if percy jackson was a lez

ᓚᘏᗢ call me kitty ! 22 | fae/she/they | black lesbiana pjo, aot, spidey, sims 4, wicked, etc.

[ninijimin]

#thinking about apollo stealing percy’s favorite hoodie to keep in the sun chariot !

he can’t even wear it — his shoulders just a bit too broad and arms too long.. but it smells like him.

percy jackson smells warm and spicy. like sea salt, burning wood, and cashmere. faintly nutty (maybe chestnuts) and tart like ripening strawberries. the heavy sweetness of vanilla and something softly floral… hyacinths.

apollo is sooo fucked. percy just wants to know where his pierce the veil hoodie went and why tf ‘pollo keeps stuttering.

[ninijimin]

the neeks playlist i’ve been mentioning lately lol

[dracaelus4pjo]

My favorite description of Aphrodite ever. The fact that Percy thinks her belief in love is what makes her beautiful? 10/10, no wonder she likes him

[ninijimin]

every time i feel bad about my suicidal tendencies and my borderline annoying need for justice, i remember that my favorite character of all time is percy jackson and i feel a little better

[sleepyvib-es]

[ninijimin]

friendly reminder that u can befriend ur favorite fic writer and be obnoxious about it in their ao3 comments !

[theobjectlesson]

Favorite percico fics? I need reccs 😭😭😭😭😭

ohhh goodness okay, an absolutely incomplete list, in no particular order, with an attempt at including some classics and some from the current generation!

by antistar_e: Kiss a Boy in Tokyo Town and The Last Cry in Hades (Not Guilty). Like okay basic picks but they're the GOAT for a reason.

by aceofdiamonds: i mean, literally all of their percico is so incredible, but i think i've got your name tattooed in an arrow heart (band AU) and a full on rainstorm (beautiful, open-ended post-canon vibes) are low-key sleeper hits imo.

by cabin13/@wild-flowerhoney: the series Unreal Unearth, ohhhh i am unwell about it to this day, i read it often. also when the sea rises to meet us (nothing left for you and i to do), which imo is like, THE percico soulmate AU.

by callunavulgari: You Are Here (the only home we've ever known) - are there percico space AUs? i want more percico space AUs. also all their other fics, and my og back-in-the-day favorite percicobeth fic but that's a different list.

Undertow by dryrsheet. What. A. VIBE. maybe my favorite nico PoV fic? is that crazy?

recklessly, heedlessly by codesandhearts. Summer-after-college AU, so fucking cute.

Bitter Medicine by sanguinearia . oohh this fic changed my whole brain and forever altered how i think about slow-burn.

by A_MX/@a-mx-writer: Osmosis - IT IS ART. Also their cat!Nico fic The Pawcico Incident is adorable

by monkeybox: The Ocean Isn't Far, the ancient greek AU i didn't know i needed. also their percy in The Crooked Tooth and Claw of Yesterday is one of my favorite percys of all time.

on how angels come unbound by nicodaydreams. there's something really beautiful about the writing in this one, i feel like i read it in one breath.

To Have and To Hold by percyinpanties (all-time username lol). fuzzy blanket of a fic, i wish i could hug it.

For the sake of turbulent seas by @owlintheskies. Okay it's a WIP but I'm really enjoying it and also this list is making me realize how woefully underread I am on their fics. don't be me! go read them! let the absolute mastery of pining!nico ruin your goddamn life.

nosebleed, half-gone by @witchboynico. cute premise, actually funny, but also i am so goddamn picky about writing and this is good writing.

okay okay i have to stop, but hopefully there's a few you haven't read in here! also if anyone sees this and is like "umm you HAVE to read XYZ, how could you leave it off???", PLEASE send it to me! even if ESPECIALLY if it's your fic. i too need more percico.

thanks for asking!

[ninijimin]

hey i’ve been a little inactive here. some things i’ve seen from another sides of the fandom started fueling my existing anxiety and i’m an adult; i absolutely REFUSE to be stressed out on my phone when i can just turn this bitch off ! 😭

[st4ry3mi]

Nico di Angelo Tweet Dump

[ninijimin]

found a group of freaks i fw on twt 🥺

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[a-mx-writer]

@theobjectlesson you're SO right and I would like to add:

Nico's "I'm not at home anywhere" shtick (when that's literally a retcon and TLO ended on a hopeful note)

"Nico will die if he uses his powers too much" fanons, as if the source for that isn't literally just one (1) situation where, after being starved for months, he hauled tons of statue around half the world and that hardly transfers to everyday situations

the oh-so-common "Percy is a lovable but daft himbo" / "Annabeth is an uber-emotional reasoning machine" fanons (the amount of "I can see you love him more so naturally I will step back and matchmaker you two together" Annabeths I've read... yikes)

[theobjectlesson]

@a-mx-writer yes absolutely, excellent and maddening additions. I'm definitely in the camp that anything can fit the characters and make sense if you sell it right in the writing, but oooooo I am so not sold so much of the time with these and they're *so* prevalent and people get combative w you if you try to suggest that there's even an ounce more nuance there.

It all gets so boring and one-note and tedious. With however we've all been here (some of us longer than others 😅), maybe we could entertain the idea of a little more depth?

[brooklyn-house]

silena being a parallel to patroclus is great because if we extend that analogy she's the second best chb warrior they had at the time

[sleepyvib-es]

[minjimunji]

brainstorming silena designs 💖

(asian silena truthers follow me)

[superhero-justice]

Perpollo coded.

