it’s nearly 3 am and tbh i cant sleep so im just doodling/redoodling an old drawing of will. took like ten minutes, the og took an hour or so and was from march 2015. based off of @cherryandsisters abandoned ballet will/lightbending will hc. fucking.. give me more content for that shit asshole
another memorable scene from trials of apollo (insp)
As I was walking by the bookstore today I noticed this poster saying “Trials of Apollo” was the best seller for Children’s fiction. You have no idea how happy this makes me. A book that shows LGBT+ representation is a favorite by children whose minds don’t even know what it means. This book contains parental acceptance to children on their sexuality (Apollo on Will) and an actual badass gay relationship (Solangelo), and children are not only reading it but they love it so much that it has become the top bestseller.
When I asked a 7-year-old who read the book if he cared whether or not Apollo was bi, he said it “didn’t make him any less badass.” When I asked if he cared about the relationship of Nico and Will, he said it was just as adorable as the rest of the relationships in the previous books. Bottomline, he didn’t think that the sexualities of Apollo, Nico, and Will affected their ability to be, as society calls it, manly.
I’m so so grateful to Rick Riordan for writing this book that lets children realize at a young age that sexualities are accepted and that a person can be more than just their sexuality. They let children realize that a good parent is not someone who decides their children’s sexuality, but rather accepts it no matter what.
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit My Mom is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Grover is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Annabeth is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Nico is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit My Innocence is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit I’m Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Death is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Annabeth is Gone (the sequel)
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit Me and Annabeth are Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit the Plot is Gone
Percy Jackson and Oh Shit My Patience is Gone
*softly* don’t……..
okay i’ve said this once but i’m going to repeat myself because if i see one more person complain something along the lines of “i wish we had pjo calypso back” i’m going to lose it
listen, i understand that in tbotl we all read about the trapped on an island, hopeless romantic, extremely wise and kind, nature loving, percy’s love interest calypso but there she was a single facet of herself, she was mostly rick’s character
everyone has to remember that calypso is in fact a figure that already existed in greek mythology, and just like the gods and goddesses, already has a personality and character depth that rick now has to work with because she is no longer someone who appeared for a few short chapters
calypso in fact, is a nymph who held odysseus captive on her island for years and when she was confronted by the gods to let him go, she called them out on all their bullshit. she isn’t afraid of anything or anyone.
i know most of us don’t approve of the relationship rick has set her up in, i mean honestly neither do i, but ignore that because we’re talking about calypso, the calypso who was angry another guy got washed up her beach: she’s allowed to be angry. calypso who fell in love with him because that is her curse: the fates made it this way and she’s allowed to fall in love again.
calypso, the demi-titaness who is somehow now mortal and has lost her powers (i could write a whole essay on why this isn’t necessary but don’t start me right now) and now has to deal with being mundane for the first time in her life and is probably extremely upset about. this is still the same calypso, we just get to see more of her now. she’s going to have her own arc, she’s going to keep developing, she isn’t just a romantic interest, she isn’t those few chapters. she never has been and she never will be.
this is calypso, she is romantic and angry and wise and kind and intelligent and dangerous and is probably going to end up saving apollo’s mortal ass more than once in this next series, so i don’t want to hear “i miss pjo calypso.”
she never left.
apollo: *arrives on percy’s doorstep*
percy: i would very much like to be excluded in this narrative, one that i have never asked to be a part of, since 2009
Look I didn’t want to be a half-blood.
We have only a few hours, so listen carefully.
Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.
Yeah, I know. You guys are going to read about how I died in agony, and you’re going to be like, “Wow! That sounds cool, Magnus! Can I die in agony too?”
My name is Apollo.
~the opening lines from Rick Riordan that brought me into a world of mythology, learning, and an adventure to last a lifetime
13 year old me reading 12 year old percy fighting the Minotaur and jumping off high shit: wow that’s so cool he’s so brave
16 year old me reading meg walk 3 steps in manhattan: ohhhhhkay how bout we ditch the mortal god and go some where nice and safe and warm?????????!!!!!??!!???
Sorry, Percy Jackson cannot go on any more quests; he has a note from his doctor because he’s sick of almost dying.
Things that happened in “Trials of Apollo”.
Art is mine, please, reblog, do not repost.
I’m really intrigued by this whole “demigods getting screwed by their own powers” concept
- children of Hephaestus with third degree burns all over their arms from the forge
- children of Hephaestus with odd bits and pieces from their projects ending up inside of them in places they can’t be removed and they’re just setting off metal detectors for the rest of their lives
- children of Ares with callouses and unstable joint structure from a young age due to training too heavy too fast
- children of Apollo with sensitivity to light due to over exposure at a young age
- children of the Muses with ankle deformities from dancing all of the time
- Apollo kids slowly losing their hearing without noticing
- Hades children sapping more and more of their lifeforce every time they overextend themselves, ending up with thin blood and dying brain cells
- children of Iris who go colorblind
- Hecate kids mutating their own bodies with each spell until almost all of their cells are cancerous
- Hermes kids with debilitating stutters and/or the inability to carry conversations
- children of Dionysus always having higher addiction rates/all of them becoming addicted to something due to their ability to easily make it
- children of Demeter who channel all of their energy into growing plants quickly and ending up killing all of their antibodies and dying from something like the common cold
- Apollo healers being so focused on their patients that they don’t feel the migrain that says that their brain is hemorrhaging
• Hypnos kids going into sleeping comas or going insane because of all the nightmares
Aphrodite kids being so bent up on looking as beautiful as their mother they starve them selfs and disfigure their face to try and accomplish this beauty but end up starving to death with deformed body’s and faces
- children of Athena working themselves to death
- children of Athena being serious introverts
- Aphrodite kids are unable to have stable/good relationships
- Children of Hecate lost in the mist, children of Hecate, who can`t really understand where the reality lies
- Children of Apollo having sun allergy
- children of Nike so intent on winning they end up pushing everyone away
- children of Nemesis who turn obsessed with revenge, willing to do anything to get justice
• children of Poseidon slowly losing the ability to
breathe normal air
• children of Zeus accidentally electrocuting someone they love• children of Apollo with fingers marred and joints crooked from pulling back bowstrings and plucking instruments
• children of Tyche who become too lucky, who believe they are invincible, which is their downfall
• children of Athena who desire knowledge at a maniacal degree, who’s brains decay from lack of sleep and nutrition
• children of Apollo who heal so often and so much that disease absorbs into their bodies, with poison in their blood
• children of Apollo who sang too much, and cannot speak, whose melodies are lost in the depths of their own minds
• children of Aphrodite who have charmed themselves into their own reality, who led themselves to believe liesI like how this is essentially: demigods powers are their fatal flaw (and how it screws them over)