#he was trash in this book though

[chicanedaze]

Good adaptations aren't scene by scene, line by line reenactments of a book. It's a completely different medium, that the creators can use to tell the story a different way. Besides budget issues (just writing a scene where a bunch of crazy stuff happens costs about $0, while portraying it on screen is a different matter), the pacing/flow is different in live action stuff than books.

The SPIRIT of the adaptation is what matters. The original PJO movies weren't bad because Annabeth's hair was brown or they didn't say the dialogue straight from the book or dare I argue, because they mixed in elements from further in the series. Rather, it was bad because the vibe was simply far too edgy. Percy was sassy, it did have humor, monsters were fine, but it fell flat on its face because it didn't understand its characters, its world, or its TONE. THE TONE. It was genuinely awful.

Good adaptations expand on the source material without losing the charm of the original. They understand what makes characters tick and what's at the core of the journey, its not about aesthetics or being faithful to the point of being dull and having nothing new to say.

The PJO series is doing that. Having Rick involved probably helped a lot. It has a rocky start, in my opinion. But from the second half of ep. 2 and into ep. 3, I see it gaining its footing.

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson tv show #look i used to think the book was basically the script and that it's supposed to be super faithful or it goes in the trash #i understand people being upset about certain things not showing up #(WHERE THE HELL IS ARGUS IM SJDHYSHSB) #but that's not what matters (and the series isn't even over yet) #there's some good stuff here #the trio is good #the characterization is hitting #the worldbuilding is chef's kiss so far #most changes make sense or at least don't derail the story #my opinion may change but so far this is such a good adaptation. i truly feel as though im in this demigod world #okay also to add on to the tone part... #small things in the PJO movies sent me off a ledge #when Percy has his headphones in instead of paying attention to Chiron at the beginning #asking for Annabeth's name from the moment he sees her #the whole Lotus Hotel scene #the Hades/Persephone scene #the weird thing between Grover and Persephone or something?? i kinda forget #that and other stuff obvs builds up #they treated PJO as just a story that hits all the beats and tropes of a teenage slightly edgy adventure movie when it's not that #like it's so very painfully 2000s movie shit #(which is fine on its own but not as an adaptation) #anyway #I can't be here all day

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I set a reading goal for myself this year because I finally got back into reading after years of just not really doing it and like, I've read 3 books in 3 days.

I need to be stopped.

#i decided to set a goal because i haven't done any regular reading since like... idk it's been a while though #my goal is 75 books #and i asked my partner to set it for me and his first suggestion was 100 #and then he was like no wait you should do 75 so that it'll be a nice surprise when you hit 100 #anyway my head hurts from all the crying i did over this third one but i am off to read the fourth because it's a duology #and i need resolution immediately #even if i was trash talking it a little in my earlier vagueblogging post lmao #personal

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[khalesci]

if I have to read about dany crying herself to sleep one more time

#♛ ooc. ⊱ ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞ #hizdahr and daario I will strangle these two myself istg !! #hizdahr is actively trying to assassinate her and daario is more toxic than c.hernobyl #show!daario was more of a well-meaning simp though so he can have *some* rights but book!daario? IN THE TRASH.

[britishchick09]

'stand tall: a story of robert wadlow' aka the mysterious book i discovered in june has been found on ebay! :D

#robert wadlow #robert wadlow trash #the ebay listing says it's scarce and it sure is! #i didn't know a single thing beyond the title! :o #but now we finally have some pics!! :D #it's not what i expected! :o #but it looks pretty nice :) #the art is a bit funky though #it reminds me of 'pink morning cartoon'! #and some of the girls look more 90s than 30s... #not to mention he has brown hair but the rhyming is fun! ;) #edit: i discovered some things about the author! #mary kay bottens wrote a few hymns in the 80s and 90s #and she was an alton school choir director/pianist in the late 60s #she probably grew up hearing senpai stories! ;) #this seems to be the only non-religious thing she's written! :o #she had a book signing in november '92 and tim leone was there (the documentary guy)! :D

[folansstuff]

read through this weeks x-men. god im sick of rasputin iv. theres a cool character in there maybe? but just being like, randomly mean to the ff is such a stupid fucking move and shes just nothing otherwise. shes there because illyana and piotr are in other books and they need someone to fill the roster. feels so shoe-horned. kate's new characterization is kinda died on me too.

i want this whole arc to be over so we can move on and do something else

(also @cinnamon-ginger i get it now. talon was in the issue and she was so nothing i didnt even realize she was there. why does she even exist? why have we done laura so dirty?)

