#im like a quarter to the book

[teartra]

Rhy + Lila = In laws solidarity

Kell + Alucard = In laws hostility

[its-your-mind]

what the fuck. what the fuck what the fu k.

rick riordan I am a whole ass adult now how tf are you taking a wrecking ball to my emotions AT THIS POINT. SHOULDN’T WE BE PAST THIS.

what the fuck Meg took in all of her foster siblings to help them live a life after Nero. she’s showing them a world that can be kind, where people will say what they mean, and where mistakes don’t deserve punishment.

BUT THEN ALSO. Apollo. Went back.

And for Meg and her siblings, everything about their lives has changed and improved. But Apollo just… goes back to Olympus. Where Zeus continues to rule with an iron fist, where no one was even able to stick up for him, where every other Olympian lives in fear of Zeus’s anger. And he’s still there, he’s still in charge, but Apollo knows BETTER now. He knows that things can be different. He knows that he can be different, and he’s making the decision to be better now than he was before.

But now he doesn’t fit. He doesn’t fit with the Olympians, who weren’t a healthy family even before this, and he doesn’t fit with his new friends, either, because he’s a god again. He can go see them and talk with them and help them, but he’ll always have to leave again. He can never stay.

The last few chapters of The Tower of Nero were so beautiful and amazing - getting to see everyone else living their happy endings (as much as any demigod can), but they were always tinged with… loneliness. Apollo is separate from them all again. He can teleport at will, he can change his appearance to anything, he can separate his consciousness… and that’s all great, he wanted all of that back…

But by the end? He kind of wanted to stay human. And there’s no resolution for him. He’s gone through this incredible, difficult, terrifying, life-changing adventure… and he came back, and everything’s the same. Kinda makes me think of Luke, going off on his quest, coming back different, harder, sharper… and finding Camp exactly like how he left it, with everyone expecting him to just slot himself back into the place he had before, when that space doesn’t fit him anymore.

And Apollo has what Luke didn’t - friends who knew him as he was changing, who love this new person he’s become, and even a sister whose affection won’t change no matter what happens. He’s going to be okay, I know that.

But there’s just… something so quietly tragic in the end of Apollo’s story. He doesn’t get his own personal happy ending. His “triumph” is a return to a divine status that he’s not necessarily sure he even wants anymore. He has to forge his own path forward towards his own happiness, and we don’t get to join him on it. We got to be with him through his Trials - his future is up to him, now.

[r0d30-brqt]

vil n neige..!!

[sharkneto]

Me, a person who's written hundreds of thousands of words of a physics and sci-fi adjacent fic, reading a physics driven sci-fi book (The Three-Body Problem): Oh shit this book slaps

[vanhelsingapologist]

let me remind everyone who recommended acotar to me under the "it's the only good one" tagline that the ninth circle of hell is reserved for betrayers.

[sangfielle]

heres my secret dc opinion is that i actually do not like harley quinn. i like harlivy because ivy is there. i kind of cant stand her

[surpriserose]

River monsters mentioned for the river monsters mutuals

[lzrdprsn]

Letting my birthday pass in obscurity. Just another Wednesday.

[moodycarcass]

ik it's my fault for recreationally reading the illiad like a fuckin freak along with skipping the 80 page long introduction but damn does this book love spending 16 paragraphs going "then glupshittius and blorphmenos led the men who held erechphalus and pulerpenis, the men who settled Onision green with vineyards"

[boycritter]

this is the funniest fucking book ive ever read

[isaacathom]

thinking about the hornblower/bush pleading paragraph again and being reminded of a scene earlier in that same book where hornblower is trying to tell bush about how he can navigate and demonstrating the math for him and all bush can do is nod dumbly and admire hornblower's delicate and nimble hands

[mephestopheles]

I'm starting to dream of cutting fabric to make a quilt, this is the obnoxious phase of a creeping hyperfixation.

[malinaa]

i don’t know how to articulate this but the writing for divine rivals is like… it’s good! but it’s also ?? idk ?? naïve ?? genuinely idk how to explain this

[night-dark-woods]

oooooh i want to read SOMETHING but i dont know what

[pipedreams13]

That ethereal feeling of finding a book that becomes so dear to you that it feels like a secret letter that was written for you and only you

[kittyhazelnut]

my grandmother passed away in 2019 and my mom was going through her (my mom's not my grandmother's) room and found all the coins my grandmother collected before she passed and apparently she had quarter books for me and my brothers trying to collect all 50 state quarters for each of us and I also used to collect coins so I went through my coin collection and I put in the states I had that she didn't and I completed one collection, one is just missing Arizona, and the third is only missing six states :,)