#like connections that mean enough to u to make a minor impact but aren’t Big enough to warrant going out of u way to visit

[tchaikovskaya]

Thinking about all the times in life u see someone familiar without knowing it’s the last time ur ever going to see them

[rickriordanfandam]

opinions on riordanverse ; my edition

a lot of people have been doing this so i decided why not right. probably gna lose some followers or smth but anyways. pls respect my opinions! if u disagree, thats fine, but please be polite. unless any of my opinions strikes u as morally wrong then pls point it out to me respectfully. thanks!

- i actually liked drew. im so sorry to everyone who hates her but full offence, why. think about it this way ok, first of all drew became hc because silena died. silena was the traitor, the one who betrayed chb, yet after she died campers celebrated her as a hero? and then drew suddenly has to replace her and live up to idk that legacy she left behind,, when all of a sudden this girl named piper swoops in and takes her place. idk abt u but i wld be salty abt that too. not only that, but as an asian, the chances of drew having faced racism/bullying as a child is pretty high (she studies at brooklyn academy). which means that when she finds out shes a demigod, and arrives at chb where most of the campers are white (this is an assumption btw), she’d obviously be scared of being bullied for her skin color right?? so the first thing she wld do before the campers get to bully her is to bully them before they can do so. (sentence structure here is wack i apologize) ofc this might not even have happened, drew could have had a perfect childhood && was a b1tch for no reason, BUT EVEN THEN HER ROLE AS A BULLY WAS PRETTY VITAL BECAUSE THAT FURTHER SHOWED THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HER AND PIPER,, HIGHLIGHTING PIPER AS A HERO//GOOD CHARACTER,, AND THEREFORE MAKING READERS LIKE PIPER MORE. anyway stop hating on drew please. ALSO WHY IS THIS SO LONGA SDFJHG

- jason isnt bland, the fandom just kinda erased his backstory (thanks to @pjohoo-memes for the phrasing lol)

- reynabeth wouldnt have lasted/would have broken up several times. idk i just see them as two extremely powerful characters who have firm opinions and will definitely clash at some point. in a platonic relationship,, i can see them as really good friends but as lovers? idk i just think theyll break up

- PIPABETH

- i dont really like jercy,, i see them as better friends than lovers. also idt jason and percy were that close..?

- the dam and not my type jokes are srsly cringey and were never funny. ik that seems hypocritical since my username literally makes use of the dam joke but honestly i dont actually like the joke. its not funny to me and has never been funny

- the seven were not best friends. they definitely argued,, and honestly probably werent as close as the fandom makes them seem. like ure dumped with 6 other people, out of which u only know a few. my introverted ass would have jumped off the argo 2 quicker than leo valdez could bomb camp jupiter up. also leo was a dick to frank. so what if frank is bigger sized?? thats not a valid reason to tease him

- the fandom needs to stop hating on octavian while worshipping luke. if u hate luke and u say u hate octavian too, then okay. but if u tell me ure a luke stan but u despise octavian?? imma disagree w u. luke was worse than octavian im sorry. first of all, octavian being a dick was kinda justified. hes been after the praetor position for so long, and everyone keeps saying to “wait for jason” when suddenly this dude, whos a son of NEPTUNE (neptune wasnt liked much by romans), and the camp decides to make him praetor?? dude i would be pissed off big time. and then afterwards, he finds out that greek demigods are real and the dude they made praetor is greek. AND THEN GREEK DEMIGODS COME TO CJ AND ONE OF THEM BOMB IT UP?? octavian has been told all his life that greeks are scum and this dude called leo valdez attacks cj. sure it was an accident, but did octavian know that? no. so it was honestly justified that he was such a salty prick im just saying. also some of yall be hating on octavian for cutting a teddy bear open and thats the funniest shit ive ever heard i swear 

- luke didnt go to elysium

- travis and connor stoll r way too underrated. the two have been head counselors of the hermes cabin since luke was revealed as a traitor, can u imagine the stress? luke, the person they probably looked up to as a brother, betrayed them. and they didnt even have time to process this when they were  thrown the roles of being hcs. that would have been so stressful and i would probably have broken down if i were them. the stoll brothers taking turns to wake up at ungodly hours because a new camper is crying and homesick and terrified, the stoll brothers having to comfort and take care of new campers, having to deal with the amount of people in that cramped space because not enough campers are being claimed fast enough. having to resolve issues between campers in the hermes cabin all the time. the stolls arent just comedic relief, and we need to stop treating them as such

- tratie shldve been canon idc idc

- demigods of the demeter cabin arent talked about enough and i love the fact that meg was demeters kid. like she isnt the child of one of the big three yet shes so powerful.

