#percy speaks

[percygranate]

The Munson Trailer as seen on TV, thanks to an assistant on the set and because I am about to info dumb on a person that didn't ask for it about the position of Wayne’s bed. :) [info dump]

[god-tier-bastard]

yeah yeah that last ep was insane and rocked everyones shit and confirmed that the rat grinders are SINISTER sinister however. shoutout to the person on tiktok calling fourdogs "kipperlilly clerickiller". theres no punchline here that just took me out.

[indisputablypercy]

akito is a more more jump stan of course. we all agree on this. the question then is; who is his bias?

i see people say airi the most and while the idea of akito being a huge stan of his sisters best friend is funny i think her bEing enas best friend would put him off from her. like he knows her. yeah she’s a cute idol girl but she’s also enas best friend who gave him a black eye that one time in junior high (it was an accident she PROMISES (it wasn’t))

so that leads me to my proposition; Akito is a Haruka stan. for sure. like in the second new years event they meet briefly and he is in awe of the fact that An even knows her. akito thinks he’s so cool but haruka does anything with her Idol Aura and he’s putty. An can never ever ever hear about this.

and yeah i think 1 member from each group should be a mmj stan. Saki is an Airi stan (canon). Akito is a Haruka stan as i already said. Rui is a Shizuku stan. Mizuki is a Minori stan (canon).

[heyitspersephone]

Thinking about stranger things again now that the strikes are over and how, narratively, it would be way, WAY cooler to have Mike get Vecna’d instead of Will in s5

It’s just something about the way Mike’s trauma is never addressed or handled in any way?? Like, he hugs his mom twice and then when he was depressed in season 2 and 4 nobody did anything (his parents scolded him for his behavior in s2 ig but that’s not support). His best friend went missing leaving from his house, he watched his body get pulled from the quarry, watched El (in his eyes) kill herself stopping the demogorgon, watched Will be possessed, saw Bob die, was in Star Court when everything went down, saw Billy die, had his best friend move away, was SHOT AT (and really too few people talk about the shooting in Cali bc omg??), buried a body, and watched the apocalypse start. And that’s just off the top of my head.

(And yes I’m aware that the other characters (especially Will) are traumatized too but I will get to my point in a second just hold on)

The plot is geared towards this idea that Will and Henry have to have some big face off (and they should, in my opinion, but I don’t think it should be in a possession, or at least not the the Vecna kind of possession, yk?) but that makes it all the better, writing wise, to have mike be the one in danger. Will was helpless and hiding in s1, I think Will should get his big strong moments in s5 where he gets to be the hero of the story.

It would just be a lot more fun to work with Mike being Vecna’d than Will, because what are we going to bring up with Will’s visions? His dad? His sexuality? The events of s1 from his perspective? It would be cool to see, for sure, but we already know most of that. Mike, on the other hand, has a number of untapped things, like jumping off the quarry, why he’s so hesitant to tell El he loves her, how someone who was smart and kind enough to take El in in s1 and come up with the spy and sauna plans in s2 and s3 could turn into the oblivious asshole that he was in s3 and s4 (he needs therapy, ik, I still love his character but I want to explore the reasons he went from his s2 characterization to his s3 one)

It would be a very interesting parallel, I think, to explore Mike’s thought processes in this way, especially with all of Mike’s repression business (bc whether you ship byler or milkvan he is repressing his feelings HARD. Like, beyond his inability to say I love you there’s the fact that he doesn’t bring up the apparent many times he called pre-s4 during the Rink O Mania fight?? That literally would’ve absolved him of guilt in that argument since he WAS reaching out to Will the whole time? Hellooooo????).

Anyways, this all brings me to my main point: Vecna targets isolation as much as he targets trauma and guilt. The whole party was traumatized by the events in s1, s2, and s3, but Max was the one targeted. Plus, Henry went for Fred, Chrissy, and Patrick (I think his name was Patrick) instead of going for the perceivably easy targets that the mcs would make (ik narratively that would’ve made it more boring but shhh), so why Max and those three specifically? They were isolated. Lucas and Erica have each other, Dustin goes to Steve and Robin, Will and El have each other and Jonathan and Joyce, Nancy probably goes to Jonathan, and who does Mike go to?

No one. And don’t say Nancy because if those two have heart to hearts then I’m the next coming of Christ. Max separated herself from the Party in the aftermath of her grief and guilt over Billy, and it feels quite obvious that Mike was doing the same (like I said, he has repression issues). So Mike is traumatized, alone, and guilty (be it Will getting taken from Mike’s house, losing El in front of him multiple times, the many deaths he has witnessed, or the internalized homophobia angle), which makes him more of a target than Will, in my opinion (or at least an easier one, especially given his tendency to put himself on the line during fights (quarry, most of s2, s3 mindflayer fight), which would set him up on the suicidal ideation path)

Furthermore, as I’ve seen a few other people point out (and I can’t find the posts but one of them had eight screenshots of the various moments), Mike is always the one getting in the way, so it would be a strategic move for Henry to target him to get him out of the picture. Mike was the one that found El and got her involved in saving Will s1, he was the one who came up with the spy plan and called out the ambush in s2, he was the one to monologue Will out of his possession s2, he was the one with the sauna plan for Billy in s3, he was the one trying to help El get the strength to fight s4 (even if the monologue sucked ass it’s the intention that counts). As much as people like to hate on Mike, he is in the leader position most of the time when the party is grouped up (barring his mental health struggles slowing that down beginning of s3 and throughout s4, but he’s still capable of it). He’s the idea man, and he’s the one whose character’s foundations were built on the desire to keep his friends safe, so it would be a very fun plot line to watch him be the one targeted in s5. Like Will said, as lovestruck and cheesy as he was, Mike is the heart of the party when he’s on his A-game, so Henry should 100% be trying to keep him in the issues he’s been struggling with.

