#They do

[isbergillustration]

Looming

[lattesqueeze]

…yeah

[ibenology]

Gwen: maybe you should be here on time

Alice: hey Gwen, time isn’t real

Me: oh so you want each other carnally

[uselessnbee]

something i can't stop thinking about is the fact that Percy Jackson started as a comfort story for Rick's son to show him that his adhd and dyslexia doesn't have to be just a bad thing and the fandom then took Percy and Leo and made them into these stupid idiots that don't even know basic math or "big" words and wouldn't be able to even tie their shoelaces without someone else's (someone smarter's) help

don't yall see how fucked up that is? a big part of this fandom has adhd and/or dyslexia and/or other learning disabilities/neurodivergence and find comfort in those characters. they are called lazy and stupid all the time and then yall decided to take characters with those disabilities and ignore their inteligence and made them into something they are not just because their adhd is more "visible" (read more stereotypical looking) (even tho that's not true either because the fandom made them into chaotic gremlins but in reality Percy is more just sarcastic and snarky and even that is more just his internal monologue for his own amusment and to cope and Leo just uses humor as a coping mechanism to hide his depression and other issues but that's a discussion for another time)

Percy is canonically very smart and strategic. no he isn't very good at school. it's what happens when you're neurodivergent and have learning disabilities. that doesn't mean he's stupid. no he doesn't know everything about greek mythology and that doesn't make him stupid either. but when Annabeth tells him the myth he is very good at coming up with strategies and how to win a fight. he's not smart as Annabeth because Annabeth is literally a daughter of the goddess of wisdom so stop fucking comparing them. are you also going to call Annabeth weak and incapable because she can't control water? no you won't because that's fucking stupid. and Leo. fucking Leo. is literally canonically a mathematic genius and also genius when it comes building stuff. they're both smart. they're not fucking stupid. they know and understand words that are longer than 5 letters. no they do not struggle with basic knowledge. they're not fucking stupid.

and miss me with the "it's just a joke" bullshit

jokes are supposed to be funny

and it's not just a joke for many of you because the number of fanfics where they are written in exactly this way is too fucking high. it's actually surprising to find a fanfic where they are written right

in conclusion: the way this fandom portrays Percy and Leo is reinforcing the harmful misconception that people with adhd and/or other learning disabilities are stupid and i hate it with a burning passion

call me sensitive all you want i'll gladly accept it i will rather be called sensitive for hating that those characters are being treated this way than follow the fandoms harmful idea about them

thank you for coming to my ted talk <3

[cult-of-the-eye]

so far malevolent has really just been what tight spaces can we hide in

[spn-lesbian]

Cas, disheveled: hello, sorry about being late, I was doing... some stuff

Dean, also late: really important stuff

Sam: do you guys think I'm an idiot?

[golden-reedwolf]

[null-doesnothing]

my favorite holmes and Watson adaptations are always like-

the best and most accurate versions of themselves to the book renditions and frequently regarded as the best Sherlock Holmes adaptations ever

and

these two fucks I found off the street. they are like street rats to me. endearing street rats.

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

It’s the way fantasy is broken down and built back up through a rather tenuous connection between Jon and Sansa. Two characters who are fantasy, when you really think about it, and are at the heart of GRRM’s deconstruction and reconstruction of common fantasy tropes.

There’s Sansa, the fantasy princess in every sense of the word. She’s breathtakingly beautiful and polite. She’s got her magic pet and her penchant for singing sweet songs. She wishes to explore outside her father’s magic castle and then boom, the king visits and now she’s betrothed to the most handsome prince who’s destined to be king. And he promises that he will take her out of that tower. She will get to live the grand romantic performance of a prince rescuing his maiden and marrying her and living happily ever after. And he does….only it’s the worst outcome imaginable. Out of one tower into another (and the tower is gender!). The handsome prince is a sadistic freak who abuses her and controls her. The beautiful queen is actually quite evil and perpetuates her abuse. The knights at court ignore her or are active participants in her dehumanization. Her family is either dead or far away from her. And as all pretty princesses are, she’s brutally orphaned. There’s no one to protect her. There are no valiant heroes and there are no true knights…..or maybe there are? In her disillusionment, she wishes for a hero to chop off ugly Janos Slynt’s head. Then in comes Jon Snow - a bastard black knight who is ironically (and unknowingly) the heroic prince Sansa dreams of but has come to think doesn’t exist. Sansa, a princess in a tower who is losing all hope. And Jon, a prince in hiding who is her hope. Huh…I thought fairytales didn’t exist? Maybe they do, actually. You just have to open your eyes and see.

[quintessential-candles]

“Andrew Minyard and Neil Josten never say I love you”

WRONG!

