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@soleil-in-retrograde
Yo!
I go by Greene or Soleil online! She/her. Here for a good time and generally shouting into the void.
@starship-soleil : main blog, largely a private diary so nothing public there. If stuff is public it's a list like this for organizational reasons.
@soleil-in-retrograde : shitposting, screaming in the void, fandom and fanfic posting and your typical tumblr bs.
Current longfic: Flowers For Apollo, percy jackson, rated mature, gen, Apollo-centric
You managed to successfully, for a time, help encourage the PJO fandom to write good fanfics especially focused on m/m pairings and the amount of amazing fanfic from that time was immense. Can you give suggestions on how to have that happen again? I know you’re removed from the fandom now but some advice for people who want to revive it a bit would be amazing :)
The key is community, positivity, and encouragement.
I had a couple discord servers and ran events, both for the servers and for the fandom in general, but none of that is unique.
I think what helped set my spaces apart was that I have always tried to encourage creation for the sake of creation. With Perpollo specifically, it was such a small ship that there was always a feeling of 'oh my god, you like this too?' that made it more exciting. It meant for me that even if someone had an idea for a fic that I might not have clicked on due to my preferences for AUs, tropes, characterizations, or whatever, I was going to cheer them on because I was excited for more fic or art. And it was genuine excitement too. I ADORE seeing people create whatever their heart desires and my own preferences have nothing to do with it. We watched the tag from 100 fics to over 1,000 and it made it feel like we were all working toward something together.
I think a lot of spaces feel like they have unspoken rules over what's 'okay' or not, whether that's not liking ships or having a group consensus on characterizations or disliked characters. I know a lot of people really disagreed with my stance on bashing, discourse, and the discussion of politics in my servers, but to this day I think that was part of what helped keep the vibes and energy up. Sure, you may not have been able to complain about some fic that really pissed you off, but you did get to talk about an idea you've had for a while and have ten people say HELL YEAH! and that's the sort of thing that's encouraging as fuck. And that feeling only intensified when you'd post the fic you'd been talking about and then people would follow through with thoughtful comments. It makes you want to do it again.
I think I could go on endlessly about what else went into it, but I do think it was the genuine excitement making it feel super safe to try something out. The events gave prompts, goals, and deadlines which helped give some people the final push they needed.
i cannot stop obsessing over what kind of government is operating in the film One Night Only. pre-martial sex is illegal but to what extent? if you break the law do they execute you gilead-style or is it more of a parking ticket situation? also they apparently imply gay sex doesn't register as a crime so are they only counting heterosexual PIV sex? what about oral sex? what about handies? what about fingering?! how are they tracking this through microchips that monitor your dopamine? these different sexual acts are impossible to differentiate between if you're just looking for spikes in someone's pleasure hormones! how could the boozy flirty culture of 20somethings in new york city be identical to ours with these kind of harsh purity laws seemingly aimed at reproduction in wedlock a well-established part of their society? is it play-acting, people desperately pretending they have the freedom of their former, more liberal society for...one night only before going back to their saudia arabian-esque lockdown?
Omg a bunch of my coworkers and I were talking about this. It seems like the society should have a massive amount of lore surrounding this legal barrier but also for a rom-com film it’s obviously got to spend less time worldbuilding and more time on the protagonists’ relationship.
At this point I feel like it being so absurd is intentional because LOOK AT HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT.
If you got enough money to live happily and comfortably for the rest of your life, but everyone who saw you immediately knew what fandom you are in and understood what that means, would you take it?
You can have 20 billion dollars but you have to drink this perfectly fine glass of water first, would you do it?
...I know I've reblogged this before but not only would I be okay with everyone knowing the fandoms I'm in, for that much money I'd be okay with people knowing that I sometimes spite-read a certain pairing from a fandom I normally shun, for a TV series I have not watched, simply because I got so fucking mad at how antis for that pairing were acting here on tumblr a couple of years ago.
For that much money, I'd be happy for everyone to read the unedited kink fic I write solely for myself and my husband.
Touché. <3
I wear cosplay casually. I have no fear of cringe.
Everyone I'm friends with irl knows my fandoms and I talk about them at work. This would both eb free money and give me more oppurtunities to yap irl.
The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?
It ain’t Kermit
Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea
Okay but who's the one human actor playing?
I vote Nobody, but I could see arguments for Helen of Troy or Circe as well.
Also important:
How does the Circe turning men into pigs thing get handled given that Miss Piggy is a pig-Muppet and there are multiple other muppets who are already canonically pig-Muppets?