Obviously, Will and El are the Targets with a capital T for Henry since they’re the ones that got away or whatever, but I think Mike is a weakness of Will’s (and El’s tbh but also I think they need to have separate character arcs and I don’t exactly ship milkvan) that should be exploited.

TL;DR: Mike should get Vecna’d instead of Will in s5 because it would make sense in lore and be a very cool way to resolve his character arc

[roll-for-gaslight]

I feel like there's something about this being the fairy-tale season and almost every character having the concept of childhood play a pivotal role in their story. Red and Pinocchio are the most obvious because they're still children and they are actively fighting against the role of obedience so often blindly given to children in stories with no more complex thought than "children should be obedient". Ylfa who is experiencing the horror that is female puberty, of growing up a woman. Ylfa who is learning to have a voice of her own rather than letting authority figures speak for her, who says "I might try to defy you every now and again" and is growing to be big and bad but at the same time is just learning to make connections to other children. And Pinocchio who has only ever been around other children and latched onto people who he thought would take care of him. He never wanted anything but to be a kid and be taken care of, and no matter what he does he's always tossed aside and treated badly. And there's not even a good reason for it, the world just sucks.

But what about Rosamund? Rosamund, who is a princess who has been taught by everyone her whole life that she's only valuable if she's beautiful enough to get a prince. If she's pretty and patient, she will be saved. Rosamund, who is only a child really, and her story echoes that of every young adult who was given similar advice in school that as long as they stay the path laid out for them everything will work out fine. She doesn't know who she is or what she wants and the system that is supposed to take care of her just isn't doing it. She's having to make her own decisions for the first time ever and she has no idea what to do with that.

And what about Gerard, who was changed into a frog as a young child and living as an animal forced him into survival mode. He was forced into cowardice, with no choice and no childhood and no one even looking for him. His whole self-worth is tied to someone who fell in love with him young, and then things got scary and of course he hid with the children. He basically skipped straight from child to adult with no growing up in between and so of course he would go towards the dogs. Of course he wouldn't go towards the giants. That's how you die, and when all you have in your life is your life you can't die. You have to hold onto something and a will to live is as good as anything. He's only now growing from a scared child to one of the grownups who wants to protect the children.

And then there's Timothy, who's story is about his son's childhood and trying to navigate parenthood and trying to remember how to support and care for children when they aren't who you expect them to be without erasing any part of them. He knows what it is to love unconditionally but not know how to show it and how to guide the people who are relying on him the most.

I don't even know what point I'm trying to make. I just can't get it out of my head.

[starsonmarsy]

instead of edging to pictures of his cock, taking hits to it instead to associate it with the good, floaty, fuzzy feelings

until cock = brainless

[incorectpercyjackson]

Percy: I come from a long line of people with something wrong with them

[percy-puppy]

Romance sometimes is a large man taking out everyone that has ever wronged you and then gently cupping your face with his blood-soaked, ringed, veiny hands and pulling you in for a kiss. 💘

[theagnusarchives]

five days since i got cotl game and i’m already at, like, 14 hrs head in hands

[percesdead]

literally anyone neurodivergent/in the medical field that deals w that kinda stuff help i need to understand this bc its driving me insane

since i was like maybe four or five or something, certainly textures and sounds would have me in a complete meltdown-- full on sobbing, shaking, etc.

i'd had (and still have) the same reaction to what i think 'misplace objects' (specifically furniture), as in put in ways that aren't symmetrical. and i also have to eat my food in a certain way, for example the smallest fries before the biggest, or else i'll be really fucking upset

does anyone have an explanation for this?? bc its confusing me sm i don't want to go jumping shit like 'i have ocd' or 'i have autism' bc that just seems rlly insensitive yk

[gawainism]

goncharov and andrey works because i like when old men have gay sex

[percygranate]

I'm scared. 😬

[god-tier-bastard]

PLEASE tell me someone else realizes that the push for kristen specifically to take the Last Standard is so scary because if she dies (which is pretty likely given that they all went ham on the first turn and it's an endurance test that no one's ever seen the end of) the LAST LIVING PERSON THAT BELIEVES IN CASSANDRA AS SHE TRULY IS DIES.

[indisputablypercy]

vbs but nobody can tell which combination of them are dating.

an and kohane hug constantly. an pinches her cheeks and compliments her on loop. kohane blushes and giggles every time.

an and akito play fight. a lot. the mess eachothers hair. an sits in his lap.

an and toya walk around holding hands. linking arms. toya falls asleep with his head on her shoulder whenever they take the train.

akito likes carrying kohane on his shoulders. he picks her up at every opportunity. she can’t reach something? she’s in the air. they win a competition? he spins her around. he calls her hane more than her name.

kohane and toya go on library dates where they read and cuddle. they sit with their legs all tangled in ways you cannot imagine are comfortable. kohane does his makeup.

toya and akito are. toya and akito. they tell eachother they love eachother constantly. they hug a lot. akito always has his arm over toya. they ruffle eachothers hair. they’re always attached somehow.

who’s dating who? are any of them dating? are they all dating eachother? who knows! does it matter??

[heyitspersephone]

No amount of spoilers prepared me for the end of good omens 2

[bees--on--toast]

Hey Percy, just a quick question/g

We fall on your DNI list, but identify with some of your terms. Would it be alright to use them?

Have a good time zone!

You can use anybody’s terms regardless of anybody’s DNI /lh

You can ask people not to interact but you can’t say ‘only people I agree with can have this experience and use this label for it’ go wild man do whatever you want, I just don’t wanna talk to certain people :) /gen