#story: Miss Jackson

[ruegarding]

one thing abt thalia and percy's dynamic that is often overlooked is that percy was punished for the same things thalia was rewarded for. there's a prophecy abt one of the big three kids? percy is treated like a liar and thief and ppl refuse to talk to him. thalia? everyone respects her (including gods!) and assumes she'll do a great job saving the world. thalia is accepted immediately at camp and threatens the place percy spent two years proving he deserves. percy wants to go on a quest to save his friend? he's an attention seeker and glory stealer. thalia? well, she's the obvious choice. thalia comes up w a plan to win capture the flag that's basically "leave everything to me" and percy comes up with a plan that's basically "if you see a good opportunity, go for it," but percy is viewed as the control freak.

what i'm saying is percy had every reason to resent thalia and he didn't. he chose not to. and thalia had every reason to look down on percy and didn't.

even when they were fighting, i never saw it as a power struggle. they were being pit against each other, and instead of doing what everyone expected them to (kronos was fully expecting thalia to kill percy), they chose to love and respect each other. because they're not their parents. they're just two kids who started cracking under the pressure but refused to break.

[fmnlibrary]

Thinking about how Percy is trying not to be 'special' from the beginning. Thinking about how out of place he feels. Thinking about Luke telling him, when he first arrives at camp half-blood, that this is the one place where, for the first time, he's just like everyone else. Thinking about Percy's prayer to his mom, how he talks about finding belonging and real friends.

Then thinking about Percy entering the Poseidon cabin for the first time, and Chiron's voice-over telling him that as a forbidden child, he is singular, even amongst demi-gods. Alone, again.

[daisy-mooon]

"I want Annabeth to be blonde :(" then pick up a PJO book and read it you dumb fuck

[demigods-posts]

percy and annabeth's depature on mount saint helens affected them both very deeply, and i love for the show to capitalize on it. specifically, during percy's return to camp. i loved to see him fixate on annabeth rushing toward him amidst a crowd of campers. i'd love to see annabeth hug percy so hard, he stumbles backward. i'd love to see percy wraps his arms around her waist in tearful relief that she made it out alive. and i'd especially love to see the surrounding campers fall silent at their reunion because something definitely happened between those two.

[half-shadowgalra]

Sally Jackson, Maria di Angelo, and Naomi Solace would be badass, bestie, wine mamas if they got to meet each other

[heavenlymorals]

Susan Grimshaw - A Small Deep dive Into A Complicated Woman

(Warning: This post contains mentions of period typical sexism and gender roles, as well as spoilers for RDR2)

Susan Grimshaw is one of the most interesting characters in the Van Der Linde gang and perhaps one of the most mischaracterized as well. She is either this beloved tough mother caricature or a deplorable hag more reminiscent of Cinderella's step mother than any true matriarch.

Today, though, I want to go into a little cultural deep dive regarding Miss Grimshaw. I want to explore the cultural significance of her character and how she's sadly a representation of the affects of misogyny and how it could affect a woman.

And for context, I come from a culture that still operates under many of the gender roles that 1899 America followed so all the stuff I'm gonna talk about are all things I've seen and/or experienced in my life time.

Grimshaw seems to me like a woman who is trying to compensate. What do I mean by this? Simple. What I mean is that in such a male dominated society that expected women to adhere to their standards, the fact that Susan Grimshaw wasn't able to is a source of insecurity for her, which then makes her lash out on the other girls of the camp.

Whether consciously or unconsciously, she heavily values male praise and authority. She is generally sweet and playful with Arthur, giving the vibe of that mother that we all seem to love so much, but with the girls, she's hell incarnate.

The second we get into Horseshoe Overlook, she talks to Arthur on how they got his tent ready and then tells Dutch and Hosea they would be ready shortly. The second we get into Horseshoe Overlook, she tells Tilly: "Miss Jackson, I've seen shit with more common sense than you, do it properly!". That one scene shows or gives an idea of how she is with the men vs how she is with the women.

She is awful to the girls. She reminds me a lot of mothers who are sweet and even servant-like to their sons and who view their daughters as competition, thus are harder and horrible to them (to my fellow Arab girlies, you know how it is. It sucks).

She never lets them rest and always gets on them for working the "wrong" way. That's pretty damn demoralizing. She berates them, calls them whores, and even physically assaults them. She even complains that she hates how Dutch won't allow her to whip them. And here's the thing, you can't even cite historical attitude with her behavior because even back then, abusive mistresses were criticised and seen in a bad light.

