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aroaceleovaldez · 3 months ago

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i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

#pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #percy jackson #riordanverse #jason grace #annabeth chase #piper mclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #meta #analysis #me shaking hoo: what if we actually address the interpersonal dynamics of the characters. please. please. please. please.#frank is the only person on the boat not having an identity crisis tied to another member of the crew somehow and that is FASCINATING #but also WHERE is all the interpersonal literally anything. hello. please. making grabby hands. everybody identity crisis go.#i wanna see the entire argo ii crew stumbling through trying to figure out their places and senses of self!!!!!#particularly in relation to each other!!!!! we get snippets but we rarely ever get the full thing or a resolution!!!#like. HELLO??? Piper acknowledging that her relationship with Jason is artificially sculpted in the image of Annabeth and Percy???#and that her ideals of what Jason and her can be are just that she feels like they need to be like what Percy and Annabeth have????#and thats just DROPPED COMPLETELY????#poor Jason is getting replaced twice. Leo is not his own person.#Hazel at least gets the resolution that Nico does not truly see her as a consolation prize #but Annabeth gets to be hit with the like EIGHT YEAR DELAY of learning the place she inhabits in Thalia's life is the echo of someone else #cause like. yeah she knew Thalia had lost her brother but i dont think it clicked for her until she met Jason that oh. she *replaced* him #Frank at least has some certainty about his identity in one aspect (his curse). everybody else is floundering a bit #except for maybe Percy but its kind of the camps of ''i replaced this person and it weighs on me'' versus ''i have been replaced''

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lazylittledragon · 12 hours ago

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pt 1 of some much requested cyra lore

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #morgueweave #tw parental abuse #please take care i know this sort of thing hits for some people #i wrote this way too long and it's about as subtle as a punch in the face so i had to break it into pieces #teenage cyra is kind of an icon but also ouch ouch ouch #you can tell her egg donor is evil bc she doesn't have any eye shinies #madame with all due respect if you don't want your kid to call you out maybe don't have an affair #also i feel like cyra with no braids/glasses in an outfit that isn't black or brown is some kind of cursed. she shouldn't exist like this

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wannabemasterofwindintraining · 1 month ago

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You could be nicer about it :((

#when wu n pixal opened a portal to the preeminent in s11 the place she was in looked like some kind of swamp #so i imagine after the merge the cursed realm is like someplace in the departed land or island or whatever that's a big area of toxic bogs #so the cursed bogs ehehe :)#also I'm a scythe morro truther he should have death imagery me thinks #a scythe works better for a wind weapon than an earth one in my opinion sorry cole you get a cool giant hammer tho #also also yes i am pretending that arin n ras ended up in the cursed bogs or someplace in the departed land after s2 #ok ok yap session over now i promise #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising spoilers #ninjago morro #ninjago arin #ras doesn't get a tag <333 #blue's doodles

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magnetoisnotahappybunny · 5 months ago

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best hair he had in the entire prequel trilogy and i'm sorry Erik, but he's my wife if you even care

#it's some kind of magneto stan curse being in love with charles?#charles xavier #professor x #x men apocalypse #xma #cherik

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dykealloy · 6 months ago

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this will never not be hilarious to me

#silver can never realise he likes a man like a normal gay person #he'll sooner interpret the unnamable feeling as god-fearing reverence for some kind of cursed sea creature capable of manifesting his doom #this is why annevbonny eel post is the silverflint post of all time to me #silverflint #black sails #john silver #james flint

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wizardpink · 3 months ago

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I know everyone likes to concept of IWTV vamps losing their ability to make good art when they become vampires but, I actually like the idea that sometimes people/vampires just aren't that talented lmaoooo. But immortal vampires have the money and the time to pursue artistic hobbies, plus the desire to reconnect with humanity, so they do so anyway despite a lack of talent.

Like Marius for example is exactly the type of asshole who would be only a semi-decent painter, but use his money and power and influence to insert himself into the art world like he belonged there.

And if Armand is to be believed, Lestat wasnt a bad actor at all.

Like sorry bout it but maybe Louis just isnt a great photographer! And the reason it stings so much is because filthy sack-of-blood humans would dare tell a vampire "maybe you're just not cut out for this."

We know vampires are only supposed to turn only the most attractive humans. Who is more unearnedly confident in their artistic abilities than hot people?

