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another boo scene that had me in shambles

#oh those are my boys ;; #art #pjo #two parts ichor

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i love greek big 3 dynamics bc they really are all just the same person and that's why they all can't fucking stand each other

#self recognition through the other (derogatory)

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Sally and Annabeth making cupcakes 🧁. Commissioned by @phykios for @perseannabeth

#ames was awesome u should commission them #pjo #art

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im a full believer that if grover was the protector of the seven instead of coach hedge, he would not have given percy and annabeth so much trouble after the stables scene. because frank would have found him cuddling with them too (/platonic)

#TRUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE

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‘Incredible’ Mosaics Were Found in an Ancient Luxury Home in Rome

Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has called the works “an authentic treasure.”

Researchers working in the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum in Rome have shared their discovery of luxurious mosaic-tiled rooms found in an ancient home on the site, which they believe may have belonged to a Roman senator. Created from shells, glass, white marble, and Egyptian blue tiles, the mosaics have been described by Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano as “an authentic treasure”.

The “rustic” mosaics, found on the grounds surrounding the Colosseum in the heart of the city, date to the late Republican Age, in the last decades of the second century B.C.E., and show a series of figurative scenes. They once decorated a townhouse, or domus, owned by an upper class citizen. Italy’s Ministry of Culture have said that “due to the complexity of the scenes depicted” and their age, the mosaics are “without comparison.”

One mosaic depicts a coastal city with towers and porticos, with three large ships floating by on the ocean waves. The culture ministry believes this could be a reference to naval victories achieved by the owner of the home, which is believed to have been a Roman senator. This is supported by historical sources describing the area as having been occupied by such high-ranking members of society.

The decorated walls were likely located in the home’s dining rooms, where luxurious banquets would be hosted, and guests at these events were likely wowed with “spectacular water games,” according to the culture ministry, based on the presence of lead pipes set into the walls.

In the reception room, an extremely well preserved decorated stucco featuring landscapes and figures was also discovered. Other designs include vines and lotus leaves flowing from vases, musical instruments, and tridents.

The mosaic walls were first discovered near the Colosseum in 2018, but excavation at the site will continue into 2024, and more rooms could be discovered. Alfonsina Russo, the Director of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, has said that once the domus is full uncovered, “we will work intensely to make this place, among the most evocative of ancient Rome, accessible to the public as soon as possible.”

By Verity Babbs.

#HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #inspo

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new favorite bit is saying "I would be fangirling so hard if I met him in real life 😍" about random species of fish

#percy

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#passing it on

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me? writing? it's more likely than you think

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I stare at the screen for hours, trying to make the words come out, but they won't. I can't compel myself to take a break, because there's this voice screaming at me from the base of my brain...

"You've been told you're a great writer, and you want to be a published author. But all you have to show for it after forty-four years are a dozen crash-and-burn writing projects. When you have the time to write, you don't, for a host of reasons. If you don't have something written by the time you die--which comes closer with every passing day--you've wasted your gifts, you've wasted all the effort people put into educating you, and you've wasted your life. So sit down and WRITE, you worthless piece of shit!"

How do you get past the paralysis caused by the obligation to produce? Is there a way to trick your brain and your body into writing? Or do you just slog on through, no matter how long you have to sit there to get a thousand words a day out?

Perhaps you could try to be kinder to yourself.

I always give myself permission to write or to do nothing at all (staring out of the window or at a wall is okay). After a while spent staring at a wall it's often easier to write.

Remember if you write a page a day -- 300 words -- at the end of a year you'll have a 100,000 word novel.

#needed this ty neil and roach

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well, you criticize me all the time. 

#tlt #pjo musical my utter beloved

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Summary

Percy and Annabeth are not sure why, but it seems like naming their kids is getting harder, not easier, with practice. Even after all these years together, they're still learning things about themselves, and each other.

I wrote a fic.

#YAAASSSS #fic rec #pjo

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"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

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Luke being given a quest at 17, feeling like there's no glory in it because it's a quest someone's already succeeded before, but then failing that very quest he considered to be beneath him, getting a permanent scar, "ruining it" for the rest of the campers because now no one else can go on quests and earn glory in the eyes of the gods, so he turns to Kronos, and years later here comes a possible candidate for the great prophecy, 12 years old, gets the first quest the camp has done since Luke's fucked it up, and Luke is actively ensuring this quest is an impossible quest!! he's literally rigged it so Percy's gonna fail (the shoes, the bolt appearing in his bag) and then this kid somehow succeeds still??? and not only that, Percy got the unique quest Luke wanted in the first place and achieved feats no one else had and earned glory in the eyes of his father, all because Luke created the circumstances for that to happen??

oh my god yeah I don't think I'd ever recover from that either

#i love him. i love him so much #pjo #that was my promise; brick by brick

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

#i dont wanna talk about it

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What separates the Hero from the Villain? A single choice.

doodle-toodling while on commission break. Still figuring out where i’d put Luke’s scar but heyy. 

#they #art #pjo #la queue e mobile

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“as she died, he turned her into a tree, so she could stand there protecting us, forever. the way i couldn’t do for her.”

based off of the choreo from “tree on the hill” in the lightning thief musical ⚡️ (i drew both book and musical versions of their characters because i was Indecisive™)

the main drawing is based off of when annabeth and luke stand behind thalia and hold their arms up to mimic tree branches—which i still think is pretty heckin’ cool and i love it too much. then the doodle page is just quick doodles of them everywhere else in the song.

#MAN.................... #art #pjo #la queue e mobile

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chilling on the argo ii

#art #pjo #the rivalry ends here #la queue e mobile