PJO

here to state my annoying opinions about Pjo/hoo Whenever I say they I mean Rick

[kyrstin]

PLEASE imagine being the person in line behind percy when he tried to put a fucking sand dollar into the vending machine at school

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

I just love how this also implies that when Percy Jackson was given a profound gift of currency from his father, a literal god, with the ominous statement that ‘he would know when to spend it’, he figured that a fucking snack from his high school vending machine was worth it.

[ofswordsandpens]

adding to the "there should have been more genuine tension within the seven" train of thought, it would have been funny if the Argo II, technically being a ship, meant it fell under Percy's power domain and he could control it all at whim, rendering all the carefully crafted controls Leo built useless if Percy felt like being an asshole

[ofswordsandpens]

like real talk we could have gotten a part where the seven disagreed on where they should be going next (honestly you could even rework the "should was save Nico?" part in MOA a bit to fit the bill), its a 4-3 split with Leo and Percy on opposing sides, and everyone's just getting more and more heated, and it turns into this thing where both Leo and Percy are trying to take control of the ship.... a Leo "this ship is my destiny" Valdez vs Percy "ships fall under my daddy's domain which means I'M the captain now" Jackson shit show and the ship is caught in a (very imbalanced) power struggle, wildly changing directions, which only gets the others even more involved and pissed...

[ofswordsandpens]

but no matter the scenario the seven are arguing over, its just very important to me that Percy is in the minority vote. it a key element of the mess.

[ofswordsandpens]

piper tries to use charm speak to diffuse the situation and get percy to back off, except this time its not a possessed Percy she's attempting to charmspeak but a fully cognizant, very angry Percy who does not like that....

[puzzled-pegasus]

Ok but "seaweed brain" would be 2x as funny if Percy smoked weed, bc then the nickname means "head full of kelp" and ALSO "stoner whose job is beach"

@manygeese @just-call-mefr1es

[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

[pjorants]

i had a hard time understanding annabeth's powers bc it's literally just that she's smart but then I was watching psych and realized that would be how her brain works and now I understand

i'm to dumb to understand how being smart would be a power

[randomness-is-my-order]

i’m on a soft lightning thief re-read to get my memory jogging for the show, but i come to this absolutely iconic annabeth line and what amuses me more than her blunt, non-sequitur towards percy is that she doesn’t even wait for his reaction or doesn’t even stay long enough to show the disdain/judgement on her face––noooo, she simply runs away. like she drops this absolutely whack (from percy’s pov) observation about his sleeping habits and doesn’t have any more fucks left to give so she just leaves. and that is literally the first thing she says to him once he’s actually lucid like??? girl??? she’s such an awkward little pigeon, it’s hilarious.

[ofswordsandpens]

I can't find the post but whoever suggested that piper and leo should have been demigods that had fought on Kronos's side in the war just know I think about the potential of that au every single day

[demigods-posts]

i would pay so much money to see the last chapter of moa in percy's perspective. i need to see him anxiously awaiting annabeth's return. i need to see him silently cry into her hair when she falls apart in his arms. i need to see him beaming with pride when she describes how she completed a quest no child of athena ever could. but for the love of god. i need see to him experience all five stages of grief the second he sees annabeth being dragged into the pit. i need to see him pray to every god and goddess in existence that he reaches her in time. i need to see him look into annabeth's eyes and come to terms with the notion that they might never come back from this. and i need to see him confess that he'd relive every awful moment of his life if it meant that they were together in their dying moments.

[ofswordsandpens]

rip book scene where Percy ditches Grover at the bus station, you were too funny

[solisaureus]

the way the camera has percy looking so small and just staring up at the impossible height of his namesake looming over him, blessed by the gods, triumphant in battle, glorious in his memorial.....meanwhile percy (the cooler perseus) shows us the reality of being a demigod -- small, confused, just trying to get by, standing in the shadow of mythology

[realcheddarchips]

the percy jackson show is not realistic. when filling out worksheets on school trips i have never been given a clipboard. you put that shit against the nearest wall and cope.

[ofswordsandpens]

somewhere along the way, Percy being "dumb" to Annabeth's "smart" has become a genuine part of their dynamic where in the original series it was more like: Percy's impertinent and could be slow on the uptake because he's not a walking encyclopedia of greek myth in the way Annabeth is and she teasingly calls him "Seaweed Brain" in a way that's supposed to be light-hearted and affectionate but she doesn't actually think he's dumb

[ofswordsandpens]

in the demigod files annabeth chase says "he's actually pretty intelligent, but he acts so dumb sometimes. I wonder if he does it just to annoy me" and I think that's what the "Seaweed Brain v. Wise Girl" dynamic should be because it a. recognizes Annabeth views Percy as smart, b. acknowledges that he does things that frustrates her or that she doesn't understand, which she conflates to as acting dumb, and c. has her reason it as him trying to annoy her... which depending on the situation he very well could be lmao

and turning this dynamic into "Percy thinks he's dumb, Annabeth thinks he dumb, so thank goodness #girlboss is there to save her stupid boyfriend" is like the lamest path to take honestly

[ofswordsandpens]

[ofswordsandpens]

I know percy and thalia and nico are no more or less related than any other demigod but in my heart they are cousins in the most literal sense like that's a family right there

[annaethchase]

i can’t stand annabeth characterized as looking down on percy’s intelligence and competence. i can’t stand percy being characterized as a hopeless buffon. percy being surprised when annabeth compliments him. annabeth being surprised when percy comforts her. annabeth being characterized as pressuring percy into her idea of success. every characteristic dissolving away from annabeth until all that’s left is Mom Friend. why are we acting like this is their dynamic. what are we doing here

[posallys]

also like. not to rehash old shit but I am so forever pissed about the fact that riordan was SO adamant that percy and annabeth had to take a step back and let other people be the heroes at the end of boo just to fucking. turn around and write about how percy has to get recommendation letters aka just him being the one those fuckers turn to when they need shit done for them. like did you really think that one through there buddy. "they needed to realize that they're not always going to be the ones doing everything" smash cut to them being the ones doing everything always. you could have revisited and expanded literally any other character's storyline, background, etc. instead you completely missed your own goddamn point and retroactively made the message pointless. and then you had the AUDACITY to shove it in with the original series instead of making it its own??? the original series where they were the only ones who could do anything....I'm smacking you upside the head so hard I didn't like your fucking point but at least I didn't walk facefirst into it and still miss it.

[ruegarding]

wtf does "she looked surprised—me comforting her, kind of switching things up" mean. sorry did u read pjo percy is constantly comforting annabeth. does botl mean nothing to you.

[everythingwasalreadypicked]

Ocean. In Turkey. OCEAN—

Rick. Weren't you a teacher???? Second graders know this omfg