#the Lotus Hotel

[forgthetheaterkid]

Lin Manuel Miranda AND a chance of the Di Angelos???

There better be ambulances for the amount of heart attacks this episode will give the fandom

[pjo-andsequels-confessions]

The Lotus Hotel and Casino freaks me out whenever I think about it because wdym there are people lost to time there?? wdym there are people who will walk out of there and be absolutely crushed by how nobody they know is still alive?? wdym there are people who won’t ever get the chance to thrive?? wdym there are people in there who will brag about how great their friends and family to the other costumers not knowing that they will never see their loved ones again??

I am always so upset over that and how besides Nico and Bianca it is never explored (unless i forgot something). I think that’s something that should haunt Nico tbh some guilt that he made it out while people still trapped in there didn’t

that might’ve been explored in TSaTS but i don’t remember that book too well.

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[questioning-pisces]

i know everybody has said they’re gonna be watching the lotus hotel episode zooming in and trying to find bianca and nico but if the pictures and fan theories are true and lin manuel miranda is in that episode i will be watching it in fear.

[its-dark-girl]

i think its a bit fucked we have no reasoning  but our own as to why the lotus casino and hotel exists

[johnconstantinesdick]

I get the criticism of the Hunters of Artemis from a narrative perspective—it sucks that it essentially boots interesting female characters out of the story—but it always baffles me when people viciously hate Artemis for *checks notes* doing damage control.

Like. Thalia explicitly goes with Artemis to avoid the prophecy, and I definitely think that’s the reason Artemis tried so hard to get her to join—hell, you can view the hunters trying to recruit Annabeth as a way to get Thalia to join. And Bianca? You can’t convince me that Artemis didn’t guess there was something up there and react accordingly.

If Percy or Nico were even a little bit girl-adjacent you bet your ass she would be all over them to join. No one actually wants to risk the Great Prophecy happening, and Artemis is doing a hell of a lot more to stop it than anyone else.

[ari-the-arotistic]

Guys, Hermes told them where to go to find the entrance of the underworld, and probably told them about Crusty, of course they know who he is, literally chill

[aroaceleovaldez]

very specific opinion i have:

I don’t think the Lotus Hotel & Casino should automatically acclimate its inhabitants to the modern time period, because the entire point of the hotel is that it’s trying to keep people there and they will never leave, so the ideal scenario is to prevent them from experiencing the passage of time. The best way to do that would be to keep things changing as little as possible from the guests’ perspectives, and convince them they’ve spent less time there than they thought.

Even though the guests are canonically in a sort of daze, Percy specifically notes that time felt extremely distorted in the hotel, not just in the sense of “we were here for what felt like hours but outside the hotel it was a week,” but in more of a “It only feels like we’ve been here like half an hour, but i guess it might have actually been a couple hours or so- oh, a week has passed outside.”

I like to imagine the hotel is actually pretty labyrinthine when you start getting into it, and the deeper you go the older the sections of the hotel start becoming, so you get these really eerie effects when traveling through it. Especially since the hotel would theoretically shift with the other mythological locations, so if you go back far enough the hotel probably starts getting really weird, because also it’s just kind of infinite inside. People have definitely gotten lost in the depths of the hotel forever, outside of the whole never leaving the hotel thing. The di Angelo siblings might have been slightly extra resistant to the daze effect though and so were able to travel further outside their designated era wing than they normally would and start noticing that there was Something Really Weird Going On. But it still probably would have taken them awhile.

[qpjianghu]

Tell him... I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong. ~Andor

Fang Duobing & Li Lianhua | Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

[friedwizardwhispers]

I find it funny that people are acting like the lotus hotel was THE iconic moment of the book, the moment we were all expecting when it's not even an entire chapter (I think it might be 5 pages long ?) and the chapter isn't even named after it, it's named after theirs ride to Vegas. The only reason it's there in the book is to make them lose time and in the show, it does that and it allowed them to flesh out Luke earlier and introduce Hermes, adds to the Percy and Luke being foils and the history of Annabeth and Luke and have more character development for Grover and more humor.

Unpopular opinion: Nico and Bianca were the most relevant thing about the hotel and that's only in retrospect.

The show fleshed it out so it could be one entire episode and people are still complaining.

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (03/18/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

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[pjo-obsessed-nerd]

"How did they know the Lotus Hotel and Casino was the Lotus Eaters???"

Uh. Y'all.

Giant lotus blossom on the roof? Called the "LOTUS" Hotel and Casino? Like, you could not have known about the Lotus Eaters story and NOT have connected the dots. It's so obvious to anyone who knew about the lotus eaters.

Not to mention, it's pretty obvious the changes regarding how fast the trio catch onto the myths they're facing are meant to give them a feeling of helplessness when, despite doing EVERYTHING right, they still failed to meet the deadline.

They did everything to the best of their abilities, and STILL failed to beat the Solstice. It's clearly intentional, not some wack job choice they made for no reason. There's an intention here, and it's a dam good one, if I do say so myself.

Please just enjoy the show 😭

[forgthetheaterkid]

Can’t wait to see people post the blurriest screenshots you’ve ever seen of black haired people in the lotus hotel episode

[ohno-thereisnoescape]

the reason the show had to change the way Percy figures out the timey-wimey-ness of the lotus hotel is because show!Percy is gen z. like in the book, someone says “groovy” and Percy is like wtf something is wrong here. but I work with teenagers now and I promise you nothing throws these kids anymore there’s not one era whose slang would be met by anything other than mild disinterest and a dick joke

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Me when I see any emo looking kid who could possibly be Nico in the Lotus hotel:

[poseidons-getting-milk]

One thing that has always bothered me is in The Lighting Thief when the Lotis casino gives Percy, Annabeth, and Grover all debit cards to use for the arcade games (and i think as room keys??) They supposedly each get a card.

Then when they realize what to casino/hotel actually is and they try to get out as fast as they can in a taxi, the driver checks the card’s balance and it literally just shows an infinity symbol.

Those cards EACH have and INFINITE amount of money.

They all saw how much money was on that card, and when they got out of the taxi, THEY TOLD THE DRIVER HE COULD KEEP IT!!!

Now maybe the other two lost their cards before they left the hotel, so that could be why they didn’t have theirs, but why would they just give it to the driver? I mean, Annabeth really didn’t think of how useful that could be?

Sure, maybe it could’ve been used to track them down, but go to a damn ATM!!

Percy could’ve payed off all of Sally’s debts, they could have used to complete this and other quests, they could’ve brought it to camp so future campers had more than the A HUNDRED FREAKING DOLLARS they were given for their quests that usually require traveling across the country for days, THEY COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING WITH IT!!

I think it maybe said that only Las Vegas drivers would accept casino cards, but i’m sure they could’ve found a way to turn that INFINITE amount of money into cash or something. Even if they didn’t have time for that on their quest they could’ve taken the card with them and converted it later.

Obviously we didn’t get this in the series since it’s Hamilton’s i mean Hermes’ taxi they take.

IM JUST STILL PISSED ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY

[prankprincess123]

Me: *finally watching last week's PJO episode*

Grover: Weird. I haven't heard the dog in a while...

Percy: He chased us all that way, and then just... stopped?

Grover: I wonder why?

Me: I don't know, maybe the other little kid wandering around asphodel decided to save you a headache by playing with her dad's dog? Cause I guarantee your visit has definitely been the most excitement Hazel has had in the past 60ish years.