I Am Althea, God Of The Year

It's hard to remember when I was in elementary school nowadays. So my memories of reading Rick Riordan's books for the first time are hazy. But I don't think I ever hated Leo and Calypso getting together. Now, allow me to speculate as to why that might have been. And that may just turn into a really, really long ramble on my part.

As a 10-15 year old, I was cognizant of shipping (and did read stuff like that online), but I was also just fine with happy endings to my stories. And since Leo didn't die, that was good enough for me. The book ended happily, with most major characters (besides octavian, who sadly died) surviving. That was enough to please me, I think.

And now, to just speak from my more modern, 19 year old perspective: I hate how Calypso was punished with eternity on an Island. Nobody ever stayed with her, nobody ever seemed to care. The fact that Leo came back for her…well, that touched me. It's what I'd wanted Percy to do in the Battle of the Labyrinth. It's something I'd been waiting to see for so long. So to see that someone, literally anyone, cared enough about this poor lady to save her from her prison… it's wonderfully touching.

Who here still remembers our Super-sized McShizzle man- bad boy supreme!

THIS!

Aphrodite cabin

I recently got into the Percy Jackson Fandom and right now I’m honestly just pretty disappointed about the Aphrodite cabin and its wasted potential.

The Aphrodite cabin could have been a place where people are loving no matter what and where people see how beautiful you are because the children of Aphrodite know that beauty is more than beauty standards. I could have been a place where you can go and not get judged.

The Aphrodite cabin could have been a Loving and beautiful place.

I know that part of this may come from everyone expecting the children of Aphrodite to be a certain way but I just think that it’s kind of sad.

The Aphrodite cabin could have been a place to teach young children about love and that love isn’t only romantic and that everyone is beautiful.

back with my tkc rotations. thoughts on tanakane? (if i already asked you this and just don't remember, ignore me lol) (also ps i made a post on transmasc!zia and it's full of my transmasc experiences, if u wanna check that out)

I think we've definitely talked about it on Discord before but that's okay because every hours is Tanakane Hours!!

For those of you who haven't read The Kane Chronicles, Sadie Kane and Drew Tanaka (from Heroes of Olympus) go to the same school and there is that mean-girl dynamic between them. I see Sadie as being very "ugh i hate her she thinks shes so cool with her lustrous hair and milky skin and beautiful eyes and flawless appearance!!! this emotion is definitely hatred!!" Bi in Denial.

I like to imagine that something attacks the school one day and both Sadie and Drew are trapped together and mutually like "ugh now i have to protect this bitch."

Anyway, I'd have to go back and re-read, but iirc Drew's charmspeak didn't come up much in her brief appearances and I found that pretty surprising. Surely Sadie must have noticed how persuasive Drew can be. A lot of Sadie's frustration with her could easily come from how often authority figures seem to capitulate to Drew's demands, no matter how absurd.

Anyway I imagine Aphrodite looking down on the sexual tension between her daughter and this Egyptian, eagerly munching popcorn.

Sometimes I do wonder if atla fandom like the REAL Zuko at all because the nonsense i'm reading about him....... 😭

"He's a prodigy" nope that's AZULA, that's the point of these two characters and he's also the weakest bender of the gaang

"He's friendly, charismatic and charming" that's Aang 😭

"He's the perfect boyfriend" he's possessive and jealous, that's why Mai dumped his ass and she was RIGHT

"He did nothing wrong" i'm not saying anything here lol

"He's the most mature person of the gaang" ??? PEOPLE BE SERIOUS

This character is crazy mischaracterized, like Aang actually 😭

Will: Being a good person doesn't cost a peny

Drew: Being a bitch also doesn't cost a peny, what's your point?

Will: Nyssa, make Drew shut the fuck up

Nyssa: Not possible

This sent me into an actual spiral 😭

I love Drew Tanaka so much but going through her tags and seeing stuff like this hurt in the most gut wrenching way possible

TA! Drew Tanaka

-Growing up never being taken seriously by anyone because of her looks

-Finally having people truly listen to her at camp

-Trying to figure out her godly parent

-Ares, maybe? The campers wonder, seeing her yell with the anger of war

-Not getting claimed, slowly accepting it

-Charmspeaking someone during Capture the Flag

-Silena realizing and telling everyone what it was

-Drew becoming the unclaimed daughter of Aphrodite everyone knows about

-Slowly being ignored and getting less and less training

-Befriending Alabaster Torrington, someone who, like her, knows their godly parent while being unclaimed

-Alabaster joking the Army and holding his hand out to Drew, to bring her with

-Her reaching out to take it, only to stop when she hears Silena calling her name, looking for her

-Saying goodbye to her best friend to stay with her sister

-Starting to date Lee Fletcher, hating the idea of the Rite of Passage

-Before the Battle, Lee making her promise that, above all, to protect Will, his little brother

-Lee dying

-Drew grieving, taking Will and running, deeper and deeper into the Labyrinth

-Alabaster and Ethan finding them, bringing them to the Princess Andromeda

-Drew not knowing Silena is the spy

-Drew learning about the Cabin Ten curse, Nemesis laughing as she recounts the story

-Drew working her way to the top and becoming one of Luke’s generals

-Drew breaking the heart of a random mortal boy, who looks all too much like Lee

-Silena dying, known as the traitor

-Zeus letting Drew go free, because of the dumb Aphrodite stereotype she had tried so hard to fight, had joined the Titans for

-Getting claimed right as she sees Silena’s body

-Drew becoming head counselor the day of her 14th birthday

-Having Aphrodite’s blessing for months, as an apology for not being claimed earlier, still having it at the start of TLH

-Piper coming along, too much like Silena, refusing the Rite of Passage

-Drew looking at Jason, knowing what will happen to him

-The war against Gaea.

-Drew Tanaka, seen as a shallow, self-absorbed Aphrodite girl by most of camp

-Drew Tanaka, survivor of two wars, outliving most of her friends and family

-Drew Tanaka, who became exactly what she hated in the first place

It's no longer a head canon as I deem this to be 100% true

Hc that Drew is extremely bad at comforting people

DREW AND ESTELLE?! WHAT KIND OF MONSTERS THOUGHT OF THAT SHIP! SEND THEM TO TARTARUS

"but Percy is so old for Nico and blah blah blah...."

Dude you won't believe what I just witnessed, people freaking out because of Percy and Nico's age gap??!! LMAO LISTEN HERE

I found out that people actually ship Estelle, Percy's BABY sister, with Drew Tanaka.

Which is like idk how many years but definitely feels illegal😭