#sally jackson deserves the world

[books-and-dragons]

there’s something i love about how in a world that’s telling percy he’s a ‘forbidden child’, a ‘mistake’ or ‘wrongdoing’, sally jackson calls her baby a miracle.

she knows he's about to enter camp, where he'll be labelled as an error on the god's part, a bad sign of things to come. she knows this may be her final time with him, and makes sure to remind percy of how important he is, that he was worth and he is loved. she won't let camp, or the gods, take that away from him.

in a world where percy being a child of poseidon makes him 'singular', sally makes this a beautiful thing. she won't let percy feel like he was a mistake, like the rest of the godly world might.

#percy jackson #pjo #sally jackson #had this thought on a rewatch and it made me emotional #especially thinking about cotg #sally jackson deserves the world #and percy deserves to be reminded that it's a good thing he exists!!! #rather than the constant undertone of 'you shouldnt have been born' that comes with being a child of the broken oath #he already has low self worth!!! he doesn't need this!!!

[readerconfused]

i was remembering how Luke explained to Percy that they burn food as an offering to the gods and then my boy went and burned an offering for his mortal mother (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) Percy is too precious he didn't deserve the suffering of a hero

#if she really heard i'm going to cry so much #i offer all the blue food in the world to Sally Jackson she deserves it #he's really Sally Jackson's son #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians spoilers #pjo #sally jackson

[thewilddreamerrr]

#sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #a sally jackson appreciation post bc she deserves the world🥺❤️‍🩹 #im gonna miss my girl

[nomattertheoceans]

I've been reading the Percy Jackson books for the first time over the past two weeks! Just finished "The Battle of the Labyrinth" last night (which btw is my favorite of the series so far!!)

I have now gained a new obsession but it might not be what you think

#like i swear to god i did not expect to be absolutely enthralled by the protagonist's mom kahskahfjkaja #she's just so fascinating to me #she's so kind and smart and she has given EVERYTHING for her son okay #like her staying married to an abuser for years to protect him omg she deserves the world #like when Poseidon called her a queen in the first book he was 100% right alright she is a queen #the woman murdered her abuser with a monster's head LIKE THAT'S SO AWESOME #also i cannot explain how obsessed i am with her relationship with Poseidon okay #like. do i want her to still have feelings for him? yes. do i need poseidon to pine and long for her from the distance?? ABSOLUTELY YES. #like realistically it's more likely that be does not but I need it okay #like at first i wanted them to be reunited because you know. of course i did. #but i am perfectly content with her finding love and happiness with a mortal man and Poseidon pining for her from the distance #like listen. this woman is amazing and she deserves to have an immortal all powerful god unable to get over her alright SHE DESERVES IT #but the way he just showed up at Percy's birthday party and called her as beautiful as ever????? omg??? BECAUSE YES SHE IS #and she blushed??? be still my beating heart #kahskahfksja honestly laughing at myself right now like I'm just over here watching a Sally Jackson tele novela in my head #AND HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE #percy jackson #no spoilers please if you see this post i know very little about the story and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself that way #also jsut as an fyi i am also a little obsessed with Percy and Annabeth kajakshdjshsha they are too cute and intense #sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

[un-pearable]

already seen plenty of stuff re: tolerable-ization of gabe and sincerely i think it’s good. this version of gabe undeniably sucks but in a realistic, i-can-see-why-these-two-would-get-together way. kid’s media has a tendency to create abusive characters who are exaggerated to make it obvious to kids, but the show is targeted at both kids and the original readers who grew up, so it can afford to have a little more nuance and make sally and gabe behave like people who DID have a real reason to get together (once)

#whether it’s percy not being aware enough to realize he already is abusive to his mom #or it’s a actual change i’m interested to see where it goes #pjotv #percy jackson #sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympian’s tv #pjo tv spoilers #text✨ #it’s not ‘watering down abuse’ it’s making them feel like a real relationship. they used to get along! she DID see something in him! they #have common interests!!! it’s how harmful relationships actually happen - you have to have had something about the person that you liked #and it only makes me more interested in however they’ll resolve it. he’s not quite worth medusa-fication yet so we’ll see #ngl will be kinda sad if they cut it but it’ll be interesting #sally deserves the WORLD i adore her in here

[claradogford]

I'm really surprised that some people think Gabe isn't abusive in the PJO series. His scenes were so uncomfortable to me! He disrespected his family's boundaries (answering Sally's phone without permission, dictating how/when his car is used). From my perspective, he's emotionally abusive. I guess I'm glad that not everyone knows what abuse can look like, but I wish people knew it can be more than physical (though obviously all abuse is bad!!). I dunno, I think the scripts for the show have been EXCELLENT so far. The creative team have effectively communicated a lot if character relationships in a very short amount of time

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #team Sally Jackson #that woman deserves the world

[aburningconstellation]

sally jackson & shmi skywalker are such similar moms to me , who care for & nurture & love their respective sons so much & i’m so sad that only one of them got to keep raising her son & live a happy life

#both of these women deserve the absolute world #i just want them to be happy & get to raise their sons #sally jackson pjo #sally jackson #percy jackson series #pjo #shmi skywalker #star wars

[swords-and-starlight]

Poseidon and Sally is a man’s idea of romance. Paul and Sally are a woman’s idea of romance.

