#medusa/auntie em

[demigods-posts]

Reasons why Lost The Lightning Theif musical is amazing:

1.) "Hades is sending his monsters after us. We're doing something right." This is such amazing insight from Annabeth, and it goes criminally overlooked. We stan the daughter of Athena.

2.) "What did it say?" "Take that bus to Los Angeles." "We're not on the bus." "I know. (to Los Angeles 🐐)" "We blew up the bus!" "I know!(to Los Angeles 🐐)" I love how this is the way they depict the trio: Percy and Annabeth mid-argument on a dangerous quest while Grover is getting a word in when he can lmao.

3.) "Dude, like, listen, please. Half-bloods, to monsters, smell like Mickey D's.🐐" "We smell?!" "Like tacos, or takeout Vietnamese.🐐" Gover, you are freaking this boy out, and it is the funniest shit. Imagine you're on a quest and the way you find out that the monsters you have to fight want to eat you is by your best friend, who is half-goat, telling you that you, to monsters, smell like a happy meal. I'd give up.

4.) "Dude, are you talking to a squirrel?" "Satyr powers...Maybe he can help us." "Really, 'cause I think that seems kind of nuts." Percy, you little shit. This is why we love you.

5.) "You hurt his feelings. Tell the squirrel you're sorry." "I'm not saying sorry to a squirrel." "He's very sorry. Tell the squirrel you're sorry, Percy." this entire interaction makes me love the musical even more because the writers didn't even need to include this, but they did, and I'm so happy.

6.) "Hungry monsters on the ground." "Angry gods are in the sky." "No safe places to be found." "Wanna run! Wanna cry!" These lyrics are so good. It really shines a light on how unfathomably terrifying quest are.

7.) "Can't go back to any home." "Camp is way too far away." "Can't protect my only friends." And, right here, is what each character longs for: Percy wanting a safe place to stay because he's never had one, Annabeth wanting to be at camp because it's the only home she's ever known, and Grover wanting to keep his friends safe because he can't let another half-blood die. These lines won over my heart.

8.) "We're lost. We're just kids. We're alone." And then you remember that, with the exception of Grover, these are literal children who are expected to return Zeus's lightning bolt and save a mortal soul before the world ends. These are impossible stakes, and these kids are forced to handle them. The gods continue to disappoint me.

9.) "Children, come inside!" And then they have to face Medusa??? Fuck that. I want them safe😤😤

Lost is such an amazing song! It really highlights the trio's dynamic is an interesting way, and I highly recommend a listen to this one as well.

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[mydairpercabeth]

you dont want me to root for her??? THATS MOTHER!!!

[adrianasunderworld]

I feel like goth and horror lovers are great customers for Medusa at her store. Like you find this garden store that's kinda off the beaten path and the lady there has the most insane monster statues youve ever seen.

"Oh my God, this Hellhound statue is gonna look great in our garden. We'll take it!"

Or people who do haunted attractions buying stuff off her. Imagine some haunted house was doing a gorgon theme, not knowing they commissioned actual Medusa for her statues.

"Yeah, we're doing a Gorgons Garden for our haunted house. So we really want some scared people statues to put outside. Do you think you can have those made in time?"

"Oh yes, I can get that done in plenty of time."

[lamiue]

He stole our youth and promised heaven

The men start wars yet Troy hates Helen...

[chronicallyinlovewithcharacters]

been rewatching percy jackson now 3 episodes are out and the sally/medusa parallels are insane!

the one i picked up on the most was episode 1 in montauk, percy watches sally in the kitchen the same way he watches medusa

difference is he leaves medusa but stays with/goes to sally

bit of a reach but it could show how poseidon left medusa to her fate but in the books we are shown how he still cares for sally despite everything (calling her beautiful multiple times, low-key flirts with her at percy's birthday party, asks about her)

anyway i just love the new series!

[pjo-ship-polls]

These are only for romantic pairings, not platonic.

The ships in the polls are the twelve (12) most popular ships for each character based on the number of fics on AO3. However, Medusa isn't shipped with twelve different people and so there are only six (6) options for her poll.

[heteromerous-rhyming]

usually i don't look at writers of specific episode, but can we take a moment to appreciate that episode three, medusa's episode, had a female writer of color? Monica Owusu-Breen really went i'm going to speak directly to the discourse surrounding medusa and ATE, and Jessica Kennedy took the script and ran

[maltmilkshake]

with the percy jackson show out now, i feel like it’s the best time to show y’all this store that existed in my hometown for the majority of my life. it was right next to the barber shop i’ve had my hair cut at since i was a baby, and i never noticed it until i read the books in middle school. i took this pic in 2013 (ish?) and as far as i’m aware it has since moved/gone out of business :(

[thecoolguy24601]

Auntie Em’s Garden Emporium is just the IKEA bathroom section for pigeons

[diver5ion]

[armath-the-wise]

Thinking about how Sally told Percy at a you g age "not everyone who looks like a monster is one" (talking specifically about Medusa.

He's gonna be hesitant to hurt Aunty Em.

I'm so excited to see him realizing it's Medusa because of how that previous scene will impact his reaction.

