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Rant: Piper McLean

I know it’s over done for people to hate on Piper but I wanted to get off my chest my two reasons for disliking Piper and they kind of relate to one another. The first reason is a reason that I’ve seen a lot of people have; I wanted her to show that the Aphrodite kids aren’t just the stereotype they seemed to be in the original series. I think they tried to do that but took her character like, too far the other way. Through her we could’ve seen a bunch of Aphrodite kids and shown them being more 3 dimensional. Like, yeah Jessica spends 3 hours on her make-up but she’ll beat you at capture the flag while looking fabulous.But we didn’t get to see that. I guess Piper being under utilized or not utilized the way I wanted isn’t technically a character flaw though so I kind of give her a pass.

The other reason I don’t like her is because she reminds me of a much much younger me. A version of myself I no longer agree with and am honestly pretty embarrassed off. A version that feminine meant negative/bad/wrong. I didn’t want to be Cinderella I wanted to be Mulan, but it went deeper then that. I thought I was better/different because I hated pink, dresses, make-up, pop music, and high heels. See I liked video games, marvel, anime, black, and punk music which I got praise from my older brother and his friends for. I ended up looking down on ‘girly-girls’. I rolled my eyes at girls in dresses or skimpy clothes holding their starbucks. I’m not that person anymore. She’s living her best life and she isn’t the stereotype either. No one is the stereotype. I still love video games, marvel, anime, black, and punk music BUT I also enjoy dressing up occasionally (because I’m lazy), all kinds of music and doing my make-up and that’s okay! I also now revel in the fact that I love love. I ship in every media I interact with (much to my brothers annoyance when it comes to video games lol). It took a very long time for me to accept my godly parent wouldn’t have been Artemis or Athena or Apollo but rather Aphrodite and it’s because I thought like Piper. Just like I used to Piper looks down on ‘the superficial Aphrodite kids’ and thinks she’s better because she’s different. It makes me cringe as I see 13-17 year old me in her.

In conclusion, I think Piper is strong and useful and her charmspeak is an awesome power that I wish I had. Heck, her borderline obsession with Jason isn’t even /that/ annoying to me. I just felt like she was a missed opportunity to flesh out Aphrodite kids and while her ‘better because Im different’ mind-set may be relatable to many girls who went through that phase, it’s not a good mind-set to have (or read). Rant over lol.

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Ramble: The Wicked Lovely Series

For anyone who has never heard of this amazing series the first book is called Wicked Lovely it’s about faeries and it’s amazing and you need to go buy it or rent it or borrow it or steal it just get your hands on it and read it.

I read the first and second book ages ago when it first came out but I was unaware that there were 3 more books after that until about a year ago and now I got them for Christmas and I just finished the fourth book. It was really good but there was one thing that bothered me.

Why is there not more focus on the most intriguing love story in the series? Niall and Irial have the most interesting love story and it’s completely hidden! It’s a tragedy! They clearly love each other. Like, Niall is clearly bi, He loved Leslie and kept the Summer Girls ‘entertained’ but he clearly loves Irial and I believe he even made a comment to Seth about if he wasn’t already the Summer Queens...that I might be misremembering but I think that happened. Now I can’t say for sure if Irial is bi or if he’s demi or what but he also loved Leslie and clearly loves  Niall more then he’s loved anyone ever.

I want to read their story! I hate that I can’t even really get into it with anyone who hasn’t read the book because it’s in the second book that they hint at the past they have together but it isn’t until the third and fourth book that they really start dropping hints about their current love affair. So unless you read all the books prior to it I would have to give you a summary of 3 books in order to even start to explain why they are so interesting.

Now I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to travel into the hellish world of fanfiction in order to get a taste of what could’ve been.

Just do yourself a favor though and go read those books if you haven’t already. I don’t want to be the only one getting emotionally destroyed right now. And honestly all the best books emotionally destroy a person.

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Ramble: Miraculous Ladybug

YO LOOK WHO’S ALIVE!

So I have an addictive personality, it runs in my family but luckily my obsessions gear towards media (aka: videogames, TV shows, YA fiction books, ect) so I was waiting patiently for the entire 4th season of Miraculous Ladybug to come out on Disney Plus...I saw a post that made me think the season was complete...so I watched it and now my obsession with it has been reignited and the whole season isn’t out and it’s driving me crazy because one episode trailer teased MariChat content and the other teased a possible reveal!

So to fill the void in my life here’s a ramble about the Love Square and which pairs I like and why.

