#And treats for Athena

[notacluedo]

he’s her fun lil social experiment

#Thinking about when my classics teacher said that the relationship between Athene and Odysseus is one of the most tender #Relationships between man and god #Like it’s almost platonic but not really #Like she’s his cool aunt #Who saves his life #But also treats his life like a fun lil game #But she also really likes him and favours him #Like I see Athene as aro ace so like idk but she holds some ‘love’ for him #shes kinda meant to look like a statue #Or whatever #athena #odysseus #the odyssey #mythology art #my art #greek myth #Tap for better quality I think

[nyaagolor]

You know I didn’t realize after AA5/6 just how badly I needed a judicial assistant who was like. Respected and valued by their attorney. Seeing how highly Ryu thinks of Susato is such a breath air after so many variations of the Manzai duo vibes

In case 4 when Van Zieks insults her and Ryu IMMEDIATELY snaps back with “I consider her advice essential and her assistance invaluable. Please go ahead, Susato” he instantly became my favorite. Put some respect on her name

#Maya and Phoenix’s dynamic imo is perfect #and Trucy is 15 so I also get that one #but watching Athena be berated and infantilized for 2 games is smth I didn’t even realize bothered me #until I saw how well Ryu treats Susato #and now I’m like hold on. drink ur juice (respect women juice) #ace attorney #tgaa #DGS #susato mikotoba #ryunosuke naruhodo #mod vex #hiding this post at like 1am after another post bc I don’t wanna start shit

[housewifebuck]

#I would treat them both so right. #bathena #Athena grant #bobby nash #911 #911edit #911verse #911 abc #my gifs #🪐

[mydairpercabeth]

My mother is the worst goddess alive

And I am her favorite daughter

#always an angel never a god #my poor baby #THIS IS HOW ATHENA TREATS HER FAVORITE KID??? #What a c u next tuesday #annabeth chase #athena #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo #pjo tv #percy series #pjo tv show #leah sava jeffries

[sketchypeppers]

extra ordinary

#king of fighters #shingo yabuki #kyo kusanagi #rock howard #kula diamond #athena asamiya #leona heidern #benimaru nikaido #shun'ei #sketchypepperart #sorry guys im having shingo brainworms again #like i know he's not the only kof character to not have any special powers or anything (crits aside i mean) but c'mon. #he's the only relatively normal teen in comparison to all the anime protag powered ones. no sad or epic backstory either #do you think he ever thinks about it? i know he's focused mostly on creating flames but still #thinking about his specific winquotes for xv- asking benimaru and kyo to take him seriously #or ones like maxima's and shun'ei's where he makes comments about their abilities and how he can't do the same #for better or worse- shingo is just some kid. and i love him for that #look i can be melodramatic for my blorbo. as a treat

[staliaqueen]

Wait do you think Annabeth Chase is abusive? Not trying to start an argument! Just genuinely curious because I never picked up on that before & I want to see if maybe this is a 'blindspot' I need to work on. Or did you mean a different character from the YA girlfriend poll?

No, I was talking about Annabeth. It's obviously not something RR intended, it's just a result of how fucking terrible he is at writing flirty banter (he just crosses the line into verbal abuse) and that he clearly thinks it's SO FUNNY when girls are violent against boys.

@hermesmyplatonicbeloved summarised it very well recently here but I've also gone more in detail about it with examples before here

Now, I'm not gonna pretend like all of my ships are perfect. I'm very familiar with the concept of recognising flaws in a ship and just deciding to like it anyway. I'm not gonna judge anyone for doing that with p/ercabeth. What baffles me is the widespread unawareness of those flaws. And what horrifies me is how often I see Annabeth's abusive tendencies actually encouraged by her stans and seen as something Percy deserves. Or just generally turned into a joke.

#i think she should date piper instead honestly she always treated her well and their athena vs. aphrodite dynamic is very fascinating to me #anti annabeth chase #anti percabeth #pjo #mal answers

[oathena11-writes]

I have seen the repeated sentiment that we can like the Jedi and Anakin. Yeah, that's true. 

But why assume that people want to like Anakin, that they think they have to hate Anakin? Yes, a large part of why people don't like Anakin is just because of the genocide of the Jedi Order. 

But there is so much more reason to dislike Anakin that have little to do with the Jedi. 

Although, the anti Jedi people who like to use Anakin to say why the Jedi are bad make it real hard to find reason to like Anakin.

I'm not a big hater. I don't like to hate. But... I don't like Anakin.

I don't want to like Anakin. 

Yes, I'm pro Jedi, and funnily enough, my feelings regarding how Anakin treated the Jedi are just the cherry on top of the huge pile of why I don't like Anakin.

