#random but sometimes obscure facts and trivia we all have. anyway

[kindred-spirit-93]

DANGIT LET ME DIE OF DEHYDRATION IN PEACE /j

lost trio headcanons because theyre my mini fixation for the day

for starters i’d like to remind you that the first time jason felt like a person and not a soldier was when he was with leo and piper

ok now actual headcsnons

jason’s hair grew out after a bit and ended up covering the scar (“undercut”) he has on the side of his head from that one bullet. leo likes to surprise people by putting jason’s hair up bc its funny to see their reactions

l: “and look—secret undercut!!”

j: “it’s not an undercut leo, it’s a scar”

p: “the bullet didn’t even touch your skin drama queen”

j: “might’ve. my head could’ve exploded and—“

[groaning and arguing and leo laughing]

—canon convo guys rick told me

leo knows a lot of car games which is very beneficial for long days on the argo ii

piper always has a lollipop in her mouth and no one knows where they come from

leo comes up with the oddest nicknames and piper and jason are just. so used to it? jason could be talking to like reyna or smth and leo will come up to him and say

l: “oh hey jason gracer razor blazer”

j: “hi leo”

r: “what the fuck”

leo is really bad at picking up social clues so jason does it for him

the wildnerness school had a really early curfew that piper and leo blatantly ignored

they would stay out and wander the halls and hide in classrooms whenever a teacher was nearby

leo was poor and homeless, jason was raised with no regards to currency, spending, or finances, and piper is a nepo baby. the ultimate trio dynamic. arguing for hours about whether $50 is a lot or not (it is.)

leo shares food as a love language

jason loves video games, surprisingly enough (mario kart. MARIO KART.)

piper is constantly taking leo’s and jason’s stuff. hair ties, jewelry, mostly clothes, also mostly food, leo’s homework,

the trio has a movie marathon every friday night. there’s blanket forts, gummy worms, matching pjs, and fairy lights involved. they borrow rachel’s cave, since cabin 1 is too depressing and the aphrodite and hephaestus cabins are way too packed (sometimes rachel hangs around for a bit :D)

picture me this. it’s winter, the lake is frozen over. they somehow find ice skates. utter chaos. leo fancies himself a figure skater, jason is on all fours because he keeps falling, and piper actually did figure skating as a kid

GUYS GUYS THE TRIO GOING ON A QUEST AND HAVING TO HIJACK AN UPPER-CLASS PARTY/GATHERING IM LOSING MY SHIT IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

im gonna have to draw this but like

piper giving them very strict instructions on what to do and what not to do (they end up forgetting half of it)

yk that one quote from new girl?

“where are you piper?? this place is fancy and i don’t know which fork to kms with”

that’s leo

jason just hanging around quietly and not engaging in conversation and keeping everyone under close radar like the little fucking wolf he is

everyone ends up thinking he’s a bodyguard

the trio just goes along with it

YH THATS IT I HAVE MORE I THINK BUT THIS IS GETTING WAY TOO LONG SOOO BYE LOSERS GOODNIGHT AND DONR FORGET RO SLEEP EAT AND DRINK WATER (you hear that, @kindred-spirit-93? water. not pink milk. water./j)

[mozillavulpix]

things that are actually in ready player one (spoilers)

We are introduced to the protagonist’s gamer life by having him publicly shame a guy because he doesn’t know a ‘common’ piece of trivia related to their area of expertise. We are supposed to see this as admirable.

The main character falls in love with a girl after reading her blog, meets her within the game, and then basically openly-admits that he has a crush on her even if they’ve never met in person. She rejects him, but they later reconcile even though he doesn’t change anything about his behaviour.

There are two Japanese characters in the book. Their avatar names come from samurai swords, they dress like samurai in the game, they constantly talk about honor, and one of their big moments is turning into Ultraman. And then afterwards the protagonist turns into Ultraman in the finale, anyway. Also, all the non-Japanese characters know to use honourifics when talking to them and only them.

The protagonist’s best friend turns out to be an African-American lesbian disguised as a white male because then people would respect her. The implications of this are discussed in about one sentence and never brought up again. It doesn’t inform anything she as a character does.

There are almost no proper action scenes. As soon as something happens, the book basically describes that something was happening without actually explaining how.

The protagonist manages to complete a perfect game of Pac-Man within the space of a few hours. This is something that only a few dozen people have ever accomplished. The only reason the scene is even there is to introduce an item that operates as a Chekov’s Gun. It is also not related to the main quest.

There’s also no effort to explain how the protagonist manages to accomplish a lot of the difficult tasks. He just sits there and tries for a few hours until he gets it down. Perhaps this is realistic, but it is certainly not compelling to read.

Despite the protagonist getting so engrossed in the virtual world he neglects pretty much everything else, he makes no conscious effort to try and tone it back and get back to the real world, and yet is rewarded as if he did.

All of the heroes become celebrities by getting progress in the easter egg hunt. They then willingly sell out themselves as brands to corporations so they can get money to get better equipment for playing the game. They don’t care what they’re doing with them as brands, just as long as they get paid from it. The book also tries to hammer in to us that corporations selling us stuff that could be free is bad.

One of the gamemakers had been spying on the heroes the entire time, and only intervened to give the heroes a safe location for the final battle. And only after one of them had actually died. Keep in mind, his avatar is invincible and can destroy pretty much all the villains exclusively if he wanted to.

This gamemaker and the original gamemaker who created the virtual reality world had a falling-out because they were both in love with the sole geeky girl in their group.

Sometimes, the plot will stop dead in its track to explain to you the entire plot synopsis of a random show that doesn’t inform anything in the story at all.

Basically, the whole story revolves around characters getting unlimited power by memorising obscure facts about nostalgic facts and also being good at video games. Because that is the spirit of fandom right there. Memorising facts and getting gud. That’s all that matters.

god the book really was awful