#this is NOT a knock on Percy Jackson

[nateconnolly]

The gods are not aware of us. That’s what I like most about Aristotle’s cosmology. The gods are perfect, and therefore they only think about perfect things (themselves). We are imperfect, therefore we are not worth thinking about. They don’t know that they caused us. 

You’re probably more familiar with the Olympians—figures like Zeus, Athena, and Poseidon, the sort of Greek gods that appear in Percy Jackson or Disney’s Hercules. Those gods are deeply invested in human affairs. Homer portrays the gods sponsoring armies, and making alliances with humans. Aeschylus has Athena begin democracy. They have children with us, they accept offerings from us, they even lash out at us in judgment. But Ancient Greece was a huge civilization that lasted an incredibly long time. Sometimes they disagreed with each other.

For Aristotle, praying to the gods can’t ensure a good harvest or military success. It can’t even get their attention. We are able to relate to the gods, but it is a completely one-sided relationship. If your motivation for practicing religion is purely transactional, then there is no reason to care about these solipsistic prime movers. But for Aristotle, the gods can help us achieve virtue. 

We can imitate them. We will never win their favor, we will never have their love, but we can follow their example. Although we will never be perfect, we can observe perfection and try to learn from it. We can be a little better than we are today. Perhaps that is enough. 

#Im NOT saying this is better than religions with a personal or devotional or transactional god #but it’s a fascinating position #if your religion is important to you then one way to nurture your religiosity #is to compare and contrast with the alternative religions and spirituality #so if you have a devotional religious practice #then this is good to know about #this is NOT a knock on Percy Jackson #shoutout to rick riordan fr #gotta be one of my favorite young adult authors #I’m just saying he didn’t have time to cover every single theological position ever held by an Ancient Greek #nate's writing #philosophy #greek philosophy #classical theism #god #aristotle #original post

[whatsitzface]

I think once the fandom realizes that Percy is more of a grumpy cat of a person and Nico is more of an over-energetic dog of a person, the world may finally heal

#just thoughts #Percy will knock down shit on your shelf #he WILL lay his head ontop of Annabeth's laptop keyboard just so she can't get any work done #but Nico? Nico will yap to you for over two hours about some obscure video game AND do it with glee #he will call Will his nightlight and preen all happily #he will laugh and run around and play with Mrs O'Leary #seriously though #I am so sick of people saying nico's a cat person and percy's a dog person when its clearly the opposite? #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #nico di angelo

[introspectivememories]

i wish you guys could feel the way i felt when reading HOO and realizing in real time that "oh, riordan clearly does not care about the romans". like the downplay is insane!!! as if the greeks and romans were not two separate cultures!!! you cannot one-to-one the gods!!! jason never gets all his memories back, percy ends up remembering everything. jason struggles to fit in at chb, they make percy praetor in one fucking week! not to mention the very weird addition of saying that camp jupiter was part of the confederacy???? like he very clearly does not care about the romans

#i would say smth about rr having a very clear bias for percy but im not sure if yall are ready for that #like the minute i knew that he didn't give a shit about the romans was when percy decimated the cohorts during the war games #bc of his superior greek fighting style or whatever #like just say you like the greeks and go!! there is no need to sideline the romans like this #the way he writes them it's like the romans were just a knock-off copy of the greeks #as if they weren't two fully-realized separate cultures #whatever #jason grace #percy jackson #pjo #hoo

[yonemurishiroku]

Apollo saw the dodgeball meme and decide that from now on Rachel can only do prophecy via ball to the face, which mean she throws the ball and the prophecy just imprinted to your brain

Anon are you sure they would remember the prophecy after getting a ball in their heads because I reckon the concussion would just knock it out right after that.

#rachel singlehandedly knock out a hero before the quest even started #rachel elizabeth dare #apollo pjo #apollo #lester papadopoulos #pjo meme #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo

[theminecraftgay]

Hey I saw it. Time to lose my mind!

#my art #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo fanart #pjo series #percy pjo #obviously just knocked this out but OHHHH MY GOD IM IN LOVE

[tinygenderfluid]

What are the limits on Leo's belt?

Because like, I don't think breath mints count as tools so that means that the belt can just conjur shit up

Could Leo conjur up nuclear material?? I wanna know if he could make a nuke. I don't think Leo would make a nuke but if I had a magical belt that could magically summon whatever the fuck I needed but small I'd make a nuke.

