Happy Leah Jeffries got casted for Annabeth Chase because we've always needed more unambiguously black girl representation,more black nerd characters who weren't jokes or villains and more black female love interests who get to be the main one and endgame and Book!Annabeth was held back by white feminism so she's finally written as well as she deserved.Happy Tamara Smart got casted for Thalia Grace because i always headcanoned Book!Thalia as black so it was a personal dream come true and it debunks stereotypes about alternative subcultures needing eurocentrism and androcentrism.Happy Walker Scobell got casted for Percy Jackson because it means Percy's beating the 'generic fandom migratory black haired white boy' allegations












