Rick Riordan was SO galaxy brained for making Aphrodite be beautiful according to each person’s personal ideal of beauty. Had it been Sarah J. Maas or any new age YA author they would have been like “she’s a lilywhite blonde with blue/green eyes who is unanimously the most beautiful of her age teehee” and called it a day, whereas true beauty is subjective, according to each person or society’s different tastes and the differing standards cannot be reduced to a one size fits all.
Obsessed with how Annabeth isn’t spacial, she isn’t a chosen one, she has no demigod magic powers, she is for all intents and purposes, a fairly normal girl.
But she poured her blood, sweat and tears into becoming the best warrior she could be. She trained hard for years because she knew she had disadvantages and she didn’t want to be seen as weak.
She’s literally known in Camp and by monsters like Alecto as the most powerful demigod alive and she doesn’t have powers. It’s almost as of girls don’t need to be magical to be a hero!
this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
big fan of characters with abandonment + attachment issues so profound that they leave claw marks in everything they touch but would sooner gnaw off their own leg than admit they just want someone to stay for once. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course.
big fan of characters who are always leaving. who constantly have a suitcase in their hand. characters who start planning their exit the moment they arrive and get nervous when the people in their lives start to Know them. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course
for the low low price of reading a single poem you too can feel entirely alienated from everyone within your physical reach & yet completely connected to the unchangable truth of shared human experience
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