#totally not going to reread this

[counting-stars-gayly]

This might be a hot take, but I actually like that Percy figured out Luke was the traitor at the last minute. There were A LOT of clues that would’ve been hard to ignore, and he ignored them for as long as he could. And it’s clear that even after accusing Luke, he’s still surprised and heartbroken at Luke’s confirmation of his suspicions. He was holding out hope, guys!!

Also, the Betrayal Scene flows better as an exchange of dialogue and a swordfight than it did, in the books, as a monologue and a scorpion sting. This also leaves a bigger impact on the viewers and characters because it’s more emotional.

#I disagree with some of the other examples of the kids immediately knowing something is a trap but THIS ISNT ONE OF THEM. #like I knew they were going to change that scene a lot because it just wouldn’t have translated well to screen. #plus Annabeth not being there in the book was a total missed opportunity. #I’m curious if anyone else has recently reread tlt and agrees with me about this #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson #luke castellan #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #pjo season 1 #pjo disney+ #Pjo ep 8 #Pjo 1x08 #the prophecy comes true

[coquelicoq]

what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.

#just kidding i don't know what linguists call that tenor. or any tenors. i'm not totally positive what a tenor even is #but i can't let that stop me from writing a jokey post on tumblr dot com #register is a very interesting area of linguistics that i know very little about #so i'm probably revealing the depths of my vast ignorance here to all the sociolinguists who surely hang on my every word #but i've always thought of the formal/informal pronoun thing as being about two things: intimacy-distance & rudeness-politeness #and of course you can usually tell from context whether a formal pronoun is meant to indicate distance or politeness #(plus distance and politeness are related to each other (to various degrees depending on culture)) #but it seems like it would be cool to have a built-in alignment chart of sorts just for pronoun combos #instead of prep jock nerd goth...why not try intimate self-effacing polite superior? #the goblin emperor #pronouns #register #sociolinguistics #my posts #f #anyway i know i said i wasn't going to reread the goblin emperor...but guess what. lol #and i edited my tags on that earlier post but fyi the language DOES distinguish between plural and formal singular pronouns #i had said i thought it used the same pronouns for plural and formal but i just wasn't paying close enough attention #so anyway i just reread the part where maia is talking to setheris in formal first and informal second #and you can see setheris going ohhh shit. oh shit oh shit oh shit #i'm in biiiiiig trouble #you sure are dude. that's the Time to Grovel signal #it's interesting because at the very beginning of the book when i first saw the formal first used i just thought it was the royal we #because i knew the main character was supposed to be royalty #but then EVERYONE was doing it. so it's not the royal we it's just the formal we #however. this does make me realize that the way the royal we would function in a language that retains the t-v distinction #is the same way i'm describing here. it's just reserving that particular tone (i'm better than you and am displeased with you) #for royalty only. which makes sense given royalty's whole deal

[danidoesntart]

This scene from the beginning of @mostmagical's fic Professeure (of your love) has been embedded in my mind since I first read it. I couldn't stop imagining Marinette's stupid lil face

#me: i can totally write in pen without writing in pencil first #the e in Cheng: *exists* #me: fuuu #myart #miraculous ladybug #mostmagical #ml fanfic #fic rec #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #adrinette #adrienette #i was going to reread to double check if you specified what they were wearing snd their hair #but i was watching Avatar the last airbender so i decided to take some liberties 😅

[p4nishers]

i have read every post order 66 fic under the sun and i can confirm they all vaguely start like ep3. they all DEFINITELY have cody deflecting at one point or another. very suspicious. u wanna tell us sumn dave? wanna share something with the class??

#NEED to know if he reads codywan fics in his down time #honestly he totally would so to completely avoid duing anything remotely pleasing for us so thanks for that #seriously keep em coming im frantically rereading all of them for the 9348th time and its not funny anymore im going insane #someone read 'tell me no tales' and talk about it to me before i've to be admitted im so so serious i just started my 8th reread #commander cody #codywan #obi wan kenobi #star wars #the bad batch s2 #clone wars #the solitary clone #order 66 #tbb #tbb s2 #dave filoni #post order 66 #ao3

[neosatsuma]

nearing the end of the Shibuya Incident again has brought to my attention that there are manga-readers who think Nobara is? dead?? which is wild to me because yes Gege clearly wants it to be unclear, but like Every Time she's brought up a semi-truck goes by like "BWWAAAAHHH" and you can't hear the verdict and then a boss fight falls from the sky. like the song and DANCE of it all, u know gege would hit us with it no sugarcoating no ambiguity if they'd killed a main trio member 💀

