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main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:
michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club
*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***
that's it that's the movie
outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative
actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.
aka Michael Myers Is A Republican
but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too
also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain
side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty
i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978
(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)
oh no he's hot

#HALLOWEEN#halloween the movie#michael myers#do you think he's a mike? mikey? to his friends? if slashers had friends?#i'll be honest i was expecting this movie to be way more of a bitch to its female characters#i mean yeah they died but so did some dudes#there's just a lack of cattiness compared to the way most later movies portrayed teenage girls idk#yeah the Final Girl is a Virgin and a Bookworm. but there's no bullying or any strong sense that's she's morally superior to everyone else#mostly she AND the other girls feel a bit sorry for her lack of a social life. one even tries to set her up with a date to the school dance#solidarity! trying to get your nerd friend laid!#overall it's just teenagers being teenagers and then a slasher comes in and ruins everything with his Lack Of Chill#like yeah dude sometimes teenagers have sex. get over it#also something to be said about how while the girl who survives is the one who isn't sexually active and dresses conservatively...#ultimately those things aren't ENOUGH to prevent her from being targeted#you could say that the other girls 'provoked' the villain (the same way women irl are so often accused of provoking their attackers)#but ultimately that doesn't keep the Final Girl safe. it just delays the inevitable.#because violent men never need excuses. no matter how eager society is to provide them.#ultimately she is at the mercy of the same violent whims because it was never her behavior that invited the violence.#gendered violence doesn't need an invitation.#also she doesn't save herself the doctor saves her#it's not her actions or choices that put her in danger OR save her from it--once again it is the whim of a man#no this wasn't intended to be a feminist movie it's just fun how you could argue it that way
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You always find the nicest pictures of creatures and plants and I love you 4 that
String identified: aa t ct ct cat a at a tat
Closest match: Hippocampus hippocampus genome assembly, chromosome: 21 Common name: Short-Snouted Seahorse

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#tumblr genetics#genetics#biology#science#asks#pyros-random-thoughts#ocean#seahorses#short-snouted seahorse#aw thank you! im glad you noticed!#i always try to find the best quality image that shows the whole live organism in its natural habitat!#some organisms are very obscure however so i cant always do that#so occasionally i'll switch over to another member of the same genus to show off what the organism generally looks like!#first impressions are important and most of the organisms we get here are things most people have never seen before#so i like to get the best pictures i can :)#for the seahorse: this little guy is an ambush predator that is known to eat 30-50 tiny shrimp a day by sucking them into its snout!#since seahorses lack stomachs the prey moves directly through the digestive tract very quickly!#they also spend very little energy moving if they can avoid it and spend most of their time attached to marine plants by their tails#as you can see in the photo!
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I see alttp Zelda, I pick her up and put her in my pocket............
in order -> @clowns0up-felix @casunnart @kokirizeldas and 🧍
#my art#started finally making a dent in my to-do pile last weekend and then was like but what if Zeldas...#not part of my plan but Def part of my dream :)#rly fun though I sketched them last weekend and then when I was too beat to draw during the week I would just chip away at these#THEY'RE SMALL AND SIMPLE SRY I was trying smth but idk about it hdsfuihfds#tloz#a link to the past#zelda#if I post this tonight but get to nothing else I'm sorry I'll try to catch up on stuff tomorrow sdgsadha#ANYWAY I HOPE IT'S OK I BORROWED YOUR GUYS I promise I took good care of them and they're on their way home rn!!#love them very much I baked them cake and fed them overpriced takeout and fruit snacks! :) <3#the colours are so different on my monitor but I already merged a bunch of stuff.. rip....
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There's something that bothers me a little about the complaints that the Preservation Alliance team aren't "professional" in the show compared to the books, and I think it's just... I have a different idea of what professional science looks like.
Even in the books, we don't actually see the team do that much science. They take some "samples", and SecUnit thinks of them as professionals, but other than SecUnit's internal monologue, they don't do that much more than in the show. They actually talk more about their work in the show than in the books!
I wonder if some of it is that the Preservation Alliance doesn't fit what people's idea of a competent scientist, particularly a competent scientist on TV, looks like. They're expecting the Big Bang Theory, or Gurathin bent over a computer terminal muttering "I'm in" as green code plays across his face, or Arada rattling off a bunch of jargon while dissecting an alien creature, or Bharadwaj IDing the alien remnant based on rocks or something. And that's not really how science actually... works.
