#drksanctuary

[sincerelyhecate]

Alabaster C. Torrington…thoughts?

(Had to skim through his Wikia page for a bit to refresh my memory; it's been years since I last read his story).

He used to be one of my blorbos... my pookie... He intrigued me because he's a son of Hecate and she's one of my favorite Greek deities. think he's super cool and I kinda agree with his stance on the Olympians, and it's great that we could take a look at one of the lives of a member of Kronos' army post-Manhattan through his story. I wish he could meet with Percy and they could compare each other's perspectives. Sadly, his only appearance was in a pretty obscure side-story so not a lot of people paid attention to him, and that's probably the only thing we'd get of him.

#key answers #drksanctuary #alabaster torrington

[sparkysparklightning]

Have you read Son of Magic/ have any thoughts about Alabaster Torrington?

I have not read son of magic so I don't really have much to say about that. however, I do know about alabaster torrington due to reading fics involving him and then, out of curiosity, checking his profile on the riordanverse wiki. (keep in mind these are just my thoughts of him with no knowledge of what went down in son of magic 😭)

I think he's a really interesting character! a child of hecate is cool enough, but the whole story of him and lamia was interesting too! I liked how he wasn't one of those demigods who switched to the good side right away when the olympians won, like he wanted to fight more, he egged his mother on to keep fighting, and he dislikes percy and still hates the olympians. he's like a very morally gray kinda guy, imo?? based on what I know of son of magic and his personality. he has skewed morals and while his perception of what he believes is right has a far different meaning in most of the godly world, he is heroic in his own way. ngl characters like him fascinate me bc they've so much potential to be analyzed, which is prob why I tend to include him in my fics here and there despite not having read son of magic lmaoo

#thank you for the ask!! #alabaster torrington #son of magic #drksanctuary #answered #sparkysparklightning #kit speaks #pjo

[drksanctuary]

I thought this was the same post when I saw it bc they seemed related. But it was just “my dash doing a thing” lol

#funny #Drksanctuary

[recycled-phantoms]

Hewwo! I saw you reblogged my nicobaster ask! Nice! I saw on your page that you are a writer and comic illustrator. That’s so cool! Pls feel free to dM me to mind dump about PJO or your OCs! ^u^

Aw, thank you so much! Glad to have you here! Hope to see you around!

(Also that was the first time I've heard of nicobaster as a ship; glad I'm not the only one who thinks they're cool together! I was getting worried I'd have to label it as a rarepair lol)

#chats #soup dispensery #drksanctuary

[somanyspoons]

Your description “glorious bisexual sorcerer king” is just the perfect tag line for this:

I love it.

oh HELLLLL YEAAHHHAHAHA i'm so glad to have inspired you with that hehe

#you asked #spoons answers #drksanctuary

[sunshines-child]

ABRAHAM

my younger brother doesn’t bother to remember book names, and when I was typing something (mafia au) he deadass went “Oh. That thing you’re writing about. Nico and Abraham?” ABRAHAM!? HE REMEMBERED ALABASTER’S NAME AS ABRAHAM. im sobbing

#nicodiangelo #nicobaster #alabaster torrington #pjo #pjo hoo toa #@drksanctuary what do I do in this situation

[aroaceleovaldez]

the show chb logo was also ripped from fandom, like in the past decade all the official chb shirt had the logo without the circle and then the fandom started doing and the show went for it, sorry your tags reminded me of that

[Link to post/tags in question]

Yeah, I know Delphi Strawberry Service has done more circular-based CHB shirt designs for ages, and I've seen the more circular-based designs floating around for awhile. I think Magicbysab's circular-based CHB shirt designs also predate the show design? Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I understand on a level that if they did base it off fandom designs, particularly if they're basing anything on widespread fanon or fandom-based concepts, it can be difficult to pin down credit or may even seen unnecessary. But if they're going to be doing that I feel like at least they could hire like, a fandom consultant of sorts? Instead of just ripping off from the fandom, hire someone from the community who produces that already so at least there's some recognition and acknowledgement of where it originated.