One, the one I dislike is Ladrien. Ladybug and Adrien. I don’t like it because its the versions of each of the characters that they idolize. What I mean is Adrien sees Ladybug as perfect, which she isn’t. And Marinette thinks Adrien is perfect, which he isn’t. I think that would just be unhealthy for both of them as they both would be trying to live up to the others expectations and they may become disappointed in one another when they start to display their flaws.

Two, LadyNoir. I still like LadyNoir but it’s hard to continue seeing it as a viable option when Ladybug is so against it. On top of that it isn’t a viable option long term. Only dating as their superhero personas? It just isn’t something I can think about as a real relationship dynamic (in the romantic way).

Three, Adrienette. I like the idea of Adrienette because this is just what they would be if superhero stuff wasn’t part of the story. It does in fact have the possibility of being long lasting (though obviously this would eventually cause a reveal but it could take a bit if we wanted it to lol). It’s what most superhero stories are, them trying to maintain a relationship in their civilian life while keeping their superhero life a secret.

Four, Marichat. ...I LOVE IT! So...okay...the drama though! Marinette starting to fall for Chat her superhero partner who’s always been there for her and why would she still chase after Adrien when Chat so clearly cares about her. And Chat starting to fall for Marinette, his friend who’s always been there for him when Ladybug clearly won’t ever give him a chance. And then the conflicts! Ladybug starts to want to accept Chats feelings but suddenly he doesn’t seem interested in her and Adrien seems to be trying to get closer to Marinette but she suddenly really does seem to see him as a friend. BUT what I really love is that this relationship would really start as a friendship. There’s no unhealthy obsession, neither one see’s the other as perfect, they see one another as people. I just think it has the possibility to be very sweet and dramatic at the same time.

I tried explaining all this to my brother and he just looked at me ‘...they’re all the same people’ ‘BUt the ships aren’t the same!’ ‘But they are because those are all the same ship’ ‘No! No no. See the dynamics are different’ and we just went back and forth and he just didn’t get it lol.

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Ramble: Percy Jackson Hogwarts Houses

Sorry for posting about Percy Jackson so much. I didn’t intend to but it is a current interest.

So originally this was going to be a rant because this started with a excerpt from a fan-fiction I saw where Nico was thinking about how he needed to get into Gryffindor with all his friends and I lost it. If you think Percy is in any house besides Hufflepuff when his fatal flaw is LOYALTY then you need help. But I would dare to go as far as to say almost none of the main characters in PJO or HoO would be in Gryffindor.

People tend to want to put protagonists who are brave in Gryffindor even when they may fit better in another house. I also think there are a lot of misconceptions about all the houses in general. Like, that Hufflepuffs are all meek, like where does that say its one of their traits?

Anyway, this is a ramble instead of a rant because I had fun sorting all the characters and arguing my reasoning in my head so...that’s what this is. Enjoy? Hate? Get annoyed by the length?

Percy Jackson: Hufflepuff

As stated earlier his fatal flaw is loyalty which is a Hufflepuff trait. Not that people in other houses can’t have loyalty but it’s specifically stated as a Hufflepuff trait and it’s Percy’s fatal flaw. Also Percy is said by the fandom to be food driven  and the Hufflepuff common room is right next to the kitchens. Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders and how many times did Percy have to find something on a quest and then found it? That’s right; multiple. He wants to help everyone he comes across because he’s compassionate. He’s a Hufflepuff.

Annabeth Chase: Slytherin

Let me start this off by making sure you’re all clear on the fact that evil has never been a Slytherin trait and if anyone comes at me with that kind of thinking I will make it so you no longer exist in my reality. So are you going to tell me Annabeth is not ambitious, cunning, determined, and willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants and get where she wants to be? Because that sounds like Annabeth to me and also sounds 100% like all the Slytherin traits.

Grover: Gryffindor.

His whole deal is wanting to get his Searchers License so he can go on a dangerous quest that no other satyrs have returned from in order to find Pan. That sounds brave to me. No one else has returned and you still wanna go? Kudos to you because I sure as hell would not.

Nico: Slytherin

Sorry my goth baby boy, I know in the fan-fiction you didn’t want to be in Slytherin but I personally think you belong there. Nico is ambitious and cunning. He wants something, wants to do something or accomplish something and he freaking goes for it. He sees and opportunity and takes it.

