#even if there's no rainbow tomorrow

[anotherone-yikes]

Even if There's No Rainbow Tomorrow (Ashita Niji ga Denakutemo) by Kihara Noriko

#Ashita Niji ga denakutemo #kihara noriko #even if there's no rainbow tomorrow #yaoi #manga #bartender #romance #feels #office worker #text #cute #crossdress #👌🏼 #❤️

[tortured-demigods-department]

an unhinged (and unofficial) dissertation on the pjo fandom

so i don't usually post anything that isn't my-works-related, but i had a...mildly heated discussion with a fellow film student tonight about the pjo show and it's got me thinking. bear with me, we'll be here awhile.

as we all know, the first season of pjo has ended. i've stayed relatively OFF tumblr and other social media during this time, but i know there are a lot of OG fans who are (in their words) "massively disappointed" in the show. most of the complaints i've heard have been during in person conversations though, so this post is mostly going to be referencing real complaints i've heard.

i've been a part of this fandom since i was thirteen. that's nearly eight fucking years of my life that i've devoted to the pjo universe. i have written and consumed YEARS' worth of fanfiction, i have read and reread every book so many times i can quote them forwards and backwards, and i went to the bookstore every single year on the new books' release dates to pick up my copies in-person. this fandom, these characters and this world have brought so much joy to my life, and i don't think i could ever fully articulate that in words. when i think of this series, i genuinely feel nothing but happiness.

but a few years ago—around the time i started college—i started distancing myself from the fandom for one glaring reason. this fandom can be such an...angry place? like, genuinely, i don't know how far it goes back—maybe all the way to the release of HoA, honestly—but i wasn't here pre-HoA, so all i know is that i very much remember how much people hated ToA when it came out.

here i was, having the TIME of my life with apollo and his silly little haikus, and people are going to war over how the series' writing quality has gone to shit and how everything was better before, blah, blah, blah. IN SPITE of everything that series gave us—discussion of the repercussions of child abuse and ptsd, representation of lgbtqa+ characters, and deep psychological messages that really teach young readers, i think, how to better understand themselves and their emotions and deal with them in healthy ways. and it just wasn't fun to be in a fandom where, as soon as you go "hey, did you read the new book?" they scoff and roll their eyes and only want to talk about how terrible it is. (i also missed all the discourse on the sun and the star when it came out—PHENOMENAL read, btw—but i've read some things that lead me to believe that it wasn't well received either, in spite of how lovely it was.)

so...it's dramatic to say i "left" the fandom, but i certainly withdrew from it. deleted my pjo ao3 and tumblr, started over with a different fandom. but the love has always been there, and the show starting really helped spark it fully back to life.

but now, the same thing is happening again, i'm noticing. remember back in the day, when we only had the shitty fucking movies, and we were like "man, ANYTHING would be better than this garbage. literally just give us actors who are the right age and we'll be happy." well, now we have PHENOMENAL kid actors who genuinely are having a good time playing our beloved characters, and instead of supporting them, we're STILL complaining about them not being "portrayed correctly"?

i've talked to so many people who complain that percy is "too smart," which is kind of a bullshit insult to percy's canon character. in the books (at least the first five) we're seeing things ONLY from percy's pov. he's a kid who's struggled with learning disabilities and been told he's an idiot all his life by everyone except his mom—but as others have pointed out way more eloquently than i could, percy is a very intelligent and powerful individual while maintaining his goofy fun personality, which is WHY so many people love him so much. he's complex, and i think they managed to capture that really well in the show even amidst all the changes.

don't get me started on the fucking racism towards leah sava jeffries—i'm honest to gods ashamed that there are racists who call themselves pjo fans. she is so talented, and everything we ever could have hoped for in an on-screen annabeth. ALL of the kids are—there's literally no argument to be had there.

and then, if people aren't complaining about the casting, it's the series' writing. or there's too much exposition. rick is changing too many things. the directors don't know what they're doing. it's not a TRUE book adaptation. (someone said that to me, and i genuinely laughed because i thought they were joking. when the MOVIES exist, they wanted to make that comment about the show.)

are there some things i would change about the show, given the opportunity? god, yes. the set design for the underworld was horrendous. (in my opinion, of course.) but here's the thing. i have spent eight years of my life waiting for this show to happen, and in that time, i've learned a lot about how much goes into successfully producing such a complex series. how much money and time is spent, and how many people have to be on board to make it happen. it's genuinely kind of miraculous that we're even getting this show at all, considering all the ways it could have failed before it even made it out of pre-production.

