#that's why this blog exists

[diegofando]

[records-of-a-slacker]

so you know how WS mentions not being able to taste stuff or something along those lines? Like that is miserable but what does that mean for Cale? Aside from starving for so much of his life he literally can't even properly enjoy the taste of food to the fullest. Sure maybe the curse is like watered down a little on his end compared to WS but like it's still there. So I HC that as KRS he liked really flavorful food, esp. spicy food since they're the only ones that actually kinda stand out to him in terms of taste you know. So now you have this guy who eats everything with a giant bucket of gochujang piled on top and chili flakes like it's normal while even his fellow countrymen question him.

Idk I just thought of how happy he was about eating good food when he woke up as Cale and really praising Beacrox and like. what if aside from how its fancy food compared to what he usually eats it's literally the first time he's ever PROPERLY tasted food. Thinking about how satisfied he was with his food that his family noticed and how he's finally enjoying food and akjbkdkadbakdjkw

[willyhoos]

I MADE THE STRAWBERRY🍓 MACARONS, HE BROUGHT THE CHERRY🍒 SYRUP.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[faefetti]

Oh the autistic hatred towards being infantilized (being told I can’t do something, I’m not old enough, I shouldn’t try a difficult task because I’ll get hurt, being expected to like something just because it’s childish, being called kid when I’m a fully grown adult, having my feelings constantly disregarded and ignored because I’m “too sensitive”, being made fun of for wanting to follow the basic social rules we learned about as children, being made fun of for holding onto things I loved as a kid, etc)

…vs the joy of autistic regression (pacing to music I’ve loved since I was little, finding stuffed animals with the perfect textures, chewing on pacifiers instead of my cheeks, regressing after a meltdown to soothe myself, enjoying media where people are kind to each other and follow rules, regressing to whatever media I want because I don’t care about or understand why society thinks I shouldn’t, decorating everything however I want to, wearing colorful, cute clothes and accessories, nesting with plushies and all of my essentials, buying back toys I lost to keep them safe this time)

[writeouswriter]

They keep giving Burn Gorman small roles with fuckass haircuts and atrocious outfits in movies because they know people wouldn't know how to control themselves if they didn't, they don't want the masses to see how beautiful and powerful he really is because then the public will wake up to the realization these conventional Hollywood appearance standards are all bland and empty and they'll have to admit continuously hiring a stream of generic featureless pretty boys was a mistake and concede to the fact that the people yearn for Burn, which the world is just not ready for, BUT I AM; please please please give that man an actual major lead role in something good where he's not evil and doesn't die and isn't just a subplot there for a short amount of time, and leave his hair alone, I'm begging you, he may look scary to YOU, but his attractiveness just slapped me in the face like the hand of God, and his acting has taken hold of me, leave me alone

[lightningshrikes]

Tell an author that the disability "representation" in their writing is kinda ass and then watch them speedrun several human emotions before falling on anger. After that, count how many seconds it takes for them to either a) say you don't know what you're talking about, b) accuse you of faking being disabled, c) announce to the world that you are just a hater and imply (or outright say) that you should be thankful they even dared to add a disabled character into their writing, or d) call you a slur.

If you want to put this challenge on hard mode, interact with their fans and/or friends after doing this. If you survive either mode, you win nothing except a raging headache and the fear of having to interact with these people ever again.

[laser-tripwires]

alright so i made a vague allusion to having leverage/pjo crossover thoughts in some tags. and then @aardvaark sent me an ask about it, and then @artistica18 implored me to yap further, and then @leveragedlibrarians ALSO @'d me about it so i think at this point i need to elaborate.

i am certifiably not normal about leverage, and there was about a decade of my childhood solidly defined by the percy jackson books. suffice it to say, i have a lot of weirdly specific thoughts.

so! headcanons. in a pjo au, i think we can solidly divide the team in half as thus: Went To Camp and Did Not Go To Camp. remember, prior to the fusion of the two camps at the end of heroes of olympus, greek demigods were just unceremoniously spat out after they stop being kids and are left to fend for themselves. i can see nate and eliot spending their childhood summers at camp half-blood, heading home for the rest of the year; we're trying to alter backstory as little as possible here.

