#new athens

[newathens]

new athens x

#new athens #pjo #percy jackson #mb number 10 give it up for mb number 10 !!!

[welcometonewathens]

New Athens University

home & hearth

#new athens #pjo edit #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson

[nepobabyeurydice]

the problem with suggesting that CHB build their own city is that they genuinely don’t have enough people to do so. Most Greek demigods die in their teens no one except Annabeth, Percy and Clarisse have a clearly stated plan for continuing to study and the camp population is currently too low and not interested enough for a New Athens to be built. the S&tS showed that everyone literally booked it from camp as soon as possible and that there’s no real need for permanent housing beyond the cabins. I could picture it after a dramatic increase in the amount of demigods but New Rome was constructed through 200 years of people descended from gods and not demigods themselves + the influx of actual demigods. Unless every person in CHB right now had a child New Athens is definitely tabled for way, way down the line if it ever happens.

#heroes of olympus #pjo meta #hoo meta #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #new athens #new rome

[iannageorge]

Why Chicago?

Another behind-the-scenes look of my fanfic, “Strategist”. Also a bit of an explainer, since not all readers are from Chicagoland or the US.

Whatever Rick may say in the future, (my) Malcolm Pace will always come from Chicago. The City of Chicago is central to his character. To a certain degree, Chicago is the heart of the story, even if nearly the entire novel is set in New York State.

Chicago is there in the novel’s dinkuses (the section breaks of chapters that are typically three asterisks—yes, that’s what they’re called). The dinkus for this fic shares the four six-point stars of the city’s flag: ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ .

Chicago is also in the first emoji hint of what’s to come. For chapter 1, it was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💨💨💨💨💨💨💨🏙🏙🏙. The hint stands for the Great Chicago Fire, the Windy City, and the Home of the Skyscraper. Alternatively, it could refer to how, after the Great Fire, the city transformed into an architectural masterpiece. The number of each emoji is also a hint; 773 is one Chicago’s area codes.

Chicago is even there in the date chosen for the grand opening of New Athens: March 12th, as Chiara had revealed in chapter 5. 312 is another of Chicago’s area codes (the downtown area specifically).

Chicago is also there in the graphs in chapter 3—not just in the data but the colors of the chart as well. The red and the blue match the colors of the city's flag.

Chicago is there, too, in the story playlist, in a selection of featured songs/artists, like “Memories On 47th St.” by Vic Mensa. About 32 of the songs, in fact, with even more that are closely related—not that they're all listed yet. (Regrettably, the playlist does have a particular artist who did have really thoughtful messages in his old songs but has really become… bleh. Those tracks are there for their messages and vibes, not for the people who created them.)

And Chicago is also there in the inspiration behind New Athens (like the urban planning elements that borrow from Daniel Burnham’s ideas), it is a bit there in the lingo (e.g., Chapter 2 has a little Chicago slang, like “tweaking” and “lacking”), and it is very much in all the references to the Great Lakes or the Midwest or Illinois or “four states away” or a bunch of other things: Kenwood, Jane Addams, Jon Burge, the Bulls, IMSA, UChicago, the Chicago Boys, giardiniera, Malört, and other things that Malcolm might happen to think about in his daily life.

As for why...

So. Malcolm was first supposed to come from another state I lived in. Except that state wasn’t interesting enough for a story, in my opinion. Ha.

Then I thought... Interesting... Hmm. Arizona. Arizona’s interesting. There’s the Grand Canyon… There’s Sedona… Oh, and there's the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation HQ in Scottsdale, called Taliesin West, which was also FLW’s winter home and lab. That made for a nice connection to Annabeth. (In the atrocious and incomplete original draft of the capture the flag fic that this novel spawned from, Malcolm is from there, and there’s a mention of Taliesin West. [Percy wanted to take Annabeth there on a date lol.])

But Malcolm gave me city boy vibes, like, BIG big city boy vibes, so he had to come from one of the top metropolitan areas and not a suburb. The Phoenix metropolitan area (which includes the suburb of Scottsdale) is not that.

Because I made him the chief policymaker of New Athens, I also wanted to pick a place that really fueled his need—not just a desire—to build the city. What would make him want to wish so friggin badly that he could sort of raze down a country (burn it all down perhaps?) to rebuild it from scratch? And what would make him consider a solution like that?

