#but it doesn’t like. erase the fact that my brain is a rat bastard

[aliosne]

Me, guy who has Feels Like Shit All The Time Disease and also Disproportionate Reactions To Normal Disappointments/Frustrations Disorder: why do I feel so frustrated and angry about this very mild and normal thing

[thejudgingtrash]

Well. I’ve gotten quite the reactions to my hot takes//unpopular opinions. So here’s part two! For everyone new, here’s part one!

Percy radiates the blandest straight energy. I don’t see why you people think he’s bi

Hazel > Frank > (Leo > Piper) > Jason and that’s that story (Leo and Piper can switch positions)

Everyone giving Percy some heat for not realizing that Annabeth had a crush on him is fucking stupid. Shit is going down, he’s an insecure boy who got a lot of flag in a very short time by everyone in his environment and you think he’s supposed to dive nose deep into some coochie? Damn y’all are some horny bastards

People that still bash on Perachel (and I’m saying that as a hardcore Percabeth shipper) and harass those shippers should just walk out of the fandom

Hazel‘s background story is a gigantic fucking mess and should have been kept in the drafts

All the godships (Caleo, that whole Walt/Sadie/Anubis thing) across all series are trash

Jason’s death in TOA was cheap as fuck. He should’ve died in HOO and not as a side character in another bland sequel

People that don’t realize that Paul magically doesn’t erase/fix the abuse that Percy and Sally have suffered from are... fun. More on my stance on Paul here

Leo was always fucking annoying but pre-MOA Leo is someone we can deal with

Percy is the only dude with a beard and chest hair. Everyone else looks like they’ve glued three pubic hairs into their faces

Making Piper rely on the white man is a huge fucking no

The fact that every important kid/protagonist is a descendant from one of the 12 Olympians and not a kid from a minor god in the follow up series proves that neither the gods nor Rick Riordan have changed. Luke’s funky ass proves that even Riordan’s a douche in that regard

If you think that Percy is going to disrespect Sally in her own house by doing some intricate cooch research with Annabeth you are fucking mistaken

The musical as wonderful as it may be, isn’t canon. It’s another artist‘s interpretation of a work. Riordan giving it a thumbs up doesn’t mean jack. Using the musical as an argument is meh at best

People that ask in 2020 why Riordan‘s works are problematic are the same people that type ’Google‘ into Google

I can’t stress this enough but Annabeth’s favorite song is Red Solo Cup by Toby Keith

Pretty sure Annabeth’s hair equals a rats nest 90% of the time. Princess curls where? Is she hindering missions because she isn’t done with deep conditioning? Bitch is a walking mess!

The fact that both Underworld kids are time travelers that just seem to manage modern times all too fine is fucking stupid

Also people that are forgetting that Nico is Italian, not Italian-American are tiring. The likelihood of him understanding racial issues of Italians in the US are next to none

Also a bunch of people have accents and slang which would’ve made everything funnier

Riordan really loves to make his latinx characters bland and awful, huh?

Too many people lack basic reading skills part II

The fact that people are seriously fighting over the pronunciation of a shipping name/neologism is pathetic to the max. Pronounce it however you want. Who gives a shit? People disagreeing on something doesn’t hinder you in any way

On that note, Percabeth is an awful ship name. Why not choose Seaweed Brain? It was already there. It was a given. It was sweet and easy to digest

The only iconic female performer that Percy willingly listens to is Her Majesty Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Meg is fucking annoying, more so than Leo

Same goes for Lavinia

Same goes for Alex Fierro from the bits I’ve read

The scavengerhunt plot that Riordan set up to mark Hera as the evil queen is the messiest and dumbest plot device of HOO. Periodt

Cecil Markowitz‘ portrayal is fucking racist

Same goes for Julia Feingold

Same goes for Samirah Al-Abbas

Hades would’ve never had kids outside of his marriage. Sorry team Nico & Bianca

The Trials of Apollo are so forgettable and bland I can’t recollect anything that happened apart from Jason being turned into kebab and missing lesbian rights for Reyna

Classisists coming for Riordan are morons at best. This series is meant for kids. As shitty as the gods are portrayed (and we all agree that the portrayal could’ve been waaaay better) there’s only so much one can do for a middle school audience. Also the gods aren’t the focus of the series. Shouldn’t you be happier about the fact that Riordan gets more kids interested in Greek Mythology?

On that note, Poseidon is a piece of shit and not the cool dad

Hellenistic polytheists have more reasons to be offended as Riordan bashed their views on their religion (sorry guys)

Everyone who is trying to erase Grover as Percy’s best friend deserves to get hit with a deadly chancla

That also goes for everyone that has no issues with applying racist canon to fanart (Piper with feathers, light eyes for poc, giving Annabeth Trump‘s tanning treatment)

Annabeth Chase is white

Percy and Jason aren’t friends. Idgaf.

