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Grover: Okay Percy, I'm going to teach you how to identify trees
Percy: I know how to identify trees.
Percy: *points at a tree*
Percy: This is a tree
becky riordan confirms that the upcoming third season will have less fantasy via threads; questions why fans want to see more action scenes
mind you, the show is categorized in the action, adventure, and fantasy genres
the book series it was based on is also known for having, you know, a a demigod teenager fighting gods, monsters, and other demigod teenagers with a sword? where other demigod teenagers have knives, spears, bows...? where the last book is known for an all out war???
??? how is it unreasonable to expect an action adventure fantasy show to have action, adventure, and fantasy???
“She’s the goddess of snow,” Jason said. “What’s she going to do, throw snowballs at us?” But as he said it, Jason had a feeling Khione could do a whole lot worse.
Not that I hate Jason but if Percy said this, there would be a whole seaweed brain comment and everyone would be doing a whole lot of mental gymnastics to figure out how to save Percy from his own stupidity.
I like when Jason gets to be silly. I also agree that Percy has antagonized gods canonically. But I don't like that he's the only one who gets called out for it. Or how he's the only one called stupid for doing something they've all done.
“And you, Percy Jackson, I assume you’ve come to ask a favor. Perhaps you’re starting to regret turning down immortality?”
Here we go, I thought.
I must have looked like I was about to bust out the sarcasm, because Annabeth intervened.
Hebe narrowed her eyes. “Perhaps. Still, Percy Jackson, turning down eternal youth? You can’t really want to grow old. Don’t you understand how terrible that will be?”
I didn’t want to contradict the goddess, though, so I tried a careful answer. “I mean, I guess getting older is part of life—”
“This pizza is great!” Grover interrupted, probably in an attempt to save me from god-level zappage.
“You want to take the lead?”
“Oh, no,” Annabeth said. “You’re the one who made Hebe mad!”
“Me? That was all of us!”
“Ninety percent you.”
“Only ninety percent, though. I’m improving!”
He didn't though. He was constantly interrupted even when he was trying to answer after thinking it through. I'm not saying it's Annabeth's and Grover's fault either. Gods get offended for whatever. It's a thing. But Percy is always the one who gets blamed.
Piper had been watching with horrified fascination, the way she might watch a car wreck in progress. Now she realized Percy was not making things better, and Annabeth wasn’t around to rein him in. Piper figured her friend would never forgive her if she brought Percy back transformed into a sea mammal. “Lord Bacchus!” she interrupted, slipping off Tempest’s back.
“That sounds pretty normal for you,” Percy said.
The god’s nostrils flared. One of the grape leaves on his hat burst into flame. “If we know each other from that other camp, it’s a wonder I haven’t already turned you into a dolphin.”
“It was discussed,” Percy assured him. “I think you were just too lazy to do it.”
As for the giants, I know them well. I fought in the first Giant War, you know.”
“You can fight?” Percy asked.
Piper wished he hadn’t sounded so incredulous.
Dionysus snarled. His Diet Pepsi transformed into a five-foot staff wreathed in ivy, topped with a pinecone.
“A thyrsus!” Piper said, hoping to distract the god before he whacked Percy on the head.
Now this? Definitely needs intervention. Percy is actively making him mad like he can't see the grape leaves catching on fire or understand that Bacchus is getting angry. Also, you might remember Mr D visiting Percy in a dream in the middle of the battle of Manhattan when he was injured to warn him about needing heroes and saving the Gods seat of power and how hard it would be to win if Kronos attained full power. Percy was very sarcastic then too and I will take this interaction like every other Mr D- Percy interaction where they are constantly insulting each other but Mr D never does smite him like he threatens for whatever reason.
Or Percy is suddenly not perceptive, an idiot or does not remember the many interactions he's had with Gods over the years and how to deal with them. He suddenly doesn't remember Mr D fighting in the war and using what little power he had to reach out to give them a warning or asking about his son. Either way, Piper's intervention is completely reasonable.
"Now she realized Percy was not making things better, and Annabeth wasn’t around to rein him in." Not reasonable or a normal thing to think about a couple.
Annabeth insulting Hera is not seen as stupidity. Percy wanted to do it too, so I'm not saying it was wrong or unwarranted or anything. But she's not blamed for it by anyone other than Hera. Now if it was Percy? Seaweed Brain behaviour.
Jason and Nico talking back to Cupid. Righteous and absolutely warranted. It was one of the most godly instances in PJO. But it's not seen as stupidity. (It wasn't but that's not my point.)
Everything that happened with Lester. Like, they do realise that he'll get back to being a God and will remember what they did, right? Even if they were right and Apollo was wrong, they had no way of knowing he'll have character growth. Actually, mythological evidence (?) suggests that Apollo didn't learn anything about humanity the last two times he was turned mortal. Reyna actually kicks him when she learns about what happened to Coronis. Not that I don't love soft Apollo or that what Reyna did was wrong. I would have done the same thing but it's still dumb. Percy behaved as he always did, refreshingly. He didn't want to go on the quest, and this time no one could force him.
The goddess Hecate faced her. “You should go now, Hazel Levesque. Lead your friends out of this place.”
Hazel gritted her teeth, trying to hold in her anger. “Just like that? No ‘thank you’? No ‘good work’?”
I love Hazel. This isn't even that big of a deal but Percy would be treated very differently for asking the same thing.
