Everyday I Think About How Jude, A Mortal, Carved Her Way Into Getting Not Only All That She Ever Wanted

CanNOT wait for Blood Of Olympus jdmsmzkcjfnfjfjfjrj

this was the biggest joke of my life

Lmao I just had a whole hour talk about it with @anivynyx yesterday 😭😭😭

Yk the fun thing about reading the pjo books as a child and watching the tv show in your 20s is that you realise 12 is really fucking young for three children to do anything on their own, let alone traumatizing god related shenanigans

No, but, why is everything better when you haven't accepted that yes maybe they were the one who messed you up and not everything is your fault?

OK, I KNOW!!! HE DIDN'T TRAIN BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT HIS DISAPPOINTMENT TO BE WORSE. LIKE, IF HE HAD AND THEN STILL FAILED THEN IN THE END IT WOULD HAVE PROVEN THAT HE JUST WASN'T CUT OUT FOR IT. HOWEVER IF HE DIDN'T TRAIN, HE COULD KEEP TELLING HIMSELF THAT IT MIGHT HAVE WORKED OUT FOR HIM IF HE HAD TRAINED!!! HE GAVE UP SO HE WOULDN'T BE HURT BY FAILURE. AND NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT HE, AS A PERSON, CHANGED SO MUCH TO BECOME WHO HE IS NOW AND MAYBE THAT LITTLE BABY IZUKU COULDN'T FACE THE FACT THAT HE COULDN'T. AGHHHHHH

Ok but realistically speaking, what the hell was Izuku thinking when he decided he wanted to be a hero? It's not just that he doesn't have a quirk, dude just went on and on fanboying and not even physically training himself to make his body the strongest it could get without a quirk?? He thought he could have gone by just with the knowledge he had of heroes? Like, don't you think that Izuku Midoriya, that hardworking cinnamon roll, didn't think of the fact that maybe if he worked on his physical strength he had higher chances of becoming a hero than he had if he didn't train himself? And if he had, then he would have gotten ready for OFA faster and then would have had time to get used to the quirk and his development overall would have been so different, like, really.

it is MY fandom experience and I get to do what I want

I saw a post abt this the other day but it's been eating me up inside so I gotta get it in writing. Plus it was in meme format when I saw it so I wanna make sure the gravity of this particular thing is out there somewhere bc I said so.

Annabeth was under the impression for most of her life that she had to earn love and respect from those around her. First from her father after he remarried, and she had to earn his attention back from his wife and kids. Then once she got to camp, she had to earn the admiration of the other campers, her siblings, Chiron and Mr. D, and basically everyone but Luke (because she earned his and Thalia's respect by simply surviving so long after running away). AND THEN she had to earn Athena's respect. That was the ultimate reward in her opinion, because that's kinda what I imagine they teach at camp: "You have to earn the respect of the gods to get them to look at you, let alone respect or, heaven forbid, love you." It's fucked up but its true. It's one of the first things Luke tells Percy upon his arrival. It's how you get claimed, earn a quest, and get all these things that Camp deems so important.

And then Annabeth meets Percy.

Percy, who, despite having his own traumas and tough road to hoe, still knows the feeling of an unconditionally loving home and person. He never had to earn Sally's love. She loved him despite him getting kicked out of school every year, despite him being stubborn and kinda an ass sometimes. She loved him despite his own view of himself. She shoved all that aside and loved her son because THATS HOW PARENTING WORKS.

And then you shove these two little kids together who've had wildly different backgrounds and I bet you'd get some interesting conversations (although they aren't shown a lot in the book or the show). Like Annabeth having to explain all the shit she's done to get her mother's attention and Percy being like "well damn."

And then he starts to notice that she applies this to other relationships too. She starts doing certain things that Percy notices as trying to gain his respect and it gets worse as they get closer and he finally has to be like "hey, you know I like you, right? like you don't have to prove yourself to me" and Annabeth has whiplash because she's never not had to earn love.

It just makes their relationship so much better to me.

Fuck my lifeeee

YALL I SAW THIS AND STARTED FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

When I tell you I judged myself so bad for being that attracted to, like, a guy. And that too a Greek God.

I mean he's fictional so at least there's that-

“the sea does not like to be restrained”

i squealed

Annabeth comparing 12 year old percy jackson to the king of the gods, the god of wisdom and battle strategy and the god of war and saying he's better than them. Annabeth's entire world view crashing down in the face of Percy's kindness and loyalty to the point where she defends his honor against millenia old gods. I will never recover from this.

on one hand i’m interested in what the rwrb movie is gonna be like but on the OTHER hand i’m Not interested in what the general public is gonna say about rwrb