#FOR CLARIFICATION REASONS

[randomuniversityquotes]

"Y'know what, tell us. What's the meaning of life?" (Club leader)

(Robotics Club Advisor who had a sore throat and couldn't speak)

[remcadll]

Gen obsessed with how.. *dead* your Jason's color pallete is. Like, that's corpse pale right there. Not a spec of blood left flowing in there (also father Todd's skin being full of color in comparison is a nice touch)

THANK YOU I love making him look a bit ghoulish. Guy who's not supposed to be alive but yes he is. no he isn't <3

[curseofdelos]

mentally I'm still here:

Nico insisting that neither of them are going to be sacrificed/left behind to satisfy the prophecy is a perfect encapsulation of his growth over the series and it makes me SO soft to think about

Nico as a character - particularly in BoO - doesn't have a lot of self-preservation. He doesn't really care what happens to him as long as the mission gets done. We see this most explicitly after he almost fades into nothingness after the Bryce Lawrence incident:

And again when he considers shadow travelling into Octavian's tent to assassinate him:

(Nico himself notes here that it was unlikely he would survive another jump. If Will hadn't stopped him, he probably would have died.)

In both cases, Nico was willing to risk death for the sake of ending the war. He puts very little value on his own life, and repeatedly argues to Reyna, Hedge, and Will that the possibility of saving camp (a place he never felt welcome at, might I add) is worth the risk of losing his life.

Even before Nico went on the quest with Reyna and Hedge, the others were concerned about his safety. Percy tried to remind him how unpredictable his shadow travelling could be, and Hazel notes that he has been acting strangely lately:

It's not quite clear what Hazel is worried about here, but my interpretation of this scene is that she's concerned that Nico isn't thinking - or perhaps, isn't caring - about what effect the constant shadow travelling will have on his wellbeing. Between Tartarus, the jar, and the Cupid incident, Nico's mental state is at its worst at this point in the series, and I think Hazel is worried he'll do something reckless - something he can't come back from.

And so in TSATS, when Nico is told that he's going to have to leave something of equal value behind in order to save Bob, the old him would have had zero issue sacrificing himself if that's what it took to ensure Will and Bob's survival. This version of Nico, who's been going to therapy w/ Mr D and opening up more and built a little support system for himself, can't fathom it.

Nico in BoO did not have a future. He had fully convinced himself that nobody cared about him or would miss him if he was gone - not Percy who fought for him at every turn in PJO, not his sister Hazel, not his new friends Jason and Reyna. He was ready to leave both camps behind because he couldn't see himself ever being happy there. He couldn't see himself being happy at all.

But now, in TSATS, he has a boyfriend that he loves, he has friends that he loves, and he has a community in Camp Half-Blood. He has experienced so much loss that losing someone else is his worst fear. The old Nico would have considered sacrificing himself to protect Will and Bob. At the very least, he would have kept that option in his back pocket as a 'just in case'; he wouldn't have sworn on the Styx that he wouldn't stay behind.

This Nico, however, is doing much better - not perfect, but better. He loves Will, and he wants a life with him, and he's not willing to give that up for anything. Nico has hope for the future, and he's clinging to that hope with everything he has. He sees a light at the end of the tunnel, and he wants to reach it. He's not willing to sacrifice himself because it means losing that future.

Gone is the cynical pessimistic Nico who assumes the worst because the worst is all he thinks he can have. Here is the Nico who has had a taste of happiness and is willing to fight to keep it. He's not going to sacrifice himself because he wants to live. He's not just fighting for Will here; he's fighting for himself too.

And seeing him go from "if it kills me, it kills me" to "it's not going to be me" makes me so ASDFGHJKL

[filurig]

my cringelet finally made him a new reference....

[son-of-avraham]

"We need more diverse queer representation!"

You cannot even handle queer jews.

[highendphsrs]

Mcr Images That Very Much Have A Certain Vibe To Them That I Can't Really Put My Finger On At The Moment But I Know It's There

[felidaeng]

really effective way of getting me to work on solstice stuff again: give me a character for which i have vivid ideas on how to dragon-ify

(not flight rising)

[lastoneout]

Got a burger from a mid-cost fancy gastropub last night because it was the only thing open and I truly have to ask what the fuck is the point of food that's description is so tasty delicious sounding and then you get it and it's baffling and bland and confusing?

[qcomicsy]

Drawing Starfire, Wonder Woman and Artemis shorter than their male teammates and counterparts > Jail.

Me if I worked on dc and saw an artist drawing tall warrior women as petite models.

