#hazel made me do it

[solardrake]

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

[zivazivc]

when you pass a payphone and you decide to stop and call your brother to ask what's up, and you learn that in the couple of weeks since you've last heard from him you've become an uncle

[insert image of les sitting on the ground in front of the payphone after putting down the handset, bawling like a baby]

[bayetea]

thinking about big 3 sibling parallels and sobbing

jason and hazel having so much in common, they both sacrificed so much over and over and both of them "lost" their old lives (jason's memory loss, hazel literally dying) to experience a new one (jason resurfacing at chb, nico bringing hazel back from the dead)

hazel died and gave up eternal paradise for her mother and then got to live a new life and bianca died and chose to live a new life, the children of pluto/hades having such a tense relationship with life and death and rebirth

nico and thalia having to experience the grief of being so close to getting their sibling back (nico trying to bring bianca back from the dead but she's already gone, thalia reconnecting with jason when he comes back) only to lose them again

one has to imagine that percy is somewhat lucky to be an """only""" child because sibling children of the big 3 are doomed to experience heartbreaking tragedy where one of them inevitably disappears and/or dies

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Hazel Court

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)- dir. Roger Corman

[massiveladycat]

pjo fandom after meeting lukabeth shippers

[faaun]

my research partner and i are huddled in a blanket in paddington waiting for a too-late train i already miss you and you and you

[hazellvsq]

actually analyzing the first flashback hazel shares with leo, where she's getting bullied and sammy swoops in and rescues her. there's something interesting about how leo is literally watching this play out like a movie and then sammy in flashback tries to defuse the situation she's in by literally scripting it out in front of everyone and reenacting the situation but this time he steals from hazel instead of the bully. and obviously this is done on hazel's behalf, but everything that she actually says gets ignored and nothing she does changes the outcome of the scene. she's in these two opposing narratives and is essentially an object in each for all the difference she makes - and she's still getting robbed! leo as he's watching can't pinpoint the reason that she's crying. idk rick uses the trope a lot where characters trick/script their way out of situations so i'm not sure if this is worth analyzing; except hazel isn't playing along at ALL, she's trying to prevent something worse from happening but it doesn't matter. she can't stop either of them.

[haob1n]

Flower boy Sung Hanbin

[thedrotter]

Do any of you remember a Youtube video about Re:Kinder talking about how the game is seen and percieved by some people (mostly touching upon and arguing against how it has been treated insensitively as some sort of weird legend like "ooo disturbing game with a hidden truth behind it" due to it's creator being dead), as well as talking about the charm of the game (even mentioning it's art at some point) and sadness of the themes without spoiling anything at the same time?? I remember the video avoided saying any spoilers at all and only touched on the literal plot as the kids being stuck in a dire situation in the town with all the adults dead without really getting into the why (it didn't even say one of the kids themselves was the cause— as thus, spoiler free), other than that it just touched on the emotional side of it and vaguely mentioned some scenes.

i also remember at some point the later half (at the very least if not in all of it) of the video, music by Siinamota was playing in the background. Does anyone remember seeing a video like this?

I can't seem to find it anywhere and don't even remember the exact year I watched it.😭 It was the way I found out about this game a while ago, which eventually ended up in me playing it, and I really wish I could watch it again. I thought it was a deleted video by someone called hazel as it was mentioned by a lot of people, but I found that one and it isnt it.😓 I'm wondering if anyone remembers watching something along the lines of what im describing and knows if it's still up.

[caressthosecheekbones]

feeling shary today

why is my hair always peak pretty when I have nowhere to go but lay around in bed all day. also my skin. <3 has been pretty good these days. might it be bc i kinda regularly wash my face and use the special cream in the evenings? who knows.

[lovecoredeity]

@miss-grey that’s so real,,, god I haven’t even been able to do sketches lately either but those tend to be all I’m able to do as of late rather than like fully rendered stuff. Thanks so much, you’re so sweet!! And I’ll try not to, you also try not to be hard on yourself or anything okay? And thank you so much again, that’s always such a high compliment!!

[solardrake]

What if you woke up one day as a dragon 🐉(in minecraft)

[cam24fan]

Hot take: Hazel is the strongest demigod, not Percy.

Don't get me wrong, Percy is definitely very talented and accomplished, and has done things other demigods in the series couldn't even dream of. Even so, if he and Hazel were ever to fight without any restrictions holding them back, I think she'd win.

For one, Hazel has a wide range of powers. Due to Pluto, she has control over the minerals and metals in the earth. Not only can she conjure gems out of the ground, but her curse makes them much deadlier than usual too. Additionally, as a protégé of Hecate, she has mastery over Mist manipulation, something which Percy has canonically struggled with. Unlike Nico and Percy, none of these powers have downsides to them, i.e. they don't tire her nor does she ever lose control. Even her curse can come to her advantage when targeted against an enemy.

