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“Percy’s special”

Oh I’m not gonna make it.

Seeing this kind of bullying in tv (actual realistic bullying, most people won’t like, push you and hit you or anything, since that way they’ll get caught, so they keep it simple and nobody does anything because they don’t see it as bullying) just took me back to school and holy shit. The way Nancy Bobofit pronounces the word special, like if it was disgusting, I think that’s very important representation. Because we know Percy has adhd, of course we know, but in the later books this fact has been pushed aside. Rick doesn’t really add much adhd traits and struggles in his books compared to in his first book. And meanwhile I knew about Percy’s time in school, seeing it is so so different and it’s not often bullying is shown this way and seeing a story of a bullied character, who’s deemed weird and “special” who then goes and saves the world and has lots of friends and a romantic partner, that’s really important for kids. For kids and for me. I’ll shut up I’m sorry I just have lots of feelings about it like I get it percy, I get it.

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I'm absolutely in love with the first 2 episodes, but I hate that they are down playing Percy's intelligence!

Percy is SMART!!!!

He figures out so many things on his own in the books that are being explicitly explained to him in the show. He definitely fits the bill to be our resident beloved himbo, and is constantly using it to his advantage, but he is far from being stupid. While he might not be an expert on mythology, he's a fast learner and uses the knowledge he gains to navigate his new world more effectively.

(Spoiler Warning ig?)

Moments like when Grover mentioned that his mom isn't actually gone really affect the decisions he first made for his quest. I get that the creators wanted to make sure the audience knows that his mom was his main reason for going on this journey, but there could've been another way to show this while still maintaining Percy's agency.

It also diminishes the first real showing of his fatal flaw. His loyalty to his mother is one of the main pillars that make up his character. While they displayed that loyalty and adoration in other ways (I will never recover from him praying to her in the woods or the "I'm Sally Jackson's son" moment), Grover having to intentionally implant the idea that they can bring her back because she is not really dead does undermine Percy's unwavering determination in the book to bring her back regardless of if she is truly dead or not.

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am I tripping or is that Rick

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changes when adapting a book are completely fine but what they did to gabe was simply not it

this abuser is now just a silly character??? wtf does that mean to sally's arch, then? especially the one involving medusa?

i think authors should be a bit more like neil gaiman

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Me trying to find the Stoll brothers in the Hermes cabin like it’s a game of “Where’s Waldo”:

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“You fell in love with…Jesus?”

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no cause like, the way they've turned gabe into this pathetic excuse of a man really got on my nerves. He's silly, almost idiotic in the show. I'm not saying that Sally should be mistreated but enduring what happened out of love for percy and how she breaks free from that abusive situation are intrinsically linked to gabe being this RAT

can't believe they'll do that to Sally and I hope I'm wrong and he'll eventually be what he's in the books (?) sounds unlikely though

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Okay this is really funny because I had just finished watching the muppets christmas carol when I found out the show dropped early

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"I was thinking more like shoving Nancy into the nearest dumpster."

"is there a Greek god of disappointment?"

"Are you stalking me??"

"oh no. you’re coming with me sunshine."

"I'm sorry." *Annabeth proceeds to shove Percy into the water

PLEASE the one liners are killing me

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PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS (2023) 1x01, ""I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"

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PERCY JACKSON DROPPED EARLY AND ITS SO GOOD

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idk who needs to hear this but autistic people are not tools to be used so your allistic main character can look like a perfect sibling or saintly parent or patient friend. we are not tragic we are not pitiable we are not babies we are not a joke we are not 'inspirational' we are not monsters we are not a fucking burden

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i’m not the biggest will solace person but like. why don’t we actually talk about how much he went through?

wasn’t his cabin numbers essentially cut in half during the titan war? didn’t he lose an older brother at 11? didn’t he lose another at 12? didn’t he become head counselor at 13 too? wasn’t he the most important medic?

like will lost half of his cabin. half of his siblings. the apollo cabin was the biggest or second biggest and then they became one of the smallest, right? he lost lee and who knows how his cabin grieved. he lost michael and imagine him coming up to percy after the meeting on olympus, asking if he can try and feel his brother in the water and bring him back. imagine will in the infirmary and someone tells him that there’s a head counselor meeting and he says, “michael’s not here” before realizing he IS the head counselor. will SAVED annabeth from what looked like the brink of death, lord knows what would of happened if he hadn’t. he’s admitted that he’s not the best on the field and that means he was probably a combat medic, which can mean he sees awful, awful things.

all of that before he turned 14. what the fuck. (all of that to say he’s more than this sunshine character who’s happy-go-lucky and more than just nico’s boyfriend/eye candy. please give him the respect he deserves, idc if he’s not real)

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Nico: how does one turn their emotions off?

Lou Ellen: ok so first go to settings

Cecil: emotions not emojis you idiot

Nico: no no keep going, im still willing to try this. im at settings, what you do next?

Will: exit settings and go to THERAPY

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Rick Riordan has to chuck Annabeth and Percy into Tartarus the same day Nico came out of that bronze jar because can you IMAGINE how chaotic it could have been if Nico and Percy were on that boat together at the same time. Percy fondly reminiscing over how adorable Nico was at age ten while our favorite skrungly emo boy is sitting on the side looking like a pile of trash run over by a train. Nico violently suppressing the Gayness now that he’s stuck in close quarters with Percy. Annabeth wants to study him but he’s too scared of her to get within five feet at any time. Hazel trying to figure out why her brother is broken now but no he just has a constant internal monologue of Screaming because he forgot that Percy is annoying as fuck. Percy randomly brings up that time Nico betrayed him and trapped him in the Underworld and Nico’s like “fuck off I rescued you like two hours later it worked out fine” and everyone’s sitting there like 👁️👄👁️