Jason: Gryffindor

Jason was hard for me to place because he’s kinda just supposed to be this perfect soldier/leader which would actually make me lean towards Slytherin but I don’t think he’s actually ambitious or cunning. The only times he did anything ambitious it was just him doing what he thought was expected of him. I do think he’s brave though and I just don’t see him belonging anywhere else.

Leo: Ravenclaw

There are different kinds of Ravenclaws and Leo is the Mad Scientist. He may seem a little socially unaware or socially awkward and when he’s in his element he may actually seem a little crazy but his incredibly brilliant and we just can’t keep up with how his brain is working which is why he may seem a bit crazy. I don’t think anyone would fight me when I say Leo is incredibly smart and creative. He built/fixed Festus and built the Argo 2 in an amount of time no one really believed possible. He’s a genius.

Piper: Slytherin

Had a hard time placing her too. I really only placed her in Slytherin because she has charmspeak and Slytherins are charming. It ‘s not much of a case with her lol.

Hazel: Hufflepuff

Her mother used her her whole life and then was going to use her again to quicken Gaea’s awakening and Hazel still gave up Elysium so her mom wouldn’t be sent to the Fields of Punishment.Call it loyalty or kindness or compassion but all those are Hufflepuff traits.

Frank: Hufflepuff

I didn’t really want to put him in Hufflepuff but we all know he gives of Hufflepuff energy.

Reyna: Slytherin

Again, ambitious, cunning, and determined. She is clearly a Slytherin.

I’m writing this while I’m tired but I needed to get this out because I’ve been thinking it all day lol.

Feel free to fight me and give your opinions but I’m pretty set on a few of these. Particularly Percy, Annabeth, and Leo are the ones you won’t be able to change my mind on.

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Ramble: Calypso in  the Riordanverse

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a reason/ theory for why I view Calypso as a teen even though technically she’s an ancient Goddess.

Before I dive into my theory let me let you know; I’m aware this may sound stupid and make no logical sense. I accept that as possible criticism.

Also this may be obvious but SPOILER ALERT! I will get into things mentioned in the Trials of Apollo series so...yeah.

Now, I’m constantly seeing posts referring to her as the daughter or child of Atlas. That wording immediately conjures up the image of a younger person to me. I realize even if you’re 80 you’re someones child but the phrasing still makes me think young. That’s the stupid part of my reasons out of the way lol.

She’s been on Ogygia for a very very long time. I don’t know if this was confirmed or not but I think Ogygia is one of those places where time behaves differently. Like, it’s separate from time itself. Maybe I’m wrong but it’s just something I think about. Regardless Calypso knows nothing about our world. She doesn’t know anything about the last couple centuries. She doesn’t seem like an ancient, powerful being because she’s never really been portrayed as one.

Now she’s mortal so maybe none of this matters because when she gave up her immortality she basically stayed looking like a teen and is going to start aging from there and that should be enough for any of us readers lol.

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Rant: The Demon Slayer Movie

I was honestly disappointed. It wasn’t as great of a movie as it was hyped up to be. Like, how is this movie the number one anime movie in 3 countries? Do people really have that bad of taste in movies? Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate the movie but no one is going to tell me this movie is better then Spirited Away or Howl’s Moving Castle...you’re just wrong.

Now here’s where the spoilers begin. You have been warned.

The positives of the movie: It was beautiful. The opening scene was gorgeous, so much so that my boyfriend was mad lol. He was like ‘they’re going to make the movie beautiful and then we’ll have to go back to the anime’ lol. The fight scenes were good as usual. I actually really liked some of the concepts but those are a positive and a negative.

The negatives about this movie is a much longer list.

For one there was no character development. This movie was supposed to contain an entire arc from the manga and the characters experienced zero growth. Heck, Zenitsu was in the movie for a total of like 5 minutes! We got to see him go badass for 5 seconds! I would’ve loved to see that scene extended. But yeah, none of them grew in any way through what is supposed to be an entire arc.

Two, I didn’t care when Rengoku died. I would’ve loved to care. I love crying over fictional characters deaths but you didn’t get me attached so I felt nothing. I would’ve loved to learn more about him and see the characters grow close to him so that his death would actually mean something to me but it meant nothing. All I felt when he died was ‘oh, great a character with a lot of potential to be cool and badass died an hour and a half after we are properly introduced to him, great’. No sadness. And they made it worse by making the characters be all broken up about it for the last like 10 minutes, which just made me annoyed. They were clearly trying to force me to feel sad via showing the characters being sad but that is not the emotion that brought out in me.

Overall I think the movie was a bad idea. Trying to fit a whole arc into a two hour movie is just not the smartest idea. They should’ve made this a season or half a season so I could actually find the things that were supposed to be impactful, impactful. There was so much they could’ve explored too! Like the ability to get to someone’s spirit through their dreams. That whole thing was so interesting to me and they could only spare like 2 minutes on it.

OH! On a side note: the CGI was sooooooo bad! It looked so out of place. It reminded me of a scene from Attack on Titan that I despised for that exact reason (it looked out of place). I was instantly angry when I saw it.                                                                                                            

I’m just left disappointed and questioning how people could think this is a better anime movie then the dozens of other anime movies I’ve seen that actually accomplished making me feel something other then annoyance.

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Ramble: Kane Chronicles

So I’m a huge fan of the entire Riordan verse. I got into them really late in the game (like at age 25ish lol) and I devoured every single book. Kane Chronicles was hard to get into at first because I wasn’t familiar with the mythology so I wasn’t super excited when a god or monster was mentioned because I didn’t know anything about them. Regardless I ended up really loving the series. I think there’s something special about having the story told from siblings but because they didn’t really grow up together you still get very different perspectives from both of them to keep things interesting.

There is really only one issue I have with the series. I’ve seen lots of complaints from lots of people about the Kane Chronicles and I think the series gets way more hate then it deserves but there is one ‘problematic’ issue I tend to agree with. Sadie Kanes relationship with Walt. Now hear me out because I need to explain something else first.

I do not have any problems with her relationship with Anubis (it reminds people a lot of Leo and Calypso’s relationship). For some reason I view both of them as teenagers. Anubis said he’s seen as a child by the other gods and he appears as a teen, he’s a teen in god years (like dog years ya know). I could go into my thoughts on Calypso if anyone in interested, I’ll do a separate post on her and my thoughts on how she’s young. But in my mind I can see Anubis as a teen god.

Now Sadie is 13 and Walt is 17 I already hear all the cries of ‘4 years isn‘t that long’ BUT WOULD YOU TRUST A COLLEGE STUDENT DATING A MIDDLE SCHOOLER!?  I wouldn‘t trust a college student going after a  freshman in high school. We had a guy who graduated coming by the high school every day trying to chat up us high school students and we all thought he was weird and a loser because of it. I don’t think Walt is supposed to be weird or predatory, I know that wasn’t the intention but as a  28 year old I can look back and say that the years we as people experience the most rapid growth as people in between the ages of 15-19. The mind set of a 17 year old is massively different from that of a 13 year old. Even if Sadie had to ‘grow up quick’ it doesn’t matter, she still has the mind of a 13 year old. I just would see a lot of issues with this relationship if it were real. As it is I know it’s fictional but in my introduction I mentioned I care to much about fictional characters so ya’ll signed up for this! Lol. 

I honestly try to read the series and just forget about what age they’re supposed to be just so I have some peace of mind.

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Hetero-flexible pt.2

So I talked to a friend of mine about calling myself hetero-flexible from here on out and she basically told me she was happy for me finding a label that I felt fully comfortable with. She said it didn’t matter what anyone else thought of the term I was using or what they thought about me suddenly using it. As long as I’m comfortable with it and happy with it that’s all that matters.

She also thanked me for feeling comfortable enough with her to open up to her about it. It made her feel comfortable enough to open up to me about something she hadn’t told anyone before. I felt kind of nice for giving that courage to her.

At this point my two best friends and my boyfriend knows about my hetero-flexible label. They’re all supportive of it but I understand that it’s easy for people to accept the label change when literally nothing else is changing.

I have to admit that even though nothing would change I did feel really nervous bringing it up to anyone. I don’t know, I was afraid of being judged for a whole slew of reasons (mostly I’ve been afraid people would think I’m faking it). I always knew it was hard for people in the LGBT community to come out but I have a whole new respect for all of them having the courage to come out to... everyone basically.

I still don’t know if I will come out to anyone else. I still worry about people’s reactions, especially with it being pride month I worry people will think I’m doing it to be trendy or get attention. If I did come out I would want it to be subtle. Maybe in one of those facebook ‘20 question’ type of things. There would be a bunch of other questions to hide my new label in lol. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them (clearly I need some help lol)

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Rant: Fruits Basket

This is a rant about the latest episode of Fruits Basket (episode 9) so if you haven’t seen it....well spoiler warning!