Why I don't like Anakin: Simply put, I've encountered people like him in my own life, including my own mother, and that means I do not have the patience for a character that's like a person I'm low contact with in real life. 

Anakin is enough like my mom that I have written him with how my mom would react in mind. Sure she's not actually murderous, but she is very emotionally immature and takes things personally. 

I am still untangling the damage she did to me growing up, and realizing how much she did that wasn't right now that I am raising my own children.

Worse, I am like my mom, and like Anakin. They are what I could be if I wasn't putting in the work to be a good person. If I wasn't trying to always learn from my mistakes. If I wasn't always trying to step back from my emotions to recognize I'm being irrational. 

And that scares me. I could be like Anakin. And that is why I don't like him. I don't want to write a character who isn't good, who is who I could be. I don't want to work at making someone better when I know it will take a miracle to change his mind, after my experiences with my mom.

Nope. Not happening. 

So. I don't like Anakin. I love the Jedi Order. Two separate statements that for me are not connected. They are separate choices for me. 

#pro jedi #anti anakin skywalker #athena ramblings #just some things I keep coming back to #it's not the first time I've thought about this #and it won't be the last #so yeah #this is where I stand #when it comes to anakin #I'm not sure I exactly hate him #but I certainly am not fond of him #and seeing people treat him like he can do no wrong #or that redeeming him/making him better is easy #Yeah #I'll stick with the haters thanks

[dootznbootz]

(Ian Johnston, Book 10)

#“Dude stfu. Everyone knows I'm the best at stealing. Let's go already.” #Odysseus why tf does it say long-suffering there???👀 as if a compliment from Diomedes is the worst thing in the world? #Ody you're my idiot but why are you so fucking mean to him?!?! He literally compliments you and you bitch at him! #And Diomedes has this 'Notice me senpai' energy and it just SUCKS seeing him get treated like this. #Odysseus is my favorite but this isn't cool :( like he yells at Agamemnon but that's because Agamemnon calls him a coward. #Diomedes has literally done nothing to him. there's no reason to yell at him like this. #Just because Diomedes is a nepotism baby who Athena liked since birth doesn't mean you gotta bully him like this. #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #sorry I was rereading and I got worked up :'D #odysseus #diomedes #fuck it. I don't mind getting crucified right now. woiehfas I'm right! This WAS mean >:( Bad Blorbo! Bad!

[wiseatom]

wrote 4k today AND finished son of neptune AND hung out with abby strangeswift 🥳🥳🥳

#i have to be up in 6 hours but i’m starting mark of athena anyway as a treat . #also i’ve somehow lived my whole life w little to no pjo spoilers so please don’t send any my way 🙏 #i know Two things that happen (one in this book and one in general abt nico and will) and that’s It #i am loving it so much tho i’ve breezed thru 7 books since january . #i understand they’re for kids so maybe it’s not that impressive but whatever cheddar

[jamesunderwater]

Trick or Treat 🧡

TRICK or

"i don't even know where you end and i begin"

Sirius Black didn’t think about things like death. He didn’t think about endings, changes, the disappearance of things past. He kept his thoughts on the present moment, and let some other part of himself, curled up in the farthest corner of his ribcage, hold its breath over things like these. 

So he never thought about James dying, and he was always thinking about James dying, and, anyway, it didn’t matter, because they were here, now, in this moment, clutching each other’s clothes, laughing with glee because they’d made it through another duel, they’d both crawled out of the rubble of the latest blown up building, Sirius could watch with his own eyes as James’ chest rose and fell, rose and fell, and know there was enough life in both of them in this moment that he didn’t care what happened in the next. 

The part of him in the corner of his ribcage squealed when he thought these things, like it was the same as him saying he didn’t care what happened at all, like he was wishing for everything to end by being grateful it hadn’t. It squealed and screamed, BUT LOOK, LOOK, THIS IS WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN! and he’d start to see it, for a moment, what James’ body might look like lifeless, contorted beneath a pile of stone, dirt and blood smeared where there should be a grin, arms and legs bent—

But he’d press the pads of his fingers into the flesh of his very, very alive James, and he’d forget the part of himself holding its breath, fall instead into the sound of his laugh, the way it made Sirius’ chest bloom, the very sound of it igniting his adrenaline. Where could death even find a place to squeeze itself between them? There was no room. 

So on October 31st, when Sirius stepped around the rubble in Godric’s Hollow to find James’ body lifeless and contorted, he pushed the pads of his fingers into his own hand and waited. He watched James’ mouth, knowing exactly which corner would be the first to curl. He stared at the blood and the dirt and tried to find the grin hidden beneath them. He searched James’ chest and, thinking he’d seen it rise and fall, took two rushing steps forward. But up close, it was clear. He had never seen James’ chest still like that before. Could never have imagined it so still. Thought of that stillness every second from the moment he met James. Didn’t worry about it enough.

For eleven years, he and James made so much life between the two of them, Sirius didn’t think about things like death. There’d just been no room.

Sirius Black was three days shy of twenty-two when he learned that Death does not need room. If it can’t find space to fit between two people, it just swallows them both whole.

dear readers, comment on ao3 and send me prongsfoot prompts on tumblr (yelling at me is accepted on all platforms)

#i still cannot answer why my brain saw the trick or treat post and in ALL THOSE IDEAS it said. #hm you know what i wanna talk about? #yeah #athena tag #sorry but you DID ASK /me/ trick or treat #like what did you expect #prongsfoot* #my writing #prongsfoot #bambibelle #james potter #sirius black #hp

[mehoymalloy]

Restraint (but oh, to dream)

(Stray Gods; Grace/Athena)

Wake up y'all a burst of creativity just fueled the completion of the Grace/Athena smut fic. Link in the title!

#the concept sorta feels like crack treated seriously but hey i mean i make it work so [shrugs] #stray gods #stray gods: the roleplaying musical #stray gods the roleplaying musical #grace x athena #grace stray gods #athena stray gods #fanfiction #mehoymalloy

[ministarfruit]

just a little junithena

#ace attorney #junithena #juniper woods #athena cykes #long week ahead! #they will give me strength #giving myself little a junithena. as a treat

[iwoulddieforienzo]

I do not like Frederick Chase in the slightest, don’t get me wrong, but I do sympathize with him and other Athena mortal parents. I mean, with the other gods, there’s usually some kind of relationship beforehand - even if it’s just a one-night stand, there’s still some kind of situation that could, feasibly, result in a kid. Dropping single parenthood on someone is an absolute dick move, obviously, with little to no support and a child who will likely die before they hit 25 making the whole deal extra rotten, but there is, if nothing else, the knowledge that what you are doing could result in a kid. Like if you had a one night stand with some lady and a kid shows up on your doorstep then you’re at least aware that this was a possible consequence, even if you don’t know about the god thing.

Athena doesn’t do that. Athena doesn’t date or have sex with anyone. She meets a mortal who she likes the brain of and just… makes them a kid?? With supposedly no prior knowledge or consent from the other party. They have no way of knowing that their 3-hour debate with Some Smart Lady will make them a single parent. What’s crazier is that Annabeth says Athena kids are claimed from BIRTH. Which means they’re attacked by monsters from birth.

So like, imagine you’re a college-aged kid and you meet some lady that you enjoy being around and debating with. You have a nice, solid relationship that sort of resembles a couple but is solidly platonic. She helps you get into University and pass your classes. You have never done anything romantic, and she was very clear on her status as ace/aro (not in those exact words). Then she reveals her status as a God, drops a kid on your front door, tells you that she is yours to deal with and she will NOT be taking her back because she has to be raised by her mortal parent, who is you, by the way, congratulations, (don’t ask how she has half of your genetic material despite never having sex with this woman) oh and also monsters will be attacking her (and by extension, you) literally from the moment she opens her eyes. (They are already open, by the way.) Then she dips, never to be seen again, no child support in sight, and now everyone thinks you knocked up some poor woman who couldn’t handle the pressure. You Did Not. Also the kid is smarter than you and you’re like 23. Like Frederick is an absolute DICK, don’t get me wrong, but I do sympathize with him.

Of course, it’s possible that she informs her chosen mortals about her status as a god, as well as the children they will be receiving. But considering Frederick is said to have begged her to take Annabeth back, this implies that she either didn’t tell him about Annabeth, OR she DID tell him about her, he said no, and then she made Annabeth anyway and forced him to take her even though he didn’t want her. She definitely told him about being a god eventually, but we have no way of knowing if she was upfront about it or waited for who knows how long. (Considering her rrverse personality, I’d assume she’d tell him - and by extent, the other mortals - early on, but there really isn’t any way to know)

….yes I know about Darren and Apollo. Who knows how that went down, honestly. I like to think Apollo at least told this guy about the kid beforehand. I’m curious why he did that in the first place, honestly?? What is it about this Specific Guy that made him be like “yeah I need to have a kid with this dude.” Does he do this to all his male lovers?? Was Darren Informed?? Mr Riordan I have Questions

#I don’t dislike Athena btw. I find her fascinating. I love when women kind of suck <3 #rrverse Athena is sooo interesting to me. I like to rotate her in my mind. insecure queen <333 #and the gods in rrverse are so different from their mythological counterparts (half on purpose) that treating them as the same characters #is a little silly in my opinion. the myths can help inform the rrverse versions and vice versa (to a lesser extent granted) but they’re not #the SAME. yknow? #snack time #uhhhhh damn this fandom is hard to tag for lmao #rrverse!athena #Frederick Chase #Annabeth Chase #rrverse #rrverse!apollo #darren Knowles #Percy Jackson (series) #pjo