Percy may have gone toe-to-toe with a God and choked a Goddess on her own poison, but Hazel's feats are nothing to scoff at either. She was able to not only resurrect a giant without any formal training or guidance, but also both destroy it and send Mother Earth herself into a 6-decade coma, all in one fell swoop. When it comes to thinking on the fly, both Hazel and Percy are shown to be very capable. Hazel is able to recognize Gaea's manipulation and defeat her, and later negotiates with the Fates to allow her mother into the Fields of Asphodel

"But Percy survived Tartarus," you say, and yes, I admit that does tilt the scales in his favour. At least, it would, if not for the way Rick liberally expels characters to Tartarus on a whim. Percy survived Tartarus, but so did Annabeth and Will, yet no one seems to argue that they're the strongest demigods. Hell (pun not intended), Nico did it first! And twice! That too, on his own the first time.

On the other hand, Hazel does do something no other demigod has: come back from the dead. In the original series, there is an entire subplot dedicated to emphasizing how it is impossible to cheat death, ending with Bianca choosing to be reborn so that Nico would quit trying to bring her back. Sally is sent back from the Underworld as a special favour from Hades himself, and even in Heroes of Olympus, the Doors of Death being open is seen as a big deal. Yet, all Hazel needs is a little help from Nico, and she is free to just stroll out of there.

People break mentally after only a year of isolation. Hazel spends 6 decades alone as the only sentient being surrounded by souls with no memory or conscious, without even knowing that she'd be rescued. Then, she has to get used to a world completely different to her own, referring both to modern day but also Camp Jupiter itself. Growing up as young Black girl in 1930s North America alone should reflective of her emotional strength, but the rest only confirms that she has a superior mental fortitude to most.

"But Percy was asked to be a God!" Indeed. However, this also doesn't mean much when considering the way the Greek Gods are portrayed in the Riordanverse. They're shown to be a lot less competent than their mythological counterparts, for e.g. Apollo in the Trials of Apollo. If Percy could easily defeat Ares, who had thousands of years of experience as a God, then why can't Hazel defeat him in turn, when Percy didn't even accept the offer?

Hazel cannot shadowtravel like Nico can, but she might not even need to considering that the "Fastest Being On Land" (Riordan's words, not mine) follows her command. Hylla mentions in Son of Neptune that even the strongest Amazons, a warrior group noted for being indomitable, were unable to tame Arion. Arion (according to the wiki) can ride over both wind and sea, so even in Percy's domain, Hazel has an advantage he doesn't. It goes without saying that as loyal and faithful as Blackjack may be, he serves no comparison to Arion.

In conclusion, uh, Hazel >>>> Percy.

[hyacjnthus]

Heroes of Olympus characters and their designs in THE MARK OF ATHENA vs THE LOST HERO & THE SON OF NEPTUNE graphic novels pt.1

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PERCY JACKSON

The Son of Neptune vs The Mark of Athena graphic novel [2017] graphic novel [2023]

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ANNABETH CHASE

The Lost Hero vs The Mark of Athena graphic novel [2014] graphic novel [2023]

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REYNA AVILA RAMÍREZ-ARELLANO

The Son of Neptune vs The Mark of Athena graphic novel [2017] graphic novel [2023]

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HAZEL LEVESQUE

The Son of Neptune vs The Mark of Athena graphic novel [2017] graphic novel [2023]

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NICO DI ANGELO

The Son of Neptune vs The Mark of Athena graphic novel [2017] graphic novel [2023]

[ananas-pineapple-thing]

u know i’m not sure if it’s because i read the series pretty young but i never got into percabeth even though i like their characters and enjoyed the narrative of them growing up and getting together !🫣 i think it works for the story but i don’t have any strong feelings abt it

[helianthologies]

im pretty sure ill probably not know who you're talking about but id LOVE to hear anyway who you're talking abt in the tags of that knight/jester post. pleaaaaaase bec 🎤 share w us the insanity

it's literally so embarrassing though. im just being really autistic about the percy jackson books rn bc ive been rereading them with my mom..... honestly the connection with that post and the Specific Relationship im thinking of is tenuous at best. but ive been thinking about them (frank and leo) (im deranged) a lot lately

its kind of like... that knight/jester dynamic + also they hate each other and argue constantly bc theyre narrative foils and have diametrically opposed destinies/powers/etc. but also they literally have to work together and trust each other with their lives and they DO but theyre just like. not sure how to be friends??