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she/her, 25 human years old

truly deeply despise mike walters for making ashley johnson's private life into a public news story. like let's be clear: he isn't some noble investigative journalist blowing the whistle on domestic abuse. he's a celebrity tabloid muck-raker making money by exposing and exploiting public figures. he co-founded tmz for fucks sake. and not only is publishing an article like this a generally shitty thing to do to someone, it's potentially putting ashley johnson and her loved ones in danger. fuck this guy

i am so very curious who these new pjo-verse books are being written for

and before you come at me with the it’s middle grade they’ve always been middle grade stuff, consider

it’s literally been almost 20 years since TLT was published. fans of the original pjo books are well into their 20s, if not their early 30s by now (heeeey). second generation with HoO are also now in their 20s, with the third gen of ToA readers being in their late teens. there’s a whole range of audience members who are not fifth graders mainlining the series in one summer. 

is he just going to keep pretending there’s not an audience who would be here for more mature writing? and that doesn’t mean making things ~sexy or super dark and bloody or whatever because pjo has never been about that. it means elevating the style and characterization on a deeper level and, idk, paying attention to your fucking universe. i thought RR did a great job of maturing the writing for ToA, but it always got held down by the fart humor and stupid pop culture references. 

making the “it’s for middle schoolers!” excuse every book cycle when someone points out that hey, this is inconsistent with what you wrote two books ago or why does percy never grow up is such a lazy co-opt. you have a huge audience of all ages! if you insist on continuing to write in this universe, acknowledge us! up the quality, i dare you! i dare you!!!!!

id: cover for “we’ll build our walls, aluminum (hear all the bombs fade away)” by NotAFicWriter, the text overlayed over a bed with rumpled gray sheets and a wooden headboard.

Gideon peered down between her legs and squinted one eye shut. “Nope,” she said, “I don’t see it.”
Harrow, standing at the foot of the bed facing away with her naked back turned to Gideon, attempted in vain to flex the wretched boneyard of her back muscles. Her trapezius stood out in a thin, wiry tremble, muscular in the loosest definition of the term, but there.
Gideon snorted. “Kinda. Stop flexing, babes, you’re going to pop a blood vessel again.”

rated e, 7k, english.

thank you very much to @ladyofrosefire​, who helped come up with the idea for this fic and betaed, and @jelenedra​​, who was also beta! this was written for haven’s “pussy is a concept” prompt challenge, which was a lot of fun and which i am a bit late for. enjoy!

if you enjoy this fic, kudos, comments, and reblogs are appreciated highly!

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