#emotions oracle

[sevenseptember]

What energies are supporting you on your path? Pick a oracle card

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave

[imafuckinstar]

girls when they sob finishing trials of apollo because apollo tells you “call on me. i’ll be there for you” and shows how much he has grown from the beginning to the end of the series and it feels like you were with him through his entire journey of becoming a good person

[sad-endings-suck]

I have seen exactly 1 episode of Blue Eye Samurai and I am gobsmacked by how amazing it is. Mizu is already my everything. I am almost never so deeply invested so quickly in any media. I am obsessed. If the rest of the show is consistent in quality with the first episode then this show is Arcane level incredible, and I do not say that lightly.

[wahroh]

But . . . but . . . what about the seconds, minutes, hours, months and years . . .

[svnnyd4ys]

(litany in which certain things are crossed out - richard siken)

[aroaceleovaldez]

in your most recent tyson post, you said something about leo being distinctly autistic-coded and I was wondering if you could elaborate on that? it sounds really interesting (sorry if you've already posted something on this, I couldn't find anything though)

Of course! I do have a specific tag for talking about Leo's autistic-coding/traits - [here], and [one for Nico as well].

The main aspects with Leo being autistic-coded actually have a lot to do with Nico being autistic-coded, because it's the comparisons between the two that most clearly indicate Leo is autistic-coded rather than it just being his ADHD or etc.

So with Nico being autistic-coded, it's very clear in the Titan's Curse that he's intended to be autistic. First, the first series has a repeating pattern of secondary characters being very distinctly neurodivergent-coded in different ways (Annabeth's adhd/dyslexia, Tyson's down syndrome-coding, Nico's autism-coding). With Nico's introduction, he's pretty stereotypically autistic and we're given a lot of descriptors about him that are notably not attributed to him being ADHD, like it would be for other demigod characters. He doesn't register social cues such as people getting annoyed at him, he's asking/making inappropriate or impolite questions/comments, he gets particularly upset about change (such as Bianca joining the Hunt) and generally gets emotional, and one of his most notable traits he's introduced with is the fact that he has a special interest (MythoMagic) - and we're shown that this special interest particularly colors how Nico navigates the world. While ADHD has hyperfixations, we don't really get much acknowledgement of hyperfixations with demigods usually - Annabeth gets a little, but most others don't and it's not nearly as focused-in on as Nico's is.

Then as the series continues we see these traits stick with him and him start to show or voice more traits that similarly indicate he's autistic: He regularly mentions how he doesn't understand living people and prefers the company of the dead (social issues). He has more notable stims than other demigods (twisting his ring, fiddling with bones, etc). He's indicated to have strong sensory preferences (usually wearing mostly black/aversion to bright colors, usually wearing layers/his coat, multiple times he's described as wearing loose/baggy clothing or clothes too big for him). He has specific comfort items (his ring, likely his jacket(s) as well). We later get even more information about his special interests (Mythomagic/mythology/history and an older interest in pirates - the latter he specifically notes likely heavily influenced his feelings towards Percy). He struggles with emotions and facial expressions and tone. He struggles particularly with ostracism and feeling like he doesn't fit in and has something distinctly different about him from the people around him (who notably, all have ADHD, which indicates it isn't the ADHD that's making him feel that way), and other characters regularly describe him as being off-putting because of his strange behaviors - again, different from specific ADHD traits they recognize. And that last point is kind of notable because we have Hazel and Bianca for comparison - we know people are off-put by both Nico and Hazel because of being children of Hades/Pluto and their powers/aura, but other characters get past that general feeling of discomfort way faster with Hazel. And even after characters get past the death stuff with Nico, there's a second thing that they aren't moving past that isn't a factor with Hazel (Nico's autism).

So that brings us to Leo - Leo is paralleled to Nico a lot. And there's some very specific traits about him that we know are autistic-coding because of how they're used with Nico: He similarly struggles with social cues/etc, and in a very similar parallel to Nico describes how he prefers the company of machines to people because machines make more sense to him. He has similar types of clothing/sensory preferences (again some stuff with layers but also - pockets! He likes having pockets and things to put stuff in! He's even introduced as having a jacket with lots of pockets), and he has a distinct special interest (machinery) that we specifically know heavily influences how he views and navigates the world (constantly comparing things to machinery, describing things with machinery metaphors/terminology, etc etc). He even describes his entire general worldview to Hazel and it's a machine metaphor. He also similarly struggles with ostracization like Nico does, the only difference being that Leo specifically puts on a persona to compensate for areas he knows he's lacking in and very explicitly describes it as a means to make people like him, because without it he normally struggles to fit in (He's masking!). We also see notes of characters describing that similar discomfort with Leo's behaviors that they do with Nico, except without the aura of death this time. And when we're in Leo's POVs we see a very stark difference between his masking and his actual personality/behaviors such as his internal dialogues or how he behaves when he's alone. Also, like Nico, he stims more than other demigods, though for Leo it's more attributed to his ADHD. Leo also, more often than most, similarly struggles with tone and reading the room, such as making misplaced jokes/comments or etc.

But yeah! It's really interesting. Also it's just a fun thing that ADHD/dyslexia and autism have comorbidity, so it makes sense that we see demigods who are also autistic. It's also really fun to look at how other characters are coded in the series, what coding looks like in the riordanverse specifically (usually it's tied into the mythological stuff - like Chiron being in a wheelchair but he's actually a centaur, Grover being introduced as having a muscular disease but he's actually a satyr, demigods having adhd/dyslexia, Tyson being coded as having down syndrome but he's a cyclops, etc etc - it's a lot of specific metaphor stuff that I've talked about a bit before), and to look at how characters are compared to one another.

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Angsty teenage Dick & Babs melts my heart. LOVE how Hope Larson wrote them in Batgirl: Summer of Lies.

"Partners."

"No matter what."

[jasontoddsgaythoughts]

I need a fic where the whole bat family ends up at Jason’s favorite gargoyle one by one, and not in an angsty Jason related way, but more in a they’re all losers who just did something dumb and now they need to think about what they did kinda way. Also Jason should charge them for being there like a parking meter.

[supermarvelgirl15]

“I believe in Dick Grayson.”

Nightwing: Leaping into the Light ★ Part 1 (2021)

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Could you analyze Thalia's relationships with the twins?

Thalia has a very unique relationship with both Artemis and Apollo.

We'll start with Apollo, since he's the one she (indirectly) interacts with first, in The Diary of Luke Castellan.

She meets Halcyon Green, son of Apollo, and a seer who was cursed by Apollo for revealing the future, even though Apollo warned - and I quote - that doing so would "anger the gods".

I won't go into detail on Apollo's end of this, because @fearlessinger has already made a BANGER of a post discussing Apollo and Halcyon Green, so go check that out if you haven't already!

With this in mind, you'd think Thalia would be less eager about meeting Apollo face-to-face for the first time. Instead, though...

"Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant." - Chapter 4, The Titan's Curse

Of course, out of universe, this is very likely because Rick wrote TTC first and Diary later, but in-universe, it's interesting the think about - especially when we look at what Halcyon tells Luke, and ergo Thalia about finally understanding what Apollo meant.

Luke takes it the wrong way. He ends up solidifying his resentment towards Hermes, towards the gods, which leads him down his dark path.

Thalia, however...I believe she took it a different way.

He took back the book and wrote, You have an important future. Your choices will change the world. You can learn from my mistakes, continue the diary. It might help you with your decisions. “What decisions?” I asked. “What did you see that scared you so badly?” His pen hovered over the page for a long time. I think I finally understand why I was cursed, he wrote. Apollo was right. Sometimes the future really is better left a mystery. - The Diary of Luke Castellan

Now, Thalia can't see what Hal is writing here, but I think she's smart enough to pick up on the context clues. She wouldn't be able to get the full picture, but but she knows that; 1) Hal was scared of the vision he had of Luke; and 2) He's written something about Apollo, and Luke is disagreeing with him on it.

Putting those together, Thalia no doubt concluded that Hal's figured out why he was cursed, or at the very least has understood something about the gods, and about Apollo in particular.

