#Graceful Enjoyment

[candylandphotos]

Beautiful girl wearing high heels and eating noodles❤️

"Savoring every moment: A beautiful girl in high heels relishing noodles with a dash of elegance and heart ❤️."

[ariadne-mouse]

I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

[kewpie00]

will never be over these dudes

[ofswordsandpens]

I do think it was a little messed up for RR to use Jason as emotional fodder in Trials of Apollo and then kill off the poor kid in a series he wasn't even a main character of... but also I can't lie. Jason's story ending with months of self-isolation, suffering, and then death, does make his character infinitely more interesting to me unfortunately

[aquanuvens]

What's a king to a god?

1:1 version + lineart under the cut

[redlyriumidol]

a lot of the writing around sera is not great, more so in the sense that it's ~problematic~ or insensitive, but as someone who has spent time trying to emulate sera's speech patterns in writing, there are so many moments of brilliance where I've had to stop and say "how did that guy come up with this." a lot of sera's dialogue is just very creatively and cleverly written, imo. I consider myself pretty decent at writing specific accents/dialects but what makes sera difficult is she has her own dialect that this guy made up for her, her own way of speaking that is uniquely sera and matches no known dialect known to man or god. which makes absolute sense for her character, someone who has grown up with such a varied hodgepodge of influences and who sees and understands the world in a particular way that nobody else does.

this is just from an objective standpoint about sera's dialogue itself, i obviously have issues with a lot of her writing. particularly the dialogue choices in response to sera and the way I think her character arc was mishandled (or not handled, as it were.) but I personally don't think she was entirely terribly written. just because there are so many times when i see her dialogue and i'm like ughh that's so good.

[curseofdelos]

I was rereading the 'should we let Nico suffocate in a jar' scene, and I was struck by Hazel's relationship with Jason in this scene and in this paragraph in particular:

Because Hazel and Jason WERE friends pre-canon!! In TLH, when Jason gets his memories back, Hazel is one of the characters he lists as someone he was friends with back in Camp Jupiter. Then, in SoN, Hazel is among the campers who looked up to Jason as a leader - both as a praetor and the former leader of the fifth cohort - and was eager to get him back.

...But then, in this scene, he doubts that Nico is trustworthy and questions if rescuing him is the best course of action.

What's interesting too is Hazel, in SoN, also doubted how trustworthy Nico was. He was keeping things from her and was annoyingly cryptic, and this was something that frustrated her. However, the second Nico is in serious danger, she sets all her reservations about him aside and rescuing him becomes her primary goal. (Rick's writing can be so inconsistent sometimes that I'm not confident this was intentional, but my interpretation of this is that Hazel was so afraid of losing Nico that she forgave him for all the lies, half-truths, etc. Petty squabbles don't seem important in the face of potential tragedy.)

Hazel approaches the "should we rescue Nico" debate from the perspective of someone at risk of losing her brother. Nico is the only family she has left, and the only demigod who can relate to her struggles of being a kid from the 30s/40s transplanted into the modern day. She loves and cares about him. Her own feelings and her own relationships take priority over the quest. It doesn't matter to her that they're walking into a trap; she'll do whatever it takes to get her brother back.

Jason, on the other hand, is approaching the debate from the perspective of a soldier. His biggest concern is whether or not Nico is someone they can trust, and if he's worth risking their lives (and the quest and the world) to save.

Jason has no personal relationship with Nico at this point and no reason to trust him - especially considering Nico was travelling between both camps and said nothing to him during those several months Jason lived at CHB, and especially considering the number of times he's lied to and betrayed Percy over the years. Yes, the reasoning behind Nico's actions are sympathetic and valid, and the decision to keep secrets was out of his hands to a certain extent, but Jason's (and Percy's) hurt and distrust of him is valid too. WE know Nico can be trusted, but it makes sense that Jason doesn't given his experience with him.

Jason has been at Camp Jupiter since he was a literal toddler. The Roman legion is the only life he knows. He was born and raised to be a weapon for the gods. His entire story happens precisely because Hera/Juno wanted a champion. He was moulded to be the kind of person who follows the gods unquestioningly, and at this point in the series, he's only beginning to break out of that mentality (hence why him standing up to Zeus later in BoO is such a big moment for him). He prioritises the quest over Hazel's feelings because as a Roman leader, he was taught to prioritise the quest over all else.