Heck, in some instances if you ask around in the fandom it's not hard to pinpoint who specifically popularized certain concepts! I could talk for ages about Cherryandsisters being a driving force behind photokinesis!Will, or Saberghatz with plague!Will (tbh between the two they spearheaded a ton of early Will/Solangelo fanon), and I swear Drksanctuary alone is behind like 50% of Alabaster fanon, etc etc etc. People in the fandom know these things! Heck, we know ReadRiordan company knows how to do that kind of thing! They commissioned Viria for the official art, and the UK Riordan newsletter reaches out to fans all the time to feature their work (with credit, they're one of the better ones)! Though in Rick's book tours he did showcase Viria's art (at least with credit) without asking before she got commissioned, and during the Tower of Nero book tours they actually straight up stole a solangelo edit from Pervysloth with completely zero credit (link is to my canon url readriordan parody blog).

I think it doesn't help as well that Rick and his editor allegedly use the fandom wiki in place of a series bible. The PJO wiki is notorious for putting inaccurate information or fanon onto pages at random and having no sources. (What I wouldn't give for the PJO wiki to have frequent book/page sources a la Warrior Cats wiki...) There are what, now almost 18 books in the main series alone? Of an extremely renowned best-selling series that's 20 years old and now being adapted for TV? And they STILL don't have a series bible? That's like, step 1 of writing a series. This kind of reliance of the fandom for resources and concepts definitely isn't new for them.

It just feels so bizarre as to what it says about how the ReadRiordan company views the fandom and the creatives within it. I understand that trying to figure out how to give credit to the concept of "CHB shirt design, but circular!" is difficult, if you even can find out who did that first or popularized it. But if you're going to rip things from fandom, at least find somebody to try and credit? Show that you put in even the tiniest amount of effort? And if you get it wrong and people know, they'll correct you and that's that! But ReadRiordan just keeps trying to actively obscure these kinds of things, even with their own media, not ripped from the fandom, which makes it feel all the worse when it gets pointed out. And a lot of the time the whole reason those concepts get popular is because they're filtered through big names in the fandom! The fandom is a community! We know these people! We can point to them and explain exactly what they popularized! Remember how Velinxi popularized long haired Piper with the heart-shaped flyaways? Goodness only knows how many fandom designs are heavily influenced by Viria and Minuiko and Burdge (and Indigonite and Fuocogo and Ikimaru and Thecottonproject and Joker-ace and Sixofclovers and Vikingmera and Saber and Cherry and and and-). If you are in the community this stuff is easy to find. But Rick and the ReadRiordan company clearly being ~5 years behind with fanon pretty obviously tells me that they're not in the community at all, and aren't bothering trying.

#riordanverse #pjo #readriordan #pjo tv crit #rr crit #Anonymous #ask #long post // #sorry i am passionate about fandom history and crediting artists #its late and im too lazy to proofread right now so im just throwing this one out there #apologies if it's nonsensical #anyways Rick and ReadRiordan stop ripping off literally everyone challenge #stares pointedly at Rick blatantly recycling his own writing. its not a fun callback my guy thats just lazy writing #percy making a dam joke to himself in SoN? cute callback #solangelo falling into tartarus scene in TSATS being a direct rip of percabeth in MoA/HoH? what the hell man

[avaetin]

A beautiful, commissioned piece from coma.stash

(P.S. I am so in love with this, I'd marry this art if I could in a heartbeat-)

(P.P.S. You can click the link on her IG handle. She has other equally beautiful works featured there.)

"If Aeon were to strip him off of his status as the demigod son of the King of the Underworld and the vessel of half of Ananke’s essence, Nico di Angelo was just a simple mortal with equally simple desires. He wasn’t a materialistic individual; Aeon once gifted him a snow globe on their first Christmas as a couple, and he remembered Nico vehemently refusing said simple gift still. Granted, he did encapsulate the universe inside of it, but still, it was simple enough by his standards."

- Chapter 13 of "A Kairos Moment"

I am not normal about this-

You guys have no idea how I had to keep quiet about this for weeks. (Not entirely quiet, cos @drksanctuary knows lol) Coma was sending me updates, and she started with Aeon first, and holy-! I wanted to marry the lineart hahaha!

Anyway, Happy Holidays (from Nico and Aeon)!

(P.P.P.S. [?] This was Nico's shirt design which Coma chose, and I think it's fitting lol.)

