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bigfan-fanfic · 3 years

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The Sound of the Rain (Percy Jackson x Male Reader)

Requested by anonymous for Hello! Can I request oneshot about Percy Jackson cozily watching movie together with reader while it's snowing or raining(reader can fall asleep in his arms after). Fluff. Sfw. Thank you! You don't have to rush on this request. Take your time! (Face claim for Percy is Diego Tinoco because I love the idea of Hispanic!Percy. Not even necessarily Spanish speaking Percy, just a Percy who is Hispanic and knows a smattering of Spanish words and eagerly tries to get his friends to try the good food (and maybe even Cuban!Percy because I’d love to see him gushing over croquetas and pastelitos de guyaba and snacking on mariquitas and trying to teach Annabeth Spanish words like he knows what he’s talking about and Sally teases him about it in Spanish and anyway never mind

Percy never truly loved the rain until you became his boyfriend.

And then, when he realized just how good you make the rainy days, they became his favorite weather.

Because rainy days are designated cuddle days for the two of you, and Percy loves him some physical affection.

So he makes sure the blankets and pillows are all ready, and picks some old classic movies from his collection - Paul and Sally got him Blu-Rays of more recent stuff so that he can stay caught up, and you’ve downloaded some movies so you can show him without being online.

He orders a bunch of pizza and breaks out the blue treats his mom keeps him supplied with and greets you with a hug at the door, practically tearing your rainy-day coat off you.

Percy can’t help but babble excitedly at you when you arrive - he’s like a puppy eager to see you and get your attention.

But basically after he pulls you into hugs and smothers you in kisses he’s eager to see some movies with his favorite guy.

You two have to trade off being the little spoon for cuddles. Sometimes Percy “fights” you for it, but he never gives his all so it’s quite easy to beat him if you really want to.

Percy loves it when you two tangle together as you watch a movie and just have fun together.

Nothing to do, nowhere to be.

And even if he spaces out from the movie and just listens to the sound of the rain, it’s okay too.

But he likes it best when you both enjoy the movie and you quote at each other and just laugh a lot.

And then order lunch and play some video games before doing it all again.

The rain makes him feel happy, at peace.

But not as much as feeling you relax into him, safe in his arms.

He curls around you, happy to be yours, happy that you are his.

He can tell you’re drifting, and he says it before you can fall.

“I love you.” he whispers, punctuating it with a kiss to your cheek.

He already knows the answer, so it doesn’t bother him when you complete the journey into dreamland. He follows quickly, enjoying the warmth of you, and how well you two fit together, as though you had been made for each other.

#percy jackson x male reader #percy jackson x reader #pjo x male reader #pjo x reader #reader #male reader #pjo headcanons #headcanons

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sailorwritesstuff · 2 years

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The seven head canons + nico (HoO)

i haven't written for percy Jackson since 2018 but in honor of me considering a riptide tattoo. i give you some head canons I have of the seven

Percy really enjoys crocheting

Frank learned how to do box braids

Hazel really enjoys cinnamon bagels

One time Jason fell out of a tree and forgot he knew how to fly so he hit the ground in the rest of the seven teased him about it for weeks

Percy speaks Spanish because Sally is Puerto Rican.

Annabeth is terrible at Sudoku

Nico plans picnic dates because he knows that Will likes sitting in the sun

Annabeth hates to admit it but if you ask her she'll tell you Leo is smarter than her when it comes to math.

mortal sometimes think that annabeth is really mean to Percy because she calls him an idiot often usually combined with a few curse words. But it's just because he did something stupid.

Piper doesn't like saying "I love you too." She really likes poetry so she'll say "and I you" instead

Percy lets Estelle cover him in stickers and Band-Aids whenever he gets hurt. He doesn't have the heart to tell her that it'll be healed in 10 minutes tops.

Annabeth hates spicy food

Nico tried a Whopper from Burger King once and he cried. No one really knows if it was because it was good or bad

sometimes whenever Leo does something stupid Jason will put him on the roof while he sleeping. (He makes sure he's secure so he doesn't like fall and break something)

sometimes Percy and Leo have conversations in Spanish and then because the dialogue is different depending on where you learn Spanish they are you over certain phrases.

Percy's really into cheese which is unfortunate because he's lactose intolerant.

Hazel likes to bake

One time Leo had weed and he made edibles and Hazel ate 2 of them. so the two of them cried together Hazel because ponies can't kiss and Leo because Frank was going to kill him.

one year for Halloween Annabeth and Percy went as Morticia and Gomez Adams

Percy frequently gets mistaken for a Jason Todd cosplayer Because of his white hair streak.

Percy has a slight New York accent and sometimes whenever he speaks Jason has no idea what he's saying

Piper and Jason found out once that their parents did a movie together. They bought a copy and burned it because fuck Jason's mom.