Realistically speaking Thalia would’ve immediately dipped the hunters after Kronos funky ass got defeated

Pretty sure you would be able to smell a demigod from a mile away. When do these stinky bastards have the time to take a shower?

Annabeth needs some therapy with a focus on managing her aggressive outbursts. That judo flip wasn’t cute. The fuck.

Apart from that I still stan bold, unapologetical asshole Annabeth

Why are all the kids either dead poor or fucking millionaires? Does the middle class not exist? Will the next series in the Riordanverse be about the struggles of capitalism?

The tattoos from Camp Jupiter make absolutely no sense as Romans thought that tattoos are barbaric. And no, saying it’s a modern spin is fucking stupid especially when New Rome is build with the old rules, principles and ways in mind. Slave branding your child soldiers is a fucking no from me

New Rome having fucking child soldiers

The fact that all protagonists basically jump onto the praetor‘s position in little to no time is stupid. Why place the rule that you have to work your way up in the first place when you basically can just toss nickels at passerby’s and get the spot?

The Tower of Nero will be worse than Blood Of Olympus

[tessatechaitea]

Justice League International #9 (1988)

I guess that means Black Canary will have to defeat the Manhunters.

I read The Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was twelve and I'll admit that I thought Éowyn killing the Witch-king was a pretty good twist on the prophecy that he would not be killed by the hand of man. Later, as I got old enough to despise everything in the world because my sense of wonder had been worn down to a nub like a well-used eraser, I realized twelve year old me was a credulous little rat bastard who wouldn't know a good twist if it jumped up out of the lake as a drowned zombie boy and pulled him under just when he thought the film was over and he was safe. Wait a second. I don't want to discuss Éowyn anymore! Maybe I'll get back to it but I've just realized something more important. If Jason had drowned and remained a little boy from 1957 to 1979, how does he become a grown ass adult in the subsequent movies?! I suppose serious Friday the 13th fans believe Alice simply imagined being pulled into the lake, since the police found no trace of a small boy. And the actual Jason didn't drown at all but received such severe brain damage that he decided to live in the woods like Grizzly Adams. Maybe he didn't even remember his mother until she showed up to murder all those counselors and he learned who he was by observing the first movie from the woods. Then we was all, "Man! That woman killed Ma! I'll show her you can't behead my Ma and not get beheaded yourself!" Hmm, that was too easy to solve once I spent any time at all thinking about it. I wonder how many hours I could lose looking up what actual fans of the franchise think? I'll never know though because I dislike fans and fan theories almost as much as I dislike my twelve year old self for being so amazed by the Éowyn twist! Maybe the Éowyn twist is just as good as I thought it was 37 years ago. It's not like I've ever gone back to re-read The Lord of the Rings. I've only read a handful of books more than once in my life and have never re-read a book immediately after reading it until now with Gravity's Rainbow. You can blame Thomas Pynchon on my lack of reading comic books lately because his book was so fucking good and had so much going on that I had to read it again immediately. This issue takes place during the big DC Millennium event so it might be a bit confusing for me. I'll be damned if I'm going to dig through one of the forty comic book boxes lying around just to find Millennium to read before this.

No thanks! I think I'll just muddle through!

Remember when DC had huge events that crossed over into every single comic they put out but were totally boring and inconsequential and didn't have "METAL!" in the title? I'm so glad those days are over and Scott Snyder has made crossover events super fucking hardcore and radical again! *five minutes of mouth guitar noises*

Oh! Is this some of that Éowyn-like prophetic foreshadowing?!

Rocket Red #7 has to be the most lame attempt at having a team member betray the team, especially since he's immediately replaced by Rocket Red #4. "Whoa! What a twist!" I probably thought back at my still tender and rat-bastardly age of sixteen. Rocket Red #7 comes right out and tells everybody that he's a Manhunter. I guess part of the Manhunter philosophy is to first try and recruit man. If unsuccessful, only then do you hunt man. Batman explains to Manhunter Rocket Red #7 how to painfully shove offers like that up excretory orifices. After Black Canary gets on his ass several times for not including her in his exclamations of "gentlemen," Manhunter Rocket Red #7 learns to say, "No man—or woman—can escape the Manhunters!" So I guess no Éowyn twist this time. Hell, I'll probably never learn the twist for how the Manhunters can be defeated because that's the kind of plot point that's going to take place in the actual Millennium issues. And I probably won't re-read those for another few years!