I don't think she came to this conclusion quickly though. After all, she would no doubt have a hard time believing that something truly bad was in both of their futures - but what about when she comes back from the tree? And finds out that Hal's prediction had come true?

She was likely upset he hadn't warned them, probably stewed in her anger for a while, before really thinking about it.

And in doing so, I think she came to the conclusion that Hal had learned what Apollo warned him of - that sharing the future can have disastrous consequences. So I think, because of Hal's understanding, and armed with her own about the future he told her and Luke of, she came to understand Hal, and therefore Apollo's perspective.

Warning them likely wouldn't have helped. That's how prophecies work. If something - like the Great Prophecy - is destined to happen, then it will. Hal learned this, and took it to heart by not telling Luke and Thalia, because it would only cause more damage - it would throw everything out of balance.

So Thalia is free to make remarks about how hot Apollo is lol And get called out on it by Apollo in The Dark Prophecy lmao

gosh i love these two. siblings!!

yes yes i know apollo "flirted" with her but 1) he immediately reminds her that they are siblings and ergo tells her there's no chance he'll go for her and 2) yes he does make that one comment about her in TDP, but again, he's trying to prove to us the reader that he's a horrible person and as you can see in TTT, he makes absolutely ZERO remarks when they meet again because he's dropped the facade by then. critical thinking is a virtue <3

As for Artemis, we have much less to go on here. But I'll try!!

Thalia only joins the Hunt to escape the prophecy. Which is why I think she'll eventually leave because it was a choice of convenience but we're not talking about that today. However, we DO know that Thalia is close to Artemis not only because she's the lieutenant, but also because Thalia has seen Artemis split between her and Diana during Apollo's trials! I doubt Artemis would allow most of her Hunters to see her like that, but Thalia does! So that's cool.

However...I don't think Thalia would see eye-to-eye with Artemis on Olympus, and ergo Zeus it always comes back to #REVOLUTION doesn't it? lol So I think that is where there will be contention, because Thalia would NOT side with the side that stagnates - she would be on the side that wants change for the better.

She did not join Luke because he went the completely wrong way about it. He abandoned her, and Annabeth, and the rest of their family - the demigods - by following Kronos, and endangering their family. By forgetting who he promised to stick by.

Not Thalia. She has gone through too much to forget such a thing. She will not forget who her family is, even if she has lost so much of it. Even if it will cause a division within the ranks of her sisters

Because Thalia loves her family.

[neptunezo]

If I lived in Gotham, I personally would rather die than be saved- because imagine you’re about to be human centipede’d and this mother fucker shows up

[implicitlyaster]

Poppy ch4 spoilers

This can't be all we get of Harvey Sawyer, like, I /need/ more

He was so hyped up both in the trailers, arg and the characters in game and all he gets is a puzzle and an okay bossfight?

Positive note though, the voice acting slaps, the way I keep replaying different playthroughs (the "White? Is thAT YOUU?!" gets me every time,,,, the usually clinically calm doctor only ever showing distaste or hatred emoting surprise this strongly-) and enjoying the reactions it gets out of the gamers >>>

Tldr I need him to return

I might even be delulu enough to write sth on how I'd imagine his return, another on what I would WANT to happen, maybe some shippy stuff

[redacted-coiner]

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[seilnakyle]

Dick and Babs having calls that last literal weeks before they finally hang up because it makes Dick feel like she’s with him >>

it’s like the office episode where Jim and Pam wear the tiny Bluetooths

[rollforjackass]

i could KILL him for this. motherfucker's every interaction with children has him being, if not nice, then at minimum kind and forgiving and genuinely invested in their wellbeing.

he asks crying kids what's the matter, he's afraid to hold a baby because he's worried he'll drop it, he goes after people who are mean to kids without a second thought. his whole mentorship with timothy hunter is him trying to do right by that kid no matter how he feels about it at the time. man would be the most loving dad in the world but because of his own awful goddamn father and the ways he thinks he takes after thomas, he doesn't think that's true. i hate.