#AND WHEN SHES INTRODUCED IN THE AFTERMATH THE AUDIENCE BOOS HER

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These days I was bombarded on TikTok with people talking about Hunger Games latest book (one day,I will read this series too,one day) and there was a girl that made a comment that got me. She said that now the audience was older,the author wasn't holding back anymore and put a lot more of dark topics,than usual,in the new book. And this made me think a bit about HoO.

I often talked with my best friend about how I wanted Riordan to publish the books going alongside with his audience's aging. PJO is probably the strongest serie Riordan wrote,everyone in this fandom read the first 5 books,and then decided to continue or not. It's a crescendo of actions and an heavier tone take place with each books,that then culminate in TLO with the final battle and the aftermath. And for a pre-teen (aimed at 13 years old and up) is pretty good.

But after the first serie,the readers grew and I really wished so had the tone of HoO,since he introduce pretty dark topics and the stakes were extremely more high than Kronos wanting to take over Manhattan. Take for example Tartarus: Annabeth and Percy spend the entirely of HoH down there and when they come back,in BoO,they don't have PoVs. I saw a couple of people complain about it,because at least the last chapter should had been Percy's to close everything. And while I'm neutral to it,there is a reason why they don't have a single PoVs: Rick doesn't know how to write Tartarus's trauma. And even if he did,he couldn't because his audience is from 13 years (sometimes even youngers) up,so some topics cannot be explored further from the surface.

One thing is reading their actions and thoughts and be like: "Oh damn,they are loosing it. This place is hell,when are they going to get out? I'm starting to get anxious for them..." and another is witnessing a full PTSD episode because the trauma is too big for them to handle,and they don't know how to cope with it.

That's also a reason why Nico doesn't mention his trip other than him meeting Akhlys. Reading BoO I was expecting to find something more about his experience in Tartarus (and I was already on a rollercoaster with any of his PoVs without it) but he never think about it. It's like he wasn't effected at all even tho,in MoA,he told Percy he almost went insane down there. Riordan probably doesn't even know how to being with him on this.

There is so much abuse in all of the characters's backstories too but it's never explored in a deeper way. Annabeth's backstory is a great example of that. But other than her we have basically almost everybody else in the same situation.

I don't blame Rick since those are his books and he decide the target audience for his products. That's completely fair and fine. He's the author so he can do what he want. And I also recognize that I'm way out of the target he has,since I'm not 13-14 anymore,and this also weight on my view of the books. But I still love them.

I just wish the books could grow with the audience too,so that more mature tones of certain events could be addressed in the proper way,since the readers would be of a proper age for them. Let's be honest,there is no way that Annabeth and Percy are mentally ok after Tartarus,while Nico is trying to hold himself together and almost failing in it everytime.

I was hoping that with the newest series he was going to change a bit the narrative tone,especially with TSATS since they went back to Tartarus and it's a book on Nico,and he isn't the most mentally stable and happiest character of the franchise. But I was wrong.

Fortunately we have fanfiction that take care of it,and that take time to explore the parts that Rick can't or won't because of his audience's age limitation or his inability to write them right.

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Cinemorg Holiday Special: Jingle Jangle (2020); Happiest Season (2020)

I watched two new Christmas movies this year. They’re both bad but one is good-bad and the other is bad-bad. Let’s take a look!

One of the things you have to know about making a Christmas movie is that more than anything, during the holidays people are craving sincerity. It barely matters what you’re being sincere about, but you have to do it. Movies like Elf and The Muppet Christmas Carol succeed because even though they’re pure ridiculous fantasy, they leverage that absurdity to make something unique and charming (think of Mr. Narwhal, friend to all). Jingle Jangle is often a little too intense in this way, but it leans hard into its own nonsense and that was the right call. Forest Whitaker plays Jeronicus Jangle, the world’s greatest inventor (of toys, obviously), who has his most revolutionary invention, a sentient matador voiced by Ricky Martin, stolen along with all his secret inventor’s notes by his grandstanding apprentice, Gustafson (Keegan Michael-Key). Gustafson goes on to become a rich and famous “inventor” by stealing Jeronicus’s ideas, leaving Jeronicus a destitute, embittered pawn shop broker spending his days trying to fend off foreclosure of his dark, dusty workshop. There’s a cheerful, klutzy kid named Edison hanging around the workshop talking about magic and grinning all the time for no reason. He doesn’t seem to have any parents.