Percy and Jason have kissed twice the first time was an accident. the second time was a dare.

leo has really long fingers.

sometimes when all seven of them are together they watch Disney movies and sit under one big blanket with a box of store-bought cookies.

at Annabeth and Percy's wedding Leo fell over when he tripped over his own shoelace during the middle of the wedding and neither of them were even mad they both made eye contact and burst it out laughing.

percabeth wants children but realistically don't think they'll ever have any.

Piper and Jason have a best friends forever rule that states if they ever break up they'll still be best friends.

sometimes Piper paints Reyna and Percy's nails. They call it their hot bitch hang out time.

Piper and Annabeth are bisexual. Percy and Jason are unlabeled but everyone senses the underlying gay tension between them.

Annabeth sometimes calls Jason Percy's boyfriend

Piper sometimes forget she's rich?? And then she remembers oh shit my dad's a movie star and she'll spoil her friends.

Drew Tanaka introduced Leo to Sadie Kane a girl from her school and they hit it off pretty well. they email each other sometimes on public computers.

Percy has personal beef with Annabeth's cousin Magnus because he doesn't like the color blue.

Jason dislikes Harry Potter with a burning passion and he doesn't understand why.

Nico makes really good mac and cheese

Leo laughs about Hispanic stereotypes in front of his white friends to make them uncomfortable.

Piper doesn't celebrate thanksgiving and so Leo and Jason spend it with her and they just do stupid shit together instead.

Percy and Piper sometimes just sit in silence together because they like the company and before they leave they touch fingers like in ET.

Annabeth and Piper are very affectionate with each other sometimes mortals mistake them as a couple.

Jason will blush no matter who's hitting on him so sometimes everyone in the seven will just drop a pickup line on him.

Frank makes really good waffles.

Hazel gets cold but really easily so Percy crochets her a lot of scarves and hats.

Frank and Leo thought about making a podcast together.

Leo drinks milk straight.

Hazel really likes anime But she gets really flustered when inappropriate scenes show up. Her favorite is Sailor Moon.

One time Annabeth ate two whole birthday cakes just to prove a point

Nico's guilty pleasure is that he enjoys pomegranate flavored drinks.

All eight of them like to go to malls or parks sit together and just watch pedestrians and make up ideas on where they're going or where they just come from. sometimes they give them names.

#Percy Jackson #PJO #heroes of olympus #the seven #Percy Jackson headcanons #headcanons #bi piper McLean #Piper McLean #Annabeth Chase #Leo Valdez #frank zhang #hazel levesque #nico di angelo

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liveshaunted-moved · 3 years

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Hispanic / Latino Heritage Month.

here is all of my muses who are whether by head canon or canon

Hylla Ramírez-Arellano. Leo Valdez. Mal Dragoni. Percy Jackson. Sally Jackson. Nyx Diaz. Chris Rodriguez. Butch Jojo. Buttercup Utonium. Jonesy Garcia. Hydra Martinez. Maryse Lightwood.

#personals DO NOT interact #tbt #7 of these are pjo

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eatingtherich · 5 years

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A Colossal Wreck

I’ve been reading through Alexander Cockburn’s A Colossal Wreck. As far as pleasure and style go, it is a great book. A concise and humorous perspective on exactly what the book presents itself to be, the American political landscape from the mid 90′s up to Cockburn’s death in 2012. The book is actually just a collection of dated journal, and very on topic; though most are his personal observations of current events, he sometimes veers into other topics such as Thanksgiving turkey recipes or the etymology of the word “troglodytes.” A staunch leftist and populist, much of the book directs its ire at the complacency of liberals in America behind the Clintons and their imperialistic goals and corporate persuasion, and the entire fault of any left movement in the U.S. There a number of places where I greatly agree with Cockburn, but then some moments where his perspectives are befuddling to say the least, and some that seen from today in Trump-America, are very odd to hear coming from such a vocal leftist. In the coming days I’ll share some passages that have most stood out to me.

First I am going to post Cockburn’s passages on Bernie Sanders, for whom Alexander Cockburn was particularly skeptical of, as self-proclaimed Independent Socialist Democrat, but from Cockburn’s perspective was woefully complacent with Clinton’s agenda. I will say, I like Sanders, and he is still currently my preferred Presidential Candidate for the 2020 election, but critiques Cockburn raises are valid and worth looking into. Just as well, I disagree with Cockburn on some issues he raises in his book, but by and large, enjoy his writing and can’t let his faults eclipse his successes. Most of his criticisms levied against Bernie are his condoning of the wars in Serbia and Kosovo. All quotes below come from A Colossal Wreck, by Bruce Cockburn, 2014, Verso.

