#angelo speaks

[angelolytle]

What was your favorite part of the process of writing and publishing Godless Punks? What about the most difficult part? How did it compare to BASA? :)

Thank you for the questions Lexi!! <3

My favorite part of the writing process was getting to the ending! It felt v cinematic in my head and like all the pieces were coming together, and I felt like the ending was just what I wanted it to be. For publishing, my favorite part was seeing @sobcat 's incredible cover art!!

The most difficult part was getting over my self doubt. For a long time after finishing the book I was very frustrated with it after so much reading, rereading, and revising, and I felt like it was garbage. I took a long break, and when I came back, I realized that a lot of that negativity was all in my head.

BASA felt easy to write, while Godless Punks was a lot harder for a variety of reasons. For one, I wasn't working a full-time job while writing BASA. Godless Punks was also my first serious venture into full-on fantasy rather than contemporary fiction with fantastical/supernatural elements, so that was a challenge. There are also a ton of fight scenes in GP and I wasn't very experienced with that. I'd also never written six different POV characters for one story before!!

That being said, I'm very glad that I pushed myself out of my comfort zone to write GP! I want to keep pushing myself and growing as an author :)

[kermit-coded]

god. hades saying, "ask me for sanctuary" after percy talks about kronos hits like a truck when you remember that he tried to do the same for maria, bianca, and nico.

[losergender]

"nico di angelo would lose his ability to speak venetian after bianca dies" is a very understandable headcanon but minoritarian languages losing speakers makes me very sad so i personally choose to think nico raises venetian ghosts to practice his venetian from time to time and make sure he doesn't lose it.

[wu-does-art]

The Titans curse, folks

[crossdressingdeath]

I love how in PJO Percy makes such a point of trying to spare the enemy demigods because they're just being tricked or brainwashed and he couldn't possibly let them die (because killing your enemies is for the bad guys), and then in HoO we finally get to see the POV of Nico "as long as it's not technically murder it can go in a kids' book" di Angelo, and he just does not hesitate. You're hurting his friends? You're a threat that can't be dealt with via a stern talking to? Okay. Goodbye.

[sunflowergraves]

[gaygirldoodles]

"Will and Nico are a golden retriever and black cat duo-"

NO

Nico is still a black cat, yes. Even if you look at actual black cats who tend to be chaotic balls of chaos. And having Nico be the Void Cat ™️ makes sense

But Will is not a golden retriever

Partially because he's not the sunshine character everyone makes him out to be

And he doesn't have that super hyper, super clingy personality of a golden retriever

Bro is a wet cat

NICO CANONICALLY SAID HE LOOKS LIKE A LANKY CAT IN THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS

NICO AND WILL ARE THE BLACK CAT AND ORANGE CAT RELATIONSHIP

[live-laugh-ukotoa]

anyways chat if Caleo is pedophelia despite the fact that Calypso has the mind+body of a teenager, and that time works differently on Ogygia shouldn't you hate Solangelo for the same reason? Nico didn't die. he's chronologically like 93 or something! but what's the solangelo fans reasoning? "he has the mind and body of a teenager, and time works differently in the lotus casino!" tl;dr some of you are hypocrites

[luvingsolace]

“Why was Will so whiny during tsats he was literally fine” mind you they were in hell and then in Tartarus and my boy he gets sick from not being close to the sun not to mention all of his injuries… how was he fine???

[mjfass]

Love is real and it’s beautiful

[wakkoroni]

I want y’all to imagine Nico, after the battle of manhattan, all alone, roaming around and being homeless pretty much. He probably did some stuff to stay alive/ did some stupid stuff cause he was a) young and alone and innocent and b) IN THE WRONG CENTURY

Imagine like Nico revealing the shit he’s done to like the seven (plus Will but I feel like Will would already know)

Nico: yeah so like I learned the “don’t take candy from strangers” the hard way

Percy; what the fuck does that mean

Nico: um so after the battle of manhattan went down and I left, things have changed in society that I didn’t know about. And the fact that I was in a whole different continent didn’t help either. So uh in the 1930s, it was all talk about how the future was going to be great and how everyone’s problems will be solved

Percy: yeah?

Nico: right so uh I’m walking down the New York, being my little depressed self-

Jason: *trying not to laugh*

Nico: -and this guy walks up to me and he said “you look like your having a tough times” and pulls out this baggy with like a pill inside, and says “here this should take all your sorrows away, for a just a few hours and if you need more you just have to find me”

Annabeth: you didn’t-

Nico: looking back at this I should’ve known, but then again how would I have known? No one taught me this shit. And he phrased it like this really cool invention and in my head I’m like oh wow times really has changed

Will: babe you are a idiot and I’m surprised you even still alive

Nico, laughing: me too actually- I should not have lived past a lot of stuff but anyway I took it and thanked him and ummmmm one minute I was in the streets of New York and the next I was in the back of a cop car in Jersey with a headache.

Jason: YOU GOT ARRESTED?

Nico: yup. But legally I don’t exist and I still don’t cause I managed to run away before they could get my DNA or smth idk the process and then went back to New York and tried to find the guy again

Percy: why would you try and find him?

Nico: so I could get more? But either I just have a horrible sense of direction or he vanished cause I couldn’t find him anymore

Jason: the city’s confusing streets saved you from an addiction

Nico: no actually-

Percy, still trying to wrap his head around this: wait so no one warned you about taking drugs?

Nico: I didn’t even know what they were, well that’s kind of a lie I knew that they existed but I didn’t know what they looked like?

Percy: and the baggy didn’t seem suspicious?

Nico: it was a free sample

Percy: I- I don’t even know what to say

Nico: to be fair they treated the common cold with like cocaine back in my day so-

Percy: dude- *turns to Will* you don’t seemed surprised by this

Will, shrugging: wait til you hear about the “friend” he made

Nico, clapping his hands together: that’s a story for another time, hopefully never

Annabeth: I want to know-

Will: you really don’t-

Nico: if you thought this was bad the other was way worse

[froggie-at-home]

will solace and his small touches with his friends.

he runs away from angry ares kids after a successful prank, his legs brushing against cecil's. he drags nyssa away from the fire by the back of her overrals, his fingers brushing against the back of her neck. he finds and puts on glasses for malcolm, when he searches for the pair. he brushes the hair away from mitchell's eyes when he tries to choose between two nail polishes. he lightly bumps heads with lou ellen while they laugh together over funny spells. he hugs drew's shoulders when she starts talking about her siblings. he gives a plate of food to annabeth when she locks herself up in cabin 3.

sometimes after, he caresses nico's scars on his hands. he ties alabaster's hair in a tiny ponytail during a stressful night.

[forestgloss]

say what u want but pinterest doesnt miss

sorry for posting a tumblr screenshot onto tumblr. i couldn't find the og

[karouvas]

nico di angelo truly thee character of all time. hes an aquarius. hes gay. hes european. hes a goth. hes full of love without moderation. hes an anti hero. he has catholic guilt. he’s a son of the god of death. hes dehumanized by almost everyone. he’s the most human character in the riordanverse. florence and the machine wrote half her discography about him. he imprints on anyone who treats him like an actual human being for more than 2 seconds. he’s a feminist. his boyfriend is from texas.

[love-3-crimes]

SPACE JASH ‼️

[pinkerpick]

i still hear ur voice when u sleep next 2 me