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moralesmilesanhour · 8 months
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I personally view the possibility of a romantic relationship between them as detrimental to their individual characters and it's not really something people want to talk about, which I get, but like there's a really deeper way to view their relationship other than "haha cute wholesome dramatic teen superhero romance" like on a metanarrative level. Because you'd think all the other things in spiderman mythos the movie is critiquing and expanding they'd address the very obvious elephant in the room with gwen but oop-
Yeah I think I'd rock w Gwiles more as a romantic ship if Gwen's role as a love interest wasn't so thematically dissonant. If they were gonna hijack Miles' story like that I think they should've had a better reason than justification for a romantic relationship. And then they added Margo to the mix so like what was the point of all that lmaooo
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aroaceleovaldez · 1 month
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the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.
and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.
And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.
#pjo#percy jackson#riordanverse#nico di angelo#i will also note it is implied though we never see that Hazel has the exact same powers as Nico#and Hazel has trained with her powers way longer than Nico has plus is older so theoretically is more powerful already#she killed a giant all by herself. sank a small island. and successfully subdued Gaea for like another 60 years#so given that + her also having Nico's powers then *Hazel* is theoretically the strongest demigod no contest#Jason and Thalia end up kind of nerfed by the plot in that neither is allowed to overshadow Percy either#but they dont play the same roles that characters like Nico do - Nico keeps getting stupid abilities just for convenience factor#and Bianca never got the opportunity to use many powers besides astral projection/dream manipulation and similarly hades kid illusion stuff#and general ghost stuff. and she does all that as a ghost really. her killing the skeleton wasnt even her powers that was just a normal sta#and it was just by virtue of her being a hades kid and fulfilling the ''can kill these skeletons'' requirement that it blew up#technically she also showcases underworld immunity with the lethe stuff wearing off but that's very subtle#Hazel also doesnt play the same role as Nico and so doesnt get to showcase all that#plus is similarly nerfed with the ''cant be cooler than Percy'' constraint and so never gets to really do anything#even though logistically she is the most powerful and should showcase the full extent of her abilities to the same degree as Percy and Nico#Jason at least gets a little bit more wiggle room than Thalia being a main protagonist#Nico just gets the most wiggle room out of both not being a protagonist and being functionally a dues ex machina most of the time#versus Thalia or Bianca who are only ever secondary or supporting characters
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dykealloy · 8 months
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just a silly little guy
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thatswhatsushesaid · 7 months
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psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead
but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open
#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it#jin guangyao#he did crimes??? good for him 😌#editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking#i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom#and with this book#almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy#even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs#but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun#(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously)#but he is just. /clenches my fists!!!#THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!!#who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war?#who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist#an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist#whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate#the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life?#who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose#to interpret that obsession?#no one!!! that's who!!#ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact
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sidsinning · 1 year
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Also pretty cool how Gwen's role at the end of the movie is to lead the team to save Miles
Not what you see everyday in a superhero movie since the target demographic is men usually
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drrav3nb · 7 months
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So you think you're God? You've never killed someone before...It's not easy to kill. Until you get used to it.
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andhumanslovedstories · 4 months
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I’ve got this mental Venn diagram I’ve been turning over in my head since I rewatched The Princess Bride earlier tonight. It’s comparing and contrasting Inigo Montoya and Prince Zuko, there’s something that makes me think “this is the same guy, served two ways,” and yeah. it is the weed talking. but also I understand these characters and their narratives better than anyone else right now
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loveaetingkids · 10 months
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azzayofchaos · 6 months
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How do you guys feel about some covers for a fake comic of an au I’m probably never going to write?
I have more ideas for other volume covers though I probably won’t draw them in order lol.
As for the premise, well its just as fishy as the start of season 10… in fact, the ocean possessing people and being generally strange towards the residence of one small New England fishing town is the entire point.
Funnily enough, by the liberty of having come up with it a few weeks before the season actually started and also me being very self indulgent, the characters are whoever the hell I want them to be!
P t.2 (“volume 4”)
Pt.3 (“volumes 3”)
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just-an-enby-lemon · 4 months
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I think we need more stories about how even if you are genuinally a bad person or did something truly atrocious that does not justify the suffering of the mordern Prison Industrial Complex and how prison more than punishment should be about making sure if not all at least most people can go back to society and never do crimes again.
I mean it. Most stories about how bad prison is either follows a thief that did it out of necessity or an innocent man wrongfully arrested and we should think of those people ofc. But we should also think about how prison is not supposed to be karma is supposed to help society (plus we need more assistencial programs to suport victims of violence as well asap).
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mayhem-ensues · 1 year
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Also, I really hope in the next episode they actually go back and have Suletta react to Miorine's greenhouse getting destroyed. Like it makes perfect sense for it to be destroyed now, both thematically and just realistically, but given the importance of the greenhouse to the show I would like more focus on it getting destroyed than the 5 seconds it got in this episode.
Like fr, my heart will explode if we get Suletta re-affirming her desire to be with Miorine in the ruins of her greenhouse.
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polaroid240 · 1 month
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blimbo-buddy · 8 months
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I love seeing wc protagonists drawings because they almost always include GreyStripe and RavenPaw in TPB, the one thing that made that arc stand out was the fact that it had only one main protagonist
Like who invited GreyStripe and RavenPaw to the protagonist meetup, they both think they're on the team
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merry-fagoland · 8 days
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tfw there's a change made to canon and it just so happens to impact a specific au you have but you actually like the change so now you just have to sigh and try and find a way to work it in
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besobendito · 2 years
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tell your good friends you love them all doubtlessly wordless and senseless without reservation - flower petals being symbols for the waddle dees lost in the new world, constellations and diamond stars being symbols for their bright hope and loyalty. their coordination and unwavering love for those they cherish. bandee, the waddle dee’s champion, we all believe in him!
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holleighgram · 1 year
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So, this is Sleeping Realm Theory related, but you know about the speculation regarding the Logo for KHIII and the lack of gradient on the on the third "I" ?
What if doesn't represent Kairi, but Sora's memories of Riku beginning to fade?
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