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This is different from Al-Shifa:

There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.

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sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

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like to charge reblog to cast

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having a blast at the permit office.

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something i think about a lot is how they were brothers

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Keeping camp necklaces like dog tags from fallen soldiers

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annabeth my beloved 🦉🏛️💫

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Can you draw Percy in a shark onesie and Annabeth in an owl onesie? I need it for a fanfic. Happy birthday by the way, I love your art.

They dance 🎶

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Imagine the heartache of the demigods at Camp Half Blood whose friends left to join Kronos. Did the departed whisper goodbye? Try and convince their friends to join them? Or did those left behind wake up one morning to find the empty bed of another sibling? To see another empty spot on the bench at breakfast? No warning. No note. No need to wonder, because everyone knows where they went. Did the Hermes kids wake up one morning and realize that their cabin, the home of unclaimed demigods, felt spacious for the first time in years?

At the battle of Manhattan, how did it feel to look across enemy lines and see your sibling? A best friend? A crush? A familiar face from across the campfire?

Did Kronos’ army help you feel at home on your first day at camp? Did they carry you to the infirmary after a nasty game of capture the flag? Were they your first kiss? Did they place a steadying hand on your back as you climbed up the rock wall, making sure you were safe? 

As demigods on both sides of the war drew their swords, was it like looking in a mirror? How must it have felt, to be prepared to fight and kill someone just like you?

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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so I was doing some math (bad idea) because I was wondering how many campers have been in Camp Half-Blood, specifically wondering how many Chiron has seen come, be trained, and then die. Here's my numbers:

Riordian Wiki says CHB has been around for about 3,000 years. Now, a lot of these numbers are washy, but we're going to assume this is the case. The same wiki posits that halfbloods often don't live past their twenties, and most die as teenagers. For this, I'm going to be generous.

Let's say that exactly every 20 years, a new camper comes to CHB at age 0 and lives until age 20. At that rate, Chiron would have mentored 150 campers over the last 3,000 years (3000/20 = 150). Already a tragic number.

But there isn't just one camper at CHB. These are where the numbers get really rough-- I couldn't find any source about the number of campers when Percy arrives in TLT, so I found the number post-Luke's betrayal estimated at around 75. This is said to be much lower than usual for several reasons, but I'm going to lowball and say there's about 100 campers at a time (again, probably many more).

Now the math is up to 15,000 campers. Fifteen thousand!

This is, somehow, probably still a very low estimate. This is assuming campers spend all 20 years at camp, they all live to be 20, and the rate of campers stays roughly the same over time. If we work with halfbloods being discovered at 13 and dying at 18, for example, that's SIXTY THOUSAND, four times our lowball amount. Even ages 10 to 20 gives us thirty thousand.

That's roughly a low of 15,000 campers and a high of 60,000 that Chiron has seen die! It's a wonder the man is still sane!

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shout out to this scene from the last Olympian that’s been kicking around my brain since 2013

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Image 1: a digital illustration of Percy Jackson holding Pandora’s jar. Inside the jar is the spirit of hope, emitting a glow onto Percy’s face. Percy is looking at the spirit and smiling tenderly. Percy has tan skin and black hair, with a grey streak. Standing protectively over Percy and the jar is Hestia, smiling down on them.

Image 2: A close up on Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, inside Pandora’s jar.

Image 3: A close up on Percy’s face.

Image 4: A close up on Hestia’s face.

Image 5: An excerpt from The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. The last three lines are highlighted. The excerpt reads:

“I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container.

"Hestia," I said, "I give this to you as an offering."

The goddess tilted her head. "I am the least of the gods. Why would you trust me with this?"

"You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important."

"And why is that, Percy Jackson?"

"Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said. "Guard it for me, and I won't be tempted to give up again."

The goddess smiled. She took the jar in her hands and it began to glow. The hearth fire burned a little brighter.

"Well done, Percy Jackson," she said. "May the gods bless you.”

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the inherent tension between the acronyms JFC, JFK, and KFC .......

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Wait hold on I'll do market research if the watcher PR team won't

After looking at the tag I've boiled many people's thoughts on watcher taking all there new content to a them only streaming platform in to a few different viewpoints so I want to see numbers!