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The Battle of the Labyrinth is so funny because Annabeth's quest technically ended up having six people: Annabeth herself, her future boyfriend/current friend/situationship, his brother the baby cyclops, a satyr, a mortal girl with a blue hairbrush and a secret son of Hades. Double the usual people and a random ass combination at that. Also that point where Percy was alone with three people who were crushing on him at the same time and you could breathe the uncomfortable in the air. Just funny

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they hate when we serve doomed found family

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hello!!!! i just got done reading the Percy jackson books and i loved them!! im so happy the show got me into them. i just wanted to draw something with the book description of annabeth <3

Edit!!! since this is getting more traction omg let me talk about what i was thinking. For the design in the back I was kinda tryna go for Athena to her left looking over her shoulder like. Always standing in her mothers shadow her mothers always watching and then I just took inspo the swirls from some Greek vases

edit 2: someone said this was ai on twitter bc the pattern on the shirt and oh boy 🤩 art so good I get my first ai accusation. no I just suck at drawing that dumbass Greek pattern 😭

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 When Jason Grace wakes up, he's surrounded by friends. He's holding hands with a beautiful girl who says that they're in love, and there’s a boy with a wild grin who says they’re best friends. Jason doesn’t know what’s going on, but he knows he's surrounded by people who care for him and want to help him.

When Percy Jackson wakes up, he's almost completely alone. His only connection is a wolf that seems to be judging his every move as it decides his worth. He's fighting for his life and desperately searching to find a place that would take him in and accept him.

When Jason and Percy were switched, they didn't just have their physical selves swapped. They had their lives swapped. Jason got to believe that someone loved him, and Percy got to experience what it was like to have no one.

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“Curse of Cabin Nine” and then you keep reading the chapter and realize no one gave this boy a damn knife or bow or spear. Like is your cabin actually cursed or are all yall dying bc none of you have a single weapon between yall

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we need to bring back stapler x jason or something cause pjo fandom doesnt know what real crackships are anymore. i've seen people calling two characters who have met in canon a crackship. some of the things i've seen people call crackships aren't even rarepairs, they're just a totally normal ship. how quickly we forget.

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Percy @ the gods

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death boy u will always be famous

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I am never getting over the fact that if Percy had died in Tartarus (and let's be honest there were a lot of times it was possible), these would've been the last words that Sally would have heard from him, her son.

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Rick Riordan's problematic age gaps

Apparently reddit hates criticism because this got removed from there after a few minutes, maybe I can get it back up...anyways.

The age of consent in Texas is 17, Texas is where Rick lived (according to wikipedia) up until 2013. And yet...here we are.

Where do I even begin with this bullf*ckery? How about the most egregious of all?

Luke and Annabeth

We have two lines confirming their mutual feelings, one from The Demigod Diaries:

"Overtime, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got older, Luke developed feelings for her, too."

Mark of Athena (from her conversation with Venus):

"First there was Luke Castellan, her first crush, who had seen her only as a little sister; then he’d turned evil and decided he liked her—right before he died."

Now let me remind you, Annabeth and Luke have a seven year age difference, they knew each other at 7 and 14. By the time he died, Annabeth was just 16, while he was 23. And it's implied he begun returning her feelings a little before he asked her to run away, perhaps when she was 14. He's paralleled with Percy as Annabeth is his string in the river styx. He asks Annabeth explicitly if she loved him romantically (and she denies because Percy is there).

It's disgustingly inappropriate but at the very least they don't end up together...as for when they do...

Sadie Kane and Anubis

When it comes to immortal romance, I usually go for coded age. Anubis is thousands of years old but is mentally and physically 16, which is fine and dandy except for the fact that Sadie is 12. What do you want me to say except Rick is disgusting for promoting this.

Speaking of extreme age gaps:

Calypso and Leo

When you have a philosophy that every character must end up in a relationship, you run out of sensical options to pair up. Now, I'm a Caleo hater mainly because of how it retconned PJO and also because they are very toxic.

Now hold on, doesn't Caleo fall into coded age? Calypso is 15/16 and Leo is 15, so it's A okay! I suppose, if it wasn't for Calypso's past loves.

Odysseus, he had a wife and a son who was 20 years old in his final year on Ogygia, he is well into adult age. She also mentions the privateer Francis Drake and his wife Elizabeth, he was 45 when he married her.

If your defence is that she's actually thousands of years old, then that must also apply to Caleo. You cannot have it both ways.

Hazel and Frank

It's not that bad but it's necessary to mention for the point I will be making.

The timeline is messed up but I think they're 13 and 16 and meet at 12-15. I mean, come on.

Misogyny and Racism

What do these have in common? Well in 3/4 or 4/4, the younger one is female. In 2/4 or 3/4, the younger one is a person of colour.