#ive given up on immortal #the book is; again. Techincally Sound #but any book connected to this trash ass plotline is tainted #once again bummed that i got super into x-men for real right as the stories imploded into a trash fire #not even realm of x or uncanny ended up grabbing me #folanstuff rambling #also i dont want to wade into the Discourse but rasputin insulting grimm by calling him a golem even though hes jewish is #unfortunate

[chicago-geniza]

The premium placed on public speaking as a necessary skill in US education is insane, why was I put on Ativan for selective mutism at age 12 because my 7th grade teacher insisted our final social studies project had to be an oral presentation or we failed lol

#Same guy who duct-taped a kid with ADHD to his chair #I love the US education system #Oh! Same guy who saw me reading in the hallway and threw my book down the hallway to be a dickhead #And once threw my book in the trash #Coached the football team though lol #I hope he sits on a tack #My hobby is telling people what our schools were like in rural VT when they idealize VT

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Nnnnnnng. Normal Friday listening podcast is doing an episode on Secret Mark and idk if I can bring myself to listen.

#fucking Morton smith #by sheer coincidence he’s the one who wrote the translation for PGM XIII for Betz’ volume of translations of the PGM #and his commentary is obnoxious #and useless #and there’s a new volume with a new commentary (the fucking first since his) #coming out ‘soon’. soon. how soon? I DONT KNOW #not soon enough. like please just publish it or I am gonna be stuck here like ‘so yeah there’s a whole new commentary on this coming out…’ #‘which I couldn’t access and I guess could make everything I’m about to say bs or irrelevant or something. NBD.’ #also obviously Secret Mark was on my to do list and still is #AND a new book came out about THAT this year (or maybe last year) too #and last time I checked LITERALLY NO LIBRARY ON THIS CONTINENT HAD A COPY #they were all in America #and no online copies #what’s interesting though is that from an interview with the authors #one of their arguments for why Morton Smith couldn’t have forged it is basically ‘he was not good enough at greek to do that’ #but good enough to translate PGM XIII which like. is not easy Greek! #and I haven’t seen anyone trashing his actual translation

[kicktwine]

hunters outfit and hidey hole look. awful but i know exactly where and why he got every bit of it and thats props to toh for having really good bg visual storytelling + character motives

#TOH spoilers #TOH #kipspeak #pants and shoes self explanatory kept them #shirt he kept but threw his jersey on over it because that’s a hexside thing. He definitely belongs here and should be here #People will question him rooting around in the library less if he’s wearing hexside stuff. Probably. #cloak thing that’s definitely like a prop from the theatre made of a blanket or something. it’s to be….. hidden #uh. Sort of. Hey anything to make you feel safer buddy #Not actually sure where he got that gray bandaWAIT yes I do. Luz. hunting palismen #… maybe flapjack went back and got it for him #aw….. he kept all of the stuff his friends gave him #he chucked that gold armor layer though. It’s not in his pile #hex mix and apple juice (blood now that we know there’s. Non alcoholic versions) - cafeteria leftovers #flapjack s was trying to bring him actual food but it WAS from the trash. dude is probably kind of hungry #I assume the sleeping bag was just here like the broom. The bag was either also here; in lost and found; or he nabbed it #FULL of glyphs and paper #sleeping bag obvious. Cozy. Bag of glyphs important because they saved your lives once they will do it again #The books!! From the library probably. He’s researching himself…………. #one of them says grimwalkers #reading up on your species. Looks like they’re not the most helpful though based on how they’re set and how there’s three? #all this to say TOH has really good visual storytelling #like gus’ eye thing 1) RULES 2) is a visual indicator of Spell Worky (also it’s metaphorical) #but the background/character/prop design is very good at hey wait I just realized he has a purse too where did you get that one bud #have I seen that before? #anyways 2 hunter love the cloak he love layers. You’re gonna overheat if you’re not careful #I have to go back and look at gus’ room again he has a cute pile of rare human treasures

[timeisacephalopod]

I've long had a peeve with what we define as healthy or unhealthy because when you think about it some shit makes NO sense. For example my nephew playing video games for hours and hours is Unhealthy and Bad, but when I was his age I spent hours and hours reading and that was Good. Both result in eye strain, books are even more solitary than video games which you can often play with others, I rarely went outside to play once I was a younger teen and my mom stopped throwing me outside all day similar to my nephew, and basically if you break it down my nephew and I (at his age) were basically doing the same shit but books are Good and video games are Bad, so my hobbies were Good and his are BAD despite the fact that I was reading YA vampire novels not fucking Shakespeare.

You could argue Stephanie Meyer was more likely to poison my brain than a fuckin video game, but no no let's whine that my nephew has hobbies he likes as if I didn't act EXACTLY the same way with a mildly different hobby no one cared if I spent doing from the moment I got up till two am because I just had to read the next chapter consequences in the morning be damned like come on I'm on my nephew's side on this one. It makes no sense to claim just because I was reading my behavior was fine and his, which is the SAME behavior with a different hobby, is somehow bad just because there's an assumption books are Always Good For Brain while video games Melt Brain (citation needed)

#winters ramblings #my mom sometimes comolains about shit my neices or nephews do and like look man. oldest Nephew playing his viddy games #is NO DIFFERENT than me reading books that were by all accounts trash. didnt mean i got nothing from my reading habits #a large vocabulary for one. and i get that video games with internet can have their Own Issues special to them #but both Nephew and i stared at some type of Thing for HOURS on end in fucked up positions straining our eyes #you will not convince me that the fact that it was a BOOK i was into instead of a video game that somehow my nephew is Very BadWrong #for having a normal hobby he spends a lot of time on. you know. just like i did with reading DESPITE most of my reading not being #an intellectual pursuit. like i was not learning SHIT from my ya novels ok lmao. except maybe Hunger Games #still though i hate when if i break it down a kid is being held to higher standards than an adult #or the kid is being held to a different stamdard than ANOTHER kid for no reason except moralizing their hobby in stupid ways #kid likes his games let him do shit he likes without bitching at him

[madefate]

character meta question: under what circumstances does your character belt the winner takes it all at the top of their lungs & what does the scene look like ?? comment!!

#( ooc. ) #( character meta. ) #i forgot i used to do these!! pls answer!! #i'll go first: #jack (OC) a punk & a singer who ran away from his feelings #definitely books a tiny little opening gig at a shitty club where he moves #and it's just an old standard to get the crowd going but GASP he's SAD and he GETS INTO IT #not that they'll ever know his true feelings... #or will they ???!! #(they will obviously). #my not-catra monk doesn't sing it but it DOES play as she trashes not-adora's room after she leaves her #shiro gets DRUNK DRUNK DRUNK at karaoke and sings it even though he & adam are already back together #you know what ?? i'm gonna give it to yasha because she's the love of my life #she's so quiet and doesn't like the attention #but she's in a Mood™ and she has a little too much to drink and she pours her feelings at karaoke #& she has the voice of an angel bc i said so #(o˘◡˘o)

[stars-and-branches]

I read Metamorphosis tonight and boy that was a wild ride

#i have a lot of Thoughts #Gregor is so fucking relatable good god mans turns into a massive fuck off bug and his first thought is 'how am i going to get to work :((( #mans is on that grindset #also him being heavily exploited by his family when he was a human and disregarded like trash when he #turned into a bug felt so much like a metaphor for sudden illness/disability #anyways even though it dragged a bit i really liked it it was a good read #book #books #bookblr #metamorphosis #library #librarian #literature

[geiba]

concept: a 2 person love square, but 3/4 instead of the classic 1/2 split

#feel free to use this as a writing prompt actually #i would love to see a book/fanfic/story with this premise #though i have a Specific Dynamic TM in mind for this #one person has 2 secret identities who have beef with each other for plot reasons #and is deeply in love with the other person who is very much just a Normal Guy #the Normal Guy on the other hand is deeply in love with one of their secret identities #hates the other one #and only knows their civilian identitiy as like. a friend of a friend or something. sibling of a friend or friend of a sibling maybe. #like he's aware of their existance but doesn't rlly know them or care that much bc they're “always busy” #while they're out there doing hero shit and villain shit SIMULTANOUSLY and do not even have time to sleep #idk just something i came up with hope y'all like my brain trash

