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wttnblog Ā· 2 months ago
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8 September Book Releases You Need to Read
September is nearly upon us, and with it comes a new waves of books. Thereā€™s quite a few new books coming out from established authors that we all know and love, as well as some new ones to add to your repertoire. Not only that, but our team has already read and reviewed two of the books on this list, meaning you can read our full reviews before making a decision to spend your hard earnedā€¦
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lilislegacy Ā· 9 months ago
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imagine being someone at new rome university and not knowing percy is the same guy as ā€œpercy jackson, son of poseidon, two-time hero of olympus, former praetorā€ because the thought doesnā€™t even cross your mind. likeā€¦ heā€™s percy. heā€™s a total frat boy. on a normal night, he walks into a party, refers to everyone as bro or dude, socializes with every living (and not-living) person in the room, makes at least 50 sarcastic comments, plays 12 rounds of beer pong, drinks way too much, and then skates around campus on his skateboard yelling ā€œI LOVE NEW YORKā€ (which makes no sense, because theyā€™re in california) until someone calls his girlfriend to come get him.
and then one day thereā€™s an attack, and frat boy percy is all of a sudden a fighting machine. heā€™s yelling battle cries alongside the praetors frank zhang and hazel levesque as they lead everyone into battle. (why is he with the praetors? and whyā€¦. why in the world do the praetors seem to be following his lead?) his sword slashes through armies of monsters faster than youā€™ve ever seen. heā€™s controlling the entire river surrounding the camp, creating huge waves as tall as skyscrapers that crash down all around him, wiping out monsters and causing mass destruction to his enemiesā€™ ranks. the sky is suddenly dark above you, ice-cold water droplets are slashing through the air, and the wind is blowing so aggressively that itā€™s making it hard to stand up steadily. because heā€™s somehow created a hurricane.
and he looks terrifying. you can feel the power radiating off of him. heā€™s like a god. or maybe a monster. itā€™s hard to tell. youā€™re a little scared of him, to be honest. but also in total awe, because itā€™s extraordinary. heā€™s extraordinary.
frat boy percy is not who you thought he was.
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rileyclaw Ā· 2 years ago
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bunch of silly doodles of these guys from the past week or so
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poorly-drawn-mdzs Ā· 10 months ago
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Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU#I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track)#The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more.#I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by#and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles!#Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise!#I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space.#It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is#You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together:#I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper.#I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything.#You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there.#Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite.#day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less:#'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all)#This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly.#(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)
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demigods-posts Ā· 3 months ago
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they're filming season two, but i'm thinking about the potential adaption of the mount tam scene in season three. you know, the one where annabeth could apologize for pushing percy out of the way and falling off the cliff in his place, and how she knows that sounds terrible but they didn't have time for another plan and she didn't want to lose him that way. but percy just engulfs her in a hug because he's so relieved that she's safe now and everything else be damned. and annabeth doesn't understand why he's snickering to himself after that last statement, but she melts into the hug anyway because she missed him. and thalia and grover stand in the background happy for their friends on the outside but internally mortified, because their friends are definitely falling for each other but fate may not allow them to see it through.
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all-too-unwell-13 Ā· 9 months ago
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i know it's a while off, but ...
i wonder how they're going to do aphrodite in the show. like, her appearance is CONSTANTLY changing, right?? because she looks like each person's ideal beauty, basically.
so i wonder how they're going to make her face and hair and everything shift and change all the time.
because one second, to percy, she looks like annabeth. the next, like someone else.
i wonder how they're going to edit that and have it transition between each "look" that percy sees her as.
will it flicker between shots and she'll "change" between each one?? or will the shot move to percy's face and then back and she'll look like annabeth and then someone else???
