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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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I was just talking to my partner, and I feel like I read a lot of drama when I was in high school (1991-1995), not for drama/theater classes (I was a band nerd, not a drama/theater nerd) but for my English classes:

Sophocles, Antigone

Euripides, The Bacchae

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Shakespeare, Macbeth

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Shaw, Pygmalion

Wilder, Our Town

Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Miller, Death of a Salesman

Miller, The Crucible

Sartre, No Exit

Did other people read this much dramatic literature in high school outside the context of a theater class? Seriously. I really wonder.

Please reblog and add which plays you read in the tags!

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EPIC THE MUSICAL EXCHANGE GIFT 🎁🎁🎉

Happy Holidays to @takow !

I'm your secret Santa >:)))

Hope you like it, sorry if it looks bad, I did my best 👉👈

Have an amazing day!

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Shamy a lazy potato 🥔

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do you remember that show, the one that was praised for its narrative and tight knit story, the one that was said to have one of, if not the best, portrayal of: mental health/illness, classism, women, character development, characters in general and show not tell? that one??

well it killed its 3 suicidal characters, sidelined the women in favor of a "bigger story" that forgot its central theme of classism

BY KILLING THE OPPRESSED IN THE CLOTHES OF THE PEOPLE THAT OPPRESSED THEM.

It brought together a lesbian couple in a cell in a prison one of the lesbians was tortured in and depicted it as her kneeling infront of the rich woman because the show loves its show not tell. It brought in new characters and killed them off, they had no overarching purpose in the story.

Yeah that show.

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In honor of Arcane finale coming out today here is 270 pfps from the jayce war

+ bonus funny comments

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in case anyone is missing it arcane tiktok is recreating mishapocalypse by changing their pfps to show whether or not they support Jayce

here are the standard ones

even League of Legends is in on it, though they're avoiding choosing a side

it's gotten a little out of hand with the varieties but it's so good. there's pride flags, there's gay kisses, there's loss.jpg, there's anti maddie, there's scissors, there's reduce reuse recycle, there's isha lives, there's christmas, there's mpreg. you name it they got it

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Out of the many things i don't like this much about the PJo books, there are actually three things that REALLY annoy me the most:

- RR's potrayal of femininity: almost all the female leads have the "NotLikeOtherGirls" complex and the genuine feminine girls are 1) a traitor (Silena), 2) a damsel in distress (Calypso) and 3) a mean AlphaB*tch™️ (Drew). Nothing wrong obviously with not liking classical girly things BUT being feminine ISN'T the same as being weak or stupid. A woman can be feminine AND strong. These things can totally coexist and i don't get why some people seem to fail to understand that.

- Riordan's apparent hate of common features. He really gave Piper and Hazel light eyes despite them being poc and tried to justify it by saying they have them because of their powers???? So i guess it's just an unfortunate coincidence that neither Pluto or Aphrodite have these eyes in the first place. And of course it's totally normal that ESTELLE apparently has Poseidon's sea green eyes despite her father being Paul Blofis. AND it's another complete coincidence that almost all his attractive and popolar characters have light eyes and/or hair while all the "outcasts" have common traits. Suuuuree it is.

- When the books' narrative (and honestly the fandom) tries to suggest that every single thing Nico did in the story was actually to impress Percy and nothing more. This annoys me to hell and back. Yeah he had a crush on him; Percy was his hero and Nico idolized him a lot, BUT so did Annabeth with Luke. AND why not starting with Leo, who got little crushes on every pretty girl he met before ending up with Calypso, a cheek he kinda killed himself for. But why don't i see the same attitued with them? Ohh i know why.....they are straights (or at least in straight relationships) so they are allowed to have goals, interests, A PERSONALITY outside their sexuality and love life. Gay people apparently not. A queer dude's life simply needs to revolve around a straight one, you know? That's truly one of the worst queer tropes ever.

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since my last post was about jason's tattoo, it just dawned on me that jason probably had to get a tattoo the very minute he arrived at camp jupiter since he was the child of jupiter, and most likely was given 'special treatment' by getting 'the honour' quickly.

at four years old.

he got a painful tattoo at four years old.

and was most likely harshly scolded by the senior members of CJ if he had cried.

because all they saw was honour, nobody gets the tattoo that early in, without going through tests and quests, and according to them, jason is being an 'ungrateful brat' by crying.

but all baby jason saw, was pain.

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TLH TRIO FOR HALLOWEEN!!!! (Ignore that this is two days late…..)

theyre going as cassie, kon, and bart (Or wondergirl, superboy, and impulse… bc i love dc. Leo put the most effort into his costume, jason dosnt knwo them he just got the suit, the jacket was too hot </3

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its always "percy and blackjack" this and "jason and tempest" that SHUT UP

let's talk about how Arion tried to (and did a few times) kill anyone that wasn't Hazel that tried to tame him. Let's talk about how there was a WHOLE PROPHECY foretelling Hazel and Arion being an iconic, powerful duo. LETS TALK ABOUT THEY FOUND EACH OTHER IN BOTH HER LIVES. LETS TALK ABOUT HOW HAZEL AND ARION ARE ABSOLUTELY 100% WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST DEMIGOD/EQUESTRIAN DUO

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i will never understand how people have the heart to hate Jason even after they found out that his Ambrosia tastes like fucking sawdust. Ambrosia being tasty is like one single happy thing a demigod can have despite their tragic lives, because it reminds them of the home they once had, but lost. And Jason doesn't even have that, he doesn't even have a home to lose in the first place.

