1444GalaxiesInTheSky

A part of a lot of fandoms...

[flashfuture]

No but like what if Jason started using water guns.

[helenasandsmark]

No wait he shoots the joker in the face and he just melts like the wicked witch of the west and everyone else is like “wtf it was that easy this whole time??”

[fishinabirdcage]

I think people forget that Kaz Brekker casually swallowed and regurgitated fucking bombs and lockpicks. This man is terrifying.

[1444galaxiesinthesky]

The difference between books and movies/tv series...

Is the narration. When you read a book, normally you read through a character's perspective. You see their inside thoughts and their understanding of a plot. With adaptations of those books, you normally see the outside perspective. While most of the time you do follow a character and see scenes with them in it, they won't always say their thoughts out loud.

Of course there's both good and bad things with both. Books make you understand characters and their thoughts better. Movies/series will mostly help you understand what's going on on the outside, removing whatever biases/misunderstandings you might get from a character.

There are quite a few examples that I can think of about this:

Alex Rider and Percy Jackson: While you might think that these characters are calm and collected (and also a bit sarcastic) in their respective series, the inside thoughts are... unhinged sometimes. They throw insults at their antagonists all the time. There's quite a bit of difference between the outside and the inside.

Katniss Everdeen and Maomao: Unreliable narrators. Highly unreliable narrators. There's a clear difference between what's happening and what they think is happening.

Dr. Watson and Captain Hastings: While being the narrators to their respective detective, they don't get a lot of focus in their adaptations. They're seen as sidekicks to Holmes/Poirot. Meanwhile, in the books, they keep the mystery of the detectives as they themselves try to give different solutions to the mystery. Sometimes they're wrong and sometimes they help the detectives to the real solution.

The Six of Crows duology is a great example of how narration can affect a story. As the book uses six different characters to narrate the books, you can see how the outside perspective is different from the inside. For example, while most of the others thought Kaz as cruel and uncaring, Kaz (and Inej sometimes) showed how he believed that some of the things he did were done to people who deserved it. Also, half of the time, he shows how much he cares about his family and friends.

[1444galaxiesinthesky]

I hate it when authors revive characters that were originally supposed to be dead. Because the plot doesn't make sense? What do you mean Holmes hung onto the cliff and Watson didn't see him and Holmes magically climbed that thing and went on an undercover quest? What do you mean Jack was useful to two villains and that's why they faked her death?

I'm not against reviving characters when that was always the original idea. It just annoys me when you do it because you regret it and instead pretend they were always alive. Otherwise you could go the other way and actually kill them before doing necromancy/science/whatever to make them alive again. (For example, Commander Shepard, Harry Potter, Jason Todd, and so on).

[modernmusess]

katniss: everyone’s so focused on protecting peeta because they too know how pure hearted he is and believe that he—a boy they’ve never even met before—deserves to survive over them and their friends of literal decades

finnick, to literally everyone else: okay if peeta dies she’s gonna kill all of us and then herself, so hands in, protect bread boy on three-

[1444galaxiesinthesky]

Look, the thing is no one talks about Kuwei that much and throughout the books, he's there but also not there. (I forget about him so much while reading.)

But I also forget that he's technically the crew's prisoner. But the only one who actually treats him like one is Kaz. Literally, no one else treats Kuwei like a captive (except Wylan and Jesper half the time).

Matthias couldn't care less about Kuwei. He just wants this whole thing to be over (and Nina, he wants Nina).

Nina treats him like an equal. A Grisha. He's got his own opinions and she'll try to help him as much as she can.

Inej treats him like a human being. He's got every right to do what he wants.

Jesper treats him like a weirdo. That strange person who's at the edge of the friend group and wants in but is forgotten about half of the time.

Wylan's just jealous after the whole kiss debacle. He treats Kuwei like Jesper does.

Kaz is the only one who dictates Kuwei's life. The rest just support Kuwei when their intentions align.

It also explains so much of Kuwei's behaviour. I'd also be a moody teenager trying to stir things up if I were a prisoner with no say in anything.

