[patronsa1ntofnothing]

Mikannie and Pipabeth are variants of each other please walk with me

[patronsa1ntofnothing]

Everything people claim about Jason and Percy’s dynamic actually applies to Thalia and Percy. The competitiveness and begrudging respect that turned into a strong friendship did not happen in Mark of Athena it happened five books earlier in The Titans Curse (and it was written way better).

[justaz]

i find it so silly how you can pin anything on annabeth by using her name. loserbeth. owlbeth. babybeth. she’s so cute. i love her.

[sekaiseiiki]

prison guard AU

hange wip

[charoitenigma]

no, white baby, racism isn’t a valid trauma response.

[dracaelus4pjo]

Mini percy meets older percy

[justaz]

just imagining Thalia and Percy introducing Nico to Green Day. Nico instantly likes it.

nico absorbs literally anything percy introduces him to 🙂‍↕️ he’s proficient on a skateboard too bc of that. little sibling emulating his older siblings as best he can bc he thinks they’re so cool 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ he’ll be in the car with percy and a song will come on the radio and percy starts tapping on the wheel and bopping his head to the beat and nico is immediately adding the song to his playlist

he adds a lot more metal to his look to look like thalia. he’s so mad he doesn’t have a shield like them. thalia got hers from her father and percy got his from his brother. where’s nico’s shield :( percy and thalia try their best to make him one themselves but it comes out so lumpy and shoddy and straight buns and it will NOT protect nico one bit but he loves it

[neverjustblue]

percy jackson fans will read this then look you in the eyes and swear leo wasnt a victim of racist writing

[politicalunicorn]

look, I'm gonna piss some people off but the tragedy and scale of The Secret History simply isn't as bloody brilliant as Babel. the secret history has a bunch of rich, white, pretentious characters who haven't experienced pain once in their life. every single character is a bad person. Babel, instead, demonstrates the pain and pity of Academia. The hard work, the double standards and oppression to minorities and women in academia, and the love of the work they do. more than that, every character has a reason. Letty killed because she didn't understand why anyone would turn on Oxford. Ramy was violent and angry because of what happened to his family back in Calcutta. Victoire wanted to bring a better future to the world, wanted the option to live for himself for once. Robin just loved and loved and loved, and then he lost everything he loved except Victoire and couldn't bear to live without it. That- that is the genius behind writing outside of privilege. That is what dark academia should be, because its research outside of what we already assume we know.

[vinceioum]

"hazel levesque is such a mom friend!!" Shes 13-14 for majority of hoo do you hear yourself. She is not the "mom friend" for a bunch of 15-17 year olds stop being racist

[blerdrabblesalot]

Babe I sent you a photo of my crime scene with highly fueled homoerotic undertones please respond

[era-wao]

hange frommm aot

[patronsa1ntofnothing]

I think making Nico having a crush on Percy was a really bad character choice as it waters all of Nico’s complicated actions down to a childhood crush.

To preface, this isn’t me saying Nico shouldn’t be gay. I think his queerness fits wonderfully with his character, I just wish it was done in a different way.

In both HoH and BoO—though mostly BoO—whenever Nico’s past and even current actions are mentioned, there’s frequently some kind of implication that his motivation has something to do with his feelings for Percy. For example, in BoO, Nico mentions that he got Percy to bathe in the Styx because he believed it would make Percy love him. I dislike this because originally Nico wanted Percy in the Styx for two reasons. One was that he genuinely wanted to help in the war because he does have a good heart. The second was that he was desperate for information on his dead mother and past that he feels constantly looms over him. It was a situation where Nico wanted to help but also couldn’t resist the urge to get some kind of information about his own life. I feel it really encapsulated the complexity of both his character and him and Percy’s dynamic. Then it was watered down to ‘I want Percy to love me!’

Another example is in HoO, where Frank says, ‘I guess we would do anything for the people we love’, to which Nico replies by looking at the ground bitterly and saying, ‘Yeah, I guess we would.’ This line was foreshadowing his crush on Percy, somewhat implying that he agreed to lead the seven to the House of Hades because Percy asked him to. Have we thought that maybe Nico did it because he knew it was right..? He knew that it would benefit the world..?