We learn that in the aftermath of the great notebook theft, Jeronicus lost his wife as well, and his ensuing depression cost him his relationship with his daughter, Jessica. After many years, Jessica sends her own daughter, Journey (Madalen Mills), to live with Jeronicus for a few weeks. It’s unclear to me why she thought this was a good idea, considering Jeronicus spends a while trying to deny that they’re even related, and only takes her in extremely reluctantly after finding out that she’s a mechanical genius. The rest of the story tells itself and there are no surprises, so I won’t go into too much more detail.

The main thing to note about Jingle Jangle is that at no time is there a reason for anything to be happening the way it’s happening. Jeronicus spends all that time rejecting Journey only for her to claim at the end of the movie that his workshop is the only place where she ever felt she belonged. At one point Jeronicus was an intensely beloved member of the community, but when we meet old Jeronicus, everyone who talks to him seems to be going out of their way to demean and disrespect the man, refusing to even call him by his real name despite his repeated requests to do so, and in the case of one very lonely postal worker outright sexually harassing him at every opportunity. The script is packed with fantasy-babble to enhance the magical feel that’s so bizarre it competes with even the most confusing word salad from any Star Trek or Star Wars film (”Belief collapses the sine wave!” “Is it possible that the square root of impossible is me?” “What’s the second derivative of sensational?”). Gustafson introduces one of his own inventions when he runs out of stolen ideas that is basically a flying, spinning eye-gouger, and which promptly hits someone in the face and explodes (”It’s frying my face!!”).

Jingle Jangle can honestly be a little overwhelming, but the songs are decent, the actors are charming (except for Edison, the little weirdo), and the absurdity of the first 90 minutes of the movie turns out to be necessary to prime the audience for the absolute unhinged insanity of the final 30 minutes. I can’t recommend it on the basis of its storytelling quality or character development, but if you’re one to enjoy completely surrendering to Christmas spirit, it’s worth watching for its multidimensional wow factor alone.

Happiest Season is...not this way.

I understand what it was going for, I think. The script is focused on the very real and very frightening experience of deciding when and how to reveal your queer sexuality to your family when you don’t know how they’ll react and you suspect that the reaction will be bad, perhaps even destroy your life. I��m sure there are a lot of people who will get something valuable out of it for that reason, just because that experience is so rarely depicted in a mainstream movie, but on the level of a romantic dramedy, it basically fails on every level.

The two lead actresses (Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as Abby and Harper, respectively) have no chemistry with each other whatsoever, which is only highlighted in contrast by the extremely good chemistry between Stewart and Aubrey Plaza, who plays Harper’s ex-girlfriend. Plaza and Dan Levy, who plays Abby’s friend, are the only two actors who exhibit any charisma at all throughout the entire film. Everyone else, including Mary Steenburgen and Alison Brie, who I usually like a lot, is working with a script that displays such a shallow understanding of social insecurities and neuroses that Harper’s entire family comes off as a bunch of cartoonish monsters (Harper’s sister, Jane (Mary Holland), is not a monster, though she is no less cartoonish). In fact, the movie seems to primarily be about Abby realizing that she’s in a relationship with a manipulative liar from a family of disgusting, dishonest people. Fortunately, after the inevitable big Christmas Eve family meltdown, they all learn how to be good people overnight. I’m sure anyone who’s experienced a lifetime of emotional abuse and toxic repression within their own family can relate!

There is a single solitary moment of humanity and warmth when Dan Levy’s character is describing his own coming-out experience as a way of encouraging Kristen Stewart to do something scary, but that’s it. I booed when Abby and Harper kissed at the end, even though that’s theoretically what I was supposed to want to happen. Not great!

Jingle Jangle gets 3 Jangleators out of 5 from me for its vigorous spirit.

Happiest Season gets 0 shadow dreamers out of 5. Offensively bad. Ho ho hopeless.

[missytearex]

I’ve been binging wordplay fics, which is why this list is so ridiculously long. I would’ve split it, but I kind of want these lists to be an accurate representation of my week, so ridiculously long list it is! 

As I said, most of these are from @wordplayfics, but there are also fics from @hlsummerexchange2019, @1drarepairfest, @larryabroad, @grylesexchange and even @onedirectionbigbang! Wow, I’ve clearly had a good week. Enjoy!

❣️ Let Our Hearts Collide by @crinkle-eyed-boo — [fic post]

larry | 76k | mature — (found family)

When Harry, a lonely transit worker, saves the life of the handsome commuter he’s been secretly pining for, an innocent mistake results in Liam Payne’s family believing that Harry is engaged to their son. In the Paynes, Harry finds the big family he’s always longed for…and a love he never saw coming.

A While You Were Sleeping AU

❣️ Not (heart) Broken by @kissyboystyles — [fic post]

larry | 14k | teen and up — (soulmates)

Every person is born with a unique, personal Ability and a soulmate. Abilities are developed from birth and treasured as parts of each person’s personality, while a soulmate is somewhat of an intimidating prospect; the minute two soulmates are in contact with each other, their powers are voided, only to be reinstated when they regain their distance.

How is Harry, a young healer, supposed to feel about the possibility of losing his helpful healing Ability with one look of his unknown soulmate? He figures it can’t be too inconvenient. Until Harry meets them and, well, it kind of is…

❣️ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday  by @haztobegood —  [fic post]

larry, ziam | 3k | teen and up — (office)

Nothing less than mischief is to be expected when Niall, Liam, Zayn, Louis, and Harry spend forty hours a week in corporate hell. Welcome to One Direction Financial - The Right Direction for Your Money.

❣️ press you to the pages of my heart by @foliealou — [fic post]

lirry | 5k | general audiences — (magic)

Harry hatches a foolproof plan. Liam just tries to catch up.

❣️ Run Like the Wind in My Boots by @ponymom-stuff — [fic post]

larry | 1k | not rated — (humour)

Louis is a city boy being introduced to the fun of a county fair by his boyfriend, Harry. Can there be fun in all this dirt?

❣️ baby, in the summertime by Anonymous — [fic post]

larry | 4k | teen and up — (lifeguard louis)

“Well you’ve got to do something,” Liam argues. “It’s not like your perfect guy is just going to suddenly appear right in front of you.”

“Central to Tommo,” his radio crackles. “There’s a guy who looks like he might be getting into trouble directly in front of the tower.”

Louis and Liam both immediately turn to their left, and squint out into the surf. After scanning the waves for a few seconds, Louis spots a guy bobbing around quite a way away from the shore.

❣️ A Very Difficult Pose by Anonymous — [fic post]

gryles | 5k | explicit — (coming out)

It’s the Met Gala, and it’s camp. Harry should probably admit in public that he isn’t straight.

❣️ Tea For Two by @jacaranda-bloom — [fic post]

larry | 4k | mature — (writer louis)

PART 3

Every Tuesday, Louis spends his day off holed up in his favorite coffee-come-bookshop, writing his little stories as part of the WordPlay challenge while daydreaming about the resident barista, Harry. Each week a new word prompt is revealed and Louis adds to his series of short stories about Henry, the owner of a B&B in the Cotswolds who has curly hair and dimples, Lewis, his long term guest who just happens to be a writer, and Tigger, Henry’s cat.

As Louis and Harry’s friendship develops, could his fantasy world spill out into real life? And how does that reader who leaves the lovely comments with the teacup emoji seem to be able to read Louis’ mind?

❣️ Just Like Honey by @lululawrence — [fic post]

larry | 3k | not rated — (fluff & humour)

Louis opened the door and he looked so soft and beautiful. He was in a ratty pair of grey joggers and that was it. Harry had never seen him look so good.

When Harry finally raised his eyes from Louis’ chest, he realised Louis had likely said something.

“Uh,” Harry said, clearing his throat. “Sorry, what did you say?”

Smirking a little, Louis crossed his arms and popped his hip. “I said, ‘Hello, Harry. What brings you here so late on a Saturday?’”

Then his brain kicked in.

“Right, fuck. Hi, Louis. I just wanted to give you this.”

Louis’ brows creased as Harry held the honey out to him. Taking the jar from Harry, he said, “Honey?”

Nodding, Harry said, “Yep. Hope you have a great night!”

Fisting his hands at his sides in frustration, Harry left the building as quickly as he could.

❣️ The Doppler Effect by @lightwoodsmagic — [fic post]

larry | 1k | mature — (college/uni)

there’s only one person who figures out Harry’s Halloween costume

❣️ That’s My Thing by @uhohmorshedios — [fic post]

tomlinshaw | 1k | explicit — (smut)

Nick comes home to find Louis inexplicably primed for a fight…or perhaps something a bit more interesting.

❣️ Afterparty by @reminiscingintherain — [fic post]

larry | 1k | teen and up — (coming out)

Harry pressed a kiss to Louis’ forehead. “I think someone needs to get home,” he murmured quietly, smiling when Louis nodded slightly. “Hot chocolate and a fluffy blanket, on the sofa, Grease on the telly?” Louis let out a low moan, tipping his head back to look up at Harry. “It’s like you know exactly what turns me on, Styles.”

❣️ Aftermath by @reminiscingintherain — [fic post]

larry | 1k | teen and up — (coming out)

London Pride: The Aftermath.