I hate what they’re doing concerning Akito right now.  Why are they trying to redeem her? She is an attempted murderer and serial abuser. Yes, she needs help but that doesn’t mean all the people she’s hurt need to forgive her. I hate it. She attempted to kill three people! With the intention to kill them! She’s almost killed even more people if you include accidents from her abuse going too far. And then you include the psychological damage she’s caused through her abuse to so so so many of the zodiacs. What I loved about Avatar The Last Airbender is that they never attempted to redeem Zuko’s abusive father. Did his dad  experience things that made him behave the way he did? We don’t know because it doesn’t matter!

When it comes to abusers in media I get a little more passionate because I grew up watching my dad abuse my brother and being absolutely terrified of my father (I could go on and on about the complicated situation with my dad but that’s for a different post). My brother is still one of the smartest and kindest people (although socially awkward) so when people or media excuse away abusive behavior with ‘well they had it rough’ ‘they were bullied’ ‘they had abusive parents’ I HATE that because I’ve seen first hand that just because you were abused that doesn’t give you the right to be a shitty human too. BREAK THE CYCLE! Someone’s past may explain their behavior but it does not excuse it.

Akito is receiving no repercussions for her actions, everyone is just very readily forgiving her and I can’t stand it. She needs some repercussions, she needs to be punished in some way for all the abuse and the ATTEMPTED MURDER! I would not forgive someone who tried to kill me. Maybe I’m weird for that, sorry I hold grudges I guess. If nothing happens to Akito at the end I will be unbelievably furious. She needs consequences.

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A Proper Introduction

Hey so I thought I would introduce myself and explain what I plan to do with this platform just so that anyone who comes across it and finds a random thing I post interesting can find this post and get an idea of what my little section of the site will be.

So, my name is Ran, I’m in my late 20′s and I like to rant and ramble about my interests so I plan to do that here. I have a lot of different interests that I may ramble about. I’m a fan of a myriad of animes, a lot of YA fiction, Disney movies (including Marvel), and my obsession with different video games and television series changes all the time.

Basically I plan to rant and ramble about what I want when I want so you may be interested to see my thoughts on certain things and not give a damn about a whole slew of other things I post about and that’s okay. When I watch an episode of Fruits Basket and it pisses me off I will come on here and rant about that and when I see a post online that reignites my hatred for Snape I’ll rant about that. My rambles will probably be more about things I like or maybe more deep real life things like my first post on here was. 

Feel free to stick around to laugh at the passionate ravings of a nearly 30 year old woman who needs better hobbies or to hear stories of my boring external but exciting internal life.

                                                                  -Ran (random rants and rambles)

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Hetero-flexible

I’m putting this here because I feel the need to get this out and there’s no where else that I’m anonymous.

I’m way too old to still be questioning my sexuality but I do still question it. I haven’t really ever spoken to anyone about it. I know I like guys (I’m a female) I have a boyfriend who I’ve been with for many years and I absolutely love him. I have been attracted to girls before but I don’t know if I’d want to ... go all the way with one (but I felt the same way about guys until I actually did it). I recently saw the term hetero-flexible and I honestly think it may fits me better then any other term as I would be totally on board with kissing or making out with other girls but I don’t know if I would really be into it going further. The other layer on that though is that I would only do that if I were single and I don’t plan on being single ever again. My bf and I were talking about ... adult content we watch and he was like “you’re probably looking for attractive guys in it” and I shook my head and he looked at me a bit confused “attractive girls?” he asked. I nodded and playfully was like ‘makes me question my sexuality, maybe I’m bi lol’. He got a bit quiet and he was like “well you’re with me so you don’t need to find out...unless you really do need to?” He was sweet for putting that out there but I don’t really know. I don’t feel like coming out as bi would be right since I’m not sure if I am and since I don’t plan on actually ever being in a girl X girl relationship. At the same time saying I’m straight always kind of felt like a lie. I don’t know if I would ever want to come out as Hetero-flexible either though. I think people would be thrown off and think that at 28 I’m suddenly deciding I’m not straight for some reason when the truth is I’ve been having these thoughts since I was 12 but was fine with just ... being straight passing. Would it be weird if I suddenly just started saying I’m hetero-flexible if it ever comes up? Is hetero-flexible even an okay term to use? I’ve heard some people find it bi-phobic while other people find the term to be really useful actually. I know it seems like it shouldn’t matter, I plan to be with my bf forever so I could easily just continue to say I’m straight and I could...it would continue feeling like a lie but I could continue to just say I’m straight... maybe I should just do that...