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.
Tag: trials of apollo spoilers
Solangelo drabble based on 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
what i do is not up to you 