#my two cents

[gaia-is-sucktastic]

I honestly think it’s in Everyone’s best interest to protect Annabeth at all costs because if Percy loses her he loses his humanity. Like honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the Gods especially the minor ones have a protection system for her because they KNOW once she goes he is coming for the whole damn place.

something i feel like we don’t talk about nearly enough is the fact that percy is healed by water.

it’s so normal to us because it’s one of the first abilities we discovered he has. and it makes complete sense. but like… he’s the only demigod with that ability. jason doesn’t get healed by a gust of wind. hazel doesn’t get healed if she touches a diamond. nico doesn’t get healed if a skeleton gives him a hug. annabeth doesn’t get healed if she walks into a library.

like percy could be stabbed in the chest multiple times, he could break every bone in his body, he could be slammed in the head resulting in a crushed skull and hemorrhaging, but get him to some water fast enough and not only is he good as new in no time, but he’s stronger and freshly rejuvenated.

it’s insane when you think about it. no one else can do that. do you know how hard it is to kill percy? even if he’s not near the ocean, he can be healed by rivers and lakes and streams and ponds and all sorts of water sources. water recharges him. it makes him immediately stronger.

that’s a huge reason why i argue percy is the most powerful demigod. yes, he’s shown he has incredible super strength and super speed. yes, he’s a legendary sword fighter - arguably the best one alive. yes, he has control over air, land, and sea. (deadly hurricanes with heavy winds and thunder and lightning, huge volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.) yes, he’s capable of mass destruction. yes he can single handedly cause natural disasters and mass casualties. and yes, he’s capable of controlling people’s bodily fluids, including their blood and saliva. he is terrifying

but even if someone manages to beat him, he dips one toe in some water and he’s immediately healed and even stronger than before. whether the injury is internal or external. he’s healed all on his own. no ambrosia or nectar or external remedies necessary.

guys. percy is insane. he’s way overpowered.

and i love it.

[symphonyofsilence]

I just noticed that Chuuya seems to attract the "non-human" characters to himself. Like, as someone on twitter pointed out "the whole Stormbringer is a competition about "who loves Chuuya the most" " and the main players are: Adam (a robot), Verlaine (a clone), and Dazai (who believes he's "no longer human".)

And they probably circle around him like the sun because he is. He's so unabashedly human, so passionately, aggressively alive, so intensely feeling everything- the good and the bad- and so bluntly wearing his heart on his sleeve, he's burning with the fire of life.

And Dazai, Verlaine, and Adam would give anything to feel the warmth.

[brightbluedot]

to succeed in adult friendship you must remember the key tenets of child friendship:

Play Toys

Play Pretend

Snack Time

[a-sleepy-fan]

I will get over it, it is a TV show and at this point I'm too fandom old to really let it bother me for a really long time.

It is just incredibly insulting to the actors, set designers, costumers, camera people, and everyone involved in making that show that so clearly put their heart and soul into it.

And for it to have been cancelled just as things were really getting started. We didn't end in satisfying places- we don't get to see what happens with Perrin, how Mat's memories were affected, how Elayne approaches learning about Rahvin, Rand leading the remaining Aiel, the WHOLE FUCKING FALLOUT OF SIUAN'S DEATH- there were so many hanging threads that still needed to be accounted for, things that were so clearly being set up.

I'm so mad at Amazon and disappointed for everyone who put everything into it. I don't know what is going to happen, whether Amazon might change their minds or if another platform takes over (I'm not optimistic about either outcome, but who knows), but I am deeply grateful to all the people who worked on it, and I will cherish what we did get.

[potato2601]

Exactly I mean what would be the difference between VIP’s and Gi-hun if he killed the baby to live saving the baby is his character it is his humanity. And as audiences us going around talking about how wasteful it is for a character we love to die for a literal days old child makes us similar to VIP’s

Listen, I like No-eul but both her and the dad player are just not important to the plot imo, they’re new characters whom we don’t know or care about that much. I really wish we got the Hwang brothers reunion, full conversation/confrontation between In-ho and Jun-ho (preferably with tears and hugs) instead of all these scenes with her and that player she was saving.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad she was able to save him. But the more important plot of Squid Game, the plot that was set up since the first season, was supposed to be the relationship between the Front Man and his brother who spent his entire character arc searching for him.