August 7, 1996

A Democratic President has just destroyed a big chunk of the New Deal and not one major Democratic figure has defected because this President destroyed the tiny protections for those down on their luck, for children, for single mothers, for immigrants between jobs who have been paying taxes for maybe ten or twenty years. Donna Shalala didn't quit. Robert Reich didn't quit. Peter Edelman of HHS did [sic] quit. Marion Wright Edelman canceled a demonstration before Clinton's decision "because I didn't want want to be Sister Souljah," then issued a bitter statement, but she didn't say she was shifting her support to Ralph Nader. Ron Dellums's office was saying that he understood Clinton's need to "hold the center." Barney Frank said that Clinton had done more for the poor than Ralph Nader. (There may be a personal edge there since Nader once said publically it was disgusting of Frank to run a homosexual prostitution ring out of his congressional office.) Here, for the third time in thirty years, we have a historic opportunity for the rallying of left forces beyond the Democratic Party. It happened in 1968 with Eugene McCarthy; and in 1984 and 1988 with Jesse Jackson. Now we have another chance. And who steps forward as our public champions? Bernie Sanders, the "independent" hot-air factory from Vermont, requests everyone to vote for Bill Clinton. The Labor Party, born in Cleveland a month ago, insisted that no labor candidates be fielded for the foreseeable future, and further stipulates that no labor-affiliate field independent candidates. Prominent Labor Party folk are simultaneously on the Democratic National Committee. Unions active in promoting the Labor Party have made a deal with the Democrats that the Labor Party will do nothing impertinent or subversive, such as actually run candidates against Democrats. From day one, with all that nonsense about doing nothing till 100,000 advocates are signed up, the entire Labor Party effort has been an exercise in demobilization, achieving the miracle of a Third Party that is the wholly owned subsidiary of the party it is challenging. This leaves us with Ralph Nader, who has the public status, the knowledge and the right political instincts.

October 16, 1998

...As for B. Sanders, whose fund-raising letters this election time have once again been touting Congress’s only “independent progressive socialist,” his latest achievement has been to give the cold shoulder to delegations traveling all the way from Texas to Vermont to challenge the Conscience Complex in one of its most self-satisfied redoubts.

Sanders has been prominent among those in the North East congressional delegation on trying to export the region’s nuclear waste to a poor, largely Hispanic community in Texas, Sierra Blanca. The only merit in dumping the waste there as opposed to, say, Burlington, is that the people in Burlington are richer and have more clout. When the Sierra Blancans turned up in Vermont, Sanders put out the word that he would quit any platform graced by any of their members. If you truly like “independents” in Congress, better by far to send your money to Ron Paul, who acts upon his proclaimed beliefs, unlike Sanders.

March 31, 1999

It’s bracing to see the Germans taking part in NATO’s bombing. It lends moral tone to an operation to have the grandsons of the Third Reich willing, able and eager to drop high explosive again, in this instance on the Serbs. To add symmetry to the affair, the last time Serbs in Belgrade had high explosive dropped on them was in 1941 by the sons of the Third Reich. To bring even deeper symmetry, the German political party whose leader, Schroeder, ordered German participation in the bombing is that of the Social Democrats, whose great grandfathers enthusiastically voted credits to wage war in 1914, to the enormous disgust of Lenin, who never felt quite the same way about social democrats ever after. Whether in Germany or England or France, all social democratic parties in 1914 tossed aside previous pledges against war, thus helping produce the first great bloodletting of our century.

Today, with social democrats leading governments across Europe-Schroeder, Blair, Jospin, Prodi-all fall in behind Clinton. This is, largely, a war most earnestly supported by liberals and many so-called leftists. Bernie Sanders has voted Aye, and in London Vanessa Redgrave cheers on the NATO bombers. There’s been some patronizing talk here about the Serbs’ deep sense of “grievance” at the way history has treated them, with the implication that the Serbs are irrational in this regard. But it’s scarcely irrational to remember that Nazi Germany bombed Belgrade in World War II, or that Germany’s prime ally in the region, Croatia, ran a concentration camp a Jasenovac where tens of thousands of Serbs-along with Jews and gypsies-were liquidated. Nor is it irrational to recall that Germany in more recent years has been an unrelenting assailant of the former Yugoslav federation, encouraging Slovenia to secede and lending determined support to Croatia, in gratitude for which Croatia adopted, on independence in 1991, the German hymn, “Danke Deutschland.”

April 14, 2000

[The mention of Sanders comes late in the passage. On this date, Cockburn relates a story of how he was invited to speak at a conference held by Antiwar.com, a libertarian organization. The event coordinator, Justin Raimondo, extended his invitation to Cockburn on the grounds that this was an event in which the left and right could reach across the political divide to come together against war. Those listed in attendance: “Patrick J. Buchanan, Tom Fleming, Justin Raimondo, Kathy Kelly, Alan Bock, Rep. Ron Paul, and representatives of the Serbian Unity Congress.”]

...Their amiable hilarity at my sallies reminded me of Goldsmith’s lines in “The Deserted Village” about the pupils of the country schoolmaster: “Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee/ At all his jokes, and many a joke had he.” (How many people have read the whole of that wonderful poem, one of the most savage denunciations of free trade ever written?)

“Can we unite,” I asked the crowd, “on the anti-war platform? We have already, in the case of Kosovo for example. But where would you as libertarians want to get off the leftist bus? A leftist says ‘Capitalism leads to war. Capitalism needs war.’ But you libertarians are pro-capitalism, so you presumably have a view of capitalism as a system not inevitably producing or needing war. Lefties have always said capitalism has to maximize its profits and the only way you can maximize profits in the end is by imperial war, which was the old Lenin thesis...

