#featuring piper

[velichorus-k]

Finally got around to drawing her :)

[farfetchedshow]

Sesamoid have been shredding their hearts out to make their next original song "Creature Feature" the BEST it can be! If you're on Twitter, be sure to follow their official account @SesamoidBand, so you won't miss out on any posts leading up to its release! 🎸

If you avoid Twitter like the plague (Good call btw) we'll still be cross-posting their updates here.

[lesbicosmos]

netflix posting a compilation of kaos tumblr posts featuring THIS SPECIFIC ONE is my last straw

that literally also describes dead boy detectives.

like kaos does look really great i fucking love mythology and i will probably watch it eventually!! this is annoyance at netflix not kaos as a show, it's just pissing me off a bit that they're giving this show SO much more attention and promotion than dead boy detectives got when they seem to have somewhat similar themes and target audiences

[poppitron360]

Dark!Piper is my Roman Empire. I’m loving this glimpse of her.

[sunsetsentiments]

weird we've never seen percy, annabeth, jason, piper, leo, and nico at camp half-blood at the same time lmao

ik the timeline of events makes it hard for that to happen,, especially including leo,, but why haven't we heard more of all the fun stuff that happens when most of these kids are at camp together lol

like the whole camp eating popcorn as they watch percy and jason have their daily competitions,, annabeth and piper having secret sleepovers,, jason forcing nico to socialize,, etc. etc.

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

listen i know jack shit about the locked tomb but based off of a majority of the art ive seen of those two necromancing lesbians most of you couldnt actually bothered to do a quick google images search of what maori people actually look like and instead just draw them with white features over a Vaguely Brown skintone

[sentient-stove]

reading the graphic novel adaptations of heroes of olympus is just one long game of ‘whose goddamn white baby is that’ when it comes to any of the characters that aren’t explicitly white

[disabledcharacters]

Disabled Characters of the Month: June 2024 (Pride Edition)

TV Alex Manes (Roswell New Mexico) - Amputee, Prosthetic User, Mobility Aid User

TV ANIMATION Shiro (Voltron) - Amputee, Prosthetic User

FILM Laila Kapoor (Margarita with a Straw) - Cerebral Palsy, Wheelchair User, Mobility Aid User

BOOKS Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows) - ADHD Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) - Dyslexia

COMICS / MANGA Hartley Rathaway / Pied Piper (DC Comics) - Deaf

VIDEO GAMES Olivia Haas (Fear & Hunger 2: Termina) - Vascular myelopathy, Wheelchair User

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Join me as I celebrate and post about different Disabled Characters throughout the month. Tracking #dcotm

[rosesradio]

Piper McLean in Ceaseless Eve: Let's Discuss

⚠️ The following contains spoilers for any & all of Ceaseless Eve ⚠️

At first, I was not planning a whole lot for Piper.

Of course, I didn't want to do nothing with her, leaving her to be essentially a cardboard cutout carried around by the boys as a prop for 90k words. She was there, and she was cool—the girl that knew what to do around the pegasi, the girl that Leo crushed on but never had a chance with. But as I continued to write with her and discover more about how she fit into the story and the ceaseless-verse in general, I realized that she wasn't laid back at all. It was a facade, and she was terrified.

I hadn't planned her arc, it kind of formed on its own over the course of the story.

Piper is a character who spends this story recovering and reassessing her past. She's very similar to Leo in that way, as she had an uncertain grasp on her abilities and how they fit into her life and who she wanted to be. But unlike Leo, there comes to be a point when she reaches a certain age, where she is able to identify the implications of her abilities, and how she can control others...and yet she uses her abilities anyways to get what she wants.

Piper is a selfish character in her youth, a person whose development is altered as she is used to continuously getting what she wants. It isn't until her early teens that she begins to realize that by continuously using her Charmspeak, she is taking away the free will of others, especially people she cares about. She begins to realize that most of the people in her life don't actually love her or even like her. She realizes she's never actually had a real friend that she had not manipulated before.

"I have what I need now. I know my Charmspeak is a gift, and I should use it in emergencies. And, I mean...I made some real friends while I was here. I didn't have to ask you, or Leo, or Hazel to be my friend using Charmspeak. You guys really like me..."

—Piper McLean, Ceaseless Eve, Chapter 20.

(As I'm writing this I realize with a bit of bitter humor that fandom really doesn't like selfish female characters. In Piper's arc, even at the beginning of CE, she is opposed to using her abilities for malicious intent at her point of introduction. I'm very grateful that many of CE's readers understood her nuance and loved her in spite of her past and flaws. Not everyone did. I can't help but wonder how different the fandom would see her/her arc if she were a boy, but alas...)

The only person who remains there for her is her father. She stopped using Charmspeak on him altogether quite a while before she stopped for everyone else. Though she felt tempted to in darker moments, she also found he was easy-going, and some of the only honesty she had experienced—good or bad.

That is, until her dad became busy, and the paparazzi buzzed with a nervous, unsettling energy—and Hollywood was going to Hollywood.