and i think we, as fans, sometimes forget that we aren't owed this. we don't own the percy jackson franchise. it makes me so sick and tired when authors or artists in any capacity feel like they have to cater their works to the masses, because they know they'll get thrown into the fucking fire if they don't. rick and becky riordan didn't have to got to the trouble of producing this show for us. they chose to—everyone involved chose to—because they wanted to make something fun and enjoyable not only for the fans, but everyone who chose to be a part of it.

do you know how insane it is that, when you read pretty much any interview of pjo bts, everyone talks about how fun the production was? i've been on film sets. they can be ABSOLUTELY miserable when they're not done right. but eight months into production, the kids were still laughing and having a good time, everyone's still giving 100%, they're excited, it's fun. walker was willing to go into a diving tank for a full fucking day in order to get one scene—i know i would never have that kind of dedication, and i bet 99% of you wouldn't either.

i know this has gotten really long-winded, but i've said all of that to say that...i'm kind of tired of fans trying to bring down the show, and more than that, trying to bring down each other for having a good time. as i've said before (many times, i'm sure), i waited eight years for this, and i have had SUCH a fun time watching it. assuming we get a season 2 renewal, there are going to be even more new fans coming in than we've already gotten from season 1, and i want this fandom to be a fun and positive place for them. for all of us. we don't have to miserable and angry all time. we can critique the show, sure—it's not perfect, and it was never going to be—but we have to remember that television is an art form, and that art is subjective even when it involves our favorite characters. and we can accept that and still have a good time, because it's just more fun to have fun, you know?

this fandom has always had so much potential to be the BIGGEST, most supportive and kind and loving fandom. with how much representation this series has, with how much content we've been given, with the SHEER massive number of us...i've always thought we could be a really, really great community. maybe it's impossible to hope that we could be the best fandom on earth, but if nothing else...could we all try to just be a little bit kinder? genuinely, as cheesy as it may sound...it's just nicer when we're nice to each other. and when there's so many real things in the world to be mad about...i would much rather this be a place where we can come to at the end of a long day and just...feel at home. personally, i just think that would be really, really nice.

#percy jackson #percy series #percy jackson tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson fandom #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #pjo show #pjo fandom #pjo series #me ranting for five million years #i wish i could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy... #she doesn't even go here #with all of that said i'm going to bed #i have class at 8am tomorrow and really should NOT have spent this much of my night writing this

[corseque]

I want to grow an enormous amount of strawberries so badly it is causing me physical pain. I need a strawberry plant that I can endlessly clone into infinite strawberries right now as soon as possible

#I made a raised garden bed out of pallet wood and planted it today #but it didn’t even start to scratch the fixation I’m going through #It’s so cute though I labeled the plants with rainbow popsicle sticks I’m so happy #But I need to build an enormous strawberry pyramid or something I’m going crazy with the gardener’s lust #I’m going to a farmer’s market tomorrow and will stare in the face of those who have also created and summoned food from air molecules #the way plants grow is so fucking wizard man I can’t understand it even slightly #they’re making the invisible part of themselves and growing enormous #I don’t understand anything

[onepintobean]

COC day 9 | pride

I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

- Pride and Prejudice

#carry on countdown #carry on countdown 2023 #carry on in animal crossing #simon snow #baz pitch #snowbaz #the simon snow series by rainbow rowell #every day is au day with me apparently #the return of human!baz today #and also the return of simon as the girl #both very important to me #okay also am i a Bad Gay if the idea of doing gay pride for this prompt didn't even cross my mind?? #i was like yeah p&p ofc what else is there to do #also special thanks to my girlfriend for picking out the p&p quote for me #okay that's enough tags i think #see y'all tomorrow

[yourfavisanmspeclesbian]

emily gwen may hate mspec lesbians and insist that we never use her flag becasue we're "not lesbians" but whether you use an alternative lesbian flag (because... who could blame you) or use hers out of spite, this pride i want to remind all mspec lesbians that we ARE lesbians. no matter what the fuck anyone else says. we know ourselves better than the gender cops, we understand our complex identities, we are the only ones who get to label it, and what labels to choose. fuck anyone who says otherwise.

if the flag is for all lesbians, then those of us who like it are going to use it. we count. we are lesbians.