“I think the old categories are gone. I see no virtue to them. I see Bernie Sanders listed as an Independent Socialist in the US Congress. I see what Bernie Sanders has supported, starting with the war in Kosovo. And then I see Ron Paul, on the other hand, writing stuff against war which could have been written by Tom Hayden in 1967.”

Driving back to Berkeley with $300 in cash in my pocket, I mentally toasted antiwar.com. Alas, not many leftists will ever want to have much to do with them.

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thefederalistfreestyle · 6 years

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Hamilton: how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical rewrote the story of America (New Statesman):

[. . .] Because of the success of Hamilton – it has been sold out on Broadway since August 2015, won 11 Tony Awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is on tour in Chicago and Los Angeles – there is now an industry devoted to uncovering and explaining its references. Yet the sheer ebullience of the soundscape is not enough to explain why it became a hit. To understand that, we need to understand the scope of its ambition, which is nothing less than giving America a new origin story. “Every generation rewrites the founders in their own image,” says Nancy Isenberg, a professor of history at Louisiana State University and the author of a biography of Aaron Burr. “He [Miranda] rewrote the founders in the image of Obama, for the age of Obama.”

In doing so, Miranda created a fan base that mirrors the “Obama coalition” of Democrat voters: college-educated coastal liberals and mid-to-low-income minorities. (When the musical first hit Broadway in 2015, some tickets went for thousands of dollars; others were sold cheaply in a daily street lottery or given away to local schoolchildren.) He also gave his audiences another gift. Just as Obama did in his 2008 campaign, Hamilton’s post-racial view of history offers Americans absolution from the original sin of their country’s birth – slavery. It rescues the idea of the US from its tainted origins.

[. . .]

There is, of course, a great theatrical tradition of “patriotic myth-making”, and it explains another adjective that is frequently applied to Hamilton: Shakespearean. England’s national playwright was instrumental in smearing Richard III as a hunchbacked child-killer, portraying the French as our natural enemies and turning the villainous Banquo of Holinshed’s Chronicles into the noble figure claimed as an ancestor by the Stuarts, and therefore Shakespeare’s patron James VI and I.

James Shapiro, a professor of English literature at Columbia University, New York, and the author of several books on Shakespeare, first saw the musical during its early off-Broadway run. “It was the closest I’ve ever felt to experiencing what I imagine it must have been like to have attended an early performance of, say, Richard III, on the Elizabethan stage,” he tells me. “But this time, it was my own nation’s troubled history that I was witnessing.”

Shapiro says that Shakespeare’s first set of history plays deals with the recent past, ending with Richard III; he then went back further to create an English origin story through Richard II and Henry V. “Lin-Manuel Miranda was trying to grasp the fundamental problems underlying contemporary American culture,” he adds. “He might, like Shakespeare, have gone back a century and explored the civil war. But I suspect that he saw that to get at the deeper roots of what united and divided Americans meant going back even further, to the revolution. No American playwright has ever managed to explain the present by reimagining so inventively that distant past.” And where Shakespeare had Holinshed’s Chronicles, Miranda had Ron Chernow.

There are Shakespearean references throughout his play. In “Take a Break”, Hamilton writes to his sister-in-law, Angelica:

They think me Macbeth and ambition is my folly. I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain. Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane.

Shapiro says that these “casual echoes of famous lines” are less important than the lessons that Miranda has taken about how to write history. “Another way of putting it is that anyone can quote Shakespeare; very few can illuminate so brilliantly a nation’s past and, through that, its present.”

[. . .]

I love Hamilton – I think the level of my nerdery about it so far has probably made that clear – but I find it fascinating that its overtly political agenda has been so little discussed, beyond noting the radicalism of casting black actors as white founders. Surely this is the “Obama play”, in the way that David Hare’s Stuff Happens became the “Bush play” or The Crucible became the theatre’s response to McCarthyism. It’s just unusual, in that its response to the contemporary mood is a positive one, rather than sceptical or scathing. (And it has an extra resonance now that a white nationalist is in the White House. One of the first acts of dissent against the Trump regime was when his vice-president, Mike Pence, attended the musical in November 2016 and received a polite post-curtain speech from the cast about tolerance. “The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologise to Mike Pence for their terrible behaviour,” tweeted Trump, inevitably.)

Hamilton tries to make its audience feel OK about patriotism and the idealism of early America. It has, as the British theatre director Robert Icke put it to me this summer, “a kind of moral evangelism” that is hard for British audiences to swallow. In order to achieve this, we are allowed to see Hamilton’s personal moral shortcomings, but the uglier aspects of the early days of America still have to be tidied away.

There’s a brief mention, for instance, of Jefferson’s relationship with his slave Sally Hemings – whom he systematically raped over many years. But the casting of black and Hispanic actors makes it hard for the musical to deal directly with slavery, and so the issue only drips into the narrative rather than being confronted. There’s a moment after the battle of Yorktown when “black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom – not yet”. Another sour note is struck in one of the cabinet rap battles between Hamilton and Jefferson, in which the former notes acidly, “Your debts are paid cos you don’t pay for labour.”

