Tag: the hidden oracle

okay i finished trials of apollo spoilery reaction under the cut and then i might shut up about it for a while

the solangelo has killed me. i am lying here stone cold dead because uncle rick just had these two happy lil nugs constantly together and being painfully cute, like apollo was jealous cute, and while i’m kind of curious about their backstory and how they got together I DONT FUCKIN CARE THEY ARE TOGETHER AND THEYRE AGGRESSIVELY PAINFULLY HAPPY FUCK LIFE

as for the rest of the book, it was all typical uncle rick. Bigger and Badder villains. bad jokes. genuinely surprising plot twists. percy sass. i’m here for it.

i’m also here for him explicitly and repeatedly confirming how non-hetero Apollo is. i’m using the term bi for now because it’s relatively apt, but he consistently says “oh yes my two great loves Daphne and Hyakinthos” and “oh yes all the mortal men and women i have loved” and i am just so Here For It because haha joke’s on you mediocre white boy who picked this book up expecting hetero white boy mediocrity HE’S BISEXUAL FUCK YOU YOUR FAVE IS QUEER

I’M HERE FOR IT

the whole book was genuinely just regular Rick i have no real comments other than how aggressively happy i am there are the gay

more trials of apollo spoilers under the cut

honestly i am literally crying right now rick riordan has made canon a happy healthy same-sex relationship and i’m crying so many queer kids are reading this goofy kid-friendly novel and there are HAPPY GAYS like yes nico is still the King of Angst but so much queer lit is about how miserable we all are and how dead we all become and will and nico are bickering amicably and being disgustingly cute together and i’m genuinely crying tears are falling down my face and i’ve had to put the book down because uncle rick, this random hetero white man, is able to pull this kind of shit when even some queer authors refuse to and nico gets to be happy and there are happy queer children and i am CRYING