Havent Posted For A Whole Three Days Wild Lol-

Haven’t posted for a whole three days wild lol-

Anyway I’m going to work on the next two big projects (that sadly aren’t me trying to buy myself a full set of Roman legionary armor- that’s for later)

-Messing with the Ranks system in Camp Jupiter because I wanna do that and be silly and just have it for my little headcanon and like do stuff with that-

-Finish a post about Camp Jupiter map description. Like I said some other time I’ve put an indefinite pause on drawing it, but I still fully can write it out because describing it is much easier than physically doing it for me :].

I finally finished TSoA.. and once we got to the parts when they were actually in the Trojan war part I started tapping out because like… ajbfoamfnejsjfb whatever I like the classic more.

I’ll be reading the Aeneid too, and possibly doing something with that? I don’t know but I want to work with that for Camp Jupiter and stuff- ideas, ideas that will come in the future Lolol.

Other than that… I might be posting less often because my Drama club is starting to begin! Best bets is that the Ranks will be out first and then maybe some random things if something catches my interest (I’d possibly want to do something about the Wolf-house but I don’t have enough ideas at the moment to make a full post) I might possibly make one about the weapons in camp Jupiter too, whichever comes first but I’m a bit more interested in Roman weaponry than the ranks so uh yeah-

I also did a rough sketch about the arch episode after I saw it-

So I’ll probably post some more about that as it progresses and I fiddle with it more-

Waiting for the part of the show when Annabeth and Grover say the most wild inside joke ever and Percy is left confused because I want more Annabeth and Grover acknowledging the bond they’d have from traveling all those years ago.

*Bonus; Annabeth calming down and slowly and somberly saying something about Thalia liking the joke because from my read on the show Annabeth is pushed in a more idolizing Thalia angle from what I’ve interpreted so far.

This post was hard to write because I have a cat named Granger and kept wanting to correct Grover to it. Sadly I don’t have any creative flows going on at the moment so no big posts that I can say will happen (though I am working on some art👀…)

Anyway might finally get around to reading the Aeneid because I’m getting to the final sprint for TSoA and my tolerance for it is slowly chipping off. I love it it’s great, but the me inside of me that likes the classical epic can’t help but sit there and go, “Why is Patroclus a tiny little babygirl? I thought that was ________’s job? Patroclus was not this afraid of battle why have we babygirled him in the bad way??” That is just my read on it but from what I remember generally Patroclus was a silly little guy that could most certainly hold his own and was effective in battle (I know it’s just for the story but I can’t do many mythological re-telling/ anything that moves in line with varying mythologies, PJO hit the sweet spot for me, while things like a thousand steps into the night I generally didn’t find too wild, though it’s mythos I’m not familiar with. But stuff like TsoA or the loose stuff marvel does completely turns me away *other than moon knight I love moon knight*) and blah,blah, blah something about boxing I might post a draft I made about Palamedes.

Also on the topic of TSoA it’s the only book that I accidentally read hoarse as horse.

Wow another short post but I genuinely can’t escape Octavian (Augustus Caesar? No idea what to call him at this point)/Julius Caesar

Luckily my brain decided to latch onto Pompey the great and not him so it’s not everyday.

But everywhere I look I see him.

I was watching Wendell and wild.

WENDELL. AND. WILD!!

And his bust was there! Not an exact but pretty much.

I yelled out Julius Caesar’s name so loud. Genuinely the bust in the movie looks like a solid mix between,

These two so anyone’s guess is as good as mine.

I’ll never escape Rome

Ares in Pjo/maybe Hc/ I just ramble

Might possibly make a Ares post to add to the new episode dropping tomorrow because hehehehehehe Ares :3.

Never mind I’m talking about Ares now. Glad to make a longer post :3

I… have my thoughts about him and how he’s portrayed in Pjo (seriously what happened my dudes-?) blah blah blah I’m not quite qualified to yap about it because I’m not a super cool mythology classics trained interpreter or whatever but I am a person on the internet with a surface level idea on Greek Mythology.

