[image id: the first image is an anonymous ask that reads, “This kinda of spoiler but piper is sapphic, she got a gf in ton I-” and then cuts off. the second image is a digital drawing of piper mclean from the trials of apollo series with her girlfriend shel. they are two indigenous teenagers sitting down and holding hands with their heads resting against each other. piper is wearing a sweater with shorts, and shel is wearing a t-shirt with a skull design, a high-waisted belt and pants as well as bicep length black and white striped gloves. shel is also wearing thick black eyeliner along her entire eyelid and black lipstick to match, and has a pixie undercut. above them it says “gay rights piper!!!”. the third image is the same as the second, only without the words and overlaid with a warmer tone. end id]
love me some ancient Greek philosophy, so this happened
Percy
“He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have.” (Socrates)
“The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.” (Plato)
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” (Aristotle)
Annabeth
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” (Socrates)
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” (Plato)
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” (Aristotle)
Jason
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” (Socrates)
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.” (Plato)
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” (Aristotle)
Piper
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” (Socrates)
“Love is a serious mental disease.” (Plato)
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” (Aristotle)
Leo
“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.” (Socrates)
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” (Plato)
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” (Aristotle)
Hazel
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.” (Socrates)
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” (Plato)
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” (Aristotle)
Frank
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in is service.” (Socrates)
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” (Plato)
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” (Aristotle)
Reyna
“When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” (Socrates)
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” (Plato)
“The law is reason, free from passion.” (Aristotle)
Nico
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” (Socrates)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” (Plato)
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle)
Rachel
“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.” (Socrates)
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.” (Plato)
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle)
I felt bad for not including Rachel in the last one because I love her character, so I made sure to put her in this one
I feel the need to balance out the kpop and non kpop stuff on this blog
Percy
“I suppose I’ll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
Annabeth
“They didn’t understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”
Jason
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
Piper
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
Leo
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
Hazel
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
Frank
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
Reyna
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
Nico
“It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
Rachel
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
if all goes as planned, this upcoming weekend I’m gonna be getting a tattoo inspired by a series of unfortunate events
it’s canon that piper has a really bad gag reflex so she can’t swallow pills. but she’s a really light sleeper so she takes melatonin gummies instead of tablets. the gummies are really good tho so one time she eats like 6 of them when ur only supposed to take 1 and accidentally passes out
