I Keep Saying It- But The Ranking Post Might Actually Be Done Soon-

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.

Ranking post is I think like 1/4-1/8 finished! Well, the first round of concepts for the top of the hierarchy is, not mentioning the other stuff I have to mess with. Just the actual historical roles taken into account and my pride in my notes, except I tried drawing one of those pyramids you’d see that like explain the hierarchy and I messed up really badly-

Anyway, I don’t have much to say but here’s some Mercury and Octavian! Honestly just glad I got to draw them together.

*Also don’t mind how weird the speech bubbles read because I was tired and not considering how people would actually read the bubbles-

Mercury is the Calliope I mentioned way way back, and this is her current design (which is 100% going to change once I figure out what to do with her hair-)

But I don’t have much substance to this post, other than the re-imagining Ranking might completely be plowing over some of the established ranking (it’s just me adding in roles that were forgotten about and putting them into Camp and modifying their stuff to fit with camp. Camp just gets to be my little sandbox playground where I can demolish pieces for my re-imagining and then giggle about.

I also have a Bryce Lawerence hc post that is mostly just my random brain thoughts out on the post about possible things during exile. Literally none of them are backed up and just excuses for cool scenes in my head and to possibly write a little Bryce Lawerence exile story thing.

Okay, that’s it :3

Can’t produce very high quality art in ver short notice so here are the silly doodles I’ve made for the new episode,

Didn’t reference anything so sorry if it looks off. Also the needed Grover in the pig war shirt, he didn’t mention it in the episode but again- Washington. I needed the reference.

Also Ares with a little snake tongue. And that one scene from the beginning of the episode

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.

Maybe Looking too deep into this but that’s what I do for everything,

Anyway I was scrolling and saw another on of the silly little photos of the lizard from the Pjo Tv show,

And it got me thinking, what type of lizard (gecko) is that? Does he give us any silly foreshadowing?

This is a crested gecko I believe, and though crested geckos don’t have any specific mythos geckos themselves symbolize adapting to situations, regrowth, protections (dubious but idk)

And crested Geckos change colors through their natural life! I think having one of them specifically is really fun for the show because in line with the symbolism that I found they map well with Percy (who has to grow and adapt to demigod life)

Okay that’s it :]

Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed