#i said book for kids

[crunchycrystals]

this makes me want to cry

#crunchyposts #pjo #pjotv #guys i also have been obsessed with this series for years it means so much to me that the actors are also fans of the book #it doesnt mention it here but i know leah's said that she was so excited to play annabeth to be 'the girl in her brothers books' #since she got his old copies when he left for college (?) #this means absolutely everything to me rep in media means so much to me bc of how little i understood myself as a kid since i never saw #anyone like me and pjo was the first time i saw someone whse brain was kidna like mine and so many things clicked into place after that #and as a queer girl and someone who's south east asian i rarely saw anyone like me on tv and ive still never seen any demiro char on screen #but now they actually have a non white nd character and its /my/ favorite character and its gonna mean so much to younger black girls #100 #150 #200 #300 #400 #500 #1k #1.5k #2k

[astrobei]

in my heart of hearts mike wheeler is absolutely an athena kid but i also have to offer up a concept that i think has extreme comedic and dramatic potential aka: repressed gay teenager mike showing up at camp half blood unsure of who his godly parent is and feeling insecure about not having powers and one day when he’s making not-so-secret heart eyes at his best friend and son of apollo will byers is when a bunch of glowing floating hearts show up above his head. and that’s how mike gets claimed by none other than aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexuality, and is in full denial about it for three days because he thinks it’s some kind of sick and twisted JOKE

(on aphrodite’s end, she’s upset mike is throwing away the gift of true love and keeps trying to trick him out of repression by making more and more improbable and hilarious gifts appear when he and will are hanging out. mike hands will a book and it turns into a box of chocolates and he has to fling it away like a frisbee before will sees it. they’re having lunch and romantic music starts playing. she gives mike the same blessing she used to claim piper and will can’t even look in his direction for a full day because he starts blushing so hard. fifty bouquets of flowers show up at the apollo cabin’s doorstep with a note that says love, mike and by the end of it, mike isn’t even repressed and unsure about his sexuality anymore — he’s just trying to not throw himself into the bonfire out of sheer embarrassment)

#also shoutout to piper mclean bc i think her arc of not believing she is an aphrodite kid bc she doesn’t fit the model for it and having #been teased and made an outcast of sorts kind of jaded her and made her actively rebel against being an aphrodite kid #i just think that is very mike wheeler of her #n then she spends five books learning what love means and what being an aphrodite kid means #again. very mike. to Me #credits to abby bc i said ‘what if mike shows up at chb and he is repressed and gay and immediately gets claimed by iris the rainbow goddess #and she said i see this and raise you aphrodite #and i said oh my fucking god. #anyways might write this. (is opening a google doc) #but we will see. #again like in all actuality i think he is super an athena kid to Me anyway. although i think a pjo/st au is one that is very open to inter #*interpretation #i just think this hc has a little kick to it #before anyone gets MAD and says no that’s STUPID and he would totally be Blah Blah Blah. i don’t want to hear it #byler #mike wheeler #/astro posts #pjo

[suntails]

blessed be the night

#my friend sent me the song 'hijo de la luna' and said it's silver-core and ive been looping it for 3 days. i um. im normal #its got this haunting energy to it thats so GOOD. the moon wants a kid and silver is that kid babey. reminds me of ell's fic hollow moon... #but yea SOLAR ECLIPSE PIECE BABEY!!!! the sun from his origins and the moon as his new home. freshly silver hair like the blocking moon #decided i wasnt gonna do lineart for this so instead i did the worlds cleanest sketch ever and u cant fuckign tell the difference. i #its giving me this strange dystopian vibe that im not like. im not MAD at it but it wasnt intentional? i dunno GHVJBDK art be weird sometim #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #ch 7 spoilers #book 7 spoilers #suntails #tumblr gets it first again YYYIPPEEEEEEEE

[ohno-wallace]

Happy Valentine’s to only them

#Just kidding happy Valentine’s everyone!! #I’m so beyond happy y’all enjoy my Disney style stuff so here’s more! #Not me wishing for something like this #hugo vat7k #varian tangled #varian tts #varigo #varian and the seven kingdoms #varian #varian and the 7 kingdoms #hugo the human #tangled varian #vat7k #My crush is vacating my mind currently ouch #I’m inches away from drawing varigo inspired by my unfortunate crush encounters #Oh well! #They once said “can I tell you what my favorite freckles on your face are?” Shoot #Straight out of a story book what the heck #Ok that’s quite enough from me #Again I’m so completely stricken by y’all’s kindness and wonderful words of support #It truly truly means everything

[uncanny-tranny]

I jokingly thought before that reading Junie B. Jones as a kid turned me into a feminist, but unironically, it kind of did.

I honestly think it comes down to the fact that Junie B. was not only allowed to be "weird," but her character arc never concluded like other girl characters would. In other media featuring "weird girls," the girl always ended her arc tamed - by force or convince, she would be prettied up, she would smile and be polite, and she would never speak out of turn. She would be perfect then, and would shed her veneer of individuality with the freedom that is conformity. As a kid, I noticed that girls weren't permitted to be "weird" like boys were. So when I read Junie B. Jones, I loved that she was frankly just fucking weird. She said things out of turn, she was rambunctious and imaginative and she was a realistic portrayal of a little girl. I loved reading those books because the narrative taught her lessons without punishing her for being weird, if that makes sense. So often, narratives punished weird girls for the crime of being a socially unacceptable girl, not for any true wrongdoing like lying.

Anyway, I just think it's interesting, because I watched and read a ton of books and shows and movies featuring girls and women, but none of them truly empathized with (or even tried to empathize with) weird girls on their own merits and capabilities and terms, or embraced the idea of a "socially inept/unacceptable" girl without punishing her in some way for her supposed ineptitude.

#feminism #and like junie b. got in trouble A LOT but she wasn't punished FOR being weird (honestly i thought she was adhd as a kid) #i haven't read the books in WELL over a decade but this is what i truly remember liking about the books #and i felt as a kid it said something that she was a seeming rarity among the sea of other portrayals of girls #am i looking too deep into this? honestly i don't care #and it makes me wonder if all the pushback those books got was partially because junie b. wasn't an 'acceptable' girl #like she's no more 'out there' than the portrayals of little boys that are out there and there were lessons and things from what i remember #i'm not saying you HAVE to like the books by the way but i think sometimes other people can get really angry about GIRLS acting like kids #i was ranting about these books to my dad because he didn't like them but he did still let me read them so thanks dad 🫡🫡 #i just remember them being a huge part of my personal library because of how realistic and relatable junie b. was #like i acted really similarly to her when i was a kid and i felt like i was being understood (which is why i hc she's adhd/audhd/autistic)

[goldieclaws]

My energy to render characters properly has been kinda low, but I also couldn't help myself from having a shot at the Darkstalker cover because I really liked the red bg (and bc I felt like his face on the cover didn't match his name lol).

Really just drew the design on a whim but I did like the idea of making him look different in my own way.

Important Note: I only just started reading book 1 today of WoF lmao so I have no strong opinions on characters yet, I just love and adore dragons very much.

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#darkstalker #wof darkstalker #wings of fire #icewing #nightwing #wof art #wof fanart #fanart #my art #26 god damn year old reading 12+ kid books lol #i would have eaten these books up as a kid i'm sure i've said that a few times now

[cookinguptales]

so American Girl's new historical characters are from 1999, look almost exactly like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and are worried about Y2K. They listen to the Spice Girls, have tamagotchis, and use gel pens. The word "sk8r" was used unironically in their description.

I literally had the AG slumber party book that's part of the Pizza Hut BOOK IT set. The exact AG magazine that's in other photos, too.

my childhood... is historical now...

just put me in the ground...

