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autism-alley · 2 months
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hi originally posted this at the end of a long thread of back and forth, here’s the og post if you want full context but i feel like this needs to be its own post especially bc i keep seeing this argument being made—the argument that the kids (in this case it was annabeth) SHOULD just know the monsters are monsters and who they are and how to defeat them before ever encountering them, that it’s a problem if they don’t.
the problem is not if 12 year olds should recognize a trap when they see one, even if they’re smart 12 year olds, and if that’s realistic. that is entirely beside the point.
the problem is rick riordan wrote a book series whose formula is bringing myths to the modern age and he’s not sticking true to that in the show—percy jackson and the olympians’ Shtick is taking these classic, ancient threats and giving them a new face. these traps work because these kids are not walking into a cave marked with Get Out and getting ambushed by monsters—the monsters are disguised as harmless mortal human beings, in harmless mortal human being places (for the most part) and i think we—and more importantly, the show—are all forgetting the mist, the magic involved here. it’s not just that medusa is a “creepy lady with her eyes covered” it’s that there is ancient magic at work here, magic that, like the systems of abuse pjo exists to criticize, has been evolving and continuing its malevolence for millennia. it’s formulaic, that’s the point. it’s the same trap you’ve learned about all your childhood, the same trap a thousand children before you learned all their childhoods, and still, it works. you fall into the trap. because that’s how generational abuse works. it’s a trap. it isn’t enough to learn monsters exist, what they look like from a second hand story that originated thousands of years ago. if you want to escape alive, you have to adapt as quickly as they do, recognize their face, and ultimately, beyond any individual trap, the game itself has to change. real, generational change.
so. the problem is rick riordan wrote a series with a formula for action that perfectly captures the overarching, systemic conflicts he was commentating on, and then threw that formula out in the show because it was “unrealistic”. i don’t give a damn about realism when it works to the detriment of the story. this is a story about generational abuse, yes, but it’s told through ‘a tale as old as time’ and that’s why it works so fucking well. and when it comes to basic storytelling, if your characters know the threat before they even walk in and you do practically nothing to then make up for the stakes you have removed, that’s a flaw. now you’ve lost the entertainment value for your audience, on top of also lessening your themes.
something else that is so. honestly soul-crushing as a writer and a creative, is that to me this is reflective of the way we are now afraid to tell earnest stories. stories where we care not for listening to the people who want to pick apart fictional, mythical, fantasy stories for not being “realistic” instead of aligning with our target audience who acknowledges reality is not what makes a story. think of your favorite movie, show, book, comic, what have you—has the reason for your favoritism ever been because it is the most reasonable, the most grounded, the most practical out of any you’ve seen? or is it because of the emotion? the way it speaks to you, to your life and the person you are? the journey it takes you on? is the percy jackson and the olympians book series so good because it’s inherently realistic?
the secret to storytelling is, very simply, focus on your story. everything else is secondary. if it’s written well, it doesn’t matter to me that the characters walk into a trap that, to the audience, is obviously a trap. because i can understand how the characters don’t know it, and how the story falls apart if the narrative just tells the characters it’s a trap from the jump. that’s what dramatic irony is—first used in greek tragedies! this is literally a tale as old as time in every sense except for the end—where it’s happy. and it’s not earned if we don’t first see, over and over, the status quo as a tragic trap.
it’s not about if annabeth (or the other kids) is “smart enough” to not walk into a trap, or about if she’s just too prideful to not walk into what she knows is a trap (or any reason that could apply to the other characters), it’s that annabeth, at the end of the day, is a character. she is a storytelling tool for the messages of the narrative. that doesn’t make her any lesser. in fact ignoring it reduces her, because it reduces what she represents. it’s about how rick riordan, or whoever else at disney, has fumbled the storytelling bag so ridiculously hard that they can’t take the simple, effective formula outlined from start to finish (by good ol 2009 rick himself) and adapt it to the screen without answering the most unimportant, derailing, anti-story questions.
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hauntedpearl · 3 months
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thinking thoughts about things and such but I do wonder if cas had, say, an amnesia moment or whatever and dean did dean things which would include kidnapping him and keeping him in an underground bunker etc etc you understand. like if and when cas does come back to himself. i do wonder. if his freaky ass would be so into it that he'd jump dean's bones about this violation of human rights. i do wonder.
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tazmiilly · 2 months
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the journal says that j3 was being written in 1983 and for some reason my brain hates that so much. I'm in so much denial about it. it's 1981 to me. and then ford gets portaled in 1982. to me.
