#i know i am sensitive to these topics

[tambourineophelia]

i know it's pathetic and not helping anything but man i feel so fucking hopeless about life in climate catastrophe

[faggotry-enjoyer]

yknow what i think it's pretty fucked up that my instinctual reaction to hearing any mention of the holocaust is to brace myself for antisemitic talking points. in discussion about a jewish genocide.

holocaust inversion, universalization, minimalization, and denial are inexcusable in any context, and the fact that they've become this common is appalling on every level.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Mark Oshiro confuses me a little bit not going to lie. In the press tour for the first book all they ever talked about was how Nico is their son and Will is fine I guess. Then they said like 2 weeks before TSATS came out that they didn't understand Will's character at all and it's one of the main reasons why Will has so little POV.

Possibly unpopular opinion but I don't think it's a good, encouraging sign when the writer admits to not really caring about the deuteragonist or not even having a sense of how to write them...

Yeah, no. If you have no interest in 1/2 of the POV characters of your book, you REALLY shouldn't be writing it (or at least, not have that be a main character). Especially when the main way TSATS could have been improved is if it was primarily Will-centric instead of Nico-centric. Will basically had next to no established character prior to TSATS! He was practically a blank slate! But all the new stuff we got for Will in TSATS was so clearly disinterested and had no regard for his previously established traits (or the established timeline/canon). Which is annoying because fleshing out Will would have been the PERFECT opportunity to actually incorporate a lot of the topics that Mark Oshiro specializes in as a sensitivity reader, which was the ENTIRE REASON THEY WERE BROUGHT ON AS A CO-AUTHOR!!!!

As TSATS stands, there is no reason for Mark Oshiro specifically to have been the co-author instead of someone else. It's so clearly just a PR move from RR following the huge backlash Rick received due to his response to criticism on how he wrote Piper and Samirah (and Reyna and etc etc). This was immediately following Rick saying he wasn't going to write what would become TSATS because "it [wasn't his] place to." Most of the topics that Mark Oshiro specializes in either weren't relevant at all to TSATS or written very poorly (to downright offensively) in TSATS, so either Mark Oshiro wasn't doing their job or was not able to do their job for some reason, but either way it basically makes the theoretical justification for Mark Oshiro being the co-author/sensitivity reader irrelevant.

With Will, it was HUGE fanon back in the day for him to be trans. Trans!Will and photokinesis!Will were basically the two biggest headcanons for him (both largely popularized by Cherryandsisters). We know Rick is aware of this old fanon because he canonized photokinesis!Will. If we had gotten trans!Will, that would have been great! And then made sense why we specifically got a trans co-author! (Instead, if anything, TSATS canonized Will being cis.) If we had gotten Will being latino, that would have been amazing!!!! And also then made sense as to why they chose Mark Oshiro for the job as a latinx author/sensitivity-reader, versus potentially choosing an Italian co-author since Nico being Italian/Venetian was emphasized so much in the book (and done poorly! Yknow what they could have done to fix that? GOTTEN A SENSITIVITY READER FOR IT)! Based on the themes and focuses actually present in the book, it would have been most logical to get a queer, neurodivergent, Italian co-author or sensitivity reader who specializes in those three topics at least. But we didn't! So why was Mark Oshiro chosen instead when they only specialize in one of those topics? PR reasons. It's blatantly entirely PR reasons and no actual thought or care was put into this book (or, likely, TSATS 2 either).

It doesn't help that we're also actively being told that the published version of TSATS was a rough draft. Or that their editor blatantly isn't doing her job. Or that "The Sun And The Star" was the working title that they just kept cause they didn't bother to make an actual title. And that the final version is full of explicitly last-minute scenes that weren't checked over at all (the final Bianca scene, for one). Or the ACTIVELY ADMITTING TO SOURCING IDEAS AND INFORMATION FROM FANS! That last one is kind of important because at this level of publishing that is a HUGE no-no for legal reasons. You can get into a lot of trouble for that and there is a reason why it is Ye Olde Fandom Law to never try to pitch your ideas or headcanons to the source creator(s) and keep fandom separate from the creators. There is a REASON why Rick Riordan is so distant from the community these days and it's for PROTECTION AGAINST LEGAL REPERCUSSION. Mark Oshiro being the exact opposite while also ACTIVELY ACKNOWLEDGING sourcing concepts from fans does not bode well! It has to do with copyright stuff.

It's just. So. Sighhhhhhhh >->o <- me lying on the floor about all of this. It's sad being able to see the glimmer of what could have been at the very least a decent book underneath all this. If anyone involved in the process had actually cared just the tiniest amount.