Remember Nico? His crush on Percy as revealed in HoH? Well in MoA, there's a cheeky little red herring that happens a bit before Annabeth's talk with Venus (where it is revealed that Luke liked Annnabeth back). She wonders if Nico had a crush on her, but denounces him as too young. Now, Nico's age is inconsistent, I am unsure of his gap with Annabeth but I do know his gap with Percy. It's 3 years 5 months in PJO and 2 years 5 months in HoO (the series we are currently in).

So in RR's messed up mind, a white boy having a relationship with someone 2 to less than 4 years his senior is inappropriate. But a black tween girl dating someone 3 years her senior is just fine, a 12 year old biracial black girl dating a 16 year old is daijoubu, a 15 year old mestizo Latino boy dating an elderly woman is relationship goals, or the reverse a 15 year old girl dating middle aged men is a tragic romance and a 12 year old girl having mutual feelings with a 19 year old man is a "love story for the ages"!

The tv adaptation is so infuriating for this, they made Annabeth black, a lot of the changes they made came off as micro aggressions but especially her relationship with Luke. It's reduced to Luke simping for Annabeth behind her back and it's even worse because you can visibly see how large their age gap is. Heck, Charlie Bushnell and Leah Jeffries have a smaller age gap than book Luke and Annabeth.

Adultification is a huge real life issue. Children of colour and especially female children of colour are seen as less innocent than their white counterparts. Rick, who is dedicated to inclusivity should've known better than to include these illegal relationships. Stans will try and make excuses but it's there, deal with it.

As a black teenage girl who has been a fan of Rick's work for 12 years, I am disappointed.

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Luke: *Gr00ms and kills literal children* The fandom: He’s just misunderstood🥺

Annabeth: *Is a complex teenage girl* The fandom: She’s toxic and deserves to die

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See? Percy didn’t remember just Annabeth. He also remembered detention and blue soda.

Percy Jackson in Son of Neptune with no memories is the most underrated Percy Jackson humor ever

Percy “I strangled a sea monster two days ago” Jackson

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Juno: you could go under the sea and save yourself, or you could carry me into a camp full of people who will probably kill you, and you might get your memory back. You will also give up the Mark of Achilles, and probably feel the worst pain you’ve ever felt.

Percy: ….

Percy: Is Annabeth over there?

Juno: …..possibly

Percy: Okay, I’ll carry you

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Frank: We’re almost there!

Percy: Almost where?

Juno: All roads lead there, child. You should know that.

Percy: Detention?

Juno: ……Rome, child, Rome

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Juno: This is the little Tiber, it washes away all Greek blessings

Percy: I won’t have iron skin anymore?

Juno: Correct, safety, or future pain and possibility?

Percy’s brain: Annabeth could be over there

Percy: Imma go

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Camp Jupiter: OMG ITS JUNO EVERYBODY BOW DOWN

Percy: Hey lady, can I have my life back now?

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“They’re staring at me, that ghost kid called me Greggus. My name isn’t Greg.”

-Perseus Jackson, son of Poseidon

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“Yeah,” Percy said. “I’ve been told that I smell.”

Reyna almost cracked a smile, which gave Percy hope. Maybe she was human after all.

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Percy: what the-

Hazel: elephant

Percy: why?

Hazel: if we don’t include Hannibal in war games he’ll be upset

Percy: we can’t have that

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Percy: *sees Jupiters statue*

Percy: Zeus’s master bolt doesn’t look like that

Hazel: What are you talking about?

Percy: …nevermind

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Reyna: ROMANS! Two Gorgons were swept into the river by this newcomer, Percy Jackson. Juno herself guided him here, and proclaimed him a son of Neptune.

Percy: Hi

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Percy with no memory: *drinks blue soda*

Hazel: *confused*

Percy with no memory: This makes me happy. I don’t why, but it does.

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MARS: Death loses its hold. This is only the beginning

Scipio: *rears head and almost throws Reyna*

Percy, very displeased: I know that voice 🙄

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Mars: *appears*

Campers: *kneel in awe*

Percy: What do you want?

Campers: *gasp*

Frank: *internally panics*

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Mars: Insolent boy, You will serve me

Percy: Not likely

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Frank *silently mouthing*: Can your sword do Grenade form?

Percy *silently mouthing*: No, shut up

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Giant: You will be my pawn

Percy didn’t play chess, but he was pretty sure that being a pawn was bad. They died a lot.

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Y'all ever think about how the original five Percy Jackson books happen in the span of a little over three years like:

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This isn't even a hot take, but Percabeth weren't smart x dumb. They weren't even book smart x street smart. They were strategic x strategic. Their minds worked in very similar ways that complimented eachother. It's why they were such great friends, it's why they were a formidable team, hell, it's why they could fight a war against a deity with an army of forty fricking kids and win. They shared their braincells, in the most beautiful sense of the phrase and THAT'S why, for me, they're perfect together.

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the hell-spawn dog literally guarding the gates of the underworld: no one ever plays with me :(

annabeth chase, crying: thats the saddest thing i've ever heard

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guy who doesnt realize hes commanding a small army and thinks a lot of people are just going along with his bit

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percy isnt stupid or unobservant he just assumes the best of people until proven otherwise