#Bwah...

[koifsssh]

everything holds beauty, no wonder he tends to stare!

[safe-from-sharp-teeth]

Hi. I have no idea how to put this. Your posts are like.

Amazing. Perfect in every way.

Literally every single post is a masterpiece and so is your art you are the coolest person ever can we be tummypals please please please ���� 🙏

HUH?!?!?!?!

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HEY, your art is really cool!! I love the pastel style, no lineart. I tried to imitate it here :) everyone go check out @pancakewithsprinkles cause their work is CLEAN

thank youUuu i love asks like this

[schalotte]

can’t remember why i followed you but i know what made me stay! you’ve got excellent taste and i love reading your personal posts like the newspaper. you’ve introduced me to wonderful new poetry/art/etc and i’m very grateful we get to blog together <3 mwah! 💌🪩🫂💘🖼️

😭 febe i would say i can't believe how sweet you are but actually i really can..... i hope we blog together for a long long time 🫂🌾🌅♥️!!!

[tomfoolery-coolatta]

i dont have favorites 😀

[shandsformation]

funky commish for @fizziepop

[deanityy]

marble hornets if it was woke. marble wokenets

[koifsssh]

danny... danny save me danny...

haha! im glad you enjoy him! hes a very silly guy... at least, the normal version of him is! i really should draw him more... and my other ocs as well...

sneefles your snorfle

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and ofc Danny belongs to the @koifsssh hbjffbhkdvfhjb

[smokbeast]

The Sun ☀️ and The Moon 🌕

[ryartchus]

hrm...

[bluuscreen]

uwawawa i don’t have a caption for this

[koifsssh]

some sona shenanigans!!

i rather like this persona a lot, who would've thought being a fish is true to Me? How Funny!

I still think i'll use the Clownsona sometimes... who knows! For Now, i am under the water...

[aforgottenthing]

Tragedy enjoyers when there’s not one, not two, but three combinations of tragic relationships at the center of the narrative AND they’re bisexual

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[localceilingdevil]

something unfortunate.

[nnicknnelsonn]

🙀🙀🙀🙀

[ggvannba]

hey guys its been a while.... blinks