#jjk #jjk spoilers #jujutsu kaisen #skye don't look #nobara kugisaki #kugisaki nobara #when I first came across this notion I was shocked enough #that I asked my friend if *I* was crazy #bc I hadn't read the arc in two years and thought maybe I had misremembered #misplaced confidence #but my friend was like nah and then I reread this week #and YEAH. the LENGTHS the script goes to to remain totally ambiguous #go girl give us nothing <3 #also as TN said (bravo u were so right) she would have been at the airport #no matter whether the airport was real or imagined she'd have been there either way

[wundrousarts]

I was going to save this until I reread Hollowpox, but that last ask reminded me that I should share this here, so I present:

Musings on Maud: Why is she considered so powerful, how does this affect her dynamic with Squall, and why is he so scared of her?

(Bonus: How can I connect it to Silverborn?)

Two disclaimers: I haven't reread Hollowpox in ages, so if there's anything that could prove or disprove stuff in this post, send it my way. Honestly send any discussion my way. I love discussing theories. Second, this was originally a reply to a Reddit comment on a post, to which you can find here. The comment discussed Maud being a signatory for a Squall safeguard, so since this comment is copied verbatim, it references that.

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If it’s not outright stated, it’s at least heavily implied that Squall helped create/build up the Republic. It’s only existed for about 90 years, and Squall has been exiled for about 100. He mentions in Hollowpox how he knows that Maud’s plan is to take over Nevermoor/The Free State, because the Republic took over the other states in the realm and he “helped them do it.” However, unless Maud is immortal and also 100 years old, she is not the one who started the Republic from the side of the Republic. Also, no clue how long it’s been around, but Squall Industries has likely been around for awhile as well (this is how he gets his connections and power in the Republic), with Squall just constantly grandfathering himself in with the vampire trick or something.

Interestingly, Squall says two things in this scene (Chapter 34 of Hollowpox) that stick out to me:

“I made the so-called Hollowpox,” he raised his voice above hers, “because I was asked to. Because I was compensated handsomely for it. And because when the most powerful person in the realm asks for a favour, even I don’t refuse.

And

“But you’re a Wundersmith.” Morrigan was utterly baffled. “Why can’t you just stop them if they’re such a problem? I don’t understand!” “Do you THINK I HAVEN’T—“ Squall shouted, then cut himself off abruptly.

He also mentions how the Hollowpox was initially meant for the Republic, but Maud snuck in an infected otter across the border into Nevermoor— “That was never part of our deal.”

There’s definitely a business relationship between the two of them of likely consistent deals, one favor for another, quid pro quo. However, we also see that Squall can’t really go against her, something he seems to have tried before. Two chapters before this scene (Chapter 32), has this moment:

“Yes, shush. Maud said the Wintersea Party might help if there was a squid crow po.” “Quid pro quo?” “Right, one of those. She said they won’t do something for nothing, but if we could convince Prime Minister Steed to meet with her, just to have a conversation, then she would try to convince her party to share their cure.”

While it could be easily explained as part of her job, Maud seems to get most of her power and do things by extracting deals from other people. Maybe she’s knackless, or maybe she has some sort of connection to Puppeteering or a knack related to that. Not Mesmerism, but something that allows her to be persuasive, manipulative, convince people of things, and get them to do what she wants. A sort of parallel or companion to Squall’s connection with Puppeteering that we see in Wundersmith.

It’s interesting that when we first meet Maud, there is this exchange directly after she tells Mog that the Wintersea Republic would only agree to help the Free State if there was some sort of deal:

“But they’re your party,” Morrigan pointed out. “Aren’t you the one with the power? Maud stiffened slightly and cast her a wary, calculating look.

And then soon later she says this:

“Even if I could persuade my party to do the right thing – and I’m not saying I won’t try – there’s no guarantee Steed and his government would come to the table.”

The whole exchange seems very manipulative, like, “oh, I’d LOVE to talk and get this figured out, but I can’t…” There’s a big focus on conversation. Maud is wary when Mog mentions power— she thinks she means a magical power, something secret that gives her an advantage, when really she just means politically— so I wonder if she was worried for a moment that Mog realized she had some sort of coercive power.

