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big boobs ⁉⁉

#lmao

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I’m using ao3 the way god intended: via 36 open semi-abandoned tabs on my phone at 2 AM the night before work

#SHUT UP

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I feel like so many people understate how important Annabeth and Percy’s relationship to each other is. People tend to view it as just a romantic relationship but it’s not. Their each other’s best friend, life partners, war partners, family, and very literal soul mates. People rarely find a significant other with two of those aspects let alone all of them.

thanks for the ask @darkmist111!

i agree completely. that’s why i loved that line in HoH when annabeth said that ‘boyfriend’ wasn’t a good enough word for percy because he’s so much more than that to her. as she said herself, he’s part of her. and she’s part of him. they aren’t just boyfriend and girlfriend. although they do love each other romantically/sexually and have a ton of chemistry and attraction towards each other, they also are best friends in the whole world. percy says many times in pjo that annabeth is his best friend, even when they’re fighting. they have the best time together. they want to do everything together. they are besties. their friendship is incredibly strong.

i also feel like people underestimate what it means to be battle partners. they trust each other in life or death situations. they know each other’s moves. they know what the other can take. they’ve experienced so much fear and pain and stress together. they’ve carried the weight of the world on their shoulders together. multiple times. literally and figuratively. being battle partners means that they have a level of trust and admiration that can only come from that kind of partnership.

i love this line in BotL

she doesn’t even hesitate to ask him first to come with her, and he doesn’t even hesitate to say yes. but it’s also like that in every book. if they are going on an adventure, they are going together

the thing about percy and annabeth is that they aren’t just meant to be together. i mean they are, and if soulmates are real in rick’s world, then they are 100% soulmates. but it’s not just fate. its choice. they choose each other. every day. to be their best friend. to be their lover. to be their battle partner. to be their confidant. with the life they got handed, they don’t get a lot of choices. they don’t get to choose what their life looks like. or their future. the minute their godly parents gave them life, they lost the the ability to choose a lot of things for themselves. but percy and annabeth choose each other. every dam time. and that’s what i love about them

anyway sorry for rambling, but i completely agree. they are each other’s everything. words can’t explain how much they mean to each other

#also they were literally connected because of the curse of achilles. which i like to ignore that he lost it in son #percabeth #pjo

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Wylan, coming home some time post-Crooked Kingdom: Hello, people who do not live here

Nina, Inej, and Kaz: Hi

Wylan: I gave you a key for emergencies

Nina: We were out of Doritos

#please they picked the lock why would they need keys #six of crows

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Once again remembering the Crows canonically did shots before the Ice Court Heist and laughing my head off

#lmao #six of crows

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

#based on my previous experiences with life threatening or scary events. probably just stare for a while #i tend to shut down. but i'm functional just no emotions

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Mercymaker doodles

#mercymaker? in MY 2024???? #so cute #mercymaker #widowmercy

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annabeth making the plans for new athens and all the demigods submit the input of what their godly parents want after conversing with them and percy comes back saying poseidon wants a dingy beachside dive bar which will end up being an eyesore on annabeth’s otherwise pristine coastline. and she can’t even get mad about it because percy’s excited himself

#NEW ATHENS YESSSSS

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First base is violence second base is convoluted codependence third base is applying pressure to the vulnerable parts of their body to keep their entrails from spilling out

#kanej

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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

#lmao #remember when i asked for whump fic recs and someone called me a sick freak #whump

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I think many of the Crows are subject to unbelievable humiliations, and in turn create their own dignities. Thinking of Kaz in particular though, it's like his own resolve to put up with literally anything that serves his needs, no matter how hard or how low, is a form dignity. His actions may be detestable sometimes, but his perseverance itself is worth its own respect. The little boy who scrubs piss pots. The bastard son of the city of filth and violence. King of the rats. The best. The survivor.

#kaz brekker #soc #six of crows

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sometimes I headcanon inej as bi but sometimes… but sometimes I think she’s that straight girl you think is a lesbian for so long, until you finally meet her boyfriend who’s just a weird little guy.