"Suck on this, manhunter!" was my most commonly used phrase in college.

Black Canary is so concerned about gender equality maybe she should be scolding Batman for not hiring any other women. Rocket Red #7 beats the shit out of everybody inside the ship (not Beetle's Bug for some reason probably explained in Millennium #1) and then flies out to stand on top of it and not say he's king of the world because Titanic wasn't the huge breakout romantic hit it would be a decade later. What a great movie! It had everything! Boobs, guns, people dying. Like an Agatha Christie novel but with boobs! Once Rocket Red #7 is outside of the ship, the members of the Justice League with actual, non-screaming-related super-powers take notice of him. That's because they're flying to show off to the others their super powers. The characters I'm talking about are Guy Gardner and Martian Manhunter. Booster Gold is also flying outside the ship but he's just a small town thief with a Legion flight ring and a force field. He doesn't even have a manly bulge in this super tight suit! One thing I learned that maybe I knew once but probably not for long because I don't think it was ever front loaded as part of his characterization is that Rocket Red (like all Rocket Reds) is a techno-empath. That means his suit allows him to control technology by crying or getting angry. If you know for a fact that it means something else, just keep it to yourself, okay? This isn't fucking Wikipedia. It's a stupid joke review blog that, most of the time, forgets to even review the comic book. Nobody knows how to stop Rocket Red #7 from crashing the ship into a Bialian oil refinery because if they try to stop him, he'll blow up the ship and kill everybody inside. Which, you know, will happen anyway if it crashes into the oil refinery. So I don't know why nobody tries to stop him anyway. They just fly ahead to save civilians. Luckily Rocket Reds #1-...I don't know, 53 (minus #7) save the day! I guess they use their Techno-Empathy to shut down Rocket Red #7's eyeballs.

Oh yeah, Rocket Red #7 dies here. I mean, not here, exactly, because nobody stops the Manhunters. He dies a little later after the jump scare out of the pile of debris scene.

Max Lord consults his mysterious robotic sounding friend about the Manhunter threat but the dumb thing doesn't know any more than he does. Lord mentions that the Manhunters have gotten close to all of their potential recruits while looking at a monitor with those recruits. One of them is Halo and Geoforce from The Outsiders! Oh why oh why couldn't Halo have become a member?! Halo was my pre-Sailor Moon role model. I think I've just always wanted to be a hot young woman. Oh yeah. Didn't Doctor Jace turn out to be a Manhunter? The story ends with Maxwell Lord's personal assistant shooting him because she was also a Manhunter. How all these people were Manhunters, I'll never know! I suppose it's like when you've been playing a Dungeons & Dragons campaign for four months and suddenly one of the NPCs turns out to be a polymorphed dragon and you're all, "Holy shit! What a twist! This DM is devious!" But in reality, the DM only thought up the twist thirty minutes before that night's campaign. It's pretty much exactly like that. Every writer at DC must have gotten a memo from editorial that read: "One of your characters needs to be a Manhunter. It doesn't matter which one but it would be a lot more exciting if they were an important part of the team!" And Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatties read their memo, shrugged, and concluded they were only willing to rid themselves of Max Lord's secretary and the stupid, replaceable Rocket Red. A second short story finishes up this issue. It's about Jack-o-lantern of the now defunct Global Guardians being wooed by Bialian Rumaan Harjavti. He wants a super group of terrorists to threaten the Western world with. I guess they'll become Bialya's version of Qurac's Jihad. If it ever comes together, of course. Jack-o-Lantern would just be using Rumaan's money and support to get a new global team together. Probably. Justice League International #9 Rating: B. Did you know China has a university called the China University of Mining and Technology? That acronym is so close to being disgusting! Some translator should point it out so they can come up with a synonym for "mining" that begins with an "n" so they can sell a ton of school merch to the West.

[bucksbisexual]

