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shiguresoen replied to your photo:i can’t get over how long my hair has gotten.

Hellllo Marty

gordy goldie, i have to honestly admit that until just this second, i thought it was a distinct possibility that you'd just queued up like two years worth of percy jackson posts and hadn't logged onto tumblr in months.

IN CONCLUSION, HELLO!!!!

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shiguresoen replied to your post: I was sort of abducted, and we watched...

The asshole bleaching in that movie

I literally had no idea what to say to that.

But the crying in the car with - dsjklsfkdf with HELEN - and jesus I love the fact that there was literally no character development whatsoever. All she managed to do in the end was regain a guy's interest, bake a fucking cake and talk to her bestie again. Megan was literally the only decent character, except I liked her asshole hookup for a while for being uncomplicated compared to the rest.

Also, the fitting session was actually revolting.

#i cannot do gross humour #did not appreciate that #body fluids ewwww #ko talks #shiguresoen #goldie uh your url is a 'popular tag'

HI I THINK I'LL START USING THIS BLOG AGAIN.

#debating a new username for this blog #also celebrate w/ me - i'm drinking maple syrup #inlieuofeffu #shiguresoen #i love you all but the deliciousness has melted my mind and they're the only two names i can actually think to notify #oops?#DON'T HATE ME I HAVE MAPLE SYRUP

I DIDN'T NEED MY FEELINGS EITHER. SOBBING. GROSS UGLY SOBBING

Percabeth feels are potent. People need to dilute that stuff before viewing, I tell you.

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What things did you have grievances with? I’m curious! I ship Percy/Jason as a crackship too lol. But mostly it’s alllll about the Percabeth < 333

Eeee.... This is going to be a bit ranty so I'm going to apologize in advance.

In The Lost Hero, I felt like his pace was kind of fast? Not that the older books were any slower. But it was three new characters and the Jason/Piper romance felt kind of condensed? Like I can't compare them to Percabeth because they got to have five books to end up together. They were slow and gradual (IMO better than what happened at the end of Harry Potter with Harry and Ginny), but Jason and Piper kind of ended up with their romance because Piper thought there was one and then she fulfilled it? Jason's quick acceptance of Piper as a love interest, even though he was starting to remember the Roman camp and what everyone there meant to him was kind of tacked on. But overall, I cut Riordan lots of slack for this book because it was the first one. He was trying to build up another part of this world and make us like three brand new characters, so things might be a bit shorter with a faster tempo than I anticipated, but it wasn't a bad book by any means. I still rate it well.

The Son of Neptune was nice because I liked that Percy was back. I didn't gripe a lot about this book. If I remember right, my only complaint was the pacing again. But I still cut him slack because book two is like the mirror of book one. Only with Percy and two other new characters. You can only condense so much backstory for two new people and get a person to sympathize so fast. Especially when they're expected to end up more or less cohesive in the next book.

Then Mark of Athena came out and I was surprised at how well Jason and Percy took to being bros. But I was very torn about how much attention was being paid to the romances between everyone. I enjoyed seeing the characters happy. The ending made me sad. But I didn't know if I appreciated just how much of the book was dependent ON all the romances happening. Riordan's strength in these books was his subtle manipulation of old mythology made applicable into a modern world onto a modern day set of heroes with very relatable problems. I didn't feel like it was all there. He still tugged heartstrings and I decided to let all that go because, hell the book was still good and everyone is a teenager, their lives are constantly in peril, so the determination of everyone for their love interests, to hold on to them, to find them, to keep them, was something I understood. I just think he could have maybe cut out some of the really heavy romance tones to really let the characters grow and tackle that whole, "Greeks hate Romans and vice versa, so OMG how will they work together?!" It felt like he passed up on some potential, but asdfoapshdgal I'm just happy he wrote the book.

:facepalm: Now I'm going to go be embarrassed about ranting about the minor imperfections in a book series that has been making me very happy.

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