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[rollercoasterofshitposts]

RAMBLE TIME BUCKLE UP

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR TRIALS OF APOLLO AND BASICALLY EVERY PERCY JACKSON BOOK EVER BUT MOSTLY TOA, ESPECIALLY THE BURNING MAZE.

TLDR at the end.

spoilers start now ok bye

Here are some facts that we know for sure:

1. Percy Jackson is named after Perseus, the Greek hero who killed Medusa.

2. Perseus is one of the only, if not THE only Greek hero to not die tragically.

3. Rick Riordan is VERY careful about how he uses names throughout the series, something he addresses from the very beginning when Percy gets to camp. Percy says Zeus’s name (or Kronos’s, can’t remember which and I’m lazy right now) and the sky rumbles, and Chiron warns Percy that names have power and to use them carefully. Later, in Tartarus (if I’m remembering correctly), Percy and Annabeth are wary of using names because of their proximity to monster respawn points.

4. The only other main character named after a Greek hero is Jason Grace.

Here are some things we can assume, based on Rick’s writing style and the details he has given us:

1. A character’s name will tell you something about them. That’s a Riordan near-guarantee.

1a. For example: Piper being a reference to the Pied Piper since she can get anyone to do anything for her, even follow her off a bridge.

1b. Or Magnus and Alex being confirmed from the beginning because Rick mentioned that he stole the name Magnus from Cassandra Clare. (She wrote The Mortal Instruments, which contains a gay couple named Magnus and Alec (Alexander).)

1c. Or Leo being named after the great inventor Leonardo daVinci (not confirmed, but they’re so similar it’s hard to believe otherwise).

1d. A castellan is the governor of a castle who enforces the law around the land. They also have military responsibility. Luke Castellan. nuff said.

2. NAMES HAVE POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE. Sally literally named Percy after a Greek hero to keep his roots close in a subtle way, but she purposefully picked a Greek hero that lives.

2a. HUGE example: Castor and Pollux. In myth, sons of Jupiter. Castor is mortal while Pollux is immortal, and Castor dies. (Slightly irrelevant but Rick loves taking notes from other authors so: In The Hunger Games, part of Katniss’s film team. Castor dies, Pollux lives.) In PJO, sons of Dionysus. Castor dies during Battle of the Labyrinth, while Pollux lives.

The one exception to this rule is Jason Grace. Or so I thought.

If you read the myth pertaining to Jason (Golden Fleece, Argo the First, Medea, etc) you find out that Jason of the Argo dies when he falls asleep on his ship underneath the rotting mast and it falls and kills him. There’s a lot of other stuff that goes down, but for the sake of being succinct, here’s a link to the myth for your perusal:

The only other SUPER MEGA IMPORTANT DETAIL from this myth: Argo Jason, by cheating on Medea, falls out of favor with Hera, while in PJO/HOO, Hera actively names Jason 2.0 and claims him as her champion. (despite him being. Y’know. The proof of her husband being a jackass to her. quality time with the stepmom right there.)

Putting this all together:

1. Sally purposefully named Percy after a Greek hero who lived, indicating fear that he would die if she chose a different name

2. Names have power and Rick puts meaning behind every single name he uses.

3. Jason dies in The Burning Maze.

The real kicker is that they both die in the same way: having lost everything, with so much still to do, dying a completely avoidable death because they weren’t paying attention to what was going on behind them. There’s differences, obviously, because Jason Grace is actually a good person, but those are inconsequential as the big picture is all the same. (We see these similarities happen A LOT with Percy, especially when he kills Medusa.)

We should have known. Rick laid out all the pieces for us from the very beginning, even (possibly) going so far as to straight up tell us that one of the seven would die (again, not confirmed, I saw it in a meme and maybe his twitter? idk im ty ty).

so:

TLDR: Rick Riordan left a gigantic trail of breadcrumbs that should have clued us all in to the fact that Jason was gonna die long before it happened.

And no, I will never shut up about Jason. Justice for my favorite white boy.

[mirrorhouse]

[valeriapryanikova]

halo

[bunnieswithknives]

The reality sets in too little too late. 

Obsessed with the idea of David killing Red with a pair of scissors that I got from @raspf

[stylus99]

BOCCHI

[essektheylyss]

Okay wait speaking of mid-battle forehead touch I REALLY gotta get around to my close reading of Eiselcross arc shadowgast interactions because when looked at in comparison the tower scene was a whole dtr conversation in the sense that they go from a kind of timid uncertainty (particularly on Essek's part, but also on Caleb's, especially when comparing normal Caleb to polymorph Caleb) to a distinct feeling of what I can only describe as an orbit—very much in tandem without being a discrete pair.

