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lizzybugg · 9 months
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I’m reading my baby sister The Mark of Athena right now. And she has absolutely no idea what is in store for Percy and Annabeth at the end of this book. She’s used to the “happy endings” I’ve been feeding her over the past year and a half with Uncle Rick’s books. I will be sure to report her reaction when we have finished.
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blueberrycasanova · 2 months
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i want a book where its the heroes of olympus but instead of what we actually got, i want the behind the scenes where we can see that the 7+nico are actually behaving like the little adhd shits they are because there's no way there are 8 teenagers on a ship and no chaos. i want to see that chaos.
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kastalani123 · 4 months
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I think we should talk about the fact that satyrs age at half the speed that mortals do??
Grover was 28 in The Lighting Thief, physically 14, so...
Grover was 23 when he found Luke, Annabeth, and Thalia, and physically 11/12. Presumably mentally to some extent as well, considering, y'know. He doesn't exactly act like a 30 year old in the series.
He was older than Annabeth.
He was the same age as Thalia.
He was younger than Luke.
I wonder if Luke looked at this boy, seemingly the same age as Thalia but technically so much older, and seethed. Or maybe he couldn't bring himself to, because Luke hates, he hates so much, but it's a little harder when the face he tries to hate is round with baby fat and overtaken by teary eyes it hasn't quite grown into yet. It's a little harder when the face he tries to hate shares so many traits with the face of his best friend.
I wonder if Annabeth looked at this boy, once so much bigger than her, and realized that they could go to the same middle school class and not be questioned. That they could wear the same size now and it would fit — or hers might even be a bit bigger, really, because he's always been so scrawny.
I wonder if Thalia looked at this boy, fresh after her resurrection, and noticed that– well, he's not unchanged, he has grown, but it's not Luke-is-an-adult or Annabeth-is-a-teen grown; it's the same grown she sees in the mirror, maybe two or three years worth of it. And it's odd, because everyone else is so much older, but it brings her to tears sometimes, because at least someone is the age they should be, relative to her.
(She gets more used to it, once she halts her aging herself, but it's still something she clings to in those first days-weeks-months of her revival)
I wonder if Percy looked at this boy, his best friend since middle school, to see him becoming younger and younger. He was a little older than him, at first — by the time he's twenty, though, the roles have reversed. The gap only gets bigger and more noticeable with age. Grover never seems like an actual kid next to him, not the way Thalia does, but Percy is thirty and Grover hasn't even hit twenty-five. He tries to ignore it; he doesn't like to think much about his mortality in the face of everything, not after he was forced to do so every day of his teenage years.
I wonder if Grover ever looked at this boy in the mirror and compared himself to his friends, to the kids at Camp that were still missing their front teeth when he met them but now look so much older, and thinks about how painfully mortal they are in spite of their divinity.
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jodielandons · 9 months
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COACH CARTER (2005) | AKEELAH AND THE BEE (2006)
Quoting "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson
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korizzybee · 2 months
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Heidi McKenna
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Daughter of Hecate
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Her name is “Heidi” means “noble one”
Her surname “McKenna” means “born of fire”
She’s 15 years old and stands at 5’3, her birthday is October 31st
Heidi was brought to Camp Half-Blood 2 years after Percy, they are actually childhood friends and have a sister-brother relationship
Heidi wasn’t claimed until the end of the Second Titan War though
Her favorite color is purple, any type of purple
She has a 7ft black pet wolf named Ezra, given to her by Hecate as a present
Heidi is from Louisiana, like Hazel, and can also speak Cajun French
For Percy’s 18th birthday, she gave him a painting of Blackjack that she made herself
She has a purple and black bracelet that can turn into both a bow and a sword
She’s one of the best bow users at camp (behind the Apollo kids)
If Heidi were to date someone, it would Reyna (secret feelings for her)
Heidi is really close friends with Nico, Reyna, and Coach Hedge after helping them transport the Athena Parthenos to CHB, she’s also close with Connor Stoll
She prefers horror, fantasy, and adventure books
Her favorite animals are cats
Her Satyr protector was also Grover, he was posing as her babysitter before he brought her to camp
