#erins shitty thoughts
i just now realized why we call archive of our own ao3 i’m an idiot
rick riordan said reyna can’t be a lesbian because that supports the stereotype that lesbians are only lesbians because they couldn’t get a man and then made her aroace as if that same stereotype does not exist for aroace people and then made piper wear feathers in her hair and then put samirah in an arranged marriage and then made hazel act way older than her age and then made sadie act way older than her age and then
and then made nico get violently outed and then immediately put him in a relationship with an at that point barely relevant character and then completely ignored leo’s potential and character arc and made him comedic relief and then gave piper a cornucopia to fight with and then made frank get buff and strong instead of fat and then made emmie and jo the only lesbians who appear in exactly one book and then made both leo and reyna have abusive childhoods and then killed beckendorf and then made ethan a bad guy and then killed him too and then made drew extremely vain and made her a rival to another woc and then made all the aphrodite kids narcissistic and unambitious and then gave reyna a romantic plot with a thousands of year old god and then made hazel date a boy too old for her and then made sadie date a thousands of year old god who presents as a boy too old for her and then
anyway in case anybody was wondering almost all of rick’s books can be found online for free if you google “[title] pdf”
