Fanfiction Is My Life

Annabeth: oh shucks. That’s right. You don’t know!

Magnus: know what

Annabeth: my mom is actually my maternal grandma, my best friend is my mom, and our camp director is my older brother I think?

Magnus: ….

Annabeth: oh, and Fredrick isn’t my dad

Magnus: the only good thing to come out of this really

Annabeth: I mean Sally’s my grandma so she spoils me with blue sweets so I mean that’s a positive too?

Magnus: fair. Think she’d adopt me?

That man was ready to DIE for honor over a man he met like 3 days before.

- His cousin betrayed Dunk, he WITHOUT A SINGLE SECOND OF HESITATION, said “tap me in”. MIND YOU HE WAS A SQUIRE

- Fought without an armour I have actually been corrected here😅

- Stayed mounted for the majority of the trial

- Beat Aerion’s ass from the horse AND his cousin’s for good measure.

- Left the trial UNSCATHED. AND he even helped Dunk off the field.

This man is a fucking MONSTER in the best way possible. Green apples for the win🍏🙌🏾

The gods and Chiron know who Percy is and it is really awkward because the kid does not remember, but he also is refusing to go back to New York at the end of the Summer. And then Sally Jackson shows up wanting to see Percy (who did not return to the apartment after leaving Olympus due to a headache and accidentally summoning the Grey Sisters’ Cab).

if Chiron and Dionysus could, they would be having heart attacks because beneath the thin veneer of mortality, is godsdamned Ouranos. (Chiron always felt something was off about Percy Jackson, but Kronos’s presence is so fragmented and diminished that even after spending months near him, Chiron did not pick up on it. Percy Jackson is but a fraction of Kronos, the part of him that is sane…easy to miss, but when all six of his siblings confirmed it, and when Rhea herself showed up and recognized him, Chiron eventually was able to see through the demigod-blood to the core of the titan)

after Percy regains his memory one of the first things he does is take Thalia, the entire Demeter cabin and Bianca and Nico (who he may or may not have kidnapped from the Lotus Hotel) out for the day without asking or telling anyone.

This made me really talk in the discord and no I DONT hate Thalia. I assume this is about how I tend to write her but that's not out of dislike.

I think Thalia is a character designed for conflict, she's a character who hit the peak and died and did everything a hero should but then she came back. But her story was over, she *did it*. She did the heroes journey, she was finished.

Thalia peaked at 12 years old, she hit the peak of any hero, she died at her peak, she died a hero, she raised her blade and made a final stand and was immortalized for her act, she crafted a barrier with her death. She Died. She hit the glory, she honored her father, she protected her friends, she built a hearth with her soul, she Died and was a hero and hit her peak and she was at rest and she did it. She is the epitome of hero. She died saving her family she died making a sanctuary she is Everything a modern hero should be, right down to the tragedy...

But then she was brought back.

How can she fit in this new world? She *was* the hero, she *did it*, she's *done*, but the world isn't done with her.

She's the odd one out, she finished her story, she's still here, the world isn't for her anymore. She shouldn't be playing a role but she is and it grates. She has to be shoved aside in the end because she doesn't fit.

Tim: you have 24 hours to come get your shit or it goes to Jason.

Jason, looking up as if this was news. Looks down at the the shirt he’s wearing while pinching it, pulling it out. Stares at the giant red S. Shrugs and resumes scrolling at his phone.

Dick: that’s horrible.

Tim: they know this going into it.

Steph: it’s fair.

Dick: you’re ok with this.

Steph: I steal his shit now, why does not matter if we’ve broken up or not?

Steph: but yeah. And I’m not petty, I gave it to him knowing I might not get it back. I did love him at some point.

Dick:

Dick: and you’re ok wearing their shit?

Jason: it did feel weird wearing Steph’s thongs but yeah.

Dick: you did not.

Jason: I didn’t know.

Dick: you did not!

Jason: of course I fucking didn’t!

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

Even without his memories, he'd be halfway to feral, but once he got them back, I can't see him doing anything but going from protective to absolutely destroying anything that hurt them.

I also think it would have been hilarious to have Percy and Annabeth at like, 17-ish? And have the rest of the seven at like, 14 max. Percy and Annabeth are trying to keep this group of 13-14 year olds alive, and they're both screaming internally half the time. Sometimes, it's just screaming, but sometimes, they scream about how toddlers shouldn't be on quests.

(Side note this popped into my head while I was writing, so have a- thing

Annabeth: There's a bunch of babies, Loose on a quest! No one knows what the babies are going to do next, least of all the babies! They've never been on a quest before!

Narrator: The babies in question are 14, and they have, in fact, been on quests before. (She is right about them not knowing what they're going to do, though.))

Then again, maybe I just like big brother/protector Percy too much. (Reluctant and screaming big sister/mentor figure Annabeth is also fun.)

(And on a sadder note, Annabeth realizes this must be what Luke and Thalia felt like and almost starts crying.)

To start, you're absolutely right that it was a missed opportunity. Percy is, without knowing it, the most experienced of the questers, except Frank is nearly his age in comparison to Hazel (who should be 14 by math, but is 13 by Rick's declaration). I think it's less that he made Frank closer to Percy's age and more that he was trying to make Hazel younger than Nico.

But yes, it would've been super interesting to see him basically mentoring the other two, especially after he regained his memories. I feel it was a major missed opportunity to not have Percy and Annabeth trying to watch over the younger quest members, instead he aimed for weakening the two to make everyone else their equal. It's a shame cause it missed the opportunity for the younger questers to be major boons for their skills, rather than raw power.

And also, the two of them looking after younger ones and wanting to protect them but also having to risk their lives to save the world- and the rest being alone when Percabeth falls with Nico to help except half of them find him freaky- would've allowed them to grow into their own more.

Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.

So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.

But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.

It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?

So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:

Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.

And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.

So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".

So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.

My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.

Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.

Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.

Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).

Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues

According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.

Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.

For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.

Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life

Aaand a close-up:

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