#I need to lay down lord

[luyo-mi]

LETS GO RAHHHHHH

[fennelwasp]

P1 clara route oh my god

[ww2yaoi]

no one is brave enough to say it but this moment was gay sex for these two

[takaraphoenix]

What do you think about the changes to Luke’s confrontation with Percy ?

Got this ask, got really confused, realized the final episode was out, went to watch it, came back here.

So.

Mh.

As with the majority of the many changes this show made to the books, I have... mixed feelings on it.

Part of me loves this much more than the books - much - more. Because it made so much more sense. Luke, trying to recruit Percy instead of just... flat-out trying to murder him again.

And! That Percy was the one who figured it out, on his own. I love how clever this show makes Percy.

It was a really tense and interesting confrontation.

Now here's the part that made me dislike it. Because it made so much sense.

In the books, Percy not taking Luke's side made complete sense, because Luke just flat-out tries to murder him, for the second time, and he is screaming and throwing so much stuff out in such a frantic way that he does sound like he lost his mind. It's very easy to conclude "My guy, you're being brainwashed by Kronos".

But this Luke? And this Percy?

The Percy who literally spent the entire damn show MAKING Luke's points. The first half of this show, every single conversation between him and Annabeth was basically Percy reciting Luke's bulletpoint list of why the gods suck and demigods shouldn't do their bidding.

And now, what? All of the sudden, just because, what, daddy dearest showed up once and saved Percy's life from Zeus, he is Team Olympus? C'mon. That was weak as fuck.

A very brief summary of a point I've made in the past, I don't want to drag this argument out again but it's important to bring up in this context: PJO is inherently a story about keeping the status quo. It follows the very tried concept of giving the villain (Luke) a very good and valid motivation to rebel against an oppressive force, but undermining the good points he makes by adding something that nobody can argue is bad (Kronos controlling everything in the background), so the hero fights the immediate problem instead of the shared oppressors, instead of just giving the very good and valid motivation to the hero and have them fight for real change.

And in the books, at least there really wasn't much of a reason for Percy to join Luke, and Luke doesn't even really ask for it either.

But this Luke asked. This Luke very coherently expressed himself.

And this Percy has made his exact talking points in the past. And nothing, aside from Poseidon stepping up once in his fucking life, has really changed. If anything, I'd say the bad - Ares, Zeus, ATHENA - really outweigh the good.

Why is Kronos worse than Zeus? Because he ate his children? Zeus did worse things to his own children in mythology, to be quite frank. Show Percy is too clever - too knowledgeable about mythology and the past of their godly family and good at putting one and one together - and too bitter toward the gods to so fully dismiss Luke, in my opinion, especially considering we removed the "I will immediately try to murder you with a killer scorpion" and added Luke explicitly trying to recruit Percy.

And I'm not saying "Percy should have absolutely joined Luke's side", but I am saying that it felt far too much like a 180 on Percy's part to be defending the gods and pretend that Luke isn't making sense. I liked that Chiron called that out in the end, but... Percy's reply was even weaker because there was no foundation for why he would be so stubborn about this.

Even if you don't pull through with it, I think that an angle of doubt, an angle of temptation, should have been played up here.

[waugh-bao]

“It’s a facility of mine, the riff thing. I love good intros and I love a good middle breakdown that sets the thing up for the end, and I really don't know where they come from. Obviously I've listened to loads of stuff, but they're not anybody else's, they're a mixture of everything I learned really.

Also, when you play with Charlie Watts, you've got that amount of swing and rhythm behind you and it's very easy to surprise yourself. Because from my point of view I'm bouncing off Charlie Watts, we're both swapping rhythms, cutting it up, and when we get really cocky we even try and fuck each other up. 'Aha! Got you, just this once!' You can't do it on your own in an isolated thing. To come up with those sort of riffs you've got to have the drums there, 'cos that's the inspiration. So what do I say? 'Monkey Man', the riff, I got it off Charlie Watts and he doesn't even know it.”

Keith Richards, Uncut Magazine (2002)

[iguessitsjustme]

If you need me, I will be obsessing over The Director Who Buys Me Dinner because how DARE they. In the second episode?

Sir.

sIR.

SIRS.

I can’t believe I get to say this and mean it literally but.

Praise be to God.

[hallasimss]

need to make an edit to this one............................

[rhysnolastname]

another day where i desperately need a hug

[lovesickeros]

also I will probably update stuff to make it more clear but requests for drabbles/hcs/whatever is open for the record bc I just realized how vague/nonexistent the status of reqs is on my blog um..🧍

[kakushino]

Since Tumblr wants to silence my adoration for men making ahego—

HE’S SO PRETTY LOOK AT THAT FACE AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Kohaku gods- HIS EXPRESSION AND AND EVERYTHING AND TH WAY HE- AND THEN HE- FJDBJSBDJDBDHS

I had to reread it twice already-

[caracello]

i was thinking about samus and abt how people always draw her so like. clean when to me she's so clearly a once every few weeks shower-er also she spends most of her time in a space suit getting covered in space pirate gore. and then the thought of her with some stubble beamed itself into my brain and i could feel my facegetting hot.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I remember seeing a little bit of an episode of Beauty and the Beast (the weird 80s show; not the Disney movie lol) and noticing the similarities to another thing I had just seen, not even an hour before (I was seven-ish), and went, “Wow that’s a weird coincidence… twice in one day?? What.”

Anyway… I started thinking about that movie because of an article I read… and then that made me think of that weird series again… so I looked up the episode list.

Hoooooly shit I was not aware of the sheer amount of whump in Beauty and the Beast

Everyone gird your loins; I’m about to enter critical hyperfixation levels

[cosmicdenro]

gonna choose to go insane if im not in perfect working condition in 24 hours

[the-cauldron-witch]

@thegirlwiththeninjaturtletattoos @avery73

When Donnie influences his brother's style. Raphie gonna make a girl turn red.

[longing4yesterday]

i’m still thinking about that interview…it’s rattling around in my brain how much he had to keep to himself in terms of his queerness given the time period/being a public figure. had he even let it slip that there was an interest in men he most likely would’ve lost credibility in the music industry and been blacklisted. and in an even worse case scenario; sent off to have his queerness “cured” in order to be a more “productive member of society”. so he’s had to be careful about his language to reassure the audience consistently watching their every move that he’s a perfectly straight man that loves women completely and utterly. he’s not sick, he’s normal. and now it’s 60 something years later, the love of his life has been buried for 44 of them and the grief has never lifted. sure, he could say something now if he wanted, but he’s had to tiptoe around landmines forever, so what’s the point?

[ccaptain]

I am still thinking about Shrimpy's ask and how it took one gently assertive display of concern and care for H:SR Kaeya to crack and straightforwardly say that he's not alright so candidly and without his deflective bullshit.

He doesn't even remember how to cry anymore... it has been so long that he doesn't even know what the lump in his throat is or what he can call it. I'm sick!!!!!! I'm sick to the core I need to harm him actually