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I mean, no pressure, but personally I’d love to see the finished comic! Your art style is really really cute btw :D

The real question is, do I finish it? Idk convince me

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Immensely relatable. When I read the books as a kid I wasn’t even aware the ship existed, but rereading as an adult? Yeah, no idea how I didn’t see it before

When I read HoO as a teenager when the books were coming out I was constantly confused by valgrace shipping but holy shit rereading as an adult??? They are kissing your honour.

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Based on my irl experience? Ear drops. The bottle looks almost identical and obviously reading labels through onion tears is not easy. Do not recommend. World went even blurrier (I could not see shit before but man could I not see shit afterwards LOL), it stung like hell and I had to wash it out which was unpleasant

At least I realized it at the first eye bc it hurt in a way it wasn’t supposed to. I’m not entirely convinced Jason didn't do both bc he was like “welp powering through the pain I guess” (the pain levels that are tolerable to him are concerning anyway, being a child soldier and getting stabbed will do that to you) before Leo realized he’d grabbed the wrong ones and tried to intervene

I’m teaching myself to cook and anyway I think the main reason Jason is shit at cooking (aside from having zero experience) is that he tries to follow the recipe books to the letter. And let me tell you from basically every recipe I’ve ever cooked: that does not work. It won’t calculate in stuff like “the stove you have may heat up faster/slower/differently than expected” (our stove for example is shit and the only settings it knows are “off” “barely on” and “everything will burn within three seconds” despite the settings theoretically going from 0 to 9), ingredients will take longer or be done faster than the recipe suggests, the time it suggests preparing anything (especially as a beginner) nearly always needs to be doubled because ingredient prep isn’t factored in and I have no idea how the food is portioned but a lot of the time it’ll say “for two people” and the be measured for the two hungriest people you have ever met (aka you now have lunch for the next four days). And there’s also stuff like having to just try and figure out how to best do spices and how some recipes will have ingredients (say, like, chickpeas) as weight either pre or post being prepared for cooking. Cooking is not an exact science, and Jason is trying to treat it like an exact science, so it’s a mess. Anyway Jason usually doesn't cook because he’s a disaster at it and also Leo enjoys cooking. But sometimes Leo will be busy in the workshop or whatever and Jason is trying so hard to make dinner so he won’t have to cook after the long day he’s had. This pretty much never works but Leo does usually get a good laugh out of it and manages to salvage the meal somehow. Anyway, list of things Jason has definitely done during those cooking attempts that may or may not be me projecting:

-messed up the weight of some of the extra ingredients so Everything Was The Wrong Amount

-Kept on adding the exact amount of noodles that the recipe asked for even when he was mentally like “uhhhh that feels like a little much”. The recipe ended up being like 90% noodles and lasted them four days.

-not realized there were different kind of paprika spices and added the wrong one

-somehow had the hand blender fall apart as he was holding it. Nothing got blended but the blender sure is in pieces now so uuhhhh

-always always always gets Leo to do taste testing for final spices because the recipe just says “add salt/pepper/whatever” but not how much and he’s terrified of messing everything up

-Added twice the amount of chili con carne seasoning to the recipe because they bought more meat than the recipe called for. Leo was delighted. Jason could not fucking eat that because it was way too spicy LOL

-cooked the lentils exactly the way the recipe called for and somehow the recipe was so off about the time they’d need that there were no lentils to be found anywhere. Presumably the went to lentil heaven but who knows where they disappeared to

-he cannot deal with cutting onions for shit. Once made himself cry so hard that he decided to put eye drops in to help except he couldn’t see so he grabbed drops that were not intended to be put anywhere near your eyes. Leo made sure he’d be okay but was also having a very hard time getting himself to stop laughing

When Leo is cooking Jason isn’t allowed to help with most steps but Jason lingers around the kitchen anyway because he wants to hang out with his husband. He gets to taste test and listen to Leo ramble about his day and occasionally Leo will quietly grumble and ask him to open a jar and that is hands down the most content Jason ever is in the kitchen

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ooooh what are they about? 👀

i have 18 WIPs

16 of those are valgrace btw

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Anxious and could use a distraction right now so if anyone would share headcanons or silly little fic concepts or fluff fic recs or something I’d really appreciate it

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I’m putting off editing chapter twelve because once I’m finished with that I’ll have to edit chapter thirteen and I do not like chapter thirteen but I’m not sure how to fix that. Send help

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Slightly late reblog but I love this so much

Happy Pride Month!!!!