#mod ash #and do you know what? #there is a reason i make pink-orange lesbian keychains. i am a poor trans lesbian. #a bi lesbian? yes (also asexual! and i don't think i owe her forgiveness for the aphobia) #but if even 1 person tries to guilt trip me about making money off her design i don't fucking care #thanks mod jay for reminding me to log on and go off about this a little #i mean you all know pride flags are not sacred right? gilbert baker had pseudonationalist goals in making the rainbow flag #obviously doesn't make the rainbow flag evil or whatever just like... #flags are not sacred and if they all disappeared tomorrow we'd still be queer #like sorry that she's struggling but i am also struggling and starving

[mojinchiimanga]

#ashita niji ga denakutemo #even if there is no rainbow tomorrow #m: ashita niji ga denakutemo #manga #mangacap #manga cap #boys love #bl manga #yaoi #yaoi manga

[twilightarcade]

WE GOT NEW MEASURING CUPS !!!!!!

#wordstag #YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW BIG THIS IS IN THE ME FANDOM. THIS IS ACTUALLY WILD. #THEYRE RAINBOW. THEYRE PLASTIC. THERES EVEN 2/3 AND 3/4 CUPS FOR SOME REASON. THERES SPOONS. #they are like . Somewhat cheap so they feel cheap but. WE JUST WONT HOLD THEM ! #this is so crazy. Absolutely insane. I have been waiting for this day my whole life. #I'm going 2 make the Best brownies tomorrow. Just you fucking watch. All the world will know

[thepiguy1]

<- THIS stupid idiot nearly cried to the song about how the silly vampira samurai man doesn't like his boss very much </3

#piguy.txt #THE SKY ABOVE THE CLOUDS A RAINBOW FATE HAS DEVOURED #I GAVE UP HOPEE #BUT IM NOT GOING TO BE LOST TOMORROW EVEN IF IT IS HELL #IM GONNA CRAWLLL

[creative-clown-drawings]

@clownartmonth’s Clown Art Month Day 3: Carousel!! :•)

#🌈 #syds art #I kinda enjoyed drawing this one #even though I had no idea what I was going to draw aisjjsjajsj #now I’ve gotta think on ideas for tomorrows lol #clown art month #clown month 2023 #clown month 3 #clownblr #clowncore #clown art #clown #carousel #rainbow #rainbowcore #art challenge

[e-m-p-error]

MULTIMUSE QUESTIONAIRE

Tagging: @infernalight, @infernal-feminae, @heartsofhell, @questionablemuses, @because-i-simp, @frostworkxfiction, @deepspacevivarium, @hotelbitches, @voxiiferous

RULES: Answer the questions with the Muses that would best fit the answers. Bonus if you give details why. If tagged, copy and paste into a new post – DO NOT REBLOG!

1) Rank your softest Muse and your toughest Muse. (Personality-wise)

My softest muse is definitely Vick. He's a 0 on the toughness scale, he's a big teddy bear and he will choose kindness over anything else at any point.

My toughest muse is probably Barbie. Girl is tough as nails and will not be stopped if she puts her mind to something. She doesn't take pain as a reason to stop and will go harder when it hurts.

2) Which Muse would blow through $1000 quickly?

Valentino, hands down. He spends $1,000 every day easily on things he doesn't even need. He loves to buy expensive things and will do so at all hours. He especially loves spending Vox's money. $1,000 is a drop in the bucket for him and he doesn't even notice spending it.

3) Do any of them have nicknames? Is there a meaning behind them?

Quite a few of them do!

Valentino answers to Bunny from his lovers, it's a subspace trigger word for him. I assigned him Bunny because he's Cute And Horny, aka a rabbit, and a bunny sub is fairly common.

4) Are any of them up-to-speed on the latest trends? Anyone more old school?

Velvette, Vox, and Valentino are obsessed with always being on top of the next new thing.

Alastor hates new things and will fight them as much as he can.

5) Who has the best relationship with their siblings?

Valentino had a fairly good relationship with his siblings when he was alive. He had seven of them, plus three live-in cousins that were like his siblings.

6) Karaoke night! Who is likely to grab the mic first and bust out a tune?

Beelzebub, Ozzie, Valentino, and Ostello! They all love to sing and party, and they're all pretty good at it. Ostello was a pop-jazz singer when he was alive and before he died in Hell, too!

7) Who is least likely to enter a beauty pageant/model?

Gretchen. She doesn't think that she's very pretty, and would just feel embarrassed even going to watch.

Travis. He is constantly told he's very ugly, and he doesn't have a very high opinion of his looks.

8) If your Muses visited a haunted house where actors scare you, who would panic and who would be unfazed? 

Chazz, Gretchen, Charlie, Anya, Magpie, Summer, Travis, and Vick would be the easiest to scare!

Valore, Dimas, Cash, Glitz, Stu, Paimon, Alastor, Darío, Niffty, and Vox would be the hardest to phase.

9) Are any of your Muses particular about taking certain modes of transportation?

Vox prefers to be driven around and doesn't like driving himself.