#primordial god! chronos x ananke! nico #chronos (pjo) #nico di angelo #nion #pjo #commissioned art from coma.stash

[fae-666]

I blame @drksanctuary for my new love for Alabaster.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #alabaster torrington

[pjo-slut]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52450845

just a little nicobaster fic to contribute to the rarepair.

So no, Alabaster wouldn’t ever put his insanely cool invention to good use, at least not for its intended purpose. He wouldn’t hand everything Nico had ever wanted to him on a silver platter, wouldn’t make all of Nico’s dreams come true. It was fine, though. Alabaster’s happiness wasn’t dependent on Nico’s, no matter what Lou Ellen said.

1.2k, will likely turn into a one-shot series if i can keep myself motivated

also gotta tag @yonemurishiroku @drksanctuary @avaetin and @haiseiscute333 because i borrowed a lot of their ideas, so if y’all read it i hope you like it <3

#ao3 fanfic #pjo fanfic #fanfic #fic rec #nicobaster #alabaster torrington #nico di angelo

[drksanctuary]

Drew little chibi pages of my faves!

Who shall I do next? XD

#nico di angelo #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #pjo #alabaster c torrington #jason grace #alabaster torrington #drksanctuary’s art #chibis

[pthalomars]

Commission for @drksanctuary ! Nico and Alabaster are a secret duo that I've never considered but I do enjoy them

#pjo #hoo #nico di angelo #alabaster torrington #nico/alabaster #not sure of their ship name but. :) #mars art #tw blood

[jasico-challenges]

Here’s what you have been waiting for: the completonists!

We are so gretefull that all of you participated, and even more that we had 3 completonists, which we did not expect.

It’s now time to honor our three completonists, give a round of applause to:

@drksanctuary

@coffees4sleepy

@staary-eyes

Thank you all for providing us with seven beautiful works!

#jasicoweek2023 #completonists #completonists masterpost #jasico #jason grace #nico di angelo #thunderworld #heroes of olympus #percy jackson

[sunshines-child]

I have nothing to do so here's me ranking Nico ships

Solangelo: 7/10 The canon interactions were not good. I'm giving this a pretty high rating because where Rick lacks is where fanfiction writers make up. (Solangelo fanfics can be freakishly good. They gave more backstory than Rick ever did) Percico: 8/10 The age gap when you really put it down can be a little funky, but my gods, if you write it right, you can make this ship some of the most poetic, tragic, gut-wrenching fanfics put down into words. (I prefer heavy one-sided tragedy but any suffice, really) Jasico: 7.5/10 it's a pretty nice one honestly, and you cannot tell me Jason and Nico didn't have SOMETHING going on. Not as high as Percico because most of the stories written are all fluff and comfort, and I'm more of a "make it hurt" type of fanfiction writer/reader. Valdangelo: 5.5/10 I've never found really good fanfiction over this ship. They rarely interact, and unlike Solangelo, the fanfiction writers don't usually make up for it with some funky AUs and whatnot. I can imagine some pretty fun scenarios with this though. Alabaster: 9/10 GOOD LORD @drksanctuary you have dragged me into a pit I cannot crawl out of. You can get every. single. type. of. fanfiction. from this ship, whether it's so kinky it makes you gasp (*cough* @avaetin and @drksanctuary *cough*), really gut-wrenching, or sweet. It's got the variety that I like. (-1 because they've sadly never properly interacted so we have no real land to build the house on) (I will shut up now.) Obligatory Nion: 9/10 @avaetin You are an evil lady. Your fanfiction alone has fueled my entire brainrot. There isn't even side fanfiction about him! You fuel this ship alone, and I'm all for it. (I have so, so many AU's over these two.) (Like my beautiful fish people AU that I posted the premise about previously) I hate any ship of Nico with a female, and yes this includes Percicobeth (or anything along those lines). Quit making Nico "find out he's bisexual because of Annabeth/Rachel/Piper/etc.", he's literally confirmed gay. Wow this is really long.

