@more-like-reyna Thanks For The Tag!

OMG The city of echoes sounds thrilling! Idk why but I feel like there are many parrallel stories in myths for these two... I love your other fics too but this one already hunted me down😭

introducing you to: all my WIPs

It’s the second time I’m writing this post because tumblr hates me and deleted it for no reason. Ugh. So, since I have to put some order in my brain, I’ll list here all of the wips I’m currently working on. But here comes the funny part: you get to choose one of these, and I’ll start working on it as soon as I can—and you’ll get a dt when I post it here and on ff.net. Also yes, you got it right; this is basically a way to make me start working on them faster. Here we go.

Olympus (chapter 5). If you know me and have read some of my fics, you probably already know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, “Olympus” is a bookshop AU, in which Reyna is the owner of a cute second-hand-books shop in San Francisco, and Jason is just some guy who happens to be maybe a little too in love with the shop (and its owner).

Sugar paper (chapter 1). You’re probably so sick of me talking about this fic. This is the fake dating AU I’ve been talking about for months, perhaps?, but never wrote. I’ve already started writing the first chapter, but I don’t like it at all, so I think I’ll just delete all I’ve got and start again from the beginning. Anyway, it features Percy, Nico, Jason’s and Reyna’s families and the fabulous Hazel Levesque.

The three times Reyna fell in love with Jason (and the one time she didn’t). If you think this title screams angst, you’re totally right. Slightly—highly, actually—inspired to my shitty love life, this fic is set in the canonic universe, and takes place before HoO. I think the title is pretty self-explanatory, so I won’t give you any details; only that New Rome plays a huge role in this fic. Oh and it’s a one-shot.

Rewrite the stars. Rey is going to hate me because I promised I’d write this ages ago and I still haven’t begun. This is a Star Trek AU in which Jason is the captain of a starship, and Reyna is his cold, stonefaced, calculating first officer with Romulan origins. When he asks her out for dinner, she has to remind him of the Code they had agreed to respect back when they were at the academy. Also a one-shot.

Illicit affairs. Obviously inspired by Taylor Swift, because how can you be a jeyna shipper and not listen to Taylor Swift. In particular, this fic is going to be a three-shots based on her new album “Folklore”’s teenage love triangle. In fact, this is not exactly jeyna. It’s more a study of the Piper/Jason/Reyna love triangle in the books. Mhh I don’t know if I’m ever going to write this anyway, so let me know.

The city of echoes. I’ve been thinking about this idea for the last week and I’m so in love with it. The subtitle is “All the times Jason and Reyna came back to each other”; the main plot takes place after ToA, but I want it to have as many flashbacks as possible. This one is going to be hot and sweet and rude, all at the same time. Both smutty and angsty. It’s mainly based on the myth of Phosphorus and Hesperus—the morning and the evening stars—, always thought to be so apart, and yet being the same thing. Exactly like Jason and Reyna. Three-shots.

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She was the goddess of women and marriage and I'm pretty sure the so called intelligent greeks at that time wanted to portray her as an evil figure, just so they could also point out that women were selfish and stuff. Like I'm just saying that the majority of the man kind had been the leaders of domestic lives and this whole goddess of marriage and women being an evil bitch was a good excuse for men to use in some situations-I guess? I mean obviously there were males who weren't like that but everyone knows that ancient times were already fucked up.

I wanted to write down my view of Zeus and Hera's marriage

Ok so I HATE that in modern movies or books hera is literally nothing but a bitch.

Like yeah she's cruel because her husband turned he that way , he cheats on her every chance he gets even though he says how much he loves her... like his version of love is so twisted it's weird that he doesn't straight up leave hera if he is so unhappy.

Then again, from othe fan stories I read people write zeus as a man that simply wants his wife's love and attention

And the only way to get that is to make her jealous! Her insane jealously proves to Zeus that hera still loves him very dearly.

But then again he still cheats after they stop fighting , eyes tend to wonder.