Honestly, as a scientist, this is one of the more realistic depictions of actual science I could expect from a TV show, unless you wanted to watch several hours of people working quietly at their computers with expressions of various levels of exhaustion, annoyance, and stress on their faces, or sorting samples, or wandering around staring at the dirt, or sitting around debating the nature of "nature" and the ethical implications of terraforming or whatever (which would be cool, but also, not plot relevant, I'll just assume it's happening off-screen). I could sort half my coworkers by which character they're most like: the upbeat professor who's always trying to help (Bharadwaj), the hippy biologist who freaks out about disturbing 'natural processes' (Arada), the extra-friendly super outgoing possibly ADHD guy (Ratthi), and the overly cynical constantly complaining about capitalism and swearing over his grants analyst (Gurathin). I don't know who's got the open marriage because I prefer not to know about the sex lives of my coworkers, but I know some are in pretty messy relationships - that don't spill over into their work. Because they are professionals.
Basically, I look at this show and I see - my office. So when people say that they're not competent, that they're bumbling or not good scientists, honestly, it's kind of annoying. They're people, not just scientists, with stuff going on outside of their work, namely: someone's trying to kill them, something that absolutely none of them are prepared for. You don't learn how to handle that in grad school! Of course they're going to be messy and make mistakes - that's what people do. Scientists too.
#honestly it's hard to put science in a show#that's not about the science#like do you really want to hear bharadwaj talk about rocks#they're not plot relevant rocks#we know she's good because she got the combat override out#we know gurathin's good because he's monitoring stuff#we know arada's good because she immediately nerds out over the eggs#the number of my colleagues who would be right there with her#trying to decide whether to remove them or not#...i'd be there too XD#about all it missed is someone going#“can we film this?”#“someone take notes!”#but i'll just assume that's what the timeskip was for#anyway#not everyone needs to be superman to be 'competent'#the show's busy with other stuff#murderbot#murderbot show#murderbot tv#murderbot tv spoilers#murderbot diaries#scientists#my thoughts#murderbot tv meta#murderbot meta
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#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age veilguard#da4#quick rant because i've annoyed myself because last night i was making mods and testing them which took lots of trial and error#finally got it working when it was VERY late and did a quick shoot with a cutscene on low quality mode but with reshade on#and there were these 3 photos that made me go 'man i need to reshoot these tomorrow in 4K if my laptop will allow me'#but APPARENTLY i didn't save my ReShade preset and do you THINK i could remember what i did??? i spent HOURS tonight trying to recreate it#and ended up just giving up and had a quick play with other shots so it didn't feel like a waste#and here i am posting shots that i barely spent a minute on but liked more than the rest#maybe i'll just post the other ones anyway. *ANYWAY* rant over i'm fine lol it's just that entire nights go into these
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thirty seconds of baby call ducks bathing in my sink for @todaysbird
#additional context: using the sink meant I could use warm water and refresh it when it started to get cool#I also dried them off with a towel and returned them to a heated brooder afterwards#one of them has a little bit of an eye infection I'm trying to clean out by letting them bathe#so I'll probably keep doing this until the ointment arrives next week#saro's life#backyard poultry
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Fhjy ep 7: stress tested
Wanted to draw Kristen's salsa hat and Adaine in her new job!!!
#fantasy high#fhjy#fhjy spoilers#dimension 20#d20#dimension 20 fanart#kristen applebees#adaine abernant#i love them#I'll try to do more doodles of other scenes#but these two just spoke to me
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started watching this show and i absolutely LOVE it!!! have some M*A*S*H peeps! ✨
#churro art#my art#digital art#illustration#fanart#doodles#m*a*s*h#m.a.s.h#mash#hawkeye pierce#maxwell klinger#margaret houlihan#radar o'reilly#francis mulcahy#this was mostly me figuring out their faces teeheehee#ive already drawn hawky a couple of times but havent sat down to properly design him just yet#just a couple of small lil doodles here and there but i feel i finally got his face right!#anyways i love how silly goofy this show is it is such. a mood lifter during such trying times HAHA#i am barely one season one but the characters are so infectiously loveable i instantly wanted to draw them!#actually ive been wanting to watch mash for a while#specifically because I saw a hawkeye edit on tiktok once and it changed my brain chemistry hehehehehe#anyways obvi hawkeye is a fav of mine but other than him i ADOREEEE klinger and mulcahy <333333#do expect more art of them.....#i hope an apple pencil falls from the sky soon enough otherwise my doodles are gonna be comin' out at a wayyyy slower rate :/#i also decided to break out of the dot eyes for once and rely on the good ol fashioned full eyes#and yknow what? it actually works really well for these guys!! hahaha#but I'll prob draw them with dot eyes too in the future since I like how those look just generally~
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Optimus wasn't a fuzzy baby most of the time but sometimes he simply refused to fall asleep unless Alpha Trion came by to tell him a story. Prima learned to recognize and accept when this happened and how to deal with it (and was only mildly bitter about not being the favorite. again </3), he just wishes his other siblings would listen to him when he said so :/
(continues under read more)
baby prime orion au
if anyone asked Orion why he insisted on sneaking into the archives despite the amount of trouble it constantly got him into, he would say he's trying to find the matrix. and he wouldn't be lying!