#pjo #pjo hoo toa #nicodiangelo #alabaster torrington #alabaster c torrington #leo valdez #jason grace #percy jackson #nion #primordial god! chronos x ananke! nico #nicobaster #valdangelo #jasico #percico #solangelo

[aroaceleovaldez]

my notifs recently got me thinking about the very random concept of "what if there is a second, secret CHB. directly below normal CHB." and i ended up brainstorming it in the discord.

context for how this originated: one was just a random notif on my post talking about the tunnels under the Hephaestus cabin, and the other was some tags from @drksanctuary on my fake readriordan article mentioning the idea of a chthonic demigod camp.

so. my brilliant (read: "smashing my 2 brain cells together") idea: the elaborate and seemingly infinite tunnels under cabin 9 are remnants of an abandoned underground CHB that exists directly underneath camp. It's basically just normal CHB except in a big cave system, probably connected to the labyrinth somewhere and has the separate tunnels, and instead of the Olympian cabins it has chthonic cabins. there's probably also some infernal nymphs and etc down there too. since all chthonic demigods can learn to shadow-travel they probably used that to get down there, and a lot of chthonic demigods probably have geokinesis just by nature, ergo the tunnels (for when they don't want to shadow-travel, or can't).

in brainstorming with the discord we decided it could be cool if some of the cabins lined up with the above-ground cabins, either for thematic purposes or associations or whatever. Like there's maybe a Hermes and maybe Poseidon cabin in the chthonic CHB too that just link to the above-ground ones, but also like Persephone cabin lines up to Demeter cabin because of course it does. and maybe Hecate cabin lines up to Cabin 8 cause Artemis is sometimes 1/3rd of Hecate. Maybe Angelos cabin is beneath Cabin 1, and Zagreus cabin is beneath Cabin 12. Things like that.

The other ones i thought of were either Hypnos or Thanatos cabin lines up with Apollo, because twins, and the other is just right beside it (because twins). And Charon's cabin is beneath Cabin 9, ergo why the tunnel system connects to it (because Charon. Ferryman. Surface access. It makes sense in my brain).

#pjo #riordanverse #headcanon #headcanons #au #< go figure which you wanna classify it as #this is entirely silly musing but it actually kind of works out nicely cause there's far fewer chthonic deities #than there are technical-olympians #so honestly you could get away with having the secondary chb only having a few extra cabins compared to the 12 usual cabins #it definitely wouldnt be any more than the 20 cabins it has by TOA #also for silly thematic reasons i do think itd be funny if despite everything cabin 13 is still inexplicably cabin 13 in underground chb #like. it shouldn't be. that doesnt make sense. but it is. what's the numbering system for the other cabins? who knows #negative numbers would be interesting. cause theyre underground #i do already have the hc of there being a secret extra cabin aboveground in chb nicknamed ''Cabin 0/Zero'' #that's a little ways into the woods and kinda run-down cause it goes unused and basically why it exists is because #the ''12 olympians'' is actually inconsistent throughout ancient greece so there's a non-zero chance they could have a demigod show up #whose parent *is* technically one of the 12 olympians but they dont have a cabin for them - like Enodia. ergo: spare cabin #anyways all this musing is intentionally very silly #i just think itd be funny for chb to find out there is a second. more goth chb that is otherwise identical #literally directly below them. for no reason. #''why'd they made a second chb directly below the first one?'' ''idk underworld/chthonic reference i guess''

[avaetin]

A Kairos Moment Fanworks

Note:

This post is dedicated fanworks for AKM.

Artist: @drksanctuary

Chronos/Aeon

Artist: @hiddenavalanceshy

Ananke

Artist: @pensiveabstraction

First Meeting: Nico & Aeon

Artist: @haiseiscute333

"And I'm here to bring him home."

Favorite Colors

The Fates

Artist: @sunshines-child

Ananke

Ananke & Chronos

"It's beautiful, Aeon"

"Hello, my son"

RIP, Alabaster's sword

BONUS: COMMISSIONED WORKS

Artist: @coma.does

Nico & Aeon's First Christmas

Cards of Fate - Alabaster

Cards of Fate - Nico

#primordial god! chronos x ananke! nico #chronos (pjo) #aeon (pjo) #nico di angelo #percy jackson #jason grace #alabaster c torrington #alabaster torrington #hazel levesque #reyna avila ramirez arellano #pjo