollo: I love you too😘
Hermes: And I regret third wheeling you two right now…
Apollo: Oh, that reminds me. I believe you owe Percy an apology, seeing as you were about to insinuate that his question was stupid.