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fucked up when u read a book as a kid & the main characters r kids too but older than u so u see them as yr older siblings or cool cousins or whatever & then u grow up & those characters are stuck forever at that age & you've outlived them... now they're little to you & their story is told, finalized so they've got no chance at growing up

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Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn

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the wylan casting is so good am i gonna be forced to watch shadow and bone now

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The qualities that divide good children’s literature from bad children’s literature:

1) The dragons are real.

2) The adults don’t believe you.

will elaborate

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— THE MARAUDERS.

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I’m soo normal about Percy and Annabeth, completely unrelated but btw do you guys ever think about this

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things that make you go hmm

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some quick studies of everyone’s favorite demolitions expert 🥰

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Sparrows by Keaton St. James

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art request?? lily running into james' arms and kissing him after gryffindor wins a quidditch match?

Uhh i tried :)

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tell me more about this kaz character 😚😈

oh god, so here’s the tl;dr of my fav aspects of him/important stuff paraphrased from the fandom wiki lol + my thoughts (skip to the 'why he’s cool’ section if u care not for the wiki stuff):

history: kaz’s father died when he was like nine, leaving him and his older brother jordie alone. they sold their father’s farm for money and moved to a place called ketterdam. jordie searched for jobs and eventually became a runner for jakob hertzoon, a man claiming to be a small-time merchant. after being led into a false business venture, jordie was conned out of all the remaining money from the sale of the farm, which left the brothers living in poverty on the streets. soon after, they both contracted the deadly plague going around ketterdam. jordie died of the disease, and kaz fell very ill as well.

the siblings were presumed dead and their bodies were collected and brought out to sea. however, kaz, barely alive, swam back to ketterdam using his brother's body as a float. the experience was extremely traumatic for the young kaz and left him unable to bear contact with another person's skin (ptsd). he changes his surname to brekker to cut off past ties and joined the dregs at 12, which is like a gang and vowed to make pekka rollins (jakob hertzoon’s real name) pay for conning him out of their money and bringing about jordie's death.

he quickly rose up through the ranks in the dregs to become a lieutenant, feared by many for his precise ruthlessness. bc of him the crow club, one of the dregs' main source of income, was reestablished and flourished. the dregs gained power and reputation mostly due to kaz, and he is viewed by many as the true leader as opposed his boss who he later overthrows.

soc events: six of crows follows him and his closest dregs friends on this big deadly heist to earn one million currency. there is lots of magic, as there is another race called the grisha who can do various things.

notable stuff about him: he has a limp in his right leg from when he fell off a roof doing smth w the dregs. he has a crow cane now and is disabled but as the author herself is disabled in a similar way, she wrote disability as something to be proud of and most people who have spoken about this said she did a good job (i am not qualified to judge that, so that’s just other people’s opinions.) the cane is often his weapon.

skills: lock-picking, card tricks, and sleight of hand. these abilities are so complex that this guy matthias often calls him demon. he is privy to information of just about anyone and anything in the city, due to inej's (his spy) stealth-like abilities and his considerable influence over ketterdam. he’s considered the mastermind and leader of the heist (six of crows) crew.

his plans are often extremely complex, having many layers that even those participating do not know the entirety of the plan. everyone follows his orders without question. he has outstanding intellect for his age and extraordinary memory, therefore being able to manage businesses such as the Crow Club and Fifth Harbour.

aliases: Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands (bc apparently there is no job he will not do for the right price), Bastard of the Barrel, Demjin/demon (by Matthias)

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why he’s cool imo: i like the way his trauma and everything is slowly fed to you. i also like what it’s based off of. i wouldn’t say it’s relatable to the general audience (at least i hope not dear god), but it’s definitely relatable to me and probably others also. i like his cane being used as a weapon and also that representation. he’s...relatively funny...sometimes...ig. i like his ruthlessless (there is one scene where he just straight up yeets a man overboard for hurting nearly killing inej, and inej is a pacifist sort of and deeply religious and he just says ‘my wraith would counsel mercy but thanks to you she’s not here’ basically and i think that’s badass and is also my fav kaz scene of all time). personally i’m more obsessed w his history and the way his brother affects his current relationships than anything else, which brings me to the next part

why he’s not cool imo: truth be told, he bores me a little. i don’t mind having ur traumatized characters (tm), and i think it adds a lot of spice when ur dealing w deeply troubled characters. it really feeds into the idea that he is wholly selfish and ambitious, and i think that makes him really interesting from ur typical protag. i do think a lot of it is highly unrealistic tho, and that’s why it bores me. like under skills i said that “his plans are often extremely complex, having many layers that even those participating do not know the entirety of the plan. everyone follows his orders without question.”

