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WAIT YALL WHEN TF DID I ACTUALLY GET TO 100 OF YOU GUYS??? SO GLAD YALL ARE JOINING ME ON THE TRAIN TO HELL (/j)

I want to do one of those “Follower Events” but I have no clue where to begin??

Also shoutout to @queenpiranhadon @freddie-77-ao3 @riordanverse-madness @pookiepiss69 @bookishswordfish and a lot of others I can’t remember [because I don’t write down moots (which I probably should? At some point?) ] for being with me through my nonsense 🫡

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Okay storytime:

Back in 2022 I started an IG account for my books (bookstagram). I panicked on its name because I wasn’t allowed to share my real name (only way mama let me have my account) and I’m terrible at naming things. In the end, I called myself the._.corner._.shelf for no reason other than it being goofy + book related.

Because I had no “official name” online, my friends Christened me “Shelf/Shelfy” and I RAN with it. When it was finally my turn for an Archive of Our Own account + Tumblr, I got super attached to Shelf as a name. But I didn’t want it to connect to my IG (at the time) - so here comes Shelfthe_reader. It’s exactly what I need in an account name.

After my 18th, I finally hard-launched my ACTUAL name on my IG via a queer book I got signed (so on brand). Because of my name launch, I wanted to change my IG handle. So now these, everything is shelfthe_reader EXCEPT my theater IG account. That’s probably bad if I want to keep my digital footprint a secret but 🫡 it can’t get any worse than it is

These days my online names include:

Shelf

Shelfy

Shelfington

Bookshelf

Cabinet

what made u guys pick ur url's !

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Intro Post!

Welcome everyone to my blog! I am Shelf, aka @shelfthe-reader Obviously, this is where you go to find Riordanverse fanfic recommendations! We are doing this two ways:

This is a link that will constantly update with my favorite fics (and my own!) If you just want a random rec look here!

Request in my asks specific brands of fics using this template- you don’t have to answer any questions, but be specific about what you DON’T want.

Rating

Warnings (Violence, MCD, No Warning Apply)

Relationships - Main (if not say “Gen”)

Relationships - Side Pairings (if none say “None”)

Additional Tags

Length

Completion Status

If you want a crossover (if so, what fandom/fandoms)

Tags/Ships you DO NOT want too see in any circumstance (we all have those)

A vague idea of what you want. Just vibes

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I will NOT be taking requests for fics with

explicit content

pedo (I understand that with Godly heritage the line gets blurry but it is there)

incest (same goes for here as well)

ABO

anything else that resembles one of these topics

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All fics will be in English because that is the only language I know lol

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What I’m doing for y’all is finding good fics in your specified tag(s) so you don’t have to read stuff you don’t like. I can’t wait to help y’all find your new favorite fics!

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My Tags:

#shelfthewriter: Something I wrote

#shelfthereader: A special shoutout post for whatever I’m reader (may not be PJO related)

#fanfictionwizard: Submission posts

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Current State of the union that I have admitted to myself.

Sorry guys

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Greetings mutual of mine, tis I, completing my duties as a mutual to randomly send you questions :D

I dare you… to rant about a character who deserved better GO

(lets pretend this hasn’t been sitting for two weeks)

So my instinct was to start yapping about my #emotionalsupportwhiteboy Jason Grace but I doubt I can say anything new about him. Or be able to be coherent since all of his lore just flew through the window. Then I thought Will Solace or Nico di Angelo but they are too obvious (since they were literally Rick’s punching bags). But instead I give you Darrel Curtis from The Outsiders and LET ME TELL YOU WHY (SPOILERS FOR THE OUTSIDERS IF ANY OF THE MUTUALS ARE WANTING TO READ THIS INCREDIBLE PHENOMENAL BOOK)

A/N: To make this as fair as possible, I’m ONLY focusing on characterization from the book. Reason being I’ve never seen the movie so I’m not able to average out the three major lores (book, movie, musical.) It’s only fair if I do either the original or all. Not partial lore.

I’m not quite sure if this counts as “deserved better” but it’s still tragic

I first read this book tthan our protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.

At that age, I HATED Darry. I didn’t sympathize with him, I thought he was a terrible person, etc. All of my energy went into crying for Johnny, and deciding that Pony and I were the same person. I didn’t give a shit about Darry’s actions. I thought he deserved what came to him.

But then, in my senior year of highschool (this year, 2024 for those in the future if this post gets resurrected), I picked up the book again, read it three times in four months, annotated it, and watched the musical. As I’m writing this, I’m rereading my annotations from last month.

Now enough with this exposition, let’s get into my rant about Darrel Shaynne Curtis Jr.