What immediately came to mind was Chicago—and that his wish did kinda happen there, through the City Beautiful Movement, shortly after the Great Fire of 1871. The movement, which flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s, was an urban planning philosophy that was supposed to create moral civic virtue and fix certain social issues like poverty. But in the end, the City Beautiful Movement was still way more about architecture—the physical components of a city (what Annabeth's interested in). The movement failed to rectify the deep-rooted, seemingly impossible-to-solve social problems that Chicagoans had experienced and that remain to this day, like segregation, violence, and poverty (what Malcolm's interested in). This was explored/compared in chapter 4:

In the land of the bereaved and home of the depraved, they’d build an enclave with better problems.  New Athens would be everything the Second City should have become after that great blaze. Paralleling the wonders of the City Beautiful was simple enough. With a park system to make Bennett proud and a Burnham-inspired guarantee that not a foot of the shores would be appropriated to the exclusion of the people, New Athens could easily be established as “City in a Garden” and “City by the Sound”. New Athens could, too, boast the togetherness and unshakeable optimism of Malcolm’s kind of town.  But this city wouldn’t squander its chance to start from scratch. New Athens would be the place hailed as the City that Works—that did work, and for all. 

I really liked that Malcolm and Annabeth could have that connection of complementary yet opposing goals (physical and intangible institutions; permanence vs. change), which I tried to illustrate in chapter 3:

‘Something permanent,’ she’d told him. Like the architectural masterpiece Wright et al. had brought to life for the most beautiful great city left in the world.  Malcolm scoffed. Were you blind or dumb, Wright?   Some things were just too permanent. 

Chicago also has an even better connection to Frank Lloyd Wright (and other architects) than Scottsdale/Phoenix, so Malcolm could also still get that bond with Annabeth. As indicated in chapter 3, I head-canon Annabeth spending parts of two summers in Chicago with Malcolm, exploring art museums, going on architecture tours, and seeing everything there related to FLW. I honestly don’t remember if canon Annabeth had ever left camp before Percy came around. (I feel like it’s a no? But I don’t care at this point.) It just seemed like such a worthwhile, life-changing, and perfect thing if she had visited Chicago as a child. Kid-Annabeth deserves to have gone to the Sears Tower Skydeck and to have seen all those FLW buildings in person. And she deserves to have been taken on an architectural boat tour on her birthday to see those skyscrapers and drawbridges by the Chicago River. To me, it was this head-canon trip to Chicago that cemented the architectural focus of her wish for “something permanent”. What better inspiration than the very city her hero supposedly called “the most beautiful great city left in the world”?

Without revealing too much, I will say that Chicago will continue to be there throughout “Strategist”—the good, the bad, the myths, and more.

#pjo #percy jackson #headcanon #malcolm pace #annabeth chase #new athens #strategist

[astrantiawrites]

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

This beautiful retelling of the infamous Hades and Persephone is so magical and so incredible modern it works incredibly well together that it had to be my '22 reread in preparation and refresh for A Touch of Ruin as well as re immerse myself in the world of New Greece.

In this masterfully retelling we explore the world from the 24 year old Persephone, an unknown Goddess of Spring. In this retelling itself, we are introduced to Persephone who is a student at New Athens College studying journalism, much to her mother, Demeter Goddess of the Harvests, dismay. She acquired an internship at New Athens News, who is vastly known to write the truth about the Gods. Her best friend Lexa drags her to celebrate at Nevernight, Hades own club with an impossible waitlist and infamous for gambling with the God. Persephone unknownling invites Hades to her table, which begins an impossible contract. Create life in the Underworld. Which would be easy for the Goddess of Spring but the biggest problem is, every single flower shrivels and dies under her touch.

Throughout the book she struggles to juggle between her studying, her internship, figuring out a way to create a way to grow life in the Underworld, making sure her mother doesn't know and her growing attraction to the Lord of the Dead.

I adored this retelling as it changes the way many people think about the Gods and Goddesses we encounter in this first book. We immdenly think of the story as Hades a cold and ruthless God, Demeter as a loving caring mother and Persephone as a naive young maiden tricked into the underworld, the typical maiden in distress.