Valentino only likes to drive occasionally and prefers pretty sports cars when he does.

Anya and Darío are motorcycle people.

Emily enjoys bicycles!

10) Share a little-known fact about any Muse.

Adam is actually a very good father and he loves kids and babies. He is very tender with children even if he can be harder on them once they have grown into adults.

#HEADCANONS ➽➽➽ #Reciting Violence Like Poetry (α∂αм) #I’ve Found A Rainbow A Rainbow Baby Trust Me I Know Life Is Scary (ємιℓу) #I’m Standing In The Face Of All That My Story Holds In Its Wake (ναℓσяє) #What We Loved Today We’ll Lose Tomorrow But I Won’t Need To Wait For My Share Of Sorrow Because I Always Kill The Things I Love (∂ιмαѕ) #Who Needs Pepsi Juice Or Sprite? If You Do You’re Weak That’s Right (вαявιє) #I’m Gonna Take Their Hearts For Ransom ‘Cause Everybody’s Always Askin’ When You Gonna Show Us Magnum? (¢нαzz) #Money Can’t Buy Happiness But It Can Rent You Paradise (gℓιтz) #We Put Her Down In A Shallow Grave She Wears A Dress Like A Body Bag Everyday (gяєт¢нєи) #Everyone’s A Winner We’re Makin’ Our Fame Bona Fide Hustler Making My Name (ѕтυ) #Try Not To Move So Fast You Know Dessert Comes Last! (вєєℓzєвυв) #You Can Fool Yourself I Promise It Will Help Every Single Day I Just Wanna Hear You Say I’m So Lucky Lucky I’m So Lovely Lovely (¢нαяℓιє) #Define Your Meaning Of War To Me It’s What We Do When We’re Bored (ραιмσи) #If You End Up On My Table Then It Serves You Right (αℓαѕтσя) #Know I’m All Bite No Bark Like To Catch You Way Off Guard (αиуα) #Take Just One Last Dare Pretend That You Don’t Care (ℓєgισи∂αяισ) #Your Magic White Rabbit Your White Room Straight Jacket (мαgριє) #He Ran Into My Knife He Ran Into My Knife Ten Times (иιfту) #I Love You Oh So Madly But I Don’t Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (σѕтєℓℓσ) #Come Come Kitty Kitty You’re So Silly Silly Don’t Go Kitty Kitty Play With Me (ѕυммєя) #Don’t Be Goofy Bring Some Passion To The Table (тяανιѕ) #And If You Get In My Face Then You’ll Get A Taste Even God Would Run Son (ναℓєитιиσ) #Hollywood Made A Killing Machine She’s Like A Teenage Slaughter Movie Scene A Serial Killer Celebrity (νєℓνєттє) #Red Eyes In The Digital Paradise (νι¢к) #Let’s Stop Saying “Don’t Quote Me” Because If No One Quotes You You Probably Haven’t Said A Thing Worth Saying (νσχ)

[tj-crochets]

Hi TJ! Sorry if I’m just missing it somehow, but where are you posting your patterns now? With the polls you’ve been doing I’ve been getting pretty excited, but then I realized I didn’t know where to look for them when you were done?

Hi! I'm posting them here on tumblr, it's just been a few weeks since my last one. I did the polls, got super excited to share more patterns, then two of my coworkers ended up in the hospital for reasons that, as far as I know, are not work related and work has been stressful enough ever since that I haven't gotten around the sharing more patterns yet. Maybe this weekend though? I share each pattern as an individual post, usually as a reblog to the post with the pictures of the finished plushie. Then I update this post, which has all links to all the sewing patterns I've shared so far, so if you see that post floating around it's worth clicking through to the original post to see if I've updated it since whichever reblog chain you see gained traction

#ask away! #thanks for asking nonny! #between the work stress and the asthma flareup I've been a bit burnt out these last few weeks #(not even mentioning all the health insurance stress) #but I've almost got the rainbow quilt top finished and I'm...mostly on an even keel again #mostly. it's a work in progress but tomorrow I get to go get more of the one kind of salsa I'm not allergic to #and I'm very excited about that #it's only sold in one store locally and that store is in the next town over so I'm going to get like three jars of it #I also want to make at least one more giant manta ray this weekend

[confetti-critter]

The night is young and I am free to do whatever my heart desires but unfortunately I have once again found myself trapped in the Time Prison and so I