[iinmysights]

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#Ravage.txt #dl #just ripped apart half of my closet separate things into ‘give away’ ‘keep’ ‘trash’ piles and that was more effort than i initially thought #the other half has a LOT less stuff thankfully but jesus christ my room is a nightmare now #but i did find the missing part of my friend’s christmas present so that’s nice 👍 it’s a shirt that i threw in there for safekeeping and #promptly lost. she probs won’t get it on christmas day though bc i want to get a couple more things first #she’s getting: this shirt; an art calendar; t.hg quadrilogy; prismacolor pencils; matching sticker and button to my own pair; cute sticky #note pad; another sticker #but the calendar/matching buttons n stickers haven’t come in yet 😔 and i need to keep the book series hidden bc i got it whenever t.bosas #was released but i put it in my closet to read later and forgot it existed 😭😭😭😭 and my parents already bought me a new identical set so im #giving it to my friend since she said she’s interested in reading the series as she’s only seen the first two movies and that was years ago #i’m gonna make her mentally ill with me about collins’ work but she’s not allowed to have gale he’s mine MINE #anyway bye i need to try to put my closet together and throw out some trash b4 i take another break 🫡

[smallhatlogan]

Mike Flanagan haters are so right about everything and I completely agree with them ESPECIALLY about Hill House but I still inexplicably enjoy a lot of Mike Flanagan stuff even though i also think he sucks

#hill house was something i liked until i read the book and then went 'what the fuck dude what the fuck is wrong with you' #that wasn't hill house or even hill house adjacent? that was just being rude to shirley jackson. where is the alienation #why is this about family what about the suppressed lesbianism #i think his monologues fucking suck and yet i still go 'hehe new mike flanagan show' and he has made me cry with shitty monologues #though. fuckin. midnight club. was a trash heap. but also i am not a teenager so i guess that's fine i think that

[its-your-mind]

I really really really love how the show is depicting Gabe. In the books, Percy doesn't think much about Gabe - he sucks, he's a dick, and he's smelly. Percy doesn't understand why his mom stays with him, but he’s a kid - he doesn't put too much thought into the ins-and-outs of the relationship. It's not even until the end of the book that he realizes that Gabe's been actually hitting Sally.

And so all we have for him now is the time we spend with Gabe at the start, and…

This is supposed to be his and Sally's apartment. Sally's the only one who brings in income, but the whole house is Gabe's. Only the one chair in front of the TV, even though Gabe said that he and Sally watch the Knicks together. His trash is all over the house, his poker table was leaning up against the wall... And he obviously feels like he is entitled to touch anything in the apartment, up to and including things that are explicitly Sally's:

And then, when Sally tells Gabe that she and Percy are going on their trip to Montauk...

He goes into the conversation expecting a bribe, and Sally already has one prepared. This is obviously a song and dance they've done plenty of times before.

Because abusive relationships rarely, if ever, look horrible from the outside. And they're not absolutely awful 100% of the time, either. Most abusers aren't cartoonish villains, nor are they awful to their spouses with every word they say. Abuse is often subtle, hard to notice, only clear in retrospect and when you consider a lot of individual instances of slightly off-color behavior all together.

This version of Gabe Ugliano isn't as obvious an abuser or villain as Smelly Gabe of the books, but he is more true-to-life - taking advantage of Sally, invading her privacy, the joint understanding that she won't be allowed to do something for herself and her son without his tacit approval. All of those are key hallmarks of domestic abuse, of a partner who has gained control over the relationship through emotional manipulation or physical threats and/or violence.

#pjo #pjo tv #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #gabe ugliano #sally jackson #pjo gifs #percy jackson gif #tw abuse #cw abuse #abuse

[inkskinned]

most writing advice is good as long as you know why it is good, at which point it is also bad. the hardest thing (and most precious thing) about being an artist is that you gotta learn how to take critique. i don't mean "just shut up and accept that people hate your work," i mean you need to learn what the critique is saying and then figure out if it actually helps.

i usually tell people reading my work: "i'm collecting data, so everything is useful." i ask them where they put the book down, even though it's too long for most people to read in 1 sitting. i ask them what they thought of certain characters. i let them tell me it was really good but i like it more when they look a little stunned and say i forgot i was reading your book, which means they forgot i exist, which is very good news.

