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My reactions to the Ithaca Saga below the cut (read at your own risk)

The Challenge:

PENELOPE!!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH YOU DOJT UNDERSTAND! We knew most of this song from snippets already- but like?? It didn’t prepare me??? The parts with the suitors gave me chills, and the WAITING BIT!!! Before the underworld saga I knew that Penelope would sing Waiting, before we knew Anticlea would- but now hearing it with all the prior knowledge of waiting make it that much more gut wrenching-

Hold Them Down:

I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this song going in. Again, another one we knew a lot about, but???? The opening bit, just being a slightly darker version of what Penelope just sang?? Made me feral??? I won’t say much more about this one cause frankly the topics are not my favorite- but Antinous dying at the end?? The blood gurgle as he gets shot in the throat?? So unsettling? Loved it.

Odysseus:

So Much To Say About This One. IM HERE FOR FERAL ODYSSEUS. Man is amazing for the torches like he is Scylla- also! I love hearing all the different voices of the suitors! I don’t think we have had this many solo ensemble parts in any other song and I am loving it! THE OPEN ARMS REFERENCE WAS VILE- TELEMACHUS MY BOY! AND ATHENA’S QUICK THOUGHT I FRICKEN TOLD YALL SHE WASNT DEAD!

I Can’t Help But Wonder:

THE FIRST REUNION OF THE SAGA! I UGLY CRIED!! TELEMACHUS!! THEN THE WARRIOR OF THE MIND CALLBACK!! ATHENA! I died guys. I listen to this and died. This is my ghost speaking- THERE IS A GIRL HE HAS TO SEE!

Would You Fall In Love With Me Again:

They- they are back together. They would do anything to be back together and they made it!!! TRICKY PENELOPE MAKING SURE ODYSSEUS IS HER HUSBAND WITH THE WEDDING BED! MADE OF THE OLIVE TREE! I love her so much- and then she forgives Odysseus!!! SAYS HE WILL ALWAYS BE HER HUSBAND!!! THE WAITING. Also. Also. That instrumental? Before their final lines?? WAS THE MELODY OF JUST A MAN. SLOWED DOWN AND MUCH MORE ORCHESTRATED. I’m sobbing???? IM SOBBING??? I LOVE YOU.

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We love depressed dads beating up a bitch for their little princesses

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Newest teaser trailer for Disney+’s ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’

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it's so funny to me that Miles throws the iPad at Blanc but we never actually see Miles throwing the ipad — only Blanc catching it bc showing miles actually holding an apple ipad would be in breach of the weird clause apple has (no villian can be seen holding their product) in any movie or show or whatever lmao

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THIS. This is why representation matters 👏🏾

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ToN spoilers !!

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when rick said he was working on like four other project i really really really really hope one of them is the percabeth college novella we fucking deserve and i also REALLY REALLY hope one of them is nico and will’s quest, including the prophecy rachel gave them at the end of ToN. like fucking PLEASE rick

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I’m not freaking out you are

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Tower of Nero spoiler sorta kinda maybe

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Is NO ONE going to talk about the resurface of THE blue plastic hair brush that once blinded the eye of a newly resurrected Titan King????? NO ONE?!?!?!!!

Rachel Elizabeth Dare IS the best, you can fight me!!

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The Lightning Thief (2005)

Tower of Nero (2020)

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Hogwarts Legacy had the audacity to show up when I'm trying to enjoy my life without Rowling 😤😤😤

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💙🌊 in this house we believe in logan lerman as poseidon in the pjo tv series supremacy 🌊💙

i mean the way he was the perfect percy in the movies (with a bad writing sadly) and now he just looks like THIS and could perfectly snap as poseidon i-

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I'm not saying I'm gonna riot if they don't cast biracial actors for Carter and Sadie

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Nah that's exactly what I'm saying

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I attempted a meme

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happy birthday to my #1 demigod and the bestest boy ever, percy jackson!

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I despise what LoK did to Katara.

What was she reduced to? 

Aang’s trophy wife, his babymaker, and the tame healer of the village.

If someone watched LoK first, they wouldn’t think of Katara as this kick butt, fiery character. They’d probably reference her as “the former Avatar’s wife”

That’s a disservice to her character.

It makes more sense for KATARA to be a cop than Toph tbh. Katara literally said “i don’t want to heal, i want to FIGHT”

Katara is a fighter, she has this fire.

Katara was the last waterbender left in her village, and she moved heaven and hell to learn the art of combat waterbending.

Katara took one look at the healers and knew that wasn’t for her.

Why would LoK disrespect her like that?!

I don’t have a problem with Kataang growing old together, but COME ON NOW.

Katara of ALL THE PEOPLE is the lonely and tame old woman?!?!

KATARA?!?!

Katara would probably start the police force with Toph, and when Toph left (if LoK continued the Gaang’s legacy correctly, Toph would leave), she’d continue it and carry it into prosperity despite being a waterbender.

Katara’s healing would make her an even more valuable asset to the force, as she’d be able to heal fighters without a huge wait.

Katara wouldn’t just….sit there as a trophy wife and therapist For All The People, she’d be a fighter!

She’d have a legacy as the most badass waterbender there ever was, all her years of fighting when she was younger wouldn’t be wasted like that. She’d go on and create something that outlives her.

Katara will never turn her back on those who need her, Katara would fight anybody if she needed to, Katara doesn’t back down, even in her old age.

That is how you write Katara.