After coming out (and coming back!) so spectacularly and dramatically at London Pride, what is the reaction?

❣️ Fear is Only a Choice by @iamasphodelknox — [fic post]

larry | 1k | teen and up — (afterlife)

What’s more frightening? Saying goodbye to everyone you love or moving forward to whatever is after death?

❣️ Show My Love by @sunshinetommo-28 — [fic post]

larry | 1k | mature — (established relationship)

Louis has a hard day and Harry gives him a foot massage to relax him.

❣️ say nothing’s impossible now by @dinoflangellate — [fic post]

zemma | 18k | explicit — (magic)

She wakes up later, well into morning, for real this time. There’s a crow by her feet and a note on her pillow, an unfamiliar scrawl on folded orange paper.

The paper is heavy, smooth. “I like you,” it reads. She’s no sooner read it than it turns to flame, burning cold in her fingers until nothing is left, not even a trace of ash.

Except. A phone number appears, inked in fuschia on the palm of her hand. That’s Zayn’s magic for you, all enchantment and surprise. She rolls her eyes, but puts the number in her phone. The crow’s not going to tell anyone about the huge smile on her face.

❣️ Steal My Breath by @hadtobelou — [fic post]

larry | 3k | mature — (nurse louis)

Harry keeps coming up with excuses to visit the emergency room, all for an attractive nurse named Louis.

❣️ Won’t You Love Me? by Anonymous — [fic post]

larry | 6k | general audiences — (spiderman louis)

Where Louis is Spider-Man, Harry is oblivious, Liam has a problem with communicating his feelings, Zayn is frustratingly handsome and Niall has a pet turtle.

❣️ Delicate by @hi-larrie-ous — [fic post]

larry | 1k | teen and up — (college/uni)

They say opposites attract. Maybe that’s why nerdy, shy Harry Styles has such a huge crush on rough, brash Louis Tomlinson. And now, he’s stuck in a lift with him.

❣️ like ships in the night by Anonymous — [fic post]

gryles | 8k | explicit — (angst)

Nick’s excuses, year by year.

❣️ maybe we could be enough by HazHas4Nips

shiall | 3k | general audiences — (depression)

Shawn’s having another bad day, and he doesn’t think that Niall will still want him if he sees how sad and broken Shawn gets sometimes.

❣️ Af-fur-mative by @rainbowsandlovehl — [fic post]

larry | 1k | general audiences — (fluff)

Harry is anxious about the first meeting between his moody cat and Louis.

❣️ Consequences by @allwaswell16 — [fic post]

larry | 78k | explicit — (amnesia)

Two years ago Harry let his powerful family come between him and the love of his life, something he deeply regrets. Louis has tried to move on from their devastating break up. Sometimes, he even thinks he has. It only takes one moment to freeze them back in time.

An amnesia au

❣️ You Keep Me Warm by @ireallysawanangel — [fic post]

larry | 3k | not rated — (zoo)

Louis took his younger siblings to the zoo for the day and ended up finding something even cuter than the baby penguins.

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News Klobuchar cancels Minnesota rally after protesters storm event, outraged over her prosecutorial record - The Washington Post

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar canceled a campaign rally in her house voice of Minnesota Sunday evening after dozens of protesters occupied the stage for bigger than an hour, annoying that the Democratic presidential candidate drop out of the bound over her previous involvement in a controversial raze conviction of a murky child.

The rally, scheduled to occur at 8 p.m. native time in St. Louis Park, was once derailed when protesters affiliated with Dim Lives Subject, the Minneapolis NAACP and diverse civil rights organizations stormed the tournament, as viewed in videos uploaded to social media. Toting signs and banners, the activists chanted “Klobuchar has bought to pass” and “Free Myon,” in reference to Myon Burrell, who was once sentenced to lifestyles in penal complex following the 2002 shooting loss of life of an 11-yr-ancient lady.

ST. LOUIS PARK, MN — Protesters in Senator Klobuchar’s house voice have stormed the stage at her campaign rally, with dozens chanting, “Free Myon!” and “Klobuchar has bought to pass!” pic.twitter.com/n0MLZK3mO7

— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) March 2, 2020

A campaign spokesperson told newshounds that the rally was once lastly canceled after the protesters, who wanted Klobuchar to acknowledge Burrell in her Sunday remarks, refused to leave the stage no topic the senator offering to meet with them, based on the Minneapolis Basic particular person Tribune.

“The campaign equipped a assembly with the senator if they'd dawdle away the stage after being onstage for bigger than an hour,” the spokesperson acknowledged. “After the neighborhood on the origin agreed, they backed out of the settlement, and we are canceling the tournament.”