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BONUS: I texted my mother:

#this is VIOLENCE #american girl #we couldn't actually afford the dolls when I was a kid #but my parents were VERY big on reading so I had the magazine and a lot of the books #you know all that said these are actually very boring dolls lmao #the stakes feel so low compared to the other historical dolls #the only real stakes are the ones THROUGH MY HEART because I am OLD NOW #go deal with child labor or scarlet fever or something kids

[magnusbae]

tbf he's not wrong about the council... Jedi Apprentice - Deceptions

#Oh Anakin you sweet darling. There's been more segments I wanted to add but it became too long to be easily memeable so haha #Anakin said he'd go for a swim and Obi-Wan sees the other kids there later and is smiling and glad hiding to glance at Anakin having fun #But Anakin is not there... so Obi-Wan is like SIGHS because he knows Anakin is hiding in his room building droids... #anakin skywalker #Anakin #Star Wars Novels #Star Wars Books #Obi Wan Kenobi #Obi Wan #Star Wars #sw books #Jedi Apprentice Deceptions #Jedi Apprentice #buns.edits #buns.all #The formatting of this book is slightly bad in my ebook reader-- deleted spaces in a few spots but it's readable enough XD

[hazellevessque]

You’re joking.

#I’m not really active in the KOTLC fandom and I haven’t been since like 2021 but YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME #I usually just read the books when they come out but like #More Keefe? #Im tired of hearing about him #Tell me about Dex!! About Linh!! About Maruca!! About Wylie!! #That being said I’m happy for Keefe fans and I’m not hating #I just wish she decided to focus on other characters too #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #Keefe sencen #unraveled #I could possibly get hate for this #KOTLC 9.5

[tracing-lines-in-the-infinite]

I can't say I liked the fact that they caught onto the Lotus before entering but I did find it hilarious that they were truly convinced that if they just didn't eat any lotus flowers they'd be fine.

#like I do understand that these are smart kids #but watching percy have a few conversations and figure it out just from the words others said would have proven that as well #Grover searching for Pan was so much more heartbreaking than the human hunting one from the book #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians

[saggitary]

Some headcannons I have about Echo :)

Once he joined the 501st Ahsoka found him reading reg manuals and gave him a few books to read instead, he promptly became a bookworm and joined Ahsoka and Jesse’s book club

He was the better strategist and close combat fighter while Fives was the better shot and better with changing conditions

can hold his liquor surprisingly well

is responsible for 1/5th of Rex’s gray hairs

after joining the Bad Batch it took him a while to start gaining his weight and muscle back as well as his coordination

however once he did start to gain some strength back he basically put himself through his own version of ARC training to get himself back to fighting form

he is the best sparrer on the Bad Batch, something Crosshair learned the hard way when was in an argument with Echo and challenged him to a sparring match

The sniper was down in less than a minute

As Echo recovered the Bad Batch realized they might have bitten off more than they bargained for by taking on the ARC trooper

He challenged them all not just because his skills usually match up with theirs, but because he grew up being challenged by his vod, and the Bad Batch was largely sheltered from the other clones

None of them know how much older Echo is than them and he plans on keeping it that way

The batch regularly refers to Echo has mom, including Hunter

Hunter was actually happy they took Echo on because his plans were beginning to get predictable and Echo head a lot of experience, he also didn’t take shit from any of the bad batch and helped keep them in line

Echo can beat everyone in the Bad Batch except for Wrecker in an arm wrestling contest

Once told his squad to leave the droid base to him and they went “lol ok regy we’ll come help in 10 mins” and then 5 mins later the whole place blew up and Echo just strutted out and tossed the Tacticle Droids head to Hunter

Wrecker was jealous

Regularly scares the Batch with how well he holds his alcohol

Crosshair and Tech once challenged Echo to a drinking contest and got their asses handed to them

Was the only one that new anything about girls when they took Omega on because he spent so much time with Ahsoka

Does not like anything when it comes to water because he only has one arm and he weighs a lot more than he used to because of his metal legs

He got Omega into reading for fun when she got bored with the courses Tech made for her

#arc trooper echo #bad batch echo #echo headcannons #arc trooper echo headcannons #the bad batch #he's a mom #Ahsoka and Jesse had a book club because I said so #Echo grew up with a lot of brothers he knows how to wrestle #the bad batch is the equivalent of home schooled kids #Echo went to public school and set fires to the teachers desk #except the teacher was Rex #all those years of trouble have come back to bite him #its all Karma dealing with the Batch bs #he loves it tho

[apollokids]

Thoughts about tsats, trauma, and the cocoa puffs

Nico’s personality in tsats feels most reminiscent of what he was like in The Titans Curse which (imo) is a sign that he is slowly healing and living with his trauma.