#akdjskfjkwjf

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Okay, so... as a collective fandom, we can agree that bullying Kaz is fun, yeah? There's just something about seeing the guy down at his lowest and then prodding him with a stick and going "Come on, do something."

But I'm going to stand in his corner for a bit in this post.

Something that never really sat right with me is the collective implication that Kaz isn't good enough for Inej (and never will be).

I'm totally with you: he didn't deserve Inej in the first book and maybe not even yet in the second because he didn't give her anything to work with. He didn't even visit her after she was stabbed, or show her how relieved he was when she recovered. And this is just the thing: he didn't deserve her because of his BEHAVIOUR.

But I've read so many post-CK fanfictions where Kaz has been working on himself, is openly communicating with her, basically kisses the ground she walks on, treats her as his equal and goes above and beyond to make her as comfortable as possible, and still everyone INCLUDING Inej (and Kaz) goes "I/she deserve/s so much better than me/him". And THAT implicates that Kaz wasn't good enough for her just because of his behaviour, but because he as a whole human being is just less valuable than her, and that viewpoint has always made me super uncomfortable, especially considering his trauma.

Now I know what you're going to say, and I absolutely agree: trauma never excuses abhorrent behaviour. But there's just something icky to me about looking at a traumatized person who has not only been making an EXTREME effort to overcome their issues, but also shown amazing results, and going "They don't deserve X", "They're less than X", etc. It gives "Traumatized people are damaged goods"-vibes, which is especially weird considering my next point: INEJ IS TRAUMATIZED TOO AND HER TRAUMA GETS IN THE WAY OF A GOOD AND LOVING RELATIONSHIP JUST AS MUCH AS HIS.

She literally admits to herself that she wears as much armor as Kaz does and was being kind of hypocritical when she told him to remove his. Inej is a flawed character (which somehow seems to be a controversial take in the fandom), and to put her on a pedestal because of how virtuous and "better" she is than Kaz takes all the nuance out of her. There are definitely some parts in the books where I felt like she was in the wrong or toeing the line, but the others never really call out her behaviour the way they do with Kaz, not even in their internal monologue, so we're left with this image of an Inej who can do no wrong and a Kaz who simply got lucky.

The fact that in aforementioned fanfictions (that I still absolutely adore btw) Inej too thinks he isn't good enough for her despite everything he does for her and for himself, and despite how far he's come also turns her acknowledgment of her own self worth into something ugly and vain in my eyes. She loves herself, but she also loves Kaz, so I don't think she, or any good partner, would look at her boyfriend who clearly already thinks very little of himself and go "Yep, this fucker isn't good enough".

So often people will look at a healthy happy couple and go "He/she could do so much better than her/him". Like that's a whole person you're putting in a competition of "Who's more worthy?" as if they were some object that is of better or worse quality.

I don't think I articulated this too well and there's a lot more to be said about this, but I hope you understand the gist of it. Post CK-Kaz who works on himself and openly communicates ABSOLUTELY deserves Inej, and I will ROT on this hill.

Now I've been nice to him for long enough I think *whacks him with a crow bar*

#YES YES YES I AGREE 100% #IVE BEEN READING EVERY FIC I CAN GET MY PAWS ON AND THIS IS AN UNFORTUNATE THEME #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #six of crows

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something something about how inej was terrified that she wouldn't be useful to kaz anymore if her legs were broken, but if kaz's hands were broken??! his sleight of hand and lockpicking is integral to how he views himself 🤭😈 it would be a shame if that was taken away

#god i have read every whump fic about this that i can get my grubby hands on #so fucking good #kaz brekker #soc #six of crows

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Camp Jupiter when Percy shows up:

#NSJDJSJFKWJD NOOOOO #percy jackson #heros of olympus

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Trying to be edgy in those stupid goggles. ok emo boy

#my emo blorbo #kaz brekker #nina zenik #six of crows

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#i want katara to just fucking snap #katara