#The Whale Chase

[chasing-the-persea]

When Percy and Annabeth inevitably get married, who’s going to be part of who’s entourage?

Obviously Tyson and Grover are going to be in Percy’s (when Percy asked Grover to be his best man ((satyr?)) Grover cried for days)

Thalia would be Annabeth’s maid of honor, and happily take up the role of disrupting Hera’s interferences

Piper was thrilled when Annabeth asked her to be a bridesmaid. Most people expect Aphrodite kids to love wedding planning but Piper knew Annabeth had been planning this ever since the underwater kiss and had everything under control. She also was on standby to talk through any nerves

Everyone is unofficially introduced to the Norse side of the family as Magnus is one of the bridesmen

In a surprising turn of events Clarisse is one of Percy’s groomsmaids. She partners up with Thalia on anti-Hera patrols

Estelle is the flower girl

Leo made their rings from celestial bronze. Diamonds matching the other’s eyes are set in the rings

Mrs. O’Leary is the ring bearer, who had to be escorted by Nico last minute because she kept shadow-traveling away during the rehearsal

Percy asked Frank and Hazel but as they were still praetors they couldn't both leave Camp Jupiter. Hazel sent Frank with a generous wedding gift

Veterans of the Athena cabin who grew up with Annabeth volunteer to make sure everything goes smoothly. They know how important this is to Annabeth and will do whatever it takes to make the wedding happen

Jason would have officiated it :'( in his stead they asked Chiron

[khazaddoom]

I noticed that the writing seems different here. Previously when talking about the crew and the last chase he was on Ishmael says ‘I’ and ‘we’ and this time it’s all ‘they’. We have no idea what Ishmael is doing during this chase, and there’s none of his usual commentary. It seems very out of character since most of the book has been about him being unable to shut up (affectionate). It kind of feels like he’s trying to distance himself from what’s happening and it’s making me sad

[bucket-puns]

Make you vile, Make you a spectacle.

They need to calm down from hitting each other with pipes

[hussyknee]

Every once in a while some professional parade-pisser comes along like, "oh you like dolphins/chimps/otters/orcas/seals/<insert wild animal species here> do you?? But did you know that they're murderous dicks that kill, maim and torture other animals horribly just for shits and giggles??"

Dude, the internet is built on cat pictures, being a sadistic serial killing asshole is not the PR blow for the animal kingdom you think it is

[impostersyndromee]

im so glad quackity and jaiden formed this alliance these two are so fucking funny together

[brbgensokyo]

What is it with souls fans and being unable to draw their own conclusions? I'd put a 20 down that i could convince you Shadow of Moses was real if i spoke in a low and slow voice with highschool presentation inflection.

[spockvarietyhour]

we're just adding so much to the opening battle

[cctinsleybaxter]

Not to worry I'm not very far in yet so trust my dear friend Herman Melville will pass an entire evening explaining bomb lances to me

[narwhalandchill]

not a comment on a r/fatuiHQ meme of all things making me finally notice that childe activating FL all the way back in the golden house cutscene actually summons those black hole/collapsing star imagery things (looking Exactly like the narwhal boss drop at a specific frame too) behind him if u look at it closely at the right frame😭😭😭

(peak subreddit btw.)

i mean its not Completely new for a motif his teleporting in the 4.2 opera cutscene is a much more clear example of the same exact visual effect but. Dang i never slowed the 1.1 cutscene down enough to see it for myself there before

what a cool detail and reccurring motif there! now let me lose my mind and credibility for a bit Thanks

(actual nonsense warning lmao its just cool black hole sfx but gone downhill)

(a Completely unrelated compilation here Surely. yes the narwhals spout attack thingy is less Obviously the same visual but its a pretty picture of my beloved. sue me. also its close enough 2 me)

anyway isnt it Curious how all these effects are ummmm black holes. like there are stars visibly collapsing here uwu. and black holes are. Collapsed dead stars. wouldnt it be funny if the narwhal boss drop archive entry somehow directly implies that the eye of maelstrom (a black hole) could simply be the echo of its prey. Which are. Yaknow. sometimes stars. for a cosmic whale. so an echo of its prey is an echo of a dead star. crazy ik. if anything like that existed i mean

oh JEEPERS. next thing youll tell me stars are archons forbid often used as a sort of allegory and very prevalent reference to some sort of an important category of people. like a descender or something. crazy ik (2: Electric boogaloo)