The conversation does not "define" the relationship in a romantic sense, but in the sense of an assurance of where their relationship stands and where it will, if they survive this, proceed from there.

[inafieldofdaisies]

Ship Edit | The Diviner and The Baptist | vol. 1 / vol. 2 / vol. 3 / vol. 4 / vol. 5 / vol. 6 AU

“He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.” - Crescendo

[ace-n-mooch-daily]

Today's Ace n M- WHAT THE FUCK WHO HIJACKED THE BLOG WITH ED AND WHERE ARE HIS CLOTHES

[artsy-azure]

My ideas for an adult Mari design 🌸

[origami-butterfly]

One day, I'll reveal to tumblr, the extent of my unexplainable obsession with Mr Utterson, but until then I shall repress my thoughts about him.

[mamsellechosette24601]

I’m not even kidding you guys plz look at this am I going crazy

[snowfoxicedemon]

@dotflowweek Day 5: Restlessness

do you think robots have their own energy drinks that fake their battery state

[streetkid-named-desire]

Woe smut WIP be upon ye for thirsty thursday. It's pretty much just basic action and I gotta add all the titillating description later cause I'm so fuckin bad at it.

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Bea watched his eyes go back to flickering back and forth under his lids and pouted. She wanted his full attention. But he wouldn't give it to her. And so, she would make him.

Because V always gave her what she wanted.

Bea unzipped his suit the rest of the way down his pelvis. He was already halfway to hard and she had no trouble maneuvering upward. However, only the head of his cock made it past the open zipper. But she could work with that.

She kissed and tongued her way down his chest, stopping to mark him as only hers. When she got to his cock she looked up at him.

V's interface turned a bright pink and wavered in and out. Half asleep but not lucid dreaming. The biomonitor showed a flood of oxytocin to his system.

Bea spread the netrunner suit as far as it would go and lowered her head. She softly flicked her tongue against the sensitive skin that bridged the head to the shaft and V's hand twitched.

"You can do better than that," she said.

V's interface oozed into the emptiness turning everything but the maze and mouse into dripping lines. He knew what she was doing because he could feel it in his interface avatar. It was electric, an exhilarating connection.

Bea trailed her tongue flat against the underside of his cock, ending in a kiss at the tip of the head. She shoved her hands into his suit and tried dragging it down further to expose more of his rock hard cock. She needed to devour him and taste every molecule.

She got far enough that she could take a quarter into her mouth. Any further and she'd risk jacking him out too soon.

V whimpered when she enveloped him in her mouth. Her lips hit the zipper and the soft skin of his hard cock combined with the cool metal of the zipper sent shivers up her spine.

V let the rest of his interface fall away to focus his full attention on the rat in the maze and resisting Bea's temptation.

[goldentigerfestival]

i will never not find it hilarious that they completely forgot to animate patty at the very end of the final cutscene in the last three frames of the whole group

and the dub didn't even give her voiced lines when everyone was shouting they so the localization forgot about her too

[freetobeeyouandme]

Been thinking about this at work, but I think we should collectively do Dracula Daily. It's one of the most fun ways I have interacted with classic literature and I think y'all would like it, AND I think it would be interesting if more people knew the book because there are quite some references to Dracula/Vampires in ST and I want other people's opinions!

Brief explanation for those who may not have heard of Dracula Daily before: It's essentially an email newsletter that piece by piece sends you the entirity of Bram Stoker's Dracula over the course of six months. You can really easily do that because Dracula is epistolary and comprised of letters, diary entries, newspaper articles etc, which are all dated -- so you know exactly when what part of the book is taking place. Which in turn means you can read the novel "in real-time" as it unfolds day by day. And also it means you only read a little bit most days and still have read an entire book by the end of it!

I did it last year when it kind of blew up on Tumblr and it's a great time. It's basically a tumblr wide book club and a bunch of people came in and shared their historical knowledge and put things into context, plus the memes were exquisite. Very much my favorite time rereading Dracula of the many times I have read this novel by now, so I can only recommend it!

You can go sign up here if I piqued your interest!

[nero-neptune]

based on a pic i took in february but only decided to draw it when it snowed again in early april. snow in the springtime is insane to me. and seeing that was cool as hell!