Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.
Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.
Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.
Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.
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Plot twist, Sokka and Zuko actually get together because there’s a spider in Sokka’s room so he absolutely can not go back in there now, the whole room needs to be burnt down. Now he has to sleep in Zuko’s room. With him. In his bed even. There is no other option.
There absolutely are other options
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I was working at a Starbucks where you had to play the floor is lava to get across the shop and at some point Kendrick Lamar came in and ordered a coffee.
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your comms are like always open and then you do patreon. do you ever get burnt out? just curious!!
I get overwhelmed more than burnt out I think. I LOVE what I do so deeply: but there's just not enough hours in the day for how much of it I want to do. If anyone has commissioned me before they're aware I always thank them for their patience and generally take a lil longer than I mean to. And it's not because I'm not working. I'm just working on SO much. But rent has to get paid and food has to go on the table and I'm not really interested in raising my prices at the moment so... *Shrug* this is the volume I gotta work with.
As to how I avoid burnout and mental breakdowns from workload drama; I've got a real active social life. DND every weekend like clockwork, friends that swoop into my house to drag me out of it. Kitties that keep me running after them all day, and a watch that beeps at me every hour to get up and move. I love video games and roleplay writing and art is also my hobby to visualize those characters I play and write about!
But for real, I'm sick constantly bc my immune system is shit, my wedding is in three weeks, I'm trying to conceive for the first time 😳 - sometimes the craving to just sit and draw for 48 hours straight is a relief from how busy it all gets!!!! It's all about balance.
And five years into doing this full time, I can tell you balance is the key to avoiding burnout. Making time for people, for joy, for self care, and also for the Grind (tm) 🤣
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I feel so bad for phil but it has to be said that his medical emergency videos are some of the funniest comedy bits I've ever seen
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The Wire
BASHIR: So, that's it then. You're going to just give up and let them win.
GARAK: Them, Doctor?
BASHIR: The Central Command, the Obsidian Order, whoever it is who exiled you here. You're just going to roll over and die, let them destroy you, give up any hope of ever seeing Cardassia again.
GARAK: Doctor, did anyone ever tell you that you are an infuriating pest?
BASHIR: Chief O'Brien all the time, and I don't pay any attention to him either.
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Our Man Bashir
BASHIR: Is that what they taught you in the Obsidian Order? To give up when things get tough?
GARAK: As a matter of fact, they did. That's why I've managed to stay alive while most of my colleagues are dead. Because I know when to walk away. And that time is now. And you'd know that, Doctor, if you were a real intelligence agent.
Hm. Thinking.
(*julian bashir voice* okay but what if I quite simply didn’t let you give up just like that tho. Neither on yourself nor on other people. What then.
Garak’s soul vibrating at some supersonic exceedingly horny pitch as he’s bleeding freely from the neck: …I’m listening)
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Eliot losing his sh*t when Hardison drops the slushie on the floor of the front passenger seat only to shut up when they spot the mark coming out of the club the two of you are married. this is beyond workplace entanglement you have three stepkids atp and several backup offshore accounts with like a dozen different identities attached to those so you can ride off into the f*cking sunset if need be. and no as much as you are threatening to kill him for the violation of your car space you wouldn't do a damn thing let's be real
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