First off, would like to say. Biker Ares is such a silly concept that is so fun. I never thought about him in biker concept when going modern; I personally would’ve immediately gone to a punk leaning or shifted him to a more rocker (though all of those communities have pretty cool overlap). But I always sat there thinking about Ares and got the image of punk.

But, I can say- sleazy Ares, now with more info about actual mythos. It’s. A choice. Like Hera (who also had a thing happen to her that I personally don’t like becusdbeisnfianfjedj I really like Hera) but Ares- uh, dude is like historically loves his girlfriend, his kids, and his mom. My man would not be as.. icky to his kids (what was even going on during SoM?) and totally would’ve.. cared more about them? Or be shown to have more explicit worry and concern and pride in them (thinking of that one daughter he had and the son mentioned in the Iliad)? But again might just be my read on it. Of course there’s stuff I love about it, he’s totally ravenous, totally embodies that war spirit that I think of him as (if anyone wants my take I really feel like between all the war deities I know, Athena is the general/high ranking militaries god, Ares is the soldiers god, Enyo is that battle frenzy bloodlust we’d associate with Ares, etc,etc). While also being caring.

When I talk about these Gods in Pjo I think of them and how my brain characterizes them in, their sort of more myth based part, the varying versions of themselves’s from their ‘forms’ in other regions. I still have them in my re-imagined Olympus staying on Olympus, but Gods still somewhat reflect their realms/domains.

Ares somewhat holds qualities of all the bad things of modern war, while also our modern look on wars of the past (specifically like, pre-civil war) and our view on them. Along with his myth alignment, and somewhat taking little bits from other forms.

Also he is a mother’s boy. No idea if it’s canon but I say it’s canon, he loves Hera :3 and his girlfriend. (Whenever I write about Aphrodite along with bringing up that war form of her I’d also like to say that I’m fully supporting the eye beauty of beholder appearance shift). He checks in on his kids much more frequently, whether inadvertently or very obviously (we see him offer the core trio practically McDonald’s and giving Clarisse the boat thing, and calling her).

Okay I’m very tired and I don’t know what I wrote because all of this is like almost midnight for me so uhhh. Maybe I’ll have more brain thoughts at some other point.

Also my room is so grossly warm, I live in a colder area but my room is at sub-tropical temps due to my snake (who I love dearly, his name is Wilbur) but I swear I have to open my window not to overheat constantly, while I’ve adjusted to the heat In the room that everywhere else in the house is cold :[

Okay goodnight.

less discourse about whether the roman campers are child soldiers more discourse about how reyna/jason/percy/frank consistently tried to topple the democratic process of camp jupiter

I keep saying it- but the Ranking post might actually be done soon-

I have most of the ranks summarized. Now I just have to actually make them fit into camp and modify them a bit for camp structure. It’s… a lot more roles, but it’s my re-imagined and I can do what I want with the concept I’ve been building and it helps stage how I want camp to feel in the re-imagining (regimented, suffocating, and confusing compared to Camp Half-Blood. Something something more concepts that maybe I’ll use a different time-)

The actual reason I wanted to write this was just to say that if I hear another person say the word “preppy” around me to describe something or an action I perform I will actually sob. Was standing for the bus and had one of my friends call it preppy when I started talking and jumping about like Pompey the Great or something-

It actually irritates me, which arguably it is 100% a dumb thing to get irritated over. But it upsets me and I need somewhere to vent-

Anyway… I’m gonna make strawberry cupcakes today :3 and probably finishing off the note summaries because after that I can work on the ranking in my free time at school because then I don’t need (as much) historical accuracy.

Also here’s a draft for a sort of Octavian art I did,

Okay I really don’t know what this post is anymore. Ranking will be out soon and possibly either a Mercury short story I need to figure out or a little Bryce one that I also totally don’t have figured out.

Or y’know the ranking post. That’ll probably be it.