And it's so interesting to me the way that this difference in opinion - Hazel prioritising Nico's life over the quest VS Jason prioritising the quest over Nico's life - ultimately leads to a fracture in their relationship and completely alters the way Hazel views Jason for the rest of HoO. In Jason's defence, he does apologise to Hazel fairly soon after this moment, but it's interesting to me that in HoH she's still clearly (and understandably!) bitter about the position he chose to take - to the point she wonders if Jason would abandon her too if he deemed it necessary for the quest - and in a way she isn't bitter towards Leo (iirc) despite him making the exact same points.

Because Jason was her friend. She looked up to and respected him. When he disappeared, she was among those who missed him and wanted him to come back. He was a fair, good, and just leader, so she assumed he would be on her side and fight for what she believed was right, but he isn't and he doesn't. When the time comes for Jason to support Hazel in rescuing someone important to her - in much the same way she supported his rescue - he fails her. He doesn't take her feelings or her trust in Nico into consideration. He weighs the cost-benefit analysis in his head, and isn't sure rescuing her brother is worth potentially walking into a trap.

And Hazel is hurt. Who wouldn't be? And Jason does try to make things right by apologising, but not immediately agreeing to stop your friend's brother from suffocating to death in a jar is a difficult argument to bounce back from.

idk. The way their different approaches to the "should we rescue Nico" debate causes their friendship to fall apart in this scene is so interesting to me <3

[coffeegnomee]

that was the most fucking mapicc thing to ever mapicc.

[randomsufff]

Ok I’ve seen like three separate medias containing these two fandoms and now I’m really wondering how much overlap there is-

So…

[secretly-a-catamount]

The number of people in fandom spaces who can’t seem to grasp the concept that abuse victims and abusers can be the same person continues to astound me

[humming-fly]

was gently reminded threatened to share some more oc art from the discord server and figured i'd start with this fun little comic of stell and prism's adventures at a mirror world fight club (in a dimension where respawning is the norm fights tend to end with yields or a much more dramatic variant of K.O., and if someone from the prime plane who Should yield is refusing to intervention might be required (prism is never inviting stell to one of these again))

((Stell belongs to @aseuki))

[candylandphotos]

Beautiful girl wearing high heels and eating noodles❤️

"Elevating flavors and elegance: A beautiful girl in high heels savoring noodles with a touch of heart ❤️."

[theangeleye]

God she's so gorgeous

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

it’s interesting to see how taylor has always imagined her ideal partner as being courageous (“headfirst fearless,” “this love is brave and wild,” “you walked in wearing a football helmet and said okay let’s talk,” “don’t blame me love made me crazy if it doesn’t you ain’t doing it right,” “standing broad-shouldered next to her was a love that was really something….”) and how i think at first she thought that joe simply being willing to be with her felt courageous but then as she grew she realized that it wasn’t enough of that feeling because he wasn’t always standing broad-shouldered next to her, only when it was convenient for him. and that’s not fearless. that’s just doing what’s easiest

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Impulse isn't a demon. Sure, he has bat-like wings and can be summoned, but his eyes are too yellow, and his wings are too gray-green to be a nether demon.

He doesn't talk about his origins much. Maybe once in a blue moon, it will come up, like when he told gem her swamp area reminded him of home. But he won't say more than that. After all, would they believe him if he told them about a hell between worlds?

One thing he'll happily tell the others is that he's beyond sick of the mud and stench of swampy areas, and gladly spends preferrably zero time in a swamp if he can help it. The shadows just... move differently, to him.

- Mod Dragon

[zukkaoru]

too long since i've been a fool

“Would I not look hot with an eyebrow slit?” There’s a beat of silence, and then— Kunikida sighs deeply. “How long have you been considering this?” “Not important,” Chuuya waves the question aside. “Look me in the eye and tell me an eyebrow slit wouldn’t be hot as fuck.”

aka chuuya with an eyebrow slit propaganda

🪒 2.2k words 🪒 kunichuu, established relationship