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pixel art study of 'sandy coastline' by ivan shishkin

I think Percy meeting May Castellan is so fucked up because he wasn't just seeing what happened to her, he's seeing what could've happened to Sally.

He's seeing Sally Jackson baking endless batches of burnt blue cookies, waiting for her Percy to come home.

That maybe he was better off for not having Poseidon back in his life at all.

Dancing before the maw of the hungry one.

it's important to spend quality time with your orphan-in-law

percy isn't as human as the rest of them. even if the styx's curse is taken away, part of him never quite comes back. he smiles, grounded and sweet; yet his eyes seem more god than human.

jason isn't as human as the rest of them. sometimes, he seems to be something far more animal. when he gets angry, his eyes flash; they reveal a predator looking at its next prey.

hazel isn't as human as the rest of them. a part of her still lies in asphodel, walking, wandering, dead. if someone looks at her too long, her form shimmers; like that of a ghost.

I am completely obsessed with a crown of candy. like caramelinda and lazuli were IN LOVE. they were lesbians. imagine you're caramelinda. you are married to the love of your life. and she dies. your country is unstable, you need to remarry, politically. you have to remarry to her baby brother who up until now has just been a reckless prince getting up to stupid shit in the war. and now he's your husband. and now he's king. you have two daughters with him. he is a useless ruler, so you manage everything. you try to keep your family safe. your daughters grow up and take after their father. they take after lazuli. they are reckless. they just want to fight things, and you feel like their jailer, trying to impose rules, trying to keep them safe. you love them and would break apart if anything happened to them. you miss your wife. you have been married to your husband for 20 years now. he has been by your side longer than you even knew your wife. you deserved her, not him. it is impossible not to love him. but never like you loved her. he is still an irresponsible reckless warrior. he is a coward. he is your partner in life. you have children and a kingdom together. one of your daughters dies. she dies sneaking away after you told her to go to bed. you are queen. you are supposed to be able to protect her. you had ordered people to follow her and keep her safe. she still died. you want to blame her. you want to blame everyone. you want to blame yourself, you tried so hard to keep her safe. you cry in your husbands arms. you find out your wife kept secrets from you. you have to leave your home. your family is in danger. your family is protecting itself. you feel like dead weight. you miss your wife.

I want their relationship

Image description: a digital drawing of fig faeth from fantasy high. Fig is a red tiefling with brown and purple hair braided. She has a leather jacket and purple shirt and pants. She's clutching her red guitar close. There is a spotlight on her and she's highlighted in blue. Its signed Dawnarts. End image description.

Jason Grace if Olympus had their own version of the Met Gala!

Shout out to Grover who be out there collecting the big three kids like the monopoly plots

just gals being pals

can't believe the main villain of fantasy high sophomore year was a catgirl STD all along

ronan being his father's clone. gansey being named after his father. adam thinking he has "monster blood" from his father in him.

i know we talk a lot about the “why do you hate you” “i don’t” ronan lynch moment (as we should). but i don’t think we talk Enough about the “he thought about it” that comes before he answers the question and wakes up. because good god. it’s the whole self hatred being this second skin, this thing you don’t even notice is there, until you’re confronted by it thing. and something about the eventual examination of that self hatred and realizing that actually that second skin, that hurt, isn’t relevant anymore — that actually, finally, you understand yourself a little better and are ready to be kinder to yourself.

ronan lynch,

here’s to waking up.