as a society we do not talk about the funniest line in all of literature, in trials of apollo when meg mccaffery, daughter of demeter, is being claimed at camp halfblood, and a sickle, the symbol of her mother, appears over her head, and some kid yells "SHE'S A COMMUNIST?!!!!!!!!!!!"
i knew percy jackson was superior to harry potter when both series introduced a love triangle in the last second book to cause angst between the main pairing and how both authors handled it so differently.
we had jkr, who turned lavender into a joke and mocked her interests and whole character, looked down upon her for being a teenager with a crush just to uplift hermione as the better love interest for ron and handled the whole triangle with very obvious misogynistic undertones to show why hermione is superior to the other woman™.
and then we had rick, who treated rachel with respect and gave her a likable personality and goals and interests of her own, had percy and rachel develop a genuine friendship and even gave rachel some iconic moments to shine on her own, never bashed rachel to uplift annabeth and most importantly concluded the love triangle with annabeth and rachel becoming friends and letting go of their past beef.
Me, who watched a 2hr documentary about the Hindenburg disaster the night before and is desperately trying to share the information i learned: yeah, a real nice day, not at all like May 6, 1937 in Germany.
the seven (not including percy and annabeth) whenever they talk to a god: your divine graciousness, sorry to bother you with my pitiful existence but i humbly request that you use your mighty power to help our quest
percy and annabeth: what was that, you failure of a deity? you’re punk ass won’t help us on our quest to save the literal world from ending? you’re a piece of shit and i’ll kill you