I wonder what exactly her power is that makes Squall so scared of her, and why it possibly makes it so that he can’t fight make and overthrow her. Aside from their business relationship, which allows Squall access to Wunder and being a Wundersmith, there’s this other layer as well.

As for safeguard: I don’t know if Maud would be a signatory for a Squall safeguard, as that seems to just be for Wunsoc students, but I think that whatever their deal is and whatever her power is allows her to keep him in check. Jess said that we will learn more about safeguards in Silverborn, and I think it would be interesting if Mog learns more about them from Squall instead of Jupiter— and maybe it does end up being similar to whatever he has going on with Maud, who knows! I don’t really have any safeguard theories myself, but I will keep an eye out for what you add to your comment.

A Silverborn “silver” side note: A “silver tongue” means that someone is persuasive when they speak….. perhaps this idea, theme, power, etc. will be expanded upon in the future 🤔

#nevermoor #nevermoor theory #hollowpox #president wintersea #ezra squall #maud lowry #whatever their deal is it prob involves squall's access to wunder #anyways. enjoy folks! would love to know people's thoughts on this lol #difference between reddit and tumblr in allowing you to do new lines or not in indentations is so funny to me lol #hollowpox is so crazy bc the chapters in the 3rd act are like BAM BAM BAM so much important stuff happening and being revealed #'jam why do you use so many quotes' bc I am insane and like to have sources #but also when you spent months putting 1016! quotes into a quotebot you develop a decently specific memory for a lot of this stuff lolll #anyways turns out somehow I had the chapter numbers TOTALLY WRONG so had to go back and fix them lol. how did that happen. #this theory wasn't noticed on reddit. tough crowd. so hope some folks here appreciate it lol #real question is 'why is Maud + Mog so similar and is there a reason for this. and is this related to Mog saying Maud reminds her of a mom. #might develop it more once 1. i'm no longer in a heat wave that's frying my brain and 2. after I reread. bc might be hints I'm missing idk

[sincerely-sofie]

Y’all I am the biggest fool you’ve ever seen. When SmackJeeves went under so did nearly all my childhood hero webcomics, and I never once thought about how there’s a bunch of alternative hosting sites that could be turned to or were already in use by their creators. People asking me about making a webcomic of my AU didn’t even put a blip on my radar that maybe the community survived 2020. I assumed in my devastation that all was lost, gone to pixels in the wind, never to return… And yet the community I daydreamed about joining from the ripe old age of 13 survives to this day— unhindered, undaunted— and I am so friggin’ RELIEVED, you have no idea

#The loss of SmackJeeves was a modern day burning of the Library of Alexandria to me #Me: Oh hey I should reread all my old fave webcomics on SmackJeeves! #Me: It’s been forever and I would love to indulge in the inspirational nostalgia :) #(It was January 2021) #People archived 34K of the 36K total comics on there?? #Excuse me for a moment #I’m gonna go relive my childhood years of binging my rotating selection of SmackJeeves faves after school #so relieved to hear of the preservation of this monument of webcomic history #stuff by sofie #pmd comic #pmd webcomic #pmd #pmd1 #pmd2 #pmd rt #PMD eos #pmd gates #pmd gti #psmd

[cakegatedisaster]

"The thing about anger is that it’s a reaction to something else. With Jason, it’s always pain. You can’t scare Jason angry; you can’t scare him at all. But hurt him, and he’ll lash out, every time. The Joker and Bruce managed to hurt Jason so badly that he melted himself down and reforged himself into something that was all edges, sharp in every direction. Nobody could touch himself without cutting themselves to pieces."-- @thepartyresponsible on ao3

#Ive been rereading their whumptober in preperation for this year's and this STILL the best Jason Todd analysis ive ever seen #In canon movies or fanfiction #Also you should totally go check outbevery single one their works #Its all incredible #jason todd #red hood

[sureuncertainty]

for your consideration...

ronan lynch trans

that is all thank you for your time

#win rambles #the raven cycle #ronan lynch #i'm sure this is not a new or revolutionary headcanon/concept but i personally adore it #i'm rereading trc and going insane about it #he's also autistic btw #i mean they all are let's be real. blue and gansey especially are like practically canonically autistic #but anyway trans ronan is very special and important to me okay #and i know that he's like. some weird eldritch god or whatever but like. he's still trans. that's trans. #(gonna be so totally honest i don't remember what happened in the dreamer trilogy i think i blacked out for it)

[creekfiend]