#something about how how Poseidon had a fling with her when she was NINETEEN #and she ended up with a child that ruined her chances of college and a normal life #and Poseidon thinks that he can solve all her problems himself with a wave of his hand #and he only offered to help her with his idea of a solution which was take her to his undersea palace #never mind that he has a wife and sally has a life in the mortal world #anyway bring the arguments i can refute each one #y’all will never convince me that poseidon was a blameless character #sally deserved so so much better #the tv show is bringing back my love of sally omg #i can elaborate more about paul and sally bc i love them #pjo #pjo series #percy jackson #sally jackson #poseidon #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show

[thego-through]

imagine with every season of the other seasons of Percy Jackson we always get a flashback of Sally and Poseidon meeting and falling in love and in the final season where we learn Percy's fate we get the flashback of Sally telling Poseidon that she's pregnant and the consequences of it

#percy jackson tv series #percy jackson and the olympians #sally jackson #poseidon #i say consequences but i mean Zeus being a dick #again i say Sally jackson deserves the world

[jamesunderwater]

yeah no I don't think you understand what I would do for Sally Jackson you guys.

#i love her she deserves everything good and wonderful in the world forever 😭 #sally jackson #pjo tv show

[jess-the-simp]

Sally Jackson: *tosses a match into a random sundae and it immediately rains*

Me:

#sally jackson #she deserves the world #pjo tv show #percy jackson

[star-bastard]

"oh but Gabes not that bad in this adapation idk if he deserves or if it feels right that he'll get turned to stone"

what do you think Percy "fuck the gods I miss my mom I'm praying to her" Jackson would do the second that deadbeat raised his voice at his mom after this whole adventure

#delete later #I keep seeing the WORST takes what are yall talking about #Gabes whole scene when Percy comes home like yeah he sucks I'm glad in this adaption he doesnt bring shitty men into the apartment and boss #Sally around #I got sooooo many flashbacks watching that opening scene I think he deserves whatever the hell he's gonna get #in the very least he deserves it for the way he talked to Sally and Percy bruh the way he paused after Percy said he got expelled for #''''attacking“ a girl like!!!!! #anyway back to watching shout out to Sally Jackson the whole world is lucky she's such a good mom because Percy is soooo right for being #done with every single person with the way they treat him #pjo

[jasontoddssuper]

Jason Todd could be Percy Jackson and Talia Al-Ghul could be Sally Jackson but Bruce Wayne would never want to be pjoverse!Poseidon.He'd think that barnacle assed mf was a punk ass bitch tbh(< is projecting but also correct)

#@ poseidon:WHY DID YOU PUT THE ENTIRE WORLD AT RISK JUST TO GET YOUR DICK WET FROM A WOMAN WHO HADN'T EVEN GRADUATED COLLEGE ANWSER ME!!!!! #apologize to percy and sally for everything you've done to them RIGHT THE FUCK NOW or so help me I WILL SHOOT YOU IN YOUR TINY ASS DICK #GODS they both deserve so much better than him.how are him and percy even father and son percy's so good and poseidon's so...THE WORST!!! #jason todd #percy jackson #perseo jackson #talia al-ghul #sally jackson #bruce wayne #poseidon(deragotry) #batfam #pjo #hoo #percy jackson defense squad #sally jackson defense squad #robin #red hood #teen titans #ditf #utrh #ditf 2020 #rhato #rho #afrolatino jason supremacy #black percy #latino percy #don't have enough tags left but sally is also afrolatina + i headcanon all of them as bi trans neurodivergent and percy and jason are aspec #letters from summer

[fantastic-nonsense]

I think people who genuinely wanted Percy to rebel against the gods and overthrow the system kind of...miss the whole point of the series

The question is not whether or not the gods deserve to rule; the books are kind of unambiguous that they don't! That the gods are generally undeserving of their children's loyalty is the one thing that Percy and Luke both agree on! But PJO is less about divine right to rule vs. ruling via consent of the governed and more about improving dysfunctional family systems. It's not about whether unfair rulers deserve to continue ruling; it's about forcing the gods to be better, fairer rulers and a better, fairer family given limited alternatives.

Because what are the alternatives, as presented to us within the scope of the original PJO series?

Option 1: allow Kronos to topple Olympus and take over. Clearly not a viable alternative for all of the reasons the books show us.

Option 2: the demigods overthrow the Olympians and rule the world themselves. Okay. How's that going to work out long-term, given demigods are mortal and cannot control or protect their parents' domains? Demigods will die out within a generation or two, so that's potentially a one-generation short-term solution, and then everyone's right back where they started. Except worse, because now the world has been out of divine balance for a century and the gods have a completely legitimate bone to pick with all demigods. Materially worse outcome.

Option 3: demigods ignore the gods and their will entirely. They integrate into the mortal world, refuse to participate in quests or talk to their parents, and pretend prophecies don't exist. Except that's clearly not a viable option, since we see that demigods usually can't safely exist in the mortal world without monsters coming after them, the gods are cruel enough to use blackmail and engage in hostage situations to get demigods to act as heroes, and prophecies have a way of coming true regardless of everyone's best attempts to circumvent them. Again: materially worse outcome.