What with a bunch of people saying the changed Gabe doesn't deserve to be Medusa'd (idk how I feel), maybe... Maybe they don't kill her?

Hmmm....

[edains]

the pjo show is very good i will gripe about the fact they just keep outright stating who the characters are as soon as you meet them instead of letting the audience figure it out

[thelastspeecher]

one of the things I mentioned to the roommate when we first started watching the PJO show was that I hoped they kept in the bit in the book where Annabeth is unable to read the sign at Aunty Em's

like, Percy sees it and is like "uh what does that say" and Annabeth says "I don't know" and Percy thinks to himself that Annabeth is so smart and likes to read so much he sometimes forgets that she's dyslexic too

it's such a good little character moment and a powerful one for any dyslexic child reading it. it's one of my favorite parts from the book; I remember it so distinctly.

and of COURSE

OF COURSE

they get to Aunty Em's on the show and Annabeth reads the sign right fucking away

[guardianspirits13]

last episode 3 rant for now i almost promise but like.

looking back it's an obvious improvement that Annabeth sees Percy exploding the toilets and immediately clocks him as a son of Poseidon, and also that she takes one look at stone statues and "aunty em" and takes no time to put two and two together. Like this girl has been studying for this her whole life, she's probably gone around camp devouring stories from new arrivals to piece together how these myths and monsters manifest in the modern world.

Kid shows up with a minotaur horn, a stormy temper, and a bone to pick with the gods? That's her ticket out of here.

Wandering along a satyr path to an almost guaranteed monster lair littered with statues? That's Medusa.

Also love the juxtaposition of "wise beyond her years battle strategist" Annabeth and "child in a convenience store with no budget" Annabeth. She's intelligent and quick-witted but still a kid i the ways it matters.

[actuallyprobablyafaerie]

list of things that made me scream in pjo episode 3

Percy picking grover because he trusts him not to betray him!!! THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS OK

Luke still comes off as so likable and inconspicuous that whole convo he had with percy and the shoes i just

GROVER AND THE CONSENSUS SONG I CANT

annabeth staring at the different flavors of candy in the gas station and not being able to pick and just buying all of them. Thats the annabeth we deserve

ANNABETHS KNIFE APPEARANCE ALERT and a fury is IMMEDIATELY killed

uncle ferdinand foreshadowing……………

When annabeth and percy start arguing in the woods and grover tries to change the subject by talking about his uncle and they both completely ignore him. I LOVE GROVER SO MUCH

the bickering in this episode is ON POINT by the way

like the stuff theyre arguing about makes sense. Yes i would be concerned about those things too

ESPECIALLY since theres such a focus put on trust (esp after percy learns that someone is going to betray him) and percy and annabeth are arguing about stuff theyve lied or havent told each other about???? Sorry that might be skipping ahead a bit but GOD is that the good stuff

i love that they changed how the three of them ended up going into auntie em’s because before it was a little concerning that none of them figured out it was medusa. Plus having a fury outside just adds to the tension a perfect amount i think, because it really traps them in there

all the discussion about the gods and what medusa talks to percy about in the kitchen - YES MAKE ME HATE THEM!! All of this is adding up to lukes motivations making so much sense in the end

ALSO!! Them harkening back to sallys line in the first episode when she tells percy that not all heroes look like heroes and not all monsters look like monsters - they brought it back so perfectly. Percy wanting to trust medusa because of what his mom said, medusa calling Poseidon a monster, ALL OF IT is so good

When theyre down in the basement and grover puts on the shoes and then just fucking. Flies away and disappears into the darkness yelling a little. and annabeth and percy just kind of helplessly watch him go before being like - welp i guess that plans not working. That was peak comedy

them using annabeths hat on medusa and then using it to kill alecto THEY WERE SO SMART FOR THAT!!! Also percy just the invisible severed head was a hilarious concept to me

when percy suggests burying the hat in the ground with the hat on to make sure no one bad finds it and annabeth just!!! Agrees!!! And then grover has to be like no that hats important to her its a gift from her mother!!! And then percys like well we’ll find another solution then. That whole scene was good yes i liked that

also annabeth revealing that grover was her protector too and percy asks about it and grover just changes the subject and doesnt answer. He is the KING of avoidance

also grover finally interrupting annabeth and percy when they start fighting and giving his whole speech about getting along. That wouldve felt a little cheesy and preachy and out of place from anyone else but considering grover tried to get them to sing the consensus song a few hours earlier i fully believe that he would say that

I AM IMPERTINENT

Why the fuck wasnt there a lin manuel maranda jumpscare warning. I couldve used one of those

but actually all the jokes in this episode were so on point. Like percy calling drachmas chuckie cheese tokens. And him arguing about voting on the bus. Anyways

10/10 episode i will be rewatching like eight times before next tuesday.

[castlecrumblings]

#'auntie em' can eat me up #what a woman #god i want her hat #scratch that I want her entire wardrobe #best dressed monster east of the mississippi

Jessica Parker Kennedy as 'Medusa' Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2023- ) | 1.03 - We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium