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Do you always have to be alone

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A little, friendly reminder that none of us should use Riordan Wiki as our main source of information regarding any character, because I've just discovered this on Nico's page:

Meanwhile this is the actual moment in Titan's curse:

I can't believe that this moment got so heavily and often mischaracterized in the fandom, that even the wiki got it wrong. :///

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listen I hate Luke but also I love Luke he's my favorite 20-something trainwreck and he was right about everything except the things he was very wrong about and he's very dumb <3 and a lot of his problems are just the consequences of his own actions and the fates hate him and his mortal enemy is a middle schooler and he was soooo obsessed with glory and revenge when really he just needed to be an Abercrombie & Fitch model cause it was like 2005 and everything about him is so tragic and it's all so very funny

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listen I am Luke Castellan hater first, and a Luke Castellan defender second, they are not mutually exclusive to me

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girls,,,

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im so much more interested in a hoo that lets Percy keep the status and power he'd left off with in the Last Olympian and explores how he grapples with that instead of immediately forcing him back into the role of the underdog at the expanse of his prior development. Let the fact that he alone has the title the "Savior of Olympus" mean something. Let the fact that he is the sole survivor of the great prophecy mean something. Let the Curse of Achilles mean something. Let us see how it's a curse and how it could warp his sense of self. Let Percy be on a completely different playing field than the rest of the seven (or even the other children of the big three at this point) and show us how it alienates him.

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I don't think percy and annabeth will ever get beyond 17 in RR's world no matter how long he drags out their stories but if RR (god forbid) actually wrote any material on percabeth's children, how confident are we that he would not name one of their kids Luke

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.

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I think rr should have given Grover at least one sibling. He just doesn't have only child vibes

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Can't believe the power in my building goes out just as I'm saving something important.. it's gonna take until tomorrow to get it fixed too 🫠

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I always find this part of their relationship hilarious

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officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up

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Percy sketches for the soul

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hey pal, take it easy! you're scrolling with way too much intensity. look at this horse

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dream should have the world download a public smp so we could all run around it together like an exhibit of sorts

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can people not buy hp merch?? don't buy the funko pops, don't buy the map, don't fund jkr in any way. it isn't different just because you like the 70s version and read trans regulus occasionally. funding her is funding a real life terf promoting transphobic legislation and donating to anti-trans groups. engaging with the fandom is fine. i couldn't care less about what people want to read in comparison to the people who still give her money. if someone wants to read/write more on a fanon or canon side of things but will never fund jkr, more power to them. it's the people who buy from her that get to me the most

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November 6, 2024 - Paris Saint-Germain fans unfurled a giant Free Palestine banner, featuring Palestinian and Lebanese flags, in their Champions League match against Atletico Madrid. [video]