And for Percy, for the demigods at Camp Half-Blood, for Luke and for everyone else who defected....for the most part, they don't actually have an inherent problem with the gods ruling them. They just want to be acknowledged, valued, and loved by their families, to be treated as more than a tool for their parents to wield whenever their services are needed. That was the core thesis of the demigod rebellion, which was wholly separate from Kronos' specific motivations for overthrowing the Olympians, and it's why Percy's asks at the end of TLO were what they were.

The point was always that had Percy grown up in a slightly more dysfunctional family environment...had he grown up with Frederick Chase's seemingly conditional love or May Castellan's madness instead of Sally Jackson's steady, quiet, unconditional love...he could have turned out like Luke. Like Ethan. Like the dozens of demigods who defected from camp to join Luke's cause. Percy could have turned out just as a bitter and angry and vengeful. Just as ready to tear down the system. Just as willing to betray and kill his own family for the sake of making a point.

But instead, Percy openly reprimands the gods for abandoning their families and using them as cannon fodder in their own petty disagreements. He forces them to acknowledge and claim their children. He demands that everyone who is part of the godly family be recognized and accepted, not just those related to the Twelve Olympians. He asks for those unjustly punished (like Calypso) to be set free and accepted back into the family. Because that's the point at the end of the day: not forcing bad rulers to step down, but changing an insanely dysfunctional family system that the gods and demigods are all members of into a better, safer, and more accepting environment for demigods to grow up and live in.

Overthrowing the gods wouldn't solve the problem at the heart of the series, which is the gods' shitty parenting and family management skills. It would only exacerbate the massive familial fault-lines that Kronos exploited and leave the demigods open to more godly manipulation. Which is why the series ends as it does, with Percy using his wish to tangibly improve the lives of his family instead of selfishly improving his own life (via accepting immortality/godhood) or overthrowing the gods. Because the conflict isn't about the gods as rulers. It's about the gods as parents.

PJO's core thesis is Percy, who grew up knowing unconditional familial love, looking at this whole world of children who didn't and saying "that's not fair. Gods should be better than this!" But instead of destroying them the way Luke wants to, instead of overthrowing them and putting himself on the throne, he instead challenges them to be better parents and family members. To be part of the solution instead of the problem. And Percy's demands don't solve everything, but they were necessary first steps! Without forcing the gods to acknowledge a bare minimum floor of inclusion, the cycle would simply begin all over again the next time a major conflict popped up.

So that's the problem Percy solves and how he successfully fulfills the prophecy: by believing that the gods had the capacity to change and forcing them to break the cycle of familial abandonment, he preserves Olympus and takes the first steps towards a new status quo, one that is objectively better for demigods than the one he grew up in. That's why he succeeds, and it's why Percy overthrowing the gods would have made for a much less satisfying ending than what actually happened.

#pjo #pjo meta #percy jackson #luke castellan #ethan nakamura #annabeth chase #long post #pjo tv #wow it's been awhile since I've written proper pjo meta lmfao

[randomartz]

”You got through it,” she noted. “You always do.”

”I guess…but it was like all my progress, all those years of getting older and learning how to survive…Hebe took it away with a snap of her fingers. I was a helpless little kid again.”

”You are a lot of things, Percy. But helpless isn’t one of them.” She put her hand on my shoulder. “When you were little…whenever you got scared, you might back away for a second, but then you would march right up to whatever was scaring you. You’d stare it down until it went away, or until you understood it. Thinking about you as a toddler makes me feel…”

“Sick to your stomach?”

She laughed. “It makes me feel hopeful. You’re still moving forward. You’ve grown into a fine young man, and I’m proud of you.”

The lump in my throat was the size of a kiwi fruit.

”It’s also okay to doubt yourself,” my mom added. “That’s completely normal.”

“Even for demigods?”

”Especially for them.” She pulled me over to her and kissed my head, like she used to do when I was actually eight.

——

Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods, Ch. 11, pg 85.

IM EMO!!!!! Sally deserves the world !!!! This book felt like coming home in the best way

#percy jackson #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #pjato #pjo #chalice of the gods #percy Jackson and the chalice of the gods #my art #Sally Jackson #I would both kill and die for sally and Percy Jackson

[mcmactictac]

shaking. crying. screaming. the three of them are so good. I will hear no Leah slander now or ever she is incredible she is so annabeth it’s insane. Aryan my shining star. Fabulous delivery and he’s just so. He’s just so endearing like his Grover is just so REAL. And Walker has so much of Percy’s sarcasm and heart holy SHIT. Obsessed with how having properly aged actors makes it so much better. They all look so LITTLE and they have such high expectations placed on them. They all deserve the entire world.

Percy Jackson I will defend you with my dying breath. “I think I’ve made some friends here. Like, real friends. I think they might really like me. Imagine that” and his whole “I am the son of Sally Jackson” my son my precious child you are perfect

#Percy Jackson #PJO #pjo series