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percabeth fans cheering on the possibility that rachel/perachel might have less screen time on the show and that rachel might be “less significant” … as if rachel (along with calypso) didn’t represent an important choice for percy. Idk man getting excited for the show to cut out the importance of female characters, who both have an impact on the overall themes of the story, just because you don’t want it to stand in the way of your ship (that you know is endgame) is truly something.

Removing the romantic undertones of perachel does not make the story better or more interesting. Especially not when the love triangle between rachel/percy/annabeth had narrative purpose.

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am i disappointed bianca doesn’t look like me as an italian girl with tan olive skin and frizzy black hair considering she was one of the only characters i saw who truly looked like me as a kid? yes. am i going to berate the actor and shit on her acting for this sole reason, sending her death threats and say she doesn’t deserve the role? hell no. i’m going to hype her up and cheer for her like she’s my own daughter. learn from me leahbeth haters

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HOO would have been 10x better and more cohesive if a percy & Jason bromance arc was a pivotal arc and in this essay I will-

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in general I think I have a weak spot for sunk cost fallacy characters. no point in trying to change because there's no going back! can't stop now because the possibility of being wrong is too unbearable to face head on and would destroy me if I tried!

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when being insufferably obnoxious abt a piece of media u love actually convinces ppl to check it out

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girl help they're taking my fave's extremely thin veneer of swaggering overconfidence at face value

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when a ship is really good but its popular so everyone fucking does it wrong. they would not be cute and healthy and cuddly with each other. they are together in a way that harms them both and it sucks

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just to clarify, whenever i talk about being fascinated by cj/new rome, it is not about thinking it's the greatest idea and demigod camp ever. it's about cj being an absolute horror concept, weirdest cult imaginable, and it scarring and bonding the people who get stockholm-syndromed in there in an irreversible way. hope this helps 💗

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🚌Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - Dimension 20: On a Bus!

DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Watch the full episode here

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siken, four proofs

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reasons why i relate to tav, the main character from baldurs gate 3:

shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.

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do you think that thalia and jason grace are famous in true crime circles? they're the children of an actress who both went missing at some point only to show up again so i'm assuming the tabloids went wild with them.

actress beryl grace has two kids out of wedlock but then all of a sudden beryl doesn't have her two-year-old son anymore and its just her and her older daughter. and then all of a sudden both of beryl grace's children are missing.

did people think that they died? did tabloids think they were kidnapped?

then all of a sudden her oldest daughter reapears and she's seen hanging out with the kid from nyc who blew up the gateway arch??

oh ! and now that two-year-old son of hers is fifteen and has been seen with the same kid from nyc, running around the country and was in a wilderness boarding school with the daughter of actor tristan mclean?? but then after a few months a couple of tabloids hear that he went to an all-boys boarding school only to "die in a surfing accident," even though all of his classmates say they don't remember him ever mentioning anything about surfing? in fact, his classmates don't even know that much about him.

are there blogs about the grace siblings? do people wonder about the trajedy of the grace siblings and their mother?

is there a dateline episode about the disappearances of the grace siblings? have people written books about how both of beryl grace's children have dispeared? how someone saw beryl walk to a park with two kids and then walk away with only one?

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"i dont like jason grace because he's boring" is the most evil statement because a. THATS THE POINT and b. thats EXACTLY what makes him NOT boring.

camp jupiter is BUILT to make children into machines. work as a machine, work with the group to be a machine. or, be spare parts. it is rigid. it is unforgiving. it is built to suppress individuality. the MOST autonomy jason grace got was joining the lower end of the cohorts of the legion, was a failing petition against a traditional board.

jason grace grew up in camp jupiter. not like hazel, frank, percy, nico, etc., who were only there for a year or two at MOST. he grew up there. if i had to guess, i would say age 5 through age 15-- roughly a decade. everything he learned there is going to be DRILLED into him.

yes, he is going to seem boring.

the whole POINT of it is so he can have his character arc of "i dont really want to follow the rules..?" that he doesn't want to be praetor, he just wants to be a normal kid at camp half-blood and live with piper and leo. and thats what MAKES him a character that ISNT boring.

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Saw someone say Percy and Jason lived the opposite lives that they were “supposed” to live in the sense that Jason lived like a Greek, dying before he could reach adulthood and Percy lived like a Roman, living long enough to be able to attend college and I am. So very unwell about it!!

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thinking about how Jason Grace's character development starts in House of Hades when he's forced into a leadership role that he never really signed up for (sure he and Percy fought for head of the table but Jason was just used to being there because Percy hadn't been there before. sure Jason felt threatened by the loss off that place but he'd only been there out of obligation anyway.)

thinking about how he feels responsibility for both camps now that he's no longer leader of the Romans but Percy and Annabeth aren't there to be leaders for the Greeks.

thinking about how Piper calls the bullet line through his hair a literal rebellious streak, right after Jason made the choice (at Auster's behest) to take control of his own destiny.

thinking about how it was another Imperial Gold wound that made him reconsider his place at both camps ("die like a Roman," but at the hands of a Roman, after choosing Greek).

thinking about how Jason couldn't find a taste of home after making that choice, how ambrosia tasted like sawdust and didn't work on his stab wound, not because it was a Roman wound but because Jason himself was no longer Roman, and that core of his identity, that healing center, was gone.

thinking about how Jason only heals that wound after finding a purpose for himself which somehow is both a leadership position and forces him to move between camps.

thinking about how Jason's newfound sense of purpose is based on a promise he made to someone whom he felt had been abandoned.

thinking about how Jason made it his principle never to break a promise (Rick calls it his "grain of sand at the center of a pearl" and I'm. totally normal about that. I swear.)

thinking about how Jason died unable to fulfill his promise, but forcing Apollo to make his own promise to carry it on.

thinking about how every bit of Jason's identity was a responsibility that was forced on him and he never got to see any of his own choices come to fruition because he'd been too stuck trying to take care of all of the obligations he'd bound his literal self to.

thinking about how Jason was inherently tragic from the start because his fatal flaw wasn't actually a part of his identity, it was the fact that he'd been too late to choose his identity at all.

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Jason saying that Beryl’s unkept promises laid the foundation for who he is because he never wanted people to feel the way he did when she left him at the Wolf House (abandoned and lied to) and that he never wanted leadership but got it anyway because everyone expected him to because he’s a child of Jupiter completely rewired my brain and now I’m in shambles about him again