like you can see pretty clearly where the stories were meant to connect, but they just kinda... didn’t? this is much more my opinion than an actual Analysis™️, but it all felt like a bunch of ideas thrown together in a pot that had no time to mingle and make love to each other. like you can’t just throw vegetables in a pot, cover them with water, heat it for five minutes and call it a soup, you gotta let it simmer there thinking about its sins for as many hours as your little heart thinks appropriate. it just felt like rick filled a cup with water, put a raw carrot and half a raw onion in it, microwaved it for two minutes and was like here’s your soup, and i’m like richard this is not soup, and he’s like please take your soup, and i’m like why didn’t you make reyna a lesbian, you coward. everything just feels really... jerky? like it’s all these little stories being told and then don’t really amount to anything, they don’t seem to point in any one direction. like pjo always had this feeling of smaller quests and things that were happening to set off the bigger thing (battle of manhattan, obv), but hoo is just disconnected. can you remember what happened in the little side quests that the smaller groups of the seven had in mark of athena before annabeth’s quest? yeah, me neither lol. it just feels like there were too many good ideas (and i mean really good ideas) that either weren’t given much time to develop, or were meant to be resolved in other books (aka trials of apollo), but from what i’ve seen the latter is not the case

you have pjo, which is this perfect harmony of smaller books amounting to the bigger sounding piece, which was tlo, and then you have tlh, which flows pretty flawlessly into son, and then a hippopotamus just breaks into the orchestra and shits on everyone’s sheet music. toa doesn’t seem to be much better although mango cheese definitely is

i just wish we’d gotten better backstories, more well rounded characters. maybe save some of the side stories to other books, maybe just don’t release a book a year and outline everything properly. i’m not saying i know better than a top tier published author lol, i’m just saying it’s messy and we can all see, especially now bc we can see where the series’ end is headed with the apollo series. it’s really hard to see the bigger arc and to me that just makes the stories super difficult to follow, and it’s also disappointing because it feels like there is wasted potential, wasted stories that are not going to be revisited, and it’s sad

Zuko: here you go, a nice hot cup of tea

Iroh: it’s cold

Zuko: nice cup of tea

Iroh: it’s horrible

Zuko: cup of tea

Iroh: is this even tea?

Zuko: CUP

🐰 what is one secret that you’ve never told anyone?

💗 if you could hug anyone, who would it be? 

🐹 what are some of your favourite Pokémon and why?

🌠 if you were in charge of the world, what would the world look like?

👀 what was the most recent vivid dream that you had?

☀️ what do you like the most about your best friend?

😘 talk about your crush or partner

💁 if someone was rude to you, would you be rude back?

🌟 what do you like about yourself? (must choose at least 3 things!)

🐾 what are you scared of most? how will you overcome it?

🎁 what never fails to make you happy?

💙 what annoys you about some people? 

😤 do you get angry easily?

🐇 what do you always daydream about?

🌻 if you could change 3 things about the world what would you change? 

🍓 send me 4 names: kiss, befriend, kill or marry?

✈️ what is your dream city and why?

☕️ talk about your ideal day

🌸 are you an introvert, ambivert or extrovert?

💧 when was the last time you cried?

🎵 name 5 songs you love at the moment

⚡️ if you had any superpower, what would it be and why?

💛 if you could talk to your younger self, what would you say?

💚 who are you jealous of and why? 

💎 which one would you rather have more of: intelligence, beauty, kindness, wealth or bravery? why?

🙊 what are you ashamed of?

🌺 which languages do you know? which do you want to learn?

🍀 if you could be any fictional character’s best friend/lover, which fictional character would you be?

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💜 which acts of kindness are you going to do today? 

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😣 talk about some things that have been making you depressed/angry/anxious lately

🍪 what did you want to be as a kid, and what do you want to be now?

🍰 what are some of your favourite sugary foods?

🍑 what are you obsessed with?

💘 what happens to you when you’re stressed?

😪 what are you sick of?

🙀 are you an adrenaline seeker?

💥 what are some unpopular opinions that you have?

☔️ would you consider yourself a good person?

😊 what do you like to do as hobbies?

🎤 what’s the last song you hummed or sang by yourself?

🐝 what’s your worst trait? how are you planning to improve it?

🎨 what do you always doodle when you’re bored?

🐻 what’s stopping you from chasing your dreams?

🌷 what’s your mbti personality and why do you think it suits you?

🐶 send me 3 fictional people and I’ll choose my favourite!

👑 who are your favourite celebrities and why? 

🐴 opinion on __?

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📚 share 3 books that you love and your favourite quote from them.

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😌 what thoughts keep you going when you’re sad?

🌍 which country do you live in?

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💭 do you keep a diary?

💫 who inspires you?

👻 do you believe in ghosts and why?

🎀 what’s your fashion sense like?

🎬 what are some of your favourite films?

🍦 what is one treasured childhood memory?

Percy is INCREDIBLE

Annabeth is AMAZING

Leo is HILARIOUS

Jason

Piper is INSPIRING

Hazel is ADORABLE