Exactly, EXACTLY. I was so shocked
ok maybe im a bit dumb but as a non american i had never heard of the gateway arch and never bothered to google it,, so while reading the books i was picturing the arc de triomphe in france?? which isnt nearly as high so when watching the show i was like OH I GET IT ITS A BIT DEAL
Jurdan have such regal vibes with gold jewelry and lavish clothes, which in turn makes me forget that the protagonists are an angsty 18 year old immortal fae who can’t process his emotions and a revengeful 17 year old human girl who’s mind is always consumed with hating said fae
As much as I loved the Thrill Ride O' Love scene, it feels.......unusual, lacking. 1st off, I kinda wanted to see Annabeth freak out about the mini automaton spiders and how they actually rode them out. But that's not the point. What I mean is, it's strange. To think that a god, any immortal being, would so easily accept the words of a 12 year old girl, unless Hephaestus had been thinking them himself for a while now. And isn't that a bit out of character for how he's been portrayed so far? Like, wasn't he about millenia of escapism? Of not thinking about people and being bothered by it? Or have I completely missed the point? It HAS been quite a while since I read PJO but idk, guys, idk
Hey, Seaweed Brain. Will you stop calling me that? You know you love it.
My fav parts about the pjo show so far
- sally mf jackson (no explanation needed)
- grover casually spilling i’m 24 as they race to go to camp (like grover give him a min he still thinks his dad is jesus)
- dionysus telling percy he’s his dad?? and the way percy just resigned himself to it like yup okay that adds up what else is new
- “when the time comes he’ll be ready” cut to percy doing the floss LMAO
- “are you stalking me annabeth? yes” (girl has zero chill and i’m living for it)
- “I am sally Jackson’s son” (hell yeah percy go be the momma’s boy you are)
Friendly reminder that names have meaning in the pjo universe.
Percy/Perseus- to destroy or avenge, a Greek hero with a happy ending.
Leo/Leonidas - a spartan king who sacrificed himself to save his people.
Jason- healer/to heal, lead the argonauts to the Golden Fleece but died a painful death.
Thalia- an immortal muse of comedy and idyllic poetry.
Castor- to excel/to shine, killed while his twin brother survives (in the most common version of the myth).
Pollux- Crown/ very sweet, survives after his twin brother is killed.
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I've been mad since 2022 for him being dead beat and the moment he showed up from the random burnt ice cream, I knew I was a goner
I SPENT EIGHT EPISODES SHITTING ON DEAD-BEAT DAD POSEIDON ONLY FOR RICK RIORDAN TO MAKE ME REGRET MY WORDS IN THE LAST TWO. HONESTLY. I AM SO MAD IT IS NOT EVEN FUNNY. FUCK HIM.
AND FUCK TOBY STEPHENS AS WELL LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE SECOND HE WAS ON SCREEN I DID NOT HAVE A COHERENT THOUGHT RUNNING THROUGH MY BRAIN. THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT TOBY.
Prompt #2
Character A: *in thier own element, rambling about stuff that gets them excited*
Character B: *understands them perfectly without any effort*
the stark contrast between sally's you are not broken. you are singular. you're a miracle. you are my son, to chiron's as a forbidden child of the sea god, you are singular amongst demigods...
whole. singular. alone.
perfect in the eye of his mother, and a tool in the eye of his father. his existence is his mother's world and his father's ruination... unless he can do something about it, but why would he want to do that? poseidon left him alone. to hollow out and fill with godly power and dictated direction when the time came. meanwhile sally was filling percy with love and acceptance. for who he already was and for whoever he would become.