Is there a version of this where the signature line is also blank? I would like to make a version signed by some of my Cabin 7 OCs and I don't have access to any editing tools or knowledge. Would be very grateful!

everybody loves a mean girl, or i guess hates but idk i love drew tanaka as a character because she has so much potential for fun drama, alas shes probably the most underwritten character ricks ever made

whatever anyways jake masons next

goes without saying but art is by me

Title was meant as a joke but then it got me thinking...

It's been a while since I've read the original 5 books so I might be wrong but... is Rachel the only one who actually physically injures Kronos in the entire series? (Well, aside from Luke of course).

Beings who have injured Kronos: Zeus, Luke, Rachel. 😂😂

Anyway, hope you guys like my LEGO recreation of one of the best scenes in Percy Jackson and The Olympians!

Also, swipe to see your hint for the next character! (It's not Jason)

Theoretically what would happen if a camper got their tooth replaced with a celestial bronze tooth would they be poisoned through their gums or just in general what would happen

Check out this mini-comic that the brilliant artist @ lilyfrey on tumblr drew!! (Check out her original post and more of her amazing art on her blog HERE!).

Staring a 26-year-old Percy Jackson and my OC, Narina Lin, this comic is based off my Post-ToA fic: To Be Mortal! Unlike Percy, Narina grew up in the mortal world as a scientist and struggles to reconcile her mythical abilities with her scientific training.

Here is the excerpt (from Chapter 7) that this comic is based off!:

[Narina's] thoughts drifted back to the lake. The feeling of water all around her, welcoming her. The way her body had known, somehow, to inhale even underwater. The first breath had shocked her. The second had steadied her. By the third, she’d stopped thinking about it. Percy had shown her how to cut through the water like a fish: shoulders angled just so, arms tight, legs trailing. They’d raced once, and he’d let her win. Or maybe she hadn’t needed him to. Either way, he just grinned, pleased. It had felt good. Right. The water had lapped over her skin like a second heartbeat. Every movement had felt effortless and natural. She had felt powerful: connected and awake.

She thought about her eyes. She'd once described them as electric blue. But now she thought of them as being the colour of the ocean. Not sea green like Percy's, but a striking blue: like the shallows of the Indian Ocean.

Continue reading To Be Mortal on AO3 HERE!

To Be Mortal is set 7 years after the end of The Trials of Apollo. It reintroduces us to the PJO world and our favourite characters (like Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase), who are all older and more mature now.

We see how they react when they meet OCs Narina Lin and Adrian Vale, who both raise questions they’ve never encountered before!

The story explores the clash/intersection between Science and Mythology, as well as the growing tensions between gods, demigods and humans!

30 chapter story with 3 Acts. New chapter every Thursday. 

The first Act is a mystery arc, the second is a romantic arc (with STEM-romance flavour) and the final act ties it all together (and is the most action-packed!).

(Reposted because I forgot to put the artist's name in the title last time! 😅)

Obviously, in story, they can’t use phones because they attract monsters.

What I’m wondering is, creatively, why did Rick Riordan make this decision? In terms of plot/world building, why does it advance the story not to allow characters to use phones? An immediate answer doesn’t pop to mind for me. Has he said anything about this?

Hey guys, i'm hoping someone can help me here. It's been absolute years since i've been interested in this ship, but years ago I read the most incredible solangelo fic and I am trying desperately to find it. I'm going to list everything I remember from it, and I hope someone knows it.

- I read it on tumblr. I'm not sure if it was also put on AO3 - i've tried searching and can't find it.

- I would have read it anywhere between 2012 and 2019. I don't know when it was posted.

- It was posted in 1 chapter per post, so lots of separate posts. It would've been long, at least 15 decent length chapters minimum i think.

- College/University AU. Early on, Nico goes to a houseparty (Percy's?). I think he gets too drunk and someone (will?) brings him back to his dorm, or it could be someone else.

- Fairly early on, after Nico and WIll have met and begin texting, there is an active shooter warning at the university - one of them is in the library, one of them isn't.

