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me, when I see people erasing the other queer characters of 9-1-1:

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anonymous requested: buck + hugs

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The best part of the percy jackson books is that from percy's perspective hes just an easygoing funny cool guy who seems pretty harmless but the moment you see him from someone elses pov hes terrifying. Just a crazy good fighter, a force of nature killing machine, literally gets mistaken for a god in disguise. But he doesnt see that side of himself at all because hes too busy arguing with authority figures and respecting women. I love him

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how are they gonna adequately prepare whatever child they cast for nico di angelo. it has got to be impossible for someone that young to give informed consent about playing the saddest wettest loser in all of human history. like hey kid i know youre sprightly and all of ten, but we need you to be in all five stages of grief at all times. remember, your mother was killed in fascist italy, youre eighty years old, and now youre in love with the guy who killed your sister. say this next line like you know what it's like to be an ear of corn.

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“how is annabeth head of athena cabin” have you ever met an autistic 12 year old girl. she’s running that shit like the navy

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I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

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I posted this on twitter a few days ago but I figured I’d post here as well and expand on it a little bit.

So I’ve been thinking a lot about how each episode of Only Friends is from a different character’s POV, and how we learn whose POV the episode was either because we get a voice over (Sand and Mew’s episodes) or because we see that character isolated in the credits.

I’ve been thinking about how the way a character is portrayed to the audience will be different based on whose POV it is and what the relationship’s are between the episode’s narrator and the other characters, and I felt it the most in episode 6.

So Episode 6 is the first time we really see Sand in a more negative light right? Like he’s aggressive with Top almost as soon as he notices Top is there, and he manipulates both Nick and Ray and uses them as a tool for his revenge. However, in previous episodes Sand is seen as a good friend, a hard worker, someone with strong morals, someone who will put other people over himself, and it got me thinking on what the difference was, and that’s when it hit me, this was Top’s episode, the one character with a known antagonistic relationship with Sand.

Nick and Sand are friends, Nick could be argued to be Sand’s closest friend.

Boston and Sand may not be friends, but it’s obvious that they know each other well enough to tease and joke, and for Boston to mention that Sand’s weed isn’t Sand’s usual stuff.

Mew and Sand know each other the least, but Mew has mentioned that he likes Sand, and ‘thinks he’s lovely’.

Ray and Sand started out as acquaintances and quickly hurtled towards a mutually beneficial relationship based on companionship.

Top and Sand have a painful history, we don’t know the details outside of Top stealing Sand’s boyfriend, but clearly it was painful enough to still effect Sand to this day.

Clearly Nick, Boston, Mew and Ray all have positive feelings of varying degrees towards Sand, and in their episodes we see him in a more positive light. Top has negative feelings towards Sand and it’s the first time we see him in a truly negative light.

This isn’t to say that Sand wasn’t manipulative in Episode 6, or that the events didn’t play out the way that we were shown. However, I do find it interesting that the negative portrayal was in Top’s episode, maybe it’s a coincidence, or maybe Sand’s actions were made to seem worse, that Sand was made to seem more manipulative, because it was Top’s POV.

I think this can also be applied to Ray, while Ray’s portrayal has been a rollercoaster of emotions and ups and downs, there are subtleties in his portrayal each episode. Previously shown as not caring about anything or having much interest in anything aside from alcohol, to being shown as someone who badgers Sand for his attention, actively shows interest in him, and learning more about him, drinks less, expresses that he cares about Sand’s feelings. Now we have his portrayal in Episode 6, agitated, bitter, violent, uncaring who he hurts, completely destructive not only to himself but to others around him. Again, this portrayal is Top’s episode. Top who actively dislikes Ray, and is disliked by Ray in return.

I even noticed that Boston seems that extra bit more uncaring about other’s feelings and emotions in Episode 6, again Top has issues with Boston. We know that Boston is selfish, he’s a narcissist, he wants what he wants and cares little for other people, but it seemed amplified in this episode.

I could be reading too much into things, but everything in this show happens for a reason and I truly think every episode characters are portrayed slightly differently based on whose POV it is each episode, and I feel like it was the most obvious in Episode because of how many people top has hostile relationships with.

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We are ready!

05.08.23

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oh look, i wrote another sandray oneshot

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Nueng being jealous of Maggie but also Nueng wondering if maybe for Palm, their relationship is just something for the island.

Nueng being jealous of Maggie but also Nueng thinking about how he has only brought destruction and hurt to Palm, and how maybe it's better this way.

Nueng being jealous of Maggie but also Nueng wondering if he has any right to Palm (his time his presence his love his everything) because Palm was forced to be here, this is his job, and maybe Nueng is just that for him.

Nueng being jealous of Maggie but also Nueng being uncertain and hurting.

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I've said this before but Why do people position "themes and analysis" and "shipping" as mutually exclusive opposites. maybe I find two characters thematically interesting and want them to analytically fuck about it.

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hugs from yunho ♡~

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Inconsolable over how even after his mom dies, Palm never once cries. He screams, lashes out, sits there silently in his grief, but he never outright cries - because of a combination of the sense of duty that is built into his bones (he have to be the stronger one, he can't break down) and the sort of intimate grief that feels too close and not enough (like maybe he's not allowed to grieve his mother, like he's not sure how to grieve someone he already grieved for years on end).

Palm never cries, and that's heartbreaking in ways that's too difficult to put into words.

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oh look, i wrote another sanray only friends one shot. i need to be restrained, i have a bunch of unfinished work and i keep writing sanray instead