Currently Re-reading The Percy Jackson Books, So I Can Get All My Facts Straight, So I Can, Hopefully,

Currently re-reading the Percy Jackson books, so I can get all my facts straight, so I can, hopefully, eventually, write a time travel fic. It's been years since I last read some of them. A recap isn't going to cut it.

But anyway.

Frankly, I'm impressed at how Percy handled his temper. 'Cause I know, I would have snapped at some point. With how little information they give him and how everyone is dodging the simplest, most inconsequential questions, I am hands down impressed by Percy.

And also! Why do people keep portraying him as an overpowered dumbass? He's a smort boi. He's doing his best.

I never realized how much the fandom was leaning on the dynamic that Annabeth is the smart one and Percy the overpowered one. Like, come on. People can be more than one thing. Percy can be smart and a dork. Annabeth can be a strategist and get carried away sometimes.

im CRYING they’re fucking killing her in the comments 😭

If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.

I like to imagine that in any atla modern au, aang still, for some reason, finds a reason to beat ozai’s ass

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

What do you mean, the audio is not available in my location?

What? Is it the sound of a secret song hidden from the rest of the world, except this one location? Could it be the forbidden sound of the drums of liberation??

Tell me! What are your secrets, oh siren songs only few are privy to, if only for the resistance they have gained against your alluring nature throughout the generations.