The Sun and the Star emphasizes that trauma and PTSD can make it feel like one’s past life events happened to a completely different person, and it mentions that Nico relates to this feeling. This distancing of oneself from past memories, experiences, and personality can result in feeling disconnected for a while, taking on new personality traits, feeling like a chameleon mimicking others, or just feeling empty.

For some people (maybe, depending on when trauma occurs), healing can be about reconnecting with our childhood selves. Depending on what someone was like before trauma, like maybe Nico for example, that can mean becoming more emotional, being more playful, indulging in your childhood interests (eg. mythomagic cards). And Nico’s progression practically mirrored mine exactly through the years, and the ways I changed in ED treatment.

It's hard to let go of a disorder when in some cases it feels like the only thing that’s stayed stable in our lives. Suffering is touted as the pinnacle of art-- we see its romanticization everywhere. It sounds weird to say that I miss being sick, or I miss my suffering, when I'm actively trying to make my life better, but those thoughts do come up. And when it comes to characters I project that misery on to? Well, if I’m suffering, then they have to suffer with me! (After all, they’re just characters, it’s not that deep, right?) Except I found that the more I made my characters suffer, and focused on the ‘beauty’ of suffering, the harder it was for me to heal from my own. Whenever my health was in decline, I characterized my favorite characters the same way. It was just as hard to allow those characters to heal as it was to allow myself to heal. (Other people might not feel the same, though.)

I think Nico choosing to accept the physical manifestations of his demons (while also setting them free, and allowing them to exist as they please) mirrors the suggestion I was given in treatment when I struggled with the idea of ‘giving up’ my eating disorder– because to me, it was always either defeat the disorder or be consumed by it, and defeating it sounded like killing a part of me or erasing a part of my past or my home. Approaching treatment from the standpoint of killing my eating disorder scared me too much. I knew my disorder had caused problems for me, but many of the habits and behaviors I’d developed had served as my coping mechanism and they helped me survive. 

So, my therapist told me: “You don’t have to shun your disorder, kill it, or say goodbye. Instead, you can acknowledge that it served a purpose during a point in your life in which you used it to survive, but you no longer need to hold on to it and that’s okay — you’re setting it free. Maybe even instead of saying goodbye, you can say ‘thank you, I’m alright now.’”

And that’s pretty much… exactly what Nico did with the demons. Bob, too, acknowledged that he was a titan, and that was part of his past, and that’s okay — but he’s allowed to change. And Nico is too.

I just found that really really wonderful because I related to it so heavily. He didn’t want to conquer his trauma in battle. He wanted it to just… be acknowledged, and set free. And it followed him, but he can have a better relationship with his past now. He’s not consumed by it. It’s just there, it’s a part of him, and he can continue to live his life. And I think reading this book (while trying to maintain and navigate post-treatment life) was exactly what I needed to remind myself why I’m doing this.

#sentences bolded purely because it helps my eyes follow things better hope it helps others + is not obnoxious i dont usually make posts #tsats #tsats spoilers #the sun and the star #solangelo #nico di angelo #pjo #ed recovery #and yeah. with the writing at times i was like ahhh im too in-college for this book arent i #but at the same time it made me remember what it felt like to read these books when i was a kid #and im reading about this character ive loved since i was in 2nd or 3rd grade and it feels like ive grown up with him #and it feels like we went through our trauma together. i read house of hades the year my dad died. and now its like we're getting through it #idkgkdhjhf #that being said: i kind of wish the cocoa puffs came about in a different way!! #it kind of felt like SA and that wasn’t addressed