One of the most vile things she's ever done is try to pressure Abigail into prostitution again, even though she knows that Abigail is a mother and never wants to do that again, threatening her by telling her that she'd bring the matter up to Dutch even if Dutch himself never wanted her to do any of that.

But that behavior stems from her own insecurity of not hitting the milestones that women were expected to reach at that point.

She isn't married, nor was married, and a woman's identity of marriage was such a big thing back then that Grimshaw tries to cope with it by being decent with the men or accepting their flattery. She gets interested in Micah before he makes fun of her for being an older woman. She was willing to go out with Uncle before he asks her for money. She is fond of Dutch and still talks about when they were together sometimes and doesn't dare berate Molly because she's Dutch's girl. She even ignores the girls when they are doing something not work wise with the men- probably to please the man.

Tilly mentions this. "If I'm playing with you, she'll leave me alone."

But no one wants her and that then makes her lash out. She bullies Mary Beth on how she's too vain and that her beauty will go away, just like it "went away for her" and that what's left is awful. Like that such a sad mindset but in the time period she lived in, it makes sense. Women were usually married off by their early twenties due to their youth and vigor and beauty was perhaps the most important part of a woman because it's the only area where she is respected and that fucking sucks (note how many myth/historical women are praised almost only for their beauty). As women grew older, they'd become less desirable to the male dominant society, thus they would be shamed and humiliated. This even happens to Bonnie McFarlane in RDR1 in the newspapers when she's only in her late twenties, but because she isn't married, she gets shamed.

Grimshaw feels insecure about these aspects of her, of her looks, of her age, and that makes her lash out on the other women of the camp because they are young and beautiful. It makes her feel like she has a power that she lost by being a 50+ year old woman with nothing to her name.

So to compensate and to show her "value" as a woman, she works and works and works to dignify Dutch's camp because in that aspect of her life, she doesn't need to worry about her insecurities.

Yes. Grimshaw cares for the girls, and she'll scrap for all of them, but that doesn't mean she isn't a problematic and toxic person. It's sad that she feels like she needs to do all that for male approval in a male dominant society but good God, man. Again, she's literally that mother who feels threatened by her daughter and competes with her but treats her son like a prince, even if she still loves her daughter.

Yea, she helped save Tilly and pointed her gun at Micah in the end, but that doesn't mean she's just this "tough" mother figure. No. She's mean and toxic and awful and all of that is because of misogyny and how it feeds into her own insecurities as an older woman.

It's fucking sad.

[tripleaxeldiaz]

i don’t understand people complaining about the percy jackson show. yes things are different again, i know we’re all scarred from the movies. yes there are things that got cut. it’s a 400 page book condensed into 8ish hours of tv — things move quicker because we’re not in the characters heads anymore, and watching minutes and minutes of them puzzling through things would frankly be boring to watch. the things they HAVE changed, with medusa and hephaestus and all the nods to the gods being truly complex and terrible beings, is SO rich and fresh and exciting for people who have read the books 27 times over

just because it’s not a page for page adaptation doesn’t make it bad. you want the book story? read the book

[pebblenessmonster]

Feel like shit just want her back

[marypickfords]

this means nothing to americans who can find her books anywhere but im soooooooooooooooo happy :3

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who - The Smugglers

[lukecastellanshandholder]

I think that Percy being the most unreliable narrator is something that people don’t talk about enough. Like, the gods, Chiron, and even other demigods keep Percy in the dark about so many things in their world. Yet so many readers take all of Percy’s thoughts, and what he thinks is truth, as absolute fact? Like, that boy knows the least out of anyone and tends to have a very narrow view on things and people because of that.

Yes, he is the main character in the first series and one of the main characters in HoO, but that doesn’t negate the fact that Percy is the least knowledgeable about the world they live in. And this fact becomes even more pronounced when we have a completely new main character (in TOA and the others in HoO for example).

I guess what I’m trying to say is, there are 2 ways you can read the series.

1) You can take what Percy says as absolute truth and read without any care in the world.

Or

2) You can look into the actions of the people around Percy and into little details and actually find the overarching themed and undertones of the story.

(Also, on a related side note? With Percy’s fatal flaw being excessive loyalty, that just makes him even more of an unreliable narrator. Because, anyone who has wronged any person that he cares about, or who turns against the people he cares about, is automatically an enemy or irredeemable person in his eyes . Even if the other person had good intentions or genuine reasons why they would betray Percy or his loved ones. Percy has blinders on that cause him to see only what his excessive loyalty will allow.)

[bookishjules]

The Shape of the Tide - Masterpost

Rating: Explicit

Length: ??

