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scribefindegil · 7 months

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As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

#imperial radch #also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon #if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting #and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question #that's AWESOME #but it's not the only way to do it #it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form #everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you #but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands #(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs)#and i think that's really cool as well--#how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music #it's all been filtered #and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented #makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is #it's good #ann leckie i love you

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kuulpenguin · 2 months

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Cupcakes!

#percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #I just finished reading the series for the first time #and the way I laugh-cried my way through the whole thing…#pjo spoilers #to celebrate have percy x2 making blue cupcakes!#(annabeth and tyson’s recipe of course!)#…now to go read the heroes of olympus haha!

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umossu · 4 months

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Can I just say

The casting of Percy as blond is going to make nico's "you're not my type" absolutely epic

Percy: *looks at will solace*

Percy: *looks at himself*

Percy: *multiple question marks*

#has anyone already thought of this #of course not I'm a genius #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #headcanon #percy #nico di angelo #will solace #pjo spoilers #pjo series

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the-ronan-cycle · 4 months

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This is my summary of episode three 👏

#pjo tv #pjo tv show #pjo disney+#pjo spoilers #pjo series #pjo fanart #Percy Jackson #annabeth chase #are we tagging spoilers?#Grover made them wear the shirt OF COURSE

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sharpexgoodwin · 3 months

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the ending of episode 7 gave me LITERAL CHILLS. Poseidon’s voiceover as Annabeth helps Percy up as he is about to fight Ares was PERFECT. the writing and direction in this episode was GREAT and the kids were amazing acting wise too - tens all around !!!!

#of course every episode has been great #but the writing in this episode was something else #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #percy jackson x annabeth chase #pjo tv series #pjo tv show #percy and grover #grover underwood

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victoriartdrawings · 4 months

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Show dont Tell is very important in a tv show, movie...., and watching Percy Jackson, it felt like they didnt really follow this advice.??....during some of the dialogue (though delivered well because the cast is amazing okay!) i was literally cringing internally because yeah, sure they were telling us a lot of things (not so subtlety) but what does it bring??? why are you telling us that??? the events and talking are just... kind of happening flatly???

#yeah things i really loved are :#PercabethPercabethPercabeth #and other things of course but the list is long and idr everything bc my memory is shit #pjo show crit #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson series #percy jackson disney

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feelingtheaster99 · 4 months

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The way that Percy tricks Annabeth into switching places with her is simply *chef’s kiss*

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readerconfused · 2 months

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i thought it was a good representation of the Percy Jackson fandom making every possible reference to Hamilton while talking about the series just because Lin Manuel Miranda is in the cast

#i’m included of course #well PJO has a musical i imagine we were in this boat long before that #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo #hamilton musical

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existential-labrador · 1 day

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Developing a massive crush on for The Ghoul whilst simultaneously shipping him with Lucy had me worried that I might need to go back to therapy for a moment, before I checked the tags on here

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lowpolybread · 4 months

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this is just what happens when you visit st louis

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 1x04: I Plunge to My Death

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 1 month

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Vincent Price as Egghead and Adam West as Bruce Wayne

Batman (1966-67)

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phoenix--flying · 4 months

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"remember who the real enemy is" can we take a moment as a fandom to remember that kronos was the big bad and luke was just a puppet for him

like yes he did bad things but he was literally being manipulated and PUNISHED (canonically, he mentions kronos punished him in tlt) and this started when he was 17 THAT WE KNOW OF it could've started earlier since thalia was meant to be the prophecy child

like luke or not, PLEASE remember kronos is the main antagonist of the first series, luke was just a pawn like the other ta kids

thank you for ur time

#phoenix rambles #pjo #luke castellan #percy jackson series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo spoilers #listen luke is my baby ok #hes not a perfect guy but he was manipulated 😔#seventeen and very freshly HEAVILY traumatized #after watching ur BEST FRIEND DIE what 3 years before??#and running away eight years before that #at like NINE #thats ROUGH dude #of course hes pissed at the gods #they didnt do shit to help him #again idc if you like luke but pls #kronos was the big bad luke was a mini boss #listen its 1am im on my bullshit rn

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diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls · 3 months

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yo isn't this so cool and romantic? *runs into a wall*

#he's from new york of course he can't drive #what did we expect #percy jackson #walker scobell #annabeth chase #leah sava jefferies #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief #pjo #pjo tv series #pjo tv show #episode 6

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inquisitor-apologist · 4 months

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Out of all of the MANY missed opportunities and shit in the Ahsoka show, I think one of the biggest was not exploring the really unique time period that the galaxy is in at all.