It’s ridiculous how In-ho and Jun-ho didn’t get even one proper scene together where they talked in the entirety of these three whole seasons when some sideline characters got all these screen time together.

And also… since I’m already venting, the only reason Gi-hun’s death was emotional was because of Jung-jae’s brilliant performance and because of our love for his character, not because he was saving that damn random baby. Like. Sorry. But if the show wants audience to be emotionally attached to the infant, doing so by having the most beloved character die for that random infant in a death that could have been prevented was not how you do it.

I am emotional because Gi-hun died, because I love Gi-hun. Not because he was saving a random baby he met a few days ago, not because he decided to leave his own daughter behind to save that baby

One more thing, it’s absolutely ridiculous how little In-ho and Gi-hun interacted in season 3 when they said the core of the third season was about the clash between In-ho and Gi-hun. Like yeah season 3 is about the conflict between the Front Man and Player 456. And they only talked once in a scene that lasted 2 minutes while other random characters have more scenes together

[bumblepony]

So this is my two cents on the scene with Joel after he finds Cat and Ellie in her room, and what he says to her.

So, first, some context. As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s and who is now raising a child who is both Queer and Non-bionary in the 2010s and 2020s, these are two very different times. My eldest would be stunned at what Joel said because, to them, queerness, at least where we live, is everywhere, and mostly it is accepted (though lately that has started to change, but I digress).

To Joel Miller, a man who was born in the 60's and raised in Austin, Texas, and the world stopped moving forward in 2003, his reaction is completely natural. Especially if you look at what is going on around them in the moment and what has happened before this moment.

First, Joel has only ever seen Ellie as 100% straight; he just had a conversation with her a year earlier about how he thinks she likes Jesse. Then he comes home to his 17-year-old daughter making out with a 19-year-old girl, while smoking pot and having just gotten a tattoo. He does not see her as acting in her right mind, which is proven when he says that they will discuss this later when she is herself again.

He looks at her in this moment, and he sees her acting out of character, and it would make complete sense that he should think she's experimenting. Do his words hurt? Of course. Are they the right thing for him to have said? No. But do they make sense for a man in his late 50s born in the 60s and locked in the early 2000s to say? Yeah.

Joel was overwhelmed, mad, and confused, and he lashed out and responded poorly because he is a human being and a flawed individual, as we know he is. Joel has never been this perfect bastion of virtue; that's part of the reason we love him, because he makes mistakes. With this one, we even see him do better, with Seth, and then on the porch, so it's not like he didn't learn.

Now this is just my two cents, but overall, of all the things we could be upset about with this season and even this episode, I think this moment and this action are not really one of them.

I recommend watching this episode more than once and all the way through. Don't base your opinion on just this scene and what other people are saying; watch the whole thing. I can say for myself that the first time I watched it, I was so amped up and excited about these moments that I have been waiting to see since 2020, that I was also annoyed and angry about his words. But going back and watching it again after I had taken the whole episode in and calmed down helped me understand Joel better in that moment.

So that's my advice: watch it again and form your opinion from the whole episode, not just a snippet of what people share on social media. Even if your opinion is different from mine, I feel it's important to take it all in.

Thank you all for indulging my need to speak.

[sauraunderscore]

I would die believing that Arthur had some magic inside thanks to it being involved in his birth.

Otherwise he wouldn't have been such a magnet to magic users and beast. And, of course, he would never have survived the Questing Beast bite for as long as he did on his own.

[georges-left-ear]

The Good Omens S2 Final Fifteen Was Completely in Character

I know that the Good Omens final fifteen is a beaten and bloody dead horse, but I'm back on my tumblr bullshit and I finally have the guts to talk about my take here.

The Final Fifteen was completely in character for both Aziraphale and Crowley.

There were no Book of Life threats made, no poisoned coffee, no hijinks at all in fact. Just some masterful manipulation from the most powerful being in the Good Omens universe besides God herself. The Metatron just played Aziraphale and Crowley like a goddamn fiddle. And it all has to do with that cute little 25 LAZERI MERACLE they performed when they weren't even trying.