Heidi is a rich kid, her father is both a model and a song artist, he makes both R&B and pop music
Before coming to camp, Heidi was a ballet dancer and a gymnast
She’s one of the smaller portions of kids at camp who don’t have dyslexia
At camp you can either find her in her cabin, on the training grounds with Clarisse, or with Percy
Speaking of Clarisse, they are always on the same team for capture the flag
Heidi and Reyna actually send each other letters all the time
Heidi really loves Apollo kids, mainly Will Solace, he always gives her snacks
She gets distracted really easily and can zone out for a long time if she wanted too
Her fatal flaw is selfishness, she’ll put her safety above everyone else’s and won’t hesitate to leave someone behind if it will allow her to live another day, though she has gotten better with it over time with Percy’s help
Her father and Sally Jackson met in high school and became close friends, they were lovers at one point in college but broke it off mutually and stayed close friends
She doesn’t like eating chocolate unless it’s a desert like cake or cupcakes
Her and Percy made a YouTube channel together when he was 10 and she was 7
She and Percy have matching bracelets
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Idea credits - @tinkerbellsgf
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iveneverreadtheiliad · 6 months
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coach hedge (pjo) and coach finstock (teen wolf) are the same characters in different universes.
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chaoticesthete · 9 months
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I literally cannot imagine how dull some scenes would be without Coach Hedge.
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spoopyloonerisms · 4 months
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thinking of rick riordans books and how no matter the pantheon these children inherit problems caused by the adults. drawing parallels between these kids being left in the wreckage of their parents decisions and having to step up and solve shit they didn’t cause.
it is an inheritance by blood.
in this essay I will—
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wanderingmind867 · 3 months
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One thing that I want pjo to keep from Disney's Hercules (if they don't do it I'll have to headcanon it): get Danny DeVito in it somewhere. It's too early for him to be Coach Hedge (the role he was born to play), but we need more Danny DeVito. He can make anything funnier.
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lcvescountdown · 8 months
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purpleshadow-star · 13 days
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I've just started rereading The Lost Hero, and I've come to the realization that Coach Hedge is just a slightly more feral version of Coach Wymack.
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bogslob · 2 months
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Why is finding blue food so hard.
It literally took me two weeks to find snacks.
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umbran6 · 9 months
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The Roasting of the Deadbeat
I know I've posted this before, but I felt like this should be repeated since its... Father's Day. Or maybe its already past Father's Day if you're reading this post on some other part of the world. My least favorite holiday each year, second only to Columbus Day (I formally recognize Native American Day, TYVM). But I feel like I must say this, otherwise we forget that these people deserve this.
SCREW YOU HEPHAESTUS. Yes, I'm focusing on him, not Zeus.
Leo has every right to hate this bastard and if he could, spit on his throne. This hermit of a god abandoned Leo for nearly sixteen years, apparently too obsessed in either making stuff or screwing other people to even care about his son. Hephaestus isn't there to comfort Leo when his mother died, much less intervene in the actual matter when he, as god of the forge and flame, had every capability to do so.
The god doesn't even have the willingness to confess that he badly messed up with Leo, favoring his other children who get to Camp Half-Blood — his many, many children that ranged from either 18 (Charles freaking Beckendorf) to young Harley who was 8 years old. They get there young, they get there to stay for several years or months, and they get the training and knowledge to understand the world they truly live in.
Leo is extremely high up in that age range, at 16 years old when most demigods are brought to camp by age 12. Leo is apparently blessed with extremely rare fire powers not seen for several centuries, yet its a kid like Harley who is young to the point his demigod powers shouldn't even have manifested that gets the special treatment. When Medea looked into the future, she saw Leo as such a big threat to the Primordial Mother that Gaea herself made a personal visit at an attempt to psychologically break Leo when he was eight years old. Eight years old, the same age Harley is during The Lost Hero, yet Hephaestus does nothing as Leo's life falls apart around him.
HERA has a stronger relationship with Leo because she was actually there to help raise the kid. When the mother that tossed you off of Mount Olympus, the goddess that cursed each and every child of Zeus that was ever born (as far as we know of) is treating your child in a better way than you are, there is something wrong with you, you emotionally stunted goblin of a god.
ZEUS cared more about his children in his own warped way despite being an abusive bastard `and practically rival to Hephaestus in being a deadbeat. When Thalia was about to be killed by monsters Hades unleashed upon her, because, you know, Zeus broke a pact on the River Styx by sticking his dick in Beryl Grace (twice!), he at least had the decency to turn her into a tree so that she didn't die. It was severely implied in The Demigod Diaries that Zeus led her to find Luke and Annabeth. In Percy Jackson's Greek Gods its shown that he at least had an overprotective side to Athena and spoiled Artemis and satisfied several of her demands. Now I'm not excusing Zeus' own abuse towards his other children like Apollo and Ares. Zeus gave crumbs, you didn't even have the decency to give Leo anything at all.
HERMES, who screwed the pooch with Luke twice over, tried to do his best with him or by him. When Luke searched for a quest to prove his worth to the gods, Hermes offered it only unfortunately for the quest to end in failure. He left Luke in the care of his mentally unstable mother. Yet Hermes recognized the fact that he severely fucked up and tried to make amends, even apparently forgiving Luke despite the fact that he came inches to toppling Olympus. Hermes was willing to try to make amends and honored his son's wishes by helping Percy find the rest of his demigod children that were unclaimed. Hermes accepted that he had a hand for Luke's hatred towards Olympus and the he wronged Luke, Hephaestus has so far done zilch.
HADES did his best to protect Nico and Bianca when Zeus tried to kill them all, hiding them in the Lotus Hotel and Casino. When Marie Levesque was going to bring Hazel to Alaska, he tried to intervene and stop them from doing so because he knows Gaea was manipulating her and backed off at her wishes. When Nico is going through severe emotional turmoil during Blood of Olympus, he goes out of his way despite the Greco-Roman schizophrenia to help guide and comfort his son.
Hephaestus didn't even get Leo to Camp Half-Blood directly. Coach Hedge found Leo completely by accident. If it weren't for Hera literally rigging things so that Jason, Piper, and Leo were picked up at the Grand Canyon Skywalk, Leo would never have known that his life was screwed over by higher powers than him. His first direct interaction with Leo isn't even to give a sincere apology about the fact that he's been the shittiest deadbeat in millennia, its about to info-dump about the Giants. When Leo calls him out about this, Hephaestus doesn't even apologize for that and sweeps it under the rug and never speaks with Leo again.
So screw you Hephaestus. Decent fathers should be worth honoring, respecting at the very least. He deserves nothing, and should get nothing. His mother, who threw him off of Olympus, has a better relationship with his own son than he does. The rest of his fellow Olympians, even his shitbag of an adoptive father, have done better than him. He can do better, and he should be doing better. Hephaestus, the victim of abusive, neglectful parenting and parental favoritism should know the pitfalls of this and how to avoid them. Yet you're the divine equivalent of starting the cycle all over again, and it shows.
Let me finish on this note for you:
He is a god who is dedicated to forging inventions and fixing that which is broken. Yet for everything he has learned, he does not have the capability of fixing the bonds that he broke by his own hand.
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elderwisp · 1 month
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The Netflix adaptation of ATLA kali-ma’d the heart and soul of the animated series then slapped a pretty picture over it and called it good
I adore the casting choices and stylistically, it’s beautifully shot (I love the bending) but man, I really wish the storyline felt stronger
Anyways I might go rewatch the animated series so I can ugly sob over Zuko’s final fight with Azula
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the-great-knight-gay · 5 months
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When we get a live action Coach Hedge, he has to be played by Danny Devito no exeptions
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THIS WAS LITERALLY HEDGE WDYM I AM NOT WRONG
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d34thbr34th · 1 year
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