#I just listed his series

[panncakes]

"If I hadn't believed in that stupid hope someone gave me..."

Jack & Joker (2024)

c. euripides, anne carson

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I like about Leo is that he’s honestly really chill? It’s easy to remember the moments where he’s being obnoxious or excitable but I feel like most of the time he’s incredibly “go with the flow” and has an overall affable demeanor.

[fandomfairyuniverse]

Tong: I keep him alive with my blood, sweat, and tears

Mark: can you PLEASE stop saying it like that

[todayisafridaynight]

[introspectivememories]

thinking about that one post that's been popping off about greek/roman cultures getting sorted into this weird binary of "greek = literature&humanities" and "roman = weird alt-right guys. war!!!" and like op is goes into way more depth and originally i was going to leave this in the tags but i didn't want to like word vomit in the tags but to add my 2 cents u can see it in children's books too. look at fucking pjo/hoo

chb gets to be the fun summer camp where 'children grow into heroes!!!' and all that jazz but cj is the strict military camp??? chb gets to have fun elective classes like underwater basket weaving and canoeing but cj brands you with a spqr mark and a bar for every year of service???? not to mention how weird that is when rr's lame ass wrote that cj fought for the confederacy??? chb has capture the flag! cj has war games. chb's oracle wears paint splattered jeans lol 🤪cj's oracle is power hungry and brutally mutilates stuffed animals 😐

and not only did he write the camps like this. the charas from each camp is written like this too!!! percy is fun and charming. jason is there. annabeth is spunky and witty. reyna is... stern. dakota has an alcoholism problem but bc it's a children's book he drinks kool-aid instead??? the satyrs bravely guide the greek demigods to their home at chb. the romans have to face The Wolf b4 coming to cj. and if they fail? they die. they just die. and they've been doing it that way forever. there's a wolf who kills their fellow demigods bc she deems the weak and everyone in cj just fucking goes on with their lives. the gods interact with chb. do they even know that cj exists???

imperial gold, the main metal used by the roman demigods, is constantly in shortage? they have to go on quests to find more of it???? meanwhile, there never seems to be a shortage of celestial bronze???? if you choose to stay at chb, you might die an early death but you can still interact with the world at large. if you choose to stay at new rome, you'll be safe but you're essentially isolated from the rest of the world.

okay that last point might be a little unfair but like this shit drives me crazy!!!! he just wrote the romans like they were temu chb. chb with all the sparkle gone. like he didn't even try. as if the romans didn't have their own myths. as if the romans didn't write poetry or make graffiti. as if the romans weren't their own separate culture!!!!

[goldenpinof]

this is terrifying

Dan reciting "My humps" on February 15, 2018 and February 16, 2024.

February 15, 2018 is the "press the button" video. the same game was recently played in a video they uploaded on January 24, 2024. February 16, 2024 is the WikiHow video. their first WikiHow video was uploaded on January 31, 2018.

dnp's universe is fucked up. we're literally reliving 2018.

[twinstxrs]

thinking about kageyama’s “it’s the setter’s job to break the wall in front of the spiker” in reference to how kenma sponsoring hinata while he’s in brazil and onwards is effectively doing that on a financial level. once a setter always a setter.

[ask-hws-england]

@ask-hws-america :

Hey, you! Would you be willing to throw tea at someone if it saved your life?

“𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭?”

[Long live the tea, @ask-hws-america.]

Admin: p.s. Don’t let these tallies fool you. They’re the last of many, many pages.

[galedekarios]

truly love how slowly but surely every companion is turned into a spineless doormat so as not to offend the fragile egos of the lowest common denominator of their playerbase or inconvenience them ever so slightly 💀

[starflungwaddledee]

starflung's 2023 advent 8/8 🔔 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 🔔

[strawmaguchi]

So basically this is what happened in the first 4 PJO episodes right?

[cherryargus]

okokokokokokokok fanlore cooking here

SO what if the canary curse didnt transfer to lizzie, because maybe she was in the void? It transferred to MUMBO, due to his deaths always (until Wild) being after jimmy.

