#tempest hoo

[thelastchocolatebar]

This week on 'Life With The Olympians'

Percy: *talking to Blackjack*

Jason: *playing with Tempest*

Hazel: *feeding Arion*

Leo: When did all the horse girls show up?

[pain-is-too-tired]

Blackjack @ Percy: You save me boss,I'll now help you whenever 😌

Tempest @ Jason: Man,kid got spunk managed to wrestle me down like that. Yeah sure I'll continue be his stead I guess.

[wanderingmind867]

Rick Riordan really has a thing for horses. Blackjack, Tempest, Scipio, Arion, Stanley (a horse Magnus meets in the Sword of Summer), and probably many others. I don't know why Rick Riordan seems to like horses so much, but he really seems to have a fascination with them. If we needed more proof The Kane Chronicles was Rick Riordan's most subversive book ever: that book has no horses for the main characters. It has two disgusting camels, a baboon, an albino crocodile, some cats and several penguins, but it's got no horses. So that alone makes it stand up as an interesting example of Rick Riordan challenging himself.

I swear, we need more books like The Kane Chronicles and less like Rick's modern stuff. The Kane Chronicles was his best book series ever, and it's probably because he was willing to tell a story completely unconnected to his others. Magnus Chase has many issues stemming from it's portrayal of Valhalla, but we could argue it's bigger issues fundamentally stem from rick trying to shoehorn in a connection to Percy Jackson. The Kane Chronicles didn't have any major Percy Jackson connections. They had some minor ones, but the Kanes were almost completely unrelated to Percy or Annabeth. And that left more room for original stories and characters to flourish. So really, Rick Riordan should've been making more books like The Kane Chronicles.

[puzzled-pegasus]

Little doodle from school today with lyrics from my strange addiction by Billie Eilish

[wanderingmind867]

I really do like Jason more than Percy. There's a long paragraph in the Mark of Athena where Piper says Percy isn't her type. I don't want to transcribe it all immediately, but like…yeah, I get it. To paraphrase Piper: Percy looks like a trouble making kid she'd see at the Mall. A skater kid she'd steer clear of. And yeah, me too. If I went to school with him in real life, doubt i'd love him. I always hated the kids who talked back and made trouble. Even if Percy isn't a bad guy, the fact he's even capable of giving off these vibes makes him less appealing than Jason.

Because Jason has this honour, this kindness, this discipline about him. He seems way more serious, in a way that feels almost way more relatable. Or something to that effect. I lost my train of thought halfway through this, but I hope I still make some kind of sense here. And also (just to try and end this with one more point): Tempest is just cooler then Blackjack. A storm spirit, crackling and pulsating with energy? Riding a storm cloud? I'm sorry, but that's just so much cooler. I hate heights too, so the fact that Tempest doesn't have wings is a slight positive, too.

I know I begin this note by acting like I don't like Percy, but that's not true. I do like him. I swear by all the gods, I like him. But I just like Jason and Nico and Leo and a lot of other characters more. He's important to me, but I like a lot of other characters more. And I don't say that as any insult to him.