#Lief fucking murders a god

[legendaryevokercupcake]

Reasons I don't like Rick Riordan:

Chiron's characterization. This son of a titan raised so many actual, mythological Greek heroes (Achilles, Patroclus, Odysseus, Heracles, Jason, I could go on) and he did it damn well. He's not just gonna send a bunch of kids into a war with absolutely zero context on it, and he's not just going to abandon them when they leave camp. If you want to write a book about Greek mythology, taking characters from Greek mythology, then maybe you should actually read some Greek mythology.

Nico's existence. Hades is famous for being the one guy who never cheated on his wife. The one person who tried to sleep with him got turned into a mint plant. Nico cannot exist in Greek mythology because Hades would never sleep with Maria.

Athena having kids. Athena is a maiden goddess. She doesn't sleep with men. She thus cannot have biological children. Even if we are going the magic route, she still likely wouldn't even give a man a second (or let's be honest, first) glance.

Ares wouldn't lose. Ares wouldn't lose to an experienced fighter like Heracles or Achilles, he won't lose to some random kid, even if the kid IS a child of Poseidon.

His one Muslim character worships a god who is not Allah. This is against Muslim religion. She is a Valkyrie. This is against Muslim religion. She takes off her hijab in front of men who are not her biological and/or legal family. This is against Muslim religion.

He blocked fans who asked him (politely) to apologize, explain or even acknowledge his wrongdoings.

I could make more of these if people want them. I'm autistic and one of my fixations is Greek mythology (Notably NOT Percy Jackson) so I know a thing or two, and I'm literally part Scandinavian so I can slander Magnus Chase with my whole heart and soul.

If you want a good Norse mythology book, read the Iron Druid series. Leif is an absolute icon and his relationship with Hal is everything you could want in a ship, platonic or romantic. Atticus' dog is adorable and, as much as Atticus himself irritates me sometimes,

[ryderdire]

There’s so much happening I’m losing it

Gay people

Teri JAN

I need a fucking mintue

I’m making a live blog from here because wo need to words

I’m starting at the scene where terry amd Jan show up

When it comes back rn it’s in ad break im which is a feature I didn’t relize I liked I really needed a breather because she iust keeps happening

Okay it’s back

FROBBOS NEW LOOK YA ALL

Gradbabies

Trauma

OW

Trauma

These poor kids Jesus

Why do I get the feeling I’ll be saying the words ow trauma a bunch

ITS WHAT YOUR HEART HAS ALWAYS DESIREd

AND THE FLOWER is blue and red ya all

HER NEW look OMG

It’s so sickly sweet

TRAUMA?????? THEY SAID THE WORD

Together

NOT THEIR PARENTS

Not again

AHHHHHHH

Good for them

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Domnio

I LOVE THESE CHARACTERS AND THESE RELATIONSHIPS AND RVERYHING AND IM crying man

Forgot birds have wings

They should get to kill them i think

THR DANC

THE family

Dance

I’m

PRIDE FLAG

Pride FLAG

Pride-

there’s a pride flag snuck into the background I’m

I GOT DISTRACTED IM SORRY JUST THAT CAUGHT ME OFF GAURD

WHO DID THAT AND CAN I GIve them my money.

MAGICAL ESCAPE DISENY ADS NO

ITS BACK

Break her legs Jesus Darcy calm down

Wives

Mylady MYLADY ITS

Greeen

SAVE HER ANS STIPID HER

THat animation JESUS WHO BOREDED THAT

THE SHOT

Sasharcy battle

Andrais bit thing

Anne is going to kick his ass she’s going to murder him

Andrais your just a coward jesus

OH BOY IM GOING TO CRY

I’m crying ANNES THEME IN THe BG N O ONE TALK TO ME IM

IM GOING TO DRAW SI MUCH FROM THOS EPISODE

Santa clause to super villain no one talk to me

THR ANIMATION ON HER HAIR

The animation

JUST

I just wanted an essay lm

what what what what SHE LOSt SHE DESTROYRD A BUILDING

DARCYs laugh

THEY

They where right

HE LOST A GOD DAMN-

IM

Darcy

SASHAs out to kill now

ANNES OKay THANK THR STARS

OH GET EM

They really are like unhealthy mirrors of eachothrr

Jesus

call him out Anne OOF THAT LOOKS LIKE that hurt

BEHOLD UR TAX MONEY AT WORK

IM SO OROUD OF HER

It my gif gods

Aim losing it this is so good I’m going isane this sis amazing I’m mit eben looking at my phone

