Mostly Riordanverse

Don't say I didn't warn you

[perseusyouarenotthehero]

Hello people! I'm Max, I'm 21+, and this blog is dedicated to book fandoms I was first into in elementary and early middle school, which at this point is mostly Riordanverse stuff.

My main is @song-of-fairies which is dedicated to anime, but I follow from there

My AO3 is PadawanMax

this blog was formerly to-know-the-value-of-a-moment

I block liberally and at my own discretion. The quickest ways to get blocked by me are being a bigot, failing to/incorrectly tagging posts, or getting involved in fandom wank.

I do not have a DNI. I don't think they're effective.

I try to tag but tbh I haven't been good at it in the past. be careful the farther back you go. I'm working on retagging my posts

As far as Riordanverse is concerned: I really only acknowledge the books. The musical is good but not canon to me. I have the tags for the show and movies blocked. "But- but- but-" leave me alone idc if you like them I'm not going to try to stop you. I think they suck and I'm tired of seeing information about them. It's like kink tomato but no kink to me

I used to be into Harry Potter. You can probably still find stuff related to it on this blog. Because of who jkr is today and what she does and says I am no longer considering myself part of that fandom.

I've been into Riordanverse for 15+ years. Which yes means I was around for the original persassy and perachel vs percabeth and jason/brick stuff. I view it with fond nostalgia but I promise y'all the ship wars really don't need to come back.

not a multishipper but I support those of you who are

I don't generally post adult stuff but it could happen. It will be tagged but follow at your own risk

Aside from Riordanverse you may occasionally see Warrior Cats, Inheritance Cycle, and Maximum Ride stuff but it will be rare

I'm not very good at being social but I am relatively friendly if you want to reach out (no, I don't do roleplay)

[adacupidlover]

He’s so adorable

[karuselii]

Annabeth In her first Year of Camp (Percy during the same year next)

[aflamboyanceofflamingos]

15 minutes after Nico screams into the void upon first seeing Percy Jackson at Camp Jupiter, he goes to Reyna and slams down “50 bucks the new kid wipes everyone out at war games”

[2manypinterestboards]

Clarisse La Rue aesthetic

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[adamnagaitis]

can everyone reblog with the interest of theirs that was the most intense or continued for the longest because i’m so curious

[ot3]

coming up with an au were a dead character lives but shaking my head while i do it so everyone watching knows i support the role their death played in the narrative and consider it a legitimate writing choice

[bayetea]

son of neptune is also funny because the characters have no significant issue with each other. every other previous mainline book involves some kind of tense dynamic with the questing characters. in tlt it's percy and annabeth. in som annabeth hates tyson and percy is defensive of him whilst trying to swallow the fact that he's embarrassed to have a monster for a brother. in ttc percy and thalia and zoë are all fighting with each other constantly. in botl percy is back to childish quarreling with annabeth over the luke/rachel stuff + grover is scared of tyson + annabeth is intensely antagonistic towards rachel. and in tlo percy and annabeth are bickering again + percy strangles nico for lying to him. even jason and piper (though jason is still immediately jumping off a cliff to save her whilst unaware that he can fly) have instant tension in their dynamic that runs through the veins of tlh and beyond + leo struggles with feeling like a third wheel + piper is worried about betraying them for her father and that impacts the way she interacts with them

and then son of neptune rolls around and percy is immediately just like Wow you two are just awesome. I know we just met but we're besties now. and frank and hazel both already like + know each other and they immediately stick their necks out for percy and like him. like this has never happened in any other book before. they don't clash with each other At All. they have uncomplicated affection for each other in all directions of their trio and that kindness and affection is the soul of son of neptune. they are just so so friendly to one another and the only source of awkwardness among the main characters is frank's crush on hazel since the start of the book, a crush that barely even results in any real tension or conflict because they're still best friends from the jump and hazel likes him too, she's just a lot less willing to do anything about it because she hates herself and thinks gonna die by the end of the week

[verlierer-is-lost]

Rule #1 for Demigods: Never use a cellphone

I start my last year of high school on Thursday and I’m so close to a mental breakdown but hey look at this Lost Hero fanart

[explodified]

Loling over the fact that all of botl Percy thought that Nico was searching for him and that he would be the sacrifice to bring Bianca back . and then is kinda offended when Nico is like fuck you you are not my sacrifice

[leovaldeeeznuts]

shitty hazel moodboard

[kyoodledoodle]

so it never specifically said Leo wasn’t ALSO sleeping in Jason’s lap

I don’t think he knows what to do now

[azhagu]

sally nirvana fan CANON‼️

[swarnpert]

white boy shocks chinese restaurant with his wolf lightning powers

[joeyclaire]

"you can't pick and choose what you like from canon" common misconception! yes you can

[pirateherokillian]

but please do not get this very true concept confused with “you cannot pick and choose what is canon”

they are two very different things.