Summary: In the five years since Annabeth Chase left her kingdom and the love of her life, she has done her best to move on. She's found a new home at an inn, a new family to be a part of, and maybe even a new person to love; and for the most part, she can ignore any residual pangs of guilt and regret. But when a certain prince arrives unexpectedly at the inn, the shaky foundations she's built this new life on begin to crumble. Annabeth is faced with questions she doesn't want the answers to, and answers she never asked for, but the threads of her past go deeper than she realizes, and soon finding closure is the least of her worries.

chapter by chapter * start from beginning * playlist * vibes

[thechildofshadows]

one thing I’ve found is that authors market their books as a series, when they’re mostly just a bunch of books that take place in the same universe.

take Percy Jackson as an example.

each book in the series has its own plot, but each plot is part of a bigger, sort of umbrella plot which is all resolved at the end of the series.

they’re mostly focused on one or two main characters, and a few side characters who appear somewhat less often.

and they also feature a large amount of recurring characters.

this is what we see in most book series for older kids/teens/young adults. (KOTLC, Warrior Cats, Twilight, the Hunger Games trilogy, Divergent, (I’m listing crap off the top of my head) the Lunar Chronicles, the Land of Stories, Harry Potter, etc.)

(heroes of Olympus has seven main characters, but it also follows this pattern, take a look. The plots of each book differ, but they’re all stepping stones to solving the final problem in the book. Each character is highlighted at a different part in each book and Rick Riordan did pretty good at giving them their times to shine.)

now if we look at a series like Bridgerton…

there’s no overarching plot for the series. Each book can be read alone out of order and each book has its own plot which is resolved at some point within the book. A character that may have been mentioned once in a book before could be the main character of the next!

(the entire point of the series is to get each Bridgerton married off)

another example would be the Twisted series, by Ana Huang.

she markets them as a series, but there’s no huge plot for the whole thing. Each book is based on a different couple, but one couple doesn’t star the entire series. Sure, they make some appearances throughout the other books, but once a couple’s book is over, they don’t star in anything else.

before anyone comes at me for anything, I googled the definition of series.

these books I used as examples are related to each other, I get that. It literally takes place in the same universe and the world is small, obviously the characters know each other. could the definition be slightly more specific?

Yes.

It could.

so I went to Merriam-Webster.

It defines it as a succession of volumes or issues published with related subjects or authors, similar format and price, or continuous numbering (why does price apply???)

(the Bible and the dictionary look like they’re formatted the same, they’re not a series, lmfao)

anyway, what is considered a series?

should it be more specific?

((i just made this observation. I’m really sorry if it offended anyone (I’m not sure how, but the world is crazy sometimes.)

If you didn’t get this and want to understand-just let me know I’d be happy to help.))

[adventuressclubamericas]

The year was 1814, and Gen. Andrew Jackson had a problem. He and his American forces were engaged in a pitched fight for New Orleans against the might of the British Empire. The city’s defenses were severely lacking, as was the supply of men who could engage with the legendary British Navy in these waters. He needed someone who really knew the bayou, and knew how to use it to their advantage. Luckily, he knew where to find them.

There were few who knew the waters around New Orleans better than Jean and Pierre Lafitte. They’d operated a very successful import and marine salvage business here for years - in other words, they were smugglers and pirates. Good ones, too, who had amassed a small fortune and assembled a small fleet. But they’d also broken the first rule of piracy - they got caught. And were now sitting in a cell.

So Jackson arranged for Jean Lafitte to meet him on the second floor of the Old Absinthe House, to try and convince him to work for the Americans in the upcoming battle. Lafitte made the general an offer - they’d fight in exchange for Presidential pardons for himself, his brother and all their men, as well as the return of their fleet. Jackson readily agreed, and the rest, as they say, is history!

Today the Old Absinthe House still operates as a bar and event space in the heart of the French Quarter. It welcomes thousands of guests each year - including, it seems, Jean Lafitte! Many people have seen him in the bar, sharing a beer with none other than Andrew Jackson, while others have heard and even walked in on Lafitte and his men throwing a wild party on the second floor.

The Old Absinthe House is located directly across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel. Who knows, we just might run into some pirates during Miss Fisher Con 2024!

[ruegarding]

compilation of every mention of adhd and/or dyslexia within tlt.

highlight key: yellow-adhd; blue-dyslexia; green-general statements. here is the link to the compilation in hoo for comparison.

explicit (15):

implicit (13):

total: 28

[luchiaketchum-art]

redraw of old crx sketch from 2019 I tried to colo but gave up on now,,, I miss them...