They get turned into real live action pigs, nobody remarks on it
They get turned into real live action pigs & Piggy looks directly at the camera
They get turned into chickens
They get turned into live action humans
Nothing happens at first to the guy Muppet-pig, so Circe has to get creative
Other/I’m bald/vanilla extract
Why not have a human actor play one of the Gods Odysseus is beefing with?
The answer to stringing the bow isn't stringing it. Poggy could never string it. She'd just get frustrated with it and start using it as a bludgeon weapon. This is how everyone knows it's really Piggy.
"Good Morning, Rose"
My short story for the wlw anthology GLIMM*R!
it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library
its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times
The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3
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WE LOVE LIBRARY USERS
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The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There
The Perseia Big Bang Event 2026
We're happy to announce that sign ups for the 2026 Perseia Big Bang are now open for writers, artists, and betas!
What is the Perseia Big Bang? It's a collaborative event where authors write a fic 15k words or longer, followed by artists signing up to create art for a fic of their choice on a first come, first serve basis. There's no restrictions on theme, anything and everything Percy Jackson is welcome here! The collection will be posted to AO3 on the Winter Solstice.
You can sign up here!
More Questions? Click here!
Want to come hang out in our discord? Link here!
All of our art is by the lovely CloudySkies
just so yall know
art block is your brain telling you to do studies.
draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.
art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard
think of it as level grinding for your next work.
As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time. Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you. So, when you get back to that big/important piece? You’ll know what to do and how to do it.
Nothing in nature blooms all year round. Rest, and take care of yourself.
i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now
Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.
For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.
Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.
Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.
@sweetiepie08
@kanerallels
I found out relatively recently that it really helps if I write short fiction surrounding the novels I write. Like oh? I’m stuck for a bit? Ooh there was that section I wanted to explore but doesn’t fit in the plot really. There was that what-if that could never happen in the actual story but would be fun to explore. It keeps me in the characters’ headspace (tho that’s not always what I’m needing) but not right where they are exactly.
Yes! I have gotten past writers’ block multiple times by writing drabble collections. Making something coherent happen in just 100 words is a very different challenge from writing a long story and it also lets me get past plot points that I don’t want to explore in-depth.
I am also going to have to start drawing studies now…
I joined a writing group that used journalling prompts to get through a bad case of writers block and it really helped
idk guys sometimes you just have to accept a ship dynamic is unhealthy, insane, and sometimes abusive. and its not real people so those factors just make it interesting
please stop unfolding the origami crane and smoothing it out bc you got worried the paper was hurting from the bends
(dry look) Nobody gets to tell me when to cringe. I reserve such assessments to those who have sufficient experience to correctly judge what’s cringeworthy.
Hey everyone, just wanted to shout out to let you know that the Federal Trade Commission is currently collecting comments regarding ideological bias in AI in order to try start the process of drafting regulations. Given the current administration, this seems like a pretty transparent attempt to try to force AI companies to adhere to their own ideological biases.
Now, I can't tell you that you should, for example, leave a comment about your concern for the way Grok has been promoting white nationalist beliefs, but public comments in the regulatory process are a key step and they shape what comes next. If the regulatory agency doesn't fully consider the comments and form a reasonable response to the ones it disagrees with, that can form the basis for overturning a regulation in court.
Anyways, here's the site where you can leave comments that will shape this regulation, the deadline is July 31st.
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy moon day to all who celebrate
This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.
Anti-Book Banning Bingo
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no, i don't think Lore Olympus tried to demonize and villainize Demeter
lo has always tried to depict Demeter as complex a character, that despite her flaws, she still loves and cares about the people around her, but her pain and fears has blinded her to the point that not only did she ended up hurting the people around her, but also drive them away from her, especially her own daughter, the one person she loved the most and wanted to protect more than anything.
The webtoon has always tried to acknowledge Demeter's pain and fears, her flaws, and her caring, protective, and loving nature, but it's the fans and the hatedom's lack of media literacy that they failed to realize how complex Demeter's character is.
So no, lo never demonized and villainized Demeter, you did
It was one if the very first pieces of art based on Greek mythology I ever saw that not only humanized her, but went out of its way to go into and depict her trauma. Not to mention the other five of the six OG Olympians. Lore Olympus looked at Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera and went "These are your dystopian YA protagonists all grown up. All of them are traumatized and coping in different ways, some better than others." Usually when I saw depictions of Hades and Persephone before Olympus Demeter would be turned into a literal monster and her feelings and concerns, valid or not, would be a footnote and not explored at all.
Honestly, I feel like Demeter has more depth than Persephone in the series at times. The only character who feels deeper is Hera.
But Hera is my favorite so I'm biased.
(The ending was deeefinitely rushed because of burnout and I do not blame Rachel Smythe one bit for it)