[theatrekidenergy]

Does anyone else who is Christian/was raised Christian feel like immense guilt about being hyperfixated on Conclave (2024) for no good reason or is that just me?

I gave full on context for post is in the tags so I’d recommend reading those

[peachdues]

Me: I will never write Sanemi, Kyojuro, or Giyuu raising a hand to their love interests. They’d each eat their own arm before doing so.

Me, writing Tengen: gets into full scale brawls with his love interest. Full on stabs her in one fic. Routinely exchanges blows.

[pineconedrop]

On today's episode, Moon lists off the people he trusts. And Lunar wasn’t among the ones that were mentioned. I get he messed up and all that, but why aren’t his efforts seen? It feels like they'll keep him at arms' length no matter how much he's willing to sacrifice for them. Sorry for the small rant, but I wanted to hear your thoughts on this.

SERIOUSLY?!

Most of the things he did after he was punished for using dark star power was for his family. Because he wanted to get better for his family. Because he wanted to protect his family. Because he didn’t want to hurt his family anymore. AND MOST OF HIS FAMILY TREATS HIM HORRIBLY!!! Like I understand him answering like that before the machine thingy happened, because he fucked up and I wouldn’t trust him either at that point. But Lunar tried so hard to earn his families forgiveness, to earn back their trust just akgagqgafqiwudywghsisgs

[the-meme-monarch]

people can Famously do whatever they want especially when it comes to enjoying media and generally i find this to be a good thing. but unfortunately i am a strange and unusual autistic that generally sticks very very close to canon. all this to say i don’t Get It when people headcanon k_k deltarune as using they/them Only or even she/her Only when he has literally been referred to with ‘he’ by one of the people presumably closest to him(brothers to me)

for the record i think he is he/they. i think all three of them are he/they. maybe even canonically but people fight me on this one (really just capn and kk since sweet has only indirectly been referred to as they like in the following screenshot from the wiki (bc I didn’t want to watch a video of their fight to screenshot and crop flavor text) BUT they’re still called by generally masculine terms alongside the other two like ‘guys’ (ost “almost to the guys”) and ‘young men’ (by seam)) (and they use overly-masculine self-referential pronouns in japanese, along with capn)

like im Fairly Certain the individual of scc are still the only one being lost in the groove in dance x. the “they” in ‘they’re totally lost in the groove’ is still Just One of scc. I don’t believe the fun gang are lost in the groove bc honestly they don’t talk like any of this fight was fun for them HSHSHDNDHDJDJ

also incase it isn’t clear i think it’s chill to add on she/her to k_k’s pronouns. people can famously do whatever they want especially when it comes to enjoying media and generally I think this is good. but saying they use she/her (or they/them) ONLY and not In Conjunction With is where I go “well. no. the game called him he. so he/him has to be part of their pronouns?” and i recognize it’s probably petty and stupid to care about to like any degree but know I don’t say this with hate in my heart

and of course there’s nuance like maybe the idea is they Change their pronouns later on but idk no one ever says this

[velvetwyrme]

HIII TRANSFORMEETLES PERSON!!!!!!!!!

throwing a funny silly thoughts i had at you

kaon would be a lightning bug/firefly just because of the name. or maybe a bombadier beetle? 🤯 he’d also probably run into stuff a BUNCH(no eyes 😔)

SPEAKING OF RUNNJNG.

blurr. probably like an australian tiger beetle cause those guys are FAST

👋BYE

lightning bug kaon abfjfbdkfh,,, thats fun i like that!! i. assume he'd have other means of navigation (actually. how does that work in canon...) but its also cute to imagine him running about and bopping into stuff fgghsgbd4gdjfbfkd

tiger beetle blurr!!!! zoomy lil guy,, gotta get him a hamster wheel ehfkfhdkfbkd,,,,, PUT HIM ON A HOT WHEELS RACETRACK.

[torglives]

will absolutely never ever compromise my morals for twitch streamers, i trust them just enough, however parasocial that may be, to give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to these things 👍 as i do with all people. ignorance is ignorance no matter how you spin it, sometimes it’s just not intentionally malicious. it’s what you do with the education that follows the ignorance that truly matters

[rachandroll]

I've seen a couple folks say that the afterlives of Exandria are no more because of the Catatheosis, but that's not what the Matron said:

She said that if the gods died the realms would have faded, but in with this path, they exist just fine. Stuff like Will and Orym reuniting after Orym dies is absolutely still on the table if that's your jam.