In early workshops, there was a third cabinet battle over slavery – and the song is available on The Hamilton Mixtape, a series of reworkings and offcuts from the musical. When a proposal is brought before Washington to abolish slavery, Hamilton tells the cabinet:

This is the stain on our soul and democracy A land of the free? No, it’s not. It’s hypocrisy To subjugate, dehumanise a race, call ’em property And say that we are powerless to stop it. Can you not foresee?

Ultimately, though, the song was cut. “No one knew what to do about it, and [the founding fathers] all kicked it down the field,” Miranda explained to Billboard in July 2015. “And while, yeah, Hamilton was anti-slavery and never owned slaves, between choosing his financial plan and going all in on opposition to slavery, he chose his financial plan. So it was tough to justify keeping that rap battle in the show, because none of them did enough.”

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In March 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda returned to the White House. This time, one of the numbers he performed was a duet from the musical called “One Last Time”, sung with the original cast member Christopher Jackson playing George Washington. After Alexander Hamilton tells the first US president that two of his cabinet have resigned to run against him, Washington announces that he will step down to leave the field open.

It is the political heart of the play’s myth-making, comparable to Nelson Mandela leaving Robben Island. The decorated Virginian veteran was the only man who could unite the fractious revolutionaries after they defeated the British. Washington could have become dictator for life; instead, he chose to create a true democracy. “If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on./It outlives me when I’m gone.”

For a nation just beginning to think that Trump could really, actually become its president, seeing the incumbent acknowledge that his time was nearly over was a powerful moment. For Obama watching it in the audience, it must have felt like his narrative had come full circle.

Towards the end of the song, Hamilton begins to read out the words of the farewell address he has written, and Washington joins in, singing over the top of them. It was a technique cribbed from Will.i.am’s 2008 Obama campaign video, in which musicians and actors sing and speak along to the candidate’s “Yes, we can” speech.

In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama had written, “I learnt to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds, understanding that each possessed its own language and customs and structures of meaning, convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would eventually cohere.”

This was the promise of his presidency: that there was not a black America or a white America, a liberal America or a conservative America, but, as he said in his breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, “a United States of America”. The man who followed him clearly thinks no such thing, but nonetheless the nation must learn to move on.

In his farewell address in January 2017, Obama returned to the “Yes, we can” speech, using its words as the final statement on his presidency:

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: yes, we can. Yes, we did.

For the playwright JT Rogers, this is the true triumph of Hamilton – giving today’s multiracial America a founding myth in which minorities have as much right to be there as Wasps. It is political “in the sense of reclaiming the polis” – the body of citizens who make up a country. “The little village we live in outside the city, everyone in the middle school knows the score verbatim,” Rogers adds. “They recite it endlessly and at length, like Homer.”

the full long-read here!

#hamilton #meta #u.s. politics #obama #new statesman #history #shakespeare

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irishskeptic · 2 months

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It scares Percy how perfectly he matches his father and how he doesn't match his mother.

Poseidon also has pearly white skin, golden hair and oceanic blue eyes.

One glance is enough to tell that they are father and son.

Percy would like that with his mother.

That’s another reason Percy doesn’t immediately take a liking his dad; he was made in his father’s white image, when he clearly feels more in touch with his Latin heritage.

@pain-is-too-tired @ishouldsleepbut @florenceisstrange @ashthenerdtheythem @aki-bara

#hispanic percy jackson #hispanic sally jackson #mixed latino percy jackson #percy jackson #sally jackson #Poseidon pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #pjo #pjo fandom #hoo #hoo fandom #toa #toa fandom #riordanverse #skeptic asks

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rickriordanrevamp · 6 years

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Ok but I like to headcanon that Percy and Sally are 50/50 Hispanic/Itallian and for all the holidays they eat fajitas and pasta, and Paul, who is very white, is at first baffled, but then loves it (and of course Nico an Leo help make everything)

Okay but Imagine both Hispanic and Italian food is hella spicy so no one lets Percy cook because It’s so hot.

Sally putting two little Luminarias on either side of their apartment door

both Leo and Nico didn’t have any home to go to for the holidays so Percy’s like yeah come over and help me cook and eat

it’s kinda a weird mix of foods

Tamales

biscochitos

Wedding soup

sausage

bread

noodles.

poor poor Paul.

Paul is the guy who thinks taco bell is authentic Mexican cuisine

He can barely eat Sally’s food but when ever he cooks Sally and Percy dump Red chili flakes and green chili on the food.

like everything though Paul learns to deal with the weirdness of the Jacksons

I know more about Hispanic holiday traditions so sorry if I spent more time talking about that Thanks for asking!

