so you’re telling me this whole time hades, poseidon or zeus couldve just banged a dude?? imagine another big 3 kid rolls into camp and they’re like “oh ur dad broke the oath… which means you’re gonna have to pay for it…” and this kids like “lol which dad?”

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"I will be there shortly" and "I will be there briefly" mean pretty much completely different things. "I will be there shortly" means "I will be there in a short amount of time from now." But "I will be there briefly" means "I will be there, but I'm not going to stay for very long."

like a dove. His face grew dark. “Beloved,

wait, don't leave me. Dearest of men,

don't die, don't let them take you from me.”

Look, Percy usually isn't this petty, even with monsters... He's a chill guy, seriously.

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Not only is it incredibly stupid (,a Greek curse so it can't transfer to Roman territory, really? If so why doesn't he just get it back after he enters greek territory again?) but also just so...𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. getting that curse was a journey and a half. Percy was quite literally at risk of 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. Soul and all. It should not have been that easy to lose.

If Percy 𝘩𝘢𝘥 to lose the curse of Achilles,I would have liked if it A)was done in a way that has higher stakes and makes more sense. And B) happened later on in SON and not in the beginning of it.

Okay because one thing I really liked about this book,was that every member of our trio had a death flag hanging over their heads.( Frank being told that he would die holding his match stick+ fearing that Thanatos would kill him anyway because he was supposed to die when he was a child. Hazel being an escape soul on a mission to free the god whose entire job it is to capture escaped souls and send them back to the underworld. Ella's prophecy that foretells a son of Neptune drowning).

As @bayetea so aptly puts it

son of neptune is a story about death and the terror of its inevitability. the gang was in a state of highly personalized abject mortal peril for most of that book and there is a very feasible alternate universe in which the quest to alaska "succeeds" and not a single one of them makes it back alive

And I love that. It's a wonderful writing choice that adds so many stakes. I would have loved the added narrative symmetry of all three of them being cursed as well(hazel with her jewels bringing misfortune. Frank's life being tied to the firewood. Percy's Achilles curse)

within cells interlinked ★

Because SW computers are apparently incredibly simple and/or one-purpose (as a result of the original movie having been made in the 70s), but droids are incredibly complex, capable, independent, remarkably emotional, irrational, free-willed, etc., compared to other technology in this universe. SW writers can't seem to decide whether or not droids are fairly basic machines or fully sapient beings.

So, one of our solution headcanons has generally been that: midi-chlorians REALLY like feeding on or making their home in various technological materials required for computers. Any sufficiently advanced technology BECOMES magical, whether you want it to or not, because the magic space bugs really like infesting these machines. And since the magic space bugs hold the memories of the cycle of life of countless living beings in this galaxy, etc., you could snappily phrase the inevitable sapience of complex computers in this particular galaxy as: "Droids are accidental composite Force ghosts, actually."

So, in SW (in this headcanon), if you DON'T want your advanced technology to randomly develop a personality and capabilities beyond its programming, you have to design your complex computers BIG with all of these bulky, heavy anti-midi-chlorian safely measures. Maybe tech factories are best built on 1) planets with no prior history of life (and thus midi-chlorians) or 2) planets the midi-chlorians hate for some reason, because that produces the most reliable products, and you can try to seal up a computer or a droid's systems as best you can before sending them out into the magic-bug-flooded galaxy.

So, you can have reliable, non-sapient complex computers in big space stations or communications stations or big ships, but that's not very portable! If you want advanced portable tech, you need a droid, and the midi-chlorians are almost inevitably going to get in there (especially once any repairs are done by cracking them open) and get comfortable (it's SO hard to get them out fully again), and so your space navigation machine or translation device is inevitably going to develop 1) sapience, 2) a personality, and 3) some kind of mental illness because droids are inherently pretty diverse, unstable lifeforms put to difficult and unpleasant purposes. One way of dealing with the inevitable infestation is just to design your droids accepting that they will develop some form of sentience &/ sapience, and putting in some safety rails in the hardware and software accordingly.

If you don't know who that is, you can spin again. If you get the same character, they're multitasking c: