nation's fuckboy x local town harlot is such a beautiful pairing
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No, actually, I’ll not just be generally vaguely upset about the framework that pisses me off, I will also be specifically pissed off about the way he’s trying to pat himself on the back and rewrite history.
So having a gay character be brave by coming out and that bravery be an inspiration to other queer characters so they can be brave and come out too is something that comes off poor on its own already - because of the shallow framework that our existence alone is already oh-so brave of us and that others wouldn’t have dared come out if not for Major Queer Character who did it first.
But there is something particularly twisted and nasty about Riordan using this for Nico di Angelo, actually.
Because Nico di Angelo didn’t come out.
Nico di Angelo didn’t get to be brave or inspirational.
Nico di Angelo was forced out of the closet.
Nico di Angelo was outed against his will, in front of others.
Eros forced Nico to come out in front of Jason.
And, quite frankly, the way it was handled further was just as poor. To make this repressed teen from the 1930s, who up until mere days ago was dealing with severe internalized homophobia and couldn’t even admit his own feelings to himself, confess his crush in public, in the middle of camp...
Both of these events really just showed that Riordan is a straight man who doesn’t know this, and didn’t do his research beforehand.
And people just love giving Riordan the benefit of the doubt. Love giving him a pass and clapping him on the shoulder for the inclusion and for trying. And you know what! Yeah, I do love that he includes the gays. I do not think he should get excused for handling representation like shit though.
And this? This is in his newest book? You should think authors grow. Best selling authors should do more research. Get consultants. Stuff like that.
Instead, we’re going back and rewriting history. That forced coming out? Now a moment of bravery and inspiration for others!! Look how great and amazing that is!
Nico di Angelo didn’t get to choose that he was ready to come out, it wasn’t a moment of bravery. Not the kind of bravery that it takes when you are ready to face your personal truth and willingly take the step to own it. It was a moment of fear and desperation. And it was the bravery to face that fear and desperation.
And it really makes me sick to now learn that we’re looking back at it and pretending otherwise, in-universe.
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How did Cas pierce his horns?? Like with a drill? Or are they just glued on top?
Yeah like... with a screwdriver. Or a drill... whatever u prefer to imagine really😭😭
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god the whiplash of ppl who aren’t watching Midnight Museum or are waiting till the show finishes to binge but are consuming the gifs, text posts and memes outta context has gotta be INSANE b/c last week everyone was pulling out the brothers card, making devil judge jokes and this week everyone is like actually they’re NOT brothers gay people just weren’t invented yet in 1820 is all
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So I have a confession to make. A while ago I got some followers who are fans of something called "Sanders Sides" , so I decided to look it up just to contextualize some things. So I found a picture of Thomas Sanders and was like "hold on .. he looks familiar. Isn't he that PAINT guy on YouTube who made those Disney songs back in the 2010s??? Cool he's still active I guess!" and I didn't look any further and this was just ingrained into my memory. Come to find out literally TODAY that the PAINT guy was A SEPARATE GUY named Jon Cozart apparently who is NOT Thomas Sanders but for some reason people really liked shipping them together ???? So now my entire world has been overturned
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i literally cannot enjoy a thing without making an oc and getting involved in a whole narrative for them within the span of a few days and becoming almost more invested in them than the actual canon characters i wanted them to interact with
fanfictioned-ass narrative infodump under the cut:
ERIS was formerly ENYO, the horrid goddess of wanton, violent bloodlust in kratos' world, who managed to be inadvertently spared by the deicide the ghost of sparta waged by being the guy keeping him high on murderlust as they both spiraled out of control. when kratos destroyed Fucking Everything, enyo found herself deprived of her domain and power because the act of destruction can only lead to ruin, which leads to stagnation, the antithesis to chaos. as a chaotic deity with no source of chaos, enyo had themself a big old identity-shattering breakdown and eventually became the less warmongering eris; who proceeded to wander the ether in search of the next big fuckoff war to get back into enyo mode, to stop jonesing for the addictive mania of their alter ego.
eventually, eris sniffed out the looming shadow of ragnarok, and decided to make themself a new problem for the nine realms - though they do kind of like the 'sobriety' being the toned-down eris gives them, and they start to form bonds with the people they would have otherwise razed/corrupted. even kratos sees something more substantial in them than a mindless, bloodlust-addled monster. but even then, odin knows full well the kind of 'ally' eris would make if he could direct their fighting towards his enemies in the final moment, so he encourages heimdall to stir up that weird endeared-hateful-horny crush response eris gets from seeing a boy who is A) mean but cute in a rat kinda way, and B) in possession of the one primary trigger for a truly world-ending war.
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