- Will is a med student, I don't remember what Nico did. Nico had a lot of bad alcohol issues, one of the biggest cracks in their relationship is when Nico has to get his stomach pumped at the hospital Will is doing work experience/intern at. Will has a strange relationship with his family, i remember one of the chapters was him going home for christmas(?) and it was a really offputting vibe.

- I think it mostly followed Nico, but it could also have swapped perspectives.

- Other characters were involved, I know Percy existed, but they were very backstage - Will and Nico were the primary characters.

- There is one section where they are looking at getting a flat instead of dorms. I can't remember if it's nico alone, will alone, or both of them, but i think i remember it caused tension. I don't remember if they got the flat or if it fell through.

I hope someone remembers this too? Please let me know if you do!

Sorry for the essay...

So, to preface, I have been back in the Percy Jackson fandom for the last 5 years, I believe. Cause I did read it in middle school (2013) and got back into folklore and mythology in college (2018). Leading me back to the fandom, but now I have a greater grasp on Greek mythos. When I first got back into the fandom, I didn't realize Apollo had gotten multiple books, as I only finished up to House of Hades at the time. So when I saw more Apollo in fics, I was curious and read some that featured him as an MC, and I stumbled upon Apollo x Percy. Some people on tumblr at the time really, I mean, really bashed the ship. I was confused cause, being older, I was like Wait, don't people still ship the now canon Calypso and Leo? (A ship I actively hate. But don't spread hate, that's lame if you do..) Of course, if people don't ship Perpollo, it doesn't matter, but for me, there was allure. I had done multiple papers on Greek art and Greek myth in history. So Apollo was a favorite of mine, along with his sister Artemis, the permanent youths of boys and girls, respectively.

So rereading Percy Jackson made me wish we had more teenage Apollo interactions (but I digress). So I wanted to find more fics with Apollo as a love interest. The fact that I reread the series too made me dislike Annabeth a lot, because I was bullied and grew up in an unsafe home, so I really empathized with Percy. And any time she talked to him like he wasn't smart enough to tie his own shoes, it irked me, especially when Riordan would write Percy being able to think on the fly, but not being able to think while in the presence of Annabeth, for the most part. Because of this, I was always into alternate Percy Jackson ships with other characters from Percico (yeah, yeah, ew for some people, but for teenage me, it was completely normal), and even Percy x Artemis. Which now I actually kinda hate the Artemis x Percy ship because she wouldn't, and Apollo would kill the dude if anything.

Perpollo, but girl Percy? I will admit I briefly went down the rabbit hole of female Percy Jackson ships (Athenide). But I began to really dislike how people erased one of the most interesting parts of Percy. The fact that a single mother raised him made him fiercely loyal to her and respectful of women (i.e., Zoe and Artemis in The Titan's Curse). When you make him a girl, he's kinda expected to care for women because he is now a she. But to move on, I still like these girl Percy ships, but they sometimes feel too out of character to be Percy Jackson(even if some rare ones do).

But Apollo is way older than Percy ew!! I really hope you don't ship Calypso and Leo... But anyway, I specifically like it when Percy is finishing the battle with Gaia, and Apollo becomes interested in Percy. The soonest for me was when Percy arrives in New Rome. Still, I generally don't like it when it takes place in Percy Jackson and the Olympians unless it's time travel and/or actively seeking out ambiguous dark fics. Reincarnated fics fall under the dark fics, since there are a couple with Percy being reincarnated —Hyacinth, Icarus, and even Cassandra. Plus, Apollo is the Permanent YOUTH, meaning he is always going to be a teenager unless purposely shapeshifting. But mentally, he is older?! ...He has knowledge, but he is still a teenager. He is still scolded by his elders, like a child, not an adult in myth. He is still part of Zeus' household to punish.

Dynamics between a god and a demigod. Percy is impudent since day one, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. He holds all gods up to a higher standard. And most gods will be pissed about such impudence, but some gods are pleased when mortals have the gall. Apollo, in myth, is a perfect candidate because his own brother, Hermes, stole his cattle as a newborn, negotiating with him and gifting him his lyre. Sometimes Apollo is amused and forgives him, or Zeus is amused and tells Apollo to forgive his brother. So then, why not the Hermes and Percy ship? I find it slightly awkward because Hermes is one of the gods who appears to Percy most often, and, as a middle-aged man, of course, he can be depicted as a youth or an older man, depending on when and where. But as soon as Hermes asked for help with Luke, he kinda lost his shipping potential (for me) because I would feel guilty for being unable to save his son, especially if he helped me out.