but... he also wouldn't be saying the whole truth either.
it's just. he wouldn't know how to explain how those old recordings almost make the grief and longing for something he can't put his finger on go away, if only for a moment. how for barely a second he can almost feel complete despite the gaping hole in his chest.
it never lasts, but even a glimpse of relief is better than sadness that feels never ending.
(he just wishes Alpha Trion's voice didn't make him so goddamn sleepy. he wouldn't get caught nearly as much if he didn't get lulled to sleep half of the time :/)
#i talk a lot <3#transformers#transformers one#optimus prime#orion pax#alpha trion#solus prime#prima prime#liege maximo#alchemist prime#d 16#megatron#my art#baby prime orion au#so. it's been two weeks. i'm sorry OTL#but i hope at least the end result is worth it (/▽\)??#i'll do my best to be faster (and get through my inbox) but i know i've said this many times before so. we'll see how that goes.#and yes before someone says anything i'm aware there's two primes missing#but in my defense there's thirteen of them and it's fucking hard to get them all in the same shot akjsdhkjsahdka#sorry nexus and micronus. i'll try to put you in the next one i prommy#tf one
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FUCK IT!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THEM!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THEM!!!!! I MISS WHEN WE WERE ALL CRAMMED IN A PIT TOGETHER SCREAMING AND SHAKING AND SOBBING AND CONFUSED AS ALL HELL SITTING IN THE TUMBLR LIVEBLOGS HOLDING HANDS AS WE ALL EXPLAINED WHAT THINGS MEANT, WHAT THE REAL WORLD CULTURAL CONTEXT WAS, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN BITS THE TRANSLATOR COULDN'T GET!!!!! FUCK IT!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE ANOTHER GODDAMN PURGATORY!!!!! GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FORMING SIX PERSON FAMILIES OVER THE SPAN OF THREE TO FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE EVIL SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT NEVER MADE ANY GODDAMN SENSE, GIVE ME THE STUPID FUCKING EYE WORKERS THAT WERE AGGRAVATINGLY UNBEATABLE, GIVE ME THE CONFUSING ASS BLACK CONCRETE STRUCTURES THAT WENT BASICALLY FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT ALL IF IT MEANS I GET A FRENCH MAN AND A GUY FROM LUXEMBOURG AND A WOMAN FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOOTING THE SHIT IN A MINECRAFT PIT STARTER HOUSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT IF I GET BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH SITTING AT A FUCKING TABLE IN A SECRET UNDERGROUND MEETING ROOM THEORIZING ABOUT A MINECRAFT CHARACTER WITH AN APPEARANCE BASED ON A JOKE ABOUT A GUY'S DOG BEING AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
#NOT THE ADMIN EXPLOITATION THO THAT CAN STAY GONE#block game brainrot#shut up vic#qsmp#im in my feels idk the qsmp really struck a chord in me#that nothing has really been able to refill i'm ngl#i really miss the brain workout i got trying to keep up with the cross cultural multilingual stuff#and it's not the same if i just watch the streamers in languages i don't understand#bc on qsmp it was like. i can watch the pov of a streamer coming from the same language background as me#and then i know that if i'm lost so are they and then i don't feel like i'm floundering alone#but like i don't have that anymore :( i miss it a lot#it was so funny and it was so earnest and i really FELT IT#it was a whirlwind and it was so exhausting and there's bits that ethically probably should never be repeated (eggs)#but i wouldn't want it to be different (except the workers rights violations; again those can go)#idk all these fucking duos that sound like absolute pipe dream crossover nonsense and are fully viable#it's nuts and it's beautiful and i miss how fucking WILD that was#i'll never not be upset that the koreans and hugo barely even got a MOMENT#i was so excited to see how they would interact with and respond to the overall island lore like the federation and the codes#ughhhhh anyway it's 4am i'm in my feels nothing has really engaged me the way qsmp did#i really enjoyed the challenge of the culture and language barrier bc i really had to ENGAGE with the streams#in a way i don't normally and in a way i haven't since#i miss it :( also slimeriana. that too. fucking hilarious. can we get them in the outlast trials.#add cellbit and roier call it a double date what who said that#(that's a joke to be clear but not the part about the outlast trials they should do that those streams were peak)#anyway uhhhhh if you read these good fortune is coming to you soon#long tags
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Me waiting for more human Sonic and shadow human…(maybe tails and knuckles too)
Hes kinda asking for it...
#THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN TO DRAW!! :DD#deffo gonna have to re-work knuckles though im not really satisfied with his design#BUT IT DID THIS IN A BLIND RUSH FORGIVE ME lol#I'll try draw them more!!#also REAALLLYYY wanna do rouge and amy next <333#MY GIRLS <£#lol anyway <333#sonic#sonic gijinka#human sonic#sonic fanart#sonadow#shadow#shadow fanart#shadow gijinka#human shadow#tails the fox#tails miles prower#tails fanart#tails#human tails#knuckles#knuckles fanart#human knuckles#tribbleart#tribbletalks#<3#asks
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That scene from this anime where the girl (Aira) almost fell off a cliff after a hallucination is a childhood core memory for me for some reason. 😭 (Said hallucination is around 38:47.)
This isn't a crossover AU. I drew it as connverse because I just thought it would be fun.
#If you have no context and just have the hallucination scene; you can squint and *might* find a way make it fit into a possible AU though#(?) Maybe? 😅#Originally was trying to draw them doing a dip while they were dancing and the memory of that specific scene flashbanged me#like an Akira meme#and. Like. I'm seriously having trouble drawing this dance move so I'll just turn this into that scene instead ┐(´ー`)┌ why not#Also practicing eyeball color-picking instead of eyedropping in this one. I still need to practice my eyeballing much more.#I kinda feel a little bad for anyone who wants to see rare Green Legend Ran content in 2025 and find this random Steven Universe instead 😅#connverse#Steven Quartz Universe#Connie Maheswaran#SU#characters as other characters#characters dressed as other characters#Steven Universe
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Yaoi blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#soapshippy form the past two weeks#mainly them cuddling and being cute#hello organ au welcome back#their lore is that they're organs with tumors extracted from a dead person#an evil organization steals organs like them so they can be transplanted into ppl too poor to obtain legal surgery#they do this cause they want to kill humanity yeah#so heart rator and colon tyler need to escape from the facility with the other organs there and expose the evil transplant organization#also them angel and demon au#rator is a low rank angel that guards the area around the entrance of hell to make sure demons don't wander off#tyler is a random imp that likes to mess with him so he dies at least once a day obliterated by divine blasts#also they are in the same au as cherub soapship cause many low rank angels share the same features like. same font different variation#I'll elaborate on them more at some point#enjoy my shit I'm gonna try figure out how to sculpt a hand on blender#fight club#soapshipping#the narrator fight club#tyler durden#organshipping#otherworldshipping#digital art#illustration#artists on tumblr#martryo
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#i do usually try and not post art tiktoks#(i think I'll start posting them once i run out of edits)#but i loveeee this one sm#100% credit 2 og person#true cringe community#academy maniacs#artyom anoufriev#tcc tumblr#teeceecee#tcc art#tcc fandom#nikita and artyom#nikita lytkin#tcc nikita#tcc dylan#tccblr#tcc columbine#adam tcc#columbine tcc#tcc artyom#tcctwt#tc community#dylan and eric#dylan columbine#eric columbine#columbine 1999
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JK... Unless
#dragon age: veilguard#datv#Lucanis Dellamorte#Taash#Lace Harding#Rook#Spite#rookanis#taash x harding#Tirena Mercar#They didn't let me have 3 companions in the party because they knew this banter with a romanced Lucanis there would have been too easy#I love Taash and Harding's romance banter just no holds bars you will listen to this#Rook manifesting a room for them in their mind bc really guys u can't wait until we get home?#real man stating emoji hours: I'm right here#Spite will bother Lucanis later: bc how dare he tell Rook no#even if he doesn't get why Rook was told no ('it doesn't matter we do not tell Rook no')#anyway this is my dumb comic#ft not 1 but 2 couples#so happy valenties I guess??#art: mine#also#honestly happy with Tirena's expressions here#I was trying to capture the jump of disgust to intrigue with brittany's kombucha video as inspo#I might not have quite nailed it exactly but hey I'll take liking it regardless
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Annabeth Chase and Jason Grace - two sides of the same coin, an analysis post.