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dominoeswrites · 7 years

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May I just say that I LOVE Rick Riordan? Not for any other reason than the amazing characters he creates: -Percy Jackson: a boy with ADHD and dyslexia. If you didn’t know, Uncle Rick originally created Percy like this for his son Haley who also has ADHD and dyslexia. But also, Percy comes from an abusive household. Smelly Gabe, even though he, from what I can gather, never hit Percy, nor did he hit Sally while Percy was around, but he was verbally, economically and emotionally abusive toward both Sally and Percy. And Percy overcame that. -Annabeth Chase: a girl, also with ADHD and dyslexia, who came from a family who she thought hated her. So she ran away. And found a new family. She ended up losing that new family by the time she was twelve. She believes that she can rebuild the world, and make it better. And in a way, she does. -Grover: a satyr that, when originally introduced to us, is disabled. Even though we find out he’s not, he still has flaws. He has made mistakes, and he feels inadequate. He overcomes this and becomes a member of the Council of Cloven Elders. -Thalia Grace: a girl who comes from an alcoholic home. She lost her brother, and ran away. She ended up turning into a tree, but came back from that. She became the lieutenant to Artemis. -Rachel Elizabeth Dare: a girl who comes from a rich home, but just doesn’t like it. She loves the earth despite her father’s company trying to destroy it. She can see through the Mist, and becomes the Oracle of Delphi. -Jason Grace: a boy forced to grow up too soon. He was two when he was abandoned, then he made his way to being praetor at 15, maybe younger. He never knew his family, and always wanted to bring about change. He was looked on as a hero, but didn’t feel like it inside. -Piper McLean: a girl raised by a movie star. She disliked being tied to that name, hated the idea of being beautiful. She made herself blend in, except when she stole. Or convinced them to let her have it. She overcomes her insecurities, and becomes beautiful, not through her mother, but through her own power. -Leo Valdez: a Hispanic boy who grew up with a loving mother, and then accidentally caused her death. He grew up in the foster system, being funny to try and cover up the pain of his loss. He didn’t like looking back, but Camp made him. He grew into his power, and fell in love. Now, he’s mature, and a leader. -Hazel Levesque: a girl who grew up when it was a sin to be black. New Orleans, in the forties. Her mother seemed to hate her, and she was an outcast. The one boy she loved she never saw. She died, then came back to life. She grew into her powers and made herself new. She started fresh, and now she has found love, and can shape the world however she sees fit. -Frank Zhang: a Chinese Canadian who lost his mother to a war. He was clumsy, he didn’t fit in. He hated himself. He went to the old country, where he fought and became what he was originally meant to be: A warrior. -Nico di Angelo: An OpEnLy GaY cHaRaCtEr like THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN A LOT IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS WITHOUT A LOT OF INFERENCE BUT NICO DI ANGELO IS GAY AND BY TRIALS OF APOLLO IS PROUD OF IT!!!!!!! -Apollo: An OpEnLy BiSeXuAl ChArAcTeR which doesn’t often happen at all ever, but IT’S BEING RECOGNIZED AS AN ACTUAL SEXUALITY BECAUSE HE LIKES BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS AND IT’S JUST BEAUTIFUL Also: The majority of these characters come from single parent homes. But that’s just PJO, HoO, and ToA. Let’s talk about other series for a second: Kane Chronicles: -Carter and Sadie are MIXED RACE. It is canon. Their dad is African American and their mom is British white. Again, that’s not something that really happens a lot in literature, period. -Carter traveled a lot, he had no permanent home. He was really lonely, and very close to his dad. -But seriously, even in modern society just imagine how hard it is to be mixed race. You’re not one or the other, you’re both, which also means that you’re neither. -Sadie grew up with her grandparents, being rebellious and just not wanting to be in England. She wanted to travel with dad, and when he died, it was hard on both of them. And Magnus Chase: -Magnus Chase: a boy who loved his mother, and grew up on the streets after she died. He was actually similar to Leo in his back story. He had a rich uncle, but he hated money, hated being confined. Then he died, and now he’s grown to accept himself. -Samirah al Abbas: a Muslim girl shown in a POSITIVE LIGHT AND DO YOU REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS RIGHT NOW WITH ALL THE PEOPLE HATING MUSLIMS???? And in Hammer of Thor, she PRAYS!!!!!! Like do you realize how beautiful this is? She doesn’t believe in the gods as gods, but as creations of Allah. Like, she is one of my favorite characters. -Blitzen: a guy of unknown sexuality who loves fashion. The best part about this is that Blitz is not openly straight, gay or otherwise. He is just a dwarf who loves fashion, and this proves that you don’t have to be gay to love fashion. -Hearthstone: HE’S DEAF! Do you realize how many deaf kids will read this and realize how cool it is to be what they are??? A lot, is what I hope. It’s just so refreshing to see a disability like this shown in a positive light. Also, he comes from a home where he is made fun of for his disability. It is shown that he has it hard for being the way he is, which I also think is important. It is important to show that people can overcome people who think they’re stupid for not being like everyone else. -Alex Fierro: a GeNdErFlUiD cHaRaCtEr LIKE THAT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE GENDERFLUID, yes s/he is binary, but it’s still FREAKING AWESOME OKAY LIKE THAT IS A THING THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN WRITTEN BEFORE OKAY In conclusion, Uncle Rick has taken the time to write amazing, beautiful, powerful, unconventional characters that we love. And it’s important that these are good characters, protagonists, because then we love them, and see that unconventional is good.

