Redesigned Book Covers - Percy Jackson And The Olympians
August 18th 2016 // Happy 23rd Birthday to Percy Jackson, the only boy that has made such a profound impact on my life. Percy has always been there for me since I was 12 years old, and his stories have changed the last 10 years of my life immensely. I cannot even begin to express how many times Percy Jackson has helped me out of terrible times, and how much I relate this series as a lifeline to my childhood, how much I see this as a window into happier fantasies. I’ve made friends over these books, and is the only only series other than Harry Potter that I will cherish until I die. This is my comfort series. It may sound ridiculous, but Percy is more than just some fictional character. Thank you, Rick Riordan, for giving me and millions of other children out there a friend in Percy Jackson. (legit tearing up writing this omg)
“Why can’t you place a blessing like that on us?“ I asked.
“It only works on wild animals.”
“So it would only affect Percy,” Annabeth reasoned.
“Hey!” I protested.”
I’m slightly in love with the idea of Percy going to college to study Marine Biology and then actually getting a job with it and freaking everyone out with his fish voodoo. Like can you imagine “hey Jackson can see what’s wrong with that seal?”
“he’s lonely Jim”
“what? You didn’t even-”
“I said he’s lonely Jim”
the entire apollo cabin is ready for a musical number at any time like one of them can yell the first note of a song and everyone else joins in, in perfect time it really creeps the rest of the campers out
If you say “Is this the real life, is this just fantasy?” Anywhere within a 50 yard radius of an Apollo kid, you will get a fully choreographed Bohemian Rhapsody. -Will
anyway here’s three things annabeth chase would never do
- prioritize children over her career
- treat her boyfriend as a child
- take jackson as her last fucking name
okay but the scene in the titan’s curse when percy and thalia fight is my favorite
“For a moment I didn’t see anything different. Then Annabeth gasped. Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before—a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl’s figure—a girl with a bow, running across the sky.”
will anything ever be as iconic and savage as when sally jackson, percy jackson’s mother, used the decapitated head of the medusa to turn her abusive husband to stone, and then sold him as a statue to an art gallery to critical acclaim and used the resulting funds to pay to attend college and start her dream life as a writer
alright you know what i got mad anyway sorry
- sally jackson is a phenomenal mother but she does a fucking lot more than bake cookies okay
- this woman lost her family when she was five
- this woman grew up being neglected
- and then proceeded to drop out of high school to take care of the man who neglected her
- and then she raised a fucking baby entirely on her own, with no family at all
- a baby that had a death warrant on his head since the day he was conceived, no less
- she had nothing and she worked her ass off to make a good life for her son, and she did a fucking good job of it
- and then she spent years in an abusive relationship all while continuing to work her ass off and make a good life for her son, despite being verbally and physically abused about everything she did
- and then she fucking got herself out of that abusive relationship, and there is nothing fucking cute about sally jackson feeling so desperate and afraid of her abuser that her only way out was to kill him okay
- and then she uses her new money to get a new apartment for herself
- and then she fucking saved up enough to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to college to become a writer
- and she still routinely has to let her son risk his life to save the world because she knows it wouldn’t be fair of her to try and beg him not to, it’s part of who he is and she knows she needs to respect that, so instead of guilting him and giving him ultimatums, she fucking gives him her blessing
- do you know how fucking hard that must be for her though? and do you ever hear her guilt him or take it out on him? n e v e r
- so like fuck yeah she’s kind and beautiful and loving but she aint soft and sweet this woman is tough as fucking nails, she’s strong, she gets fucked over and over again and she still never gives up
- she pulled herself out of tons and tons of extremely tedious and difficult situations even when literally all the odds were stacked against her
- percy even says that there’s steel in her, that she has a rebellious streak that’s just like him
- and like i really don’t wanna ever hear anyone forgetting this part of her ever again
- so next time you talk about her baking cookies remember that she’s also an orphan who grew up in an abusive household, dropped out of highschool, became a single mother, survived an abusive marriage, and worked her ass off to get herself to where she is today
one thing i noticed while rereading all of those chapters was just how #Soft percy is like the kid looks at calypso and wishes that he could stay on ogygia and “grow flowers in the garden and talk to songbirds and walk on the beach under perfect blue skies” like the kid has straight up disney princess dreams i love him so much
no but you guys
percy’s mom said that she only knew poseidon for one summer
so if sally and poseidon did the do in the summer HOW IS PERCYS BIRTHDAY IN AUGUST