#illusions of fate

[theinquisitxor]

52

Hi anon!

#52 is Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White and I've had this on my tbr since 2019

I have no idea where I first heard about this book, but I know that Kiersten White is an established ya author, and I believe this was inspired by HMC?

[lukecastellanshandholder]

"Luke made the choice to join Kronos. Luke made the choice to betray everyone at camp. Luke made the choice to-." Blah, blah, blah.

Anyways, given that Kronos obviously manipulated Luke into believing that he wanted what Luke wanted (and that was to make life for demigods better and to hold the gods accountable for their actions), only to get Luke to say yes and join him… did Luke really have a choice? It’s states multiple times throughout the first series, by various characters, that Kronos could manipulate even the person with the strongest will power. Hell, Kronos even manipulated Ares! A literal god!

You think that Luke really had any chance of turning Kronos down, especially right after his quest when his emotions were all over the place?

Then let’s not forget that it’s stated right in the books that Kronos would straight up torture Luke with nightmares when he would "fail" or he felt Luke’s loyalty to him wavering. So, if he was punished/tortured whenever he may have wanted to disband the alliance with Kronos… did he really have a choice? Or was he stuck in that awful predicament because of one bad decision that wasn’t even truly his very own decision?

Luke may have thought that he had a choice in the beginning and it may seem that way to Percy and the others. However, it’s made perfectly clear in TTC that all of the "power" that Kronos had given Luke (as far as letting him see over the army in SoM and everything) was really just to pacify Luke and keep him compliant and unquestioning until he was ready to use him as his vessel if things didn’t work out with the fleece.

As far as I see it, Luke stopped having the true ability to make choices after he agreed to join Kronos and that happened before we even see him in TLT. In this essay I will-…

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[halluciniwaynia]

my other thing I like about DECT is that it’s a very friendly introduction to metafiction literature that isn’t just smarmy fourth wall breaking but also isn’t so intensely layered like house of leaves that someone completely unfamiliar with the concept couldn’t get it

[a-v-j]

How I love to torture dellusion rn :)

That's kinda cute

[whumpshaped]

its probably just me or whatever but genuinely one of the tropes that upset me the absolute most in media was like. when the villain kidnapped others and made them a comfortable home or smth, and was nice, and still the kidnapped ppl just kept going on and on about "can i go home now" "i want to go home" "when do i get to go home"

i know its absolutely irrational but i always felt incredibly bad for the villain and totally related to the anger when they eventually snapped. they did so much!!!!!! they were nice!!!!!! it was a nice place!!!!!!!

[haleingstorm]

Percy meets royalty, finally gets his sword back, and Charon is creepy

[falloutcoys]

Hieronymous Loxlee for the character ask game!

Sexuality Headcanon: he gives such disaster bi vibes

Gender Headcanon: cis guy (though i support trans harry hcs too lol between him and sherman someone transed their gender and who am i to say i know for certain)

A ship I have with said character: harry/sherman otp but i also love the disaster polycule of imogen/harry/sherman/lark

A BROTP I have with said character: hmmm! i do not think i have one

A NOTP I have with said character: again i dont think i have one!

A random headcanon: that man could burn a house down boiling water. do not let him in the kitchen

General Opinion over said character: GODDDDDD what a guy!!!! I think about him a lot because he really is being torn in so many directions always and he shoulders so much guilt and responsibility. i love him.

x

[edswordsman]

Summoned a new Alter Ego-class Servant:

☯️ Xu Fu! ☯️

[datumobst]

As soon as I saw first leaks for La Illusion Draven I KNEW TF would fit perfectly in this skin line

[appropriate-as-always]

god I have so many thoughts about the emcee as a role

[munadyke]

ok. sometimes I just want to listen to people talk abt star wars but the youtube results are all men and I refuse to do that to myself. found myself on a reddit thread of good sw youtube accounts/podcasts and it's like....for one dollar name a woman:/

[outeremissary]

Shout-out to Revolutionary Girl Utena for continuing to be something that can still completely derail me from everything I'm doing if I think about it for more than five seconds

[a-v-j]

I was inspired last night but fell asleep halfway -_-'

And illusion honey don't beat yourself too much, you old timer thinking bean, its 2023!

Undertale © Toby Fox

Cross © Jakei

Epic's concept © Yugogeer

Nightmare © Jokublog

Killer © Rahafwabas

Hope and Amazing © @skysanses

Illusion designed by yours truly

Commission temporarily close but here's link incase i reopen

[girafferoyalty]

Hey FEH we’ve seen enough the same holiday alts where are the May Day versions with Finnish graduation caps and sparkling wine?? Huh???

[crepus]

btw in MY fnaf timeline (that treats the Canon with the same respect as one does generally treat comics canon) the funniest shit to happen is when Henry learns abt the fnaf 3 fire

"the self possed corpse of my ex partner's oldest son burned this dumb terror attraction I was planing on suing and apparently did a shitty work at it cuz my ex partner reanimated corpse (that is stuffed in a bunny fursona) did not fucking burn down, also apparently my daughter has been putting children souls in animatronics"

and all of this is told to him by Michael while he searches for trash to use in a dumpster