I’m

WORST fear

SASHA

Marcy

MEMORY

This isn’t real THE THEME DONT WANT WHAT SHE

the music

The music the music the music the music the music I’m not a kpop person personally but the animation in This part was insane i really love animation that’s timed really good so that’s why I’m losing it /pos

IM SO PROUD OF HER GO MAR MAR GO MARR GO MARR GET YOUR GFS HO

IM SO PROUD OF YOU MARCY

She’s alone

I’m IM WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THR FICK WHAT THR FICK WHAT THE FUCK SASHA JUST GOT MARCYD MARCY JUST REJECTED THE CORE AND NOW THE ANGST IS HERE AND IM SCREEMING

So it’s back

LOUTAS

OH OH NO NO NO NONO ANNE

CHARATET GROWTH IM SO PROUD OF EVEYONE SO FUCKING PROUD I DANT

My dear andrais

Leif

I’m crying man I’m crying

Your lief

FRIEND

DAndrais

Sasha had the worst time this eo I think I’m

OH HOHOHOHOHO

YES YES TES YES YES

MArcy

Sasharcy sasharcy

HE DEAD HE HESD AS HELL

Wait wait wait then

What

What’s the hardest thing about

Oh

We love you

Them it’s always them

Not distance Not time execpt maybe the core

I’m going to sob I’m going to cry I’m so happy

Oh oh no oh no oh no no no

OH RIGHT

The FUCKING moon

Marcy my beloved

I’ve missed her

There it is

[sleepyghost123]

i remembered that i found a shakespearean translator and a list of karkat insults (thanks to @amora-the-chinchilla for making a list btw). naturally, i had to combine them.

KARKAT: THAT’S WHAT THEE DOTH AT WHICH HOUR THERE’S A VAWARD AROUND TRYING TO MAKETH PLANS, RIGHT? KARKAT: THEE DROP THY IQ HARDER THAN A PAIR OF HILARIOUSLY PLUMMETING PANTS, THEE CEASELESSLY RAMBLE ABOUT VAPID TALK'ST OF NOTHING, THEE RUNNETH AROUND HIDING ALL OF THY WORLDLY POSSESSIONS IN TREASURE CHESTS, AND THEN EVERYONE STARTS MURDERING EACH OTHER.  

(the rest are under the cut, it got p long)

? CG: STRIDER GO, PRICK THY FACE, AND OVER-RED THY FEAR, THOU LILY-LIVER'D BOY ? CG: AND BY GO, PRICK THY FACE, AND OVER-RED THY FEAR, THOU LILY-LIVER'D BOY I MEAN GO, PRICK THY FACE, AND OVER-RED THY FEAR, THOU LILY-LIVER'D BOY RIGHT BACK HITHER AND HARK, THEE INSUFFERABLE PRICK.  

KARKAT: WHAT DOEST HONK MEAN THIS TIME THEE WHIMSICAL PIECE OF THE HORROR????? KARKAT: DON’T THEE START WITH ME KARKAT: DOTH. NOT. START WITH ME. KARKAT: I WILT RECEIVETH THEE IN A HEADLOCK SO TIGHT T'WILL BEEST A MIRACLE IF 'T BE TRUE PEOPLE DON’T MISTAKE OUR TUSSLE FOR AN ILL CONCEIVED VENTRILOQUIST ACT. KARKAT: I WILT SHOOSH THEE AGAIN, SO HOLP ME GOD. I WILT SHOOSH THY CLOWN RAMPALLIAN TO SHANGRI-BULLSHIT-LA AND BACK, AND FILL THY EAR WITH MINE WHITE HOT PALEBRO SPITTLE.

CCG: FINE, GET THEE HENCE OF HITHER! VALOROUS RIDDANCE! CCG: AS IF 'T BE TRUE I COULD TAKETH ANOTHER SPONGE WRINGING MINUTE OF THY DISINGENUOUS DRIVEL.

CG: TIS FINE, TIME OUT FOR THE CLOTPOLE. CG: THE CLOTPOLE GETS A TIME OUT AND SHUTS UP FOR A SECOND. CG: THAT’S THEE.  

? CG: OH, HA HA! IF 'T BE TRUE SMUG WAST A MOTORCYCLE, T JUST JUMPED OV'R A FUCKING CANYON. ? CG: THE CROWD GOETH WILD WITH DISMAY, AND THEN COMMITS MASS SUICIDE.

CG: MINE BETHINK PAN, T HURTS CG: TIS PRESENTLY THREATENING TO MAKETH ME ITS WENCH, JOHN. IS THAT WHAT THEE WANTETH? CG: DOTH THEE WANTETH THY MERIT ALIEN PAL TO BECOMETH THE WENCH OF A RAW, THROBBING BETHINK PAN????? CG: SUCH IS THE SCENARIO ERE US.

KARKAT: TIS FINE, WOW, FINE! KARKAT: ALAS THE CHAIR. PARDON ME FOR MAKING MYSELF COMFORTABLE DURING A SINCERE HEART TO HEART DISCUSSION WITH A LIEF COUSIN IN NEEDETH! KARKAT: BUT THE TIME HATH COMETH FOR ME TO CEASE STRADDLING THIS DEEPLY OFFENSIVE PIECE OF FURNITURE! HENCE WITH YE, FOUR LEGGED TEMPTRESS! DISTRACT US NO MORE WITH THE MOST BASIC AND UTILITARIAN FORM OF CREATURE COMFORT THEE SUPPLY!!!

[absolutelybifurious]

can i be real a second? just... just a second... just one, tiny second. i wanna talk about ryuji sakamoto. for. just. a. milisecond.

so i haven’t done a ton of browsing in the persona 5 tag because i just... don’t really care that much about who likes what or why. bc the fact that people were in love with g*ro ak*chi 5 seconds after his introduction baffled me straight to fucking jupiter so like... whatever. i clearly have Different Preferences to most fans.

but can i just fucking go off for 2 seconds?

why the FUCK do so many people not like ryuji? i’ve seen so many people say “people just don’t like him” smh or “it wasn’t him, it was the writing.” CAN. WE. JUST. STOP. just pull the reins, hop on out of the stirrups and put our backwards ass cowboy boots on the ground.

RYUJI. the kid who is stressing when you first see him about an asshole teacher creeping on ann. RYUJI. who lies within the first 5 seconds of fucking meeting you to try and save your life when he’s about to DIE. ryuji who is shit-talked and bad mouthed by everyone in the school because he REACTED TO ABUSE. the person who spent his bus fare on a present for his MOTHER. the person who is CONSISTENTLY kind to everyone (save morgana who, let’s be real, literally enver stops insulting him - actually while we’re talking about it, the whole fucking cast never stops insulting him.) nevermind the fact that he’s the one who’s kind to makoto when everyone else is writing her off as useless and stupid and god knows what else. never/mind/ that he’s the first one to reach out to you and be your friend. nevermind that he insists on going back into some hellscape clusterfuck palace without a power with you because he cares.

i just want to know. what in the writing, at any point, makes ryuji not likable? is it his temper? because, honestly, his reaction was one of the most /real reactions/, and the most consistent, (also - one of the only strange things done by characters that actually got an apology) or was it the fact that he got into being a phantom thief, because oh, i don’t know - literally he was shunned by everyone. he’s treated like shit, so yes, he gets too into the popularity thing of the phantom thieves, but uh... thats his fucking arc?

or maybe it’s the perversion thing, because he looked at ann like, twice, (so did joker) because hes a teenage boy (which let’s recall that y*suke literally asked her to get naked and pose and obsessively touched her in situations she was uncomfortable with) and ryuji was the one who got mad when a camera guy was hitting on her and told her not to promise HIM a date as some kind of a reward because she shouldn’t use her sex appeal like that.

