Annabeth Is Like Jesus In The Way She Was Given To A Virgin (Frederick) By A God (Athena) And Then Had

Annabeth is like Jesus in the way she was given to a virgin (Frederick) by a god (Athena) and then had to sacrifice herself ( look for the Athena Parthenon) to have the sins of the damned forgiven (camp halfblood and camp Jupiter)

I just opened a bank account for the first time. The teller was nice enough to address me instead of my mother the whole time.

I almost shat my pants.

the thing about annabeth is that if you just don't like her personality it's fine. if you just don't vibe with her it's literally fine. no one is valid for coming at you if you just say "tbh she just annoys me" because everyone has pet peeves and personality types that they find grating and honestly people are way too sensitive on here about people making benign comments like "I don't like X character/ship" when it like doesn't affect them at all

but I am confused by how annabeth haters always seem to cling to the strangest events/actions in her life as objectively logical, justifiable reasons to hate on her like specifically the scene in tartarus with her and percy and akhlys? what do you mean you hold disdain towards a child for not having a perfectly sane and pleasant reaction to an extremely traumatic life or death situation? like do you Hear yourself. you sound like a parent who yells at their kid for crying. it's wild

she obviously loves percy and would die for him as evidenced in canon countless times and the feeling is mutual, so the twisting of that specific situation into some moral failing on her part or a crime against percy (as well as prioritizing percy's feelings and not allowing any validity to hers in the slightest) just tells me that these people have never been able to grasp the complexity of a morally ambiguous scene with a single degree of nuance or fairness in their lives and they should probably never attempt to read a book above middle schooler-grade level tbqh

i was really enjoying reading this book. so i finished it, which of course means i can no longer read this book.. a fact i am not enjoying

I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.

Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor's waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.

I could go on just about forever here. But it's a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it's so common.

eating pastries is so humiliating cause you'll be having the time of your life having it and then when you're finished you look down and you're covered in flakes and sugardust like fuuuck now everyone is going to know i'm a messy pastry whore