Like, think about it. The Ahsoka series takes place in ~10 ABY. The Rebellion is gone. The Galactic Civil War is over. The New Republic has established itself. The last Imperial remnants have been driven all the way out into the Outer Rim. People are rebuilding. The First Order and Imperial resurgence is still pretty far off.

The galaxy in Ahsoka is about as peaceful as it ever gets in the main timeline. And they do nothing with it.

What does peace feel like for Ahsoka, who was forced to fight literally every war in the past ~35 years just for being force-sensitive? (Drafted into the Clone Wars, fighting for survival during the Imperial and Rebellion Years, probably returning to the fight in the Civil War because she’s one of the last Jedi/trained force-sensitives) How does she deal with not having a fight she needs to help with? How does she move on from an entire life of exhausting, terrifying war? How does she look at the Jedi coming back, knowing that they’ll never be the Order she chose to leave at 16? Does she want to come back, but not know how? Is she afraid of returning because she knows that there’s no one left to recognize her?

What about Hera, who dedicated her entire life to a war that’s won? The ongoing struggle that defined her childhood, her teenage years, the first two decades of her adulthood is… over. The Republic she fought for, the Republic she gave everything to restore, is restored. How does she adjust to serving in peace? Does the reality of the New Republic compare to the ideal she did it all for? How does she look back on a whole life as a soldier, knowing that it can be over now, if she wants it to be? Is she even able to accept that it’s over, or is she constantly looking for the next threat, the hidden, upcoming war?

And Sabine, who sacrificed her teenage years to the Rebellion, probably her 20s to the Civil War, how does she deal with living on a Lothal that’s long since moved past the need for a protector, in a galaxy that’s completely unrecognizable without a battle to fight? Does she look back at the Rebellion, the Rebels years, as the good old days? Does the rest of her life feel empty and dull without the constant rush of a desperate, uphill war? How does she reconcile a New Republic without Mandalore? How does she feel about the future she always envisioned missing the people she rebelled for in the first place?

But no, Felony was like: Ahsoka sad :( and unemotional bc Vader. Hera smart and 💯% justified about Thrawn. Everyone else just stupid and hates her. Sabine conflicted bc Not Jedi & misses Ezra. Whole family dead 💀 but let’s not focus on that.

Like, come on.

#haha besties no way totally not getting into an Ahsoka rewrite kick #haha just wiiiild speculation I don’t already have a character arc and early story half-written in my head no no of course not #star wars #rebels #star wars rebels #sw rebels #sabine wren #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #ahsoka tv #sw ahsoka #Ahsoka #ahsoka tano #hera syndulla #general hera syndulla #Ahsoka rewrite #is this the original post tag

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annabethpursuit · 3 months

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Sally Jackson burning a half-drank melty ice cream sundae to call upon Poseidon. Sally Jackson burning what she would miss the most. Sally Jackson who sat across from her young, angry son who refused to touch his own sundae while she nursed a simple cup of coffee. Sally Jackson, a broke single mother who'd get just one sundae all for her son because that's all she could afford because she's busting it to send him to a bougie private school so he can feel attended to. Trying her very best to love her son even though she feels like she's failing every step of the way.

Sally Jackson doing her best to be a good mother even though she has no idea how, all on her own.

#THATS MOTHERHOOD #OHHHHH SHES FOR THE MID TWENTIES GIRLS WHO DONT KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING BUT HAVE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD ON THEIR SHOULDERS #shes so mid-20s girlhood #she would love namjoon from bts i think #shes a young broke single mom of course she listens to olivia rodrigo #sally jackson #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #disney pjo #percy jackson adaptation #i love the expansion on sally jacksons story

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junewild · 7 months

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i feel like a lot of people read izzy’s reaction to the dom dm prompt as shock. i don’t think it’s shock. i think it’s an extreme version of “fuck yeah that’s my husband”

#k talks #dropout #dropout tv #make some noise #izzy roland #brennan lee mulligan #erika’s was; of course; shock mixed with delight and a series of flashbacks to the employee handbook

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