I feel like zeus is aware of what a terrible person he is but he is the mindset that because he is King and supreme ruler of the heavens that he can do whatever he wants and he expected hera to be an obedient little wife.

Which she isn't at all , she didn't even want to marry him the first place.

She was trapped into it and eventually ended up falling for him.

She is an equally powerful and outspoken women that turned sour from her husband and his bastard children.

Hera isn't a saint , a lot of us wish she didn't take her fury out on the children or the women that weren't willing but her anger always gets the better of her.

Besides there was MANY women that were willing to be with zeus and join him in his bed.

Nymphs , minor goddesses and mortals alike who were willing I say deserve the queens anger.

Those that knew zeus was married but spread their legs anyway I can't really have much sympathy for.

The ones that were forced to do such things weren't as deserving.

Anyways this rant is going on.

The king and queen of the gods marriage is a mystery on it's own.

And UGH I swear I hate that hera can't leave Zeus and be free because she's a goddess of marriage.

That just annoys me so much.

Can someone like..write a damn good story of hera being happy? I would love that.

I just miss my tea time😥

Sour Almond Loaf Cake | Plum

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Hey, what do you think about Medea? I know people portray her as a cruel witch but I think she never had someone besides her than her aunt; Circe. She really deserved to be happy, right?

This is the story of the wicked villain’s daughter who whispers in the hero’s ear and teaches him how to overcome every trial. Through her magic she transmutes the most insurmountable labor into triviality, she foils the villain’s pursuit so that her father cannot catch them in their flight.

(she chops her brother into pieces and casts the pieces to the sea, so that her father’s fleet must be hindered dredging up every bloody portion so that their king might bury his son)

She is wise, and she is good, and she is wonderful, filled with wonders, and the story never thinks to ask:

Why, with all her knowledge and her power, in all the years before the hero came, did she do nothing to curb her father’s wickedness?

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When Medea excoriates Jason for his betrayal, he snaps back in retort:

“You exaggerate your favors,” he sneers. “Should I thank you? Did you act purposefully? Or was it not the shafts of Eros, as Aphrodite willed, that compelled you to save my life?”  

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Medea loves her children dearly, and she kills them, and in that she is beyond compulsion.

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We might ask instead what purpose Jason served in the story, if Medea and the Argonauts accomplished all his feats for him. Did Jason on his own slaughter the six-armed Gegenees? Did he know how to withstand the fiery breath of the Kolkhis Bulls? Did he know the dangers of sowing the dragon’s teeth, how to lull the sleepless dragon into sleep?

Could he have outplayed the sirens, killed the bronze man Talos on his own initiative?

What was the point of him, then?

(the answer is: it was his story)

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When Medea returns to her home of Colchis many years later, after all the unpleasantness with Jason is well and done, she discovers her tyrannical father has been overthrown by his brother Perses, the new king.

Unfortunately for her, this is no happy ending. Perses hopes to purge her father’s bloodline and eliminate all other claimants to the throne.

So, she kills him.

(she is good at that, killing family)

It was said that when the Golden Fleece was removed from Colchis, so too would the king be removed from his throne. Medea returns, years later, and kills her uncle and restores her father to the throne, and the old wrong is finally set right.

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The dead are all still dead, of course.

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After Medea kills her brother, the gods demand she must be cleansed.

The Argo sails through storm and hellish steam and darkness, and finally docks at Circe’s island. Circe slits the throat of a piglet, stains their hands with its blood. The hearth fires blaze bright, and many cakes are brought out to be burnt as offerings to Zeus.

“There,” Circe says afterwards. “All done.”

Medea sits next to her on the polished chairs, looking at the thin dark line of pig’s blood still beneath her fingernails. “I don’t know that I can ever be cleansed of this.”

Her aunt smirks. “Too bad,” she says. “Ceremony’s over. You are.”