Questions over Klobuchar’s prosecutorial story, particularly her going through of the Burrell case when she was once the head attorney in Hennepin County, have dogged the senator since she introduced her presidential thunder last yr. Klobuchar furthermore has faced criticism for declining to prosecute circumstances attractive police accused of the exhaust of excessive power against murky suspects, The Washington Submit’s Elise Viebeck and Michelle Ye Hee Lee reported.

Burrell was once 16 years ancient when he was once first convicted in the loss of life of Tyesha Edwards, who was once hit by a stray bullet whereas doing homework at her dining room table. That conviction was once overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court, nonetheless Burrell was once chanced on responsible again following a 2d trial in 2008 that came after Klobuchar had left the prosecutor’s office. Burrell, his household and activists retain that he was once wrongfully convicted, accusations that have easiest increased in present weeks following an Connected Press document that published a series of flaws and inconsistencies in the preliminary police investigation.

In the aftermath of the AP’s probe, Klobuchar has repeatedly known as for the case to be reviewed. Activists, on the opposite hand, bid that isn’t sufficient.

“Amy Klobuchar has the energy and the have an effect on — if she desired to in actuality again us to free him she could per chance, and she or he doesn’t want to,” Leslie Redmond, president of the Minneapolis NAACP, told USA On the present time. “That is a memoir of two cities. There’s an real distinction between how we locate Amy Klobuchar, and it’s on story of she keeps hiding in the motivate of her progressive background or values, nonetheless she’s indubitably no longer as progressive as she comes across.”

The outrage over Klobuchar’s prosecutorial story was once on elephantine indicate on the Sunday rally in suburban Minneapolis sooner than Huge Tuesday — when 15 states, including Minnesota, and one territory will retain their Democratic presidential primaries.

Movies of the tournament confirmed stressful scenes as the protesters onstage faced off against many of of Klobuchar supporters who had gathered at some stage in the gymnasium at St. Louis Park Excessive School to hear the senator focus on.

“Dim lives topic!” the protesters shouted whereas americans in the audience is at risk of be viewed waving “Amy for The US” signs and chanting, “Amy! Amy!”

An announcement came visiting the gym’s loudspeaker about 40 minutes after the rally was once imagined to launch up that elicited cheers from the protesters and scattered boos from the crowd.

“Girls and gentlemen, thank you very mighty for coming tonight and to your patience,” the announcer acknowledged. “We’re sorry to claim that tonight’s tournament has been canceled. We're sorry for any distress. Please guarantee to vote on Tuesday.”

Justin Buoen, Klobuchar’s campaign manager, acknowledged he was once “upset” by the cancellation, based on a transcript of his remarks to newshounds on the rally emailed to The Submit.

Buoen acknowledged the campaign had arranged for the activists to meet with Klobuchar on-place.

“She was once in the room ready to meet with them, after which they modified the phrases and determined that they didn’t want to meet alongside with her,” he acknowledged. “In actuality wish we would had been ready to, one, fabricate the assembly, and be conscious of the protesters nonetheless furthermore have the tournament.”

However the thunder’s organizers pushed motivate against the campaign’s version of events.

Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer and Dim Lives Subject activist, tweeted that protesters “did no longer motivate out of a deal to meet with the Senator.”

“We thought that Amy Klobuchar speaking about Myon’s case with Myon’s household onstage was once a cheap inquire and a appropriate arrangement to let attendees know why we were there,” Armstrong wrote in a be conscious-up tweet. “In place of responding to this inquire, Amy’s team determined to assassinate the tournament. We didn’t know till media told us.”

For the story, Protestors at Amy Klobuchar’s Rally on Sunday evening did no longer motivate out of a deal to meet with the Senator. We agreed for Amy to meet with Myon Burrell’s household, .@LeslieERedmond @NAACPmpls Prez and me. We furthermore asked that Amy straight tackle Myon’s case on stage.

— Nekima Levy Armstrong (beforehand Levy-Kilos) (@nvlevy) March 2, 2020

Redmond told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that it was once by no manner the protesters’ honest to shut down the rally.

“We’re upset too,” Redmond acknowledged.

Klobuchar has struggled to contrivance voters of color since her third-place attain in Unique Hampshire last month, The Submit’s Amber Phillips reported. The candidate lately came in at a distant sixth place all over the South Carolina Democratic presidential foremost, garnering correct over 3 p.c of the votes. Primarily based on exit polls, Klobuchar obtained 0 p.c of the murky vote in South Carolina.