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Hey to my fellow New York or tristate area PJO fans, did anyone also wonder why Sally just didn’t move to the other boroughs? Like they were canonically poor and Manhattan is EXPENSIVE, for the apartment they had in the show or movie (we don’t talk about the movie) they could get a home in the other boroughs with two extra rooms for the same price. If you’re using the explanation of “oh Percy was kicked out of six schools” I know people who have done things similar to Percy and they still got into schools. He’ll be fine.

(Please tell me if there’s a canon explanation as to why and I just forgot, was it because of Grover? Well it can’t cause what about before Grover???)

Percy Jackson is definitely one of my ‘comfort book series’, and compared to other middle age/older white cishet males, Rick did a good job portraying the characters. However, there’s a few things I noticed while rereading it and I’d like to point some out. 

1. Making Frank, the only Asian character, the only one without dyslexia. This enforces the stereotype that all Asians are super smart and all that. 

2. Forcefully outing the only gay kid there was for the first ten books. Now this is a really common cliché, but seriously, there’s other ways for us to come out. 

3. Making Piper hate other ‘girly girls’. Now I get she’s a ‘tomboy’, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Hell, I’m a ‘tomboy’. But that doesn’t mean I hate on other girls trying to express themselves. Like, Piper’s the excepting type; she wouldn’t put other girls down.

4. Killing of Bianca off for Nico’s character development. Like, she was already leaving for the hunters, meaning Nico wouldn’t see her as much anymore, but no. He killed her off. And there’s nothing wrong with needing character development, but I have literally never seen it when the male dies for the female development. It always the ‘worthless female’ that’s only there for a male’s development. And I’m not calling Bianca useful at all here, I promise.

5. Having Annabeth hate Rachel out of jealousy, then having everything be fine after she becomes oracle. Like, I’m glad they got over that barrier and became friends, but come on. You don’t just go ‘oop- don’t hate you anymore. haha’ that quick.

6. Having people, especially Frank, shame Leo for not masking his neurodivergent traits. And sure, maybe the others don’t mask theirs either, but Leo’s is probably the most severe, and why should he have to mask it? (Look that up if you don’t know what it means). 

There’s definitely more, so I’d like to here one’s that you come up with

jason and piper

Percy winning with finger guns :) 🔫👉

percy, holding out his fist in his palm: ok wise girl. rock paper scissors time. if i win, i get to pick the movie for date night

annabeth, doing the same: fine, but if i win, we move back across the country to that house in westchester that i love

grover, looking over in alarm: what?! how is that even—

percy, nodding firmly: deal. rock pap—

Pjo but Hestia has her own cabin and unclaimed kids go there because she’s the goddess of the house and home. So 1: the Hermes cabin isn’t so crowded and 2: so they can get claimed faster if all the unclaimed kids are in one area.

what if blackjack in the pjo show was voiced by Ryan Reynolds

This sentence haunts me a bit.

Because after everything that Sally has sacrificed to ensure Percy’s safety, after suffering physical, emotional and psychological abuse from Gabe for years, sending Percy to probably very expensive private schools, and still managing to remain kind, baking him cookies, and giving him blue candies whenever he felt bad, and never raising her voice at him, she was still doomed to fail at fully protecting him.

Because to save Percy from getting killed by gods, and monsters, she had to invite a monster into their very home. She had to “condemn” Percy to receive physical and emotional abuse during crucial stages of his life, resulting in dangerously low self-esteem, self-hatred and even suicidal tendencies; issues which follow him throughout every single book.

By the time he was twelve, his self-esteem was so low that Percy even believed Sally didn’t want him around at the start of The Lightning Thief.

Sally, whom he thought the world of. Sally, who is, in his eyes, the kindest, most loving person in the world.

I can’t even begin to imagine how much that thought would mess with a twelve-year-old boy’s mind.

Like, I know we as a fandom see them as the most healthy and best possible mother-son bond ever, and I’m not denying that they absolutely love one another, would do anything for each other or that Sally did not do her absolute best to protect him, but their relationship is in actuality way more nuanced and heartbreaking than we tend to acknowledge most of the time.

Part 7! Last🫡

These are the portraits! I hope someone read to the end hahaha Unfortunately, I didn't draw everyone as I originally wanted, especially Juniper, I think her design is really cool!

Bonus number 1 A quick art of Clarissa with a crooked spear🙈

Bonus number 2

Niko on Blackjack🥹🥹🥹 oh this boy!🙏 (and oh this Blackjack, I love him too!)

These arts took all my free time during my studies and I will be glad that someone else besides 3 people will see them, including me😋

Part 6…

Annabeth. I'm happy with the drawing, I'm in love with the character🙏🙏🙏10000/10

Zoë. Beautiful, but for me it was quite difficult to imagine her appereance

And of course our “Centaur number 1” Long curly hair is a must!!!

Zeus! I like how he turned out ahahaha, but Zeus himself is not that much AHAHAHA

Artemis. Without further ado

Well, Sally! Best mom👸

Rachel. The only character without a Greek nose in my head hahaha

Hermes. I love him.

I love him so much that I was afraid to draw. His whole image is saturated with the smell of sand, light gray hair and some kind of unquenchable cheerfulness coupled with fatigue💗 I don't think I could convey it, but I love this art because the Hermes in my head is VERY beautiful

next part last!!

Part 5😗

Calypso! I imagined her skin darker, like “caramel”🙏🙏🙏 I really like how it turned out

Icarus🥹🥹🥹

I think the fact that I drew him, but not Daedalus, already says everything about how much I like Icarus

Silena🥹

amazing girl, my art didn’t quite do justice to her beauty🙏

Clarissa hair color was not the same at different parts in the book, I really don't know what hairstyle to draw for Clarissa

but she is a queen👸👸 I love her😘

continued in the next part😅😗

August 18th is Percy Jackson's birthday, so I decided to show off my drawings from this book!