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Percy Jackson’s race masterpost

It seems like everybody is arguing about this so I thought I would give my opinion on it too. I’m happy to hear other arguments, but let’s keep it civil. And please don’t read just a couple sentences or paragraphs of all this, read everything and make sure you got my point before you start throwing with arguments. Thank you.

Well, let’s proceed:

Personally, I imagine Percy having a Mediterranean complexion (one of the sub-races into which the Caucasian race is categorised by. It is characterized by pink to reddish to light or dark brown skin tone; olive complexion being especially common), because of his resemblance with his father who is a greek god (that’s the most common race in southern Europe and yeah, you can tell me gods can look however they want, but they were imagined by greeks, and guess what, people imagine people looking like them. That’s something everybody does).

Percy is described to look almost exactly like his father. This is Poseidon’s description in TLT: “His skin was deeply tanned, his hands scarred like an old-time fisherman's. His hair was black, like mine. His face had that same brooding look that had always gotten me branded a rebel. But his eyes, sea-green like mine...” and this is Percy’s description in MoA: “His sea-green eyes were as gorgeous as she remembered. His dark hair was swept to one side, like he’d just come from a walk on the beach. He looked even better than he had six months ago—tanner and taller, leaner and more muscular.”

Key word here for skin is tan. Greeks are white, but they are tanned. They have a medium-skin tone. Behind all that tan, Percy has a pink skin tone, as seen in BotL when he was on Calypso’s island: “I looked at my arms, sure that they would be hideously scarred, but they seemed fine. A little pinker than usual, but not bad.”

Now I’m going to talk about some arguments that people give in absolutely.every.debate:

The neighborhood where Percy lives. I’ve seen a lot of people saying that Percy lives in a latino neighborhood, giving racial demographics of the said neighborhood etc. Percy lives on the 82nd street, Upper East side of Manhattan (”I opened the window and stepped onto the fire escape. [...]. It was a clear night. The moon was full over Eighty-second Street.”- BotL ). This is part of a neighborhood called Yorkville. The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 76.0% White, 3.7% African American, 0.1% Native American, 9.3% Asian, 8.8% Hispanic or Latino of any race (source). So most of the population is white. But you know what? Even if it wasn’t, I personally don’t really see this as a valid argument, I just addressed this problem because it’s brought up in a debate very often. One can live in a latino neighborhood even if he’s white or live in a black neighborhood if he’s asian and so on.

I see a lot of people bringing into conversation the name “Jackson”, which is a name of English and Scottish origin, so I don’t really see how it’s a common latino/African-American/whatever-other-race-name like people say it is.

Sally’s race. Now besides the fact that Percy is said to look exactly like his father and no physical similarity to Sally is mentioned (her eyes are either described as blue or they’re said to “change color in the light”, and she has brown hair), her race is not mentioned and anything that anybody imagines is just a headcanon (I’ve seen people saying that they see Percy with a black heritage because Sally’s parents were black, which was not in the book or saying stuff like, “wait, he’s latino because Sally’s from Puerto Rico, right?”. I won’t give any names, but people need to learn to make the difference between what was actually said in the book and what they read in a fanfiction or what they imagined).

Just because you think that the community that you’re a part of needs more representation, that’s not a valid reason. It is not an argument. It has nothing to do with this particular character. Stop reading a book just for representation, stop liking a character just because he’s the same race as you are. Start thinking about the plot, the character development, the relationships between characters. Fully enjoy the book that you’re reading. (Also 4 out of The Seven aren’t white, not to mention other minor characters. We cannot complain about lack of diversity in Rick Riordan’s books. Why don’t you talk about those characters instead of arguing about this one?)

“If a character’s race is not mentioned we can’t assume that he’s white. White is not the default.” True, but I think I’ve given enough arguments to show that I’m not just assuming his race, I’m basing my opinion on facts. And also, every time a character had a particular heritage, Rick Riordan made it very clear. Does anybody has any doubts that Leo and Reyna are latino, that Frank is Chinese, that Hazel and Beckendorf are Afro-American, Piper is Cherokee and so on? No. Absolutely none. In another series of his, The Kane Chronicles, the protagonist is black and even if the narration is in first person, his race is still clearly stated.

And yes, the official art is a valid argument in this debate. We now have the improved version made by Viria and it’s Rick Riordan who asked her to make the art. He approved of it. Look at the official art and tell me it’s not obvious that Hazel is black, Frank has Chinese ancestors, Leo is Latino and so on. It’s blatantly obvious, okay? Now look at Percy’s art and tell me what you see. Look at the Graphic Novels. Look at the books’ covers- Percy is in plenty of them. He and Carter Kane are both on the covers for The Son of Sobek and The Crown of Ptolemy- compare them. There is one person of color there and it sure as hell isn’t Percy.

