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Deities ✨

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And now I’m rereading Summer Palace. Damen rode so far ahead of his men in his eagerness to see Laurent that they had time to explore the palace, take a leisurely bath, kiss for a long time, and make love, before his men caught up to them 😂

I love the simple, small absurdities that Pacat writes, and the way they add humor to everything.

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while looking at my Facebook feed, I came across that image and couldn't help but think of them—

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giant animal

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Carlos Alcaraz the youngest man to reach a major semi without dropping a set is a great name for a baby girl~

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i am terrified of nikandros. he is a momma bear, a secret service agent and a stereotypical medieval knight all at once. no wonder he has such a powerful presence in all three books despite really being in only one. i hope my future spouse is exactly like him

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For the past two weeks I've been imagining an Ascended Percy but is Sally was born over three thousand years ago—so Percy ascended a little over three thousand years ago. He's an established god by the start of the series. Most don't like talking about him because he's considered volatile and dangerous *cough* won't/has the strength not to do a damn thing Zeus says *cough* *cough*, he helps run Camp Half Blood.

Zeus: Okay, we need someone to run Camp Half Blood with Chiron—

Percy: *Kicks Down The Doors* I VOLUNTEER!

Poseidon: ...Percy!? It's been centuries—!

Percy: And it will be at least another, I'm still not talking to you (–_–)

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Percy: *Polishing Riptide* I was flooding cities before your mother's bloodline was even a thing, don't you find that odd?

Luke: *Drunk off his ass* Can you sharpen that on me?

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Hermes: *Slams a bottle of rosé on Apollo's desk* ...

Apollo: ...What happened...?

Hermes: ...Three thousand, one hundred, and nineteen years of courting him—fighting with you over him...And he picked my. fucking. son...

Apollo: You're shitting me right...?

Hermes: ...*Cracks open the bottle and starts pouring them both a glass*

Apollo: TELL ME YOU'RE SHITTING ME—

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Malec❤️

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What's wrong with the pjo fandom on TikTok??

I swear if I see another video of a random girl calling Percy a Manchild with that damn Sabrina Carpenter song in the background, talking about how Annabeth deserved "so much better"... Did we read the same books?

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TAYLOR SWIFT | The Life of a Showgirl

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Asclepius and his father.

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the god of madness dionysus being booped on the nose. a canonical demigod child of hestia. to say these nico books read like fanfiction isn’t even enough to convey how bad they are like this is genuinely the worst kind of fanservice slop imaginable

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percy saved the ophiotaurus' life in-text not solely on humanitarian grounds but through logical reasoning. in theory, just to be safe, the gods should have killed it. whoever kills it and sacrifices its innards will gain enough power to overthrow the gods, so they should have killed the ophiotaurus to protect themselves, and while they were at it they should have killed percy too, and they should have killed nico, and they should have killed thalia again to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled, just like kronos was right to eat his children to avoid having his power usurped, just like laius was right to try and murder oedipus to avoid being killed, just like king acrisius was right to get rid of danaë to avoid being killed by his grandson perseus - except that doing so were acts of cruelty that never worked in their favor, which percy rightfully and successfully used in his argument to save the ophiotaurus. bessie is percy in this scenario, and he's also oedipus, perseus, the eldest olympians themselves, and every other greek figure who was targeted with cruelty and violence out of fear of what they might do, without regard for the intrinsic value of their lives

hermes understood luke's fate well before it even happened, and he knew very well that he could never have prevented it, which is why he largely gave up trying to do so after efforts to keep may from becoming the oracle didn't work. this is why it's so necessary to understand percy's role in the narrative as a breaker of cycles, and why it's necessary to comprehend that role in context of the greater grecian mythos from which these books are inspired. in greek mythology it's so commonly the nature of a tragedy that some terrible thing is always doomed to happen and efforts to prevent it or manipulate the outcome wind up being the direct cause of that tragedy, which is a crucial aspect of the "greek tragedy" concept in and of itself. percy understands this, and so he acts accordingly

the same book where percy fights to save the ophiotaurus is the book where he decides to finally claim the prophecy for himself. he is different from thalia, whose rebirth was, in itself, an inorganic scheme explicitly intended by the titan army to manipulate the prophecy's outcome in their favor. where thalia's dangerous bloodlust for the ophiotaurus validates the gods' fears, percy's concern for its innocence and right to live contradicts those fears. where thalia (rightfully) avoids becoming the prophecy child, percy stops resisting it because he understands that it has to be him. percy's empathy for bessie, for nico, for his fellow demigods is the reason why he can finally alter this mythos. this is why he is the protagonist and the most essential figure in the narrative, this is why, in handing luke the knife, he becomes the ultimate agent of change but not the tragic greek hero that luke was, whose alignment with kronos, one of the originators of this exact cycle, was always flawed and always doomed to fail

percy ends the series with a final acknowledgement that making an attempt to exert control over fate is an inherently flawed methodology. "you've got to stop trying to get rid of powerful demigods" and "children [...] will be welcome and treated with respect" is an indictment against the cruelty of this long long history of fear-based, self-serving, preventative violence, and emphasizes that the prophecies surrounding these mythological figures of the ancient past (as well as the demigods of the present) were only told because the cruelty exerted to subvert these prophecies is the very thing that manifested their existence

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the concept of a camper booping mr.d on the nose and not immediately being blasted to ash

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Whenever I see an AI art of Apollo I can just think He would hate it so much

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lonely geto

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