#tbotl

[chubbybunny25]

idk it just made me laugh 😅

[vxnny-tmblredition]

Not the best quality photos but here’s my fave panels from tbotl graphic novel <3

Why is annabeth serving SO HARD

Go Queen

[kghnarchive]

i am so ready to defend annabeth and rachel dare with my life if pjo s4 ever comes out

[phinamina]

hi guys og trio in my style

missed grover in heroes of olympus so hes on the argo || instead of coach hedge . coach hedge was a good enough character but not good enough to replace my boy

also PERCY GETS BRACES !!! BECAUSE ALL MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS GET BRACES I GUESS !!!

[that1notetaker]

@wixenforever I love him I really do. He's all cheek, all bone

[lifeofbrybooks]

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.”

The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan

All my thoughts on The Battle of the Labyrinth are up on my blog now! Check out lifeofbry.com or follow the link here (x).

Here's a taste:

This book gave me so much nostalgia. I’m not sure why it hit me harder than the other three, but reading The Battle of the Labyrinth brought me back to being a kid and reading it for the first time. 

It was always my favorite. Maybe because I loved the suspense of the labyrinth itself. Or maybe because I adored Annabeth, and this was her time to shine. I’m not sure, but when I think of the original Percy Jackson series, I think of The Battle of the Labyrinth.

So what stuck out to me on this read through?

Annabeth’s first quest being one that can’t rely on logic. She says it herself; she’s the best person to go into the labyrinth. She’s studied it the most. She’s an architectural wiz. However, when down in the tunnels, the studying doesn’t matter. The labyrinth doesn’t abide by logic. The maze twists her wits. 

It tests her fatal flaw of hubris. Her pride takes a hit. She has to learn to step aside, that she may not be the best one for the job. She had to concede and follow Rachel. It made her rely on others just as much as trusting herself. It builds her character by testing it.

[losergender]

we don't talk enough about tbotl nico. those six months between the ending of the titans curse and the beginning of the battle of the labyrinth had to be literally so traumatizing and yet i feel they are never mentioned. (spoilers from tbotl ahead)

he was 11 and alone in the street for god knows how long before minos found him. he had no living family whatsoever and his father wasn't even accepted by anyone. hell, we don't even know if hades claimed him after ttc or how it went. (or maybe we do, i haven't read tsats nor half of toa, but if we do know of it i have never seen anyone mention it). he had spent 3 months in the 21st century before ttc and some months in the usa, am i meant to think he did alright in an unknown country, with unknown technology and most likely not being all that fluent in english yet? all of that paired with fighting monsters, something he had a week and a half of training for, not to mention that he left camp WITH NO WEAPONS ON HIM.

EVEN BEFORE MEETING MINOS, NICO HAD ALREADY CONSIDERED/TRYING TO DIE. HE OFFERED HIS SOUL IN EXCHANGE FOR BIANCA'S. HE CONSIDERED/TRIED DYING AT THE RIPE AGE OF 11. and after he fails to do so he gets manipulated by minos for the whole book to be his hitman. he went into the labyrinth alone with, again, less than 2 weeks of proper demigod training.

i love bianca a lot but if i were nico and after months of failing to summon my sister i succeeded just for her first words to be "hello, percy" i would not do beautiful things. everything else she said i agree with and think it was neccessary for him to hear, but i was hurting when she didn't greet him first. same goes for when pan skips him.

like, okay, maybe it wasn't the tartarus, or transporting the athena parthenos or the tartarus again, but he was so young and so unprepared for anything and i have seen 0 people talk about it. so eh sorry for the rant i just had to do it myself

[grievingwithnoreason]

The reason Rachel was carrying the hairbrush in TBOTL even though she has curly hair was obviously so that she could perform karaoke 🙄