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Setting Sun

Pink, yellow, orange and red

The setting sun over head

Stars appearing in the sky

I feel as if i could fly

The waves crash upon the sand

I stood upon the elegant land

Crashing of waves and rocks

A boat pulled in the salty docks

A lighthouse glowed within the distance

A boat built with a astounding brilliance

A sea gulls cry up in the softly colored sky

So I whispered goodbye

And walked away to the old sandy footpath

To face the storm and all its wrath

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Heart of Gold

A little girl with a heart of gold

Stood in the trees of old

Whispering to the stars

Why was the world so vast and large

She wanted to travel and see the land

And dance around the burning sand

And see mountains of ice and snow

To visit the land as we know

A little angel with a heart of gold

Loved the world we now know

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Why do Disney princess always marry the first guy they meet?

Disney Princess: Hi random guy I literally 5 minutes ago let’s get married.

Random Guy that Saved/helped her: Cool.

Divorce lawyers must make a killing in these fantasy worlds.

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I just entered for a chance to win a trip to @marissa_meyer's launch event in New Orleans, LA!

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YES!!!

Boy on my bus: You’re always reading, you must be a fucking genius or something My book:

Me: … Me: yes you’re right, I’m reading constantly, always in pursuit of filling my brain with stimulating and intellectually challenging material

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WHAT

Rick Riordan The Ship of the Dead Tour Information!

Here’s some stuff I learned at the Rick Riordan tour stop:

@viria‘s art was in the powerpoint and it was so beautiful, bless it 

Mallory Keen backstory in Ship of the Dead

Hearthstone is going back to see his father in Ship of the Dead

(he didn’t say too much about the book tbh)

Aru Shah and The End of Time by Roshani Chokshi: March 27, 2018 (she was at my tour stop and someone in the audience got an arc of the book; lowkey jelly)

New Kane Chronicles book (like Camp Half Blood Chronicles): May 2018

Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze: May 1, 2018

He officially announced that Piper and Jason will make a return in this book

Also, all of the characters from HoO will show up at some point in ToA

The Storm Runner by Jennifer Cervanten: Fall 2018

The Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee: Fall 2018

The Magnus Chase Coloring Book: August 14, 2018

HE ADDRESSED THE LIGHTNING THIEF MUSICAL AND I WAS LIVING MY LIFE

He did say he hasn’t listened to it though, saying that like the movies and the audiobooks, he finds it weird to listen to his own writing

The Lightning Thief Illustrated Edition: August 14, 2018

New updated website at readriordan.com: fully updated by October 17th

There will be a “Who’s your godly parent?” quiz 

Bonus: He also directly mentioned college students reading his books, saying he plans on sticking to middle grade writing, but he appreciates us still reading the books if we want!

Also, he does like falafel.

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I am so sick of newspaper articles beginning with ‘__’s wife’, I am so sick of newspaper articles beginning with ‘female scientist’, I am so fucking sick of people being known only for their appearance or gender or sexuality and not the things they’ve fucking done

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At school.

*Teacher discussing Liberty* Teacher: Any more to add. Me: *Raises hand* * Teacher looks around avoiding me* Teacher: Fine. Me: Patric Henry Said the famous quote “Give me liberty or give me death. Everyone: *Looks at me*

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Alex: I don't know what to say to Magnus.

Samirah: Just be yourself! Say something nice!

Alex: Which one? I can't do both.

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LGBT Percy Jackson Headcanons

-Trans girls are always accepted by Artemis into the Hunt

-Nico never actually says he’s gay, just makes it known by making out with Will in nearly every location possible

-Queer kids whose parents didn’t accept them are year round campers

-At first the Ares kids were a little wary of the LGBT community, but when a second year Ares camper comes out they become fiercely protective of them

-The Aphrodite kids are walking encyclopedias on all LGBT terms, and have a list with definitions in their cabin for questioning campers

-The Aphrodite kids also really like helping trans campers feel comfortable in their own skin

-Pansexual Piper

-Lesbian or Bi Reyna

-Asexual Thalia

-Apollo kids (being children of the god of prophecies) always know who is going to come out next, but never pressure them to do so

