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PERCY SERIES SPOILERS
riptide is already so cool omfg
there's something really emotional for me about the Percy Jackson TV series
When my brother died and I lost alot of him, I found an absolutely destroyed book which I didn't even know the title of because the front pages had been ripped out and the cover had fallen off. The first line was "Look, I didn't want to be a half blood".
My brother had three pjo books - the lighting thief, the sea of monsters, and the battle of the labyrinth. I consumed those books looking for my brother, but when my mother bought me new versions, including the titians' curse, which explained a lot I didn't know before, I found my favourite series instead and a feeling of being seen with the whole adhd and dyslexic thing. I stopped looking for him.
But when I think about it, I did find him. He had Percy's sarcasm, Jason's sense of honor and doing right (I know he's HOO but he counts and I love him), he definitely had dyslexia but the jury's out on the ADHD, Chiron's knowledge from experiences none of us want to live through but want the lessons from, Classrie's fight and anger, Annabeth's real-life intelligence and street smarts, Tyson's unwavering devotion to his sibling (s in my brother's case), Luke's rage at the system, Bianca's unfair lot but determination to make life the best it can be for their younger siblings.
My brother died at 14 in 2013. He never saw me even hit double digits in age, never saw me go to university, never read Heroes of olmpus. But he's here, I think, in some small way.
Now, ten years from when I lost my brother, there's a TV series of what was his favourite series and mine. It's like reading the books for the first time again and finding my brother again.
PJO SERIES SPOILERS
IS THAT MOTHERFUCKING BLACKJACK PERCY SEES ON THE ROOF
MY DONUT LOVING MAN IS ALREADY HERE?!?!?!
a silly little Piper Mclean doodle
another nico drawing. an angsty doodle.
at some point in trials of apollo its mentioned that Reyna drives her truck to get some space with her dogs. idk maybe i made that up but i swear that happened.
I finished the Sun and the Star, and I really enjoyed it.
I was kinda nervous because I saw a lot of negative reviews, even before the book officially came out, but I really really enjoyed myself reading it, and would read it again.
will solace in the hades cabin
sometimes my own art astounds me
He is my gender.
Some silly Nico doodles for my soul.
some silly little solangelo doodles.
i can imagine Will going "you're not you when you're hungry." and Nico being like "stfu that's twix stupid." (it's snickers if you don't know for whatever reason, they're both just dumb.)
Some doodles of Hazel. I love her and I should really draw her more lol.
A Nico doodle I did in stead of paying attention in math :D
some super quick Nico and Jason doodles. Nico is teaching Jason how to play mythomagic. honestly if we don't get some sort of something like a flashback in tsats of them i will cry. we where so robbed of this friendship. like augghhhh why????
when reading hearos of Olympus Leo was probably one of my favorite characters, so here's some Leo doodles. drawing Festus was a lot of fun.
some more Nico art! i just finished the tyrant's tomb and that means i'm almost done with all the main Percy Jackson series. i'm so exited for the sun and the star to come out and i gotta be ready! i'm a pretty quick reader but it's hard to make myself sit down and read so it's taken me a minute to get this far. (audio books have been my saving grace lol) i just felt like doodling and drawing Nico again. i took a break from fanart because i didn't have any inspiration, but i'm getting back into it i think. If anyone has any requests i'd be happy to draw them though it might make me a bit.