Fuck fighting like ancient heroes, hold al of Olympus hostage.

Principle of M.A.D. I die? We all die

Cold war, Leo vs all of mythology, no more monster fighting because if anything even remotely happens then bye bye world.

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #leo valdez #he would think thid sleep deprived and dehydrated tbh #before someone from chb would knock him out and force him to sleep

[awesome-shoes-with-wings]

Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land, That you understand~

Yup, it's Poseidon. Again. And you'll see him again!

#poseidon #pjo #pjo poseidon #modern day poseidon #toby stephens inspired #poseidon art #percy jackson #percy jackson fanart #poseidon fanart #god of the sea #greek god of the sea #percy jackon and the olympians #percy series #pjo art #behold his godly feet #I LEARNED TO DRAW FEET FOR YOU POSEIDON #BE GRATEFUL #AND NEVER KNOCK ME OVER WITH A WAVE AGAIN #THAT WAS MEAN

[rebel-spacecadet]

Camp Hero: NPCs Our Heroes Have Interacted With

Minnie Mills as Chloe (Aphrodite) Grace Van Patten as Lilibette (Aphrodite) Isabella Merced as Alexis (Aphrodite) Jordan Fisher as Riley (Dionysus) Paulina Chávez as Sephie (Dionysus) Kaitlyn Dever as Sydney (Artemis) Paulina Alexis as Hunter (Artemis) Auil'i Cravahlo as Avery (Artemis) Megan Suri as Zoya (Athena) Milly Alcock as Nora (Hephaestus) Josh Hueston as Wyatt (Hephaestus) Ashley Moore as Callie (Hephaestus) Imani Lewis as Makayla (Ares) Froy Gutierrez as Jax (Ares) Jorge Lopez as Sebastian (Hermes) Wolfgang Novogratz as Xander (Zeus)

#camp hero #my percy jackson knock-off #my bbs

[drksanctuary]

Person @ Alabaster (who is looking very fancy and gender): um I don’t sorry I don’t think we can assist you…sir er madam?

Alabaster: I prefer Madsir as it has the dual function of combining the two honorifics as well as describing me perfectly *flashes the crazy eyes with a menacing smirk*

Nico: pfft ok. Pretentious

Al: hey, when I land a cool line like that your supposed to shut up and let it be

Nico: ;:) awww…you that was cool?

Al: it was cool!

Nico: I mean doesn’t it kinda undermine itself? You say you’re both but then you admit to being a mad “SIR”

Al: I- y-you’re not supposed to think about it so much. ;:/ that’s what makes it cool.

Nico: :/

Al: now where were we? *directed at person*

Person: I don’t think we can assist you, Sir

Nico: pfft

Al: *exasperated side eye* not a word Di Angelo not. One. Word.

#alabaster thinks he’s so cool #Nico loves to knock him down a peg #the sillies #I love them #might draw as a comic if this post gets 100 likes #alabaster c torrington #nico di angelo #alabaster torrington #pjo #percy jackson #nicobaster #heroes of olympus #son of magic

[mo-mode]

As someone who’s viewed exactly 0 of the trailers for this show (cuz I wanted to go in blind) it should astound me that I can instantly recognize the audio to the Percy trailer, KNOW it’s the Percy trailer, and mouth it perfectly. Why can I do that?? How many PJO TikTok’s did it take before I could do this?? Why do people keep crying over it?? Why is it so good?? I’m like a feral animal chewing on the bars to my enclosure, but I’ve gone this far. It’s go big or go home now. I’m not watching it until the final episode.

#I wanna be the dumbest mf so I can retain my sense of childlike wonder oksy?? sue me #I also do this for movies and shows if I can help it #someone sedate me #or knock some sense into me honestly #why do i do this to myself #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[boilingcowboy]

this will with high chances be the only post I do about the new Percy Jackson show just cus I can't sleep and I wanna point out something

keep in mind I have not watched the show cus fuck Disney especially right now and I haven't bothered to try and watch it somewhere else so I have only seen edits and tumblr posts butttt

So in a previous episode somehow idk how again haven't watched the show but Percy says that Grover is his protector and then Annabeth tells Percy that Grover was her protector first.

