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part in the book where percy starts to realise something is Wrong about the casino because a guy he's talking to says "groovy" you will always be famous to me

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something about percy winning against ares by drawing first blood, not giving a fuck that it’s the god of war he is making an enemy out of vs him being caught totally unaware by luke and luke drawing first blood because percy hesitated, because this is his friend, because making an enemy out of a god is way more preferable over making an enemy out of a friend. percy winning against insurmountable odds vs him losing because his loyalty is truly and undoubtedly fatal.

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Obligatory battle of the labyrinth kiss scene

Bonus:

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Percy: Wait, you don't hate me because dad cheated and I'm a bastard child?

Amphritrite: No, where did you get that idea? I accept most of my husband's children. I used to really like you too, until a few years ago.

Percy: Why don't you like me?

Amphritrite: You strangled my father!!

Percy: I did what now.

Percy:

Percy: Wait - you mean Nereus? The stinky homeless dude at the shoreline in California?

Amphritrite, grinding her teeth: Yes

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wait everyone is talking about nico di angelo casting but i haven't seen anyone mention we'll also need a rachel elizabeth dare casting????

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The Narnia movies did such a service to kids films in the 2000's. Namely, setting false expectations for what Coraline and Bridge to Terabithia would be about.

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Okay so ive always had issue with people complaining about literary analysis with the whole "sometimes the curtains were just blue" but like. stop for a moment and think. just for a moment.

Why would an author bother calling attention to an unimportant detail? Theres only so much space in a book, when there's so much story to be told. Why would they single out a detail like that, when its clear that it should just be a background detail, something glanced over and not thought of.

Authors are not stupid, and theyre rarely pretentious. These details have meaning because they are fixated upon.

Why would Katherine Paterson write a whole chapter in Bridge to Terabithia about a family remodelling a living room? Because the golden room is the family's fresh start. They're starting over fresh, its a new day, a new world for them. The room isnt the focus, the characters are.

Why would F Scott Fitzgerald call attention to the green light across the bay in The Great Gatsby? Who cares about some dumb light illuminating the bay? Because its not about the light. Its symbolism. Gatsby sees a beacon every night, something that drives him forward, a goal that he so desperately wants to attain, visible, but just out of reach.

Media is not always intended to be taken at face value. Creators strive to make something their audience will think about, brew over, be inspired by, and truly love and appreciate. Its not about the curtains. It never was, and never is.

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a list of stories that are the reason I cant take reality seriously:

The spiderwick chronicles 2024

The spiderwick chronicles 2008

The Labyrinth

Arthur and the Minymoys/Invisibles

Coraline

Willow

Bridge to Terabithia

Epic 2013

A wrinkle in time 2003

Strange magic

Peter pan

Hook

Alice in wonderland

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Bridge to Terabithia 2007 | dir. Gábor Csupó

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Bridge to Terabithia never traumatized me because I didn't get that she died

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MORE OF MY FAV CHILDHOOD FILMS

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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there — like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (2007) dir. Gábor Csupó

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I love the ocean 🌊

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"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

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Sometimes I forget that this is a poor 14-year-old boy