after a long wait, I've finally posted my analysis on jason/annabeth being similar, and mirroring eachother as rivals/potential sibling figures more than percy/jason's 'bro rivalry', based on this post of mine which has crossed over a THOUSAND notes in the last week alone, and I've been getting so many reblogs and comments asking me to expand on my tags in that post and do a full analysis. so here it is. I've been procrastinating this for quite a while now for some reason but I'm glad I'm over my writer's block and I got to articulate my post well enough.

annabeth and jason have had very minor interactions throughout hoo, but the parallels and similarities in their character is jarringly noticeable, which is why I hoped for a jason/annabeth rivalry and not a percy/jason rivalry. they've both been raised at their respective camps since they were literal kids, they were well versed in their respective fields of knowledge, and were well respected/intimidated in their camps.
let's start off with the lost hero



when jason first meets annabeth, he says that her eyes were really intimidating and fierce, so right off the bat, we have jason who's pretty put off by annabeth because she very obviously looked angry, especially since she was frustrated about jason's arrival instead of percy, and looked like she could kill jason to get percy back.
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this parallels to a lot when hazel kept going on about how difficult it was to warm up to jason because his eyes were always calculating and cold, and he gave off an untrustworthy vibe, that he'd sacrifice anyone for the sake of the mission.
both annabeth and jason have a certain similar ‘look’ in their eyes, which have nothing to do with the color. they both have the tendency to make people nervous simply with their eyes, because they always look like they're thinking of new things every few seconds. Ironically, jason first perceived annabeth, the way everyone else perceived him. scary and intimidating with an icy glare and hardened eyes.


They were both said to be ‘studying’ each other in distrust many times throughout. A part of why they didn't trust each other, was, in my opinion, because they embodied their least favorite shared personality trait of each other, secretiveness and guardedness. which is why annabeth got on so well with percy, and jason with leo/piper.
they didn't admire the closed off-ish vibe that they gave eachother. they both needed people who were open and carefree.annabeth said that jason looked like he knew too much information, but chose to keep it all a secret, very similar to her own guardedness from time to time, keeping it a secret and wanting to deal with it silently.


we also know that annabeth and jason are extremely knowledgeable in greek/roman mythology, they both love debates and were quite passionate about history. they were both assigned architecture projects by the gods themselves as a mark of honor and favour.
moving on to the next most important point, they reminded eachother of the people they missed, causing them to feel resentful.
jason, barely met his sister after they reunited. he was bitter when thalia said he had to go look for percy to help out annabeth with the search. he was aware that thalia and annabeth were childhood friends, getting closer to eachother than jason and thalia ever did. she found a home in luke and annabeth, not even a few months after baby jason was thought to be ‘dead’, that knowledge would've weighed a lot on jason. annabeth became the sibling to thalia grace that jason could never be.
while annabeth? the only thing annabeth thought of, after jason had a face off with his mother's remnant in boo, was the fact that jason, who looks eerily similar to luke, could've experienced the exact same fate as him. luke was jason if he had more wrath and held grudges, jason was luke if he had less anger and resentment. annabeth could connect the dots so easily, and that was truly the moment where she gained immense respect for him.
and, when jason told annabeth that his sister was thalia? she had a very odd sort of expression on her face.


annabeth also quotes that looking at jason made her feel bitter, because he reminded her of heras exchange, and the fact that she lost percy for months. whenever she looked at jason, she would only see her two childhood friends, a found family that was broken, and a love that was challenged.
whenever jason looked at annabeth, he would be reminded that thalia had a closer contact to her than she did jason, and had to accept that he would never know thalia as much as annabeth does.

