We really are growing up huh.

Welp. Thank god for the Wayback Machine I guess. . .ws/s/9392295/1/Playing-The-Player :)

I’m really really sad to hear that you have taken down this fic. I get it though. The outdated themes in this story, now would make me gawk if I had seen it posted today, I hate to say also just perfectly encapsulated fanfiction for what it was. A really creative and entertaining, sometimes cringy, and lowkey highkey heart wrenching story.

I really wish you hadn’t deleted it, I had come back hoping to read it again, for like the 10th time in the last 4 years. Which when you think about it, was about the amount of time in life that we watched Percy and Annabeth go through in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Which makes me feel sad and the same jealousy feeling I got when my hogwarts letter didn’t arrive going into middle school.

I hope one day, maybe an unofficially official ramblesx decides to leave this up somewhere, because it really made people feel something, you know? I remember giggling, cheeks red, begging to be loved by someone like Annabeth or Percy. And I don’t think you lost that with this work. It had resolutions, and it made people think, while also making us all giddy with excitement, regardless of the fact that it’s fiction. We know it’s fiction and we know the intent was and is to tell a story of 2 fake people having the best fiction relationship out of any other couple that could even exist.

Yes the riverdaleiness are there, but that doesn’t make the piece bad, and thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Which you the best in life RamblesX

wish you hadn't deleted

We've all grown up, haven't we. I remember when this was first being written. Don't delete this story. it's an angsty teen story. I deleated most of mine...and I regret it.

Hi,

I’m not sure if I’ve left reviews here before, but I want to say I completely understand why you’re taking this down. I was also around 12 years-old when I first started posting my own fanfic, and now that I’m in my early 20s, I can’t bear to look at some of my old work or drafts. Even reviews I left in high school make me cringe sometimes. I think I deleted most of my stuff off FFN and WP before I even reached college honestly, but I do miss reading old reviews and seeing how many (if little) strangers cared about one of my silly tween creations. I’m sad seeing my former self’s work scrubbed from the internet or fics dedicated to me lost forever due to deleted accounts, and I’m glad you’re keeping up this little piece of fandom history with a short life update :)

And I do mean that this is a piece of fandom history. “Playing The Player” was one of the first fanfics I ever read (PJO and in general). I stayed up way too late some nights to read this on my little iPhone 4s. Looking back, you may cringe, but I know at the time I ate up all this out-of-character melodrama. I can’t remember most of this fic since I read it so long ago, but I remember how I felt while reading it, and some of the darker twists definitely stayed with me. Then I went on to love some of your other fics (Skinny Love? A Thousand Years? I think another fic that maybe had to do with cancer or a psychiatric ward or a terminal illness? Who knows). Chef’s kiss from the teenage fangirl whose brain chemistry was being permanently altered by FFN, Wattpad, and fandom posts on Instagram.

I’m rambling. All this being said, you had a little fan in your early years. While I 100% understand the cringe and the embarrassment of looking over what you created in your youth, for your age, it was *really* good. I don’t know if you still write (maybe original fiction?), but if you do, I’d love to support your work. If you don’t, I just wanted to somehow convey the impact your works had on little early adolescent me and wish you the best in life 3

this was my go-to fanfic read

NOOOOOOOO! Poor Piper!

Btw, I absolutely love Calypso in this fanfic. Thank you so much for not making her an airhead/Mean Girl. Her friendship with Percy is so refreshing and her character is more accurate.

High-pitched screaming happened here.

There it is more gabe drama, people really turn up gabes scum meter quite a bit. Seriously the guy goes from emotionally abusive with a possibility of hitting sally but all around is just a dead beat with a gamboling addiction. In your story he’s mostly the same but now he abuses people and is truly capable of murder and abducting people for some childish vengeance.

Honestly this kind of stories have always bugged me more then anything else. You just lose yourself in childish drama while writing and half the time it isn’t even half way realistic. The drama with gabe is kind of gross because sally wouldn’t have accepted Percy getting abused and the divorce would have occurred a long time ago. As for this Aaron guy he’s honestly just a weird existence.

All in all I skipped the entire thing and jumped right to the epilogue and I can say without a shred of doubt this was terrible. You couldn’t stop yourself from being as dramatic as possible and went out of your way to make things fucked up. You couldn’t stop yourself and I hate this for it. The romance tag didn’t even deserve to be here because I got 13 chapters in and it was pure drama and your epilogue tells me it only got worse. Hell after all that crap you couldn’t even do a happy ending where Percy and annabeth finally get together properly and instead had him run away like a bitch.

I am actually skipping past chapters because this is far to much drama. Your just making things as dramatic as possible for no reason. Percy is being a angsty little cunt who refuses to grow, annabeth is being annabeth, Luke is being a cunt, someone obvious has to be roofied, Thalia broke down for no reason, I skipped this chapter only to see that you’ve now made someone pregnant reading things like this just pisses me off.

Considering you were barely 13 while writing this story is very spectacular since the story was very well written, the grammar was really good and the overall plot line was too. Overall, really enjoyed the story.

Aaaaaaaaaaah you can’t do that!