#because i think its neat

[loadinghellsing]

The Bird of Hermes // The Monster of God

The shrike is a song bird known for impaling it's prey upon the thorns of branches.

(if this isn't Andercard I don't know what is)

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 267

Following Mod Cosmic's doodle yesterday, I'm so hyped for the new series!!!

[thenerdiestwormiest]

day off

[ofswordsandpens]

actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.

And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).

But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.

And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?

On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?

But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.

And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.

And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.

[egg-on-a-legg]

been listening to music recently

[misterradio]

Im really curious how people know about Esperanto. Since its a relatively recent language (from the 1880s), its obviously not going to be as widely spoken in the world as other languages (altho apparently it is the most widely spoken constructed language). I assume most people are introduced to it later in some way?

If u know what Esperanto is, feel free 2 reblog this and say how you learned about it in the tags.

[arielluva]

look within

[wasyago]

day 16482 of trying to figure out what color jay's magic is

[blackkatdraws2]

There are more things in the Parable than Stanley knows about. [Blank Scripts AU]

[heartorbit]

the star you've longed for

[lunaryhues]

Me: "Can I please use all this energy to draw on an actual project"

My brain: "You will draw the same character over and over and you will like it."

Me: "Okay."

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[alpacacare-archive]

Not to post knight papyrus on main or anything but

[cemeterything]

i do want to say that i honestly think kinning is good harmless fun for the most part and that it gets a bad rep it doesn't deserve because people go out of their way to dig up "insane kin drama" because... people being mad online is funny i guess? and they're ~cringe~ so it's okay to subject them to public humiliation (combined with the general online attitude of making callout posts and airing your drama on public social media instead of resolving your interpersonal issues through more private communication making people's disagreements an easy target for ridicule). like if you think that being fictionkin or otherkin or w/e is inherently bad and stupid then i think you should probably mind your own business better. who cares. whether it's a coping mechanism or just somebody enjoying life by living it as their favorite fictional character, it really doesn't matter that much. get a real hobby if it bothers you.

[ftlolbit]

doodles 4 a self indulgent au i have on the back burner of my head. afton kids die and go to far far past but alive uhhh cassidy and charlie come with but as ghosts still

tumblr fuckinf up my quality again … does anyone know how to fix it. close ups under cut

b t w william can’t see charlie or cassidy. afton kids can see both of them. henry can see charlie and is SO fucking freaked out

[mishapen-dear]

dapper’s having such a hard day today because its the day the code finally finally killed him and. he doesnt even know. he doesnt even know that somewhere out there its mimicking him. wearing his sister’s glasses but his cracks. its calling slimecicle dad. it didnt get that from juanaflippa- she called slime papa. where else could it have learned that but the egg it tried to kill nine times. from the egg it succeeded killing once.

“my name is dapper” it says. dapper huddled in his house and didnt go to his sisters’ bday party because of it. and he doesnt even know