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a VERY self indulgent au

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if you want a tv/blonde percy version of the doodle it’s on my insta

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Happy International Women's Day

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Imagine Connor and Travis intentionally avoiding Luke in the battle of Manhattan because they knew that the second they saw him they would just break down because that’s their brother. Who helped them go back to sleep after nightmares. Who showed them the best hiding spot in camp. Who taught them where Chiron hides the keys to the camp van. Who taught them to swim. Who warned them of how awful Hermes was and not to try to make him proud because he never would be.

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some CHB headcanons

every cabin has LEDs around the inside, but there’s a constant battle over what color they are

Percy has his rippling back and forth from teal to blue and it looks like light dancing through water all over his walls and floor

the Apollo cabin can usually settle for orange and yellow as a common ground

the Aphrodite kids have a different color for each time of day and sleep with pink on the lowest brightness setting

the Hermes cabin has like ten different strips and they’re all constantly shifting

Demeter cabin’s shifts with the seasons

ANYWAYS MOVING AWAY FROM THE LEDS

they have movie nights, which I will talk about in a different post

before everybody goes back to school, the Aphrodite and Hecate cabins have a massive salon at the end of the summer with new haircuts and magic hair dye and outfit recommendations and fake but enchanted sturdy nails and a whole bunch of other stuff and basically it’s a week straight of spilling hot tea between everyone in camp

if someone asks where a camper got their hair done when they get back to school they just go “oh, um… summer camp.” and their friends will snort and be like bro isn’t summer camp the opposite of a makeover?? but they get no argument, just a shrug and a half smile

when I tell you pride month over there is a fucking riot

because Mr. D is in on it, right?? because he’s the god of gender?? and Chiron is aroace and has been raising dumbass gay heroes for literal centuries?? PLUS the sheer fucking amount of queer peeps up in there?? dude yeah

cabins competing for who shows the most pride

Demeter’s roof is covered in rainbow flowers

Hecate’s is enchanted to emit actual light in whatever flag colors of whoever uses the front door, even when they’re straight (it’s just a rainbow)

Percy collects a bunch of shed scales from the hippocampi at the bottom of the lake and then puts them all over his cabin

I could make a whole post about CHB pride but

every single Apollo kid is also a theater kid fight me

Rachel Elizabeth Dare painted a skateboard for Percy’s birthday and he brings it everywhere now, it even sits in his backpack at school

Leo, Annabeth, Percy, and Piper fucking love horror movies. Frank, Hazel, and Jason fucking hate them. They watch through their fingers, if at all

Piper loves the band Surfaces with all her heart, but she also is a die hard Green Day and P!ATD fan

Jake Mason is covered in burn scars up to his neck, just like Deadpool, just not bald lol

Hephaestus and Apollo kids faintly radiate warmth (like more so than a normal person)

the Stolls sometimes stay at camp year-round because their mom is off on international missions that are too high-risk for them to help with

the seven are AVID Smash Bros players

really everyone but

not as many people go to the Athena campers for help with homework as you might think, but whenever anyone does, they’re happy to help

the sun chariot blasts music at a frequency only the Apollo kids can hear, so their life kind of has a shitty soundtrack that consists of a mix of Broadway, Queen, modern stuff, and random bits of Beethoven every now and then

the Romans swear on few occasions

the Greeks know when to swear and when to be polite

the Valhalla peeps swear unbridled and all the time

the Egyptians never swear (in English)

for the longest time, Will Solace thinks the only gift from his dad is his healing prowess— which is obviously great, but he expresses being upset over the fact that he’s not very good at archery

well, considering this is the dumbass who didn’t bring a weapon to actual fucking Tartarus, Nico drags him to the weapon shack thing immediately afterwards and made him pick something out

he's immediately drawn to the Celestial Bronze shotgun.

Nico’s just like “what in the redneck shit did you just pick up” and Will jokingly aims it at his chest and grins and says “you know I’m from Texas, right?”

that’s how they find out Will is one of the damn best marksmen in Greek demigod history

some of the Disney nerds in the Apollo cabin sing What Once Was Mine to the little ones who need bandaids for knee scrapes and give them lollipops afterwards

Percy Jackson absolutely used to make poverty and struggle meal jokes all the time, but he got weird and concerned looks for it at CHB, so he kind of just stopped. But one day, aboard the Argo II, the PERFECT opportunity came up and he just HAD TO and as per usual— everyone else looked at him like he’s crazy— but Leo laughed so hard chocolate milk came out of his nose and that’s the story of how the two of them became Best Friends

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the percy jackson show is not realistic. when filling out worksheets on school trips i have never been given a clipboard. you put that shit against the nearest wall and cope.

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Reyna if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!