[joeyclaire]

thank you for this addition seriously

[perseusyouarenotthehero]

Let's talk about Octavian and the power of names

Okay so I'm tired and maybe a little drunk rn but Ive tried to make a good post about this like a thousand times and ive never been happy with them so I'm just going to go for it

Long story short, Octavian was never going to win and it was in part bc of his name

shortly after we're introduced to Octavian one of the first things we learn about him is that he's named after Caesar Augustus

But, as you might have noticed, his name is Octavian, not Caesar or Augustus

Octavian was technically his [Augustus] family name - his original one, anyway. Or technically it was Octavius bc. Latin. His praenomen, or what we would call first name, was Gaius. Not super important to the conversation bc the Roman Republic seems to have had a shortage in names. There was not a lot of variety tbh

But! Augustus didn't really have much power when he was younger. And then! The Ides of March happened! I'm going to assume that bc you're on Tumblr you know about this, but in case you don't: a bunch of senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death in 44 BC in the Theater of Pompey bc he was deemed a threat to democracy and they wanted to save the Republic. Kinda. It was more complicated than that but going for the basics here. (fun fact, before they fought against each other in a civil war Pompey had been Caesar's son-in-law. he'd been married to Caesar's daughter, Julia. They seemed to have a surprisingly functional marriage. Julia died in childbirth. Not at all relevant to this but I think it's interesting info)

Anyways Caesar was dead! But! No one knew who his heir was. His only legally recognized child to reach adulthood was Julia and she was long dead. He had a son with Cleopatra but he wasn't recognized by the Romans. Basically everyone assumed that Marc Antony would be his heir. But no! In his will Caesar adopted Augustus and made him his heir.

I don't really have the energy or mental capacity to explain rn but this kind of adoption wasn't really weird in Rome. Augustus did this too later. Oh I should probably mention that Caesar and Augustus were blood relatives too - Caesar was Augustus' great uncle, through Augustus' mother. So Augustus was formally recognized as Caesar's son and with that came a name change - he was no longer Gaius Octavius, but Gaius Julius Caesar, same as his adoptive father's.

Long story short, basically none of the stuff that Augustus is famous for happened while he was Octavian. He changed his name, and after becoming princeps took on the title Augustus, which basically just means August One. (technically the Senate gave him his title but at that point he basically already controlled the senate so I don't think it matters too much)

Octavian never changed his name. In some ways he tried to copy Augustus but imo he had some weird inconsistencies. Pontifex Maximus was a title Augustus held. Hell, he was a pontiff for a while as Octavius too - a priest of Jupiter iirc but I could be wrong. a lot of priesthoods were not actually lifelong or career things but a way of putting ones self in the public sphere. And Octavian definitely starts out like this! Hell, he even has Augustus' public speaking abilities before he tries for too much. (you might notice Octavian's character changes a lot from son across the rest of the series, as he deviates personality wise and ability wise from his namesake)

Octavian wants so badly to be Augustus. And he has a lot of similarities. but when he tries aiming for stuff that Augustus had after his name change is when we see Octavian change. He can't have that, he's Octavian not Augustus. His name never changes and names have power.

Anyways that's all I've got to say atm. later I'll talk about Octavian, Augustus, and the Greeks.

[brooklyn-house]

JULIUS & AMOS KANE, the kane brothers

After Abel (2022), Dante Émile / My Name Is Memory (2010), Ann Brashares / Woodtangle (2013), Mary Ruefle / Hevel (2018), Nathaniel Orion / The Red Pyramid (2010), Rick Riordan / The Hellbound Heart (1986), Clive Barker / Supernatural (2005-2020) / unknown / Supernatural (2005-2020) / The Sun Is Also a Star (2016), Nicola Yoon / unknown / Fleabag (2016-2019) / The Secret World of Siblings (1994), Erica E. Goode / Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted, Eden Robinson / The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Steven Berkoff / Sept 15th 1983 (2008), The Mountain Goats / Hamilton (2016), Lin-Manuel Miranda / Up The Wolves (2005), The Mountain Goats & Minotaur (2011), Jordi Garriga Mora / From Caucasia, with Love (2019), Danny Senna / juscrapbook on twitter (2023) / Giri/Haji (2019) / The Red Pyramid (2010), Rick Riordan / Giri/Haji (2019) / The Red Pyramid (2010), Rick Riordan / Icarus (2012), The Crane Wives / The Red Pyramid (2010), Rick Riordan / Anguish (1878), August Friedrich Schenck / Antigone, Sophocles / Famous Blue Raincoat (1971), Leonard Cohen / @devilmaydaycare