Jason telling Zeus it's unwise to punish Apollo. Yay for Jason but it's Zeus. Telling any god they're unwise will not end well but it's Zeus. Percy is said to look like he'll fight beside Jason which is very Percy of him but no one says how stupid it was. Would Percy have done the same thing? Yes. Was Jason right? Obviously. Was it stupid to tell the king of the Gods it's unwise to use Apollo as a scapegoat? Definitely but you don't see Piper trying to save him from his stupidity. If it was Percy, they'll begrudgingly agree that it was brave but absolutely stupid.
And yeah, Percy is definitely the one that gets away the most after talking to Gods like that but that's because he gets the most interactions with them. The amount of fics where everyone saves Percy from his own stupidity and being blasted by Gods is criminal. It's not because I don't think Percy will get in trouble one day when he snarks the wrong God or because I think his friends won't help him if they think he's going to get in trouble. It's because he is the only one who gets blamed.
Annabeth throwing a party at Hecate's house?
Fun? Yes. Daring? Yes. Very teenage girl who didn't get a normal life? Yes.
Stupid? Also, yes. That's all I'm saying.
They all did it. I'm not saying that it's all Annabeth's fault or anything. She just won't ever be called out for her stupid ideas.
I was thinking about the pit scorpion incident again, and how well it showcases just how cruel Luke canonically is in pursuit of his goals, especially in comparison to the show version. Like, he straight up lured 12 year old into the woods and tried to murder him in cold blood with a poison that guaranteed a painful death. And he didn't have to do it like this! At this point in the story, he's easily twice Percy's size and much more skilled in combat: he could have snapped Percy's neck or slit his throat or any number of things that would have at least ensured a less painful demise. I say all this as someone who is genuinely sympathetic to Luke's grievances with the gods.
Luke hates the gods, sure, but what he really hates is feeling powerless. He couldn't save Thalia, couldn't succeed in his quest, couldn't leave camp even at 19. But Kronos makes him powerful. He can steal from Zeus, and manipulate Ares, and revel in making sure Percy knows he's been betrayed before he kills him. He *could* just chop Percy's head off when his back is turned... but there's no style, no presentation. It wouldn't make him feel powerful.
Sometimes you see someone complaining about something a character did but it's something that literally only happens in fanfic
"Why would (character) do such a thing?" Well you see the thing is. They fucking didnt
You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw
same but it's black people
That's right
Percy: Why is it always monsters?
Annabeth: Because you're you.
Grover: The universe has beef with you specifically.
"Where is your father?"
Percy gave a tired glare, huffing childishly in return. Calling him to olympus because his father left Zeus on read? Really? Talk about youngest child behavior.
Rolling his eyes, he strolls to his father's throne, ignoring the calls of his godly family and sits down.
The familiar feeling of nearly getting incinerated appears and Percy grins.
"Hey dad, zeusy is asking, where ya at?"
Humming in return to whatever his father says, he drops down, and gestures.
"Give it 5—"
Poseidon appears.
"Or not."
Poseidon hands him 100 dollar and percy is off.
I could fix him in my fics but making him worse is so much more fun. #bleeding as enrichment
“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately
You're just saying that because your a sick pervert who gets off to themes and ideas
“Was that supposed to hurt?” for Percy cause let's get some badass (possibly dark) demigod feeeeels!!
A scream echos against the walls. Annabeth’s scream. For him.
Caligula’s fist is pressed tight to his abdomen and the spear enclosed within it is even tighter as it shimmies around; the emperor’s grasp is shaky, too much adrenaline.
He’s been speared. Just like Iapetus had tried to do to him so many years ago. There’s a joke about destiny somewhere in there.
It’s painful, like really painful, like someone actually got to stab his Achilles’ Heel painful—but he’s still standing.
And that’s when he sees it. A thrumming sea-green glow encasing his body, from foot to fingertip. He’s seen it once before, in a different color, on Clarisse.
A blessing from Poseidon.
Caligula sees it too and makes quick work of putting distance between them, ripping the spear out in the process. He hurts but doesn’t bleed. He wants to hurl but swallows it down. A swallow that goes right to a gut that tugs.
And the feeling is so similar to his confrontation with Akhlys, so disturbingly strong, he barely has time to register the thought—that maybe these Olympians should stop injecting him with the godly equivalent of steroids—before he gives in and welcomes it back, vision swimming in red.
“Was that supposed to hurt?” he asks a man (not a god, a man) who has lost near all his nerve. When an answer doesn’t come, he forces one out.
fifty dialogue prompts
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
Source
This should never have been a thing
The voice acting didn’t have to hit like that
you have to unmute the voice acting is Oscar worthy
he sounds like an anime villain
this is just the guy from that game slave 2 episode of invader zim
oh my god
guys,
never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long
And now it must be said, as many numerous things often must be, in great volume and variance breaching topics that are near enough to innumerable and certainly beyond the measure of counting, that just as anyone lucky enough to find themselves in posession of thoughts miraculously appearing in their waking mind fully-formed upon conception, both clear and concise, blessed as they are with a mastery of their language sufficient to express oneself with brevity, it is so that with equal frequency I find that I am cursed with a wholly opposing nature: to take that which is brief and succinct, simple and straightforward, and somehow find it within myself instinctive to stretch those very same thoughts and words so remarkably thin across the page that the length of any given sentence may very well rival that of a modest novel, taking any poor and pitiable reader several deep breaths to recite out loud- or, perhaps in the case of one equally blessed to be of great, strong lungs and a determined air- merely the rather long and arduous effort of enduring it.