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Fuck wrong one
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Okay I have two
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This is my Lock Screen whatever you call it thingy. As expected right
Then we have my super obscure special interest guy
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He’s my favorite. I love him. He is such a bitch anyways I can explain more in the tags but he’s from the webcomic ghost eyes!
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having friends is literally so great, theres nothing better. shout out to my friends I love you guys
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prodigal-sunlight · 1 year
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IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE MARIO MOVIE!
- Jack Black’s Bowser is as amazing as you think he’ll be
- Chris Pratt’s Mario is good. Not GREAT, but he does actually put effort into it and it didn’t kill the movie as much as I thought it would.
- The animation is gorgeous. Like, seriously. The action was fun and bouncy, the settings were the perfect blend of silly cartoon and legitimately pretty, and the animation of the power-up was especially fun.
- Don’t expect a super complex story. It is Mario at the end of the day.
- There are a lot of fun easter eggs regarding classic Nintendo games, especially classic Mario games.
- Don’t get your hopes up for Wario, Waluigi, Daisy, or Rosalina; There are cameos for Pauline and the Yoshis though!
- The music is awesome. Like, it’s reimagining’s of classic Mario soundtracks as cinematic music and its really a ton of fun!
- All in all, a good movie. Above all else its just FUN. I definitely recommend it, at the very least for the eyecandy and music.
- You WILL be disappointed how little Luigi is in the movie
- They make Luigi the most likeable little guy and BARELY USE HIM
- Guys you dont understand LUIGI’S MOM IS PROUD OF HIM :( Why do they not use him more
- There needs to be a Luigi’s Mansion movie let him be the main character or else
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thebandghostofficial · 7 months
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🖍️CALLING ALL ARTISTS! Paw Paw Emeritus wants to see YOUR amazing artwork in his honor!!
From Motley Zoo Animal Rescue:
Since Paw Paw met his namesake backstage before the Ghost concert, our social media has been blowing up with all sorts of comments, artistic tributes, memes, etc. We would love to see YOUR shirt designs in honor of baby Paw Paw! Be as creative as you want - there are no real guidelines, except to make sure it would fit appropriately on a standard shirt / hoodie.
Please submit your designs no later than 11PM PT, Sunday, September 10th (giving you guys a little bit of time to create something epic!) Winners will receive 3 t-shirts or 3 tank tops (or 1 hoodie) with their printed design! Not only that, we will also sell your design in our merch shop, with proceeds going to support our care of Paw Paw! How awesome is that?! You can then brag to your friends that your artwork literally is going to help support a rescue puppy!! (Not a lot of people can legitimately claim that one!)
Please submit your designs to [email protected] with the subject "Paw Paw Emeritus Design Entry" so we can keep track of all of the entries.
Paw Paw can't wait to see all of your killer artwork in his honor! Rock on, Rescue on! 🤘🐾
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maybeimmalachi · 2 months
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Since there has been a lot of non human MC talk lately, about about we go into the classical ‘secretly a mermaid’ trope like H2O type of deal.
 Except MC has to be FULLY submerged in SEA water to transform and not just ‘oh no the water touched my lips now I have a tail ;((‘ type of transform. And they aren’t a delicate and fragile mermaid, they have colourful scales because they are poisonous and WILL kill you by accident with their toxic quills. MC has claws and teeth and and WILL chomp you if try anything
Merpeople that are actually dangerous and aren’t just for the aesthetic>>> anyway here are my thoughts on this
Honestly if you turned out to just not be a human, then it would definitely throw EVERYONE off. But if you only turn into that nonhuman state while in water? Everyone would likely feel more at ease knowing that
But also, what if the reason why you actually used your claws and teeth is more because of instincts taking over instead of you legitimately deciding to use them?
They’d likely discover about it during the beach event. You thought you were safe since you only need to be fully submerged underwater, but much to your dismay, you practically got suplexed underwater by Mammon💀
Mammon comes out of the water without you while looking scratched tf up and everyone’s all worried about what happened. Then, they’d probably have to use their powers to get you out of the water, which would be a pretty interesting thing to write a oneshot about
Whenever you recover, you explain your case, and then the brothers all make it their goal to keep you from being submerged underwater so this doesn’t happen again. Afterall, you’re still technically still a human while you’re above the surface, right?
Lucifer would probably feel some sort of shame for not realising it before a case like this happened, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew a ton about merpeople, so expect all the right remedies you’d possibly need. He might try encouraging witches he particularly doesn’t like to go for a nice trip to the beach. . .and then invite you along as well
Mammon DEFINITELY got poisoned or smth whenever you clawed tf out of him, but since he’s a powerful demon, he only got sick pretty much. He understands that it’d only happen again if you turned into your merperson form, so he makes it his personal job to stop you from ever getting like that again. This might lead to him being nervous about you going out in the rain or showering. .but it’s only because he doesn’t know what you exactly mean by ‘fully submerged’
Levi lowkey finds you both relatable and awesome af. Come on, this guy loves sea life; he has a whole aquarium in his room. He almost wants to let you take a swim in there, but he’s worried you’ll develop a predatory instinct and proceed to kill and eat all of his fish. He would ask to touch your scales if it wouldn’t poison him
Satan knows just how often merpeople scales are used in spells and potions, and he’s intent on researching you 100%. Might be like ‘hey next time you take a bath can you yank out some of your scales for me? Thanks’ and then use them to prank you-know-who. He asks you a million questions and decides to read a ton of books on your species
Asmo is way more hesitant to have spa days with you, unfortunately. It’s not like you ever went merpeople-mode on him before, but now he feels like he needs to be extra cautious just incase you accidentally sink too far into his bathtub. You’ll need to assure him multiple times that you’ll be fine, but he’s also super interested in your tail. I mean, look how pretty it is! He’ll take photos, but only from a few yards away
Beel, whenever he thinks of the ocean, can only really think about seafood. It’s in his nature. So, obviously, he was worried about you being able to eat seafood. Isn’t that your own people? Huh? Wdym merpeople eat fish and stuff as well? He probably takes a lot of interest in learning more about you, but will decide to ask simpler questions
Belphie always thought merpeople wouldn’t be nice and cuddly. I mean, look at all the scales. There is NO WAY that would EVER feel good. So, he feels very lucky that the merpeople part of you only comes out in very specific scenarios. However, he’ll definitely join the fourth-born in collecting your scales for curses again who-know-who.
Overall, merperson MC sounds awesome ‼️
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remedyx · 10 months
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Boyfriend for Hire
BTS Ot7 x Reader
Chapter 51
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I was late for work this morning. It was odd that my biological clock didn’t force me awake as it usually would, but I chalked that up to being thoroughly exhausted after my night with Jungkook. He ended up staying over, the two of us going for another round in the shower and sometime early this morning he woke me up for a third. So, yes, I was beyond tired. Unbeknownst to me, he had also been hitting the snooze button on my alarms which explained why those hadn’t woken me up either.
By the time I had actually made it in, Kat had opened and already started on the order list for the day. Thankfully, she wasn’t upset about it, saying that Kookie had messaged her and told her he was the reason I was late, and he was sorry. At that, she couldn’t really be mad. Honestly, I wasn’t sure anyone could really be mad at Jungkook. Of course, that didn’t mean I didn’t get any shit from Kat for it. Currently, Kat and I were sitting in the front of the store enjoying lunch from our favorite deli down the street.
“Are you sure that’s what you want?” I asked around a bite of potato chips.
We had been talking about Kat’s wedding plans. Although the two of them hadn’t been engaged for long, apparently she and Jackson had discussed with one another about marrying as soon as possible. Jackson was in line for some kind of big business deal in the making, his promotion riding on it, so the two of them wanted to get the wedding out of the way before he began putting in the long hours for this new position. Since the wedding would be happening sooner rather than later, Kat had opted to have a small ceremony and reception, inviting only a few close friends and family on hers and Jackson’s sides.
“Yeah. I’m not one to stress over the details anyway. All that matters is that I’m spending the rest of my life with a man I love dearly. The size of my wedding is insignificant compared to that.”
“Well said.”
I held my plastic cup of tea up to her. She tapped my cup with her own before we both took sips. The couple minutes that passed after that was mostly silent. Filled with the sounds of paper and napkins rustling as we finished eating.
“Besides,” she suddenly said out of nowhere. “We talked about maybe having the honeymoon in Brazil.”
“Brazil?”
She nodded, handing me her trash as I offered a hand to accept it from her.
“Yeah. The timing would be perfect. Carnival is happening around the same time we were wanting to have it.”
“That would be awesome. I’m sure the two of you would have an amazing time there.”
“Yeah… about that…”
She trailed off. The tone in her voice made me wary. She only ever used it when she was about to drop a bomb on me. I raised an eyebrow at her, waiting patiently for it.
“I was thinking, well, more like hoping, you’d come with us.”
I stared at her blankly. My brain taking more time that usual to process information as she grinned at me innocently.
“What?”
“Think about it! We would all have such a great time and neither of us get to go out of the country very often, unless you count the US which I don’t because it’s like a second home to me, but I know you won’t take a legitimate vacation unless I force you to and there’s no better excuse than my wedding to close up shop for a few days.”
“Kat,” I sighed. “I’m not crashing your honeymoon.”
She jumped up, shaking her head quickly.
“Not crashing! Jackson and I both wouldn’t mind you being there. Besides, it’s not like I would invite you and expect you to go alone. So, I mentioned it to Taehyung and Jungkook.”
“You what?” I asked incredulously.
“They were totally on board with the idea and said they would bring it up to the rest of the guys. So, problem solved. I did all the hard work for you.”
I stood there with my mouth open, just staring at her. She asked Jungkook and Tae. The two who I knew without a doubt would, of course, be okay with such an invitation. She couldn’t have asked a more devilish duo. Then again, that was probably her intention. This was Kat after all.
“Kat, in what universe did you think this would be remotely okay to do on my behalf?”
“Uh, the one where I know you well enough to know you would never ask them yourself. That one.”
“Because I’m not out of my mind.”
She rolled her eyes and planted her hip against the side of the counter. Her arms crossed over her chest as she stared me down.
“Look, I’m serious. I’m almost positive you were going to ask one or more of them to the wedding anyway, so just extend your time off, it’s not that big of a deal. You’ll have a good time. Forget about all this shit with your dad for a while and just enjoy yourself with your fine ass men.”
She wasn’t wrong. A vacation sounded heavenly right about now. It would be nice to have a break and forget about reality for a while. Pretend shit wasn’t about to hit the fan for once. Plus, if I knew Kat, which I liked to think I did pretty well, she wouldn’t take no for an answer.
“Okay fine.” I relented making her squeal in happiness. “But there’s no guarantee the boys will go. They’re all just as busy as I am.”
“Please. I’m sure they’d all rearrange their schedules for you at the drop of a hat. Besides, there’s plenty of time for them to work with the dates.”
“Yeah yeah.” I grumbled, waving her off. “You’re lucky I love you.”
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That evening, I crawled into bed with Yoongi, who had more like announced rather than requested I spend the night with him. Not that I minded, it had felt like a long time since I had shared a bed with Yoongi. Especially alone. I didn’t picture him as the type, but he seemed to prefer sharing the bed with another person when he slept with me, so to have time alone like this was a wonderful opportunity. I had brought up Kat’s offer at the dinner table, most of them in attendance, minus Jin and Jimin who were putting long hours in at the hospital again, but they had had time to join the conversation via video call.
As I expected, I didn’t receive agreement from everyone at that time, most stating they would need time to arrange their schedules if they were going to make it work. Yoongi, Jin, and Namjoon especially. Their schedules being a bit more stringent with time off than some of the others. I snuggled under the covers with Yoongi, missing the way his warmth felt next to me. Last time we slept together, I didn’t get to appreciate it as much given the circumstances of what had happened at the shop.
But I was making up for lost time for sure as I buried my face into his side, inhaling the fresh scent of him post-shower, bits of his shampoo wafting in with it as well. I hummed into him, feeling my entire body relax, not even to be deterred by his chuckles.
“Long day?” he asked.
“Not really. I just missed you.” I mumbled; voice muffled as I was unwilling to lift my head from where I had smooshed it into the side of his chest.
He rolled towards me, propping his head up on a hand while the other cupped my cheek, thumb brushing the swell of it as he stared down at me with a look I could only compare to adoration.
“I missed you too.”
His lips landed on my forehead in a sweet kiss. It was moments like these that reminded me just how soft he truly was. The rest of the time he was full of snarky remarks and hidden innuendos, outside of that, an intimidatingly unapproachable businessman that I catch glimpses of here and there when he and Tae get to talking shop. A man of many faces, but none of them facades. They were all facets of him, unapologetically Yoongi.
“Can I ask you something?” The words came out a bit nervously, my bottom lip finding its way between my teeth as I chewed on it.
He trailed his thumb from my cheek to my chin, tugging on my lip lightly until I let it go.
“Anything, doll.”
“I just… find it a bit hard to believe that you’ve never done this before. With another woman, I mean. Haven’t you ever wanted more with someone?”
He didn’t answer right away, but that was another thing I had noticed about him. He wasn’t one to jump right into a conversation or provide an answer. He listened and considered whatever was being said. His thumb rubbed lazily back and forth over my lip; his eyes trained on it as the silence bled through the room. He took a deep breath before meeting my eyes again.
“No. I resolved a long time ago that there would only be one woman I would give my heart to when the time came. Since then, I didn’t bother pursuing more with anyone else.”
I frowned at the way he phrased the sentence. He didn’t talk as if he had yet to meet someone, he spoke as if he had already met her.
“You sound like you have someone in mind.”
“I do.” He stated simply.
“So, even someone with a rough exterior such as yourself had a first love.”
He chuckled at that, hand running through his hair to keep it out of his face.
“I guess you could call it that. Love is actually probably a good word to use to describe my feelings.”
On one hand, I didn’t want to hear about another woman from Yoongi’s past, just the thought made my heart ache with the thought, but on the other, this was Yoongi. A rare opportunity for me to delve into his history, find out more about him.
“How did you two meet?”
“At some ridiculously extravagant company party. I had just graduated college and had been hired by Secter. Between then and the party, I had only been working there a few months before I was required to attend this conference for IT corporations worldwide. The last day of the conference was when they threw the gathering for everyone, that’s where I saw her for the first time.”
He looked nostalgic, the expression over his features impossibly soft as he reminisced.
“Unfortunately for me, she had no clue who I was, and I was too shy to approach her. So, I just stood off to the side of the crowd most of the night, watching her. It was pretty entertaining. She looked just as happy to be there as I was, but still, she greeted everyone politely and pretended she was enjoying herself, but the moment people turned their backs, she would frown with the cutest annoyed expression on her face.”
“But if you didn’t talk to her, how did you find her again?”
“Pure luck, or maybe fate if you believe in that. I found out she went to the same university that the seven of us did. Jungkook was still in school, so I would visit him periodically to make sure he was eating properly if Jin couldn’t. We went to this café one afternoon because Kook had heard good things about it. That’s where I saw her again.”
“She was sitting at a table right next to the front windows, cup of coffee in hand and a book in the other. She looked so different from that night at the party, but I recognized her almost instantly. Come to find out she frequented that café like clockwork, always sitting in the same seat and ordering the same coffee, sometimes she’d couple it with a cookie or mochi on hot days. I used to drag Jungkook to that café all the time just so I could see her. Poor kid, I made him sick of the place by the time he got out of there.” He chuckled.
I giggled with him, picturing the younger, whiny Jungkook complaining to his older brother about being made to go there again.
“Did he not know the real reason you went there so often?”
“Nah. I just told him I really liked the place. I never confided in any of the guys about her.”
“But, wouldn’t they have met her when you two started dating?”
He shook his head.
“We never dated. All the times I saw her, I never said a word to her. Too much of a coward I guess. It was easier for me to look from afar and her not know I existed rather than risk never getting to see her at all ever again. Guess I should’ve taken the leap because it ended up that way anyway.”
“What happened?”
“I don’t know. One day, she just, stopped showing up. I went back to that café for days, but I never saw her again.”
I tilted my head in confusion. I couldn’t decide which was more heartbreaking, the fact that she never got to know Yoongi, or even know he existed and his feelings for her, or the fact that Yoongi wasn’t confident enough in himself to approach her. Either way, my heart hurt for him. I was envious in more ways than one. First, because such a woman existed to have caught Yoongi’s eye and had made him fall in love with her without even knowing she did it. And second, for the simple fact that Yoongi had experienced love from such a young age.
Growing up under my dad’s thumb meant I didn’t have time for boys. Wasn’t allowed to entertain the idea, let alone engage in those types of relationships. Therefore, I didn’t ever have someone I felt that way about. As longing as I was for it looking back, I was glad I didn’t now. Everything that had led me to this point in my life, led me to the seven men who currently held my heart. That wasn’t something I was willing to let go.
“I was sad and upset at first.” Yoongi continued. “I kicked myself for a long time for not just going for it. Introducing myself and seeing where it went, even if it didn’t work out. Spent a lot of years regretting it. I wondered where we’d be if I had. But I didn’t and I was convinced I had lost my chance.”
He paused again, his eyes glossing over with a faraway look. Once that people adopted when they were remembering something dear to them. A faint smile curled one corner of his lips.
“Until I saw her again that day she walked into Telepathy.”
My eyes snapped to his, my mouth dropping open.
“She went to Jungkook for an escort?”
“Imagine my surprise.” He chuckled.
“So, did she pick you?”
“Not directly. But yes, I did end up being the one to sign a contract with her.”
His smile widened as he watched my face pinch together in confusion again. Abruptly, it all seemed to piece together slowly. The university, the café, her sudden disappearance, her reappearance at Telepathy. I pulled away from him, his hand dropping from my face as I stared at him in disbelief. His smile never faltered, in fact, it actually looked as if he was enjoying himself. I didn’t know what to say, words were failing me, my eyes glued to his and unwilling to look away. Finally, he nodded, confirming my thoughts without me having to voice them.
“It’s you. You’re the reason I haven’t been interested in being with anyone else. It’s been years and I still can’t help but think about you. The day you walked into that conference room at Telepathy, I could hardly believe it. But there you were, looking exactly how I remembered you. Just as beautiful as the last time I saw you. It was easy to say that I would have changed things had I ever met you again but being in front of you brought back those feelings of fear and insecurity. When it was decided I’d be the one to sign a contract with you, I had made up my mind that I wouldn’t let you slip through my fingers a third time.”
His dark eyes conveyed nothing but sincerity as he reached for me again. His hand finding my cheek and rubbing his thumb across it in the way that was just so natural between us.
“I’m sorry for the time I’ve wasted up to now. But if you’ll let me, I would like to make up for lost time. I’m aware I’ve known you a lot longer than you’ve known me and I’m not expecting you to reciprocate my feelings right now but give me a chance and I promise I won’t let you down.”
My eyes stung with unshed tears as the gravity of what he was telling me started to set in. Logically, I knew I should say something, alleviate his fears of possibly being rejected, but the words were heavy on my tongue and the last thing I wanted to do was ruin the moment with a bunch of my fumbling and tear-filled babbling, so I chose a simpler route. I reached up, threading my fingers through his dark curls, pulling his face to mine and leaning forward to meet him halfway. Our lips met in a kiss that was different than the passion that usually flared between us. Instead, it was more intimate, a recognition between his feelings and mine, sealed with a kiss.
I held onto him until I was sure I could speak without breaking down. I pulled back, enough to meet his eyes, but still close enough to feel his warmth and his breath as it ghosted across my cheek. My hand left his hair, sliding forward to cover his cheek so I could trace my thumb across the swell of it in the same manner he does to me. He leaned into my touch, eyes closing as he savored my embrace and his own hand grasping my wrist to keep it there longer.
“Yoongi.” I murmured, waiting until his eyes opened to meet mine again.
“I’m not afraid you’ll let me down or hurt me. I know you wouldn’t. And you don’t have to worry about how I feel because I’ll tell you any time you want to hear it.”
I smiled, giving him another brief kiss before pulling away again. Watching him carefully as his own eyes began to water with unshed tears.
“I love you.”
His grip around my wrist tightened and his breath left him in a shudder. His eyes closing again as he attempted to keep his own emotions in check, a single tear slipping down his cheek as he did so. I caught it quickly, wiping it away softly before kissing the spot where it had been. When he was finally able to meet my gaze again, the most endearing gummy smile took residence on his face. One that made my heart flutter to see the unadulterated happiness with it.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to hear those words from you.”
And with that, his lips sought mine again.
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If you could keep any snake regardless of price (obviously with the right funds, space and care and safety if it happens to be venomous) what would it be?
The mere existence of red-bellied black snakes has me thinkin' some mighty unwise thoughts.
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They're venomous. No private keeper should be anywhere near these guys. But I've been to Australia and got to work with them and they were legitimately a dream come true. They're so polite and cool and awesome in every way. So fun and delightful to work with! Definitely my it-happened-once-in-a-dream snake.
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The whole movie is just top tier good shit. One of the top best underrated Disney movies with a great twist on who is bad. Ahead of its time. Plus Leonard Nimoy as the king???
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Legitimately one of the most fascinatingly original animated films ever made, with not only a unique art style, but a cast of incredible and diverse characters all written with genuine heart and personality. I personally memorized what I call "Milo's Rant" for a drama monologue project in high school, and it still stands as one of my favorite scenes in ANY movie to this day.
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So I already know I’m the asshole here, I’m mostly wondering if it’s a YTA, JAH, or ESH situation. Or potentially I’m just treating this like a catholic confessional.
I (31, F) was on a 3 hour flight with my older sister; we had gotten aisle seats across from each other and 2 girls (I’m bad at ages, but both around 15, F?) sat next to her.
In the middle of the flight my sister tapped me to ask a question and as we were talking, I heard loud music/TikTok-esque noises. I asked my sister if she heard it and she replied that it was the kids next to her watching videos without headphones. They overheard us and one asked “Oh, sorry – is that loud?” to which my sister told them “Yeah, it’s really loud”.
At this point I put my earbuds back in, and my sister (thankfully) had noise cancelling headphones to put on. For important background, I am prone to headaches and migraines and am also neurodivergent and can get over stimulated, especially when I'm not anticipating a situation.
Flash forward to when we land – we pull up to the gate but another plane is still there so we have to wait. Normally on planes I’d keep my headphones in until it seems like people are moving, but I’d never sat this close to the front of the plane before and know I hate it when people waste time fiddling with their stuff when we’re all trying to leave. So, at this point I had already packed my thing away, as I didn’t want to hold anyone up.
However, when they announced we were landing someone near me applied A LOT body spray that was overwhelming to the point I had to cover my noise. Smells are a huge trigger for me with migraines, so I was staring to become nauseous with a headache, though thankfully with most of my usual auras. And on top of this while we were waiting, I was once again hearing music/TikTok noises, which was making me feel even worse. Normally I'm fine on planes and fly multiple times a year, but the unexpected, overwhelming, smells and noises combined to send me to a tipping point. Usually if I get overstimulated in public I just move or leave, but we were in an airplane so I was trapped in my seat.
I saw the guy diagonally from me in an aisle seat watching videos and thought it was him, and I tried to joke (you should never try to joke when you feel like shit – the tone is never going to be right) “Hey, if you’re going to watch videos that loud, you might as well let me watch too.”
Which was waaaaaay more bitchy then I meant it to be. The woman next to him commented “Oh my god, that is rude!” then seeing his face my brain caught up to the sounds I was mortified to realize it wasn’t actually him. I immediately, and profusely, apologized to him, and then my sister informed me that it was still the girls next to her. Considering we had, fairly recently, let them know they were too loud I was legitimately surprised and burst out without thinking “Oh my god, it’s still you?” They once again went “Oh sorry – we can turn it down?” and I again tried to joke, despite it not landing the first time, “Well, that or give me the phone so I can watch”
At this point the woman sitting behind them, who called me rude (rightfully) said “I’m their mother so talk to me, not the them.” I went, great, and told her they needed headphones. At this point she and her husband (next to her, window seat) started saying a lot of things that I don’t remember very well (see afore mentioned migraine and overstimulation) but I mostly remember it being passive aggressive comments about how they guess they’ll tell their kids to not watch TikTok loudly without headphones and me just trying to chipperly reply “awesome - thanks!”. I do remember the husband saying at one point “They do have headphones – it’s their choice if they use them or not.” Which thankfully, I had acquired enough situational awareness to not respond with my thoughts about that statement.
Once we got off the plane, and I felt less like vomiting, I realized I had snapped at these kids in a way that was way out of line. I truly don’t think they knew better, and even if they did I approached the situation in a bad way and really regret my outburst. Yeah, I had a migraine forming and was overstimulated, but that wasn’t their fault even if they were exasperating it. It especially wasn’t their fault considering their parents seemingly saw nothing wrong with their children watching videos without headphones on a plane while said children appeared oblivious.
So, while I know I as an asshole, I guess I’m asking - just how much of an asshole was I?
What are these acronyms?
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depivis · 5 months
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Here are my Laketober drawings!
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Couldn't do every prompt like I did last year becuse these prompts didn't spark that much creativity within me for some reason and I really didn't wanna take the easiest, least creative route like I did last year :/ Not to say the prompts were bad or anything, they were perfectly fine, it's just my brain being iffy. And I wanted to make these specifically Underground Blossom related becuase I also strayed away from the main theme last year lollll.
All the Laketober art I've seen so far has been sooo awesome like legitimately. So nice, so pretty, I smiled and giggled irl. Thank you guys for making such a great, supportive, skilled and creative comunity <3
Also I posted these on Instagram too if you happened to see them there :D
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yoooooo it's the new year!!! and to start things off with a bang i'm here with something that's absolutely insane to me!!
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i'm. honestly blown away right now you guys. as somebody who literally only started posting my art on here in August this is. just unreal to me.
i know i get kinda sappy and sentimental here sometimes but, legitimately thank you all so much!!! the last few months have been so insane and i can't believe how many kind and awesome people i've met thanks to my silly art. you guys deserve so much love and support and i literally can't thank you enough 👍❤👍
so.... here's my special treat for all of you as thanks! i'm.... not that good at coming up with special stuff to do so guess what?? i'm stealing the same idea that literally everyone else has been doing!!! take that!!!!
it's a Draw This In Your Style thingy!!!! you don't have to of course, it's just something silly i decided to try. make sure to @ me or reblog this post if you do though ❤❤❤
it's the sillies 😊🤗☺
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happy new year to y'all though!!! i'm gonna be taking things pretty chill for the first few days to give myself a break. don't worry, i've got some special stuff planned for this year though 😉
take care!!! love you all and i hope you all have a good new year!!!
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Out-of-Fandom Longfic Recs
Looking for something good that you can sink your teeth into? Not necessarily LoZ? I can recommend some masterpieces and favorites. :) all these are complete!
Harry Potter and the Problem of Potions by Wyste. 180k. Yes yes HP I know. It was still a formative part of my adolescence and this is just fanfiction. Very satisfying fanfiction, in which Harry becomes a real character who desperately wants to be a potion master despite Snape's every attempt to dissuade him. Lots of fun.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by LessWrong. 661k. Longest thing on this list but HOO BOY is it worth it. Written by a guy to teach people about... well. Methods of rationality. Applies the scientific method to the HP-verse, makes Voldemort actually smart, and is a lot of fun the whole way through. You can read on FFN or by downloading an epub or PDF. At least try the first chapter I am BEGGING YOU.
The Dragon-King's Temple by Kryal. Avatar: the Last Airbender (show) & Stargate SG-1, 200k. I knew nothing about SG-1 going in, had only seen the movie, and really enjoyed this. Once again, the worldbuilding and the mystery are very very good. Like legitimately. Zuko & Toph focus!
Thrower of the Dart by Vathara. Avengers & Artemis Fowl (books) crossover, 100k. Picks up after the first Avengers movie and AF book 5 (the demon one.) Very nice plot, good character interactions, fun worldbuilding, mostly in the AF side.
let the shadows fall behind you by Sweetbriar15. Disney's Descendants (just the first one), 155k. Did you ever feel like the movie was a bit of a waste of a good story premise? This will help. Picks up after modifying the end of the first movie, introduces a lot of awesome character and worldbuilding information. Mal-focused, but not too heavily.
Phantom of Truth by Haiju. Danny Phantom, 58k. DP is full of whump fics, and this is probably one of the very best. Its sequel, Shadow of a Doubt, has stopped updating on AO3, but it should still be on FFN. SoaD is, iirc, 100k+, and quite good, dealing with the aftermath of the first.
Bandits and Bravery by LettdViolet. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 28k. Linhardt/M!Byleth, modern college AU, the events of the game are played out by a group playing knockoff D&D. Themes of grief and mourning a parent's death, and finding comfort. Linhardt is like a sleepy version of Vio without as much evil. Shortest on this list but I LIKE IT OKAY
Carpetbaggers by cofax. Chronicles of Narnia, 120k. Fills in some of the time post-LWW with adventures and working on gaining trust. Feels a lot like a continuation of the book, though without the heavy-handed allegory.
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i have so much to say abt chalice of the gods so im just gonna copy paste my review from goodreads here. you can also read it on goodreads
ok. i promised i would hate this book. and i do. i hate this book. i also hate rick riordan. in addition, i hate capitalism. i promise that’s relevant.
let’s talk about the book now. i’ll cover the things i love first. i love percy jackson. i love grover. i love annabeth. i love sally. i love paul. i love percy annabeth and grover together. all of these things are very obvious and self-explanatory. percy is hands down THE main character of all time. i have nothing bad to say about him. his literal fatal flaw is loyalty. he’s actually perfect and has no flaws. this is expected from the son of sally jackson, the perfect person. paul is sweet and kind to sally and that’s really all that matters. annabeth is awesome and supportive and so is grover and they’re all besties forever. you get it. you’ve read percy jackson.
the jokes are better than before. there are definitely some legitimately funny jokes in this book, which i was really missing from the last few rick riordan installments. and i don’t think this is because rick suddenly got funnier. i think it’s because this style of joke works for percy. of all of rick’s protagonists, percy seems the most natural fit for these jokes.
sally is great. grover and annabeth are generally on form. so is percy, as much as can be expected from rick riordan at this point. i will elaborate on this later.
now to complain. this is the stupidest premise i’ve ever heard of. percy is a high school senior. he is going to go to new rome university. he needs 3 divine recommendations. this is already a stupid premise but don’t worry, it gets worse. poseidon reveals that the reason percy needs these recommendations is that it’s a special requirement for him specifically made by zeus. and the reason he gets to have this stupid requirement is that he’s a child of the big three and shouldn’t exist.
hello. zeus. yes, lord zeus, it’s me. alexis.
what the absolute FUCK are you saying.
this doesn’t MAKE SENSE. the only reason percy shouldn’t have existed was that the gods had a stupid pact to not have any kids because of a stupid prophecy. two things here. one - that prophecy is OVER. everything turned out fine. thanks to percy jackson. you’re welcome, gods of olympus. two - percy has literally saved olympus TWICE now. two times. this is genuinely such a dumb and made up reason to send percy on a quest that i can’t even turn my brain off and enjoy it. it’s not fun. leave percy alone. LEAVE HIM ALONE.
it’s literally insane how stupid this setup is. rick keeps writing books about how the gods are horrible and take advantage of the demigods and the demigods live terrible lives. in this book, percy has LITERALLY saved olympus TWICE and motherfucking zeus (literally) had to be talked down from making him get 25 letters of recommendation to 3. this is AFTER percy spent 3 years in pjo almost being killed and got his memory wiped for 6-8 months depending on which book you read in hoo and then got sent on a quest to save the entire world AGAIN. this CHILD got like a 2-4 month break (depending on which book you’re reading) and he woke up with no fucking memory and had to spend like 2 more months fighting monsters and the literal primordial earth goddess. and now he has to go on literally pointless quests that someone who didn’t just get back home from saving the actual world could ALSO just do. because he needs to get some fucking letters of recommendation.
look. genuinely. percy jackson should snap at this point in the story. this boy should’ve snapped like at least 5 books ago. at minimum. rick wrote the perfect setup to show us percy’s instant descent into madness. he should LOSE it. all the gods have done for the ENTIRE time he’s known he’s a demigod is treat demigods like disposable tools. this is the point in the story where percy goes. wow. luke was right. you guys are all assholes who don’t care about us even a little bit. i am NOT saying what needs to follow is a fanfic-esque dark!percy story where he successfully destroys olympus or something. what i AM saying. is at bare minimum this is where percy goes you know what fuck you i hate you guys and washes his hands of being a demigod at least temporarily. at the very least he should sit back and think yeah, i don’t really want to go to new rome university. it’s not worth it. i will just go to a different university. look. it’s percy jackson. he can literally one shot all but the most fearsome monsters (typhon, the giants, a drakon, etc). he is literally going to be 100% completely fine going to mortal university AND he wont have to deal with zeus’s annoying ass.
listen. MY percy jackson wanted to kill smelly gabe as a 12 year old because he abused his mother. MY percy jackson doesn’t like bullies. MY percy jackson challenged ares to a fight just on the basis that ares was a fucking asshole.
MY percy jackson is not going on useless fucking quests to go to new rome university of all places.
which reminds me. why DOES he want to go to new rome university. this is percy jackson. he LOVES new york. why is percy “what did they do to my city” jackson going to university ACROSS THE COUNTRY from the city he loves. why is he doing that. and hey look. sally and paul (and soon estelle) are ALSO going to be in new york. so like WHY is he leaving for real. percy my fatal flaw is loyalty jackson. IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE OK! it’s percy he is seriously not going to have issues with common monsters attacking him. we literally saw him fight off titans and giants a fucking hellhound isn’t gonna get his ass. WHY is he leaving. it does NOT make sense.
there’s this scene ok. where sally tells them she’s pregnant. and percy’s like oh my god…. i’m going to be in california…. and my sister is going to be here…. and i was just sitting there going. yeah bro. why are you going to california. i literally do not understand. you literally are from nyc. you live here. your family is here. your friends from chb are like a short pegasus ride away. there are like 50 universities in new york. just go here. why are you leaving. you are percy jackson. being a new yorker is literally one of your defining traits. stay here. WHY AR EYOU LEAVING I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PERSEUS
and listen. if your argument is that annabeth is going to be in nru. why the FUCK is ANNABETH going to nru!!!!! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT!!!! EXPLAIN IT!!!! percy LITERALLY says annabeth is such an overachiever she’s already run out of ap classes to take. he literally says that. why the fuck is this girl going to nru where let’s be real her admission is guaranteed. annabeth is 100% someone who would want to go to an ivy. and would you fucking believe it there’s an ivy right here in nyc. like let’s be fucking realistic here. annabeth started her architecture career at SIXTEEN designing the city the fucking GODS live in. so like. don’t you think she’d want to be a bit more challenged. don’t you think she’d want to go to a university that is actually recognizable to mortals. annabeth did NOT love new rome that much like did richard forget what he wrote. this girl was freaking out about new rome until percy said he only likes it because they could live together there. she literally does not care about new rome and she is WAY too ambitious and academically inclined to be happy with going to some small as uni 99% of employers have never heard of.
this isn’t even the worst character assassination in the book. that award goes to the way rick wrote percy. percy. my darling percy. my beloved percy. perseus jackson. light of my life. as i said before, he is MOSTLY on form. the him really wanting to cali thing is definitely ooc for him but it is NOTHING compared to the sheer amount of times rick portrays percy as stupid in this accursed novel. his internal monologue is constantly shit like i’m always so behind annabeth and omg i’m being so dumb right now and annabeth calls me seaweed brain because i’m an idiot and blah blah fucking blah.
dick riordan has forgotten that perseus jackson is, in fact, not stupid at all. he is INCREDIBLY clever. he is just not particularly academically inclined/not very book smart and it would also be perfectly understandable given the fucking books that riordan wrote to interpret that as percy being very discouraged from engaging with his studies. he genuinely enjoys chiron’s class at yancy because chiron is an engaging teacher and encourages him. he spends 90% of his time in pjo deducing what’s going on with extremely limited information because rick decided none of the characters can tell him anything because of plot and exposition reasons. in son of neptune he literally just coasts on having sherlockian (not bbc that’s a whole other angry review) powers of deduction. to the point where the characters around him are amazed at how he’s figuring stuff out. literally in house of hades annabeth’s pov’s are constantly her commenting on how she gives percy shit for being a dumbass but he’s actually really clever.
it genuinely feels like at some point during the writing of mark of athena rick decided to just slowly start making various fanon ideas canon. percy being stupid is very commonly accepted fanon because he doesn’t realize how smart he is (and fans don’t realize he’s an unreliable narrator) and the fans also love to infantilize characters with more in your face adhd (leo is another victim of this phenomenon). we’ve spent 5 books in percy’s head and he doesn’t think he’s particularly clever so it makes sense to ignore the mountains of evidence pointing towards his quick and creative thought process in favour of haha percy is dumb jokes.
the wild thing is, percy isn’t even that hard on himself in pjo. he obviously doesn’t see himself in the same way we later come to find out other people see him (mainly thinking about hazel and frank in son of neptune, which is the only time in hoo he genuinely feels like the same character as pjo percy) but he’s not really dealing with crazy self doubt and self esteem issues. he does have his down on himself moments but they’re all extremely understandable given the context because he literally faces impossible odds in every single pjo book. at one point he’s disappointed he couldn’t tell that ares and luke manipulated him… like yes bestie that’s a very valid thing to feel upset and betrayed about. it doesn’t mean that he’s actually stupid though and genuinely he comes across more as humble and not realizing just how awesome and cool and interesting he is than anything else. percy consistently shows that he is really clever. half of pjo is percy figuring out a new and interesting way of defeating his enemies and the other half is percy figuring out how to bait his enemies into a duel to improve his odds. it’s horrible what rick does to percy in his internal monologue.
it’s to an insane degree. yes i realize i have already written 500 words about percy not being stupid alone but i must stress how egregious this is. it’s literally characters who have previously acknowledged percy’s intelligence who start remarking about how he’s stupid. in house of hades percy and annabeth get out of fucking TARTARUS and reyna makes a jab about how percy wouldn’t be able to find his way out of a paper bag without annabeth. that is an INSANE thing to say for reyna and for rick. rick has not written a stupid character so it’s weird to make that something a character does without really trying to show them being wrong. from reyna’s perspective, this is a guy she was complimenting a few short weeks ago. this is a guy she immediately wanted to make a leader at the camp that she loves and is her home. this is guy she barely knows and she pretty much immediately proposes to him. WHY would she suddenly start making jokes about how dumb he is? it’s not like she actually knows him better now. he came to the battle with reinforcements and basically immediately dipped after the feast. how are we to accept reyna treating our beloved perseus in this horrific manner? we simply cannot. it is unnacceptable. this is inaccurate.
it’s so WRONG to do this to percy. yES I UNDERSTAND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR TOO LONG. I DON’T CARE. PERCY JACKSON IS MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND I NEED TO DEFEND HIM FROM THIS SLANDER. I AM ONLY PARTIALLY JOKING. listen. liSTEN. this is the guy whose signature move is manipulate your enemy into dueling with you when you’re outnumbered or outmatched. he very coolly manipulated bob into killing his own brother (btw this was very hot and sexy and clever and attractive perseus is king of gaslight gatekeep girlboss). he is NOT stupid. he is impulsive. he is extremely oblivious about some things. he is NOT stupid. i watched perseus jackson grow up for 5 books and he is not stupid. i always say this. i always say that percy is not stupid and richard riordan refuses to listen to me.
there are such horrendous lines as “i am a guy of limited talents. if i can’t kill it with water, a sword, or sarcasm, i’m basically defenseless.” richard how DARE you say this about my beloved perseus. he is NEVER like this. he literally would never say that. even at absolute worst percy’s internal monologue was “this plan is stupid and will get us killed. but it’s the plan i have.” he’s NOT a being defenseless guy. what hte fuck are you saying. richard did you read your own books. RICHARD. DID YOU. at one point he says that he is constantly several steps behind annabeth’s thought process. he has literally never thought this before and it is also untrue. richard. i hate you. read your own fucking books oh my god.
ok. i think i have sufficiently harped on the fact that percy is not stupid. now i will complain about another thing. and this was just in one part but it bothered me and this is my review so i get to talk about whatever i want. if you don’t like it read someone else’s review. don’t hate read my review. i didn't charge you money to read it
at one point, percy has to wrestle a god who hercules once wrestled. and annabeth says something about hercules brute forcing it. and look. i GET that hercules was freakishly strong. i get that. i understand it. but when annabeth says hercules just brute forced it they’re both like ah shit i can’t do that. perseus. beloved. you ripped the minotaurs horn off its head with your bare hands as a 12 year old with no training. you are literally insanely strong as is. that is an insane thing for a 12 year old to be able to do. hell, that would be an insane thing for a grown adult to do. i don’t think rick realizes how op percy is. he was so caught up in making percy cool (which is, you know, extremely understandable and right and correct percy jackson is the coolest man in fiction for a reason i get it) that he forgot that he made percy extremely unbelievably powerful too. with the curse of achilles he was potentially matching minor gods in power level. he fights while sustaining mini-hurricanes and explodes glaciers and shit.
some more things. the prose is… acceptable. the plot reads like a fever dream. there is a smoothie shop called himbo juice that annabeth percy and grover are evidently regulars at. and there are. himbos. that serve. juice. so you can imagine what this fever dream looks like. like the last couple rick riordan releases, this one reads like published fanfiction too, just with better quality of writing than the sun and the star.
there are some WEIRD continuity errors in here. one of them is fairly minor but i still noticed it - percy says his father compared his mother to a princess. this is not true. poseidon compared sally to a queen. specifically, he called her “a queen among women”. i know this because i am sally jackson’s number 1 fan.
more egregiously, however, is annabeth’s yankees cap heebie jeebies. percy puts on annabeths’s cap and gets the heebie jeebies while using it. and then he goes wow annabeth. you never told me that using the cap is like this. and annabeth is like yeah well. power is like that. richard. riordan. did you fucking FORGET that percy has, in fact, worn annabeth’s cap before. and it was literally completely. once again, richard, did you read your own books.
one more good thing - when percy fights geras/gary, who is the god/personification of old age, the way he does it is by imagining him and his friends getting older and embracing it. this was a genuinely good and sweet moment and it was very touching. the trio’s talks about this after the fact are also absolutely a return to form from riordan. for like, a few paragraphs. but still.
the biggest problem is just how obvious it is that this book is a cash grab. we had pjo. then we had a sequel series. then we had ANOTHER sequel series. and now we’re getting random standalone novels that are extremely unnecessary and don’t add anything. rick riordan has dollar signs in his eyes. these are not stories that make sense. these are not stories rick genuinely wanted to tell. these are stories that are being told because the purpose of publishing books now is to maximize profit. (sidebar - i told you the capitalism thing would be relevant. you should believe me more often. smh) the only reason rick is still writing these books is that they make money. they feel extremely empty and hollow.
percy is trapped as a teenager forever because rick refuses to let him age up. percy accepting old age would make FAR more sense for a percy who’s in his 20’s and just now realizing that he lived past all the shit he thought was going to kill him and he has a real life that he likes and he could actually grow old now. but percy must be a child for marketing purposes, so he stays a child. the world itself is trapped in a cycle of the gods promising they’ll be better and the gods literally not changing at all. and for the sake of the book series, it can’t change. if we had real change in the world, that would actually mean something, silly. we can’t have consequences. we have to reset every 5 years like a fucking comic book so that we can make infinite money. this is the infinite money glitch irl. just make trash that doesn’t need to be made. the end point of capitalism is making trash no one asked for that has no artistic merit just because you can make money off of it.
by the way, dr emily wilson’s iliad translation, which was also out on the same day, is LESS expensive than this book. this cashgrab nonsense novel is MORE expensive than a book a professor in classics who has a phd spent 4 years on. this is just wrong. the fun and stupid cashgrab book should NOT be more expensive than a book that someone spent 4 years meticulously translating from ancient greek. it’s just so clear and in your face. trials of apollo absolutely felt like a cashgrab but at least there was SOME semblance of effort there. this is literally just the most plain and simple cashgrab novel you can make.
hey. you know the infinite monkey theorem? the infinite monkey theorem is that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text including shakespeare. richard riordan is a monkey with a typewriter. you get it. you’ve read percy jackson.
rick riordan struck gold with pjo. it’s genuinely to this day one of my favourite things i’ve ever read, flaws and all. it’s FUN. it’s COOL. it’s THEMATICALLY COHESIVE. the characters grow and change. they feel like real people with personalities. it literally doesn’t even matter how op percy is because THAT’S how good of a character he is. he is so compelling that you want to read about him anyway even though you can tell right from the minotaur fight that this kid can decimate whatever opponent he has. the books are funny and moving because you can genuinely connect to these characters. the more i read rick riordan’s work, the more certain i am that pjo was a fluke. i don’t think he knows what he’s doing. i think he should retire from writing.
unfortunately for me, richard riordan seems to have no intention of retiring. he has announced another percy jackson book that will be released next year. i assume there will be at least 2 more books based on the setup in this one.
rick. listen. i know you’re listening because what else will you do with your time. rick, why are you doing this. hasn’t percy been through enough. when will it end. give it a rest. stop it. get some help. at the very least, read your own books before writing percy. i am right about him and you are wrong about him. you are the author and i’m killing you right now. i am strangling you and i am hitting you with weapons. all at once. i am very proficient at causing deaths. (this is a metaphor referring to roland barthes’ death of the author. i wish no bodily harm to richard riordan).
this book is… alright. percy is my smart king. sally jackson is queen of my heart. it’s a fun read but you do have to turn your brain off completely and read through some serious percy defamation.
[edit: i am downgrading this book to one star (was at 2). the more i think about it, the more angry i am. there is literally a paragraph tailor made to rub jason's death in our faces. it's about how he looks forward to getting old being married to piper and having grandchildren. it's a very low blow. jason is literally rick riordan's biggest missed opportunity and he's rubbing in how poorly he treated jason even after killing him off for apollo's character development.
annabeth still keeps putting percy down because rick doesn't realize how mean she is i guess. she's still scared of him. canonically. which is a really weird and fucked up thing to write imo. this relationship doesn't seem healthy in canon (they are healthy in my head, however, because i know what women are like) but rick refuses to address it or let them break up. i LOVE annabeth. i love her. but she is an extremely flawed character and rick never treats her as such. and it just makes it exhausting to read about her.
percy IS on form but it genuinely feels like he's tlt percy, not post hoo percy. his inner voice sounds way more immature than it has for most of pjo and in son. riordan also repurposes the "look, i didn't want to be a half-blood" line from tlt to make a dumb little joke about how high school is hard. it was a GOOD opening line. it immediately set the tone and told us so much about percy in literally just a handful of words. now it's a joke about how being a senior in high school sucks. it's this mcu-esque allergy to being sincere that pjo never had.
there is BARELY any grover in this book. i love grover so much that i was cheering any time he was there, but there is very little of him. he's in like 2 or 3 scenes and has his own side plot going on with juniper and being bad at understanding what his girlfriend wants or whatever. extremely unnecessary and not what i want for grover. this book kind of ends up feeling like it's about annabeth but from percy's perspective. she gets good moments at percy's expense. percy spends the book monologuing about how annabeth is way smarter than him and all he has is his sick ass water powers and the best swordfighting skill in 300 years, both of which are very downplayed. percy explodes a river and it's treated like this crazy freaky scary thing but two years ago in universe he made a volcano erupt and everyone was like yeah this makes sense percy is that powerful. in son he explodes a glacier and it's just a normal tuesday for him. he literally doesn't even react to it. and now we're supposed to believe his exploding and purifying a river feat is some unbelievable feat.]
in conclusion, i want a refund. no i did not purchase this book. however, i would like to be reimbursed about $5000 in emotional damages. i will also be suing richard riordan for defamation on percy’s behalf. good night new york city. and my beloved perseus jackson who lives in new york city.
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With Mei and MK they adapt to the monkey shenanigans easily. At this point in time they've known Wukong a year or more and know that A) the Monkey King may be an awesome legendary figure but he's still jsut a pregnant monkey and an otherwise regular guy who hides a lot of mental issues under a front, and B) monkey just gotta monkey sometimes. This isn't the first time he's started grooming either of them unconsciously. They're just mainly surprised his feral monkey brain defaults to thinking they're his cubs.
Bai He? Oh boy... she is freaking the fuck out. She's. Sweetheart but that doesn't change the fact that this adorable little girl, a normal little girl, was kidnapped, possessed for several weeks by an ice spirit, fought agaisnt a Sun Wukong who wasn't holding back whole being possessed (somethign that internally hurt Wukongmore than you can imagine since his instincts are definitely screaming at him for attacking a CUB), and when she woke up she found herself surrounded by a strangers, mostly a group made of demons, a dragon, and three legendary immortals.
Oh and one of those immortals is Sun Wukong himself who is not only pregnant but his mate (the Monkey King is married!? Divirced!? When asked MK just says its complicated) seems to think she's his cub!?!?
referencing this post about Mac's instincts declaring Bai He his cub.
Yeah, Bai He is like a main character who literally just got introduced in a later season. Everybody's got the lore and characters down and she's just wondering how she's supposed to heal and move on from being possessed by an ancient demoness that likely damaged her body.
Poor girl has had and is having a Time.
The only human around is ultimately Tang, so Bai He is surrounded by demons, a dragon, and some immortals. She isn't really sure who to approach with help on things.
Then suddenly the darker furred monkey (the Macaque she thinks he's called?) seems to sense her distress and brings her to the van for some reason, and hoists her into the Monkey King's bunk. Before she can ask whats going on, Bai He suddenly feels a pair of soft hands combing through her hair comfortingly.
Wukong: "Hi kiddo. Sorry about grumpy-pants over there, his instincts are acting up cus of me and the baby." Macaque: "Hmph. She's sad." Bai He: *is too surprised to answer* Wukong: "I'm sorry if I hurt you when I fought the demon. I really didn't want to." Bai He, quietly: "is ok." Wukong, softly: "I know it wasn't fun being posessed like that. It felt like something cold and slimy was under my skin - and I'm indestructible! I can't imagine how it must have felt for you to carry her for all that time. You're so strong." Bai He: *gets really quiet and turns to bury her face in the monkey's fluff to hide her tears* Both monkeys: *coo comfortingly as a parent would to a sad cub, and continue to comb through her long hair* Bai He: *is far too in need of a hug to protest*
It is a little awkward when the topic of where Bai He's original home us brought up - I hc that she's a foster kid, or her parents died/went missing when DBK was possesed by LBD. She's not in a good place either way.
There is legitimate talk amongst the fam to keep Bai He (adopted by any of the adults), as most prospective human parents wouldn't understand how she's feeling rn or know how to handle her physical recovery.
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fizzingwizard · 20 days
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Four: the one about the Groke
Short one... because her time is short
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Who's that lurking down a frosty path... it's the Groke!
Her vibe is awesome and running from her was one of my favorite parts of the game. In fact, I liked it so much that when she turned out to be a good guy I was disappointed. Like, of course I expected it, I just expected the Groke to be a Thing in the game and stick around longer, so the reveal that she's actually "harmless" would come later...
Frozen Snufkin popsicle looks all kinds of dead and horrific. Me likey
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The whole scene had the best vibe. Creepy and exciting. This isn't really a complaint but I just can't help feeling the game didn't save the best for last! After this most of the quests are very light-hearted. Especially after seeing Moomintroll, even though he's imprisoned, you don't feel the same pressure that you do in the first part of the game when everything is unknown, Moomintroll's whereabouts are completely unknown, AND there's the Groke and forest fires... The story was told backwards, at least emotionally, in my opinion.
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That being said, this scene where Snufkin approaches the police with the frickin GROKE following him is metal as hell
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And I was about to shake my first when everyone congratulated Snufkin for putting out the fires, but fortunately he gave credit where credit was due haha. I do wonder what... exactly... Snufkin was supposed to be doing during the fire? Like... was he really running through the flames? Is that hat of his fireproof bahahaha. I'd have liked some coughing animation or some such I guess.
The characterization of the Groke is very friendly and sympathetic. I prefer a more legitimately frightening Groke - not malicious, but focused on her own desire. She seeks light and warmth, only to put it out. But if someone sees her, and reaches out within the boundaries that exist - Moomintroll on the beach swinging the lantern every night without fail, but never getting close enough to touch - idk it seemed symbolic of depression or other familiar dark emotions to me which are difficult but important to accept. (To me anyway - not sure how others read it.) The game goes for a simpler angle like in Moominvalley 2019 and I do get it. I would have loved for the Groke to have been more central to the storyline but I'm not surprised. I still really loved her appearance and gameplay
eta: oh and yeah "The Groke just wants some friends" thing fits in with the whole "loners should make more friends!" vibe. Sorry, but I am wondering... what, does she not freeze people immediately on touch anymore? lol I'm glad she has friends but how does this work and why didn't it before? Moomintroll made friends with her but... didn't tell anyone all they had to do was decide she's not that bad and it'll be fine...?
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queer-media-tourney · 1 month
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AND ACT 2 IS A REFLECTION OF HOW QUEER PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED BY THE AIDS CRISIS AND ITS BEAUTIFUL AND THE MUSIC IS GORGEOUS AND YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR IT
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