#Luke was right

[my-fall-from-grace]

ok i know we all find out about camp jupiter later on and i know the books (son of neptune and mark of athena specifically) discuss this a little bit, but i can’t get over how unfair the greek camp is compared to the roman camp. it’s all i can think of when watching the show and thinking back to the original pjo series

the romans can grow old! they have legacies! they have a university, coffee shops, homes, a whole city to live in and fall in love and raise children and grow old!

on the other hand, camp half blood is for children. it’s a summer camp! some campers go home for the school year and just never come back because they have to choose between being “normal” and being safe - while the romans have schools. they have a life after their time in the legion! while greek demigods EXPECT to die young. you so very rarely seen anyone older than 22 that it’s even remarked upon in the books! and when you grow up and you want to live a life that is not in a summer camp, your only option is to join the human world and fear monster attacks. the romans have a city, a place you can live safely. the chances of a greek demigod living a long life are so minuscule, bc to be strong enough to defend yourself outside of camp and life that long, you need to be powerful and that immediately means you attract more monsters. the greek demigods were doomed from the start (it’s the narrative).

and yes ok i know that romans are child soldiers and pay for these “luxuries” through all their years of service - plus the gods are more involved with the greek demigods for sure - but i still find it so heartbreaking for the greek demigods. as i’m watching the show and i’m older and no longer the same age as these children, i’m just horrified by all these details i thought were cool. a summer camp is fun but you can’t live forever there, you’ll have to leave at some point in an effort to have a life and that’s most likely going to be what kills you. i feel like if the greeks knew of the romans earlier, then luke would have had so much more demigods joining his cause - and understandably so!

i wish there would have been more discussion of how ANGRY the greek demigods were that they had to live like that while the romans could grow old. i know they must have been tired at that point, even of being angry at the gods for yet another thing in the endless list, but i would have wanted to see more of that realisation. “they don’t really care about us.”

[madelynfilms]

and dont even get me started on luke's appearance as sam's hallucination of guilt. luke is my favorite ever, he is my bf and i would treat him so much better than cate did. anyways! i think luke is personifying sam's guilt bc sam feels guilty and blames himself for not being there for luke; for not being able to stop him and help him out. also i need a luke in my life. i need luke in my life. the way he was so calming and also really good at making his point. i am not apologizing for the person i'm turning into rn

[mysterypuppy]

just remembered percy & annabeth have matching gray streaks in their hair from holding up the sky so if anyone needs me i wont be available

[dearestgentlereaders]

and he wonders why his wife would question whether he was ever punished as a child as if he isn’t the most dramatic bitch around

[stealingpotatoes]

do you think luke and leia know who’s older??? like what if “the force told him” or something

I don't think Luke is bothered about who's older, but Leia...

(commission info // tip jar!)

[sashketter]

Star Wars finally using the twin trope to its fullest advantage: mistaken identity, one good one evil, full-bodied telepathy, one impersonating the other, and having the same actor play both.

[brightgoldenstar]

Reference:

[ohtendril]

Pen and Colin being smitten in front of the whole congregation

[thatonekimgirl]

straight from the tortured poets department

[cris-doing-cris-things]

Some sketch portrait studies I did some time ago

Decided they were decent enough not to delete immediately after finishing

[renaissanceousia]

luke castellan i won't be rooting for you but i won't be hating you either

[in-kyblogs]

The boy? The fascinating boy? Oh, he is fine.

[murasaki-cha]

Luke: *gets revealed as the lightning thief*

Percy: Pookie, this isn't you!

[mydairpercabeth]

One thing I’m really looking forward to seeing is how they convince Percy not to join Luke. Up until the end of episode 4, Percy doesn’t have any faith in his dad or the other gods. He resents them all for abandoning their kids and doesn’t like their excuses. He is disgusted by how Athena treats Annabeth. He detests the whole claiming system and that the gods can just choose to claim them if they feel like it. And he is also being actively targeted by Zeus. What will be the turning point for him to not join Luke?

[puckinghischier]

wait i’m crying imagine helping luke with his curl routine and you being the only person he trusts to touch his hair

“luke, hold still,” you tell him, massaging the diffuser around his head.