Yeah, hi “Pip”, nice to meet you. A classroom poster does not in fact constitute fascism. If you had any true hardship in life you might know this was dumb as fuck for you to say. Go to hell! :)

I love online lmao

#i usually delete stuff like this but like #its just. so. gestures #the degree of vitriol ppl are comfortable with aiming at strangers man. #anyway i hope you fix your heart buddy #god it just contains all the ingredients of a classic angry anon ask is the thing #i keep rereading it and like chefs kiss #1. acknowledgement that anon has no idea who i am or indeed anything about me #2. horrid 'sarcasn' and passive agressive smilies #3. totally comfortable drawing absurd conclusions about my life experiences based on One Tumblr Post #4. 'i didnt understand your statement and instead of asking for clarification on your opinion im going to attack you' #5. totally over the top wishes or violence #like THIS HAS IT ALL #using this is my 'pointlessly vicious anon asks' powerpoint #anyway i promise that incarceration rhetoric is schools is indeed a fascist thing. it is carceral. #pop quiz is it fascist to incarcerate children #answer yes. it is. lol

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

Gojo already being overpowered and then pulling out a super duper ultra powerful demon that's so strong, even the clan that uses it can't control it properly clinches it for me: Gege was That Insufferable Kid on the playground who constantly said "nuh-uh, I have THIS power too so your attack doesn't work on me"

Like I didn't think you could top BNHA currently having All Might in a mech suit containing all of Class A's Quirks coming out of nowhere to fight AfO who has a fucking EMP Quirk that he just doesn't use for some reason, but I legit don't know who to hand the "dumbest final arc in a current Shonen Jump series" award to yet. Hori at least gave us the Toga/Ochako yuri fight, and potentially Nobara might come back in JJK. Plus the final panels of Gojo are pretty.

In terms of reaction I'll still say that AoT has ths "worst recent shonen ending" crown but there's still plenty of time for Hori and Gege to catch up

#also i finally realized why i always found gojo to be an overrated character and it took me rereading CSM to figure it out #if you want an omnipotent Fuck You I Win character then there has to be some kind of downside #like his domain expansion causing total overload would be interesting if it had some kind of negative effect #like every fight ive read/watched with him ive not cared about bc its either him pressing the instant win button #or characters like Sukuna going Nuh-Uh. I have THIS technique that lets me press THIS bullshit overpowered win button #sloot bitches about things #like in CSM the Halloween girl having the exact same type of power works bc it has a major downside of it affecting her and its revealed as #a twist in a critical moment during the arc. #.jjk

[shouldprobablybereading]

Doing fanart for books that doesn’t have a wiki is making me very grateful for the coppermind. Not being able to get neatly summarized character descriptions is so stressful

#what am I gonna do? reread 900 pages #totally going off off memory for the character designs #tho I should go back and check which eye the scar is on

[the-busy-ghost]

Love that Wilkie Collins apparently kept getting letters from guys who were convinced that Marian Halcombe must have been based on a real woman, begging him to introduce them because they were desperate to marry her

#Look Marian didn't need a man but also good for the girl that gets introduced to us as the ugly sister #And I don't mean in that silly Hollywood 'wears glasses but is otherwise conventionally hot way' #I mean 'there is nothing wrong with this woman but she has features that are still mocked and treated with revulsion in the 21st century #So yeah Marian can get it #Poor Wilkie Collins though like how many times do you have to break the hearts of various Berties and Georges and Neds #Before they understand that this fictional character you created isn't going to marry them #All these dudes totally convinced that he was hiding her somewhere #Not to mention all the exasperated parents in Britain whose sons won't get married because they're pining for a fictional woman #Young Algernon COULD be working hard to get a promotion at the bank but instead he's rereading the woman in white again #Cecil turns down a perfectly good job in Canada because he's president of the West Dulwich branch of the Miss Halcombe fan club #And I realise I sound very dismissive but honestly? Good for these young men as well #The Woman in White

[lsleofthelost]

love reading my own fics like 'oh this fucks' but then it just. stops. because im a chronic wip abandoner

#i have this cool jay and evie at a party thing ive been trying to finish for ages but its so slow going #then theres my fav mal and evie thing thats mostly about mals inability to accept love but im stuck on how to finish it ugh #and of course the urban fantasy that i posted here bc i couldn't keep it to myself but also couldn't finish #OH and i just reread the sea three fantasy thing i totally forgot about. gil and harry live in a village where they’ve got a tradition of #sending handmade small boats down the river and who gets who’s at the end means they’re soulmates. for years they try to get each others but #it doesn’t work because they keep drowning. but ITS UMA #anyway if u wanna read them and maybe help me ill be very glad. send me a dm