- we need to hype clarisse up more her character arc was phucking amazing 

- rachel is overhated. sis found out greek gods exist and regularly come down to earth to fuck around and went “ok cool”. queen shit behavior methinks

- the floor 19 crew of mcga is srsly underrated. like do u even remember halfborn gunderson, mallory keen, tj, etc??? bc i feel like we only remember samirah, magnus, alex, and sometimes blitz and hearthstone

- sadie (tkc) was kinda annoying at first. i like her more now tho but i rmb not liking her for a phat while

- tkc and mcga need more love

- carter kane and jason grace arent boring. theyre just really sweet boys who are too good for this world and yes yes yes 

- hazel and frank (especially frank) need to be hyped up more. i hardly ever see anything about them. also yall seem to forget that frank was literally made praetor and that even hecate admired hazel and was willing to fight beside her because of how powerful she was

- frazels age gap is kinda sketch but i still think theyre really cute

- nico definitely had trauma from going to tartarus on his own

- GROVER IS PERCYS BEST FRIEND

- annabeth isnt smarter than leo but neither is leo smarter than annabeth. ive seen a lot of discussions about who is smarter and heres my hot take on it: neither. theyre equally smart, just in different ways. leos a genius mathematically speaking. he has no issues solving math problems meant for people much, much older than him. annabeth on the otherhand, is great at strategies etc. she can make an army of 1000 more powerful than the enemy, even if theyre outnumbered. so in my opinion, both are equally as smart//u cant compare their intelligence, because their talents lie in two different areas.

- while i do agree rick riordan isnt a god and that hes bound to make mistakes,, AND that hes given us a lot of representation,, if the representation offends the people its sposed to represent, then theres a problem. im talking about piper as a poc and wearing feathers in her hair. im not a poc, so i cant speak for them on whether or not its wrong, because i dont know either. HOWEVER, i have seen multiple posts BY pocs talking about how they didnt really like rick’s representation of piper, and thats an issue. pocs have been and are still oppressed and discriminated against by many. as a white cis man, we cant really blame him for not knowing (tho he could have done a research,, asked some pocs,, idk), but by representing pocs in that manner, hes influencing impressionable kids/teens into thinking “oh pocs wear feathers in their hair all the time” etc, which isnt true. the pjo/hoo series is extremely successful, and kids who read the books will probably start forming inaccurate opinions on pocs. the amount of fan art that depicts piper with feathers in her hair dont help either. “but rick said so in the books, so its canon” yeah well rick isnt a god and he can get some things wrong at times. im not saying we should cancel him, im saying we should start educating ourselves and not spread false info like pocs wearing feathers in their hair all the time. also that snake song shit where she sang Summertime was just- yeah. bc heres the thing you can be racist, and still include minorities, but portray them in a racist way. And even then, ignorance isn't a thing to admire. Getting those facts wrong still has a major impact. It continues to perpetuate racist stereotypes.

“ With the feather thing, I looked it up myself; it takes less than five minutes to figure out that Cherokees don't braid feathers into their hair. I didn't grow up in the country where my parents are from. I have many other first/second generation American friends who have also been through that, with a bit of a disconnect from their culture. But something that most of us have in common is that when we didn't know something, and when our parents weren't that big of a help, we looked it up. We sought out resources online and through other people from our culture to be able to connect more with where we came from. Some of that took a Google search. So I find it hard to believe that Piper, a girl who Rick's trying to portray as someone who is attempting to connect with her culture and is totally against racist stereotypes, wouldn't know that eagle feathers aren't supposed to be braided into your hair casually. She may be disconnected from her culture, but she's also shown to want to connect back to it. Piper wouldn't be casually braiding feathers into her hair while also telling off people for being racist. It makes no sense.” - reddit thread (down below) 

for those of yall who wanna know more please please read this, it has a lot of things i wanna add in here : https://www.reddit.com/r/camphalfblood/comments/gy3gl2/piper_mcleans_portrayal_is_innacurate/ 

as well as https://finding-my-culture.tumblr.com/post/189422373260/maxie-ratties-and-cattie-finding-my-culture 

i will be posting screenshots of these in future posts so if ure viewing this on ig and u dont have tumblr,, dont worry 

- the fact that most of the strong female characters in the series refuse to be “girly”, and ngl i dont really like that. just because ure girly doesnt mean u cant be strong. 

