#januaia

[mango-dolphin]

post this haruspex w/a silly sweater do it fucking do it (i fall over and get attacked by swans)

[mango-dolphin]

today on fic writing shenanigans

(copy-pasted from a group chat, but continuing on:)

man. was playing minecraft earlier & thinking about how i didn't really want to kill any squids, but i needed to because they were essentially the only things that dropped a thing i needed. and i had to kill quite a few squids to get enough. however. the more squids i killed, i not only became able to distance myself from my reservations, but even learned how to kill them more efficiently. the phrase "it gets easier to kill / die the more you do it" entered my brain and i IMMEDIATELY got a scene idea for my fic. i am j. i am just sitting here (thanks minecraft)

anyways. it spawned this beauty (using the dialogue i wrote for the scene):

[mango-dolphin]

trying to finagle information out of your divinely powered siblings can be a hassle when they don’t consider the fact that you haven’t been hit with Phoebus Apollo’s prophecy genes

you would think this is not relevant when you just want to know what time it is.

(yellow: Tertius. top is primus; left is secundus; right is quartana. this is when all four of them are still alive)

[mango-dolphin]

time to incomprehensibly spoil my fanfic but in the literal worst ways possible

[mango-dolphin]

what do you mean my posts are incomprehensible. Come closer. sophia & primus are best buds

[mango-dolphin]

hey octavian pjo fans wake up. or don’t i’m about to sleep anyways

would anyone like a vague unexplained crackfic oneshot of leo valdez giving octavian a haircut. i am probably gonna revise it a little bit and share it when i wake up lol

[mango-dolphin]

It's been a long journey from the Waystation. Leo's not even sure why he's here. He can't sleep. Neither can their new addition.

[words] 2017 [fandom] Percy Jackson and the Olympians / The Heroes of Olympus / The Trials of Apollo [characters] Leo Valdez, Octavian [POV] First person; Leo Valdez

[CW for] Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Existentialism [tags] Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Late Night Conversations, Late at Night, Character Death Fix, Resurrection, Implied Resurrection, Haircuts, No Context, One Shot, Semi-Crack, Camp Half-Blood

(Post-Trials of Apollo. At some point, Octavian was resurrected and brought to Camp Half-Blood, I can't explain further I'm so sorry just roll with it)

It's been a long journey from the Waystation. Leo's not even sure why he's here. He can't sleep.

Neither can their new addition.

I was honestly saying my prayers. Sure, man, whatever you want. I watched helplessly as he swiftly stalked across the hall, then stopped so close his breath blew against my eyes and made me blink. Gross. Why he was so lanky and tall, I have no clue.

“Good, you’ll do,” he muttered quickly through teeth. “Have any scissors?”

“What?”

[mango-dolphin]

today in “md struggles to draw children aged 12 and under,” i accidentally made this 9-year old ceicilia (right) look like some kinda annabeth?

(left to right: septimus, pontius, ceicilia; cut out of the frame is a seven-year old octavian)

i promise she’s not annabeth her hair steadily gets more brown as she gets older