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there is a sunrise and a sunset every day, and you can choose to be there for it
choose to put yourself in the way of beauty
#was thinking about this a lot this morning#(and woulda posted it then if it woulda let me LOL)#but tbh it’s something i think about a lot anyway#‘quote’ is maybe the wrong word because i can’t find the exact phrase in the book now#so I’m kinda paraphrasing#and i know it’s not exactly this but this is how i remember it in my head and this is what i tell myself#(but it’s from Wild - Cheryl Strayed & is apparently something her mum used to say to her)#(which is a book that i looooooooove love love btw)#but it just always helps me when i’m having a bad day or feeling like things generally aren’t good#like…. idk#yesterday i had a pretty bad day#after putting soooooo much work in i felt like my exam went pretty terribly and I was SO exhausted & deflated & sad & hopeless yknow??#but then last night i was trying to think about good things that had happened or just nice things/moments - however tiny & small#and it really did help to be like ‘huh! actually maybe it’s okay’#choose to put yourself in the way of things that will make you feel better#choose to acknowledge the good as well as the bad#i guess it’s like practicing gratitude#but idk. i’m wording this so bad bc i’m so braindead rn but i just wana say that THINGS ARENT AS BAD AS THEY SEEM#even on the worst days there are stillllllll beautiful things and still moments of happiness & still so much love & still good times to come#outside of whatever is troubling you there are MOUNTAINS and SUNSETS and OCEANS & so many people who love you no matter what#and there is so much possibility for good#it won’t always suck and whatever is bothering you rn really won’t (for the most part) matter in the grand scheme of your life#things will get better#but you have to allow yourself the opportunity!!!#CHOOSE TO PUT YOURSELF IN THE WAY OF BEAUTY#rant over bc this hasn’t gone nearly as eloquently as it would have had i been able to spit it out earlier#but yeah ✨✨✨ hope the gist comes across lol#mine#my pics#ur-average-girlnextdoor
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gaiuskamilah · 8 days
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im gonna be honest although i obviously have a lot of respect for andrew and love a lot of his work the amount of worship the fandom gives him (and often ONLY him) is. annoying at best. even with him as the lead writer for a lot of fandom-favorite books (bloodbound, blades 1, crimes 1 to name a few) the writing of things is still a group effort. he's not the only one writing these stories. all this worship just sets him and players up for nothing but disappointment if any of his future endeavors doesn't adhere 1:1 with the sky-high expectations people are giving him, as well as dismissing the contribution of other writers in the writing room (many of which are queer and/or poc, compared to andrew who is a cis white man!)
and like i get it - a lot of people didn't find blades 2 and crimes 2 as good as the originals and it just so happens that andrew wasn't the book lead for these projects. to some point, i agree, because i personally found the pacing of these stories to be weird in comparison to the first. but to act like these stories are completely irredeemable and that andrew is some messiah that could've "saved" these books is ridiculous and dismissive of the other great writers in the room.
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the-knife-consumer · 3 months
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I feel lame for not having many ocs tbh. Whatever i do what i want forever
#idk i feel like my entire art is only ever used on drawing pre existing characters#usually from popular ips i feel so shallow.#any ocs i make i never get attached to. and if i do im too nervous to post them#or like with my fandom intrests i love them so intensely and then a month or so later#i dont give a shit anymore. i wish i wasnt so reliant on pre existing characters with pre existing personalities to draw#my attention. and draw in general.#bc when im not in an intense intrest phase i cant draw for shit. thatd be a perfect time to draw my ocs right?#but i need to be intensely intrested to draw in the first place. and they aren't fleshed out they dont have content#yhere is no book or movie or show or game. ive gotta do all of that. but that passion isn't there#i get no big ideas for stories of my own. no characters with compelling backgrounds everytging i do#just feels like a rehash or repackaging of something else.#and insult to injury. usually i can pinpoint exactly which pre exosting character im ripping from#which nothing wrong witg inspiration. if it was anyone else i'd be like fuck yeag dude thats awesome#but because its me it feels like stealing stealing stealing i cant think of anything on my own so i must steal#idk. whatever.#i mean i do have ocs but i havent drawn them in fucking forever it feels like. and i love them ig#for once i cant really pinpoint where i pulled them from. but too nervous to post them on#this blog and also again. drawing them feels like a chore because the obsession isnt there#vent#whateverrrrr my interps are baller my lines are swagular. im gonna make it whatever#and also i feel like a flake with my intrests and its not deliberate but sometimes i feel like im#pullibg people in from fandoms then pulling a switcheroo gotcha on them by being invested#in something else#which obviously im fucking not thats stupid im not doing this on purpose#but it still feels so yuuuuucky like im sorry ik this isnt what you folloed me for. sorry#SJATEVER i win at art wbatever whatever
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elegyofthemoon · 1 month
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I'm getting the feeling that I'll be seeing a lot of Zionists' comments on my posts unfortunately, but I'll inform everyone about them if you want to block and move on
This was off my strike posts earlier
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If you missed the last one I had posted
Let's not forget that Israel refused HAMAS's deal to release hostages, by the way.