#the good old 'I don't feel like doing anything including doing nothing and I want to go to bed but I know I'm not tired' #WEH. #I'm enjoying typing but I don't want to commit to practicing typing for real so I'm just making excuses to type more #I was looking at custom ESC keycaps because I was thinking about that whole community of ppl obsessed with keyboards and like I get it I #like the clicky clacking and keyboards can look so pretty but some of those key caps man wtf. #why would you want 3D transparent donald duck ESC key from temu what is wrong with you #saw a set of key caps that were little kittys with little kitty ears n I was like fuuuuuuuuuck #49.00 USD probably 100000 CAD+shipping goto helllll #I was thinking about what if I had like confetti keycaps and a custom kittycake esc key or like an actual little cake and matching desk mat #or even just a new cute mousepad cuz mine is old as fuck and I spilled vegetable cream stew on it once #and then I was thinking like sighhh and wouldn't it be cool to have arcade carpet on the stairs leading down to my basement hovel and #rainbow lights along the ceiling corners and what if I painting my bedroom like I wanted to do and sighhhhh #I haven't been wasting my money buying shit like that but I'm thinking about it again. #but the same thing stopping me from doing anything at all is stopping me from wasting my money which like that's good I guess??????? #gosh I really like typing why did I stop doing daily typing practice #oh yea The Thing Stopping Me From Doing Anything At All #meow meowm meow meow meow #ok I really gotta tear myself away from my computer and brush my teethses and try going to bed #I already played minecraft earlier it's fine I didn't do NOTHING tonight it just feels like I did #and tomorrow is another day #and next week is a short work week thank fucking christ almighty #literally cuz its easter sunday and he was in that tomb but he escaped or whatever he did #thanks jeezy boy #you maybe shoulda milked it for like half a week at least #moved the big ass boulder like have an inch at a time #*pause for laughter* #that s from my new stand up comedy routine do uiuop like it djfskll;askjdgflksjdflksajdflksjdf the dsjalkjfolidasfgjoiweljsdalkjflskdjflak #meowww #I am the only one I know on here who 'talks' this fucking much about absolutely nothing #I do all this and my poor followers can click read more and spend time reading alllllll this garbage

[sugar-free-byproducts]

why can i only do research/work on things that are trivial?? i want to take some graphic design classes, and i'll need to sign up in time to do so. but also...i could spend 3 hours researching rollerskates that i have a 65% chance of not using instead.

#PLEASE CAN I BE PRODUCTIVE? PLEASE CAN I JUST. DO THE THING I NEED TO DO. JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE #WITHOUT A DEADLINE FOR SAID THING BEING TOMORROW????? #UGH #to be deleted later #related to the roller skates. if anyone here roller skates. what do we think of the moxi brand for outdoor skating. are they any good? #im looking at the rainbow rollers.... theyre so cute and i hear theyve got a lot of ankle support which is good bc im a beginner #and theyre also so affordable for skates!!! but also i hear theyre very stiff and dont have a lot of padding tho. so like. #are they worth it????? plus the nearest roller rink to me is like. 40 minutes away.... 45 even.......... but i want them so bad anyway.....

[stars-and-birds]

i’m just so, so tired.

#sorry #more venting on the dash haha #i just. i’m so fucking tired #i’m weird guys #and not in the socially acceptable uwu tiktok girl kind of way. i’m just weird #and that’s why i’m going to ruin all my friendships because i always say the wrong thing #i always fuck it up #i don’t even have an excuse #i’m just weird. and it seems all happy and rainbows to be different but god it hurts #sorry i’m like a disney channel character #scroll past this #i’ll be fine tomorrow i just have a headache #vent

[mildmayfoxe]

asst manager is out this week & boss out today and tomorrow as well which means a) i’m working tomorrow (boo) b) i’m in charge as third in command (nice) which means today was a very lovely day where my coworker & i did some of the more “crafty” work tasks and just watched reality tv all day. really made the day fly by

#tomorrow will also be nice as well :) even though i’ll have to be there for nine hours lmfao ! #but that’s ok it’s barely work when you get to do whatever you want #it’s my fave coworkers last day tomorrow :((( so so sad… #we’re gonna get some treats to celebrate though & im going to bully her into taking home all the little treasures on her desk #she keeps feeling like she can’t take them even though she wants to and i’m going to make sure they go home with her even if i have to put #them in her backpack MYSELF! #photo record #work tag #genuinely the day flew by today it was very nice. i love being in charge #chatpost #pictured here i was making spiralbound rainbow sketchbooks & my coworker was making mending kit packs #once again could be a great job if it didn’t suck so bad

[mojinchiimanga]

#ashita niji ga denakutemo #even if there is no rainbow tomorrow #m: ashita niji ga denakutemo #manga #mangacap #manga cap #boys love #bl manga #yaoi #yaoi manga