Which most of this is true in this story, Persephone is tricked to go to the Underworld for the 6 month contract yet she can come and go during that time. Yet she is headstrong and opinionated in her views as she tries to understand why Hades doesn't help those that dare gamble with the God.

Hades is cold and ruthless in the sense of taking bargains and contracts with mortals to help better themselves with their addictions. Although we see the other side of him, his softness, caring nature is a surprising to us as a reader as well as Persephone.

Demeter in this book isn't the sweet caring and doting mother in the stories she is ruthless and cold and selfish. Keeping Persephone on a tight leash as well as keeping her away from the world mortal and Gods alike. Everytime she is mentioned and featured within the novel I inwardly groaned and rolled my eyes the ultimate helicopter parent.

I debated with myself going back to this book when I brought A Touch of Ruin thinking I should just dive right into it thinking I could scramble my brain into remembering what happens in the book, but I'm glad I did.

#a touch of darkness #booklr #fantasy #hades greek mythology #persephone #persephades #fiction #literary fiction #authors #scarlett st clair #new athens #book review

[hotpotrandomfics]

Riordanverse OC Headcanons: Cylus Cormac, Son of Hestia (Pt.1?)

 Cylus finds joy in cooking before CHB counselor meetings, mostly because he feels that food keeps everyone civil and from acting out. He even takes request days before from each of the counselors and makes separate batches for each of their cabins. He also is adamant they return the containers he uses or Cylus will refrain from baking unless all containers are brought.

In the early mornings and late evenings, Cylus would tend to the fire in the middle of CHB dining pavilion. While the flame maybe eternal, he finds it soothing to tend to in hopes of bringing recognition to his mother, Hestia, for the mere sake of showing that there is someone who will value her not simply as a goddess but as a son who respects their mother.

During capture the flag games, Cylus tended to avoid joining unnecessary maiming as he found it not the best way to test his skills. He’d determine certain campers based on their skill level and compare to his in order to choose an opponent who’d be a good fight. Not simply for the sake of fighting but to improve his and his opponent skills. Though he wasn’t the best with swords and shields, his cane sword often through combatants for a loop.

One summer at CHB, Cylus was spotted playing a guitar on the docks though no one knew he could play it. He wasn’t as good as the Apollo kids or those who were just skilled in music, Cylus played for him self and the joy of doing something peaceful in his home at CHB. Apollo wished to adopt the boy as one of his own however Hestia had few short and precise words with Apollo to refrain from “adoptnapping.”

Cylus was often attached to the embassy talks to New Rome, mostly because he held some odd weight of power over the Vestal Virgins. He hated such ask from the leaders of New Athens (CHB equivalent to New Rome, fan-made), but he did see it as an opportunity to strength bonds with their western counterparts and to learn how the Romans worshipped his mother Roman equivalent.

Cylus is pretty wary of children of Priapus and Aphrodite, while it’s unfair to judge the demigods, their parents aren’t the best example about love or intimacy at times. There is even a rumor around camp and New Athens charmspeak doesn’t work on him. That isn’t the case but rather those who’ve attempted to he held no attraction to and wasn’t ignorant of the games of the less than respectable members of those cabins. Though he does believe he may find love but not a love with children of those two gods.

#percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #the sun and the star #pjo #hoo #toa #tsats #pjo oc #hoo oc #toa oc #tsats oc #cylus cormac #son of hestia #pjo oc headcanon #hoo oc headcanon #toa oc headcanon #tsats oc headcanon #pjo new athens #new athens #riordanverse #riordanverse headcanon

[camp-jupiter-status]

Attention demigods!!!❗

It has finally been decided! With 8 from the 12 votes of the Olympians, New Athens is going to be found at Camp Half-Blood!🎊 Lady Hekate (Trivia) made the land magically bigger in the camp's borders and now the first plans for New Athens are beginning to be made! The blueprint will follow the Acropolis and the centre of Athens.

