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family, luke. you promised. icon by @cherryandsisters ✧ main @ghulsona

[thesingingnorwegian]

the gods were never on our side so i think it's time we watch them fall

[windwwhy]

hazel is not amused

[bayetea]

some hazels

[enbymagnuss]

hi i finally made some art

[helenofsparta2]

This sentence haunts me a bit.

Because after everything that Sally has sacrificed to ensure Percy’s safety, after suffering physical, emotional and psychological abuse from Gabe for years, sending Percy to probably very expensive private schools, and still managing to remain kind, baking him cookies, and giving him blue candies whenever he felt bad, and never raising her voice at him, she was still doomed to fail at fully protecting him.

Because to save Percy from getting killed by gods, and monsters, she had to invite a monster into their very home. She had to “condemn” Percy to receive physical and emotional abuse during crucial stages of his life, resulting in dangerously low self-esteem, self-hatred and even suicidal tendencies; issues which follow him throughout every single book.

By the time he was twelve, his self-esteem was so low that Percy even believed Sally didn’t want him around at the start of The Lightning Thief.

Sally, whom he thought the world of. Sally, who is, in his eyes, the kindest, most loving person in the world.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much that thought would mess with a twelve-year-old boy’s mind.

Like, I know we as a fandom see them as the most healthy and best possible mother-son bond ever, and I’m not denying that they absolutely love one another, would do anything for each other or that Sally did not do her absolute best to protect him, but their relationship is in actuality way more nuanced and heartbreaking than we tend to acknowledge most of the time.

[bvckbiter]

smth smth luke and thalia and their fatal flaws being rooted in needing/wanting control. luke wanting to be the author of his glory, his legacy, how he’ll be remembered; thalia needing power over her life because everyone is out to get her and no one else will save her. then annabeth and her plea for a permanent family being the bulwark upon which luke and thalia’s self-interest both shatter

[bvckbiter]

thinking about this again but ttc was really a point of no return in thalia and luke’s relationship. in my head they each wish that the other was dead—not even in a wrathful way, more like in the cold, melancholic resigned way. thalia cant believe luke would lay hands on annabeth and luke cant believe thalia would leave annabeth to the hands of the gods and prophecies. they both wish the other had died rather than live after hurting annabeth

[vithcy]

PERCY LOVES HIS MOM SO MUCH IM GOING TO CRY

[fuocogo]

Tyson and Percy being generals and bros

[pearlusha]

the coolest kids

[kiilttis-art]

im rereading pjo and he lives in my head rent free again help

[bvckbiter]

ethan being the harbinger of kronos’ triumph (his resurrection in botl) then his downfall (tlo) lives in my head rent free like. THIS is what his eye paid for, the power to tip the scales w every little decision he makes. he’s a minor character, a powerless demigod child of a minor goddess, but everything he does, both narratively and in-world, changes the game. even his non-action of hiding percy’s achilles spot buys the Olympian side a lot of time because otherwise kronos would’ve struck percy down so fast

[ashoss]

every sibling duo got the one that dresses like a 50 yo man and their teenage rebellion daughter

[lilsillustration]

Obsessed with this part of mark of Athena where Percy loiters by Annabeth’s cabin all the time because she’s too busy studying her quest to give him attention 😭😭😭

[theonlysei]

HAPPY PERCY SERIES RELEASE DAY!!!!!!

[forrpercyy]

oh how i miss them

[the-sassy-owl]

3 pookies. All of the could end you.

Not really any headcanon or story behind this one, I just always wanted to draw these 3 together ❤️ + the preator gang

[sunncean]

My piece for the @pjoyearbookzine !! Leftover sales opens up april 1st (no joke i swear) so don’t miss out on buying a very limited very cool zine 💦

I painted the polaroids from my favourite book of the series, The Titans Curse! Background and spot art were made by the wonderful @caelanglang 💪🏻❤️