#powerless against it

[itspileofgoodthings]

this is news to none of you but i'm a die-hard romantic and as long as there is genuine affection and sincere romantic interest present there's almost no situation where I don't want an ongoing relationship to become good and beautiful even when the involved parties are damaged or deeply flawed. I love love!!! I love redemption stories!!!!!!! I wanna see both!!!!! I wanna see people change and fall in love and change bECAUSE they fall in love and fall in love so hard THAT they change. There is nothing I ever want more than that. All the time!!!!!!!!!! I want my realistic projections to be proven wrong and I want true love to win the day!!!!! And I stop shipping things when it's clear that that possibility has been rejected utterly and completely but not before lol!!!!!!!

[lilislegacy]

You know what I always think about? Percy is the classic funny boyfriend. He’s sarcastic and witty. Some of his jokes are sharp and clever, many are corny dad jokes. But nevertheless he’s hilarious. And yet, Rick rarely writes Annabeth laughing at his jokes. I feel like he thinks it’s empowering for Annabeth to just roll her eyes or scold him every time. But he’s funny asf!! Let his girlfriend think he’s funny!

There’s a scene in HoH where Percy makes Annabeth laugh when they’re climbing down a cliff, and she has to tell him to stop so she doesn’t fall to her death. Then in CotG, Percy says something and Annabeth smiles against her will, and it makes Percy so happy. Those scenes are rare, but so. damn. cute. That said, I wish Annabeth wasn’t always trying so hard not to laugh at his jokes. I want to see him be able to make her smile and laugh so easily that it’s not even fair to her. I mean, the guy can drop banger after banger—there’s so much opportunity.

If these new books are supposed to be lower stakes, give me percabeth laughter. Give me Percy cracking bad jokes and Annabeth bursting out laughing with no shame. Give me her cackling at his witty comment so hard that her abs hurt and tears fall from her eyes. Even though we know Percy is conventionally attractive, give me Grover making a joke that the reason Annabeth likes Percy so much is because she spends so much time with her eyes closed since she’s always laughing. I want people to think they’re kinda annoying. I want to see their friends giving them side eyes from across the table because Percy’s making Annabeth laugh so hard that it’s disrupting the whole room.

Annabeth’s reluctance to laugh made sense before they were dating and were bickering 24/7, when they didn’t want to show their true feelings. But that’s not the case anymore. And don’t get me wrong, it really frustrates me how Rick seems to be rapidly reducing Percy to simply being “the funny guy.” He’s stripping him of so many qualities and compensating with double the cheesy humor. But the worst part is that even when being funny is all Rick will allow him to be, Percy still doesn’t get to be the funny boyfriend. It’s as if he wants Annabeth to be too mature for her boyfriend’s bad humor. But if Percy is going to continue be diminished to the stupid, annoying guy who can’t take things seriously, the LEAST Rick can do is give him the ability to easily make his girlfriend laugh.

[cerebrocentric-bullet]

"But lying there helpless with a massive aperture in my chest... I won't let that happen again."

Part of an art trade with @thisisaasecret00

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

[trauma-bot]

sin eater

[drolta]

Can’t stop thinking about claudeleine in their last moments. The last soft glance. The unknown whispered final words. How they kneel together hand in hand until Madeleine can’t bear the brunt of the sun anymore and wraps her arms around Claudia. How Claudia holds her close until there’s nothing left of her. The only person in the world to put her first and Claudia’s final moments are spent clutching their ashes in her hands.

[palarien]

i'm geasspilled ᵗʷᶦᵗᵗᵉʳ ᵐᶦʳʳᵒʳ

[gbirrd]

6/9 - Jason Todd tarot card designs for Complete Candor by @vexfulfolly as part of the @batfam-big-bang

Read the fic here!

Other cards:

1-Babs 2-Cass 3-Bruce 4-Tim 5-Damian 6-Jason 7-Duke 8-Steph 9-Dick

Image IDs

Image 1:

A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL". A symbol of a gravestone is visible behind the numeral "XV".

A young Jason Todd in his Robin uniform tugs at a thick chain around his neck that comes down from the top of the frame. Matching shackles are around his wrists and he is buried up to his waist in dirt. His head is tilted up towards the chain. There is blood on his hands, arms, chest, and dripping down the right side of his face as well as from his nose.

Image 2:

A design of "The Devil" tarot card. It has the texture of recycled paper and reads "THE DEVIL" upside-down. A symbol of a flame is visible behind the numeral "XV".

Jason Todd faces forward, filling most of the frame. He is in his Red Hood uniform and has narrowed pupil-less white eyes. He is holding the end of a thick chain in his right fist. Flames fill the background and bathe him in an orange light. The entire card is upside-down.

[weaver-z]

Sitting up with my elf friend, bleary-eyed and tired, to make sure they don't freak out after they tried the edibles I got from the Shire even though I warned them specifically not to do that

[secriden]

*takes a deep breath* Fadel. Fadel, my adorably grumpy winter child. What are you trying to say here? Are you possibly?? implying?!?! that if you weren't incapacitated, if you didn't have a broken arm, you would be offering to push the car along side Style???

"I never fell for you" thE FUCK YOU DIDN'T--

[ttvck]

mago relationship cycle btw. 90%procent of romantics stop trying right before getting their ideal sweetheart‼keep killing those people.goodnight

[gothicprep]

my wife is extremely into both Toby Keith and Chappell roan btw. literally married this bitch and I can’t armchair psychoanalyze whatever is going on here for the life of me.

[andy-clutterbuck]

EBENEZER SCROOGE - A CHRISTMAS CAROL - 2020

[kittiewales]

note the word “hoping”. not that they will not have more babies, but he’s “hoping”. as in there’s a chance, as in they’re fucking. regularly. and all he can do is hope.

[letsmakethenaughtylistt]

There’s something about seeing a man in his jammie’s with messy hair and a groggy sleepy voice that makes me absolutely feral.

[skeletalroses]

No shade @ everyone in Middle-earth but Bill and Ted could've gotten the Ring to Mount Doom and been fine