Simply put, he offered them an opportunity that he new Aziraphale could not resist, but Crowley could never accept, at the exact right time.

Theoretically, The Metatron is the only being who might know what God's ineffable plan is, since he is the only being that speaks directly to God. My theory is that God is insane and always has been. Her plan is ineffable (unknowable) because there can literally be no sense made of it, if she even actually has one at all. We (the audience) and the beings in that universe are only TOLD there is a Great Plan or an Ineffable Plan by higher and higher beings until they get to The Metatron, who we must TRUST to be telling the truth of what God wants. That is truly the greatest power in the universe!! To be the ONLY being in the universe that can claim to speak for God. No one can ever verify what he says, unless God came forward in her own voice and spoke for herself, so therefore, who can dispute him?

Which allows him to do whatever he damn well pleases, and the Status Quo of The Great Plan pleases him very much. So he will do whatever it takes to ensure it is realized.

Gabriel tried to stop the Second Coming because he finally had something to live for - the love he shared with Beelzebub - and he was almost erased into obscurity. But, his love for Beelzebub and the gift that they gave him (the storage fly) saved him from that fate, and we get the events of Season 2.

The Metatron was too late to stop Gabriel and Beelzebub from running off together. But, they weren't really a threat to The Great Plan anyway. They didn't really care of Earth or creation, they just wanted to be with each other. And once they were, they fucked off to who knows where, presumably not to be a problem to The Great Plan ever again!

But, Aziraphale and Crowley... WOULD be a problem. They ARE a threat. They have thwarted The Great Plan before, and would again if they were allowed to remain together. They preformed a 25 LAZERI (sp?) miracle - something Shax said that only the mightiest of Archangels could have produced - when they were trying to be discreet!!! Imagine the power they could wield if they were at all competent and TRYING?? It could be cataclysmic!

And no matter who was chosen to replace Gabriel, once Armageddon 2.0 started up, as long as Aziraphale and Crowley were around, they would work to thwart it once more, because they love the Earth, they love humanity, and they love the life they have built for themselves. Therefore, The Metatron simply could NOT allow them to realize how powerful they are together. He could NOT allow that threat to remain. So, he masterfully played their natures against each other.

The Metatron knows that Aziraphale loves Earth, loves creation, and loves God. He knows that Aziraphale believes that God is GOOD and that all this war business must just be a misunderstanding and if matters could just be cleared up, then peace can continue. So, paradoxically, he offered the position of Supreme Archangel to Aziraphale. However, he also knows that Aziraphale is not exactly ambitious or power hungry, and now that Aziraphale has seen that an angel and a demon can in fact live together as true partners, he would decline to offer if that meant leaving Crowley. So, The Metatron does something diabolical. He sweetens the offer with something that Aziraphale embodies with every molecule of his being: HOPE. Aziraphale is a relentlessly and tirelessly hopeful angel. Hope is what drove him through the first apocalypse - hope, that good would balance out evil in Adam, hope that if it did then he would never come into his full power and Armageddon would be avoided, hope that they Adam and his gang can defeat the four horseman and Satan to stop the end of the world. The Metatron plants the idea in Aziraphale's head that if he were Supreme Archangel, he could continue to be with Crowley because he would have the authority and power to restore Crowley is Angelic status and they could finally be together doing good, which is everything Aziraphale has always wanted, and would be absolutely irresistible to him.

It's an offer he knows that Crowley could never accept, even for Aziraphale. Crowley is a known unreliable narrator when it comes to the circumstances surrounding his fall from grace. He tells conflicting stories of strange heavenly decisions, bad food, or asking too many questions. We REALLY don't know how Crowley became a demon. He could very well have joined Lucifer willingly! Pissed off at Heaven stonewalling his questions and sauntered down to Hell of his own free will. Or, he could have been cast out. At this point (pre finale) we do not know for sure. The only evidence or corroboration that we have regarding the circumstances of Crowley's fall, is the Metatron saying to Aziraphale after their fight, almost as a throwaway comment, that "He always did want to go his own way, always asking damn fool questions." This statement indicates to me that its just as likely that Crowley DID leave Heaven on his own, joining Lucifer simply because he was the opposition, and once the war ended and the reality became clear that Hell would be just as dogmatic and bureaucratic as Heaven, decided just to go along with it as far as he could in order to survive.

However, whether he left on his own, or he was traumatically cast from Heaven in a billion mile per hour swan dive into a boiling pool of sulfur simply for asking a few questions, there would be no way in the entire universe he would ever go back to Heaven. In season two he was for the most part free of the old chains that bound him and he would rather die than return to that bullshit.

The Metatron also knew that time was of the essence. After Gabriel and Beelzebub left, he knew he had to act QUICKLY and get to Aziraphale and Crowley before they had a chance to talk.

As soon as Gabriel and Beelzebub spirit away, The Metatron acts. He sweeps the other angels and demons out of the way, except for "the dim one," and pulls Aziraphale aside to talk to him privately, physically separating him and Crowley while he makes the offer. He knows he must do this before they have a chance to process what just happened between Gabriel and Beelzebub, what Crowley learned during his investigation in Heaven, and what all that could mean for THEM. He must launch his plan before the two become a unified romantic partnership. And crucially, he must make his offer to Aziraphale before they have a chance to learn how to communicate as a couple, this he was relying on.

The Metatron was relying on the fact that even though Aziraphale and Crowley had been friends for a millenia, it could never have been said out loud. They could never confess what they meant to each other without fear of destruction. As Maggie and Nina said, they never REALLY said what they meant. The Metatron knew that Aziraphale and Crowley would not yet have the communication skills of a truly strong couple. He knew that Aziraphale processed things at a glacial pace and relied on Crowley to help him navigate change. He knew if he swooped in right after Gabriel and Beelzebub left, got Aziraphale on his own and offered him everything he ever wanted on a silver plate, and pressured him to make a quick decision, he would be too overwhelmed and agree.

The Metatron was relying on the fact that they never really talked to each other and that Aziraphale would just assume that Crowley would be happy to rejoin Heaven if he was in charge so he could be the true good angel Aziraphale thought he wanted to be. He was relying on the fact that Crowley never told Aziraphale the true circumstances around his fall, and wouldn't even when it really mattered.

In other words, he knew they would fight. He pitted both their strengths and weaknesses against each other to ensure it. And, because of the new personal and romantic nature of their possible future that they had not yet been able to discuss, or find trust in, and because they haven't developed healthy communication skills, it would be devastating. This fight would be different than all of their other little tiffs. This one would break their hearts, and would end in lasting anger, bitterness, sadness, and feelings of betrayal which would be far harder for them to overcome were they to see each other again. Their friendship would be really truly over and the threat they posed to The Metatron's power and The Great Plan would be neutralized. He even withheld crucial information of what exactly Heaven's new big plans were that only Aziraphale could help them with (The Second Coming) until after their fight, so that they wouldn't have anything to put their relationship issues aside for and come together to rally against like they did with Armageddon. In the end, Aziraphale would be in Heaven where he could be controlled, monitored, or even imprisoned if need be, and Crowley, heartbroken and bitter, would just go his own way, not bothering to make a fuss without Aziraphale to fight for.

I think we as a fandom came up with so many outrageous theories to explain the final fifteen because we were heartbroken and didn't want to admit what a masterful stroke of manipulation the Metatron played. We wanted Aziraphale and Crowley to be better but they aren't. They are flawed beings just like humans and that is what makes them so relatable. Ultimately, despite the manipulation they were subject to, they made their own choices.