#I just think it would be funny if certain vampires were like 'yes well... it's the curse of our kind to lose the ability to make art.'#only to find out some vampires are extremely talented! its just a personal flaw that they themselves suck!#iwtv

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varpusvaras · 2 months ago

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I just love that according to the comics, Oliver gets so frequently stranded to places without shelter that he has learned to build one and has a trick arrow with a whole capsule house in it. I'm just wondering how this keeps happening to him. Like the rest of the family is one day like hey by the way, has any one of you seen Oliver? And Mia is like oh yeah he said that he was going fishing like....a few days ago. Oh fuck.

They end up tracking him down to some random remote island in the middle of nowhere and are like how did this happen? You took your little boat and went just a little bit off the shore! How did you get here? And Oliver is like ah you see, while I was fishing I saw some really suspicious looking guys on their boat and I followed them and figured that they were weapon smugglers so I took them out and made it to their ship and infiltrated it but the ship ended up exploding and I ended up floating around a bit before I managed to make up a raft from the debris and my grappling arrows and I used it to make my way here. Sorry I didn't call, I dropped my phone into the ocean at some point.

And his kids are just standing there like we really can't let you do anything by yourself huh.

#roy mia and connor: don't make unnecessary journeys! don't take risks on treacherous roads! and don't swim in the sea!#did he get some kind of curse from the first island or what is going on #dc #dcu #oliver queen #green arrow #arrowfam

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maggie44paint · 6 days ago

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I find it so funny how badly movie adaptations of Iliad always potray Helen's and Menelaus' relationship, cuz it's literally just:

Helen, according to movie directors: "My husband is so old, evil and ugly, I wish I could run away with hot young Paris who treats me like his queen"

Helen in Iliad:

#the iliad #iliad #greek mythology #homer #homer's iliad #menelaus #helen of troy #helen of sparta #helen x menelaus #i curse my old literature teacher for making me think that menelaus was some kind of evil villain for years #he a baddie but ppl wont accept it

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swampthingking · 9 months ago

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andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

#pr manager is like: andrew… this is the last time i’m gonna tell you #andrew: whats the point of democracy if i can’t exercise freedom of speech #pr manager: andrew it’s no longer about your image #at this point we are concerned the fbi is going to show up #andrew: neil has connections. i’m fine #they thought marketing andrew on social media would be good #they were sooooo wrong #because now andrew has a place to share every insane thing he’s ever thought #for instance—a tweet that just says ‘an alien googling: human clothes’#he’s on there advocating for lgbtq+ youth you KNOW HE IS #he’s cursing and mildly threatening members of congress for imposing these disgusting bills #one day he tweeted ‘does mitch mcconnell know he’s dead yet’#when mitch mcconnell stepped down from senate andrew tweeted ‘hopefully next he steps down from life’#unsurprisingly: this endears him to some people and makes others fucking hate him #and he’s such a shit. he does not care either way #he’s kind of just like: pr manager. you gave me a twitter and told me to tweet. i’m just doing what you asked me #they’ve threatened to change his password so many times #they actually did once but andrew reported the account so many times for defamation and fraud that it got suspended #and he made a new account out of pure spite #his pr manager is like: andrew nobody is going to want to sign you because of your public image #and andrew is like: ?? ok. they can lose every game then #(he knows he’s the best goalie)#ok i think that’s enough for now. however i will probably be back #andrew minyard #aftg #tfc #trk #tkm #the foxhole court #all for the game

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surreal-duck · 6 months ago

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es rarepair week 2024 day 1 | AU/future

lil ghostic au of mine!!! yuzuru and the rest of fine are long since trapped souls in an abandoned mansion of which rst come across while looking for shelter during a storm :] it doesnt um. particularly end well

#doodles #duck scribbles #es rarepair week 2024 #midoyuzu #yuzumido #i Was gonna do the stardew au but then it made me kind of sad. actually this is even worse in that aspect but im in a mood #enstars #midori finds his diary of which details the life of and events leading to yuzuru and the rest of the residents' deaths and w it slowly #becomes able to see/interact with (to an extent) yuzurus spectre himself #midori takamine #yuzuru fushimi #ghostswere initially rather aggressively hospitable in order to keep lost strangers there to eventually die and become a lost soul like the #but most w time grew to just want to be freed and be able to pass on in peace. more hostile ghosts become vague wisps of what they were bef #ore once theyve lost their tether to humanity but those with a strong will still have more control and effect on their surroundings somewha #yuzuru specifically was determined to maintain the mansion and has for decades and maybe centuries kept it orderly hence the clarity of his #spirit!!! having been one of those hostile spirits himself before has moved on to gently guiding guests away from the more dangerous areas #and assisting them so as to ensure their safe leave #they look for a way to break the curse on the mansion together so as to free all their souls!! unfortunately for midori she fell in love w #someone who has long since died 👍#the lil ballroom scene was a funny thing i dreamed about a while ago actually. i like to think watarus ghost put on some music unprompted #oh and since the rest of rst is also there technically you can expect chiaki is Not having a very good time