[dreamgirledward]

once again, another project's come up that pushes afrocentric ideologies which severely harm egyptian people (like me🫠). a girl much younger than me put into words why exactly this show is doing so much more harm than good, and much more calmly than I could have managed, so here's some screenshots bc im tired

afrocentrism as a concept has been around for about 150 or so years. it was most likely created as a direct response to eurocentric views and history teaching. there is nothing wrong with lifting up and centering african histories + cultures, and in fact that should be celebrated! I do however think that this concept takes everything a step too far, because by claiming "true egyptians" were black, and not egyptian, that erases people like me, and families like mine. ancient egyptians have been mythicized and fetishized to the nth degree for as long as people decided to have an opinion about them. it's frightening how so many prominent figures in the entertainment industry buy into the literal delusion that is "real egyptians" because of pure fascination with a history they wish was their own. please don't watch this show when it's out, and if you hear people discussing it, help people like me out and call out the bullshit when you see it! the second i get any hurtful or racist comments about this, im turning off rbs I don't even care. twitter is a cesspool of the worst takes in the world, so hopefully the few like-minded friends I have here will give this a read at least. it's not nice to be erased from your own heritage!!!!!

[calumthoodshands]

i'm tired of the beatles

[wife]

i actually do feel like ive been doing slightly better at this lately though.. like replying to peoples posts and trying to initiate conversations and dms and stuff... so i am winning a bit

[guuuhhh]

what fun!

[hella1975]

hella do you think you could dumb bitchify aftg 🥺

(your making me want to get it but idk yet)

NO. GET HELP

[katyspersonal]

You don't get invested in people's fandomless OCs and original projects because you are only online for the "content for your current hyperfixation". I don't get invested in people's fandomless OCs and original projects because if they abandon me it will hurt like heck to uproot all memories and emotions developed towards these, like a stump of a chopped tree, however a creator of a huge show/videogame/etc doesn't have that power. 😎

[calamitydarcy]

always amazing when one interaction with a specific person can just zap your energy and motivation for a bit

[give-soup-please]

(me, preparing an important presentation on queer issues): ah, yes, doing this will make my favorite fictional characters so proud of me >:)

Me, cont: yes, they will indeed be proud of me for standing in front of an audience and talking, despite the fact that they do not exist, cannot see me, and do not know of my existence. making fictional characters proud of me is something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve...

(does anyone else do this?)

[johnlennonirl]

My best friend keeps on flexing that he spoke with my ex. "We caught up n shit, yk, doing something you CANT do :))". Good for you bestie. Did I ask

[remastered-fate]

TRUTH

Of Isamu and Chiaki, who do you miss more?

I already answered this. Are you fucking illiterate, anon? I don't know. I'll probably never know. I can barely feel regret. Do you think I can feel grief? Do you think I can mourn? Do you think I'm capable of missing them as the missing limbs that they should be like instead of like they're broken trinkets tossed in the garbage? I'm not. It's something that I lost and will never get back.

[chuchayucca]

Discussions of implied fictional CSA & SA

I recently been wondering if there’s a chance Richard thinks Roy’s aggressive and distant behavior is normal and not a sign of CSA because he acted similarly to Roy when he was younger

Reasonings in the tags

[hauntedtotem]

I think the biggest red flag for me regarding the hopelesspeaches and lio convoy stuff, their entire group (especially lio) has near identical speech patterns and dynamics as my mom's online friend group. Which is less of a red flag and more of a raging wildfire tbh

[puffins-studio]

Anna🚀

I love this movie, it broke me but it's just !! I probably also shouldn't have  watched it two times in a role but i can't help it

Just saying I didn't know how sad it was going to be. It also didn’t help that I am also a twin and I watched this on my birthday. I just wanted to watch a movie with Jodie whittaker as the lead okay

I made her for Jodie as I was I went to Gally one and I was making some of the actors two dolls (mainly the actors who doctors have passed) but I wanted to do something extra and i couldn’t pick favorite with the fam so I thought of doing anna instead as this movie have stuck with me. I also want to post something for her birthday just because. And I think am out of 13th doctor ideas at the moment.

This doll was also one I give to the actually actor, if you want to read about that I wrote it in this post

[ID: picture is a felt doll that is the shape of a gingerbread man with a big circle head, they are supposed to be anna from adult life skills. She has light skin, long brown hair, she is wearing light blue jeans and navy shoes. A red button shirt with some patches under a navy and red zipper up that have pink sleeves under a purple puffer vest. She has a little smiley face sewn on her hands, and she has a red knit hat that has a cable stitch and a pom pom on top. The 2nd picture is her without the hat:ID]