[mark-of-cygnus]

@percicomicrofic | prompt: SPACE | wordcount: 400 | universe: post-HoO

Nico looked up at the popcorn ceiling, wondering how he'd never noticed all the cracks scattered across it.

"It's not me, right?" He took another sip of wine, swirling it in his glass. "He treats me like a patient he needs to cure." He snapped his fingers repeatedly, recognition lighting his eyes. "Like I'm someone he needs to fix!" 

As usual, Nico was propped up against Percy's right side. He'd climbed through Percy's window after shadow traveling onto his fire escape, just as he had all those years ago.

"It's our third fight in the past month." His eyes were still plastered toward the ceiling, creases forming around them. "You know he actually yelled at me this time?" Nico scoffed, tossing his left hand into the air. "I didn't really care much for it, but it was that fucking tone he used."

He hiccuped, a sour note of wine passing through his lips as he snuggled deeper into Percy's side. The scent of sea salt and musk grew stronger, and Nico could feel Percy's heartbeat quicken.

"Nico, I know what's best for you!"  The son of Hades mocked in a whining, nasally voice. "Why can't you see I'm just trying to help you?"

Nico grabbed Percy's hand, interlaced their fingers, and gave it a firm squeeze.

He hated how furious Solace made him. How a few words sputtered from his know-it-all mouth would dig at him and set him off.

Nico knew he needed to ground himself, and that meant seeking out any kind of sensation around him: touch, scent... taste. 

He shifted his sight toward Percy, noting how his breathing had grown heavier and his face had become several shades darker. 

He wasn't going to let a measly ten-minute argument ruin the rest of his night.

"What do you think about all this?"

Nico could feel Percy's heartbeat pounding as he held their hands together tightly. Percy's breathing had also become shallower, and his muscles felt like a coiled-up spring, ready to burst at a moment's notice.

Good, Nico thought, he's just as pissed about it as I am.

The ghost of a smile spread across his face as he delighted in their shared animosity.

Nico raised his glass and took another sip, waiting for a response. He'd carved himself a space beside Percy, and no one, not even wannabe doctor Solace, could ever take that away from him.

[maverick-auo]

Prompt: Gender

“Why did I choose Italian as my elective?” Percy groaned aloud. 

He knew why, of course—it was a rhetorical question. The answer came down to a younger Italian transfer student with silky dark curls and impossibly dark eyes who sat next to him in English. Percy didn’t even have the boy’s name and he was already doing stupid stuff like signing up for an actual class and not just another blow off language like Ancient Greek. Nope, that would have been too easy, so now Percy was stuck trying to figure out why the nouns he was learning had genders. 

He let out a long sigh, leaning back in his chair for a moment, before resolving to nut up and stop complaining. Okay, so the book said that, as a general rule, if it ended in ‘o’ it was masculine. He’d had to read it a couple of times to be sure, because his dyslexia was annoying like that. Still, he picked up his pencil—blue, of course—and started back on his worksheet. So, it would be ‘il’ or ‘un’ for ‘porto’, ‘tavolo’, ‘foto’—

“That’s wrong, actually.” A voice corrected from Percy’s blindside, startling him into a tiny jump that he was extremely grateful wasn’t a scream of fright when he saw who the voice belonged to. 

It was him. The boy. The cute Italian transfer with the soft curls and the big eyes, his pouty pink lips twitching upwards in amusement as he watched Percy awkwardly settle back into his seat. 

“Oh, is it?” Percy asked, trying for nonchalant. The boy didn’t seem to buy it, but didn’t call him on it.

“Yes. ‘Foto’ is short for ‘fotografía’, which is a feminine noun, so you would use ‘la’ or ‘una’,” the boy explained, his voice lilting almost musically over the Italian. Italian was so much prettier coming out of those lips, Percy mused distractedly. Too distractedly, as the boy raised an impatient brow at him when Percy just stared. “Are you going to write that down?”

Percy blinked. Realized he’d been staring at the other boy for a solid minute and let out a nervous chuckle while rubbing the back of his neck, desperately hoping his cheeks weren’t as red as they felt.

“Right, sorry, guess this stuff is harder than I thought,” Percy offered in explanation. “Thanks a lot, umm…”

“Nico. Nico di Angelo,” Nico replied easily—or at least, it looked that way on the surface, but Percy caught his fingers playing with his jacket sleeves. A nervous habit? Whatever it was, it was cute. Everything the boy did was cute, even his name was cute—and god, Percy was in way over his head. 

“Well, thanks then, Nico,” Percy said, mustering up his very best smile before he forced himself to turn back to his worksheet. Cause Percy could be casual about this, totally, 100%—

“If you’d like,” Nico started, cheeks ever so slightly pink. “I can help you with the rest?”

“I’d love that!” Percy blurted out immediately, followed by wanting to hit himself over the head. How was that ‘casual’? He might as well just blurt out he had a crush and get rejected already!

Before Percy could beat himself up any further, Nico smiled, his dark eyes lighting up like the lights on Fifth Avenue at Christmas—and Percy’s heart started playing jump rope in his chest. ‘Here lies Percy Jackson’, it would say on his tombstone, ‘14 years old, died making an angel smile’. 

…

Worth it.

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@percicomicrofic