#Blue Cookies

[certifiedposeidonhater]

hey guys! i’m back after a HOT minute, and with me i am bringing a rant about the mischaracterization of percy jackson. here goes :)

can we just talk for a sec about how percy’s obsession with the color blue is PURELY fanon? like after the first book, we barely even see him eat blue food, (which i think he wouldn’t bc that food would literally just remind him of a terrible time in his life. if it were me, i would kinda just want to erase that time from my memory entirely. (i think he would still eat it sometimes because sally likes it and just because it’s fun but like…ykwim?)) much less be totally obsessed with the color blue.

after the first book, blue is barely ever mentioned to be percy’s favorite color. and i feel like percy is wayyyy more a person to like purple or something as his favorite color rather than blue. i can’t explain why but to me it just makes sense. this obsession with the color blue is such a fanon based thing and it’s also so toxic because nobody talks about the significance of the color. they just use it as a joke and another way to dumb his character down. “oh he would eat anything just because it’s blue” “oh he would be a democrat purely because they’re blue lol” NOOOOOOOOO!!

that’s not PERCY! that’s way out of character for him!! he would NEVER do that!!! Percy is smart. He’s not an idiot, not even close. He would never do those things. I understand that they’re jokes, but they also come from a very real perspective and interpretation of Percy. Multiple people in the fandom, and the books frankly, think Percy is stupid. The jokes aren’t helping.

Maybe i’m just a killjoy, but you know what? I think i’m okay with that. Percy isn’t obsessed with the color blue and making it seem like he is results in his character being dumbed down and made into a joke.

ALSO, the jokes take away from the sentiment of the blue food. It’s supposed to be his and Sally’s escape from their abusive environment. It shows how resilient and strong they are. It is SUCH a great example of how Percy’s ideals are based on his childhood. He was taught to question things, to push back against mindless authority, to not just become a person who can’t think for himself. Or at least, it helps contribute that idea. (I could talk a lot about how his time with Gabe really contradicted that entire thing and taught him to blend in with others and not stand out and to become a people pleaser, but that’s off topic so not right now.)

People making it solely into a joke and never talking about the importance of it takes away from the entire thing. And people acting like Percy is an idiot who is obsessed with the color blue and would do anything as long as it’s blue are limiting his character and ultimately contributing to how mischaracterized he is in his OWN FANDOM.

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

blue food in celebration of the pjo show!!

[some-random-poseidon-kid]

Blue (kinda) cookies!!!!! With sprinkles!!! :DDD

[spidermansballs]

im makin blue cookies, who wants em'???

[valewritessss]

Happiest birthday to the Percy Jackson, and thank you Sally for going to Montauk that one time it gave us this wonderful individual

[crashoutcore]

the urge to make blue cookies

[baadesaba]

The thing that makes me so happy is the fact that those of us who grew up with the Percy Jackson books are now old enough to really enjoy the show and understand the changes. The twelve year old in me heals every-time I watch videos of people preparing trays of blue cookies and setting up blue candy bowls for a watch party. The fact that the show is not a word for word adaptation but rather has nuances that we as adults can pick up on while also being simple enough for the actual twelve year olds watching is testament to the genius of Rick Riordan and his fan service. Anyways I just love how every social media I use is full of PJo stuff, happy healing you guys. Let’s celebrate every week with those dam cookies!💙🐬

[nicolikesmoms]

i am making blue cookies to binge watch percy jackson tomorrow with my friends and this time they are actually blue :000

[bakingheartzz]

for the release of the last episode of season one i’ll make blue cookies

[mistakenlyfoundnico]

i plan to watch pjo with my friend tomorrow (he has been sick and we agreed to watch it together) and the deal was he brings some sort of blue beverage and i will make blue cookies, well i made the cookies but they aren't very blue because there has been no blue dye in the stores and the only thing i could find in literally like all 6 or so stores nearby was blue food gel and i used all of it for nine cookies and it still doesn't look blue but he already bought the juice so he is bring blue juice and i made semi blue cookies and i feel so bad like the absolute worse cause he just spent money on juice and i couldn't even make blue cookies and i just wanted to know if my emotional meltdown right now is valid and i should feel bad or if this is me being irrational cause most times i can tell myself yeah i am being irrational right now like i shouldn't feel bad but this time i can't seem to talk my self out of it and i feel i should feel bad but idk

[themoonplantwrites]

(ID: two photos, the first is six lumps of bright blue chocolate chip cookie dough on a baking sheet. The second is a green bowl filled with bright blue chocolate chip cookie dough.)

I really hope these turn out blue. Last time I tried this they just turned grey. But I changed the food coloring I used so I’m more hopeful.

Either way, I figured I had to try this again for Percy’s birthday. Even if it fails, I’ll have a bunch of delicious cookies.

[lupusadlucem]

Happy Birthday to Walker Scobell!

Eat all the blue cookies you can, you deserve them

[novastar134]

If you know, you know

If not, check the tags

[the-anti-pianist]

Alright everyone!

We have t-minus 3 days until the Percy Jackson show comes out! It’s time to paint this site Blue!

ALL BLUE. Bluer than blue. Hatsune Miku noodles blue. Bluey blue. In honor the dyslexic/ADHD army that was raised on the works of Rick Riordan on this site, lets seep our dashboards in blue!

FOR CAMP HALF-BLOOD!

[homicidal-psycho-jungle-cat]

I made some blue cookies for wednesday! (and a trident with the extra dough)

[edenkeyedin]

I think that after a while annabeth's ambrosia starts to taste like Sally's cookies