#gabe tag

[dykesbat]

AAAAAA HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 💞🌈✨

TYYYYYY ANDY 💖💞💖💞:D

[cryhounds]

the ONE time I did vodka shots I ended up with ruined shoes crying on a street corner at 2 am. fireball 4 ever

fr whenever i do vodka shots i dont even have fun it just kills my braincells

[oscar-fairchild]

hi opal!!! thank u for reblogging my survey 🥺 how are you doing!!

Gabe!!!!! No problem! 🥰

I’m doing okay, I’m in grad school so I’m very busy and also tired 😅 I’m not on here as much anymore, I miss talking to you! How are you doing?

[wildcarrot]

need to see my boyfriend. My beloved. My scrimbly skrunkly. My mister scromblies. My-

[kaviiinsky]

ELDERLY AGE??? ELDERLY AGE???? I'LL SHOW YOU ELDERLY AGE (tomorrow. when i get older.)

AHAHAHAHA I AWAIT YOUR ANCIENT WISDOM (tomorrow. when you’re older.)

[jamies]

HAPPY BDAY ANGEL 💖💖💖

THANK YOU SO MUCH GABE!!! 💕💕💕💕💕

[muzzleroars]

An idea: V1 finds a monitor, keyboard and mouse set up so that Gabe could also play cybergrind with it. He can't use his own moveset in-game because it's too complex to be coded into the game by terminal observation and since he isn't a machine he can't just upload the raw data inputs like V1 or the others can so he uses the same V1 gameplay we use when we play Ultrakill. So other machines see V1 fluidly wrecking everyone and a second stiffer, jankier gold V1 also wrecking them too but slightly slower than the blue one.

they love playing together!!!

(binary reads "no fun?")

[ofswordsandpens]

Okay compiling my most critical opinions on the pjo show so far (episodes 1 & 2)

The Gods' Conflict, Foreshadowing, & Big Three Kids

The show has seemingly dropped a lot of the foreshadowing and threat regarding the gods impending war over the theft of the lightning bolt. In the book, Percy remarks about how the weather's been inexplicably weird and extreme. When he gets to camp everyone is on pins and needles about something and they don't want to talk about it but its still very present. By the time he's claimed as a son of Poseidon and everyone's like "oh fuck" and then Chiron finally explains to Percy that the gods think he's the lightning thief, everything clicks into place for the reader. It all makes sense why everything seems so wrong... because things are wrong. Meanwhile in the show, that doesn't carry through as much, so the reveal of the conflict between the gods and why that's a big deal falls flat in comparison imo.

They dropped/stalled the foreshadowing of the fates and the cutting of the string. They could very well include this in future episodes, and probably will, but I think the timing of it - Percy seeing this before he even knew he was a demigod - again carries some hefty significance and helped set the foreboding tone of things being wrong even from the beginning.

They did drop Zeus's attack on Percy in the minotaur battle completely, which does disappoint me. In the book, its lightning that blasts the car off the road. In the show, Sally seemingly loses control of the car. That change is pretty significant, because it's again losing the power of RR's foreshadowing in the book. The attack on Percy outside the camp borders was a duel attack from Zeus and Hades.

Finally, I don't like the changes they made to Percy's claiming scene, namely, the reaction from the rest of CHB. Percy being a son of Poseidon is a huge deal. When Percy's claimed, the attitude is very much begrudging reverence paired with genuine fear of what it means and what he represents. In the book, Percy is claimed. People gasp. Everyone kneels. Annabeth says, "This is really not good." In the show, Percy is claimed. People... stand there? Annabeth smiles - she's going to get her quest. The only person who has the most outright negative reaction is Luke. I won't go so far to say this is out of character for Annabeth, but it is focusing on an entirely different aspect of her character in the moment, and what the audience gets from Percy's claiming scene here, the tone, is now different from the book. Basically, the reverence and fear don't really carry across to the show, which I think is important.

The phrase "forbidden child" slaps tho.

2. Gabe's Characterization, Sally's Characterization, & Why the Changes do Make a Difference

I'm going to say this with great care: The show has absolutely depicted an abusive relationship between Sally and Gabe. The show has shown Sally to be a strong woman who would do anything for her child. The show has shown Gabe to be a controlling, toxic man.

What they have depicted in the show does not read like the characters and dynamic in the books.

Book Gabe is a violent, menacing drunk. He is so disgusting and vile that monsters avoid him. This is overwhelmingly apparent from the second Percy gets home in the book, even before he is aware of the physical abuse Sally has been facing. Percy has already been dealing with physical abuse from him, amongst other things (edit to be more specific: this is including verbal, emotional, & financial abuse). I've already spoke to it here, in-depth, so I'll try to keep it short but all of this has not been translated accurately to the screen. (Is this to say that a person must be overtly abusive to be abusive? No. But does this character on-screen feel like Smelly Gabe? No.) These things have shaped Percy (and Sally) in very specific ways. As others have mentioned: Percy cannot stand alcohol. He meets Dionysus and is reminded of his step-father. He gets to Tartarus and the air reminds him of Gabe.... The character on screen, while abusive, does not share this presence at all, and that makes a difference.