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Darry's gone through a lot in his twenty years, grown up too fast. Sodapop'll never grow up at all. I don't know which way's the best. I'll find out one of these days. (The Outsiders, pg 10)

Darry was one step away from being set for life- he was a Greaser who could get out. He was smart, he had non-Greaser friends; he had a football scholarship and was set for college.

He was either 19 or freshly 20 when BOTH of his parents get killed in an accident leaving two kids under 18. Naturally, being the soul he was, he immediately gave up his dream to keep his hooligan family together. They all knew that if he went to college it would be over for the family. There’s only so much you can do in Poor-ass, bum-fuck Nowhere, Oklahoma. And Darry does it all.

On top of working stupid hours in stupid conditions hauling stupid amounts of roofing, he has to parent a teenager who knows too much for his own good. This book is written in first person, and while Ponyboy defends his every decision, you can tell he doesn’t have the street smarts his brothers grew up with. And you can tell that stresses Darry out even more, even with the amount of times Pony insults/shit talks his brother.

Does Darry deal with this well? Hell no. I’d be surprised if he did. So much stupid in one week can drive a person crazy (believe me, I know.) Now, I don’t condone smacking children for ANY reason, but I think here, Darry was in that brother/father limbo and crossed into brother territory. Like have y’all NOT smacked your siblings? But went royally wrong here is that because he acts so much like a “father-overlord” to Ponyboy so often, Pony couldn’t even compute the fact that Darry could ACTUALLY act like a brother sometimes. In the park with Johnny, he even compares it to Johnny being hit by his father. Apparently being a brother doesn’t describe Darry anymore

The REALLY heartbreaking part is the reunion after ✨The Fire✨. When his “Alpha male, if I don’t feel anything it would be better for all of us” facade shatters and he just KNOWS that he inadvertently causes everything after page 58. That’s another burden that no man should EVER carry.

It took a murder, a fire, a rumble, a death, a suicide, a three-day fever dream, and Soda running away for Ponyboy to finally understand what Darry does to keep him safe and I think that’s the most tragic thing of all.

Am I just talking in circles? Probably. I’m never coherent when talking about my traumatized characters.

As a treat for staying the entire length of this essay/incoherent rant, here are the bones of an Outsiders playlist I’m making.

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Oh oop-

There’s a lot of things you’ve done that Becky doesn’t know about

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Drop some Riordanverse HCs in my ask box I want to debate/add too/discuss them

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6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time?

OOOO YES YES YES!! (Brings up my Google Doc! And some of these aren’t on the doc since they aren’t Percy Jackson related)(now you people get to see my ao3 history)(thinking about changing my name + PFP so you can’t tell it’s me)

Percy Jackson

Dawn Rises from the East by @tsarisfanfiction . I have it under good authority that I’m half of those hits.

Dear Reader by @wrongcaitlyn . This fic OFFICIALLY introduced me to Lizzy, Gracie, and Phoebe’s music

it’s just our bringing up that gets us out of hand by ma_lar_key on Ao3. I first clicked it because the title is LITERALLY a lyric from West Side Story but I’m obsessed with it all

Senior Year Cliches by @no2ticonderoga . My favorite Senior Year/High School AU that follows canon (for the most part)

^^ These have all been read at LEAST three times a piece (sometimes more, depending on if I read the PDF at school during studyhall)

Now we’re gonna get into the fics/fandoms that I never talk about because, contrary to popular belief, I do (sometimes) care about my digital footprint

Marvel

See You as You Are by Wholocked96 - curiosity killed the cat with this ship (Sam Wilson x T’Challa) and now I’ve read it four times

I probably have a couple more marvel ones/two other fandoms that I won’t disclose at this time but I can’t remember rn and I’ve been at this for too long

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NEW FIC

Rated Teen for cursing, only ship is Percabeth, first part of three

Synopsis: Percy is dead set on proposing to Annabeth without anyone getting in the way. Grover mentioned that he should ask her father first (for the bit).

Now Percy is on a cross-country road trip asking permission from everyone close to Annabeth.

Thank you @queenpiranhadon for this awesome prompt!!

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👏 YES 👏 YES 👏 YES 👏

I cried when I saw someone interact with EVERY SINGLE FIC I’ve posted IN ONE SITTING.

Even if you simply comment UwU I would be happy

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

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HELP ME!!!!

Working an 8 hour shift today. Will be EXTREMELY BORED

SEND ME ASKS ABOUT ANYTHING!!!