sophie and parker both moved around too much as kids (parker shares a homeless-in-new-york-as-a-preteen backstory with a disressing number of pjo characters) for that to make sense for them. doesn't mean they aren't half-bloods in this au, just that they had lifestyles that made it pretty impossible for satyr's to track them down and bring them to safety. see again the books - it's pretty clearly implied that without thalia's power drawing in monsters, annabeth and luke might not have been scouted. prior to percy's edict at the end of the pj series, unclaimed kids got missed all the time - makes sense for parker and sophie.

hardison could go either way, but i like the idea of him finding his way to camp only after settling with nana (who, as a foster parent, has probably seen more than one half-blood kid in the past).

oh and everyone i've seen talk about this crossover is fucking. wrong about the parentages. if i see one more person give nate athena as his godly parent i am going to scream. nemesis is right there y'all. goddess of justice, and revenge, and retribution, and balance, and punishment for the sin of hubris, and proportion, and righteous indignation, and counteraction of fate. people. people it's the themes of the show. bonus points, she's personified in the percy jackson books as very much a dangerous chaotic neutral power who her kids make some bargains with to the loss of their personal health. there is just... so much potential in so many different ways.

sticking with greek gods exclusively, i don't have that strong of a set of feelings about the others (except for eliot, we'll get to him). from what i can tell, people are 50/50 on giving sophie aphrodite or some niche minor deity - my vote goes to peitho, for the record. everyone picks something random for hardison because computers didn't exist 3000 years ago, i'm not even gonna try (as a fun bonus, breanna is totally a hephaestus kid). if you don't assign parker hermes then you are trying too hard. he's the god of theives, she's a thief, it's her defining characteristic, seriously stop trying to be clever. the hermes kids in the books have probably the widest spray of abilities and personalities that we see.

eliot... stop blindly giving him ares? yes, if you look at the domains in the mythology and how powerful the ares kids can be in the books, i can see why you're going that way. if you spend half a second paying attention to the characterisation of ares as a person and his half-bloods as characters as they exist in the books... ehhhh. the problem is that as far as i cant tell there's... not really a better fit. thanatos would be a nice call from a greek mythology perspective, but as far as pjo goes it's pretty heavily implied in the last olympian that he doesn't tend to sire half-bloods. similarly, phonos and androktasia are just, like, waaaay too niche and minor. same's true of enyo but in addition she A) overlaps waaaay too much with ares and B) literally seems to not exist in the pjo universe (seriously it's weird, the olympians books wax lyrical for AGES about how bellona doesn't have any sort of greek equivalent and i'm just here like ?????). ares it is, i guess. i'd switch tacks and assign him something roman (as much as ares wouldn't work, mars totally would) if access to camp jupiter wouldn't have completely changed his life (and CJ is much much better at reeling in demigods than CHB is, so can't use that trick again). also, it is damn fucking annoying that the more ancient and powerful deities don't tend to spawn demigods in the pjo universe, becase greek mythology has some titans and miscellanious cthonic crap which'd also be great candidates. i still say thanatos.

if you've watched episode three of the librarians, then i think you've got a pretty good idea of how leverage jobs would change in a world with gods and monsters knocking around. this agricultural company is secretly throwing people into the labyrinth is exactly the kind of shit that would happen!

also, magic powers make any AU a little bit more fun. it's why i like peitho so much for sophie - kids of minor gods get less powerful abilities in the pjo universe, but a leettle push from the goddess of persuasion would go a long way to helping sophie's career (something similar is also true if you take the regular aphrodite option). also, parker's pickpocketing already tows the reality line - i would love for the team to not be able to tell if she's using demigod abilities or is just That Good. i have intensely mixed feelings about any superpowers-adjacent leverage au (catch me in the future with my Basically The Only Magical Ability That Makes Sense For Eliot Is Allomatic Atium From The Cosmere rant, ✨coming to a deranged tumblr blog near you✨, if i ever write it - it's half the reason i struggle to come up with good headcanons for eliot here) but i can't deny that it's fun.

