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A week on tartarus

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levesque

i dont think a series ever made me question my moralities more than pjo. like duh i didnt want luke to succeed in overthrowing the olympians and putting kronos in place but the gods ARE shitty to their kids and minor gods WERE ignored and the demigods were pretty much used to save everyone on olympus’ asses despite what psychological and physical injuries they’d sustain like, that is so fucked up man. i can see why luke did what he did and see that he did it wrong but it makes me wonder what would have happened had percy sided with him and overthrown the gods and what the world might be like

ethan and luke’s characters destroyed my understanding of my own moral compass for years tbh

definitely!!! percy jackson literally shaped my entire moral compass and how i view the world. as someone like luke who had shitty, overprotective, over-expecting parents who never gave me a chance to prove myself, i knew that if I was a demigod, i probably would have joined luke. i probably would have joined magneto’s brotherhood too. and seeing Percy, this abused kid, this kid with so many learning disabilities find his own strength, trust a few people, and still make the right choices no matter how difficult literally helped me understand as a 14-15 year old, that just because I was hurting, and the world is shitty to me, doesn’t give me the right to treat the world shitty too. Percy Jackson was a series that understood that not everything is black and white, and sometimes you just have to pick the lesser evil, and try to change it however you can. Silena’s spying, and her redemption was so important! Grover getting over his anxiety and crippling self-esteem was so important!! Annabeth and Thalia were in the literal same boat as Luke, and they made the right choices in the end, despite anyone and anything. If anything, Percy Jackson taught me that yeah sometimes you lose things. And that yeah, I maybe a pawn for my damn parents and a pawn in this damn world but I’m not going to sit here and be pushed around, but I’m not gonna bring down the entire world in anarchy either. If I’m gonna be a pawn, I’m gonna fucking do it my way. This is one of the reasons why I found Heroes of Olympus so disappointing. It didn’t explore any dark and mature themes really, and it was all tied up in a oversized bow to hide all the holes in the plot and that there weren’t any reaaall sad moments that can shape a reader….

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important question: is there an annual talent show at camp half blood, and how competitive does it get?

all I can think of is this massive hype just before percy comes on stage. the audience is on the edge of their seats, absolutely silent, waiting with baited breath to see what amazing feat he’s going to perform.

he steps on to the stage. there’s a collective in take of breath. he moves to the front, brings a water bottle out from behind his back.

completely calm, utterly focused, he twists his wrist and flips the bottle. it flies in to the air, turns, anD THEN LANDS PERFECTLY UPRIGHT ON THE STAGE AND THE CROWD GOES WILD

PERCY JACKSON, WINNER OF THE CHB TALENT SHOW

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Black father was shot dead for not holding the door open for a woman at a McDonald's.

31-year-old Mohammad Robinson died in Las Vegas Saturday night. All witnesses said that the Black man didn’t hear the woman asking to hold the door for her while entering McDonald’s. She got upset and told her male companion about the incident. The man waited for Robinson outside the restaurant and shot him down like a dog. His killer remains at large, but police say the shooting was caught on surveillance cameras which they will try to use to identify him. 

“It’s horrible. I want my dad back and you took him away from me!” said the murder victim’s daughter, Miniya Sampson. 

Robinson is survived by his mother, a girlfriend, four children, and two step-children. His youngest daughter is just three months old and is suffering from a blood sepsis infection.

This murder only highlights the situation in America -  black lives clearly don’t matter very much to their fellow citizens.

The family started a GoFund me page to cover funeral costs:  R .I.P Mohammad.

#StayWoke

#BlackLivesMatter

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nowhites

are you fucking kidding me? in vegas??????

Source: Daily Mail
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nobody cares but my cats favorite movie is ice age

heres a picture of my cat watching ice age very intently. hes loving it.

and heres him after i stepped in front of the tv. he was upset that i was blocking his view of ice age

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From this article: [x]

They did so even in the presence of a tempting chocolate treat, foregoing the lever that would release the food in favour of the one that would save the drowning rat.
The rats therefore engage in helpful “prosocial behaviour” even if there was no apparent reward. Saving a distressed rat was valuable to them.
Past experience played a role too. If the saviour rat had had a similar near-death experience, it was much quicker to help.
But when there was nobody to save, or the distressed rat was replaced with an inanimate object, the rats no longer pressed the lever.

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