#blackjacktheboss

[ananbeth]

[percababies]

The Jackson Home:

Filled with photos of birthdays and family vacations.

Markings on the door frame: Ruthies is still mad she’s the shortest in the family.

Feet swinging from the kitchen chairs.

The living room floor covered in Legos: Percy is always the victim and steps on them.

Hot summer days running through the sprinklers: Teddy has no real evidence but Amelia always cheats when racing.

Making holiday cookies with nana’s recipe: Ruthie makes sure to always bake by Annabeth so mom doesn’t burn down the house.

Rainy days building pillow forts: Everyone has a role. Mom and Teddy plan the design and use the sturdiest pillows, Amelia picks the movie, dad and Ruthie make the popcorn (with extra butter).

Hours helping the kids with their homework: Percy misses the days when all he had to do was sort the green apples from the red ones.

[bipercabeth]

i think one place where this fandom fails quite miserably in terms of critical thinking and consumption is understanding that these characters cannot make their own decisions. as the author, all decision making comes down to rick! and while it’s wonderful to find comfort in characters whose life experience you relate to, that does not mean rick’s decisions to give that character those experiences is exempt from criticism. many women have children at an older age, and that’s wonderful for them! but sally jackson cannot make that decision. she is not real. and she is not your mom! rick decided that after all she’s been through, he was going to give her a baby. a real woman who made her own decision to have another child after a lifetime of trauma and a newly empty nest might find this decision empowering! but sally jackson is not a real woman! 

not to mention that rick is the one who gave sally that lifetime of trauma! maybe from a plot perspective it worked best for her to have no living family, but sally’s life is just. brutal. it’s told sparingly and lovingly by a twelve year old percy in tlt, but her parents die when she’s five years old, and she drops out of high school to take care of the uncle who raised her as he dies from cancer. by 20 she is a single mom raising a kid who is a powerful demigod, and only means of protecting him are to enter an abusive marriage with a man whose scent will cover percy’s, or lose her only family to be trained as a child soldier year round. sally is a kind person who does her best as a mother, but this “trauma makes you kind” narrative rick pulls with her is bullshit! sally could be just as kind and capable of a mother without a lifetime of suffering behind her. 

also! portraying sally as this infallible supermom is harmful too! it’s wonderful for fans to see a mother and son with such unconditional love for each other, but the narrative of the perfect mother is genuinely harmful! not only is sally not a perfect mom, but to write her as one is harmful to both mothers and their children. parents, especially single moms, already struggle so much with the pressure to be perfect, which simply isn’t a possible standard! and kids deserve to see parents who love their children make mistakes and apologize for making those mistakes. even if they didn’t mean to hurt their kid. even if it was done out of misguided love. that would be such a powerful thing to see in children’s media. 

regardless of rick’s intention, it comes off as him not valuing women unless they are mothers (stealing that from @himbokorra), and perfect ones at that. the way he writes sally is a microcosm of the way he writes mothers in general. look at the mothers in pjo and hoo. poseidon is allowed to be a fallible, largely absent father with complex motivations and an equally complex relationship with percy. same goes for frederick chase and annabeth, tristan mclean and piper, AND hermes and luke. meanwhile may castellan, miss chase, beryl grace, and marie levesque are not extended the same kind lens. sally jackson and esperanza valdez are the infallible, tragic supermoms. 

(this post is referring specifically to sally jackson, but it’s doubly important to remember this idea as it relates to characters of color and queer characters, but those points have been articulated far better by people far more qualified than me. i’ll link some in a reblog once i find them.)

[damsnackbar1020]

a fanfic i always reach for !!

when it comes to fanfiction, i feel like i’m the kind of person to just read whatever’s put in front of my if it sounds interesting or fun to read. bUT when i tell you this is probably the one fanfiction i will consistently pick up when i feel like i just want to be back in my percabeth feels, im SERIOUS. 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7523317/chapters/17100580 → “Game, Set, Match” by ananbeth and blackjacktheboss on AO3 (their users on tumblr are the exact same: @ananbeth and @blackjacktheboss) have probably written the most beautiful masterpiece of an AU i’ve ever laid my eyes on. 

the story revolves around percy and annabeth (among others that we loved in the original books) who are professional tennis players. annabeth and percy hook up one night and decide to become friends w benefits (which… knowing what we know about percy and annabeth … simply does not go well at all). they hook up in hotel rooms across the world, go on cute dates, and (SPOILER ALERT) fall in love <3

I think my favorite thing about this fanfiction (besides the fact that i can project heavily on the experiences of annabeth in the fic) is that the sexual interactions between percy and annabeth are not explicit but rather written as though someone is describing to you a piece of art in a museum. i don’t think i’ve ever read anything remotely sexual and felt like i was gonna cry by how beautiful the encounter was written. 

SERIOUSLY if you have the time consider giving this fanfiction the attention and adoration it so dearly deserves :))

[judoflipped]

I need Percabeth fic rec!!

Hello guys, I'm looking for multi chap percabeth fics, Canon or AU, preferably completed!! If it's a sports AU like Puck it! or Game Set Match, nothing like that!! PLEASE RECOMMEND ❤️

[devilish-di-angelo]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: three (3) minor characters 

“It’s my fault the monster came after us,” she said. “It’s my responsibility. Here.” She picked up the little god statue and pressed it into my hand. “If anything happens, give that to Nico. Tell him… tell him I’m sorry.”

[merisketch]

lil doodle of Hazel

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[myintyfreshness]

A really crappy moodboard of what @blackjacktheboss's Madness of Hera au reminds me of