is it one of those? because i have so many issues with that. so fucking many. 

so, like, i can name about 12 different things ryuji did and contributed to the plot. meanwhile, we have y*suke who honestly... did nothing. at all. in the plot. but be fucking weird. who is regularly adored and loved and... like why? i did not give 2 shits about him. he did /nothing/ relevant. he had his arc, where he was a douche to anyone that wasn’t ann because they weren’t hot, and then he... stopped?? being relevant????? completely. even his social ink was just fucking POINTLESS. ryuji brings a team back together and takes more literal abuse and y*suke like... draws and has some arbitrary, bizarre realizations about human nature. that just end up being masked behind more weird, strange dialogue.

and then ak*chi was every tragic-backstory villian ever. was horribly wronged by the universe and so goes a little maniacal and then at the very last second has a change of heart and sacrifices himself bc he sees the power of Friendship. which, like, i get liking him a little more... though he’s so removed and scripted for so much of the story he just did... very little for me. also the whole... shooting in the head was... no thanks.

i’m really not meaning to bash either of them, but i, for the lief of me, cannot understand how someone can sit there and say “i loved y*suke or ak*chi but i just couldn’t get into ryuji” or “i just hated ryuji but ak*chi is SO CUTE OMGGG” son he tried to murder you.

ryuji risked his life to save yours, twice. ryuji is an abuse survivor who blames literally everything on himself but is still consistenlty the one who believes in and is there for joker. and can we just,,, do you know who the first person to tell ak*chi he wasn’t a piece of shit was? after all the fucking bullshit insults ak*chi hurled at him? wow. ryuji.

yeah, i totally get why you think the writing just didn’t do him justice. god forbid he have flaws, or a temper, or, like, a character arc. the writers made him comic relief, which yes, had moments of being wildly annoying, but the character of ryuji was so solid and so sweet that it INFURIATES ME to see people write him off because, what, he’s loud? 

he’s loud because he’s literally two-time abuse survivor with no friends attending a school who hates him. the best thing he could be is enthusiastic and passionate. better than, you know, a crazy ass murderer. and honestly, i can’t even speak to y*suke for his flaws because mostly all his character was for me, was weird. he was a survivor of abuse too, yeah, but... all he was was weird and occasionally douchey, which i didn’t hugely mind, until people start saying he’s a beautiful sunday morning delight and ryuji is just ~beyond likable~. 

okay i’m done. literally, fuck you if you don’t like ryuji. i’m not even sorry.

[robotsandramblings]

allllllllrightY so here is my review (and ranting) about Voltron Season 8. very long, plenty of spoilers ahead, ye be warned!! also a heavy amount of salt. way over suggested daily limit for consumption.

let’s start of with the positive! there were plenty of great moments, and the action was amazing as usual, same with the music!

the 80s references, i was dying

KOLIVAAAAAANNNNNNNN

smiling like an idiot again??? did near-death give you a new outlook on life or are you just super proud to be a father figure to Keith now???

Colleen and Pidge’s interactions were probably THE highlights of S8 looool

the Holt family in general continues to be the best

with Matt’s girlfriend in tow it’s so cute

the girls’ hangout to find Allura a dress omg

CORAN’S ROOM

baby Lotor holy shit

hello... Acxa... hi... ??? okay

actually Acxa was a gem with her pure honesty and i LOVED it

same with Lief omgomg

also i love Iverson so much now and he deserved more screentime

VREPIT SAL ON THE ATLAS HELL YEAH

the lesbian general reuniting asdfghjkl godbless

i actually really enjoyed Kinkade’s camera episode, it could have been better but it fun nonetheless

also am i the only one getting one-way-crush vibes from Kinkade a la Hunk?!!?

