also related to the luke vs percy in terms of how whiteness plays into their motivations i also think it shouldn’t be overlooked how poc have more pressure to put on somewhat of a performance and “represent” their people in a positive light whereas white people are released from that extra pressure to be observably good and I think that is easily internalized and manifests in many poc having a community mindset and wanting to emphasize their “goodness” more than they would have if they weren’t as scrutinized
hoo would have been So much more fun if the seven just. hated each other.
jason: isn’t it ridiculous how everyone keeps deferring to percy? i’m the only member of this quest who has been formally elected leader, and i heard that he didn’t even kill kronos himself i mean
annabeth, wanting to slap a bitch but not because he’s about to listen to her complain to him about how most of the people on this trip have barely been on one(1) quest before: …yeah
nike tells them that they have to fight to the death and percy, leo, hazel and frank are like Aight who wants to go first
Anonymous asked: What do you think about people from the latin america saying that the latino percy headcanon is racist because it is based in negativa racial stereotypes? I’ve seen this going around in tumblr and would like to know your opinion pls
i haven’t seen whatever argument is floating around, but i know that a lot of latino percy headcanons on tumblr stem from my post about percy being from a poor latino neighborhood so i’m guessing it’s in response to that? i will say that my headcanon started mainly with me recognizing my own experiences and family in percy’s story, though. percy’s life echoes the lives of so many poc from the usa, especially in the lightning thief – he lives in a community that is only 7% white where his mom is one of many working her heart out to pull them out of poverty, he feels uncomfortable around his white peers, his teachers assume he is a troublemaker based off of his looks alone, & the media is all too ready to label him, a 12 year old, as a criminal. combined with his black, untamable hair, tan skin, and the fact that he looks at a biracial kid (sadie) and imagines she is what his and annabeth’s kid would look like, i honestly think it’s harder to make an argument for percy being white than him being a poc. his mom is even famous for her salsa lmao. obviously there are latinos in the us whose lives aren’t like this, but i think there’s a difference between recognizing the patterns between percy’s life and the lives of real nyc latinos, and basing a character’s race in stereotypes. leo, for example, feels very stereotypical to me – he’s overly flirty, short, has a loud mouth, and is walking comic relief. given the choice, i prefer having percy as my latino rep :)
Okay, but: Harry and Ron having a secret handshake.
… and it’s ridiculously long and complex
Okay, but like.
Some bad guy knows Harry and Ron have a secret handshake, and takes the effort to learn it before trying to impersonate Harry. And like. Ron goes through the whole secret handshake with fake-Harry and at the end straight-up punches him out.
Later on, he’s like, “But I did the secret handshake right! I know I did!“
And Ron’s like, “Yeah, and it got you too distracted to dodge. I’ve known Harry since we were 11, you think I need a secret handshake to recognize him?”
(I’m sorry, I’m a sucker for “Ron immediately recognizes Harry in disguise” and/or “Ron immediately spots someone disguised as Harry” as a “What, you think I can’t recognize my best friend?” trope.)
I’m pretty sure I’ll always reblog this whenever it comes up on my dash because I LOVE it
Post canon Toph who doesn’t want to go back to her shitty parents so she just decides to stay in the Fire Nation and bum off Zuko’s hospitality.
Zuko’s like no, yeah, I totally get it, and just makes her one of his advisors. At first it’s just so she has a good excuse to stay but after the first meeting Toph storms out shouting about how EVERYONE was lying why would you even need to lie about what kind of tea you want??
Zuko: I mean they’re politicians…..but also who, and when, and in what way
They make a subtle Morse code system so Toph can warn him when someone is lying to him without tipping anyone off that she can sense lies.
Zuko gets a reputation for somehow being both extremely socially inept and yet somehow disgustingly perceptive?? You can’t get ANYTHING by him???
#my lord what EXACTLY is ms Beifongs role in these meetings #a nervous nobleman asks after the third time she interrupts them with stupid commentary #zuko with perfect deadpan: she’s my scribe
I just know deep in my core that annabeth is constantly working on at least 3 different knitting and crochet projects At All Times
it’s called keeping your hands busy in a mundane task so you can let your mind fully focus on what you’re hearing baby 😌
every half hour annabeth shoves her project under percy’s nose and goes “look how long it is” and he smiles and feels the part she just made and gives her a thumbs up as he sips his juice like the supportive king he is
“I like your hat!”
“thanks! my girlfriend made it!” pointing to annabeth with a smile so wide it makes his cheeks look like they’re about to burst
I don’t really think these two things are comparable, strictly speaking. I mean, they both hurt her of course, but they weren’t the same thing?
Petunia and Lily’s relationship deteriorated over a long time, and they went months without seeing one another and it probably hurt differently because your family is supposed to love you unconditionally. To have your parents accept something wholeheartedly and then have your sister talking about it with disdain and derision had to hurt a lot. But it was a private kind of hurt, something that she dealt with when she was home, the consequences, while awful, were contained to herself, her sister and her parents. It was an ongoing thing, there was no final moment.
However, the fallout with Snape was very public and there was a final moment. There was a lot of build up, but when he called her a mudblood, it was in front of half the school. In the middle of a war. Where muggle borns were being killed simply for their blood status. This is a different can of worms entirely with a whole lot of implications and consequences.