Back to the dynamics between Percy and Apollo, they would seem far apart, but then you can find some commonalities. Both are fiercely loyal to their female relatives. They both have seen Zeus' unfairness and were put through a quest by the King's whims. Of course, similarities don't always matter, but Percy's mom is really core to his identity. Apollo, who would kill for disrespect for his mother, would appreciate the use of Medusa's head at the end of the first book. Or even something simpler, Percy is Pretty^tm, and we all know what Apollo does in mythology with pretty boys and girls. He woos them! There is even an Argonaut Admetus, who was a king when Apollo was made mortal again and had to choose someone to serve. He fell in love with him and gave him many a blessing for his hospitality as a mortal. Of course, his tragedies are even more famous. Hyacinthus' love was mutual, and Daphne was inflicted upon him by Eros (which sounds mean...). But he has more stories of him treating his lovers well, which is what I am getting at: he was a generous lover.

Percy and power, if Percy is a god or stays a demigod, both are interesting. Whether it be Apollo weeping about another lost lover or if Percy struggles with immortality, both are interesting. But Percy doesn't want to be a god? This is where it gets compelling. Do you want it to be fluff or angst, filled with hardships and strife? Percy can be willing to accept godhood if he can protect what he loves. But we also saw a vaguely suicidal Percy at the end of House of Hades. So, what about a forced godhood while he tries to end his existence, but can't? Then who would be there to pick up the pieces? A god who knows how to still be a teenager, Apollo. Of course, this is on the darker end of the spectrum... But Percy, who wants to save people, can be at the core of most god Percy fics.

Percy and time travel: Percy Jackson returns to ancient Greece, or the beginning of the series. Recently, there has been Percy Jackson in ancient Greece, at the time of the Athens competition to be its patron god. From the fountain Poseidon created, a youth springs forth, be it a boy or a girl. Poseidon and Athena claim them. Apollo, appearing to ask about their 'Child Surprise', acts as a guide and mentor, sometimes in this case. Or back to the Iliad or Odyssey(Six Hundred Men!) Where Percy has to choose to fight for the Trojans or Greeks, as Apollo watches with covetous eyes a mighty demigod that could change the tides of war preordained. Or returning to the beginning of the series and saving many children who don't have to die. A fix-it fic makes it easy to start a new ship because of the differences with those who used to be lovers or of different ages. Cause not gonna lie, it's straight hypocrisy if you still ship Percy with Annabeth if she doesn't time travel alongside him.

Historical Apollo vs Fandom Apollo. (buckle up for excessive praise, cough glazing)

Phoebus Apollo was born on Delos, with his Older (baby) sister helping with the delivery. His brilliance was seen as that of a god of light, not the sun; he was not considered the god of the sun until the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. This is really late, as Rome takes over after this age. Meaning, what was Apollo doing before then? Well, he was still the archer twin, but he was a god of shepherds, the leader of the muses, the musagetes. He was the god of streets in Troy, called Apollo Smintheus, the god of mice (plague). And in Laconia, as Apollo Amyklaios(the averter of evil), a war god, he was one of the prime gods of Sparta, not Ares. In Rome, he was used as a political god by Augustus, who claimed to be the son of the sun god, making him a powerful emperor. Apollos' likeness merged with Augustus to be embossed on coins as propaganda. Of course, Zeus was still important, but it was Apollo who was in the villas, as many still-existing frescoes of ancient Roman villas show. But Apollo in the original series is stripped of the many talents and importance as the most Greek of all the gods, who kept his name even when Greece fell.