Part 1☝🏻

And there are a lot of them, but sorry, not all photos are of good quality🙏

I want to start with the fact that when reading the book I thought a LOT about the anatomy of satyrs, I even looked at the skeletons of goats (it would be better if I taught people anatomy🤪), so the thoughts of canon Grover in his pants did not leave me (and at first I forgot the beard ahaha, with it looks more like it now)

I decided to draw portraits of the characters and I really liked it (now I would like to do something similar in hetalia🥲)

And here is Athena! To be honest, this is not my favorite character, but I still really like this art; this is how I still imagine her

Apollo! Oh my God! A hot guy, and the most important thing is I didn’t know what would happen next with this character🥲🙏

I drew Luke before my idea of ​​portraits and I like the difference between these drawings. I also like when other artists draw his scar vertically and it looks like a tear, but that's how I pictured it when reading the book, so 🙏

I really love this character from start to finish.

Continued post in the next part!

Who is Dr. Dolittle? Does he live in Valhalla?

MCGA, The Ship Of Dead, Rick Riordan

Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.

PJO, The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan

The Titan's Curse

Thalia: Wow

Thalia: Apollo is hot

Percy: ...he's the sun god

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

PJO, The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan

Annabeth had a bronze knife reserved just for monsters and people who messed with her stuff.

PJO, The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan

Samirah al-Abbas, daughter of Loki, but better than Loki!

MCGA, The Ship of the Dead, Rick Riordan

The Ship of the Dead

Magnus: You want to come with me to a creepy mansion and look through a dead guy's stuff?

Alex: I thought you'd never ask.

With great power... comes the great need to take a nap.

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian, Rick Riordan

You drool when you sleep.

PJO, The Lightening Thief

Another one!

PERCY JACKSON FANS HEAR ME OUT!

It’s season 3 of the PJO show AKA The Titans Curse. Percy (Walker) is sitting in front of Aphordite Goddess of Love and Beauty who just so happens to look like an older version of his best friend Annabeth (Leah) totally unrelated we’re sure.

Then he blinks and the beautiful woman in front of him changes….now she has brown hair and blue eyes she smiles, its Alexandria Daddario movie Annabeth. Just a split second cameo and then she’s gone.

Now a different woman is sitting in front of Percy, a woman with blonde hair and hazel eyes Kristen Stokes Lightning Thief Musical Annabeth. She shifts and changes again.

The final and last woman we see before Percy has curly blonde hair, tanned skin, and stormy grey eyes it’s book Annabeth.

Percy doesn’t realise it but we do. The Goddess of love shows him every version of the girl he loves from every universe he loves her in. It’s beautiful, it’s cinema, it needs to happen.

I'm doing this again.

5 little demigods jumping on the bed,

Hazel jumped off but hit her head,

Nico was mad and the Solace said,

"NO MORE DEMIGODS JUMPING ON THE BED."

4 little demigods jumping on the bed,

Annie fell down and hit her head,

Percy was helping and the Solace said,

"NO MORE FUCKING DEMIGODS JUMPING ON THE BED!"

Now, there's just 3 demigods jumping on the bed,

This time, thankfully, no one cracked their head,

Nico facepalmed and the Solace said,

"You know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna go and jump with them on the bed."

10 little monkeys - PJO ver.

7 little demigods, jumping on the bed,

Leo fell down and cracked his head,

Sally called the Solace and the Solace said,

"No more demigods jumping on the bed."

STOP THEY'RE ALL BABIES

MY BABIES

Age accurate Annabeth, Thalia, and Luke 🥺

I have an addition:

Nico: Magnus: Nico: you're dead. Magnus: I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE YOUR SNACKS I'M SORRY- Alex and Will: *eating popcorn*

Percy: I put the 'bi' in 'bitch' Percy: Percy: Wait, fuck, 'bitch' doesn't have a 'bi', does it? Hazel, whispering to Annabeth: Should we tell him? Annabeth, whispering back: No, just give him a minute.

~~~~~

Leo: Okay, let's go back to basic math - what's 7+3? Octavian, without hesitation: 10. Leo: Incorrect. It's 'ten' not '10'. Octavian: But they're the same thing..? Leo: I hate you, so it makes a difference when I say it.

~~~~~

Reyna: Weak ass bitches, running around screaming that they wanna be royalty. Reyna: Peasants.

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Will: I want to hug you, but I don't want to overstep your boundaries, so pinky promise me you'll hug me when you're comfortable. Nico: What- Will: I SAID PROMISE ME Nico: But- Will: DO IT Nico: I'M ALREADY COMFORTABLE YOU FUCKING AIRHEAD WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR 5 YEARS AND WE'VE HUGGED MULTIPLE TIMES JUST DRAG YOUR CUTE ASS OVER HERE

So basically what's happening here is:

Leo: I've never done anything wrong in my entire life.

The entire fandom: We know this, and we love you.

Nico: So, Leo is no longer allowed to take the trash out at night. Jason: Why? Nico: Because I've caught him trying to train raccoons to fight five times in a row. Leo, arms crossed and pouting: You'll be thanking me when the third raccoon battalion saves your ass.

HELLO CHARLES, LET ME SHOW YOU AROUND THE RIORDANVERSE MADNESS!!!

SO THERE'S PERCABETH, SOLANGELO, CALEO (I personally prefer Valgrace, but oh well), AND GRUNIPER AND TYSONELLA AND MOREE!!!!

🦔

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?