The people in Lily’s life hurt her, and I think that was one of the reasons she made sure that she was ‘there for [others] when no one else was.’ She knew how it felt to be treated poorly, and I think she made sure that she never made anyone else feel the way she did.
one day i’ll write an essay about how bianca di angelo was actually the one fated to be the hero of the prophecy on the grounds that she and percy were the same age, hades was beyond angry that she died instead of nico, and a bit of myth theory, but i guess today is not that day
ok here’s some notes that i have from the series alone
gods already know what happens prophecy-wise: so i can’t remember correctly, but wasn’t it confirmed at some point the gods have a pretty clear idea the fate of their heroes? e.g. hermes and luke, poseidon and percy. so it’s kind of strange (and telling) that hades would have preferred bianca to live than nico. what’s so special about bianca?
hades kidnapping plan in the last olympian: why did hades want percy to wait out the war so nico could age and be the hero? did he always have that plan? bianca was twelve when she died; fourteen at the time of war. when hades explained his reason, it was as if was owed something and he was mad about it. he wanted a child of his to be a hero and he was sour about it, like he was expecting it
and this is a bit of monomyth theory; it can be interpreted two different ways: when bianca finds out who she is, she immediately joins the huntress’ of artemis. one, this could be her accepting demigod life and wanting to submerse herself in it and subverting the hero’s journey. or two, which makes more sense, it could be her automatically refusing the call of a fated hero by halting her aging.
Fleur Delacour had the most impressive performance in the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament, imo, and it is a Crime that she came in last place. Like, sure, maybe what she did took awhile and it wasn’t flashy, but imo she did by far the most impressive, difficult, and most humane piece of magic.
Like, there’s this pissed off dragon mother, right? It’s been boxed up, taken to this strange place, then stuck in a noisy arena where its eggs are being threatened. This dragon is probably Unbelievably scared and angry.
It can take 4-8 adult wizards working in tandem to Stun a dragon, especially a pissed off one, but Fleur “fairy princess” Delacour walks into that arena, stares down an angry apex predator, and somehow manages to single-handedly enchant it to sleep. This Common Welsh Green is surrounded by hundreds of people, needs to protect its eggs, but Fleur Delacour’s magic manages to override all of its fear and anger? That is an incredible feat of powerful and probably very complex magic.
Like, no wonder Fleur Delacour can come off as condescending, that is mind-blowingly impressive. That is the work of 4-8 adult wizards. You cannot tell me that the watching dragon-handlers were not LOSING THEIR MINDS.
Between sexism and Fleur being part-Veela, it is unfortunately very realistic that she faces a lot of prejudice, but come on, Professors Sprout and Hagrid and etc. must have been going wild. It’s only some very bad luck that her skirt was accidentally set on fire. She got the golden egg. There was zero damage to the dragon or to the real eggs. Even if Madame Maxime and Fleur worked together to prepare it, Fleur still had to do it, and Madame Maxime would have been so rightly furious that Fleur’s bravery and magical skill wasn’t recognized.
Anyway, part of where I’m going with this, is that this injustice also creates some choice eldest Weasley brother reactions. Like Bill Weasley is writing his regular letters to Charlie, right? And he happens to mention, “Hey, I met this woman at work, with that guardian beast problem with that tomb I was telling you about. Do you remember the Beauxbatons Champion, Fleur Delacour?”
And Charlie Weasley writes back like, “DO I REMEMBER FLEUR DELACOUR? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! WE HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON OUR WALL! I HAVE HER GRADUATING CHARMS THESIS ON CALMING MAGICAL CREATURES AND I WANT IT SIGNED. SHE REVOLUTIONIZED OUR DEALINGS WITH DRAGONS HERE. INJURIES ON THE RESERVE FOR DRAGONS AND HANDLERS ARE DOWN BY LIKE 75% SINCE WE BEGAN IMPLEMENTING HER SPELLWORK.”
“Uh, alright then. Well, you can send that to me and I will ask her to sign it for you,” Bill Weasley, an extremely successful Curse-Breaker, writes back. (It isn’t that he doesn’t find Fleur Delacour accomplishments very impressive, it is just that the poster on the wall thing is a Bit Weird.) “That’s not going to be weird when I ask her out or anything. Wish me luck.”
And Charlie writes back, “LUCK? LUCK?! WILLIAM WEASLEY, IF YOU DON’T MARRY THAT WOMAN, I’LL DISOWN YOU. TELL HER THAT IF GRINGOTTS DOESN’T APPRECIATE HER, SHE CAN COME TO ROMANIA. WE’RE BROKE, BUT I HAVE A DOZEN MUSCLED WIZARDS, WITCHES, AND OTHERS READY TO PROPOSE TO HER ON THE SPOT.”
“I was thinking dinner first,” Bill writes back. “But I’ll let her know?”
So, Fleur initially has to deal with a lot of crap from the Weasley Family, but at least she’s always got Charlie “Number One Fleur Delacour Fan” Weasley in her corner. You’ll catch Uncle Charlie excitedly telling the story of Fleur Delacour in the First Task to Bill’s children forever.
(Charlie: “IF YOU DON’T MARRY HER THEN I WILL!”
Bill: “Charlie, you’re not even into women.”
Charlie: “WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE MOST IMPRESSIVE DRAGON-HANDLING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE?!!”)
After Bill and Fleur get married, Charlie begs to take her into the office. At first she’s like “uuuuuuuh…” because she’s so used to people fawning over her, hitting on her, being crude, and being married (ESPECIALLY being married to a werewolf) HAS NOT stopped that.
They get in, Charlie whistles to get everyone’s attention, Fleur draws her haughtiness around her like a cloak, Charlie yells “FLEUR DELACOUR-WEASLEY!”
The place goes BANANAS. Everyone’s wanting to shake her hand, compliment her spellwork, talk about how much her tricks have SAVED THEIR ASS…
It’s the first time she can remember that being part veela was 1000% IRRELEVANT. And she LOVES IT.
And yes, they take a group photo which gets framed in pride-of-place beside her (now signed) poster.