The fact of the matter is they both fumbled the ball on this one. Aziraphale made assumptions he should not have. He assumed that the love they share would simply erase all of the history and baggage that Heaven holds for Crowley and make it all better. He assumed that Crowley WANTED forgiveness from Heaven at all. Which were very wrong assumptions indeed, and he ended up asking too much from Crowley. But, Crowley also didn't exactly fight that hard. Aziraphale did not just leave Crowley behind, he begged Crowley to come with him to Heaven to BE with him, Crowley CHOSE not to go. He had his very valid reasons for doing so, but he didn't communicate those reasons to Aziraphale. So what was Aziraphale to think? How was he to feel? OF COURSE he would return to Heaven with an offer like that, that is Aziraphale's NATURE, to love, and to fix, and to make right. And he can do that the most effectively as Supreme Archangel. Yes, Crowley made the big monologue and kissed Aziraphale in a desperate attempt to get him to stay, but lets be so for real, if he was REALLY trying to get Aziraphale to stay, he should have opened up more on WHY he couldn't go back to Heaven, even to be with Aziraphale. They STILL didn't really TALK to each other. They still didn't REALLY say anything that they hadn't kind of already said to each other before. So, they fucked it! And, The Metatron's plan worked brilliantly, and now we are where we are in the story.

I really have no idea how the finale is going to go. Two years later, I still have no predictions. I of course have things I wish would happen, but I try not to put too much hope into them because I don't want it to ruin the real end of the story for me. I'm so excited to see the conclusion of this incredible story. I know that no matter what happens, it's going to be epic and perfect.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk lol. I don't enter discourse very often.

[anticoquette]

Another thing about ATLA that applies to both the original and live-action is that Fire Lord Ozai doesn't love Azula, he just hates Zuko. Ozai's disdain for his son is the only thing that pushes him to his daughter. If it weren't for the fact that Azula shares the same disdain for her brother, and is incredibly desperate for her father's validation, Ozai wouldn't care for her either. The only reason I can sympathize with her a little is because her dad groomed her to be like him. Azula never stood a chance, really

[coinandcandle]

Thoughts on Offerings

The thing about an offering is that it has to come from you for the being you're offering it to. It is specifically FROM YOU meaning it has to be something within your power to give.

This could be something more easy or more difficult, but gods, spirits, ancestors, etc. aren't stupid--they know what you can and can't do.

They know if you're a minimum wage worker, or a broke college student. They know if you're well off financially but maybe you've burnt out and can offer expensive gifts but not much time or energy.

An offering shouldn't be the easiest thing in the world to give, but it never is, because if it was then you could do it without thinking about it. Even offering a prayer or words of veneration is an offering. If you can do more then do it!

The point behind an offering is intention and the means to give the offering. However that manifests for you is almost always gunna be good enough!!

For example: Hunting may be one way you could give offerings to the god Lugh--who I follow. Or taking part in competitive games, but I am asthmatic and trans and organized sports don't tend to like people like me very much.

And he has never asked this of me cuz he knows that's not my vibe!! Nor would it be much of an offering since it's not much within my wheelhouse, lmao. But did I spend 2+ hours painting my nails as perfectly as I could and offer that creative energy and time to him? YES!

TL;DR - Sometimes offerings are like:

"I'd like a coke." "We don't have coke, is pepsi ok?"

[lordship-posts]

Fuck it im gonna write James x Reader stuff. I shouldn't care but what is going with all the hate towards himmmmm. Wtfff.

There are SO MANY WORSE and much more awful people that tiktok Editors and Twitter folk simp over SOMETIMES EVEN IRL MURDERER and suddenly everyone decided "Jep James from the Silent Hill 2 iS THE guy to hate and shame people for finding him hot or interesting" ok then everyone who ever simped on ghostface or THE GHOST from call of duty needs to be shamed as well. They killed a lot of people?! Or Joel from The Last of Us... but y'all ain't ready for that fucking convo and it showwws.

(Not shitting on them I had a huge Joel and ghostface phase)

I like James. He's a very conflicted and interesting character who happens to be hot too. So I write some EQUALLY as bad and evil and terrible dirty fucking Reader smut with him :)

Especially the hate on people who edit him on tiktok is fucking crazy.

Let people like what they like why are we always going back in time with this.

I don't tell you pink as a color fucking sucks and you shouldn't like it. So don't tell me blue is terrible and I shouldn't like/write about it.

Thanks.