“How do you KNOW!?!? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!?!?” SHUT UP I AM GOD OR SOMETHING

They do say I love you

It’s a rare occurrence but it does happen.

The first time is when they’re searching for an apartment

They’re searching quietly with the occasional comments about how a place looks nice

And then it hits Neil that regular couples would’ve at least said ‘I love you’ before moving in together, and while the two of them will NEVER be regular people, he still wants to say it.

He knows that forever they’ve said ‘I love you’ through keys, kisses, stealing sips from each other’s drinks (they get caught almost every time because Nicky audibly squeals despite trying not to)

But he really wants to say the words this time,

And so Neil mumbles something about the apartment on screen before adding “I love you” to the end of his sentence.

Andrew looks at him

And he doesn’t say ‘I love you too’

But he can tell from Andrew quickly directing his attention back to his laptop that Andrew does love him.

And it takes a while

But eventually Andrew says it back.

The first time it happens in front of the team is a few months later

They get together and hang out as often as possible, but they don’t get together enough to know that Neil and Andrew have started saying ‘I love you’ to each other

Halfway through whatever they’re doing Andrew’s phone rings and he sighs before muttering “I’ll be right back, I love you” to Neil.

And the whole team is shocked, because since when does Andrew love things!? I mean— they all knew he loves Neil but they didn’t expect him to admit it!?

And Neil is shocked too

Because he never expected Andrew to say it in front of the team

But he has the biggest and dumbest smile on his face, which obviously says that he loves Andrew too.

After that it’s still rare

But it does happen

Thanks for coming to my tedtalk guys 👍🏾

[mr-laveau]

POC Queer Redacted Culture is...

Knowing that Gavin is both so trans and "exotic POC" coded because yes he is, you can't tell me otherwise.

[thedeerman]

hey chat not gonna lie, the fact that i decided to post DYWTK chapters twice a week means that i've already written like three fucking weeks of content and I am so fucking impatient guys. Im so impatient. so uh, yeah. I might be upping that to three chapters a week for my own sanity lmao

[meep-meep-richie]

“ we’re playing one character that’s sort of split into two.”

[yeahthatsonearthdipshit000]

I am from the future actually and I'm here to tell you that Lockwood and Co gets a season 2 Lockwood and Co gets a season 2 Lockwood and Co gets a season 2 Lockwood-

[cutekittenlady]

Silly things I'd enjoy seeing in Caslevania: Nocturne Season 2

Someone in the group, maybe Maria, realizing randomly (and completely unprompted) that Alucards name is literally just "Dracula" backwards. Alucard (sarcastic): You have caught me. My secret is revealed. How ever could you have figured it out? Maria: I was just point out- Alucard: Now you have power over me. How may I serve you mistress? Maria: Stop. It. Alucard: You have exposed me. Woe is me. I am dooooomed. Maria: Ugh. You are such an asshole.

Follow up on the last one, but the same person (again maybe Maria) learning Alucard isn't actually the name he was given at birth and proceeding to try and guess Alucards real name with increasingly ridiculous sounding guesses. (She may eventually learn his name is Adrien, or she may not. JUst an idea.)

Alucard super duper promised Trevor and Sypha that he'd look after their descendents and ensure the Belmont Clan didn't die out so that the knowledge to combat the things that go bump in the night never fully disappears. Unfortunately for Alucard, it turns out that keeping a family of danger prone monster hunters alive when he is just one guy (no matter how powerful) and they keep going all over the world is, like, impossibly hard. Richter: Wait, so you were supposed to keep out family from dying out? Alucard: (sigh) Yes. Juste: Not very successfully were you? Alucard: Oh fuck you. Do you have any idea what it is like trying to argue self preservation with a clan of terminally stubborn vampire hunters? Richter/Juste: .... Alucard: No. No you don't!

The REVEAL that even at 319(?) years old and counting Alucard is actually still considered a very young upstart by, like, the upper echelon of powerful vampires. Ya gotta make it to, like, 500-1k before anyone really starts taking you seriously (this going with a theory that vampires get more powerful with age) and Alucards level of power is an outlier and anomaly mostly chalked up to who his dad was. This also makes other powerful vampires REALLY want the guy dead since theres no telling how powerful he might get if they just leave him be. And since he's an established ally of the belmonts this especially makes them want him either deader than dead or otherwise controlled to their benefit. The silliness comes in when another vampires, like Olrox, absolutely points out that Alucard is basically the vampire equivalent of an extremely talented college student in his 20s. Who nobody really respects but are terrified he'll take their job. All the while Alucard is standing there listening to this man basically destroy all the badass image he made with this group in a manner of minutes.