Special thanks to:

• Annabeth Chase (head Architect)

• Hekate

• Athena (sponsoring, campaign manager)

• Dare interprises (sponsoring)

#camp jupiter #percy jackson #camp halfblood #new rome #new athens

[dykeseinfeld]

the ask box completely slipped my mind. NO he was not 😭

ahtjajfhjsjf no you did the right thing

#answered #new athens

[spicypussywave]

Mio Athens as Tan/New & Ta Nannakun as Phee

DEAD FRIEND FOREVER

↳ episode 9

#dead friend forever #gifs #dead friend forever the series #dff the series #dff #phee dff #tan dff #new dff #ta nannakun #dff.gif #mio athens #uservix #usersasa #userbon #userblmpff #asiandramasource #i cannot fix the second last one im sorry i tried #soooo ready for them to fuck things up even more #naomivents

[sherrymagic]

Tan/New being iconic in Episode 10 DEAD FRIEND FOREVER (2023-2024)

#mio athens #dff tan #tan dff #dff new #new dff #dead friend forever #dead friend forever the series #dff #dff the series #dffedit #thai bl #thai bl actors #thai series #yes i am aware coloring is a bit off but these were what i call nightmare scenes #honestly feel like this is the best i could have ever done so #no idea who to tag as usual so i guess i'll mostly just leave this to tumblr once again #userbon #userbeoncloud #lana.gifs

[newathens]

new athens ix

#new athens #pjo #percy jackson

[welcometonewathens]

New Athens University

join the herd

#pjo edit #percy jackson edit #Percy Jackson and the Olympians #new athens

[syrena-del-mar]

"Aren't you sad that I'll go abroad for a very long time?" "No. Whether you're here or not, it doesn't make any difference." "I'm sorry for never being a good brother."

Dead Friend Forever (2023) || Episode 9

#dead friend forever #dff the series #dff non #dff new #dff tan #dff ep 9 #dead friend forever the series #thai drama #thai bl #barcode tinnasit #mio athens #dramasource #dailyasiandramas #dff edits #dff gifs #dff spoilers #dead friend forever edits #dffedit #deadfriendforeveredit #dead friend forever gifs #my edits #my gifs #syrena-del-mar gifs #syrena-del-mar edits #thai bl series #be on cloud #these brothers are going to be the end of me istg #Chose those specific b/w scenes bc New is coming back home for the first time and Non is leaving it for the last... #also this lyric is from ed sheeran's lonely lovers #i want them to see each other again ahhhhh

[soulinkpoetry]

Some spectacular fireworks from the magnificent ruins of Acropolis. 🔉

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This sight never gets old ! 😍🎆

.HAPPY 2024!

#2024 #fireworks #Athens #Greece #happy new year #acropolis

[bitter69uk]

“Later we [Culture Club] played with them a few times and they had the most unique, hypnotic sound. It’s trashy Americana, John Waters, Divine, the Shangri-La’s, high camp and bubblegum punk. The beat is everything. Fred always reminded me of Dr Zachary Smith from Lost in Space. I never thought about whether the B-52’s had a gay angle. They were just against rules in general – taking classic American kitsch and giving it a punk, space-age irreverence, like a beautiful car crash with pop surrealism. They were very camp but very funky: always on it, melodic but effortlessly free. It’s the sort of pop music that I want to hear.”

/ Boy George reflecting on the B-52’s in The Guardian /

Born on this day: happy 76th birthday to the sublime Kate Pierson (née Catherine Elizabeth Pierson, 27 April 1948) - singer, multi-instrumentalist, bouffant wig enthusiast and one of the founding members of Athens, Georgia’s essential post-punk party band the B-52’s! For me, Pierson’s spine-tingling dissonant science fiction anti-harmonies with co-vocalist Cindy Wilson are one of the defining sounds of American New Wave music. Pictured: Pierson captured by Lynn Goldsmith in the early 1980s.

#b 52's #the b 52s #kate pierson #bouffant wig #lobotomy room #new wave #post punk #beehive wig #bouffant #kitsch #lgbtqia #surf guitar #retro #camp #punk #athens georgia #lynn goldsmith

[themundanedumpling]

this is how dff should end

#thai bl #dead friend forever the series #dead friend forever #dff cast #dff series #dff the series #be on cloud #dff white #dff tan/new #dff non #barcode tinnasit #mio athens #fuaiz thanawat #i make memes to cope with my anxiety