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rewatched avatar for them

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Crush, crush, crush!

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Beautiful Prince Disorder

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i hate it here im gonna [remembers suicide jokes are bad for mental health] find the Avatar and restore my honor

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mya

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Madoka magica x drstone when plsplsplspls.... MAGICAL GIRLS PLEASSE. I still often think about that madoka magica fic that centered around yuzuriha and kohaku written by stonesparrow. I was watching the new episode and Stanley as a kid really reminded me of kyoko so I wanted to draw him madoka world but was too lazy to come up with a magical girl outfit so I went with the school uniform. And of course Stanley can't be without Xeno so... !

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Octavian’s treatment is one of my least favorite things about HoO because it isn’t his character, it’s his lack of one.

We COULD’VE had an excellent character who was a look into what could truly go wrong with blind devotion like Octavian’s, drawing an excellent parallel to Luke’s blind hatred in the original series (Percy even says Octavian reminds him of Luke).

We COULD’VE had a fantastic contrast into a follower’s descent into insanity after making empty promises of power whilst under the influence of a massively elder being, thus leading to said follower’s death.

What makes me especially mad is that Octavian has no backstory. This is a problem with a lot of Roman characters, but Octavian especially. He doesn’t even have a last name. All we know is:

- He’s a legacy of Apollo.

- He used to be sane and probably very charismatic, due to Reyna stating she used to have a crush on him in TTT.

That’s it! One of Rick’s gold stars is that his human characters are just that: human. They have motivations and flaws, deeply personal origins and ideals that affect their actions and their outcomes. None of the villains are just plain villains, evil by birth. They have motives to back up their actions (now weither those motives make sense or not, that’s another story, but they’re still there.) There’s Luke, Medea, Lityerses (who is an entire other can of worms), Circe, Loki, Gunilla, Randolph, hell, even Kronos and Gaea. All of them have reasons for the shitty stuff they did. Octavian is a glaring exception. We know he’s power-hungry, but we don’t know why. We know he’s violent, but we don’t know why. We know he hates the Greeks, but we don’t know why. You may argue ‘oh, he’s a minor character, he doesn’t really get a reasoning’ which is just blatantly untrue on both fronts.

1: Octavian is NOT a minor character in the slightest. He has major roles in the plot throughout the books.

2: Him being a ‘minor’ villain wouldn’t have anything to do with his motivation. Chris from the OG series has stated motivation, and he’s way more minor than Octavian.

Another thing is that Octavian’s insanity is played off almost comically. He’s relatively well put together in SoN, only being super dramatic and reportedly blackmailing Hazel and probably other legionnaires, but by BoO he’s absolutely broken. He’s utterly obsessed with being a hero to the Romans, with being Pontifex Maximus, with killing Gaea and almost proving himself to Apollo (who is utterly disgusted by him), but it’s all either framed as ‘hate this guy more plsplspls’ or brushed away to the side.

I’m torn on his death scene, because it’s a good scene overall but too much of it is humorous in my opinion. Between Will calling Octavian an ‘anemic loser’ (which like. what.) and Leo describing his screams as a little girl’s, it seems almost too light for such a pivotal point in the story. Octavian has truly lost himself to madness, ranting and raving and insisting no, HE has to be the one to kill Gaea, HE has to be a hero.

His death is horrific, yet it’s framed as a silly oopsie.

What the fuck.

Overall, Octavian is a shining example of missed character potential. We could have gotten the Riordan special and made to empathize more with our villain, like what happened with Luke or Randolph from MCGA, but all we get is a crazy blond kid, character so shallow he could count as a tide pool. It infuriates me to no end how in a sea of good, properly motivated antagonists, Octavian is the outlier.

It’s a real shame.

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caught in the blinding light of public perception

[image id: digital illustration of arataka reigen from mob psycho 100. he is caught in an unstable pose with his arms raised for balance and is looking over his shoulder at the viewer with an uneasy expression. his tie is flailing in front of him as if he were falling. a bright yellow light illuminates him from above and the edges of his body and casts the rest of him in black shadow. red is an accent color around his head and the background. end image id.]

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me waiting for s5 of Stranger Things

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father and son

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i'm not good w/ words but you guys have to understand my vision here: connor, basically a dog to the police. wants to carry out his mission no matter what, but his own emotions poke holes into his will and he starts doubting what he was programmed to do. i feel like yoshida's starting on an arc like that. in part one he wasn't really told much and he wasn't curious enough to dig. no additional details, just paid to do his job. but in part 2 he's emotionally invested in a way. he's developed (or tried to develop) relationships with both the war fiend AND chainsaw man. so now guilt follows whenever he carries out his job's demands—an emotion he isn't used to feeling when doing his job.

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Little Grace siblings draw because I miss them

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this is dumb

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this is the most difficult thing to prove ever because the manga is mistranslated and trying to find raws of early chapters is borderline impossible but i need it to be known that in the manga teru's hair is described like this

BUT the original word used instead of "brown" is actually "chapatsu" which is a specific style of bleaching associated with delinquency in japan that looks like this

live the rest of your life with this knowledge.

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goro akechi and teruki hanazawa

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ayee long time no ritsu! this was drawn in celebration of the new a breach of trust chapter as seen by the chunk taken out of his ear 😊 idk about y’all but the end of the abot hiatus is like a momentous occasion for me I’m gonna put it in my calendar as a holiday

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gay people have taken over my mind as well as my notes

source for xeno’s wordvomit

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