we've also got the general question of how close any of the team are to their godly parents. i say nate has only had direct contact with his mother once and it was summoning her to just fucking yell after sam died. sophie's never made direct contact, but has more than once woken up to find some token of favour by her bedside. whoever hardison's godly parent is, i don't think he was ever officially claimed - but he makes sacrifices anyway. parker was claimed, but we knows as per pjo canon that hermes has a habit of wistfully moping about his kids but not actually intervening. he manipulated some things behind the scenes to push her towards archie and towards the team, though.

i also just wanna throw up the fact that themes of fate, religion, family, systems are like... central to both franchises. both the leverage and the pjo universe are built around some fairly similar thematic conciets.

look. i'm me. percy jackson was my first ever major special interest, leverage my most recent and personal favourite. i know so much about both these universes. i haven't reread any riordanverse books in ages, and while i feel i've solidly grown out of them on account of now being 22 instead of 12, i'm sure i'll go back someday and check out the more recent books (i tapped out after jason died, lol). and if you've ever looked at this here sideblog of mine you'll know i am pathologically incapeable of being normal about leverage, so... yeah. i'm never gonna actually write a leverage/pjo crossover, but my head is still a wonderful stew of misdirected brainworms.

so, uh, yeah. pretty sure there's nothing here that other people haven't also said but - whelp. i've written all this now. please steal and discuss all my thoughts.

[cemeterysquids]

they should make a creating an identity for yourself that's easy

[syb-la-tortue]

You posted a teeth tutorial on your old blog an i would come back to it all the time but can’t find it anymore for some reason :,0 could you post it again maybe ?

oh man that thing is ancient hahaha I kind of cringe looking at it now because it's definitely not perfect but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to pull it out again

[diegofando]

dIego Brandk

diego brando dying in a glue trap

version with more voluptuous buttocks beneath cut as per a friend's request

[the-way-astray]

honestly?

I think Elwin is overrated.

he’s so unserious I wish he could act like an actual adult rather than some weirdo 10 year old

he literally put up posters of Keefe and Sophie in his healing center to embarrass them.

I hate him.

first of all, very curious as to why you came to my inbox about this . . . do i give elwin hater vibes? i'm not . . . but in the spirit of hearing people out . . .

honestly i don't really see how elwin can be overrated when he's not really rated in the first place. like people will be like "oh he's so pure, so kind, so sweet, so flawless" because. idk man it's kind of true. he's the only person in the entire series who hasn't done something problematic afaik . . . but other than that people don't really talk about him like ever. he's not very interesting as a character because of the fact that he's just kind of there to be nice and patch sophie up. he feels less like a character and more like a plot device to me idk

i mean yeah he's unserious but not chronically . . . he knows when to be serious and his "unseriousness" to me is just whimsy. like. he has stuffed animals and he wears pajamas like exclusively but who wouldn't if they could? do you see what i'm saying . . . like that's not anything like. wrong? to me? it just feels like something that brings him comfort and it doesn't hurt anyone so i mean . . . to me he does act like an adult (well aside from the fact that there's some weird juvenile dialogue that taints all of shannon's adult characters), like i don't think there's anything elwin-specific that i would say reminds me of ten-year-old behavior

okay i can see how you might see the pictures as a bit problematic because sophie didn't consent to it beforehand (keefe does actually express enthusiasm toward the idea before it happens to him, though, so we'll disregard him) . . . but honestly that's so unserious to me? i don't think his intention was necessarily to embarrass sophie, but rather to make fun of how much she's in the healing center . . . but yeah sophie does say she doesn't like it so that's certainly a thing. although i think elwin wanted it to be a surprise and that's why he didn't ask sophie first . . . i think if sophie told him not to, he'd take it down. i will say though that this doesn't really become a pattern of behavior with elwin . . . he does it once (well twice, but keefe was okay with it beforehand) so it seems strange to hate him for such a one-off thing where the intention wasn't even to humiliate sophie imo

[randomfandomss]

GOD IS REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ollyollyaxe]

im not gonna ask how ya got that shiner, but baby i'll be damned if you don't wear it well

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[theygender]

Just discovered the term les4les. Are we really trying to make biphobia cool again