OKAY OKAY OKAY OH MY GOD!!!!!! EP12????? MORE LIKE EPISODE PAIN WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!! this was the episode that made me break i actually teared up oh my god yall. okay first of all wave having a camera on pang’s room...... honey i think that’s a crime,,, but yknow what? at least it helped yall at the end so whatever. all of their scenes are basically “you’re so fucking stupid i hate you but also i will help you take down our director because he’s an evil bastard but after that i will continue to hate you like i used to” and i love that (although i would love it more if the fucking fujoshis didn’t comment about these two all the time instead of what’s happening in the drama but we can’t have everything can we),, okay the whole searching for pins exam was so much fun because we finally see more of the twins and how punn and claire’s relationship works (they’re both lowkey evil and i LOVE it), we also see more of ohm and namtaan being like “look i know pang doesn’t want to tell us whatever he’s doing but he’s associating with wave and that’s just Something That Normal Pang Wouldn’t Do and i’m worried about him” which was sweet but also if i was on their place i would just be so unbothered by that like “ok you’re talking with wave now and it’s secret so i’m guessing u’ll tell me when it’s time soooo bye good luck on ur exam” and that’s why i could never be on a drama JKHFJGKFL to something more serious,, what the director put pom through with those experiments was so fucked up oh my god i won’t mention what he did because it makes me sick but the fact that pom then ratted chanon out because it would affect his future and after that erased all of his memories to forget everything including what he did to chanon...... pom is a fucked up bitch but you better believe i cried when pom cried after hearing what chanon had done for him...... his “non, i’m sorry” broke my mf heart yall........... like i hate him but i wanted to hug him at that moment because holy fuck they don’t even tell us what happened with chanon?????? none of his gifted classmates except pom remember him/have heard from him (i don’t remember which one it was) in a loooong while?????? so what happened to chanon?????? just memory erasure or more???????? because the (maybe first and) last time pom had tried to erase human memories he fucked up their brains to the point of no return....... god now i’m wondering because where is he???? where is my good boy?????? oh god oh god oh gODDDDDDD. aLSO. THAT LAST SCENE????????????? WHAT THE FUCK LADDA I TRUSTED YOU FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND AND YOU DO WHAT????????????? TURN OHM INTO A NORMAL PERSON??????????????????? WITHOUT ASKING HIM?????????????????? WHAT THE FUCK. I’M SO SURE SHE HAS OR HAD A POTENTIAL YALL BECAUSE HOW DOES SHE KNOW THERE’S A WAY TO GET RID OF IT???????????????? WTF??????????????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I SCREAMED SO LOUD AT MY SCREEN I HATE HER ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS NO ADULT IS TO BE TRUSTED IN THIS DRAMA OR EVER. i am still 17 so when my birthday comes around i will just not <3 if i didn’t born. i don’t born bc i did. no i didn’t <3 but yeah fuck ladda and fuck he director and i very much sympathise with the guy who was unphased with the director’s whole existence like yes i also don’t trust him you’re not alone man @ man who looks like he has a foot on the grave <3 okay i used way too many hearts at once but i’m scared of what will happen in the next (and last ;;) episode because when will the gifted graduation be airing????? idk i haven’t watched the trailer so i’m just,, picking up little clues of what i have seen on the twt tl and on here (i saw like 1 gif and i covered my screen while scrolling lmao) so i’m.. excited to see where it goes after the last episode,, okay i think this is long enough so see yall tomorrow for ep13!!!!!!! i’m so excited!!!!!!!!!! bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hillywooddestiel]

Walls Chapter 12

Characters: Dean x reader, Sam, Dr Richard Ketch (ofc), Ms Calder (ofc)

Warnings: angst, language, mentions of human experimentation

Word count: 1.2k

Description: Sam and Dean are trapped and it seems like there is no way out. Y/N’s transformation is nearly complete.

A/N: Look what’s back! Yes, I know, it’s been a while (4 months shhhhhh) but my inspiration is coming back, sort of, and I have more time to write now so here we are. It’s not the best chapter, in fact it’s a little depressing, but it’s a chapter and we’re nearly at the end I think. Enjoy this because I have no clue when the next chapter will be posted xx Masterlist

Story:

Dean’s POV Everything sounds distant, like I’m behind pane of glass trying to listen in. There’s beeping. My eyelids are heavy and take some effort but I manage to open them. It’s white. Everything is white and smells kind of chemically. I try to lift my head but a bout of dizziness stops me. So does the strap across my chest. My arms and legs are also bound to whatever it is I’m lying on. Oh crap! “Sam!” My voice comes out broken as I call out, “Sam! Sammy!” “Dean!” Sam shouts back from what must be the other side of the room. “Sam, you okay?” “I… I think so. I think they drugged us.” Sam groans. Gee, you think? I haven’t felt pain in my head like this since my hangover after finishing a case in Vegas! “Is Y/N here?”