So, Piper tried to pull him away in the only way she knew how—using her Charmspeak to get into trouble. It is at this point where her character arc aligns the closet with canon and the familiarity of other demigod arcs: she steals the BMW, gets sent to the Wilderness School, though she escapes after a monster attack and makes her way to CHB with the help of a dove from her mother.

It was then that she met Nico.

One of the most important aspects of Piper and Nico's stories is their relationship to each other. She comes to CHB in search of protection from monsters, an escape from her previous life, and a restart. Despite how hardened Nico can be, it wasn't hard for her to become friends with him due to a moment of vulnerability after a monster attack. They become an outlet to each other, even if it's not often that they delve into things that are too serious. In a way, their friendship is an opportunity for them to both be normal teenagers in a world that does not often provide that peace for demigods.

As the group started towards the camp's entrance, Piper grabbed Nico's arm. "That was the longest car ride I have ever been subjected to in my entire life." She whispered, and her eyes displayed the extent of her suffering. Nico, suppressing a laugh, allowed her to link her arm in his as they headed up the hill towards home.

—Ceaseless Eve, Chapter 18.

Piper's friendship with Leo is also particularly important to the ceaseless trio's dynamic. Although I wrote Leo as less of a, uh, ladies man from the start, I contributed his friendship with Piper as the thing that broke him out of his desperation for a girlfriend. They are able to be open with each other easily, vulnerable from the start in a way that most demigods are due to their environment. Piper is seen as easy to talk to, so if she is friends with Nico, how bad can Nico be?

Overall, her arc comes to a close with her decision to go back to her dad. Admittedly, this is partially done to follow Richard's "rotating cast" method, but also because I feel it is best for her character. By resolving to only use her Charmspeak in emergencies, and by making friends by simply being herself, she builds up the skills needed to get back out there and mend things with her father. There might be even more mortal-type adventures in store for her in Hollywood, though we will have to wait and check in on her in Ivory Rain.

Bonus: a small fashion tip from Piper: the color-changing eyeshadow ✨

I love Piper's color-changing eyeshadow ! I decided to alter the canon of her eyes changing color like a kaleidoscope; I've heard in the past that it was an element of HoO that did not age well or was problematic, though I don't think I am the right person to delve into why that is. I decided instead to have her eyes stay brown, and gave her color-changing eyeshadow. Where did she get it from? Her mom? Iris? That's up to you. ✨

Bonus character! Apollo: Let's Discuss

Apollo has always been one of my favorite gods—he's kind of the Barney Stinson of the bunch; you feel like you should hate him, but he satirizes the things you'd hate about him so well, you can't help but feel the opposite.

I knew from the initial plot points that I wanted something to happen with "kidnapping the sun" and a dark aesthetic, think Titan's Curse. Still, I will admit that the bit about him falling for a trap at a music festival came a bit later than I'd like to admit. It does sound like him though, lol.

From what I have seen of canon, Apollo seems slightly more caring than other godly parents of the series. That's one of several reasons why I had him be Sarah's godly parent. Also, I made a few comments throughout the story about how uncaring Apollo might seem about demigods that aren't his kids. In spite of this, I'd like to think he does care about all demigods at the end of the day, especially heroes that have helped him out. He's still a bit of an asshole, but hey, maybe he could return the favor and help out our friends in Ivory Rain.

[volchitsa-of-winterfell]

she's VERY tragically straight but piper gilles is one of the hottest women in skating change my mind

[katiefromcabin7]

thought about Valgrace while and work and now i’m losing my mind

[actualhumancryptid]

Finally caught up with Under the Bridge. Can I say how happy I am to have Cam finally yell at stupid Rebecca? Her annoying book-writing investigation nonsense makes me want to strangle her.

Ep 6 was a damn good episode. Dusty makes me cry. I wish somebody, anybody, gave a shit about her.

[helmstone]

KAOS (season 1?) — some thoughts

KAOS (season 1?) — some thoughts

KAOS was my pick for August on the basis I was interested to see what they did with the concept. I soon realised I’d misunderstood the core idea, found it a little slow paced at times and in many ways the eight episodes are just a complex trailer for a yet to be greenlit season 2. Oh, and I rather liked it. A lot! What is KAOS about? Jeff Goldbum is Zeus and the setting is a contemporary…

[coolcattime]

My Your Turn to Die hyperfixation has become strong enough that I actually managed to sketch every one of the twelve participants in my OC au - frankly a miracle considering I had not drawn five of them before and gave two a heavy redesign compared to the other times I've drawn them.

Will I fully digitally do all of them??? Hopefully but there is twelve of them and I don't have the best attention span.

If you haven't yet checked out the fic I wrote in this au, you can find it here: https://www.tumblr.com/coolcattime/756504465249550336/and-note-that-there-is-only-one-key?source=share

I think it's great and would love if people checked it out!

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I was gonna be like “I’m so glad that I’m writing the middle-aged versions of these characters.” then I remembered that one of my favourite stories with this pairing that actually got me shipping it,

they look like a sweet, shy, blushing twink and the grimy hunk who’s going to fuck him so good he vibrates straight through the workshop table he’s bent over.

[kruxton]

when ur game doesnt follow the storyline u planned for it but now its too late to try and fix it and now ur posts might not make sense