“I just -” she says, and looks towards the Argo where Jason is waiting, and feels her throat close up with emotion. “I feel like I’m going insane. I don’t know what I’ve done. I feel like I would do anything for him.” 

“The only morality in the world is love,” Circe says. “Everything else is mere ambition. Falling headlong into someone else’s story, and selfishly living out your own.”

“I helped kill him,” Medea says. “I killed my brother.”

“He was hunting you down. They would have killed you both, if they caught you.” Circe looks meditatively into the fire. “The gods have done worse, for worse reasons. Zeus, the Cleanser of Sins, once tried to devour his own daughter.”

They are silent for a time. The fire crackles cozily, and the burnt fragrance of cake hangs in the air. “I don’t deserve any of this,” Medea says.

“Ah, that’s the cruelty of it.” Circe sighs. “You are part mortal and part divine, a truth unto yourself, consequence unmoored from judgement.” She lays a hand over Medea’s. “You don’t deserve a damn thing.”

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When Medea kills her children, she weeps.

(but she has wept before, and gone on to do more wickedness, and so tears are neither salve nor salvation)

After her children are dead, Helios sends down a golden chariot from the heavens to carry her away, to carry away with her the bodies of her children, so that she might bury them with her own two hands in Hera’s sacred grove, safe from any further indignity or harm.

(as a sign from the gods, this might be taken as approval)

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This is how Medea’s story goes: Time passes and wounds slowly heal. She falls in love again, and has another child. She falls into old habits and once again tries to kill her lover’s son, but this time is unsuccessful. She is forced to flee, and at last returns to her father’s kingdom. She kills her uncle. More kinblood is shed.

Her son Medus grows up to take the throne, and he is so renowned in conquest that the Aryans rename themselves the Medes, in his and his mother’s name.

He is her darling son. She loves him dearly.  

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This is a happy ending, perhaps.

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm lawful 4.0 and that's why people call me wierd.

Hey! So.. you're a gr8 fanfic author and I just wanted to ask could u make a post on Jason and his glasses? Cuz I feel they aren't appreciated enough. Thxx

First of all, thank you so much. And I'm so sorry. this came ages ago but I had ~no motivation~

My specialty is New Rome so like pre-HoO Jason and his glasses?¿

Baby Jason getting glasses because he's shortsighted and it's so huge for his face that it looks a bit ridiculous but everyone finds it adorable

Getting teased and called four eyes and nerd around the age of 11 by Dakota, Bobby and Felix.

The first time he flies, his glasses fall down and breaks and he gets really sad because it was one of his only links to his childhood when everything was better.

He constantly removes his glasses and then forgets where he leaves it.

Getting contacts when he's around 15 and he gets them in different colors like green and brown.

Reyna absolutely hates it because she's like I love your blue eyes Airhead.

He occasionally changes the frames because he's so sick of the monotony

Hating the way his glasses get fogged up when he drinks something hot so he sticks to cold drinks usually.

He never has the cloth to clean his glasses. He always uses the end of his toga or the ends of his shirt to wipe the lens.

Definitely the type to stick to plain rectangular frames though he did try owl glasses once but immediately decided it wasn't for him

Every time he does paper work his glasses slide down the bridge of his nose so he pushes it back up.

All the girls at Camp have a thing for glasses!Jason even though he has no clue why. He's always like "I look like a dork. Why would they like me?"

And like Gwen explains to him that glasses make some people look hotter for some reason and the poor boy is so bewildered by the end of the conversation

Helmets never sitting quite right on his face due to the glasses so he develops a figting style that defends his face at all times.

He doesn't like letting people wearing his glasses though he does make an exception for a few people (*cough* Reyna *cough*)

He can see well enough without them but he gets really bad headaches if he goes for a more than a few hours without wearing them.

He usually removes his glasses when he's about to kiss someone because glasses complicate stuff

So that's it. Most of it is taken from my experience wearing glasses so I think it's pretty accurate?

Please do reblog and leave some feedback because those really help.

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