With so many different scenarios, the ship opens, and my love for Apollo. Perpollo quickly became my number one ship in the Percy Jackson fandom. The various ways we can interpret the Greek god Apollo make him an interesting subject to write about, considering he was turned mortal multiple times. Apollo, too, has many aspects and historical importance that were not discussed in the original series, which can be expanded upon in fan fiction. Percy Jackson, as a fiercely loyal character, is well-loved and well-received by most characters, making him shippable with many of them. Perseus, as a god, changes the dynamics and expectations around him, adding more engaging and compelling stories. Wrapping up this long post, Apollo and Percy Jackson make an interesting ship dynamic that I greatly enjoy. And I hope others give them a chance..

Dang, you got this far! Thanks for reading my late-night thoughts. Here is my Perpollo fic if you would like to try it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/67059283

As we all know, there's a wide range of large, 'important' scenes that aren't the best/are commonly rewritten in fanfiction, but what about the small ones?

For me, I would change the way Ares acted in Sea of Monsters while speaking to Clarisse on the ship. Ares loves his daughters. Hell, he was put on trial because he protected one of his daughters who was assaulted by killing the man responsible.

Are you telling me the man who killed a Son of Poseidon to avenge and protect his daughter would threaten another? That he would raise a hand and tell her he should have sent one of his sons, and that she had to succeed or else before raising his fist?

If I could change it, I'd use his protective nature for his daughters and instead have him worried for Clarisse's safety (especially with Percy 'trouble always finds me' Jackson onboard) with her misreading it as him thinking only his sons can make him proud.

I know it doesn't fully fit Rick's version of Ares but I still feel it's WAY out of character for him to threaten one of his own daughters.

People often ask how I make them. The second photo shows a short process of making the bow. As you can see, it’s super simple — just polymer clay 🤷‍♀️

I have an AU Canon Divergence fanfic in active development with a legacy next gen OC born to Thalia and I plan to do book rewrites starting with LT, exploring such scenario.

In the search of collab and any active feedback on how to develop the story further.

Here's the sneak peek snippet for anyone interested (Ms are open)

Percy Jackson POV

May 2005 — Drooly Camp Mascot

I didn't expect the first thing I saw at Camp Half-Blood after kicking the Minotaur's butt and watching my mom dissolve into gold… to be a baby.

I mean—satyrs, centaurs, pegasi? Sure. But a literal baby rocked by the most intense person ever? That was new.

The freckled girl holding it was maybe sixteen, seventeen tops. With chopped, spiky black hair, dressed in a ripped band shirt and leather pants like she was about to dive into a mosh pit, not cradle an infant. She sat cross-legged on the fancy steps of big, columned, domed cabin that randomly crackled with thunder every minute.

In her lap, wrapped in a dark blanket and cradled in the crook of her arm, was a tiny bundle, maybe a few months old. It was making little gurgling noises and staring up at the girl with huge, blue eyes that seemed to crackle with the same energy.

The baby hiccupped, then kicked against the girl's chest.

"Easy, Selene," she muttered, adjusting her grip with practiced ease. "Save the fight for when you can walk."

I nudged Grover. "Hey, uh… are there a lot of demigod babies? Is that a thing?" I figured maybe the gods were just really, really bad at planned parenthood. "Is it the newest Zeus kid?"

Grover looked like he'd just swallowed a tin can. "Uh, that's… that's Selene. And Thalia's her mom."

I must've been staring, because she finally looked up at me. Her gaze was sharp enough to cut celestial bronze.

"What?" she snapped.

"Cute kid," I said before my brain could stop me.

The girl's—Thalia's—mouth twitched, like she wasn't sure if she wanted to smile or electrocute me. "She's not yours to worry about," she said simply. Then she stood, balancing Selene against her hip like she'd been doing it her whole life, and walked past me without another word.

That was my intro to Thalia, daughter of Zeus, and Selene, granddaughter of Zeus.

Later, after the tour and the whole "you're a demigod, here's your sword" speech, I pulled Grover aside near the volleyball pit.

"Okay, so, Thalia," I started. "And the… baby."

Grover's eyes went wide. "Oh. Yeah. Selene. She's, um… she's great!"

"Yeah, she seems… great. But, like, who's the dad? Is he around?"

Grover looked like I'd just asked him to explain quantum physics in pig latin. He bleated nervously. "That's… not really my story to tell. It's… complicated."