Edit: To emphasize once more, I am not saying that the show has not depicted a realistic portrayal of abuse. It has (verbal, emotional, & financial so far). It has also distinctly changed the tone and Gabe's presence from the book, to the extent that it no longer feels like the same character and that does have a rippling effect on the dynamics he shares with both Sally and Percy.

3. The Lack of Annabeth

Annabeth in the show is just like... really not as present as she is in the book so far, and I'm just kinda like, why lol?

Annabeth in the books is already way more involved in Percy's life. She was in the infirmary feeding Percy ambrosia after the attack (ulterior quest motives lol), she's the one who lead Percy around camp and re-explained godly parentage to him - and its a moment where she's very sincere with him, and even trying to help him! Instead these moments are given to Chiron and Luke, which I do get the merit of, but still, these were her moments!

Annabeth in the books had already surmised that the gods were fighting, something was stolen, and the something bad was going to happen, all before Percy had even been claimed. And she shared that with him! Again, the loss of foreshadowing and little bonding moments has me :(

I'm a little worried how they're going to deal with her crush on Luke because its pretty central to her character in the books! It helps Luke to manipulate her and also keeps her from admitting he's done something wrong. Also, it was very sweet and funny reading her get flustered - It drove home the point that she was just a kid with a crush that she didn't know how to handle. But in the show Luke spoke to her and I was expecting there to be some sort of reaction to it and there just... wasn't? (This is not something I'm laying at Leah's feet btw! Only the writers/directors!) We're only two episodes in tho so maybe we'll see it some more moving forward.

4. The Minotaur Battle

Again, I've already spoken about this in depth here but !!

The lack of Zeus's lightning strike, them all coming to a standstill and just chatting instead of running for their lives, Grover being awake and just sort of off to the side watching the fight, Sally being like "Promise Me Grover Swear it"... it all just doesn't ring right to me

I wanted more panic, more terror, more urgency. Higher stakes. I wanted Grover unconscious, I wanted to see Percy drag him into camp, and I wanted to see more of Percy's grief alongside his rage. Like the book did.

The pacing in the show here, and just overall, is weird

5. Other Stuff

Mrs. Dodds fight kind of fell flat too. It was honestly too sudden and Percy killing her in the show seemed even more accidental than in the book lol. Like, accidental impalement vs intentional swing of the sword.

They really had show Grover throw Percy to the wolves and not just gaslight him, but low-key have a part in getting him expelled? Not sure how I feel about it tbh.

More New York. I wish we had gotten the part of Percy taking the bus home with Grover included cause like? Him ditching Grover was funny, but it would have been the perfect opportunity to show Percy traveling through New York and establish it has his home. Shots of him looking at the city, walking the streets, interacting with people near his building.. yeah.

More Montauk too tbh. Like more shots of him and Sally on the beach rather than just the cabin.

Nectar and Ambrosia! Unless I missed it, which I might have, why have we still not gotten an onscreen depiction of it yet lmao.

[ladyofthenoodle]

marinette finally works up the courage to tell adrien the truth about his father and he’s just like “i know” and rips off his jacket to reveal the peacock miraculous

[shoesofthefishermanswife]

🍓perhaps?

hi!!

okay so i really enjoy seeing your takes and what’s written in your tags. you seem really smart and funny and overall just cool. you are also so nice and have such a great energy to you. it’s just fun to follow you.

also kind of random but i did 2 years of calculus in high school and just solidarity on that front. it’s good to know there’s someone on this website that can do math <3

[dykesbat]

also technically a fish and also a plushie and also extinct but look at this tiktaalik plushie i got

I LOVE IT please tell me it’s name..

[cryhounds]

I think the biggest red flag is that you wont top me (joke joke joke joke

BUY ME A TICKET TO NORWAY THEN !!!!!!! (mwah ily)

[lady-baguette]

get dunked on idiot

[wildcarrot]

me 24 hours without my boyfriend:

where is scrunkly? :(

where is scrimbly? :(

:(

[kaviiinsky]

you ARE funny but i don't usually see your posts in the wild!

I’ve set them loose into the wilderness like beautiful baby birds and now they’re swooping and pecking you pecking you pecking you p

[supernaturallyliterate]

Can we talk about Sally Jackson. In the books, she’s portrayed as overworked and submissive to Gabe. But in the TV SHOW? Woman has her hands on her hips and pulls out her New York mom voice on him, telling him, “I’m taking the car!” And I just love how that scene shows that Sally is in control of the situation. Even if Gabe likes to pretend that he is.