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robinfollies · 1 year ago

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KEEP THE DANGER OUT // KEEP THE DANGER IN

#billie bust up #bbu billie #bbu fantoccio #robin’s art #2024 art #COMPANION PIECES BABY!!! started these last year (month) and finally finished em!!! :33 #i could write an ENTIRE essay abt billie and fanto and their parallels and stuff #which actually i love tumblr tags. lets do some of that here!#okAY IM NOT GONNA GO INTO EVERYTHING BUT HERES A BASIC RUNDOWN OF SOME OF MY THOUGHTS #let’s start by looking at goatshire + the lost city of magic !!#both places have some kind of border around them keeping SOMETHING in/out #goatshire’s wall keeping the trolls/other danger out; keeping the villagers inside safe #and the city’s barrier keeping the curse inside; while keeping everyone outside safe from it #but in turn it’s also keeping billie and fanto trapped in their respective places #one moreso than the other i guess but ahahaha. haha. heh. OKAY MOVING FORTH #unrelated but how sick would it be if the barrier broke and let the curse out. just sayiiin.. a lil theory thats been on my mind recently #anyways back to THE POINT #okay this parts gonna sound insane BUT JUST HEAR ME OUT HERE #goatshire citizens / the cursed city citizens.#billie and fanto both kinda stick out in their respecitve homes; fanto being the only uncursed guy and billie with their magic #so theres like. a real disconnect between them and others there. u get what i mean.#theyre both outliers and like something something allegory for neurodivergence and struggling to connect with others probably #SORRY GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. idk how to explain it BUT DO U GET IT!!! DO U UNDERSTAND!!!!#also they were both abandoned by SOMEone stares at arthur #okay specifically whoever fanto’s cretaor was left him behind but u know me im such a fanto elmtwig jak #something something loneliness and being left behind and having ppl around you who kinds understand u but also not totally. kicks rock #someone get these siblings some THERAPY!!!!!!!#this was a very disjointed explanation bUT HOPEFULLY I GOT MOST OF MY THOUGHTS ACROSS GOOD. IM BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS SORRY #someone order me a yappuccino!!!!! BYE!!!!

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moonsidesong · 2 months ago

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i wanted to make popoi a pokemon . whats one more haunted toy for the pokemon franchise am i right

they dont have names cuz im really not good at making those... i just made these for fun

bonus shiny forms. i based it off this one really weird looking scan of evil popoi i see sometimes that blows up the saturation of the colors really weirdly so his outline looks super blue instead of the usual purple. i misremembered the eyes from that scan also looking green-ish, but i looked again after i drew this and that was wrong. oh well i think he looks cute with them

#moonsideart #these like arent cleaned up at all and i drew them in like half an hour but i dont care theyre going in the main art tag #popoi #puyo puyo #pokemon #fakemon #??? i guess #I KNOW YHR ALT TEXT IS REALLY LONG IS IT TOO MUCH #I JUST KIND OF PACKED A LOT OF TEXT INTO ONE FRAME #2024 #i ended up incorporating some of my headcanons about him into this #i was like halfway through writing the dex entries before i realized him being cursed to live in a doll isnt like explicitly canon #and if anything is only like. incredibly loosely implied. Kind Of #look i just think if he was in basically the same situation as aya but was living his best life about it anyway i think itd be funny

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arctic-bookclub · 1 year ago

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i can’t stop thinking about how well bolas rojas has adapted to the conditions of purgatory. they embrace whatever suffering and lack of materials they have, they cheer for certain disasters (mainly the fog), they further embrace their insanity, laugh at their lack of mental wellbeing, they physically fight each other and die for fun. they invite the poor conditions like they weren’t missing luxuries like op backpacks and castles a few days ago. they truly embody the hellscape they’re trapped in because they were so utterly stomped to the ground from the start that they have embraced the mud as their new home.

so actually to correct my first point of this post, they haven’t adapted to the conditions of purgatory, they were reborn, created and molded from the flames of it.