[pyrriax]

hi tumblr im pyrr pyrriax and im in my trimonthly artist arc, lord help me and all the projects that are currently sitting in my drafts while i am lured in by the siren song of drawing

#haunted ecosystem #this is not helping with how much my hands hurt on a daily basis this is why i type and dont handwrite/draw very much. #im lured in regardless and i really need to find an artform that doesnt Hurt but for now. digital art <3 #like theres a difference between my dumb doodles (quick easy not much different from regular computer usage) and actual art #but im an artist at heart i spent sooooo long being an artist and thinking i was shit at writing. that is wrong! im actually kinda good #im rambling in tags today because i have been not social (my partner is in genshin hell and my beloved is. somewhere.) #okay but on another note i reread the first. couple chapters of wtds this morning? the pacing is a little weird and the tense is fucked #but its actually a lot better than i thought it was? you can tell i was fleshing everybody out in my head and i totally forgot about how #i described the watcher [who i am STILL redacting the name of until we get there] and just. ough. pandora being very logical #and then jumping to the latest chapter and fucking sobbing because i forgot about how it went and just. pandora and his. #whatever the fuck is wrong with him. #i have gotta start recommending people read that again. its surprisingly friendly without context because of how i approached it #that fic has taught me so many things its actually a little comical. it also made me relearn how to make and write ocs so thats fun #once i finish that main fic (and i WILL i am actually planning to sign up for a thing. im finishing it i swear.) i finally get to show off #more of the world and characters ive crafted. showing backstories and what-ifs and all these oneshots ive been keeping close to my chest #for like absolutely ages because i dont want any spoilers on my tumblr #and. im finishing that fic in pseudo-memoriam of somebody who deleted their accounts everywhere. still miss you dane! #ok this has completely gone off topic ily tumblr im going back to drawing and i might make a new pfp #it'll still be lavius but it'll be fray lavius since i think about him a lot and i like his color palette.

[orcelito]

Went skimming thru late trimax For Reasons, got caught up reading the Legato fight, realized things about the fight that I never had before & went WOW, I kind of want to write an analysis post right now!

Felt the same kind of insanity grip me, however momentarily, that fueled all my analysis posts however many months ago. Too tired to actually word things coherently right now, but...

I May or may not have a full(ish?) analysis of the Legato & Vash fight a la style of This post analyzing the Trigun: Multiple Bullets fight that got unexpectedly kind of popular. People seemed to really appreciate that one, & I even had some ppl saying it could be cool if I did that for others?

So. Legato fight. Maybe. Feel free to remind me later if u see no mention of it again for over a week lol

#speculation nation #ive been wanting to go back into reading the manga again #ive only slowly (VERY slowly) been puttering along with where i am in my fic #for research purposes with the fic. #i do want to go back through the manga bc i STILL havent done a full reread of it #ive just reread so many different parts of it for assorted research that im probably getting to some 10 or so reads total lmao #i wanna reread it in full tho front to back to sort out any stray details and remember any timeline things i might have slightly skewed. #the problem with reading the manga though. is that every fucking time i look at it. i am consumed by a drive to research EVERY little thing #so me reading turns into 'hm thats interesting. that reminds me of this thing that i know happens in volume 8. let me just check that now--' #and i end up so dreadfully distracted every damn time. bc i end up with all my wires crossed and my attention pointing a million ways #it's exhausting. and so i havent been reading the manga outside of random research dives. #im very good at that. i know every volume of the manga and can find Anything within 1 or 2 mins (at the Most) #which is also kind of the problem lol. fingers in too many pies. so many things to think about. #if i get back into Actually rereading the manga tho you can bet ur ASS ill find more things to make posts about #every time i open up the manga i find new things that i could analyze. #i just havent. bc i dont have time. but. ykno what. maybe i Could get back into it... #remind me later. this is one of my favorite fucking fights with my favorite Fucking panels #and i realized smth about the shit Vash is doing that was making me lose my MINDDDD #later tho. ive been sleep deprived today. and it is time for me to rest. #& yea yea ITNL is still the main focus. but idk i have such a mind for details and i remember So many things about the manga #i wanna show that off to people again. and thus. Analyses!!! :D #later. goodnight for now