- piper would have been a great way for him to start making the strong characters act girlier, but instead he went with the “I’m not like other girls” trope which is quite obnoxious to hear constantly, and I don’t think it’s necessarily great for younger girls to read that idea growing up.  the closest we've ever had to a strong female character who was also into "girly" things was Silena. when I was younger I admired Piper's "I'm not like other girls" thing, but then I got older and realized that the whole mentality of "not like other girls" is super obnoxious, and a little bit toxic

i have a heck load more that i cant rmb rn but yeah feel free to add more 

[fogmongers]

                                      F  E  L  I  C  E      Q  U  I  V  E  Y .                      psychology major / music minor.                       housemate to sabrina.                          sorority girl.        harpist.        cheerleader.        fencer.        sociopath?

the child of a former model and failed tennis player turned gold digger--- a backwards and complicated woman named louise whom felice doesn’t talk about very much but whom i’m going to get into later. 

louise is currently married to a rich parisian art collector, put on the map for making a few paintings along the lines of rothko that sold for over a million us dollars back in the day because his family knew the right people to get him exposure and hype. they’ve been together on and off for most of felice’s life, with brief spells of breaking up for a few years when louise got bored of him and tried to find a better model. felice has been jerked back and forth between schooling in france and bellingham without much regard, and it’s definitely impacted her social skills, inflated sense of uniqueness, and ability to get attached to people.

she picked up several prestigious hobbies, but the only two that remotely stuck were fencing and playing the harp --- a hamfisted parable for her core nature of yearning for peace but projecting strife; dont @ me. against her mother’s insistence, she never committed her full attention to one or the other, meaning she was never good enough at either to make it professionally. And now that she’s in her twenties, she never will be, since they’re both highly competitive high society fields that require classical training from early childhood to get a foot in the door.

she takes pride in not following her mother’s insistence to become the best at either hobby, but the pressure to compete with everyone around her seeped into other parts of her personality. She has a very insidious, underlying compulsion to outdo others---especially other girls--- in fields of social power/popularity, grades, romance. And she’s prone to sabotaging others to make sure she looks better by comparison.

PERSONALITY WISE:

hangs out with privileged friend groups--- the beautiful people who are rich and athletic enough to succeed in life and romance without needing to develop any kind of personality. for doing the bare minimum of critical thinking and occasionally reading books that aren’t related to schoolwork, she’s usually seen by her social circles as being witty, cultured and interesting. she’s characterized as being the clever snarker on the basis of her using normie stock reactions like “you have I S S U E S...” or “thanks for THAT mental image.” and she’s used to people laughing either because she’s pretty or because their humor is just as uninspired. she’s VERY inclined to being the big fish in a small pond and came to rainier expecting it to be more underwhelming than an ivy league school.

she’s the girl who kept a close, suspicious eye on max bronte and found out that sid was squatting in the sorority house, and left a trail of evidence to expose him and an anonymous note to the other girls about how uncomfortable it was to have an unenrolled ex-con and a secretive liar in the house, which ultimately led to max being booted out of the sorority altogether. might have framed nikki as the person who left the note.

considered to be the great compromiser and philanthropist centrist because she’s amicable with some goths and can talk to them about the smiths or something and holds the bold progressive stance of telling the occasional frat boy stuck in 2009 that he shouldn’t call them fags. 

gets along with the girlsquads because she’s pretty good at co-opting progressive ideas and virtue signalling. has held girls’ hair back while puking and listened to problems before to provide pretty universally understood supportive ideas. kind of has a reputation as being a #fierce #independent #intersectional feminist icon. definitely intelligent and probably has one of the best gpa’s at the school, very focused on her academics, but her intelligence and perceived sense of self-worth has really messed up her ability to relate to and empathize with others.

has suspicions that she might be a sociopath, and is falling into a placebo effect and her long history of hurting people might be a result of her despair toward the situation. has never really experienced proper love so she’s never able to recognize it and definitely doesn’t know how to give it. deep down, might be trying to find camaraderie and look for someone/something to be passionate about, but her pessimism gets the better of her more often than not.

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

basic friends. a ~flirt~ who’s in it for the long game. gAL PaLs. a sorority squad.

someone who was close with her ex. (nina 👀)

other pretenders---people who are just as fake as her---who can’t put their finger on why they don’t like her. 

someone who’s she’s helped through a tough time or complimented and who is definitely wrapped right around her finger. alternatively someone who sees her as an ~angel~ strumming her harp, max/jonah style, and romanticizes her for all of her elegance and rich people interests and culture and slight french accent.