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Important Reminder

He small

#He's so. little guy #Typing a longer post about his height comparative to other folks #but im not done with it yet and i need to talk about his smallness #because as i said #he is. Baby little boy #and its deeply important to me #How the fuck did Gobber actually expect him to tell the other kids what to do #theyre all like 3-4 years older than him #what 15 year old listens to an 11 year old #especially one thal lil #httyd books #httyd #how to train your dragon #book hiccup #how to train your dragon books #httyd book series #httyd book fandom

[shotbyacowboy]

oh to be 2 blokes who do fuck all.

transcript under th cut cuz my alt text is always a mess when i do comic style things i feel

(rodrick and ward from diary of a wimpy kid in a cd store) R: dude are you seriously making me do this

W: you said youd listen to my music this time R: i know but cmon. insane clown posse?

R: so youre a fully commited juggalo huh? W: not yet. R: i dont see why I couldnt just borrow your CDs, dude

(exiting a store thats labelled 'music & electronics) W: i wanted to make it an event R: what youre sick of sitting around in my bedroom? W: nahh never W: im making you buy faygo too by the way

W: i dont know how you sit through 10 minute songs with no snacks R: appreciation of the art W: appreciation of the fart. lol R: lol

(in a supermarket buying snacks) W: i dont know if i can sit there and listen to hour long songs named like 'the womb of eternal darkness' without a little treat anymore (R, in the border: theyre not an HOUR) R: emptiness. and dont act like you didnt enjoy Georg Börner's epic guitar

W: and youll enjoy Insane clown posse. theyre classic R: well ive already commited

W: thats the spirit

(sitting in Rodrick's room. bugz on my nutz playing over a cd player) R: okay. I get it now

#my alt text is always a mess period. but im trying hi hello #anyway. said this as if i am not a bloke who does fuck all..... king of doing fuck all... #doawk #diary of a wimpy kid #rodrick heffley #ward doawk #drawing #art #digital art #wolfgangs wonderful work #can NOT take me anywhere i need to decide someone is a juggalo for every bit of media ever. as i am not one and need to live #through the creatures i invent in my brain. yes ward has been in the books for like 15 pages total but also i know him #hes like a brother to me. similiarly to the overwatch monkie winstn

[kaeyachi]

cutely reminds everyone that kaeya is also a storyteller! anyway, on the haravatat kaeya agenda...

#kaeyachi randoms #kaeya #kaeya alberich #as adelinde said #kaeya likes a good story to go with his lies lmao #kaeya wrote klee's survival handbook! #modern era kaeya would have been a fanfic writer im just saying #then he would go and make a series of kids to teens books that would get their own movie adaptation too #i have dreams for my son lmao #i dare tag this-> #big bro alhaitham au

[lunar-wandering]

laying in bed thinking about how Wukong is a people pleaser and this part of him gets frequently overlooked due to the focus on his hot-headedness/impulsivity

#Monkie Kid #lego monkie kid #tagging LMK cause i do think it uses this part of him #to add in events while still having him remain in Character #like of course Azure and the others convinced him to not be afraid and take on heaven #before heaven's army could arrive on his doorstep and force him to fight like in the books #like. he got kicked out of school because the other students encouraged him to show off #this is one hundred percent in character for him #if he got a single compliment he'd go along with whatever that person said when he was young #which is also part of how the Gold Star of Venus convinced him to get a job in Heaven #which Wukong was originally uninterested in #the fight against heaven + the mountain jaded him which made him more easily angered #(yknow. like a reasonable response to trauma) #but EVEN STILL during the Journey HE'S STILL A PEOPLE PLEASER #and then by the time of LMK he's mellowed out more which MAKES SENSE. #i could do a whole entire more formally written analysis about this but this is what i've got #brain cannot brain any more than this #anyways obligatory my opinions are my own and i respect anyone who disagrees with me tag #anyone who has another opinion is wonderful and valid but these are my thoughts