as long as we're together

extremely telling when people are capable of assessing how ooc percy is/isn't in post-pjo book depictions of percy but annabeth/percabeth haters (usually the same people) wholeheartedly believe that 1. post-pjo annabeth is infallibly accurate annabeth writing 2. post-pjo percabeth is an infallibly accurate depiction (or a good continuation) of their original dynamic. you can hate any character or ship for pretty much any reason but many people who attempt to articulate and justify their hatred in logical reasoning end up making it clear that their grasp on those characters/ships is too flimsy and biased to be making those assertions and criticisms in the first place, nor do they understand that many of the actual problems with the way annabeth (and percabeth) are written are rooted in rick's misogynistic writing - and instead of calling out rick, they blame the fictional woman for it

oh so you don't like the judo flip scene? you think it only gets a pass because annabeth is a girl and percy is a boy? you think that physically attacking your partner is abuse regardless of gender? annabeth is supposed to be a good person, so why do you think rick wrote that then? why do you think the hunters' virulently antagonizing men gets a pass when that wouldn't fly if the genders were reversed? why do you think the amazons say that the chained men in their headquarters "know their place" when a group of men saying the same thing about women in bondage wouldn't be okay? is this maybe reflective of some hegemonic worldview about women and men whose echoes are blatant in rick's writing of women? are these writing choices perpetuating the belief that women are weak and harmless and men are strong and bad, therefore men can't be abused, therefore women's violence against them doesn't count? is it telling us that rick doesn't take women seriously, doesn't regard women as powerful, doesn't think women are equal to men and thinks he can only write strong female characters if they talk down to and beat up men a la 2010s black widow? is this why the aphrodite cabin is degraded for its femininity and piper's rejection of their conventions is framed as something that makes her superior to her siblings? is this why the longer pjo goes on percabeth turns more and more into the "competent girl/useless boy" trope? does that maybe say more about rick and his misogynistic writing than it does about his female characters? is this maybe why it's essential to interpret the books through the lens of feminist media theory so that we can avoid uncritically internalizing these worldviews or blaming fictional women and girls for their existence? oh you don't say

I will never get over the fact that rick riordan's favorite way of uplifting other characters is to tear percy jackson down

defending percy jackson on the internet isn't enough i need to take him away from his own author

Rick Riordan’s switch up on Percy is so funny to me. In older books it’s painfully obvious that Riordan preferred him, with his constant insistence that Percy is the strongest despite severely under-exploring everyone else’s powers, every character speaking highly of him, and his insane feats. In recent books, Percy is both demonised and flanderised. He has been dumbed down to the point of being unable to do anything without Annabeth, he’s being called out and blamed for things he didn’t do, and he’s just being bashed at every opportunity. Literally what happened???

i feel like rick riordan is an excellent example of why creative people need to work on different stuff because if you focus on one project for twenty-five years you will make yourself nuts

the retcons, the defensiveness. the inability to take criticism yet the insecurities revealed in his adaptation choices. trying to keep the whole thing together across three decades, but also lopping off crucial parts of it to try to save it. he should have said a fond goodbye and walked away a decade ago, instead he is locked in battle with his past self’s work forever

they hype percy up so much in the later series that i always forget people did not fuck with him at all in the first five books like they hated his ass at camp 😭 everyone booing when he stood up fried me so fucking bad dude 😭😭😭

it’s been a problem as long as i’ve been in this fandom but i do blame the popularity of jake and amy from brooklyn 99 and incorrect quotes etc for ruining the way a lot of people perceive percy and annabeth. girl smart boy funny so clearly these are the same. meanwhile annabeth breaks rules all the time and defies authority with no regard for consequences any time she’s mad. percy is the one getting nervous about it. did u read the books!!!

you think percy is already “overpowered”, I think he’s not even tapped into a fraction of his potential. we are not the same.

sometimes…..fictional characters…….don’t need to name their children after dead people…….

did you know that accidentally typing "oh my gods" due to a keyboard finger slip age regresses you to 11 years old when you read percy jackson for the first time. give it a try!

let’s not forget that canonically the one god who actually wanted to play the child of the prophecy game with his kids was hades. not zeus.