Annual pride art! <3 Love these lil guys. Also a bonus this year - the not explicit but queer-coded gang:

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Once I’m done with my verbal Spanish exam on Tuesday I’ll take a day or two to just read and comment on a bunch of the Valgrace week fics since I haven’t gotten to do that yet before getting back to my regularly scheduled uni nonsense

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"why people don't call Leo x Jason ship name jaleo" because the people under the jaleo tag are talking about something else

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idk if I’ve ever seen it specifically in secret dating contexts but I have definitely seen it in the context of it being treated as practice between two people who are obviously into each other and who are being all “I am now going to kiss my totally platonic best friend. For practice. So I can kiss other people better”

Fic idea: Two dudes secretly dating and get caught kissing but instead of owning up to it they say: “We were just practicing. For girls. Practicing for kissing girls.” And no matter how suspicious the other person gets they just keep doubling down and expanding their reasoning. Also works in reverse, just make it women saying they’re practicing for dudes.

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Oooh right. There’s also a scene of it actually happening on-page in MoA after Leo, Hazel and Frank disappear in the Shrimpzilla incident. That’s the one I was initially thinking of

Leo kissing the top of Piper's head like Nico did with Hazel❤️🥺

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Wahhhh. Is this an actual scene in the books? If so I completely forgot

Leo kissing the top of Piper's head like Nico did with Hazel❤️🥺

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Imo, you can absolutely read the way she’s so overly focused on Jason as her putting a lot of focus on societal expectation of liking boys, especially because she has scenes like the fear cave with Annabeth (tenderly pressing their foreheads together in a completely heterosexual way lol). Thr way she talks about Reyna and how amazing she is when Jason virtually never mentions her is also not super heterosexual. She comes across as very “I think girls are great” … “in a supportive friend/girl power way tho, not in a queer way” to me personally

I do think it could have been set up a little better/been more explicit in HoO but it’s important that we don’t forget HoO is a child of its time. Even having one explicitly queer character in House of Hades was pretty huge at the time. There’s a lot more queer rep in children’s media now, but to put this into perspective, HoH came out previously to the tlok finale that wasn’t even allowed to do an on-screen kiss. I’m sure if HoO was being written today/if we ever get an adaptation, Piper being queer and her feelings regarding Jason being complicated would be set up way differently, but I don’t think HoO Piper was ever intentionally written to be queer. If I had to guess, I’d say a lot of people read her that way and Rick saw that and was like “yeah huh that makes sense” but didn’t feel like he could do the actual sexuality crisis part proper justice, and that’s why it’s handled the way it is in ToA. (ToA in general has a bit of an issue with half-assed arcs for everyone who isn’t Meg or Apollo, but that’s not specifically a Piper problem, that’s an everyone who isn’t Meg and Apollo problem because too many characters get shoved in there as side characters when they needed their own book to complete their arcs)

Do I wish this was written better? Yeah. But I don’t think Piper as a character deserves the flack she gets for breaking up with Jason. It happens. Especially when you’re a teen and still figuring yourself out. A lot can happen in six months. Sometimes all it takes is a singular experience that makes it all click into place. And it sucks that we didn’t get to see that part, but I’m also not fully convinced Rick would have been the right person to write it, since he’s… not exactly great at getting sensitivity readers.