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whatsitzface Ā· 11 months ago
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Fuck every percy jackson "fan" who is still complaining about percy & annabeths HAIR COLOURS being different then in the books. I hope Nico is blonde so that all of you cry and scream like fucking toddlers
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riordanverse-madness Ā· 1 year ago
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Rick dedicating his new book to Walker, Aryan and Leah feels like a rite of passage now that they are the OG trio
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vynnyal Ā· 5 months ago
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Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end šŸ˜‚
#rain world#comic#rw chasing wind#sunlit Trail#Hunter#Art#Chasing wind spoilers#I can't imagine anyone filters that tag but just in case sksksks#ANYWAYS turns out mod is way better than I expected and it's super well made.#So far made the trip as hunter (first time) then riv and now working on arti.#For arti I realized that howling rifts led to sub and sub led to dar shore so I was like sweet! A shortcut!#Now imagine for a sec trying to get through a parkcore + miros bird gauntlet with a corpse and a worm within 5 cycles#before the scav ran out of karma and you were stuck inside forever. Yeah#Besides that tho I've been messing around and been very tenderly modding the game.#Turns out you can have a bit of fun with most sprites without too much effort by simply cloning the MSC mod in your files#Then changing the copy's mod info so it doesn't clash and simply swapping images out for whatever you want#As long as you have the sprite name you can do this. You can also change region names and decals and music all sorts of stuff.#In short I've been brewing a custom mod for a friend to make her suffer as much as possible <3#Thanks to a buddy on the rw server for showing me that trick btw lol. The best cesspool I've ever participated in#Oh before I forget- the symbol on CW's head is completely made up. They just looked so... Bald.#Tbh I wasn't expecting their personality to be so... bright? Most interpretations make them kinda solemn and gloomy#But nah this CW is what NSH should've been 100%. I like them. Not gonna spoil too much but their situation is somehow so... chill.#Still bad tho!#Other fun news! There's a scammer going around on discord that's basically like ''bad news I reported you for fraud''#And they're getting a lot of people. My buddy that owned my home server got hit and we lost everything. It's all OK tho nobody was hurt#I keep trying to ask them questions on my alts but they're ignoring me... I kinda wanna bait them into doing the scam with me#to see how far I get before they catch on šŸ˜œ#Wasting a scammer's time is never a waste of time#Ah I had more to say but I reached my tag max. Till next time- hopefully my animation project will be done by then!
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goldenn-moments Ā· 10 months ago
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I'm sorry but THE PARALLELS OF SALLY TELLING POSEIDON THAT PERCY IS BETTER THAN WHAT THE GODS WOULD MAKE HIM, AND ANNABETH TELLING HEPHAESTUS THAT PERCY IS BETTER THAN THE GODS AND THEIR HUNGER FOR POWER AND GLORY. JUST. I-
percy is the change the godly world needs because sally gave him the tools. then years later, a girl who's only steady part of her life has been the gods and their callous ways, knows percy for less than a week and starts to change for the better too. the power of one mother loving her son enough to affect what will eventually be a whole generation, and the future of demigods as we know it
sally jackson the goddess that you are
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wttnblog Ā· 3 months ago
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Growth Mindset and the "How to Chase Change" Audiobook Experience
I am admittedly skeptical of self-help books. One of my favorite podcasts is ā€œIf Books Could Killā€œ, an entire series of audio essays dedicated to debunking airport bestsellers that are, more often than not, classified under the self-help umbrella. Still, there was something about How to Chase Change by Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa that made me feel like it could be different. The main concept ofā€¦
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lilislegacy Ā· 1 month ago
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Okay, Iā€™m so gonna get hate for this. And it will probably get about 4 notes. This is, by far, the most opinionated thing I have ever posted on here. If you canā€™t tolerate criticism towards Rick Riordan, the books, or the TV show, please keep scrolling. My goal is NOT to change your mind or start arguments.
I also want to preface this by saying that I love and respect Rick Riordan (even if I disagree with him on things and donā€™t like some of his choices) and fully acknowledge that he has the right to do whatever the hell he pleases with his own series. I also want to say that I love Annabeth Chase (both the book and tv show version) with my entire being and you will never find me being an Annabeth hater. Sheā€™s my girl.
We good? Okay cool. So hereā€™s the thing: Iā€™ve seen a lot of people on here saying things like ā€œIf you didnā€™t like the books, you just donā€™t know how to have fun,ā€ and ā€œThe new book haters are just mad that they arenā€™t the target audience anymore,ā€ and (my personal favorite) ā€œNothing in the books has changed, only the readers have.ā€
And while I see your points, and I respect you, allow me to show you something. Because of the 10 picture limit, I am only going to focus on one specific change: Annabethā€™s view of Percy.
WOTTG: Annabeth is surprised to be comforted by Percy
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Past Books: Percy is constantly comforting Annabeth
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WOTTG: Annabeth is shocked when Percy is smart
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Past Books: Annabeth often points out that Percy is intelligent
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WOTTG: Annabeth thinks Percy canā€™t do anything on his own, and Rick communicates that Annabeth is always saving his ass
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Past Books: Percy is ALWAYS watching her back, and saving her ass just as much (and Annabeth admits that)
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I could put a hundred quotes in here. I could go on and on and on. But I canā€™t, and I wonā€™t.