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Jason Grace was needed by the fandom because among all the troublemakers, sarcastic frats, dyslexic students and hyperactive kids who related with Percy, Leo and other demigods, there were some of us who loved discipline, studying and who constantly worked under the growing weight of people's expectations just because they were good at something.

There were some of us who excelled at academics, some who liked being organized instead of messy, and some who liked discipline over casual behaviour. And just when we thought that maybe we couldn't relate to any demigod – Jason emerged as our ray of sunshine.

Jason taught us it's as okay and cool to be disciplined and perfect as it is to be messy and lacky. Let's give our boy all the love he deserves because he made a huge difference in so many people's lives.

JASON GRACE YOU'RE LOVED

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Wait so this might be a dumb question, but what is the antisemitism in his books? I mean, I'm Jewish, but I don't remember there being any. Granted, it has been a while since I read the books

Both me and @jewishpercy​ have posts laying around here somewhere but for the sake of posterity (sorry to put you in the open here but you’re the first person to ask this directly instead of the notes of a longer post) 

- In the lightning thief Chiron has a bit of exposition where he’s explaining what demigods are to Percy, and then the promise between the big three. In this exposition he says that WW2 was a product of the gods and by extension hitler was a son of Hades BY EXTENSION saying that the holocaust of was a product of Hades’ machinations. Ergo not only making a point of deep trauma and loss a background plot point in his books for children, but also minimizing it to be some side effect of a character’s actions. (A character we are later meant to see as sympathetic.) This mirrors holocaust denial theories in the real world. Also pointed out by others but I’ll reiterate: in public schools in America, kids don’t learn about the holocaust until 7th/8th grade. 13-14 years old. Kids read these books as young as 9/10, meaning that for a lot of gentile kids these books might have been their first exposure to a genocide and they treated it as if it was basically fake. That’s not great in a country that already neglects its history education, and as someone with a degree in history and a teacher of 30 years Rick really should have known that. It’s not the only time he’s done something like this in his books either, as he also puts camp Jupiter on the confederate side in the civil war and makes one of the kids in magnus chase (the only irish kid btw) an IRA car bomber while also ex-positing some neat pro-British sentiment, which. hhhh.

-  and then that has a side effect of making hitler related to 1) Nico, a queer kid and 2) Hazel, the only black MC. As well as implying that Hades kids are disposed to horrible evil which is a wack thing to say about a 13 year old but I digress. 

Edit: Not I’m not gonna fucking digress actually because this makes Hades the father and influencer of the fucking Nazis and then he’s treated as sympathetic in the later books and no one ever brings it up not once. Why was that necessary. It wasn’t. It wasn’t one fucking bit. 

- Lavinia Asimov is a character from Tyrants Tomb, which is the latest book. She’s Jewish. She plays with her star of David necklace to show she’s 100% Jewish. And then she says this: 

“Awkward is telling your rabbi that Daniella Bernstein is going to be your date for your bat mitzvah party. Or telling your dad that the only dancing you want to do is tap, so you’re not going to carry on the Asimov family tradition. I know all about awkward.”

And yes, a B’nai Mitzvah is a personal thing and some communities play looser with it for others, but that’s. This sentence doesn’t make any sense! It’s a family affair, the rabbi doesn’t have anything to do with your guest list, they probably wouldn’t care. It’s a religious ceremony first and a party second and it’s not just this thing you take a plus one to. This is a deeply important thing for a lot of people and this line is at best, tacky. It’s ignorance of how our practices work and I take that as antisemitism. He could have read a Wikipedia article for asked someone on a Jewish mommy blog and known better, he just didn’t care. 

- There’s other issues with Lavinia too. She’s serially described as ungraceful, loud, annoying, and disloyal, all familiar stereotypes of Jewish women in American/European media. This line is also the only throwaway line besides her playing with her pendant that actually addresses her being Jewish, which shows he didn’t think that hard about what being Jewish in a world where places like Camp Jupiter/Half blood and mt olympus exist as real places. And I know we have that exposition from Samirah about how her dad thinks the gods are just funky spirits that live to cause problems but. He just was so casual about the disrespect and the lack of caring and as with every other issue we’re talking about right now I just wish he’d tried harder. 

- AND ALSO STOPPED INCLUDING GENOCIDES AND CULTURAL TRAGEDIES AS PLOTPOINTS, RICK. KIDS DESERVE TO HAVE INNOCENCE WITHOUT THEIR GENERATIONAL TRAUMA BEING SHOVED IN THEIR FACES FOR THE #AESTHETIC. 

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Someone made a post about the abysmal state of Jewish rep in Rick Riordan’s universe so now I’m thinking about how I would do Jewish characters in that.

Jew at Camp Half Blood: *gets their menorah out*

Cabinmate: Oh, that’s so cool, what’re you celebrating?

Jew: Hannakah! It’s a holiday celebrating an ancient military revolt!

Cabinmate: Neat, against who?

Jew: *sweats nervously*

Cabinmate: An ancient military revolt against who?

Alternatively:

Jew at Camp Jupiter: Yeah, I’m pretty bummed out today. It’s the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.

Friend: I didn’t know that— what makes it so sad?

Jew: Uhhhhhhhh

Jew: Uhhhh

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