#which in their case i'd argue is kinda sorta like really important?

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Yeah, honestly, this. It feels like the show took a look at rape victim no. 1, then rape victim no. 2, and decided that if they didn't like being with their rapists, then having what so far seems to be consensual sex with each other would be the height of hypocrisy.

Criston Cole is a knight of common birth in a medieval, feudalist world who rose to the highest position a knight could hold in the realm, who was pressured into sex with the member of the royal family directly responsible for his position as Kingsguard, resulting in him almost ending his life out of guilt for breaking his vow.

Alicent Hightower is a grown up child bride to an older king who was forced to perform her duties no matter the hour, who visibly disassociated during the act, who never had the luxury of thinking of her own desires at any point in her life, who birthed and raised her babies while still a child herself.

I would ask this show to explain how these two individuals overcame their sexual trauma and ingrained beliefs about duty and sex to start an extremely active sexual relationship but I know deep down that this is as far as the writers want to explore these characters in relation to this pairing:

[demigods-posts]

I’ve only read PJO and HoO so idk if this is still the case but I don’t like how the Hypnos cabin replaced the Aphrodite cabin as the butt of the jokes. Does there really have to be ‘that one cabin’ that everyone makes fun of?

Initially in PJO the Aphrodite cabin wasn’t taken very seriously and they were kinda seen as useless in comparison to the others. Obviously Selina disproved the stereotype and getting Piper’s perspective/ journey in HoO further established them as a respectable cabin. But it feels like as soon as that started we got the brand new Hypos cabin to fill the role as the comic relief?

Like sure Clovis tries to help Jason with his amnesia and he helps carry messages but most of the time Clovis is mentioned he’s just falling asleep and waking up at comical times. He doesn’t get a enough recognition imo

And the Hypnos cabin is just sleeping all the time?? I get that they navigate the dream world and stuff, that’s important. But shouldn’t they train as well? In the Lost Hero, Clovis is described as looking ‘like he’d never lifted anything heavier than a pillow’ which is obviously hyperbolic. But still! A huge part of CHB is teaching campers to fight for their lives in case they need to fend off the literal monsters that can smell them and track them down? Seems pretty inconsistent that the Hypnos kids wouldn’t be able to defend themselves

And I want to know more about them! Why are they sleepy all the time? When Percy was about to get the blessing of Achilles, Nico put a bunch of skeletons to sleep which made Nico very tired, is it like that? Are the Hypnos kids using their powers every night to help the insomniac demigods get some rest? Are there other powers they can have besides putting ppl to sleep and navigating the dreamscape? ‘Cause it seems like Nico can sorta do those things a bit as well. Is there anything specific Hypnos kids?

Sorry if I’m going on and on but I’m just so curious about this very underrated and vaguely-described cabin.

You have very valid questions that I don't have the answer to, lol. But I do agree with you that it seems inconsistent that chb is designed to train demigods to fight for their lives, yet some demigods just...don't? why wouldn't they at least train, you know, just in fucking case lmao. and also, i don't see why certain cabins are the butt of the joke either. i'd argue it's for the sake of the plot, something to pace the story by giving the reader a break when the tension is thick. but the demigods making fun of other demigods? like, come on now. y'all's life expectancy is way too low for y'all to make fun of each other :|

[ii-neg-confessions]

thank you for what you're doing. it's a nice thing

this blog is (to the surprise of me when I first saw it) not just a confession blog, but a place where you spread awareness, informing folks that the representation they got in a cartoon ranges to not-ideal to straight-up shit. An awareness of this kind has been an important part of all movements for minorities because it's literally the way people got good and better representation in media

my only complaint, truly, is that you sound like you're exhausted. If not, you're in an exhaustive cycle that may get you tired.

I don't wish to act like I'm some smartass who has more experience than you in internet arguing, but your most recent posts remind me of my own, from the time when I was 12 and on twitter, trying to argue in random threads about simpler things like how “being able to live sounds nice” and “not having uncool shit happen to us sounds pretty cool!”. Like, those words were important and I guess it's pretty nice that they were said by a group of people, but damn was taking a part in that tiring, exhausting and annoying.

Like, i was doing an ok job, trying to convince folks that they should be nicer (even if my methods of “treating them like they're stupid for even considering their own/old ideas” weren't the most effective... and sorta dehumanising too), but doing that was as annoying for them as it was for me. it was like a cycle, you argue with one person until neither of you has the patience to continue, but then suddenly there's another person coming in with their own ideas, getting you into another argument that brings no fruitful result to either person, and then another person comes in, and a fourth, then a fifth one who repeats the first one's words, then a sixth that has a baffling insatiability for an argument and a seventh who singlehandedly convinces you that everyone is a moron, only for ten more people to come in while you're still recovering from the last; and so forth. Rarely would anyone agree, and those who did would only do so because they were already inclined to not try and kill me. Eventually, i'd just spare my energy and not even try to care too much for each individual argument, which is cool, but it kinda devolved into me seemingly just having a meaningless, careless fight every week instead of an argument. I didn't even think I'd convince anyone at that point, I just ended up mocking everyone, treating them all like a single, stupid entity that came and went every couple of days. While I can be glad that I was doing something for a good cause, my regrets are that (1) I wasted so much time and (2) no one got to make that careful deconstruction of all those shitty things (like in that case, general homophobia, and in this case, bad rep) that I somehow managed to do. That's terrible, because that deconstruction was what got me and probably you into the fighting in the first place. I think about whether it could have convinced someone else.

Regardless, I see a lot of that somewhat tired self who fights for good things in you. I doubt you're unaware of how frustrating this is, since you're probably not as young or stupid as that old me, but I think that you getting stuck in that cycle is not only unhealthy to the whole point you're making but also, obviously, to you.

Sure, fighting for good things will obviously need you to exhaustively sacrifice your energy and wellbeing for a necessary conflict, but considering how this show is about to end forever this month and how tired you can seem, I don't know if it's worth it for you to fight too much. Maybe a break could help? Maybe rethinking our ways of going about this could make the entire thing easier somehow?

I wanna help, I had some ideas of how to do it, but this text is already too long and not only am I tired but also there's always the chance that I might be stupid when thinking that you're tired. I mean, I've repeated that idea so many times, but really, it's just an assumption.

Sorry for the long wall of text. thank you again for this blog

I left this in my inbox for a while and I was planning to answer this as soon as my inbox was empty so here I go

I said this before, I think, and I have to admit that it is tiring to spread awareness and calling out AE's bullshit, and I promised myself that I would make sure everybody else knew this, instead of mindlessly glazing the key 3's ass.

As exhausted as I might be, it's a task I want to keep going, despite people ignoring me, despite the "joy and whimsy" spreaders, despite the harassment I've received and that I keep receiving.

I've found myself a community of people who believe in my mission and fight to keep it going. My anons, my comrades, help me in my mission, and thanks to them, I find the hope to keep going despite the posie mob trying to bring me down. And for that, I thank you.

Today, as the shitshow finally ends, it's not the end of the mission. There's more to talk about and there's more to ask accountability for. I have big plans for the II neg/II crit community.

Thank you for the concern, anon, and thank you for caring.