#and a tv series in may

[avocado-frog]

Happy STS! What is the best novel you've ever read? What did you like about it, from a storytelling perspective? Has it influenced or informed your own approach?

Hi thanks I've got another ask from you from like two weeks ago that I forgot about whoops

On the jellicoe road has had me in an absolute chokehold since December. It took me a while to get into it because it's a little confusing for the first 100 pages, but my English teacher last year gave it to me because I didn't get a book from the library (it's also worth noting that he gave me a copy that did not have the title on the front, and it was scratched out on the spine, so i did not know what the book was called until i looked it up later)

From a storytelling perspective, it follows two storylines, one is the present, the other is about 20 years into the past, and I'm not going to spoil too much of it, but the parts from the past are written by the protagonist's caretaker, and are in third person, while the present bits are in first. It's definitely worth a reread because of the way the two storylines tie up in the end

I don't think it's really influenced much of my own writing, but I do think that my characterization skills have improved because of it

[fr3sh-c0rn]

there's just something about crime shows made in the early to mid 2000s man

[kittykyryi]

I was explaining this to someone earlier and I don't think I've seen enough people talk about it, but the kids getting four pearls instead of three was actually a really great writing choice. Did anything change? No. Did we all know one of them was gonna break/get lost? Yes absolutely. However, the fourth pearl wasn't about the story. It was about Poseidon. It was about him also being desperate to save the woman he loves. Watch him and Sally in ep 7 and tell me he wouldn't try his hardest to save her too?? It's such a significant insight into him that paired with the scenes we've gotten this episode, tell us so much about him and his relationship with Sally that we don't get to figure out until later in the books.

[mydairpercabeth]

One thing I’m really looking forward to seeing is how they convince Percy not to join Luke. Up until the end of episode 4, Percy doesn’t have any faith in his dad or the other gods. He resents them all for abandoning their kids and doesn’t like their excuses. He is disgusted by how Athena treats Annabeth. He detests the whole claiming system and that the gods can just choose to claim them if they feel like it. And he is also being actively targeted by Zeus. What will be the turning point for him to not join Luke?

[beauty-4-thebeast]

Yet another Ghoulcy parallel to relish!😃

[starliteonearth]

I feel like the sentiment that shipping Lucy with Cooper/The Ghoul replaces Barb as his canonical love interest ignores the fact that Cooper and Barb already had their time in the sun. They had a great, long relationship. They had a daughter and a family together. It was a good marriage. And then it ENDED. Not because of the bombs dropping but because they got DIVORCED. Cooper divorced her after finding out the truth (which is something a lot of viewers seemed to have missed apparently). There maybe plenty of things unresolved between them but the relationship was over, a long, long time before Lucy comes along.

[queenmuzz]

Right wing horniness: If this woman's vault suit isn't skin tight, and her face isn't flawless, I can't get off to her

Left wing horniness: I want to fuck the ghoul. He can keep his hat on if he likes.

[low-key-lucy]

Ok so since Charlie Bushnell (Luke Castellan) is part Japanese, petition to change May Castellan to Mai Castellan.

idk i just think it would be neat.

[pomribs]

"but athenas kids are supposed to have blonde hair and blue eyes!!" but the movie brunette adaptation didnt have half this uproar golly i wonder why... the whole athenas kids being blonde thing doesnt even play into the story at all and retconning it changes absolutely nothing. it was fine when the movies came out, its fine now that the show is out. dont be a coward and admit you dont like black people if u wanna hate. if leah was white you would be so quiet rn

[august-dayyyyze]

Name one hero who was happy

(I've been working on this since the first episode came out i hope yall like it!!)

[readrantannotate]

OK BUT WHAT ABOUT HADES OFFERING TO PROTECT PERCY SALLY AND GROVER EVEN THOUGH HE THINKS PERCY STOLE HIS HELM

[acidic-potato-piss-water]

Here to spread my Jim/Jade propaganda 🧡

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

I don't steal; they've already been stolen. That's what people forget. I take them off the black market and return them to their rightful owners. I might keep a few to pay the bills.

Layla El-Faouly in The Friendly Type [8/?]

[daynascullys]

BONES being a comedy show [1/?] ⤷ 3.05 — “Mummy in the Maze”

[televsion]

Isabel May as Elsa Dutton 1883 (2021-2022), Season 1

[cheesecakeonthelanai]

Iconic Golden Girls Things (as voted by you!)

#7: Wishing I had Blanche's self-confidence (4.5%)