My problem with this new book is NOT that it is more goofy than serious. My problem is NOT that little things have changed. My problem is NOT that itā€™s just for fun. My problem is NOT that itā€™s much more childish. (And by the way, Iā€™ve read PJO and HOO as an adult, so itā€™s not like I was a child when I read everything else and am now an adult reading the new ones.) I really did like and enjoy many parts of this book.
My problem is that the characters (especially Annabeth) have flat out changedā€”in bad waysā€”and we have no choice but to accept it as canon. My problem is that Rick, while trying to merge his books with his new TV show project, is changing the entire personalities and past behaviors/ tendencies of the characters.
I loved Chalice of the Gods. You know why? It was fun, goofy, and showed the characters that we know and love being happy and adorable. I strongly dislike Wrath of the Triple Godess because the charactersā€”no matter how adorable and happy they might beā€”are no longer the ones we know and love.
My problem is that Rick Riordan fully admitted that he no longer considers the old book characters when he writes the new books. He is now purposefully incorporating his own personal mixture of the book characters and tv characters and writing those versions instead. Because of his desire to change and transform the series, I doubt heā€™s even read the original PJO or HOO books in years, which is why everything is so inconsistent. The old book charactersā€”the ones who made the series what it wasā€”are gone. And that is not my opinion. Rick fully admits that he doesnā€™t imagine them when he writes anymore. Donā€™t get me wrong, I LOVE the tv show actors. I adore Walker and Leah and Aryan with my whole heart, and I wouldnā€™t trade them for anything. But the fact is: they will never be exactly like the book characters. Itā€™s impossible for actors to become the words on a page. Theyā€™re their own unique version! And likewise, you cannot turn actors into print. It doesnā€™t work! And why would you try? The books versions were perfect as they were. And the disney kids need to make the characters their own. The two versions can exist side by side, equally as wonderful, and still be gloriously different. We should celebrate the uniqueness of both. But instead, Rick is attempting to merge them into one. And in my opinion, itā€™s just hurting them both. And Iā€™m gonna get real brave by saying this, but do you want my honest prediction? If he keeps doing what heā€™s doing now, the TV show is going to get cancelled and the books are going to turn into a joke. I so, so badly hope that this doesnā€™t happen! I have loved Rick and PJO for many, many years. I badly want both to thrive. But what is going on right nowā€¦ it is not working, no matter how much we all want it to. And speaking as someone who knows people in the TV/Film industry, I am sadly not the only one who thinks the show is gonna flop. Which is devastating, because Rick Riordan deserves a redemption on the big screen, and the incredible actors deserve to bring this series to life in a new way.
I am not trying to force my opinions onto anybody. You are welcome to disagree with me and move on. I am not saying that Iā€™m right and youā€™re wrong. If you disagree, thatā€™s okay. If you agree but you donā€™t have a problem with it, thatā€™s okay. In fact if other people have literally no issues, that makes me somewhat happy. And if you loved the book, Iā€™m honestly so stoked for you. Feel free to just keep on scrolling, my friend.
But me? Iā€™m sad. Iā€™m really, really freaking sad. And Iā€™m a little angry too, even if I donā€™t have a right to be. I canā€™t help it because Iā€™m only human. But this is how Iā€”and a lot of other peopleā€”feel. And you know what? Thatā€™s okay too. Because the fact of the matter is:
Annabeth isnā€™t the same Annabeth anymore. And Percy isnā€™t the same Percy anymore. And itā€™s not because they went through trauma, or because time has passed. Itā€™s because Rick Riordan doesnā€™t have any interest in writing those versions of them anymore. And I think the comparisons between the old and the new show that fact pretty clearly.
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"This isn't the arch seaweed brain, you're not pushing me into the stairwell again."
"Yes, I am."
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star-mannnn Ā· 5 months ago
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When you realize youā€™re closer to the age where gods start dating mortals than the age that they claim demigods
(Apollo please)
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qsmprambling Ā· 1 year ago
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The speed of archs like Regret and Happy Pills is really emphasised when you're a Bad main who waited 2 months for a some death/rebirth payoff, while also going through month 3 (minimum) of Bad's destroy the Federation while burning bridges with the islanders plot while ALSO still in the middle of whatever the Soul Vulture plot is, while ALSO surviving on reaper lore crumbs that have been scattered occassionally for 7 MONTHS
And just to clarify I love it it's THE BEST!!
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azuzula Ā· 5 months ago
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doobles
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