bitches hate when other people are in the kitchen because they’ve spent their entire lives being criticized for doing tasks imperfectly and having their eating habits policed and now have incredible anxiety about other people judging their cooking choices that can’t be easily explained in a few words as to why they’re acting so hostile about someone else being near them during this very vulnerable process. it’s me, i’m bitches
this means that he was most likely starting to create the books (in the PJO world) at the end of Heroes of Olympus, because he realized that he and his friends were so horribly unprepared and other young demigods needed to read about their adventures… my heart 😭😭
edit:
ok yes this can also mean Annabeth’s retelling, six years after the actual event, is still scary, and yes, ik that TLT has Percy saying that he’s twelve!!!!
six years after Annabeth told him the story, and Percy saying he was twelve as him reliving it as he’s writing, or the books being written at different times. That may not be how it was intended to be read, but that’s how I saw it! It’s just another thing that shows how small moments can be taken differently by readers.
ALT
