Last year I had the opportunity to review Behind Five Willows by June Hur through NetGalley. It's an astonishingly beautiful book.
AoS S2 Rewrite
AoS S2 was good but it could've been better. So, here is my attempt at it. I've also gotten ideas from other authors and their works and have given them due credit. Basically it's an amalgamation of their and mine ideas. And if you want to make sense of this post its best to read them all if you haven't already.
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My fancast for PJO because I think we all should imagine as we please to without people being awful to us.
I grew up reading books so blonde Annabeth was always in my head but Leahbeth is doubtlessly brilliant. Before that I had never imagined Annabeth any other way though I headcanoned Percy as Cuban and Grover as Black.
After seeing Leah as Annabeth and Walker as Percy I wondered why stop there? Why can't we have these characters as every ethnicity as we please?
Because our favourite characters often are those who look like us, speak the same language, have the same culture, food, music, upbringing, like us. It makes them more relatable to us. Leah's casting has included black culture through Annabeth (maybe its just me but I didn't see much of black culture in this fandom before Leahbeth) so here we are let's make these characters more ours. Racists can hate all they want.
If you have issues with this topic then don't read any further, remember it's your choice to continue.
Any kind of hateful comments against any culture, ethnicity, religion won't be tolerated so take your hatred somewhere else.
#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo#hoo#toa#fancast#pjo fancast#athena#eva green#rosamund pike#annabeth wayne#annabeth chase#leah sava jeffries#mckenna grace#emily van camp#billie gadsdon#raffey cassidy#taylor richardson#zhao lusi#rosy zhao#go youn jung#ethnicity#ethnicbeauty#fancasts#language#culture
I recently watched Superman (2025) and now its canon for me along with Batman (2022).
So, here are my headcanons for Annabeth Wayne AU
1. Why did it take me so much time to learn that Lous Lane is canonically dyslexic? I hc that she and Bruce meet in college and become friends not a shocker since they both are unhinged. Anyways, this leads for Bruce to create so many aids through WE for people with learning disabilities.
This is why Waynes know Annabeth is dyslexic from the beginning. Annabeth isn't frustrated by her dyslexia since she has her godmother to look up to.
2. Annabeth's favourite superhero is Mr. Terrific. No further discussion. *cue sad batfam and Clark*
Last one isn't specific for this AU
3. When Metropolis citizens were evacuating some even went to Gotham. Additional point to the eternal Gotham vs Metropolis rivalry.
If anyone's got anything add, please do.
To everyone saying Gladys and Hector are same as Cora and Robert. The answer is NO
- Gladys by Bertha's own admission in S3E3 is 17. We've barely seen her interact with Hector. Immediately after her marriage she is shipped off to England from everything she is familiar.
- Cora was 20 when her parents took her to London for the Season. She experienced what'll happen when she'll marry into these bankrupt people with their white elephant estates. She'll always be social climber to them. Her half jewish ancestry a constant reminder.
Did Cora have a choice? No. Did she know what life she'll live? Yes.
Plus while Robert proposed during her first season in London. It took them 2 years to marry. Violet canonically objected to the match and they must have spent time on hashing out the details on Cora's dowry and the entail.
During those 2 years Cora must have returned to America at least once. Robert might have visited her. We don't know for sure but even with chaperones Cora and Robert must have gotten some semblance of each other's character.
Remember Cora was 22 when she and Robert married. Note the difference between theirs and Gladys and Hector's relationship.
And stop putting Bertha Russell on the same level with Martha Levinson and Violet Crawley.
We as a society don't talk often about how the ending given to My Fair Lady by Hollywood is absolutely rubbish.
Eliza Doolittle from the start is shown as an independent woman who only wants to gain skills to further her career. Yes for a brief moment there she is attracted to Professor Higgins but I like to attribute it to proximity for a long period of time (6 months according to the wager) but after the Embassy Ball she calls Higgins out for his highhanded, misogynistic personality. Then why is she shown to go back to him to in the end?
George Bernard Shaw, writer of Pygmalion from which the plot of My Fair Lady is drawn up, protested the ending till 1938 that Eliza going back to Higgins is unacceptable to him and he gives a marvelous explanation for it
"When Eliza emancipates herself – when Galatea comes to life – she must not relapse. She must retain her pride and triumph to the end. When Higgins takes your arm on 'consort battleship' you must instantly throw him off with implacable pride; and this is the note until the final 'Buy them yourself.' He will go out on the balcony to watch your departure; come back triumphantly into the room; exclaim 'Galatea!' (meaning that the statue has come to life at last); and – curtain. Thus he gets the last word; and you get it too."
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Kim Sa-bi from Resident Playbook is such a hypocrite.
In ep. 4 when Oh Yi-young is tasked by Professor Seo to write a paper, Sa-bi in her jealousy deleted the paper and then even threw away an important note Professor Seo left for Yi-young.
