"hazel levesque is such a mom friend!!" Shes 13-14 for majority of hoo do you hear yourself. She is not the "mom friend" for a bunch of 15-17 year olds stop being racist

Babe I sent you a photo of my crime scene with highly fueled homoerotic undertones please respond

tbh pjo's main conflict feels so much more fleshed out than hoo's. in pjo you have the final battle last a few days, and you have percy strategizing and everyone being more serious. percy is treated like an intelligent character in tlo because he IS a smart person, he just gets flanderized into being an idiot. you have the characters panicking and getting tired and more than two characters dying in tragic ways, putting strain on the other characters. and everyone is stressed the fuck out. in hoo the final battle lasts like a few hours and gaia gets taken down relatively fast and the only prominent deaths are octavian's death and leo's death. and octavian's death is just a mentally ill teenager killing himself during an episode and it's not treated with the emotional weight it deserves because apparently he's pure evil and irredeemable. rick riordan i dont know what you were on while writing hoo but never go on that again. im not saying i didn't enjoy hoo, but oh boy do i have problems with it. unfortunately it's my favorite out of the three

I mean, Rick was completely in his right to write a very unsympathetic villain whose death everyone rooted for if he wanted to. But I think he did it poorly, and Octavian's death ended up being really unsatisfying to me. Other characters who have done terrible things in the saga but had the privilege of being way less annoying to our protagonists have received much more grace from the narrative. Octavian would've had to be way worse for me to not to think of his death as unfair.

the minotaur, who has been murdering demigods for thousands of years: errm actually 🤨☝️☝️ monster is a slur 😔😔😔 we prefer the term mythic it’s less problematic 🫶🫶🫶

Will Solace is the proof that if you put a white man/boy in any story, he will have fans, regardless of the bland cardboard the author had given as his 'personality'.

This is such a non-issue but I really dislike when people compare ‘Hikaru’ from TSHD to Nikki Freeman from Obsession. I get that they’re both possessed in a way, but Nikki’s story is meant to symbolise a woman having her autonomy stolen by a selfish man, while ‘Hikaru’s’ is about an entity learning to feel emotions and falling in love. ‘Hikaru’ and Yoshiki truly love each other. The real Hikaru is not suffering because of this, in fact, Yoshiki being not alone was what he wanted right before he died. ‘Hikaru’ is als not being forced to love Yoshiki, he willingly loves him. Nikki on the other hand, was suffering. She was a victim and forced to ‘love’ Bear, a man who didn’t really love her back, but was instead just obsessed with her. Their dynamic stems from control and infatuation, not love. Contrasting this, Yoshikaru’s dynamic stems from love and self discovery after years of repression.

I was completely unaware that in Obsession Nikki was not possessed, that makes the comparison even more absurd wow.

This is such a non-issue but I really dislike when people compare ‘Hikaru’ from TSHD to Nikki Freeman from Obsession. I get that they’re both possessed in a way, but Nikki’s story is meant to symbolise a woman having her autonomy stolen by a selfish man, while ‘Hikaru’s’ is about an entity learning to feel emotions and falling in love. ‘Hikaru’ and Yoshiki truly love each other. The real Hikaru is not suffering because of this, in fact, Yoshiki being not alone was what he wanted right before he died. ‘Hikaru’ is not being forced to love Yoshiki, he willingly loves him. Nikki on the other hand, was suffering. She was a victim and forced to ‘love’ Bear, a man who didn’t really love her back, but was instead just obsessed with her. Their dynamic stems from control and infatuation, not love. Contrasting this, Yoshikaru’s dynamic stems from love and self discovery after years of repression.

If you say you love Nico di Angelo but don’t hate Rick Riordan, then we are very different people and I don’t trust you.