And then in ep 4 in the end, the scene where Percy tricks Annabeth with his sword so he can fight that thing (idk what they're called don't knock down my door please as I said I have only seen the edits). Now obviously this could be just cus they way they're standing but Percy pushes Annabeth right into Grovers Arms which I found interesting cus in that scene originally Grover was supposed to protect Percy cus one poor kid was on his death bed and two I am assuming it's because he is Percys protector so I found it interesting that Annabeth gets pushed back into her previous Protector.

Anyways just wanted to point that out lol.

Also another thing I found interesting is how after Percy closes the door we hear only Grover screaming at him at first because it takes Annabeth a minute to realise what Percy had just done and specifically what Percy had just done for her.

But yeah once again I haven't watched or read anything except edits and tumblr posts so I apologise if something is wrong

#idk why I am making this post #but honestly I can't sleep so this what I am doing now #someone please knock me the fuck out #anywaysssss #pjo tv show #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #the cowboy talks

[serafilms]

idk y’all i’m still a poseidon hater.

#bc no way he fell in love w this girl whose parents had just died and was financially struggling and trying to get through college #and decided to date her and knock her up instead of leaving that girl be 😭 #and yeah he offered to build her a palace underwater but why didn’t he just give her regular money like #ofc she doesn’t wanna live underwater r u insane #and she was 19!!!!!!!! #19! #john mayer ass #ashley speaks ! #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians

[wise-blue-cookies]

Hades: Tell your spawn to stop coming to the underworld and asking me for child support money.

Poseidon:.....

Poseidon: You impregnated MY son?!?!?!?! You had a CHILD w/ him?? Was Persephone not enough that u had to fuck my kid too??? And not even helping him ???

Demeter, suddenly popping: Sucks, doesn't it?

Hades:

This continues with Hades having no clue what's happening and Poseidon yelling at him with Demeter egging him and adding her own snide comments.

Persephone of course is filming the whole thing and eating popcorn with a poker Queen face on and laughing internally because she knows the entire context..

................

Percy, suddenly straightening up.

Annabeth: what happened??

Percy: I have a feeling that I'm the cause of drama happening somewhere.

#percy jackson popping up in the underworld with a knocked out nico on his shoulders #thn proceeds to yell at Hades for the fun of it in his pjs and bathrobe combo #annabeth chase #sometimes joins becoz she needs entertainment too #hades pjo #pjo #nico di angelo #percy jackson #percabeth #persephone pjo #poseidon pjo #demeter pjo #demeter #poseidon #persephone #hades #greek mythos #greek incorrect quotes

[yonemurishiroku]

The platonic urge to shove Nico towards Clarisse and make them friends because imo children of Hell and War should stick together and terrorize the world just to cope.

#imagine capture the flag and nico reyna clarisse are in the same team #absolutely terrifying. would 100% want to see that #if it’s real battle tho. do you know how horrifying it would be to see someone knocking out ur comrades n then they wake up as ur enemies #it’s like. an infinite army #nico di angelo #clarisse la rue #the importance of friendship #toa #nico and clarrise #pjo #hoo #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #yone headcanon #nico headcanon

[booklovingturtle]

Me at the door of every Disney Exec Office calmly, politely, patiently asking for an official S2 announcement

(and S3, S4, S5 while I’m there)

((Actually, since kids grow up so freaking fast, why don’t we go ahead and film 2-3 in one block and then later on 4-5))

#percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson adaptation #percy jackson #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson show #rick riordan #disney plus #disney+ #disney executives #season 2??????? #JUST ANNOUNCENT IT PLS #I WILL BUST DOWN-I mean knock at your door you do

[catastrxblues]

rachel elizabeth dare defender til the day i die

#i don’t know what went in my head i just suddenly feel the need to make this post for her because!! #i remember the days when i first read the last olympian and got into the fandom through pinterest and finding out that people hated her #and i was like??? #what?? #but i didn’t have any place to talk about it and her and so i didnt and repressed that and today i just remembered it again and so i though #wait… i should make a rachel elizabeth dare defense post i mean i have tumblr now so i can #hence the post #i love her she’s awesome #if i saw a hater of my friend right here in the year of 2023 #i’d just like to tell you that i am capable to fetch and throw a brick that is very good to knock some senses<3 #rachel elizabeth dare #percy jackson #pjo #nadirants