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Annabeth Chase if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!

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greek mythology | cursed image iii

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Rainbow + Atlantis: The Lost Empire

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#Stop Hating Reachel Just Because She Kissed Percy 2k19

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when drawing Alex's wedding dress, a lot of people tend to forget that she was disguised as Samirah, so the dress has to be hijabi-friendly. that means sleeves, a full-length skirt, no plunging necklines, no off-the-shoulder moment, et cetera. with this in mind, please rb this with drawings of Alex in her dress. i think it'd be fun <3

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Barbie and Sasha

I have to say I really appreciate the Sasha character in Barbie. I see a lot of my middle school self in her.

I too was a girl who adored Barbie as a kid, but then I got older and got a first taste of What The Real World Is Like (inequality, sexism, etc.)

And then I rejected Barbie because I internalized all the misogynistic crap that had been projected on her and she became a symbol of All Shitty Things Women Are Expected To Be (brainless, useless, only exist to be pretty assistants to men).

Hence, I fell deep into a “not like other girls” phase because I desperately didn’t want anyone to think I was one of those girls (“”brainless bimbos who have no thought in their heads but boys””). I wanted to be taken seriously, and as someone who was already a bit tomboyish, I felt like I had to reject everything Barbie represented in my eyes.

But then I got older, and a tiny bit more nuanced, and realized Barbie being bubbly and pink wasn’t the problem: The problem was the assertion that anything considered “girly” can’t be smart, or useful, or anything but an empty shell.

Barbie is far from flawless and perfectly unproblematic, but the older I get the more I realize that she wasn’t the problem: It was the flawed people and world around her that were.

Anyway, Sasha does a great job illustrating that push and pull between what Barbie used to mean when you’re an innocent kid versus what she can become when you start to grow out of childhood and get your first taste of the real world and how deeply unfair it can be, especially to girls.

Anyway, Barbie is great go see it.

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here’s some cool history I need to ramble about!

In June of 1941, Operation Barbossa was underway, and the Soviets grew desperate as Nazi troops pressed on Moscow and Leningrad. With need for more troops, opportunity was found in a previously ignored source. Soviet women had been allowed support roles such as medical assistance and the transportation of ammunition and aircraft, but had yet to participate in combat. This all changed when in June of 1942, Stalin gave permission for the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, an all-female squadron nicknamed by German troops as “The Night Witches”, to take flight.

The regiment was created by the “Soviet Amelia Earhart” Marina Raskova, who petitioned Stalin for an all female regiment after receiving hundreds of letters from women all around the Soviet Union determined to join combat, many of whom had lost loved ones in the war. On October 8, 1941, Stalin gave orders to deploy three all-female air force units. The women would fly missions and drop bombs as well as return fire. Raskova formed a team of 400 women per union from thousands of recruits. The recruits went through compressed education, having to learn what would take male soldiers several years in only a few MONTHS. Despite their proven competence, they still faced criticism and sexual harassment from male soldiers and military personnel.

To make matters worse for the women, they received hand me down uniforms from male soldiers and were now allowed what was considered “luxury items” for navigation. Instead, the tools they could use consisted of rulers, compasses, flashlights and pencils. Their planes didn’t fair much better. Instead of more modern planes, they were given crop-duster biplanes made out of plywood and canvas! They were often referred to as “coffins with wings”. As well as ridiculously fragile, the night flights would get to freezing temperatures, making the outsides of the planes so cold that touching them would rip off skin. The maximum speed was less than stall time on regular military planes and their weight meant they had to fly lower to the ground, making them an even bigger target for enemies.

With less than stellar conditions, the women completed 30,000 missions, dropping over 20,000 tons of bombs onto enemy targets. They executed between eight and 18 missions a night, flying back to re-arm between runs since they could only carry two bombs at a time. The planes would find their target and cut their engines, silently gliding over their enemies as they dropped the bombs, completely undetected. This is where they earned their name, the “Night Witches”, due to the whoosh of air as they glided over sounding like the sweep of a broom. After dropping the bombs, the women would go ONTO THE WING of the plane to manually restart the engine.

These women terrified the Germans. Without the sound of the engine or the ability to detect them over radio, they were practically invisible. Quick, silent, and deadly accurate, the Night Witches Worchesany German able to take down a Night Witch would instantly be awarded an Iron Cross.

They quickly became a crucial asset in winning the war, and on May 4th, 1945, they took their final flight, three days before the war ended.

Although relatively unknown, they are some of the highest decorated heroes of the war, and are really really really cool to learn about okay that’s all

Oh and there’s a great song about them by Sabaton!

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Me Getting Ready To See The Barbie Movie This Morning

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the wretched beast plays in it's slime

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Piper McLean if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!