WHAT!!!! (and like 4 billion other examples i couldnt bother to gather and sc sorry)

and like. sure sure lets not get too crazy we need to remember skirks usage of this same power as well thats a good point. i should remain skeptical of my own insanity thats very true. we all get a sticker for responsible behavior UwU

so she indeed turned the narwhal into a black hole there yes. She Did That. so maybe its just the power from beyond thing. its void power its quantum but genshin. the black hole/collapsing star stuff is all surtalogis power okay lets consider that for arguments sake. well i guess that means its just surtalogis brand of transcendent abyss power and not about black holes slash dead stars that may or may not be dead descenders. thats fine

Whew i guess thats it then we solved it guys. okay i can accept that. its abyss power because surtalogi things and childe and the narwhal displaying it is all because of surtalogis plots and teachings and powers. something like that

and even if that may be a bit anticlimactic of a conclusion for a narwhalpilled truther like myself (with a penchant towards Theres Some Descender Shit Going On With Ajax antics as well) at the very least its good that there isnt any datamined book series in which some particularly pygmy-esque individuals Strangely fitting of our current descriptions and knowledge of of dain + the sinners band together to merk some guy from beyond teyvat with special powers that may or may not be the irminsul-proofed historical account of a particular descenders death so nothing like THAT can throw a wrench into our very confirmed conclusion of surtalogis power and by extension childe and maybe even the narwhals black hole motifs just being basic abyss element power that has absolutely Nothing to do with any descenders or... dead stars? yeah its a good thing nothing like that exists .

OH SH----

[neproxrezi]

trying to make generator VE-20B functional let alone useful is going to be the death of me

[carefulfears]

Saw your tags on leiascully's memento mori fic...

...how dare you. it was such a nice weekend and now i have to lie down again (metaphorically) to process my cancer arc thoughts.

To quote Morticia Addams: Do it again.

sorry but i have to lie down physically to process my cancer arc thoughts like…it’s very much scully’s version of mulder’s abduction arc realizations in the way that like, it’s this confrontation of truths that they didn’t need to confront before, but that it’s too late to know now.

mulder only knows how to conceptualize love in absence; during her abduction, he was drowning in the brutality of it. how familiar it was. how much it hurt, and why.

scully only knows how to conceptualize love in responsibility, in dedication; in memento mori she’s completely alone in that hospital, trying to be the strong one and figure it out herself, and she’s writing page after page after page to him. that moment where she writes that it’s been 24 hours since she had written to him because she’d just been too sick. she was writing to him all day, every day. trying to follow him, somehow.

“mulder, i feel you close, though i know you are now pursuing your own path. for that, i am grateful, more than i could ever express. i need to know you’re out there if i am ever to see through this.”

she begs forgiveness, she pleads grace, she asks for courage; she only writes of hope in consistency, that he should have his own path, that perhaps she’ll have the strength to someday follow him.

in elegy, her therapist asks “do you feel you owe it to him to keep working?” and scully says “no.” she says “i guess i never realized how much i rely on him before this.” she says “he’s been a great source of strength that i’ve drawn on.”

(i guess i never realized that i need him, to survive) and she cries as she says it.

every realization, every appreciation, is something to mourn. she’s never realized, just how much it all means, and it’s too late.

[ornithological]

got to see manx shearwaters, sooty shearwaters, great skuas and arctic skuas, ALL while watching a humpback whale!

[thalassous]

MARiA MENDEZ iS GONE:

@thesewers's beautiful texan children who are present throughout the entire narrative surely

[avemstella]

So as u probably know I went insane with the fake Rome lore in my Furina fic and since posting that thing I went 'holy shit Ajax is Greek' and how both of them are tied together by the Primordial Sea. I have so many thoughts.

[crossbackpoke-check]