And just the other day, I found out that Israel's always had a plan for ethnic cleansing and recommend everyone to look into what's known as Plan Dalet created back in 1948.
Peace was never in Israel's plans -- genocide was.
Reminder: Bisan has called for marches for Ceasefire between today to the 20th, and there is an ongoing strike that started today extending to the 25th.
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highbidontcry · 4 months
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iztarshi · 1 year
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It's really easy to imagine Witchers in Girl Genius. They're basically what you'd get if someone decided the best way to clean up the wastelands was to turn a bunch of unwanted children into constructs who are really good at fighting monsters.
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runawaymun · 19 days
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Reading Hunger Games and tbh sometimes I wonder if people in the Capitol actually Look Like That, or if that’s just how it feels to Katniss
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brainrotdotorg · 9 months
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the devil sitting on my shoulder: dont get too complicated with it. its just a fanfiction, its not like anyone is going to examine it for deeper meaning or anything. stay simple or else youre going to alienate people who just want to have some mindless fun.
the angel sitting on my shoulder: make it weirder. use denser prose. remember that fucked up metaphor you came up with yesterday? use that. if people dont like it then who give a shit. they can write their own fanfiction. your readers are smart, theyll understand the Themes. And if they dont, then you can have fun playing with your Themes yourself
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petewentzisblack1312 · 8 months
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what are you guys reading? my dear friend spencer got me all systems red and im almost finished with it. its really good but not what i was expecting. next ill be rereading do androids dream of electric sheep?
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astranauticus · 8 months
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Do mechanites cry?
#rolling with difficulty#vrla rwd#mrsn rwd#vr la rwd#mr sn rwd#art i made#yet another thing i drew then just fully forgot to post LMAO#man i had to listen to 3.7 like 3 times for this. goddammit#easter egg: the 4 big infernal books in the shelf all say contract law like its a textbook series i guess#the small one next to them says Doctor Faustus bc i was looking to my irl bookcase for inspiration#and the christopher marlowe play was one of my alevel lit texts#also i think it would be really funny if the devils have their own version of the story of the deal with the devil guy#honestly this may have been the kinda. last straw of my burnout cuz this was a lot of time spent on a lot of stuff im really not good at#and none of it turned out... exactly how i wanted but oh well. it is what it is#ok the kinda annoying thing about me spending far too fucking long drawing super emotional scenes like this is i kinda#desensitise myself to whatever im drawing. like i felt it the most with the demon possession comic i casually tossed into the discord#bc thats the exact kinda angst i personally LOVE but it just doesnt have the same punch after ive been staring at it for 5 hours straight#(anyway go read cal's fic about it its on ao3 and its bloody good)#all this to say. when i first listened to 3.7 and austin had that exchange of like#'noir can i ask you a lore question' 'sure..?' 'do mechanites cry?'#i straight up got fuckin CHILLS. and sometimes i forget that but i try to force myself not to
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lilyharvord · 2 months
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I started reading EragonxRed QueenxFrom Blood and Ashx--oh, shit sorry.... 4th Wing today, because everyone in my reading group said I had to, and... I'm 7% of the way through and I'm already so tired. Did no one edit this book? Did no one... read this book out loud?
Me currently finishing chapter 1 and going through the 5 stages of grief because I know this whole experience is going to RUIN my reading for 2024.
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Anyway, I'm writing a whole ass review that is pretty much line by line my thoughts XD If I make a google doc of it I'll let people read it. Might be more entertain than the book. 🤷🏼‍♀️ plus I'll only put like 0.1%-1/4 of it on Goodreads so think about what you might miss out on (me being upset and cranky and rutheless (((: ) Updating that doc might actually help me get through reading it faster.
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"okay but what ACTUALLY happened in that minor characters backstory" "what did that character SPECIFICALLY do to become like this" "how does the plot device ACTUALLY work" oh my god i don't care! i don't care about your cinemasinsing about every little detail! does knowing this technical detail improve the audience's emotional understanding of the story? no? then i don't want to fucking see it in canon!
anything you come up with in fanworks is going to be more fun for you than what the author can do in canon! any attempts by the author to explain something technical in the story takes away time and investment from the main plot! so if the technical explanation doesn't inform the main plot then it's just useless trivia for completionism's sake! this shit should be written about in fanworks! or spinoffs! or idk the writers can tweet about it or smth! i don't need it in the actual main story!
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camelspit · 1 year
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Kotlc Curriculum: Question 1
Compare the Forbidden Cities of Earth and how humans live there to the Lost Cities and how the elves and the other creatures live there. How are the two places and their inhabitants alike? How are they different?
best answer gets a prize :)
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