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in times like these at least i have the character

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do you ever feel like you're not dps-ing enough? like for my internship i just sit behind a computer and code all day. this is not me seizing the day. i want to go to the cave and scream.

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mentally I'm still here:

Nico insisting that neither of them are going to be sacrificed/left behind to satisfy the prophecy is a perfect encapsulation of his growth over the series and it makes me SO soft to think about

Nico as a character - particularly in BoO - doesn't have a lot of self-preservation. He doesn't really care what happens to him as long as the mission gets done. We see this most explicitly after he almost fades into nothingness after the Bryce Lawrence incident:

And again when he considers shadow travelling into Octavian's tent to assassinate him:

(Nico himself notes here that it was unlikely he would survive another jump. If Will hadn't stopped him, he probably would have died.)

In both cases, Nico was willing to risk death for the sake of ending the war. He puts very little value on his own life, and repeatedly argues to Reyna, Hedge, and Will that the possibility of saving camp (a place he never felt welcome at, might I add) is worth the risk of losing his life.

Even before Nico went on the quest with Reyna and Hedge, the others were concerned about his safety. Percy tried to remind him how unpredictable his shadow travelling could be, and Hazel notes that he has been acting strangely lately:

It's not quite clear what Hazel is worried about here, but my interpretation of this scene is that she's concerned that Nico isn't thinking - or perhaps, isn't caring - about what effect the constant shadow travelling will have on his wellbeing. Between Tartarus, the jar, and the Cupid incident, Nico's mental state is at its worst at this point in the series, and I think Hazel is worried he'll do something reckless - something he can't come back from.

And so in TSATS, when Nico is told that he's going to have to leave something of equal value behind in order to save Bob, the old him would have had zero issue sacrificing himself if that's what it took to ensure Will and Bob's survival. This version of Nico, who's been going to therapy w/ Mr D and opening up more and built a little support system for himself, can't fathom it.

Nico in BoO did not have a future. He had fully convinced himself that nobody cared about him or would miss him if he was gone - not Percy who fought for him at every turn in PJO, not his sister Hazel, not his new friends Jason and Reyna. He was ready to leave both camps behind because he couldn't see himself ever being happy there. He couldn't see himself being happy at all.

But now, in TSATS, he has a boyfriend that he loves, he has friends that he loves, and he has a community in Camp Half-Blood. He has experienced so much loss that losing someone else is his worst fear. The old Nico would have considered sacrificing himself to protect Will and Bob. At the very least, he would have kept that option in his back pocket as a 'just in case'; he wouldn't have sworn on the Styx that he wouldn't stay behind.

This Nico, however, is doing much better - not perfect, but better. He loves Will, and he wants a life with him, and he's not willing to give that up for anything. Nico has hope for the future, and he's clinging to that hope with everything he has. He sees a light at the end of the tunnel, and he wants to reach it. He's not willing to sacrifice himself because it means losing that future.

Gone is the cynical pessimistic Nico who assumes the worst because the worst is all he thinks he can have. Here is the Nico who has had a taste of happiness and is willing to fight to keep it. He's not going to sacrifice himself because he wants to live. He's not just fighting for Will here; he's fighting for himself too.

And seeing him go from "if it kills me, it kills me" to "it's not going to be me" makes me so ASDFGHJKL

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“Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, and four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half —man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their lives searching for their other halves. And where does that leave me? Nico wondered. It wasn’t his favorite story.”

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—The Blood of Olympus

If you’ve read Tribulations then you know why I’m offended at this! He took the myth and turned it against Nico!

alsoI’mconvincedhe’sbeenreadingmyfanfiction

(via midnightinjapan)

What the… but that isn’t… AGH!

Okay kids, it’s time for me to rant give you a lesson on Plato!

This myth was created by Plato for his dialogue The Symposium, which talks about love, its nature and the diferent forms it can take (thanks to this dialogue, we have the term “Platonic Love”). This particular myth is the most famous part of the play, and greeks being so, so bisexual, would never approve of such a heteronormative retelling.

The original tale didn’t have such crap as “all humans had been a combination of male and female”. In the myth there were actually three genders all with two sets of genitalia. Males (with two male genitalia), born from the Sun, females (two female genitalia), born from the Earth, and androgynous (one of each), born from the Moon. Plato describes their division by Zeus and desire to be one again like this:

Each of us when separated, having one side only, like a flat fish, is but the indenture of a man, and he is always looking for his other half. Men who are a section of that double nature which was once called Androgynous are lovers of women; adulterers are generally of this breed, and also adulterous women who lust after men: the women who are a section of the woman do not care for men, but have female attachments; the female companions are of this sort. But they who are a section of the male follow the male, and while they are young, being slices of the original man, they hang about men and embrace them, and they are themselves the best of boys and youths, because they have the most manly nature. 

Let’s ignore for now how heterosexuals are supposedly mostly unfaithful among other unfortunate implications (some say part of it is satire on origin myths themselves, so there’s that), and let’s go back to the BoO quote and how it angers me.

The point of the story isn’t how “a man’s true love is only for a woman” or an origin story for gender, it’s about explaining why humans love, because they desire to be whole. It’s about how everyone has a soulmate, a destined being, no matter your sex or the sex you prefer.

So, either Nico read a bullshit heteronormative version of the myth (possible, but not that likely, considering how he probably read it in the original greek due to demigod dyslexia), or Rick Riordan changed a wonderful myth about why humans love to give the gay kid yet another reason to angst, in which case, you suck, sir.

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Izzy when they accused her and then called her cool has the same energy as this meme and I can't unsee it

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things you DO NOT need to be a man

a dick

he/him pronouns

XY chromosomes

things you DO need to be a man

the swiftness of a coursing river

the force of a great typhoon

the strength of a raging fire

the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon

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you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

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STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

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this cat said gay rights and fuck trump i heard her say it

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