Jason Being The Caregiver He Never Got For Himself :(((

Jason being the caregiver he never got for himself :(((

Jason being the good friend, trying his best to help his friend despite his underdeveloped emotional skills :(((((

Jason loving what few friends he had in New Rome despite living there his whole life, and most all of them seeing him as the Son of Jupiter and little else :(((((((

I keep thinking about Jason. Like, despite being raised into a litteral child soldier, this boy somehow grew up to be selfless and brave and caring and kind and sweet, and even a little funny too, even though he doesn't always mean to be? and it's just so endearing, and i just don't know where he got all this from? Clearly he didn't get it from Lupa and the wolves, nor from anyone in CJ (where, again, he was raised to be a child soldier), he definitly didn't learn to be gentle and kind from Zeus or Hera, and i doubt he could have gotten any of it from his mom, from what we know and what we've seen of her.

My best guess is, I think he's trying to be how he wished his caregivers were to him, growing up.

the best part is that he’s not even a teenager. our best teenager loser rep is the god of the sun himself.

maybe teenagers are just channeling the energy of 4000 year old lovesick gods sometimes. maybe they’re just being pathetic and blorbo in a ‘give me a few centuries to cry my heart out over this one thing some guy said to me and then i’ll be fine’ sort of wag

maybe we’re all lester is some way

born to be an impossibly old impossibly wet cat of a person, forced to be a teenager

lester is literally such a loser I LOVE HIM SO MUCH YOU DONT KNOW HOW…. He’s literally the BEST teenage loser rep I’ve ever seen ….

I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you're a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you're a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don't have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don't like.

My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.

THE LESTER AND APOLLO MEETING IS HERE :D

This chapter is like... over 2k words longer than the last one I'm pretty sure. Like it's at least 5k. Lester's best friends took the whole stage and the mic and Lester's in the back with Apollo controlling the lights. I have no control here.

desc under cut!

The stranger studied him with an intense, but not necessarily unkind, expression. He looked like he was examining every inch of Lester's face and putting together a puzzle Lester didn't have even half the pieces for. The stranger had hair like spun gold, brown at the roots and curly like Lester's was, and he was wearing a Led Zepplin shirt over a pair of khaki shorts. He could've been anywhere between 18 and 30, though his eyes looked much, much older. Despite the numerous physical differences, he kind of reminded Lester of himself.

There was a dawning look of horror on his face.

@the-stars-were-his :D

here’s my take on the Lester-was-a-mortal-prior-to-ToA idea

heavily inspired by the lovely fic ‘Glitter and Gold’ by @casualcannibalisms!!(i hope you don’t mind the ping) seriously, it’s so good, you guys should check it out, absolutely stellar characterization and super cool plot

desc from my fic under cut

Well, no time like the present, right? How long could he even have been gone for? He had literally been walking home from school yesterday, mentally prepping for the calc test, wondering what his parents were planning for dinner, until… until he had been...

There had been light. Screaming. Was it his screaming?

Why had everything been so bright?

Lester pressed a hand to his suddenly pounding head and begged whatever benevolent gods might be listening to put him out of his misery.

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Or, Lester Papadopoulos has been missing for almost a year. When he reappears in the middle of Manhattan, on the verge of death, he just wants to go home.

The Other Side from The Greatest Showman but it's Leo and Danny

Leo is P.T. Barnum and Danny is Philip Carlyle

aw man, you have a lot of absolutely fantastic character dynamic ideas-

i haven’t seen the greatest showman but i’ve heard The Other Side!! Id have to wonder what they’re trying to convince each other of, though hdjdjdjdfj, or what the circumstances would be

it’s a fun idea to chew on :D

Aching in Ireland, while my Broken Heart is Held Hostage with my Family in Gaza

Before the ongoing horrific genocide in Gaza, I happened to be a PhD student at an Irish university collecting data for my research from universities in Gaza. Little did I know that being a student at an Irish university would be my only way to be saved from the horrible war. I was lucky and privileged, unlike my helpless family trapped in Gaza. Four months and a half into the war, my Irish supervisors and my family insisted that I should seize the opportunity to evacuate to Ireland while I still could.

Setting foot outside Gaza felt like leaving hell and entering a whole new world. People walk carefree in the streets not fearing being killed by an airstrike! They go for a run in the morning and walk their dogs! They go to school and work and live a normal life I had been deprived of for so long! I see people talking and laughing and cannot help but have the daunting thoughts that the next airstrike could kill all of my family members in Gaza.

A horrible mixture of fear, depression, survival guilt, and agony engulfs me and paralyzes my entire life as I watch the news while being far away. Just a couple of days ago, 100 innocent people were killed in a school in Gaza where people sought shelter. I saw pictures and videos of people carrying the burned meat of their family members instead of whole corpses. Could our world be more evil, insensitive, desensitized, and cruel?

My heart skips a beat every time I hear that the neighborhood where my family has been displaced was bombed! What if they are running out of luck as I write these words and the next indiscriminate bombing will end their lives?! Therefore, evacuation is a dire need and a matter of life and death at this point as the genocide and massacres continue unabated.

I am desperately trying to protect my family from this genocide just as you would do if you were in my place. I plan to evacuate them to Egypt as a first step in the hope of reuniting with them in Ireland where we can have a dignified safe life together away from the missiles, bombs, corpses, diseases, polluted water, and pain of loss. We love Gaza more than anything in the world, but I can not accept carrying them as burned meat in plastic bags like I see all the time in the news and social media.

Please find it in your heart to help me save my family by donating, reblogging, and sharing.

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