I also say this because for some reason Mumbo's pov felt a lot like Jimmy's limited life pov (the last time he had the canary curse before it supposedly broke)

like just the sheer desperation in him just reeekss of Limlife, though that's also because this season is built like limited. BUT ALSO MUMBO HAD LIKE AN EXACT DEATH his second to last death was FALLING FROM AN EXTENSION OF HIS BRIDGE TO THE GROUND WHILE LAUNCHING A TNT MINECART!!!! practically the exact same as Jimmy's last death in limited. not to mention that Limlife esq desperation i talked about earlier is like REALLY exemplified by mumbo's last death

Being so desperate to stay alive that he wasn't looking where he was standing when he put the tnt in the accelerator....

[peskyvinot]

the s2 episode 8 of Hannibal Lector I'm watching right now is beyond me. the ending-literal chills. first time Hannibal alluded to admiting to the things he did to Will, while holding his head (the same way he held him when Will came to him in a state of feverish nothing-and-too-much-of-everything burger with Gideon huh?) while also. OK. it's not me imagining it right Hannibal is looking at him with hearts in his eyes and a hypothetical boner purely because Will is so broken he was ready to shoot a man ne never even directly talked to (the man was covered in horse blood) (yes. if you haven't watched Hannibal. it's hypothetically normal but also thus feels fucking different)

I think im starting to understand the homierotism of it all finally. shame I haven't watched these series earlier

[mania-sama]

You and Rosa (we're all three mutually fans of King-Highway) tboth keep bringing up All for the Game, I feel like I should like, ACTUALLY read it.

I have a tab open on my phone but I keep procrastinating 🙃

All for the Game is... wow. How do I even describe it?

When people talk about this book series, they will often say that it's bad and they would never recommend it to other people, but that it stole their hearts and souls. I understand where they're coming from, but I don't necessarily agree with them. The book series itself does have pitfalls and horrific narrative choices, but I wouldn't say it's overall bad or even mediocre. It's good. It wouldn't have such a rabid fanbase if it was... bad. It reads somewhat like fanfic, and given the triggering material inside, it wouldn't be so bad to treat it like fanfic.

If you already have the tab open to read it, then I'm sure you have already been warned about the triggers in the book series. This is mainly why people refuse to recommend AFTG to others. It's a lot. Every. single. page. you get punched in the face with a new horrific scene or thought or backstory. It's honestly astounding and a huge part of what makes it so enjoyable. There is NEVER a dull moment. ALL of the characters are traumatized. And yes, it does get worse before it gets better.

The best part of the book series is that the main character, Neil, does not know when to shut the fuck up. He shoots off at the mouth against his better judgment at every given opportunity, and it's glorious every single time. He's the real seller of the series, which is good since he's the main character. When you finish, you'll come away with Neil "I have a bit of an attitude problem" Josten nestled into your heart like a fatal case of tapeworm. He never gives you a second to stop and think; he's always moving, always running, and always dragging the reader along for the ride.

This is all to say: read it. It's so fun and enjoyable and hilarious. It was written in 2013 by a teenager as a fruitful passion project and it shows, but I'd argue that's what makes it good and unique. It's entirely, one-hundred percent it's own. And it's so, so entertaining.

Also, canonically LGBTQ+. The gays win this one!

[lupismaris]

There is nothing so affirming and life saving as leaving home and being loved at face value by total strangers for who you are

[northern-passage]

all of the book recommendations i got for stand alone fantasy:

piranesi, jonathan strange & mr. norrell by susanna clarke

babel by R.F. kuang

the sword of kaigen, blood over bright haven by M.L. wang

house of hunger by alexis henderson

dark lord of derkholm by diana wynne jones

the raven tower by ann leckie

starless by jacqueline carey

the goblin emperor by katherine addison

spinning silver by naomi novik

dreamsnake by vonda mcintyre

juniper & thorn (and other books) by ava reid