the problem is that he’s like 17 lol, and he talks like he’s 40 90% of the time even tho this story doesn’t take place in a really historical setting or anything, and even tho it’s oftentimes in his pov, we as readers don’t know what his plans are. stuff just happens and i’m lol ok how did that even work i don’t understand, and it’s clear the author couldn’t figure out how to make it work herself and thus left it super vague. this also falls into the pitfall of telling not showing, bc all i get is descriptions of why he’s such a badass and i rarely see it. also i really don’t buy the idea that powerful grisha and stuff and just everyone does whatever he says, no questions asked. like these are a bunch of 16-18 year olds. they’re supposed to argue.

the official book blurb says “Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.” but like we never see this. we just see him say orders and have people follow. also nobody ever gets the best of him which i think is highly improbable. there’s like one scene where someone physically gets the best of him and brings him to an office to offer him the heist job in private, but that’s not what i mean. i mean like his plans should fail sometimes...and not just a little hitch, it should be immensely treacherous and horrible and they should all pay the price. like luck should not be this much of a factor in saving their asses that’s not how it works.

overall i just find him hard to believe. i think his emotional wound is cool, i think his leg being a symbol for that is cool, i don’t really get his relationship with inej for many reasons, but i like his dynamic with a grisha (the magical people, once again) nina and also with jesper (a gambler and the crew’s sharpshooter, who he once accidentally by his brother’s name once), but his characterization falls flat for me, which is why i always joke he’s just some emo boy because he doesn’t resonate too deeply w me despite his literary potential.

also unrelated but gl w ur shows!!

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never going to get over calypso should have joined the hunters. like? immortal goddess leaves her island, afraid that she might lose her immortality. she also wants to travel the world. she also was cursed to always rely on men, so why would she continue to do that after she’s left her prison? 

her joining the hunters would’ve completed her character arc, and i will stay made that rick just shoved her with leo and called it a day.

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[ID: a digital drawing of percy jackson laying on his stomach and reading a comic book, underwater and underneath of a dock. the only things visible above the water are a bright cloudy sky, the tips of pine trees, and the silhouette of two birds flying. percy has brown skin, curly black hair streaked with grey, and blue painted nails. he’s wearing an orange camp half-blood t-shirt with white trim, black basketball shorts, and blue crocs. he’s surrounded by seaweed and bubbles, and the book he’s reading is being protected by a large bubble. he’s resting his head on his hand, and there are silhouettes of fish in the background as well as a small turtle in the sand to his right. End ID.]

just an average weekday afternoon

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what part of gay incel isnt clicking

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@zofias‘ top 10 favorite characters celebration:   · · · wylan van eck, requested by @inejsghafas   In the end, he was not Nina or Matthias or Kaz or Inej or Jesper.   He was just Wylan Van Eck. He told them everything.

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If the pjo universe ended definitively with the last olympian I could understand the whole “percy never would turn against the gods because he wouldn’t be able to justify the unavoidable losses it would bring” perspective but the issue is that in writing hoo Riordan (inadvertently or not) destroyed the optimistic note that pjo left us with. The Last Olympian ended with Percy using his gift to force the gods into accountability and to ensure that no more Silenas or Ethans or Lukes would happen again.  

“From now on, I want to you properly recognize the children of the gods,” I said. “All the children …

of all the gods.”

The Olympians shifted uncomfortably.

“Percy,” my father said, “what exactly do you mean?”

“Kronos couldn’t have risen if it hadn’t been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents,” I said. “They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.”

Then hoo begins no less than three months later by completely breaking all of the promises that were made. Leo and Piper were claimed much older than they should have been. The gods have cut off contact from the camp, leaving our heroes to stumble around blind trying to figure out what the impending doom is. And the savior of Olympus has been plucked from his world, memory wiped, and thrown back into the ring against his will. The message that becomes so painstakingly clear from this is: the Gods have not changed, and if all of the losses from the war and Percy’s sacrifice could not change them, what else would? Like when I say Percy is three seconds away from snapping, its because I cannot imagine any other trajectory at this point. For Percy to not have reason to go against the gods, it has to assume he’s fine with the current status quo, that he’s okay that the events in the last olympian were practically done in vain, and I genuinely can’t imagine pjo Percy being fine with any of that. Like even hoo Percy literally struggles with that bitter anger towards the gods and it just… never has any resolution? As for — “he wouldn’t be able to justify the unavoidable losses it would bring” — those losses already are happening, regardless of what Percy or the others do. Jason is that loss. Percy’s loved ones are still dying because of the gods and if the series were for an older audience, I could have seen Jason’s death as being the tipping point for Percy. 

Percy would turn against the gods specifically to stop the losses that are already happening.

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No mourners. No funerals.