-Chiron makes any homophobic campers be on stable duty for a month

-Dionysus lazily mentions that if he hears anyone else being homophobic… well, he hopes you like dolphins

-Athena cabin getting into debates on which of their favourite fictional characters are LGBT and having literal CHARTS and GRAPHS to prove it

-Bi-curious Percy, though he never acted on it because it’s always been Annabeth

-Jason being the straightest, whitest, cis-est, malest demigod out there, but supporting his LGBT friends and the entire community without hesitation

-Jason is literally the guy to make t-shirts, to keep buying skittles, to find all LGBT songs possible, and, of course, “Guys! Guys! There’s a Pride Parade next week! We /have/ to go. Where can I buy a pink tutu on short notice?”

-Nico secretly loving that Jason is like this but never admitting it

-Pansexual Will

-Frank being really confused about the whole thing but totally accepting it because people he love are in that community and it’s all about love so how could that possibly be a bad thing?

-Annabeth, Frank’s go-to on anything he doesn’t understand, happily explains everything she knows to him

-Frank thinking it’s so cool and telling Nico how awesome he is for being himself

-Hazel being /floored/ on how accepting the world is of LGBT people today, though of course plenty of people still suck

-Hazel being slightly relived to know that it’s normal because although she loved Sammy then, and she loves Frank now, there was this girl back home who she sort of had feelings for and never understood what that meant

-Demisexual Frank

-Bisexual Rachel

-Leo and the rest of the Hephaestus cabin working on bracelets for gender fluid kids that change colour to correspond with how they feel

-Alex Fierro buying out all of the first ones ready

-Bi Magnus

-Gay Hearthstone

-Gay Blitzen

-^^^This was obvious because Blitzstone is practically canon, come on people

-Each and every god (besides those who swore off all love) responding with ‘yes’ when asked what their sexual orientation is

-Polysexual Sadie

-Polysexual Leo

-Trans Meg/ *edit, suggested by @thisrandombloggergirl Demi-girl Meg instead!

-Also lesbian Meg?

-A large number of LGBT and ally kids being from the Aphrodite cabin because LOVE is LOVE people!

-Calypso making flower crowns that correspond with the different flags’ colours and giving them to anyone who wants them

-Bi, pan, and poly Apollo kids never feeling the need to change the pronouns when they sing love songs or write love poems

-Apollo being *extremely* out at CHB while he’s there

-Him actually giving other LGBT kids the courage to come out

-A small elite group at Camp Jupiter created as a safe space for queer kids

-Reyna always supporting it but being really shy about joining when she comes to terms with her sexuality

-The kids in the group gladly welcoming her

-Asexual/aromantic child of Aphrodite worrying something is wrong with them

-Their brothers and sisters assuring them that they’re normal and there are all different kinds of love

-Hephaestus cabin setting up LGBT movie nights (nothing graphic, mostly fluff, though Travis and Connor have tried on more than one occasion to sneak some x-rated stuff in there)

-Piper running an LGBT aesthetic blog on tumblr

-Feel free to add more!

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Reasons why other people want a time machine:  I could meet Shakespeare and discuss his plays with him! I could watch Leonardo Da Vinci paint Mona Lisa! I could go back to the roaring twenties and throw amazing parties, like in The Great Gatsby!

Reasons why I want a time machine: I would go back to the 18th century and make the founding fathers read all the fanfiction to see how they would react

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So....

I’ve heard about how addicting tumblr is but I didn’t think that it was this addicting

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knowing the ministry of magic it’s a minor miracle they didn’t arrest harry for illegal apparating the second the whole ’lord voldemort’ thing was over

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Five seconds after the Legends of Tomorrow Finale:

*Rip Hunter storms back into the Waverider*

Rip: I LEAVE FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS AND YOU BROKE TIME?! YOU INCOMPETENT TWATS! 

*Rip goes into a British rage*

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is there anything on earth more anxiety inducing than being given unclear instructions and then put under time pressure

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I always find it funny when adults apologize for cursing in front of me. Yes, I, a teenager in the American public school system, am shocked and offended by your language. Of course, I’ve certainly never said these words myself. My poor innocent ears.