#nico thinks thoughts

[westsidepetrichor]

cassian andor fans i’m here to end the drought!! stay tunedddd hehe

[drcaspiancrow]

I think someone should say something about how tyler specifically chose clancy's district bishop to be keons, and makes a point to say how the other bishops are worse than keons which means maybe tyler thinks his problems aren't as bad as others.

someone should point that out probably. or whatever. no biggie.

[sualne]

bonclay time

(timeline)

[von-leg]

Sanji takes one for the team 💔

[westsidepetrichor]

yeah this was something that bothered me so bad after seeing rogue one. we needed way more time with cass😭 the show started feeling like it wasn’t his anymore, and while i’m grateful we got to explore the AWESOME side characters, i really think the original five season plan would’ve been great. the time skips between each episode drop were very risky and i don’t think it played completely in the show’s favor. SIGHHHH i’m still glad with what we got but dang💔

one of the most disappointing things about andor season 2 to me is the complete disregard of cassian's characterisation in rogue one and thus the lack of build-up to said characterisation. we never see him do any kill missions or anything that sets him up as the man who kills tivik with ease and yet remorse in his introductory scene in rogue one. where is the seasoned rebel assassin. the ruthless rebel spy who weighs his guilt and his duty and picks duty every time (until he didn't, with jyn). where is that man

[elvyn]

doodles some of my favs from One Piece because after two years I'm finally almost up to date with this anime😭

[accirax]

sprite redraws be upon ye! i missed drawing the guys :,)

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[willthespy]

I think most forget about the fact that he was a child perceived as a villain because of his parentage

[shovson]

Toto Wolff & Nico Rosberg | Singapore 2014

[westsidepetrichor]

that one scene with bix telling cassian she’ll do “whatever she wants”… yeah. sub!cassian??

[ego-sum-deus-fractus]

There's a high chance that Naomi Solace is not much of an active parent but some of y'all are not ready for that conversation.

It would also explain why he's not mad at Apollo when he is turned mortal despite him being quite the absent parent.

And also as to why he has a big ass tattoo at the age of 15.

[losthoodie]

My brain has been taken over by baby hülkenberg lately.. so….

I’m just gonna plop these photos of williams rookie nico here and then scurry off into The Void

[lice-haver]

Shoutout to the time in the last olympian where Nico takes Percy Jackson on the worst date of all time is convinced he’s doing a great job and then fucks it up so bad that Percy very nearly almost murders him.

[brocedestruther]

“how much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”

[kafka-ohdear]

guys genuine question do you think that brocedes being associated with the whole "are they lovers? worse" thing is because they were never lovers. it's because they were anything but lovers, the closest things to it and yet at the same time even beyond that but after everything, they are still friends, rivals, teammates, something, just not lovers. maybe that's why they're worse than lovers.