that thing richard siken said about wanting to tell a story without having to confess; without having to be in it.
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fruit rot & millipede. by fuckin_rodent
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
02 May 2022
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so far, summer isn't exactly going to plan. or, well, it is, it's just maybe not the kind of summer plan normal teenagers put together.
it’s almost like the final moments, sort of. sitting alone in his ol’ ma’s car with his dog, knowing that if things go right, this will be the last time he’s ever in it. the catera is far from the only thing he has of his mother. it’s not like this is his last tie. but this car had been a big part of her life – the drives to and from work, the drives to pick him up from school when he’d gotten suspended, the drives to the hospital whenever gabe had gone too far. there’s still a dark patch on one of the seats from where his headwound wouldn’t stop bleeding. a stain in the boot from where a sharp turn had a pack of beer bottles smashing together and pouring out. some of it’s fond. percy’s not sure just how much of that fondness is from the memories themselves, like he had tried to think before.
and just like that it’s over.
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driving, not washing by fuckin_rodent
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
17 May 2022
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the nietzsche line goes like this: what is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. nico knew what that meant. knew that love was a bloodthirsty monster. boundless. knew that love could make a monster out of him like that, too. he just didn't think that percy would be so capable.
but then again, it's percy. there is nothing monstrous about percy.
‘sometimes, i imagine dying and it feels like driving home’, the girl in wollan’s poem said. nico thinks that home is an abandoned smokestack fuming with ghosts and that driving there is much the same as returning to the grave he should never have been birthed from. nico thinks that home is a slaughterhouse that sliced him open and stuffed him full of ice to snuff out what little potential for fire he had.
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