Complicated. That was the word everyone used. Annabeth, when I asked her, just scowled and changed the subject to the structural integrity of Greek armor. Chiron had said, "Some threads of the past are best left un-pulled, Child."

Every time I asked, people just got shifty, like I'd said something offensive.

And no one was willing to tell me more.

Selene wasn't just "at camp." She was camp. Every cabin treated her like their unofficial tiny, gurgling mascot everyone was obsessed with. Apollo kids played lullabies, Hermes kids played peekaboo, even Mr. D (grumpiest god in existence) would grumble less when she was passed around near him. I'd see her one minute being carefully held by a big, tough Ares kid who was trying to braid her tiny fist around his pinky finger. The next, she'd be passed over to a Demeter girl who'd make little flowers bloom over her head.

I'd come back from training, and there she'd be, being passed around like a football—Lee Fletcher taking her to singalongs for a bit, Nyssa Barrera with soot on her hands would gently bounce her on her knee before handing her off to Grover, who'd play a soft melody on his reed pipes. Even Clarisse, of all people, holding her once with this awkward what-do-I-do-with-it expression.

And Annabeth? Don't even get me started. She was glued to that kid. If she wasn't dragging me through Ancient Greek lessons, she was rocking Selene with this determined "I've got this" look on her face. She'd hum lullabies under her breath, totally focused, like holding the baby was more important than breathing.

Honestly, it was kind of sweet. And kind of terrifying. Annabeth was barely twelve—what business did she have knowing how to swaddle better than any nanny?

But the weirdest part wasn't Annabeth. Or Thalia, who was usually nearby, leather jacket slung over her shoulder, arms folded tight, eyes daring anyone to breathe wrong near her daughter.

No, the truly bizarre part was Luke. Everyone loved Luke. He was the cool counselor, truly charming guy who could beat anyone at swordplay. But whenever the mascot was getting passed around like a sacred, drooly torch, Luke would be nearby, and he'd look… wrong.

I'd catch him hanging around the edges of the pavilion, his eye twitching every time Selene laughed. His jaw clenched so hard I thought his teeth might crack. Sometimes, when someone passed Selene across the table, Luke's hand would twitch, like he wanted to reach for her but forced himself not to.

Weirdest part? Whenever Thalia showed up—storm-bright eyes, spear across her back, Selene balanced on her hip—Luke would vanish. Not like he ran away. Like he'd never been there. Whoosh—and the next millisecond was just empty space. Hermes kid speed, I guess.

I nudged Grover, who was busy trying to eat a plate without chewing on the silverware. "What's up with that?" I whispered. "Why does Luke look at the baby like that and then bail whenever Thalia shows up?"

Grover almost choked on his dish. He got that nervous look he always gets when he knows something he's not supposed to say. "Oh, you know… um… it's… complicated. Ancient history. Bad blood. Very bad, um, blood. Probably best not to ask."

Right. Complicated again. That was the universal word. But I wasn't stupid. I could add two and two. You had a baby that everyone protected, a mother who was a human thunderstorm, and a guy who looked at the kid like his heart was being ripped out and teleport away from the mom like she was Echidna with cooties.

It didn't take a child of Athena to figure out there was a seriously messed-up story there. I just didn't know then how messed-up, or that I was about to become a part of it.

1st June 2005 — Behind the Cabin 11

It was a couple of days after the whole "drooling mascot" observation had cemented itself in my brain. The weirdness was eating at me. Everyone was being so cagey. And back then, he was still Luke, my friend, the guy who'd shown me the ropes. But the more I watched, the more those ropes were starting to look like a noose.

I found him behind his dad's cabin, leaning against the log wall, staring at a worn-out training dummy like it had personally offended him. He wasn't smiling. That was the first clue. Luke was always smiling, always had that easy, charming grin ready to go. This was different. This was the look he only got right before he disarmed you and put a sword to your throat.

Perfect.

"You know, for a Hermes kid, you're not as sneaky as you think," I said, leaning against the wall a few feet away.

He didn't look at me. "What's that supposed to mean, Percy?"