I FORGOT THAT THE ORIGINAL PALADINS WERE MAKING AN APPEARANCE SO I WAS GENUINELY SURPRISED AND YELLING AT THE TV THE WHOLE TIME

honestly, despite the ending, Honerva was a badass empress and looked great

THE ENTIRE “CLEAR DAY”/CARNIVAL EPISODE WAS A PURE BLESSING AND EASILY ONE OF MY TOP FAVES OF THE ENTIRE SERIES

ponytail Keith, PONYTAIL KEEEEEEFFFFFF

aaaand now,,, we ranty

the ending, like 98% of it, was bullshit and i hated it.

yes i cried when Allura died. but i hated it so much. she did not deserve to die. she deserved a happy ending and to see her dreams of her people living happily again and the universe starting to heal

and don’t forget the fact it’s hard to ignore that basically the only woman of colour was killed off. that’s a major yikes. that’s bullshit.

the fact that like all the major villians got redeemed???? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH.

the writers’ ending was a literal extrapolation of the B99 line “cool motive, still murder.” for Haggar/Honerva, at least. i understood her S8 motives for just wanting Lotor back, it was actually a pretty interesting storyline imo. but like,,, she still killed and tortured and mutilated people for 10,00 years

and i’m sick of the “blame it on the evil quintessence!!” crap. boring and lazy af. next.

Zarkon though? he doesn’t get a fucking pass, are you shitting me?! genocidal warlord, has killed millions, hated and abused his own son, lied to his own wife about her own identity and her son, ...

but i guess they’re sitll just playing the “it was the quintessence!!” game so he gets his pass... lmao i refuse

on the note of Lotor... jfc i don’t even know with him anymore, what exactly the writers were doing with him?? he wants to work with ppl instead of enslaving them, he wants to suck the life juice out of them, he’s good, he’s bad, he’s misguided, he’s hurt, he’s ??????? idek anymore man

i completely agree he was a victim and that, of all of them, he most deserved a redemption. like tHAT IMAGE OF THE 3 OF THEM HAPPILY REUNITING IN THE AFTERLIFE OR W/E??? LMAO ABSOLUTELY NOT

at this point i’m just adding him to the list of “characters the writers really dun screwed up and could’ve done 1000x better with”

moving on... to romance. heavy sigh.

Allurance? dear god. do i like allurance? yes. do i like how the writers did it? lmao no.

it felt entirely forced to me, most of their interactions felt weird and unnatural, and i honestly felt the entire thing was one-sided. i don’t think she truly loved him back. fite me on this all you want.

at least they got screentime and build-up, albeit super rushed. unlike whatshisface and Shiro. “ahhh stick him in the background a few times, give him 5 lines, that’ll be fine”

i mean... ok yes we got an on-screen gay kiss between two men, one of them being the main character, on a kids’ show, i recognize it’s a huge step...

but also... c’mon

also the fact that Shiro felt absent for so much of S8. and i did also notice he and Keith’s relationship just... vanished??? it seems?

sidenote: cried like a fuckin baby when Shiro said “you don’t have to thank me for anything ever” hgfdsdfghjgfdfdghjklkjhgfdfghjkl

i get what they were trying to do with the epilogues, like ok fine not all heroes will carry on their work, maybe they do just need a break or whatever, but goddamned if Lance’s and Shiro’s endings weren’t super unsatisfying imo

also like why and where the fuck did the lions just peace out to lmaooooo (didn’t they say Pidge was overseeing a “new wave of defenders” or something???)

soooo the grand ending is that all the terrible villians get redeemed, the galra empire gives up entirely after Honerva’s little stunt, everything’s completely at peace and they’re solely rebuilding??? back to business as usual??? i know it’s a kid’s show but lmao there’s not an ounce of credibility in such a scenario wtf

Voltron, you started on such a high note, and ending on such a low one. you’ve been great overall but also left a bitter taste in my mouth. i will always both love and complain about this show with all my heart.

p.s. i feel like mentioning that none of this is ship-related or fuelled by a lack thereof. i don’t want people assuming other fans’ hatred or disgust is stemming solely from shipping, and i also don’t want other people hating the show only for how their ships played out. because the show had quite a few problems, some of them very “yikes” worthy, and people have the right to be upset by them, nor should not be overlooked.