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Apparently I need a Bio Post because People Do That

Make me write (150 Drabble Challenge Prompts)

Bye bye pinned Jason post

Name: I’ve been going by Shelf on the internet since 2021, so lets go with that (link to THAT history)

Pronouns: She/He/They i have no attachment to any of them

Age: 19

Zodiac: Scorpio Sun, Taurus moon + rising

Fandoms: Percy Jackson, The Shadowhunter Chronicles, The Raven Boys, theater (Newsies Specifically, but musicals in general are here too), Marvel/MCU, The Outsiders (as a whole, but not much with the movie), 9-1-1, Supernatural, The Rookie

Everything is open! Come yap with me with whatever you’re thinking! Don’t worry about spamming!

Header board thingy made by me with Canva and this Pinterest Board.

Masterpost so I don’t lose it

Fresh Tags

#shelfyspeaks - my fandom posts

#shelfs random thoughts - non-fandom posts

#shelfthewriter - fic updates/me yapping about my fics

#shelf’s fics - actual links to my fics

#shelfreblogsart - since I can’t actively save pieces I’ll use this hashtag to find them again

#shelf’s ask box - when I answer asks (if I ever get them)

#shelf’s fic recs - not my fics

#shelf watches the rookie - live blogs as I experience The Rookie for the first time

Other places to find me

AO3 (Fandoms: Percy Jackson, The Outsiders, 9-1-1)

Pinterest (character boards)

How to use AO3

My Riordanverse Fics

My Outsiders Fics

My 9-1-1 Fics

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Look at this pretty thing I did

Stickers are from Faerie Draws Shop on Etsy

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👏 MY 👏 WHITE 👏 BOY 👏

Sometimes I think about how people rank Jason as their least favorite because he’s “such a bland character with no personality”, but was he even allowed to have one in the first place?

He’s two years old when Lupa guides him to Camp Jupiter. He’s brought up to be the perfect soldier, the perfect Roman, the perfect hero. He doesn’t know life outside the legion. He’s the son of Jupiter, he has to be great. If he’s not, he’s a failure and a disgrace. If he is then he’s still not the best because there so many other heroes who did it better than him so he has to keep trying harder and harder even though no matter what he’s never going to be good enough because the moment he slips up he’s no longer the perfect hero.

The few times he actually tries to do something he wants, he’s only cut down. Changing the 12th legion to the 1st legion? No, you can’t do that. It’s tradition. You’re wrong. That’s stupid. Joining the 5th cohort? Why would you join those losers? You’re only hurting yourself. You could be great if you join the 1st cohort instead like a good Roman boy.

So why would he try to do anything that cultivates his identity? Why would he try to do anything that brings him joy if everyone around him is just going to suck it right out?

He has no best friends at Camp Jupiter. He has acquaintances. He has people he’s friendly with. Say what you want but Reyna was a coworker. Dakota was cool, Gwen was nice. But none of them make Jason want to stay at Camp Jupiter instead of Camp Half-Blood. He thinks of Reyna but only in terms of he doesn’t want to saddle her with the responsibility of picking a new praetor. He thinks about duty. When he is picking between the camps he’s weighing his options between doing his duty as he’s done his whole life or picking himself for the very first time ever and he picks himself.

And it’s honestly so fucking depressing that the first time Jason picks himself and is actually supported in his decision happens when he is sixteen years old. And most of the people supporting him have only known him for a month.

But then he saddles himself with duty and responsibilities because that’s all he’s ever known and Percy is dying and Jason is a good Roman and a good hero and his job is to sacrifice his life for everyone else because of course it is. So he takes on Pontifex Maximus to build shrines and temples to minor gods and goddesses (not that they shouldn’t be honored but… once again he’s sacrificing his identity for the good of everyone around him).

And then, just as he’s finally discovering an identity for himself—he likes physics, he’s learning about the mortal world and living in it, he’s becoming more than just Jupiters son and Juno’s perfect hero—he’s killed.

Jason never got to be Jason. He only got to be Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Praetor of the 12th Legion, slayer of Krios, one of the Seven, Juno’s Champion, Pontifex Maximus. He always belonged to someone else and never himself.

All this to say, Jason is my favorite of the Seven and although he’s not the eldest nor a daughter, as an eldest daughter I relate so hard and feel very seen in him.

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Haven’t had any solid fic updates in a hot second so here are pictures of my cats

This is Goose: named after that stupid cat from Captain Marvel. She’s orange

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This is Zyra, named after Aziraphale. She jumps too high for her own good and likes to cuddle.

@legendary-dumpster-fire adopted them while I was at work without me knowing

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“[Percy] made his way into the kitchen where there was not only lemonade, but Alex Fierro herself. Today she was wearing a pink strawberry dress, matching pink bracelet (which was her pronoun indicator) green converse, and a large satin pink bow in her hair, which worked with the outfit, but was not her usual style.”

- A description of one Alex Fierro I wrote that would be a fun art piece