Excuse Me Sir . He Asked For No Pickles

excuse me sir . he asked for no pickles

Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.

Just imagine:

Perseus is 16, he thinks, because nobody ever actually cleared that up with him and he doesn’t know himself. Reyna and Octavian are arguing about whether or not to risk sending Frank on a quest in front of the entire Senate. It would be a fistfight by now if Reyna had an ounce less of self-control

Perseus starts clapping slowly. Silence falls. he stands up.

🎵’oh golly, the road’s gettin bumpy, cause i got some friends that can’t get along...’🎵

he trails off. where did he get that from? and thousands of miles away, Grover Underwood feels a deep, visceral sense of pride that comes out of nowhere

No grave could hold my body down (I'll crawl home to him)

Jason and Piper = A lesbian and a gay man in a relationship for no reason

kids were roleplaying with minecraft figurines and one of them had their figure go up to the other and say “i’m in love with you” and the other one replied “sword slash to the chest. and you’re on fire”