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"Thought you were aiming to kill Kronos."

"I am," he said. "I'm destined to."

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Percy was captured by Kronos' forces when he was thirteen years old. After two years of hell on earth and agony in general, he manages to break free. With his mortality thinning out more and more along with his patience and will to live, he only has one goal anymore before he's done with being alive – and that goal is killing Luke Castellan and by extension, Kronos.

Along the way, he meets some new and old friends, makes acquaintances and navigates his fight against the Time Lord from underneath a deadly maze. He finds out things about himself and the war that he didn't know before, destroys way too many things, and completely derails his powers and himself in the process. His father said it best once upon a time, when he wasn't a monster yet and still had hell coming for him. The sea does not like to be restrained, and neither does he.

i couldnt sleep yesterday so i was tormented with fic ideas i couldnt write at the time, and there were one specially liked:

imagine something like theo going after stiles to annoy him (cause thats their dynamics idc) and idk stiles decides to fuck around and instead of letting himself being annoyed he just stars flirting with theo and praising him yk

theo has memorized a hundred phrases and jokes to bother stiles for the whole day and when he opens his mouth to start stiles say something like "good morning pretty boy" and winks and theo's brain just,, stops working

- asexuality and aromanticism are minority orientations

- there is no ace or aro privilege

- aces and aros as a group do not benefit from sex-shaming or from the sexualization of oppressed groups

- many ace and aros are in fact harmed by sex-shaming and the sexualization of oppressed groups

- aces and aros are not more likely to be bad people than others, there is literally no reason or excuse to assume that

- asexuality and aromanticism are not desexualizing identities

- society at large is not thrilled about ace and aro identities. To start with, a lot of people think it’s not “normal” to not experience sexual attraction and a lot of people think romantic love is an essential part of “the human experience”

- society has zero qualms about pathologizing ace and aro identities, denying their existence and painting them as something in need of “fixing”

- aces and aros often do not learn their orientations exist until way late, if ever. They’re generally not taught about in school or college or in any comparable contexts and a lot of people with power there have zero interest in this changing (for example, because they think our identities are “unhealthy” and/or because they refuse to acknowledge them as orientations)

- a lot of aces and aros have recounted a lot of really bad experiences connected to people learning/knowing they’re ace and/or aro

- aces and aros are not in any way better protected from harm than other people

- there is literally no reason to act as if all this isn’t true

op is absolutely right. this is coming from someone who researches and teaches on age and society professionally. modern western society is age-segregated to an unprecedented degree and there is ample evidence that it is absolutely fucking us over. it’s linked to everything from economic hardship to mental health crises.

intergenerational friendships are important. adults who never interact with young people outside of a defined institutional relationship with a built-in power imbalance (like being a parent or teacher) don’t develop the capacity to treat young people as equals, which reinforces patterns of abuse, neglect, social disempowerment, and silencing. young people who lack meaningful connections with adults outside of those same institutions miss out on an incredible source of support and guidance. and everyone misses out on the basic human joy of friendships that could have been really meaningful if we didn’t have this weird, broken ideology that says young people have nothing interesting to say, and no value to adults who don’t either want to raise them or exploit them or both.

like, sure, with any relationship between a minor and an adult, the adult has a responsibility that the minor doesn’t. some shit only comes from life experience. but like… that teen who comes to dnd on fridays, the younger coworker, that person met through fandom? i’m not gonna pretend we’re not friends just because i’m older than they are.

Intergenerational friendships are like??? So varied?????

Like maybe you’re 16 and working your first job, and you have an old Chinese man as a regular who sits at a table and reads the Chinese newspaper his family mails him, and you start sitting down and talking to him when it’s slow. And he tells you all about the life he’s lived, of being a child in the aftermath of world war two. And he talks to you about the prejudice he’s seen, and the way he sees people treat each other, and how much things have changed. And you learn a lot.

Or you meet a 30-something mother of two that walks with a cane in a group therapy session, and when you speak to her she opens up about her struggles with drugs, and how she wishes to stay better so she can be there for her kids. And she teaches you about having a more open mind when it comes to religious beliefs when you’re an edgy atheist teen.

Or you’re very isolated in your hobbies, and you meet a group of college students that share your interests and are fine letting you join in on their card games and D&D, and you not only learn the games but you get used to a group that’s accepting and just wants to have fun and make everyone comfy, and you learn not every group of people has to be judgemental and scary.

You’re saying that instead of making teens aware of the signs of toxic relationships, and keeping an open line of communication so we can help them take notice of and avoid these things… You’d rather we lock teens in a box where they’re deprived of the positives?

Force so many teens to be around peers that bully and disregard them, when they have prospective friends in local clubs and support groups that just aren’t necessarily in their peer group?

Hardcore Tumblr users really are just puritans huh? Hell even historically, households were made of many generations, and kids helped out in the community and met the adults that kept it going.

Years later we still get updates on her life, and a bunch of those people went to see her perform on stage six years later when she got the lead role in her college(!!!) production of She Kills Monsters.

I got really close to an adult volunteer with a queer youth group in high school, and she took me in like an odd, overenthusiastic niece. I did have a crush on her a little, but it was the sort of thing that teaches you what you like in a person without meaning anything more than that. She and her wife loaned me a pile of lesbian books to read, taught me to cook, and helped me learn to drive. They were like family. 

My grandmother’s friends, who I’ve known all my life, are also my friends. One of them is in the last year of her life now, and as sad as I am to lose her, I’m so grateful to have known her, to have been friends with her as close as she and my grandmother were. I’m also grateful my grandmother and I can share this grief and joy.

I also was going to city college at the same time and studied for my animal diversity final with two cis dudes easily in their 70s, one who worked at the aquarium and was in the process of renewing various certifications, and the other who was an engineer doing a biology degree just ‘cause. The three of us–the 16 year old and the two older men–wiped the floor with the rest of the class on every single exam.

I was also doing 16th century fencing with the local chapter of the SCA. My parents had no problem with this gaggle of college students giving me rides and taking me to overnight events. I’m still friends with them.

None of these people hurt me. None of them made me feel uncomfortable. They were good friends and we had a great time together, and also they modeled different ways to be adults than my parents did.

without people being creepy / treating them like a fetish

without people acting like being gnc is “”adult”” or “”private”” or somehow dirty

without people expecting them to alter the rest of their appearance to “fit” (not everyone who wants to wear a dress also wants to wax their whole body or apply a full face of makeup)

one of the few crossdressing ducks that didn’t make me break out in hives, on account of not having been forced to do it for emasculating reasons or anything, it’s just a practical solution to daisy having too many obligations since they look exactly, and i mean exactly the same

one of those obligations was manning a kissing booth for charity and donald punching a catcaller in the face escalates into guys just fucking lining up to get decked by a cute little duck

get on his fucking level, mickey