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additions from the discord

The Last Olympian’s side tangent about how demigod relationships aren’t technically incest and how half bloods don’t date other children of their godly parent is uh. hilariously awkward when you remember the unclaimed kids. Coz that just implies that everyone who doesn’t know their godly parent is terrified of dating anyone at camp in case they find out they’re siblings

Just a bunch of desperate unclaimed kids trying to figure out their heritage by seeing who they’re attracted to and hoping the gods will stop them from crushing on their siblings

And the inevitable aroace kid who confidently concludes that they’re the child of every god

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Hi my sibling is trying out crochet and I was wondering if you had any tips for beginners (who can get confused easily) to shape?

I'm a knitter :/

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For today’s out of context moment from the discord

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Let's see if this is the Anxious Disaster Fandom

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Joe has just won ‘Best Debut Performance’ at the What’s on stage Awards! So well deserved!

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Normal conversations in the gc

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still better than juke with 2.5 kids 

Netflix finally listens to our pleas for a renewal but they take it too far. We get seven seasons. By season five, Willie owns the HGC and the Phantoms have each had their own evil arc. The final season has Julie reviving Dean Winchester and Castiel so they can exorcise the boys, who fight them with devastating sonic blasts. Willie gets sent to super hell (aka the ghost club bathroom)

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POV you just told us that was a mistake and what you meant to make canon was roadman reggie

POV you just told me and the boys (gn) that j*ke’s meant to be endgame

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POV you just told me and the boys (gn) that j*ke’s meant to be endgame

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Okay yeah I’m talking about it

I just really don’t like how much focus they put on j*ke. Coz this is supposed to be a found family show, but it consistently pushes Alex and especially Reggie to the side to focus on the relationship between Julie and Luke. A relationship that barely has any development or depth to begin with.

The only things we see them bonding over are music and their mums, and even their issues with their mums are no way similar to each other. Julie lost her mum and she can’t see her again. Her mum isn’t a ghost, she might not see her again until she dies herself. But Luke lost both of his parents, and he can still interact with them in some way. He can still spend time with them, and if he revealed the existence of ghosts to them, he could have some sort of relationship with them. His grief of losing his parents isn’t any more similar to Julie’s than Reggie and Alex’s. Hell, I’d say Reggie’s story is closer than Julie’s is. But Luke gets the parent arc instead, despite the fact that there’s almost zero setup for him missing his parents

And the scenes we get of them bonding over music are,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I mean they have good chemistry, but they don’t get deep about anything. They just think the other’s pretty. We barely actually know anything about Luke’s love of music without looking at the extra-canon material in the books. In the show he just,,,,,,,,,, enjoys music and has some band shirts. That’s as deep as it ever goes for him in the show

They put so much prioritisation on making their romance seem Deep and Important that they actively push Reggie and Alex aside. They make all the band scenes about Julie and Luke, not the band. I mean they were all brought back by Rose to help Julie back into music, but Julie asks Luke and only Luke to thank her for that. She specifically asks him to step away from the guys to ask him about it, and the guys are very clearly within earshot the whole time

And the final garage scene is the absolute worst for this. She hugs Luke and says she loves the guys while Alex and Reggie watch them a few feet away, just kinda Being There because they have to be. They’re barely second thoughts in the scene, despite the fact that it’s supposed to be the big showstopping found family moment

The show’s called Julie and the Phantoms, but it’s more like Julie, Luke, and the Others. Alex and Reggie are consistently ignored to set up the romance between Julie and Luke, but they never actually put much work into characterising Luke. Luke in the show has probably the least substance out of all of the characters. He’s mostly riding on good looks, a crush, and a guitar. He feels so flat when you actually think about what we get told about him, and if Charlie wasn’t such a naturally charismatic actor he’d probably just be. kinda shit. He wasn’t written well at all in my opinion

JatP isn’t a show that puts found family before the romance, and I hate that people keep saying that about it. They consistently put romance first and they didn’t even develop the main romance much to show us what they like about each other beyond Pretty And Good At Music

I think they could have been so much better if they’d balanced out the other characters and actually given Luke some depth and consistency. Plus it’s just so obvious that Luke’s way older than Julie and it makes me so uncomfortable. Yes he’s meant to be 17 and she’s 15 (which is gross enough for me as a Brit) but Charlie was literally 21 when they filmed and you can Tell.

So yeah. I’m not a fan of j*ke

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Hugh Grant is in his Bond girl era

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things I expected from watching glass onion with my family: a fun evening with a movie I know we’ll all enjoy

things I did not expect from watching glass onion with my family: my mother going on a 15 minute rant about how much she hates Hugh grant (based on his 15 seconds of screen time) and how Benoit Blanc deserves better, and then my dad defending Hugh Grant because he was holding a sourdough starter and that’s the ‘sign of a caring partner’

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One of what, in my opinion, is the funniest reaction to glass onion is people seeing Hugh Grant answer the door and thinking. Ah yes. Benoit Blanc is married to Hugh Grant. Not Hugh Grant's character, but Hugh Grant himself.

And then they are utterly awestruck when in the captions on Netflix he is referred to as "Phillip" and not real life person Hugh Grant

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Since when did trying to sell stuff on eBay require a degree in marketing, im just trying to get rid of some extra crochet hats not hire a PR and social media team

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when i say “a buddy of mine” i could be talking about my best friend of 15 years whose maid of honor i was in her wedding or a fellow tumblrina whose post i agreed with

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I still can’t get over how a major part of Charlie’s character arc was that he was outed, and that Heartstopper clearly showed the negative toll it took on him, and instead of thinking, “outing people sucks, I shouldn’t do it,” the fandom went and outed one of the real-life actors!

How do you miss the point this badly???