“I don’t think so. Don’t worry, I’ll get us out of here.” I assure him, manoeuvring my hands around to break free. “Dean-” “Hang on! I’ve almost-” “Dean!” Sam lets out an exhausted sigh, “It’s too late.” “We can’t give up! We’re so close to saving her!” “Dean, we barely made it against these guys last time. We don’t stand a chance.” He admits in a defeated tone. “What are you saying? That we- we give up?” I argue back, my chest constricting. “I just… I don’t see how we’re gonna get out of this.” If my arms were free, I think I would have punched him. Even though I know that he’s right. Dr Richard Ketch’s POV She’s perfection. Honest to God perfection. After the doctor gave her some adrenaline she woke up pretty quickly and now she’s stood in front of me and I can see what a perfect soldier she is. At attention, looking forwards, barely blinking. Well, I may have been a little hesitant at some of the doctor’s ideas. Her screaming was ear piercing. But she’s not screaming anymore. She’ll do anything I say. I say jump, she doesn’t even ask how high she just jumps as high as she can. I tell her to kill somebody and she’ll do it with no remorse. “Remarkable.” Ms Calder examines the girl, gaining no interaction from her. “Thank you Ma'am.” I give a tight lipped smile, my hands behind my back. “I had my doubts Ketch. I won’t apologise since they were well founded but I have to say, you’ve used the money well.” She examines the scars on the girls arm as I let out the breath I’ve been holding for weeks. “Yes Ma'am. And we also have the Winchesters ready. We can start the-” “No!” “No Ma'am?” “I don’t want them as soldiers. I want them dead. See to it Ketch.” She orders with the wave of her hand. “Right away Ma'am.” I nod to the two guards by the door and they leave immediately, myself following close behind. I wait a moment until we’re a few paces from the door before speaking again, “Alright, I want you to forget what Ms Calder ordered. You are not to kill the Winchesters.” “Yes sir.” They reply automatically. “Take them to the Amygdala Eradication Suite.” Sam’s POV

Dean screams and shouts as they roll his bed out of the room, trying to thrash his arms at the men in surgical masks despite his restraints preventing it. I remain still when they come for me; what’s the use anymore? They have us. They have Y/N. We’re all as good as dead, worse than dead, and there is no way of escaping. The lights roll along above me as I’m pushed to somewhere new. Dean has fallen silent; either they drugged him or he’s given up too. I don’t blame him for it. We’ve been in bad situations before, we’ve fought the devil, we’ve even been to other universes but this… this is something else entirely. You can spend your whole life fighting ghosts, vampires, werewolves, Djinn, the entire supernatural world but in the end, you find that it’s human beings that are the true evil in this world. They can be good, it’s true, but they can be easily bought or swayed to do the darkest deeds possible. Exhibit A: Dean and I are about to be experimented on like defenceless lab rats. “I want the big one first.” The slender man in a white lab coat gestures to a big MRI scanner type machine- it’s long and cylindrical with a ring down the centre, a bed on wheels inside. But it’s longer and filled with small lights inside the ring. Also, off to the side, there’s a glass tube running from the floor to the ceiling connected to the machine by a thick cable along the floor and inside it, bolts of blue electricity fight for space. The power source.

The nurses wheel my bed to line up with the machine. They leave me there, walking over to a table covered in screens and buttons- somehow I doubt that they’re talking over details of a brain scan.

“Are we all set? I want to be finished before Ms Calder comes down here.” not-Ketch joins them, hurriedly checking out all of the displays. He looks a little worried; he’s sweating from his forehead and his shoulders are tensed. What could have him so worried? Well, I’m about to die so there’s no point remaining in the dark.

“What are you going to do to us?”

“Sam! I suppose you might as well know, though you’re not going to remember it. No, you’re not going to die. You’re being given a second chance in life.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that you’ll work for us from now on, doing exactly as we order you to.”

“We’ll never work for you” I growl, pulling against the restraints.

“Oh but you will. It’s all you will know to do. But, you know too much about us to be broken down like your friend. Hence, we will be erasing the amygdala in your brain.”

“What does that-”

“It means that you will no longer feel any emotion and will therefore be able to kill without mercy. It’s much easier this way. There are some side effects: your short term memory won’t function correctly and there’s a small chance you will remain in the postoperative coma permanently but the benefits outweigh the risks.”

“Sammy…” Dean suddenly stirs, the drugs ceasing to keep him unconscious (not very surprising given his tolerance for alcohol).

“Ah Dean, you’re finally with us.”

“What have you done to us you stuck bastard?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve not started yet.”

Dean’s POV

Whatever those mask-wearing zombies dosed me with fades away from my brain as quickly as it entered leaving me more alert than before. The straps holding me then are still there and I can hear that guy from before talking.

“You’re Dr Ketch aren’t you.” I confirm, straining my neck to just be able to see him and Sam.

“Yes, I am. I believe you’ve had a run in with my family before.”

“Yeah, you’re brother’s a real dick.”

“Oh no. While I do agree with your on point description of him, Arthur isn’t my brother. He’s my cousin.”

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