It waz only because Yi-young has a large heart that she forgave Sa-bi after she learns those deeds (on her own because Sa-bi never confessed or apologised). She even included Sa-bi in an important surgery. And all Yi-young received was a measly 'I'm sorry but don't ask why'.
Yi-young never should've forgiven her, instead should've brought Sa-bi's actions to light since this set a dangerous precedent.
In ep. 6 when Pyo Nam-kyung forgets to add material in hers and Sa-bi's paper, Sa-bi is all 'but its hurt me so I should point it out and get an apology in return'. Like what is with that two-faced attitude?
And when Sa-bi learns that the cold, robotic colleague Nam-kyung was complaining was her, she reacts in a 'are you sure that's not Yi-young?'
I'll never like her. She like a young Myung Eun-won to me.
Charlotte understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.
To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn’t a compliment to a woman, it’s more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.
“For a woman raised to be purely ornamental, marriage is her livelihood. If Lady Ingram hadn’t married for money she would have been a fool.” “So you truly don’t despise Lady Ingram?” “For making rational choices for herself? No, I do not despise her. I do not applaud her, but I do not find her decision to marry the richest man interested in her reprehensible.”
A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
Mrs. Watson had once relayed to Charlotte an opinion on an adolescent Lady Ingram, by a woman who had worked for the Grevilles. Her main impression of Lady Ingram at that age was one of frustration. A frustration that approached rage, at times. Lady Ingram hadn’t been angry because she’d wished to marry a different man, as Mrs. Watson had thought at the time, but because her life hadn’t been her own. Charlotte did not pity Lady Ingram—the woman played no small role in her own fate. But she sometimes thought of the former Miss Alexandra Greville, brought to London and told to smile, told to be happy that an eligible man loved her, told that upon marriage she would have everything a woman could desire. When it should have been obvious to all who knew her that such a life would unravel her. Yet they’d pushed it on her with all their might—and made it plain that for her to do anything else would be a gross betrayal to her family. Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn’t escape the expectations that came of being women.
Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas
I love Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas. It's genderbent version of the OG Sherlock Holmes. The characters are intriguing, the plot is engaging and the romance while minimal leaves one yearning for more. There is friendship, sisterhood, mentorship, queer as well as autisitc and anxiety ridden characters, different perspectives from people who have lived varied lives, the feminism isn't too on nose. It's really good.
Though the one character I can't get out of my head is Alexandra Greville or as she is more commonly know Lady Ingram. Though unlike with Mrs. Watson who is bisexual, it's never specified that Charlotte is demisexual or that Former Lady Ingram she is aro-ace but it's the conclusion I've come to.
I truly love Lord Ingram or Ash as his friends call him, he is a good father, friend, person; in fact a literal green forest. But my heart breaks for this woman and all others in the past and present who are tied to the marriage yoke because it's the norm and good for them.
This doesn't mean I support her actions of being a spy for Moriarty, plotting her husband's murder, and even unknowingly giving up her sister's life to save her own but I can't ignore the fact that she did this to escape a life that was thrust upon her.
She could've done better, her actions are inexcusable but it's just not fair that women are confined to a certain life no matter the era.
And a standing ovation to Sherry Thomas for creating such compelling characters.
Some of my most favourite AUs from HoO is of
1) Roman!Percy being switched to Camp Half Blood while Greek!Jason is in Cam Jupiter
2) Annabeth and Reyna are the ones who are switched instead
There are some really good stories in both of these.
But what I am quite interested is in Annabeth and Reyna are switched except this time there is also Roman!Percy at Camp Jupiter as the Co-Praetor with Reyna and Greek!Jason is the leader of Camp Half-Blood with Annabeth.
This is a good plot point to dish out their powers, skills and trauma ('cause where will we be without angst and PTSD).
I just think there is a lot of potential to it. I kind of got the idea from would it really kill you (if we kissed) by @greenconverses. It's one of the best stories ever, go read it if you haven't already.
Plus there are quite a few stories where Percy is a god and Annabeth's the Titan Killer not unlike the aforementioned story where both are Titan Killers.
I am just going to tag the authors I know are on Tumblr: @perceabeth, @greenconverses, @forevfangirlwrites, @perseannabeth, @impossibleandinsufferable, @caffeinatedflumadiddlebutpjo, @mrthology, @blackjacktheboss, @phykios, @darkmagyk, @seaweedbraens, @dotshiiki, @annaethchase, @sar-soor, @imaginmatrix, @percabeth4life, @romanitas, @bananannabeth , @whitesunlars, @chironshorseass
Guys, I've just found a story where Annabeth and Reyna are indeed exchanged and there is Roman!Percy. Plus this story has a very interesting plot and includes historical accuracy that is the Capitoline Triad.
Go read it, it's mind-blowing.