Now if when you are reading the book your brain is picturing him not looking like in the book’s description, that’s OK and that’s something that happens all the time. But please stop confusing the canon with a headcanon.

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Abby Bruce stands at 17,060 feet in front of Montaña de Siete Colores in Cusco, Peru. Photo courtesy Abby Bruce

Since she was 5 years old, Abby Bruce, of Saltillo, has wanted to be fluent in Spanish. Thanks to an endowment created by a private gift to the University of Mississippi, the senior will graduate with a degree not just in Spanish but also in international studies.

Every day, in classrooms and labs across the UM campus, students are moving closer to earning college degrees. For many, higher education is a critical step toward realizing a lifelong dream, one made easier to attain by the generosity of Ole Miss alumni and friends.

Like Bruce, two other UM students – Miranda Craft of Jackson, Missouri, and Mikayla Johnson of Mooreville – are finding that scholarships have enabled them to have a better-than-expected college experience. And these are just three examples of the more than 2,600 Ole Miss students on scholarship during the fall 2017 semester.

This year, Bruce received the Alfred William Milden Scholarship, which is designated for rising seniors majoring in the fields of ancient or foreign language.

“The scholarship has enabled me to pursue my language study even further and to have the means to travel to study the language intensely,” Bruce said.

Upon receiving the award, Bruce felt compelled to write the Milden family a personal thank-you note, attaching several pictures of her study abroad experience in Peru last semester. Pictures included sights such as Machu Picchu, one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World.”

“Those are experiences that you have to search for and, as always, it’s nice to have a little more financial support,” said Bruce, who wants to return to Latin America soon. “After you’ve immersed yourself once, you crave that adventure again.

“And I now have a good group of Columbian, Mexican, Peruvian and Chilean friends – connections that make me want to return even more.”

Bruce, a member of the Croft Institute for International Studies and Phi Kappa Phi honor society, hopes to have a career in which she can communicate in Spanish.

“Even if the job itself doesn’t use Spanish, I’d like to live somewhere that utilizes that language, whether that’s a different country or a region of the states with a large Hispanic population,” she said. “I want to continue to improve.”

During her time at Ole Miss, Bruce has been a member of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College as well as an active member of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.

Craft is the recipient of the Everett-Williams Memorial, which has enabled her to pursue a pharmacy degree by eliminating the financial burden of tuition.

“This scholarship has given me additional aid toward my dream of becoming a pharmacist and impacting the medical field,” said Craft, a member of the American Pharmacists Association, Phi Mu sorority, Phi Kappa Phi honor society and Kappa Epsilon, a professional pharmacy fraternity.

The scholarship has also given Craft experiences that she believes will be valuable to her career path.

“The highlight of the scholarship was being able to attend the monthly dinners and meet leaders in the context of Oxford and the university while being inspired by their different outlooks on life,” said Craft, adding that she also appreciates her scholarship’s mentorship component.

“It has changed my outlook on life by giving me the opportunity to interact with strong leaders on campus.”

Johnson, the recipient of the Mildred H. Center Council Scholarship, said her dream of attending medical school would not be possible without financial support.

The scholarship is granted to students through the Ole Miss Women’s Council and is endowed by the R.H. and Mildred Center Foundation. Johnson applied for the scholarship as a high school senior and has been a recipient since her freshman year. She is also the recipient of the Rural Physicians Scholarship that the University of Mississippi Medical Center awards.

“I hope to practice pediatrics and come back to Pontotoc,” Johnson said. “I didn’t really have the means and Ole Miss wasn’t really in my plan. I just applied to see what would happen.”

As an OMWC scholar, Johnson meets weekly with her mentors to discuss anything from test grades to career plans. She also has developed strong relationships with fellow scholars, for which she is thankful.

“We met before the first day of school our freshman year, so it was nice to see a familiar face because I didn’t know anybody coming here,” Johnson said. “Also, I’ve enjoyed the relationships with Nora Capwell (OMWC program director) and Suzanne Helveston (OMWC career and leadership director) because it’s nice to have someone to talk to.

“I feel like those relationships are definitely going to go past my time at Ole Miss.”

The OMWC recently introduced the Global Leadership Circle, a philanthropy program that provides opportunities for donors to sponsor students hoping to pursue international studies or internships. Johnson plans to use the scholarship to study abroad next summer.

“I’ve been talking with Nora, and there is a chemistry class offered in Paris that would allow me to study the chemistry of food and also the culture,” Johnson said. “I’m a chemistry minor and so if I get to travel for this class, it will definitely be the highlight of my program.”

Johnson is a member of the Honors College, Phi Kappa Phi honor society, American Medical Student Association and American Medical Women’s Association.

For information on endowing a scholarship at UM, contact Sandra Guest, vice president of the UM Foundation, at 662-915-5208, [email protected] or visit http://www.umfoundation.com/makeagift.

By Mary Katherine Withers

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