hey jules 💕 okay so for our sleepover, i have a lot i want to ask you 😇 do you have any character playlists, and if so can you share them with us? do you have any ocs? have you read any books lately that you’d like to recommend? and lastly, have you ever thought of who your pjo godly parent would be? sometimes i feel like im the only pjo fan who can’t determine mine lmao
esme my lovee!! so many questions hehe thank you <3 let's get this sleepover started 🤗
1. playlists - i have quite a few character playlists. but the thing is that, more often than not, they act as a filing system and only get like a couple songs thrown in every now and then (it saddens me too) but!! i do have a couple exceptions and that's
joey lynch from boys of tommen (i.e. the playlist i have on repeatrepeatrepeat rn)
julian blackthorn from the shadowhunter chronicles
my honorable mention one tho is this lil one i have for leo valdez which is significant bc it's essentially an overflow from my beloved 4hr here without you playlist that i admittedly do treat like its own leo playlist, but which i decided was too specific a context to hold all the songs i wanted to give to leo
2. ocs - i do have ocs <3 but the most significant rn (and those you may have seen me tagging shit with) are actually from an original world i've been attached to for the past couple years..
darcy james, only child of well off/semi-famous parents. perfectionist, popular, incapable of being vulnerable, poster child to the point of feeling inaccessible to others
matthew baxter, eldest child of a dad who left and a mom who can't do it all alone. buried much of himself deep inside for so long that he doesn't know himself. sacrificial, quietly desperate to be seen.
dennis baxter, matthew's little brother. hyperactive, feels so much all the time, plays soccer, absorbs energy and does his best to improve it for everyone around him.
cali baxter, the youngest baxter. (only in preschool in matthew's story but i have plans for her) developed codependent relationship with her mom, way overly guarded, lonely, troublemaker of the out-on-the-streets variety
(they are my children fr)
3. book recs - i finished the correspondent by virginia evans last month and it was so well done!! it's an epistolary novel about an older woman who has written letters as her main form of communication her entire life but is now slowly going blind. it's very human and honest with flawed characters and small redemptions mixed with inescapable grief. i cried. i loved it.
also! i'm rereading the beartown trilogy by fredrik backman rn and ugh. it's just >>> i highly recommend. he's one of my most favorite authors and this series ks truly a masterpiece. but it is also devastating. so like. yeah.. trigger warnings might be worth looking up and also be prepared to be anxious and depressed lol but still. it's worth it imo
4. godly parent - i was convinced for so many years that i was a daughter of athena, bc i genuinely saw so much of myself in annabeth. and idk i still think there's some merit to that, but i was having a bit of an existential crisis about it a few years ago and was then flagged on two fronts as a hermes kid. and it makes so much sense to me. the jack of all trades master of none, the attachment to the roads and travel, the welcoming/hospitality aspect, the kinda chaotic vibes. so yeah, it's been a few years now, but i'm still kinda transitioning that godly parent mentality and still can't say it with full confidence, but i think i'm a hermes kid.
it can honestly be so hard to pin down. like there are so many options and factors to weigh. i think there's a lot of core motivations involved and also kinda what keeps finding you ig, if that makes sense. or at least that's what helped me. like what kind of thing am i a sort of magnet to—it's easier for me to think about that than try and figure out what i like 🤷♀️
sleepover asks <3