[vulpixhoney]

why does Rick Riordan hate the original myths so bad 💀

the Asphodel stuff?? regret? where is that coming from? you fully just made that shit up? out of his ass fr. the fields of Asphodel are specifically an area of neutrality, where the pretty much all mortals go when they die. it's for anyone who lived a normal life, who isn't a hero or a literal monster. it's specifically a neutral zone for people to exist once they die, it has nothing to do with ~your regrets in life~. it's like, a peaceful field of flowers where all your life's troubles are left behind on the surface.

the closest things to that is the fields of mourning/sorrow, but that's specifically for unrequited romantic love and also not called the fields of Asphodel (and also I'd bet money that rr doesn't know what that is) (and also only in Virgil's The Aeneid and not the Odyssey with the rest of what we know of the underworld)

#the fields of Asphodel are so so personal to me as someone who practices helpol too #like thats such a stupid and nonsensical change #just straight up fibbing for fun #and for what? a half baked poorly writted one off scene?? #like he really just hates the myths huh #this and how he depicts a lot of the gods (namely ares Aphrodite and athena) #snd HERA #GODS #i forgot about that originally he fucking SLANDERS hera #for no reason #hes is such a MAN he cannot write a well wrotted female character for the life of him goodness gracious #and Persephone too!! with how she treats nico #“he would not fucking say that” but its me to about how rr depicits the gods #and mostly the female ones too #he writes all of them terribly but its noticable how he is nice to the “misunderstood men” like Hephaestus and Hades #but then slanders the women #and what he said about Aphrodite when asked where she was in tlo!! “oh she was probably busy doing her makeup hahaha” #ill kill you. like what the fuck?? #this got horribly off topic oops oops #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show

[baejax-the-great]

Snippet Sunday

Have some Sunset

Achilles throws his head back, and he howls.

The sound reverberates in all four directions of the intersection, echoing off the tall buildings. More than one person drops what they are holding to cover their ears. Windows shatter, the streetlights pop and spark before falling dim, and Achilles continues screaming until the whole street is dark, until other sirens are wailing with him, and everyone with the audacity to still be alive is on their knees, on the ground, like he is. He screams until there is no breath left in his chest, and when he gasps an inhale, everything goes silent and still.

Sparks hover in the air. The snow that has been falling so steadily all night stops mid-flight. The people around him in the street are still. Everything is unmoving. Achilles has not heard such silence since he first arrived in this cursed place.

“Gods, that’s the good stuff,” a voice rings out. The words are almost moaned, and Achilles doesn’t need to look to know who has said them. Glass crunches underneath her shoes as she approaches. Only when she is right in front of them does Achilles look up. Aphrodite towers over them, twice as large as a mortal woman, pupils so wide and black are swallowing even the whites of her eyes. She runs her tongue over her teeth. Achilles clutches Patroclus closer, as if he can protect him from her now. “I mean, nobody does it like you,” she drawls, “Nobody.”

#patrochilles #this is still very much a WIP #though the first draft of this particular scene was written in November lololol #and yall thought Aphro was on your side #also I am forever thinking about my misinterpretation of part of the Iliad #where Athena bolsters Achilles' voice and he screams and 12 trojans die #I think Achilles should have a deadly voice as a treat

[ladynicte]

Nobody was freaking hostile to Nico. Not unless they were his freaking enemies.

Chiron mentioning how he hoped Nico was eaten by monsters when he went missing at age 10

Percy choking him out being scared of him calling him a creep and thinking about chunking stuff at him while he was recuperating from literal Tartarus

Annabeth giving him the side eye and always mentioning how he was too creepy for her

Leo literally scuffing at the idea of helping Nico at all and calling him the creepy di Angelo when Nico had a set of plates fall on top of his head two days after getting out of Tartarus

Piper specifically being surprised at the idea of anybody wanting to help Nico at all

Jason wanting to abandon him on the jar and then remarking that just being the child of Hades is a good reason for anybody to be scared of you and that going out of your way to not act scared is a very grand considerate act

Frank literally mentioning how he wants to chuck him into the water while they are in Italy and how much Nico creeps him out

The whole camp shunning away from him at every turn and literally only showing him basic respect after he saved them from a titan

And I can keep going if you want me to dumbass

#for real read mark of Athena and the house of hades every single mention of nico is calling him creepy dark and treacherous in every single #pov except hazel's #idiot #i love the seven but they treat nico godawful the only ones good to him are the coach hazel reyna and jason post character development #nico di angelo #Luna's meta #pjo #also chiron kill yourself please #luna's asks