Luke being given a quest at 17, feeling like there's no glory in it because it's a quest someone's already succeeded before, but then failing that very quest he considered to be beneath him, getting a permanent scar, "ruining it" for the rest of the campers because now no one else can go on quests and earn glory in the eyes of the gods, so he turns to Kronos, and years later here comes a possible candidate for the great prophecy, 12 years old, gets the first quest the camp has done since Luke's fucked it up, and Luke is actively ensuring this quest is an impossible quest!! he's literally rigged it so Percy's gonna fail (the shoes, the bolt appearing in his bag) and then this kid somehow succeeds still??? and not only that, Percy got the unique quest Luke wanted in the first place and achieved feats no one else had and earned glory in the eyes of his father, all because Luke created the circumstances for that to happen??
oh my god yeah I don't think I'd ever recover from that either
i'm firmly a pro abort that thang anti family values anti "and they all lived happily ever after in a perfect little nuclear family" guy but making fankids is really really fun when you only have dysfunctional family models from your own traumatic childhood to go off of. i'm coparenting with these made up people and none of us have any idea what we're doing. technically this is my kid and i'm the deadbeat dad who left them on their doorstep. i feel like i should be paying child support.
I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr
not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work
believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody
actually tumblr does have pvp enabled it’ scalled you assholes circling around my perfectly normal posts and chanting “containment breach” until it summons the bloodthirsty swarm of psychic piranhas this site has instead of an algorithm
inspired choice in the new Percy Jackson show styling Clarisse after an Instagram baddie. Matte lipliner and blended eyeshadow and a fucking meticulous curl routine. That is exactly right. The most terrifying girls at my high school all had hair routines and razor sharp cut creases and rage like her. Real Ares kids get it. That’s MY Clarisse.