sometimes people i didn't ask will read my work and tell me i don't like it. and that is okay, you don't have to like it. but i look at the thing that they don't like and try to figure out if i care. i don't like that you don't capitalize. this one is common, and i have already thought about it. i do not care, it's because of chronic pain and frankly i like the little shape of small letters. you use teeth and ribs in all your work. actually that is very true. i don't know what's up with that. next time i will work to figure out a different word, thank you. you're whiny, go outside. someone said that to me recently and it made me laugh. i am on the whine-about-it website as an internet poet. you are in my native habitat, watching me perform a natural enrichment behavior. but i like the dip of whiny, how the word itself does "whine" (up/down, the sound out your nose on the y), but i don't know if i want to feel whiny. maybe next time i will work on it being melancholy, like what you would call a male writer's poetry.

repeated "good" advice clangs in a bell and doesn't hold a real shape, dilutes in the water. like sometimes you will hear "don't use said." you turn that around in your head and it bounces off the edges of your brain like it is a dvd screensaver. it isn't bad advice, but it feels wrong somehow, like saying easy choices are illegal! sometimes i will only use "said." sometimes i will just kick dialogue tags out to the trash. sometimes i make little love poems where the fact that i do not say "said" is very bad, and makes you feel bad in your body, because someone didn't say something. i am a contrary little shitbird, i guess.

but it is also good advice, actually. it is trying to say that "said" sometimes is clutter. it makes new writers think about the very-small words and very-small choices, because actually your work matters and wordchoice matters. "i know," you said. "i know," you sighed. "i know." we both know but neither of us use a dialogue tag, because we are in a contemporary lit piece.

it is too-small to say don't use said. but it is a big command, so it gets your attention. what are you relying on? what easy choices do you make? when you edit, do you choose the same thing? can you make a different choice? sometimes we need the blankness of said, how it slides into the background. sometimes we don't.

i usually say best advice is to read, but i also mean read books you don't like, because that will make you angry enough to write your own book. i also mean read good books, which will break your heart and remind you that you are a very small person and your voice is a seashell. i also mean you need to eat books because reading a book is a writer's version of studying.

my creative writing teacher in the 7th grade had a big red list of no! words and on it was SUNSET. RAZORS. LOVE. GALAXY. DEATH. BLOOD. PAIN. I liked that razor and love were tucked next to each other like birds, and found it funny that he believed we were too young to know the weight of razor in the context of pain. i hated him and his Grateful Dead belt, where the colored teddy bears held up his appraisal of us. i hated his no list. it is very good/bad advice. i wasn't old enough yet to know that when you are writing about death you are also writing about sunsets and when you write about love you are tucking yourself into a napkin that never stops folding.

back then my poetry was all bloody, dripped with agony when you picked it up. i didn't know there is nothing beautiful about a razor, nothing exciting about pain. i just understood sharpness, which he took to mean i understood nothing. i wrote the razor down and it wasn't easy, but it was necessary. that's what i'm saying - sometimes it's good advice, because it's not always necessary. and sometimes it is very bad advice, because writing about it is lifesaving.

hang on my dog was just having a nightmare. i heard that it is a rule not to write about dogs - in my creative writing mfa, my teacher rolled her eyes and said everyone writes a dead dog. the literature streets are littered in canine bodies. i watched the rise and fall of his ribs (there is that word again) and had to reach out and stop the bad dream. when he woke up he didn't recognize me, and he was afraid.

it is good/bad advice to say that poems and writing have to mean something. it is bad/good advice to say they're big feelings in small packages. it is better advice to say that when my dog saw where he was, he relaxed immediately, rubbed his face against me. someone on instagram would make fun of that moment by writing their "internet poetry" as a sentence that tumbles across a white page: outside it is sunset and my dog is still in a gutter, bleeding a galaxy out of his left paw. or maybe it would be: i woke the dog up/the dog forgot i loved him/and i saw the shape of a senseless/and impossible pain.

the dog is alive in this one, and he is happy. when i tell you i love you, i know what i said. write what you need to write, be gentle to yourself about it. the advice is only as good as far as it helps. the rest is just fencing. take stock of the boundaries, and then break them. there's always somewhere else you could be growing.

i love you, keep going.

#warm up #writeblr