Also, ALL throughout Nico’s perspectives in BoO, Percy is constantly mentioned. He is constantly centred in situations where he should be completely irrelevant. I’m not saying I hate his characterisation in HoO. There are some parts I believe are absolutely gold, such as him killing Bryce Lawrence for threatening Reyna, gaslighting Percy in SoN because he knew it everything was about timing, the showcasing of his intelligence in both political and battlefield environments…. but gosh some of it is awful.

Maybe I’m looking into it too much, but it feels like Nico’s crush implied that he bases a large portion of his reasoning and morality on Percy. It completely takes away from the previous complexity we have seen in his decision making process, which was dictated by a mixture of desperation, cold logic, and grief.

Anyway, I will continue to pretend the cupid scene never happened and Nico and Percy maintained the wonderful dynamic we saw in the first series.

[atsumarii]

tbh pjo's main conflict feels so much more fleshed out than hoo's. in pjo you have the final battle last a few days, and you have percy strategizing and everyone being more serious. percy is treated like an intelligent character in tlo because he IS a smart person, he just gets flanderized into being an idiot. you have the characters panicking and getting tired and more than two characters dying in tragic ways, putting strain on the other characters. and everyone is stressed the fuck out. in hoo the final battle lasts like a few hours and gaia gets taken down relatively fast and the only prominent deaths are octavian's death and leo's death. and octavian's death is just a mentally ill teenager killing himself during an episode and it's not treated with the emotional weight it deserves because apparently he's pure evil and irredeemable. rick riordan i dont know what you were on while writing hoo but never go on that again. im not saying i didn't enjoy hoo, but oh boy do i have problems with it. unfortunately it's my favorite out of the three

[dracaelus4pjo]

Thing is, nico was insanely and objectively in the wrong for letting octavian unknowingly kill himself in boo, but hoo's sense of morality is so out of pocket at times I can't even truly put that on him, rick really didn't know what he was trying to say with that series most of the time. "Some deaths should not be prevented" -> what the fuck dude??? He's only 18 and was literally under the mind control of gaia????

EDIT: sorry, I was mistaken, as far as we know he didn't go crazy bc he was being manipulated by gaia, his mental health was just falling apart due to stress of the war and the misinterpretations of his auguries? Idk. Fact is, he was getting more and more out of control throughout the saga, and by the time he died, he was completely out of his mind. He needed help, and he could've gotten it — Mr. D for instance could have helped him once he got back, like he did with Chris, and they could have judged him for his crimes somewhat fairly. Instead he died horribly, and the way Rick wrote him in hoo and toa was unnecessarily mean and unsympathetic.

[dracaelus4pjo]

I mean, Rick was completely in his right to write a very unsympathetic villain whose death everyone rooted for if he wanted to. But I think he did it poorly, and Octavian's death ended up being really unsatisfying to me. Other characters who have done terrible things in the saga but had the privilege of being way less annoying to our protagonists have received much more grace from the narrative. Octavian would've had to be way worse for me to not to think of his death as unfair.

[aaaaalice]

The moral judgement inconsistencies in HoO are fascinating in a vacuum:

- Percy is a monster for torturing the Goddess of Misery, but Nico can be forgiven for Bryce.

- Percy is a jerk for abandoning Calypso (He asked for her to be freed) and Bob (who was living in the Underworld) and Nico (blatant retcon), but not for ghosting Rachel post-tLO.

- People are jerks for thinking Nico is creepy and off-putting, but at the same time it's actually all in Nico's head and Will says Nico is the one distancing himself from others.

- Other people are jerks for making snap judgements of Frank, or Nico, or Annabeth, but people assuming Percy is stupid and a troublemaker get validated by the narrative.

Now obviously a lot of this stems from Rick's weirdness about certain characters and his weirdness about relationships in addition to general bad writing. Letting Rachel fall out of his life is okay because Rick viewed her mainly as a romantic rival to Annabeth. If Percy freed Calypso and was friends with her, Rick would probably say that's bad, too.

But it is kind of funny to imagine that Rick finds the main problem with torture to be how the witnesses react. Annabeth was scared, so Percy is bad. Reyna forgave him, so Nico is fine. Torture is morally neutral if there's nobody watching.

[neverjustblue]

more aot x pjo :) if anyone has questions or suggestions or anything pls ask/ tell me

[mmavverickk]

the minotaur, who has been murdering demigods for thousands of years: errm actually 🤨☝️☝️ monster is a slur 😔😔😔 we prefer the term mythic it’s less problematic 🫶🫶🫶