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Nico clearly has a type lmao
i’ve been thinking about riordanverse demigods and their mommy issues.
annabeth, piper, alex fierro: my mom is an absent goddess who’s kind of a bitch to me and my loved ones
jason, thalia, hazel: my mom was a messed up person when she was alive
nico, leo, frank, magnus chase: my mom died years ago but she was a wonderful person and i miss her every day
percy jackson and will solace: MY MOM 🤱 is my BEST 🤩 FRIEND 👯 she is so LOVELY 🥰 and KIND 💕 and COOL 😎 and i’m having DINNER 🍽️ WITH HER ON SATURDAY 🥳💫🤪
2016: still sucky in death
It has come to my attention that the great actress Carrie Fisher has died at the age of 60 today. RIP and may the force always be with you. My reaction, of course, was “even as it’s going out and leaving us alone, 2016 couldn’t help itself. It had to ruin one last thing.” (I say this, of course, at the risk of being offensive. Then again, this is the Internet. Everything is offensive here.) Me: phew this year is finally over. I never thought it’d end. 2016:
Reading Homeric Hymn To Demeter for the first time
What I expected: An emotional, disturbing yet comforting story about a mother who had to endure the lose of her daughter after her father gave permission to their brother to marry her without her acknowledge, and who was willing to wipe the entire human race off the earth just so she could get her daughter back.
What I got:
Homer really had the audicity to describe Persephone as "trim-ankled" (which in modern language means that she had shapely legs) and constantly talk about how beautiful and delicate her feet are when Baubo exists:
