Trials of Apollo spoilers, kinda

no-unauthorized-flashbacks:

So let me get this straight

Not only did Rick Riordan make one of his most popular, biggest heartthrob characters gay, but now he’s casually given him a boyfriend, as if it ain’t no thing at all for a character in a middle-grade novel to be in a same-sex relationship (because of course it isn’t)?

And BESIDES EVEN THAT, he’s also openly and nonchalantly addressing Apollo’s mythological bisexuality and referring to his male partner Hyacinthus as the love of his life??

And then this beautiful paragraph: “Perhaps you are wondering how I felt seeing [Will] with a boyfriend rather than a girlfriend. If that’s the case, PLEASE. We gods are not hung up about such things.” So basically standing up to everyone who protested Nico with that oh-you-can’t-put-that-in-a-children’s-book shit and saying, as us military cadet folks say “I have three words for you: GET. OVER. IT.”

Rick Riordan, you are the author us gay geek kids deserve. Thank Olympus for your existence.