The most insane thing is that we are talking about a fictional game character bruh.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

My two cents on the level of violence in Andor is that in a franchise that’s centered on warfare and the horrors of living under an authoritarian regime, it feels inevitable that at least one of the stories goes into some dark territory. I mean, it’s war. War is hell. Once you get past the cool energy swords and the funky looking aliens, what you have is a story in which the universe is being torn apart by several warring factions with one faction trying to stamp out everyone’s rights and liberties.

Also, it’s not like this is new for Cassian’s side of the Star Wars universe. In Rogue One, there’s literally a crying child that was trapped in the middle of a firefight. Andor feels like an extension of the violence depicted in Rogue One.

[symphonyofsilence]

What could have saved Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru was Arataka Reigen as a teacher.

[brightbluedot]

[creoleprincess]

The Sebastian slut shamming and silliness aside, I do believe we might get that dark backstory we were all longing for or dreading. I'm honestly the latter because I preferred the demon to be this mysterious entity that no one could understand except Ciel, and I thought Yana was never gonna give it to us but here we are. Don't get me wrong. Now that we're getting it, I'm definitely gonna drink all the tea Yana serves. 

And I wanna believe that Sebastian is telling the truth, but look how shaken up he is about this. As many of you said, Yana answers one question and gives us 20 more. How on Earth did Undertaker dig this guy up? The only thing I can figure is that this is a bizarre doll with a different body and the memories of a boy who was one of Sebastian's flings. So it's a stranger's face with no soul for Sebastian to recognize. But I don't understand why he believed he would recognize his blood. And wasn't he at the summoning ritual just waiting for Sebastian to show up? If that's the case, the bizarre dolls weren't advanced enough for that at the time. And how did he know that Sebastian would be the one to show up? Yanaaaaaaaaa! 

[1thesewordsaremyown1]

I know there are some bucktommy fans that aren't happy with the Maddie and Buck scene at the end of the ep (for a variety of reasons). And while there are aspects of it I don't like, I think it's actually crucial - for me, it's the scene that TRULY puts buddie to rest.

In the morning after scene with Tommy, if you try to watch it with buddie goggles on, I could *kind of* see how they would claim buddie still has a chance. Buck is talking to his ex, who he just slept with - you could claim that he is in denial because he doesn't want to admit that it was a factor in their relationship (I absolutely don't see it this way, but like I said, I'm trying to put buddie goggles on here), or he doesn't want to hurt Tommy (which he ended up hurting him anyway, but I digress). They even have Tommy scoffing at Buck's denial, and one could interpret that as "well, TOMMY thinks Buck's in love with him!" Which ok, fair enough, but Tommy isn't Buck, is he? The only one who truly knows his own feelings is Buck.

Cue the conversation with Maddie. Maddie, his sister who has always been his sounding board for his relationships, who was the first person he went to when he realised he was bisexual, who he goes to for advice when hurdles in his relationships appear (instead of the person he's actually in a relationship with, but again, I digress). Maddie, who is sitting there basically telling Buck, "hey, if you ARE in love with your best friend, there's nothing wrong with that, and I'll support you." If Buck had any feelings for Eddie, here was the safe space to finally start to address any doubts or potential feelings.

Instead, when asked, Buck gives a firm, definitive "I am not in love with my best friend." Listen to his tone of voice. There is absolutely zero doubt there - he knows what he wants (or doesn't want, as the case may be). Then when he suggests calling and Maddie assumes he's talking about Eddie, Buck gives a flippant "no, I'll call him later" before stating, again, very firmly that he was talking about calling TOMMY.

And all this time, while they are having this conversation, what is Buck doing? He's getting all the tools and ingredients out to start baking again. Even if you dont listen to his words, his actions are showing that he cant stop thinking about Tommy.

Now, I could go on about how I believe they were using Maddie as a stand-in for the buddie fans and Buck as a mouthpiece for the writers to try and shut buddie down once and for all, but that's all conjecture. But everything else i mentioned? That is stuff that was shown ON SCREEN. We heard those words, we heard the tone, and we saw their actions. You can interpret anything however the hell you want, but if you listen to Tim and Aisha when they said "we are going to let what we show you on screen do the talking", what is the show is telling us?

Buck is 100%, without a shadow of a doubt, NOT in love with Eddie.