I feel like at some point Rick Riordan forgot the original Percy Jackson series. Because Aphrodite's children, although concerned with fashion, are fighters, they know how to defend themselves. They play capture the flag with the rest of the camp. Especially when it involves Artemis's hunters. They were defending one of the entrances to Manhattan during the last war. I don't understand what the series gains from presenting all people from this cabin as shallow. As if they did not fight and survive a war. As if they did not have to bury their friends, including their sister, as the rest of camp. Seems to continue this trend of the book of presenting most of the female characters that portray characteristics normally assigned to woman as something bad. They are shallow and idiots and that makes them mean. Also liking fashion does not mean you like only designer stuff. People that like and understand fashion understand it as a form of art. Fashion can be used as an outlet to express ourselves and can be used to understand history. Flattening so much the meaning of fashion to what mean girls are worried about because the only thing they care about is their looks, yes they are that shallow, feels so wrong.

Percy describes Clarisse as being built like a rugby player and now I can't help but imagine her as a young Ilona Maher.

i keep getting pulled out of the story because i’m having to remind myself of Nico’s age. my brain wants to default to 15 or 16 years old, not 10 or 11. it’s kinda hard imagining Nico as only 10 or 11 and doing all of this. i have an 11 year old brother and he’s nowhere near as mature as Nico is portrayed nor do i think he could be as resourceful. although that’s probably because this is fiction and completely different circumstances 😅

“indeed, though he did not know it, bilbo and gandalf had thought him [frodo] the best hobbit in the shire”

tell me why this brought tears to my eyes!!! ❤️‍🩹

Chapter 7 is literally called QUEER LODGINGS? I've been struggling not to post about Bilbo "confirmed bachelor" Baggins, and Gandalf reading people for filth like a catty old queen, not to mention 15 dudes traveling along with nary a lady in sight, but QUEER LODGINGS?

I can't wait until this book goes into public domain and we get the gay retelling we deserve.