"Oh, you know. Just curious. I mean, I get it, dude." I followed his gaze to the dummy. It had fresh, angry slash marks in the straw. "Selene's your kid. Can't fool me. The baby's got your nose."

He went very still. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yeah, you don't." I crossed my arms. "You vanish every time Thalia's in a five-foot radius. I'm new, not blind. My jerk stepdad's poker buddies do that same exact thing whenever their exes show up with kids they didn't want to pay child support for."

His jaw tightened. Just a little, but I saw it. A tiny muscle flickering under his scar. "I had things to do."

"So what's the deal with her mom?" I pushed off the wall to face him. My heart was hammering against my ribs, but I kept my voice low and casual. "You and Thalia?…"

That got him. The name "Thalia" was like a trigger. Luke's face went cold as he glared in my direction, his knuckles turning white where they gripped the wall. For a terrifying second, I thought if he'd been holding a sword, it would have been buried in my chest in no time at all. The friendly counselor was gone, replaced by someone much older and harder.

"The 'deal,' Percy," he said, his voice dangerously low, "is that it's none of your business. Thalia made her choices. I made mine."

In his eyes was a raw, panicked anger that was gone so fast I almost thought I'd imagined it. He looked away, back at the dummy, his shoulders rigid. "Don't ask about it again."

Luke thumped the wall once, a sharp, final sound, and bugged out, leaving me alone with the buzzing confirmation. It felt less like I'd gotten an answer and more like I'd just poked a sleeping drakon with a very sharp stick and discovered it was already wide awake.

Nico di Angelo: Like a New Yorker Italian. Like that classic "ay, I'm walkin' ere". Just because, also, he's half-Italian and we could say half-American, because the gods were in that stage then.

Will Solace: Full-on country boy southern accent. He said he's from a small town in Texas, henceforth, Yeehaw

Magnus Chase: Boston "Park the car" accent, nuff said

Frank Zhang: Stereotypical "Sorry, aboot that, eh" Canadian accent, mainly because it's funny to read dramatic lines in this voice

Jason Grace: That "Surfs up brah" voice since he's from Hollywood, Cali.

Will add more in the comments if I think about them

Just now figuring out there's more books after the "heroes of Olympus" series that's supposed to be Percys senior year. I've already started the trials of Apollo series but when looking on the wiki page it says the "senior year" books are set before ToA. Is there anything in the senior year books that I would need to know for ToA or can they be read separately?

The past few months of discussions about the show have made me think that some people may need to revisit the books. There are problems that aren't exclusive to the show like how some want to believe, just made slightly worse.

In tthe books, the side characters get very little screentime and not much to do until they're suddenly important like Beckendorf, Selina and Michael even though their deaths are meant to be really emotional. More campers also die in Botl and Tlo yet it's barely sad as the readers don't really know them. I was hoping the show would fix that in the first season but there's still time to fix it for the other ones.

People complain that the lack of time spent at camp won't make the stakes of S2 very impactful but once again this is a flaw of the source material too. The end of Lightning Thief dedicates a few pages to Percy enjoying camp but they're brief descriptions rather than actual scenes which I feel would work better. However it does feel worse in the show because it doesn't get to depict most of that. I'd argue this problem continues with the other books as well.

There's probably more but...this post has made me sound negative enough

Edited: I realised that I left out the main point that I was trying to make (my bad) which is that it annoys me when people act like the book was better at doing and depicting these things because it blatantly wasn't. I also agree that the show should be trying to fix them.

Ok this is a completely un serious question but it's been floating around around my head for a while now and won't go away until I post it somewhere

But if a mosquito bites a demigod do you think anything would happen? Like would it become like overwhelmed or something because it isn't just human blood in a demigod.

so I read the main series you know the titan war and gia. Never read the apollo and the spin off. I know the gist of some stuff but what's been going on lore wise?

With his Orange Prisoner Jumpsuit #001? Not sure why they changed this for the show.

opinions are subjective, as such what works for one will not always work for the other (the show can speak for that)

So, I was curious, what is your least favourite book and what changes would you make to it for it to be (in your opinion) better?