I honestly hate how Piper broke up with Jason in ToA after all she said in HoO, she was basically obsessed with Jason, all her povs are about him, and only in The Lost Hero she had doubts about their relationship (because it was fake), but then they had six months to get to know each other and be together

And suddenly in ToA she questions her relationship with him again??? She wasn't questioning her sexuality yet, there were literally no hints (and even at the end it kinda felt random)

Naaah that's just poorly written

If Rick really wanted them to break up (I too believe that at least one couple would break up) I would have preferred instead that we could see them going through the break up in ToA, not them already being single, idk I think it could have been handled better this way. It was simply a weird "shock"

I kinda like Piper's character, she's def not my favorite and she's poorly written, but she was good in HoO. But I honestly despised her in ToA (except when she stabs Medea lol) and even now that I'm re-reading HoO everytime she talks about Jason I can't not think how fake her words sound??? Idk they feel fake after ToA

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I’m teaching myself to cook and anyway I think the main reason Jason is shit at cooking (aside from having zero experience) is that he tries to follow the recipe books to the letter. And let me tell you from basically every recipe I’ve ever cooked: that does not work. It won’t calculate in stuff like “the stove you have may heat up faster/slower/differently than expected” (our stove for example is shit and the only settings it knows are “off” “barely on” and “everything will burn within three seconds” despite the settings theoretically going from 0 to 9), ingredients will take longer or be done faster than the recipe suggests, the time it suggests preparing anything (especially as a beginner) nearly always needs to be doubled because ingredient prep isn’t factored in and I have no idea how the food is portioned but a lot of the time it’ll say “for two people” and the be measured for the two hungriest people you have ever met (aka you now have lunch for the next four days). And there’s also stuff like having to just try and figure out how to best do spices and how some recipes will have ingredients (say, like, chickpeas) as weight either pre or post being prepared for cooking. Cooking is not an exact science, and Jason is trying to treat it like an exact science, so it’s a mess. Anyway Jason usually doesn't cook because he’s a disaster at it and also Leo enjoys cooking. But sometimes Leo will be busy in the workshop or whatever and Jason is trying so hard to make dinner so he won’t have to cook after the long day he’s had. This pretty much never works but Leo does usually get a good laugh out of it and manages to salvage the meal somehow. Anyway, list of things Jason has definitely done during those cooking attempts that may or may not be me projecting:

-messed up the weight of some of the extra ingredients so Everything Was The Wrong Amount

-Kept on adding the exact amount of noodles that the recipe asked for even when he was mentally like “uhhhh that feels like a little much”. The recipe ended up being like 90% noodles and lasted them four days.

-not realized there were different kind of paprika spices and added the wrong one

-somehow had the hand blender fall apart as he was holding it. Nothing got blended but the blender sure is in pieces now so uuhhhh

-always always always gets Leo to do taste testing for final spices because the recipe just says “add salt/pepper/whatever” but not how much and he’s terrified of messing everything up

-Added twice the amount of chili con carne seasoning to the recipe because they bought more meat than the recipe called for. Leo was delighted. Jason could not fucking eat that because it was way too spicy LOL

-cooked the lentils exactly the way the recipe called for and somehow the recipe was so off about the time they’d need that there were no lentils to be found anywhere. Presumably the went to lentil heaven but who knows where they disappeared to

-he cannot deal with cutting onions for shit. Once made himself cry so hard that he decided to put eye drops in to help except he couldn’t see so he grabbed drops that were not intended to be put anywhere near your eyes. Leo made sure he’d be okay but was also having a very hard time getting himself to stop laughing

When Leo is cooking Jason isn’t allowed to help with most steps but Jason lingers around the kitchen anyway because he wants to hang out with his husband. He gets to taste test and listen to Leo ramble about his day and occasionally Leo will quietly grumble and ask him to open a jar and that is hands down the most content Jason ever is in the kitchen

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Oh this is so so cool I’m obsessed actually? Especially love the way Festus looks because he’s not mechanical here but due to the bronze hue of his scales he still looks a lot like canon Festus. T

I loved the movies and shows as a kid and seeing them combined with my current fixation is just <33333 Do you have any specific lore thoughts for this AU? (No worries if not but would absolutely love to hear you ramble about it if you do so I thought I’d ask 👀)

I had an idea at 3am

How to train your (non) mechanical dragon