“it tickles. and it’s really warm,” he argues, twitching again, causing you to huff in frustration.

luke’s currently crouched down in front of you in his en-suite bathroom, sitting not so still while you try to do his newly implemented curl routine.

“honeybee, my knees hurt, we gotta take a break,” he pleads, bouncing slightly.

you turn off the hair dryer and let him stretch his legs to his full height.

“you know, if you’d let me make you an appointment at a salon we wouldn’t be in this predicament,” you tell him, looking up at his lop-sided curls.

a few weeks ago you convinced luke to start a curl care routine, knowing his hair was in desperate need of some TLC. when you first started dating, you saw the 3in1 bottle sitting in his otherwise empty shower and immediately dragged him to the nearest salon supply store to get a curl specific shampoo and conditioner set.

once he finally agreed to start a whole routine (with your help, of course) you picked out several creams and gels to lather into his hair after every shower.

so your new pre-bedtime routine, three nights out of the week, is making sure his hair is hydrated and taken care of. when you suggested letting a professional do a generalized curl care appointment to get him started, luke refused, arguing that you could do it just as good as any salon can.

“i told you, i don’t want them touching my hair,” he reiterates to you, giving the same response every time you suggest it to him.

“luke, they’re literally professionals. they know tricks that i don’t. maybe they could even do something to your hair that lasts for a few weeks, so we wouldn’t have to do this several nights a week. plus, it would help when you’re on the road,” you try to persuade him, reaching up and ruffling his curls around with both hands, trying to keep it from drying unevenly.

the first time he was on the road and it was a hair night, you tried to call him and walk him through it, but he claimed his hair didn’t turn out as soft and shiny as when you do it.

the next time, you had jack come and watch how you did it one night, having him step in to help luke since they typically room together, but he said jack didn’t do it right and he came out looking like he had a clown afro the next day.

“i don’t care. it’s just hair, it can wait until i’m back home,” he grabs your hands, pulling them from his hair and placing them on his shoulders.

you scoff in offense, swatting at his chest. “it is not just hair. it’s one of my favorite features of yours!”

“still doesn’t mean i’m going to let some stranger at a salon get all touchy with it,” he shrugs.

you roll your eyes at his stubbornness, not knowing why it’s such a big deal.

“if you don’t want to spend the money on it, i’ll literally pay for it. i just think it’d do some good, i don’t know why you’re so against it,” you offer.

luke shakes his head no, reaching up to move a stray piece of your own hair out of your face. “s’not the money,” he assures you. “it won’t feel as good as when you do it. love the feeling of your fingers all in my hair. s’comforting,” he says so casually, not even aware that his words caused butterflies to erupt in your belly.

you feel your face flush, biting your lip to hide the smile trying to break out on your face.

“well i’m not saying i’ll stop doing it. i’m just saying that maybe a trip to a salon once a month might prevent more bad hair days on the road,” you try to compromise, not wanting him to know how much his words affected you. you didn’t want to give him more reasons to refuse the idea.

“and i’m just saying, i don’t want anyone but you touching my hair,” he leans down to press his forehead against yours, locking his wide eyes onto yours dramatically.

before you can get a reply out of your mouth, he leans forward and presses his lips to yours, taking your hands off of his shoulders and bringing them up to your hair, emphasizing his point.

you toy with the flat curls, forgetting what you were meant to be doing until your fingers came into contact with a wet patch.

pulling back from the kiss abruptly, luke lets out a frustrated whine while chasing your lips with his.

“we have to finish drying your hair! if i don’t finish it soon it’s gonna dry all flat on one side because we didn’t diffuse it properly,” you pull back from him completely, grabbing the abandoned hair dryer on the counter.

luke groans, stomping over to stand in front of you, crouching back into his earlier position.

“just hurry. if we do this too much longer i’m going to have to tell my coach i can’t skate because i have stiff knees from my girlfriend’s curl routine she makes me do,” he crosses his arm and pouts like a child.

“keep up the whining and i’ll make jack do it next time,” you threaten, turning the hairdryer on and continuing the task at hand.

luke’s body tenses. “i swear to god if you bring jack over here to do my hair again i’m shaving it off.”

“you wouldn’t,” you gasp at him, not believing he just said such a thing.

“try me,” he responds, smirking at you through the large mirror.

[body-of-crisis]

Ships in the night