annabeth and jason also appear very confident and sure of themselves, but have second thoughts all the time. they had to put on a fake facade, to live up to their expectations and lineage.
they were both also sort of people pleasers, annabeth couldn't really say no to anyone who asked her for help with things, like carrying the sky for luke especially, because not only where they giving her a chance to execute her knowledge and skill, the thought of helping someone made her genuinely happy. jason also loved seeing people happy, always wanting to say the right thing to satisfy someone, even if it meant he had to sacrifice his own struggles to help them.
fatal flaws:
annabeth’s fatal flaw, is hubris. when you are confident and sure that you can do something, and have a sense of excessive self pride.
and jason's fatal flaw is the temptation to deliberate. hesitation and second guessing, to put it in simpler words.both fatal flaws are so different, yet so similar, and they have both flaws, just in a different viewpoint.
as a child of athena, annabeth appears super confident and even conceding at times because of her wisdom, but at the same time, annabeth had to make sure she was one step ahead of everyone. she had to rethink everything and had to have a plan in her mind all the time, fearing that things wouldn't go smoothly.
she had to hesitate and second guess herself alot, despite her knowledge, like she did when she knew she had to look for the mark of athena. piper and percy had to boost up her confidence with affirmations, to let her know she's on the right path and to just follow her gut. annabeth feels obligated to have a temptation to deliberate, because, as a child of athena, she has to be all knowing and wise, and most definitely cannot fail her mother.
and jason? despite having a very low sense of self esteem and hesitation, he was so used to leading the people who were considered slightly inferior to him in camp jupiter, and basically getting treated like a celebrity for 12 years of his life in camp jupiter, that often, he thought what he did was right, he had his own perception of what a hero should be, and I quote
[“No, no,” Jason said. “I made my choice. You’re not to blame. You don’t owe me anything except to remember what I said. Remember what’s important.” “You’re important,” I said. “Your life!”Jason tilted his head. “I mean… sure. But if a hero isn’t ready to lose everything for a greater cause, is that person really a hero?”He weighted the word person subtly, as if to stress it could mean a human, a faun, a dryad, a griffin, a pandos… even a god”- Tower of Nero]
which was normal, since he had everyone basically following his lead without question as a kid. he's expanded on this in his conversation with piper in mark of athena, where he said he felt weird to suddenly be around people who were either equal/or superior to him in power, and not being in the ‘lead’ particularly.
jason had hubris, but certainly not in a way that you would call it an ego or excessive pride. he was hardwired and brainwashed into having his own perception of what is right and what is wrong, that he thought he was always making good enough decisions, at least from a roman child soldier’s standpoint. [Like when he was okay with not saving nico because it might sabotage their mission, he genuinely didn't think what he said was insensitive until hazel called him out, because he was brought up that way. he thought he was doing the right thing, by prioritising the mission and the duty, first. Like the dutiful roman he was made to be].
both annabeth and jason, have hubris and a temptation to deliberate.
annabeth and jason, also had an extremely difficult time breaking free from the thoughts that their godly parents were always right. It took on alot of disappointments for both of them to stand up to their parents (and not just godly ones, mind you)
they've both had disappointing absent mortal and godly parents with a hostile stepmother involved and monitored with each and every one of their moves. annabeth has had to deal with her stepmother playing the ‘bad cop’ with her father not even coming to her defence, just the way hera came butting into jason's life and giving him terrible memories, taking him away from thalia, with zeus not even caring.
speaking of which, they are both the only demigods who have harboured the most amount of resentment for hera. just the sight of hera pisses them both off, as it hera, stripped off so much time away from annabeth and percy, and memories from jason, which he never permanently got back.
this is sort of irrelevant but I'll add this anyway, in boo, athena also immediately liked jason for calling out zeus's unfairness to apollo, saying something like 'the boy is right' and she gave him an approving/appreciative look for his wisdom, which is pretty rare for athena to say or do to literally any demigod ever. this makes me wonder if she ever saw jason as someone who had some sort of athena legacy in him, which is why she was so pleasantly surprised with him. ugh we could've so gotten jason and annabeth as potential sibling figures bc of how many parallels they have, too bad that the percy/jason rivalry narrative was pushed too hard.
I hope I've drawn enough parallels with their characters, as a lot of you have been looking forward to this post for a while, hopefully this analysis hasnt been underwhelming for you all to read!
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