[reefs-camp-blog]

people are severely misunderstanding why percy didnt side with luke/kronos.

no, it wasnt because poseidon claimed him. no, it wasnt because sally raised him. no, it wasnt because he was at camp for less time. no, it wasnt [whatever else people say]

the reason percy didnt join luke is because KRONOS FUCKING SUCKS. HES GOING TO HURT PEOPLE. NOT JUST PEOPLE PERCY CARES ABOUT, MOST FUCKING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. HE DROVE SOMEONE INSANE WHO WAS ON HIS OWN SIDE. percy would never join kronos because hes not just the worse option- its because hes going to hurt so many more people than the gods would!

also percy is so empathetic, even if he doesnt care about someone hes still going to try and make sure theyre okay. (see: ethan in botl, the demigod he told to get off the ship when they were blowing up the princess andromeda in tlo) he cares about people. not just specific people in his life, people as a whole. we see it in how much he loves new york city too and how his worst nightmare is camp being destroyed. not sally specifically dying, not annabeth specifically dying, his community dying. he doesnt care about one specific person (unlike luke who id argue his main reason for turning is because of thalias fate), he cares about people as a whole. im thinking of the deleted scene in tlo where theyre moving the unconscious mortals out of the way and he runs into nancy, he considers messing with her- then doesnt. because it was never just about a single specific person. if it was, then hed only care about annabeth. if it was, then hed mess with nancy. but its not. its about people as a whole. and if kronos wins, then so many more people get hurt.

sallys not the reason he didnt side with kronos, luke not having enough time to convince him isnt why he didnt side with kronos, poseidon claiming him early isnt why he sided with kronos, it was percy being a genuinely kind person that cares about the people and world around him that made him not side with kronos.

like. im sorry- do you actually think that if one thing was changed and percy did join kronos, that hed actually hurt people? that he would sit by and let people on his team hurt others? poison camp and put hundreds of demigods at risk? sacrifice someone on his own team for exploration? can you actually genuinely imagine percy jackson sitting by and letting the side hes on go around hurting people? because anytime i think of him being on kronos' side, it ends with him seeing how many people theyre hurting, and leaving. he knows the damage thatll happen to the world and the people in the world if the gods are destroyed and kronos rises, and you think that because his father claimed him thats the only thing stopping him? that sally raising him is the only thing stopping him (she is a big part in why hes so empathetic, but a good amount of that is also his own doing). that not being around camp/the gods for a less amount of time and not seeing the pain thats caused is the reason he didnt join kronos? again, kronos would do more harm.

percy would never intentionally be the reason anyone would get hurt. he hated luke but he mourned him when he died. he went out of his way to try and not hurt demigods that were trying to kill him.

the main time hes ever intentionally caused someone actual harm was when ethan stabbed annabeth, and when percy was in life or death, fight or flight and high off adrenaline. no fucking shit he lost his mind. IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING WAR. no ones gonna act rationally.

anyway there is no world in where percy would willingly join kronos because he has always put people before himself and knows when something will lead to a better or worse outcome, and kronos is the worst outcome in this situation.

[1444galaxiesinthesky]

Does anyone else like looking at their own bookmarks on Ao3 and finding out what tags and fandoms are there the most? Through that grey box on the right? Because it's so interesting to me and gives me a perspective on what I read and like the most. It's like a study, I guess?

For example, for me, 7/10 in the fandom category are just tags related to DC (like DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), etc.). The other three are White Collar (TV 2009), Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz, and Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo. Clearly, I'm reading a lot of DC (but anything in that clogs up the Fandom category anyway because there's just so many different fandoms in that). So maybe I just like superhero stories and good vs evil stories.

Meanwhile, in the Categories category (which should be called relationships), Gen is the mode with 904 (to use maths terminology). Then we've got F/M (155), M/M (132), Multi (25), Other (14), and F/F (10). Not surprising. I've always shied away from romantic relationships. Strongly dislike romance books too.

Winner of Additional Tags is Hurt/Comfort while runner-up is Angst. Except Hurt/Comfort counts as a part of Angst so maybe that's the winner. Idk about this.

Anyway, I want to hear other perspectives. It's just really interesting to me.

(It's also interesting to see it on other fanfic websites. On Wattpad, I've sorted out my reading lists according to fandom and while the winner over there is also DC, I've got PJO as a close second. However, it's not as obvious there what your most popular tags are as it is on Ao3.)

[gammaraydeath]

really funny how bioware made the asari just to have a race of Sexy Women to ogle and objectify and then also made them incompetent in politics and war and wrote it so that no accomplishment they ever made was their own due to prothean influence. and by funny i mean something else

[yasyart]

Doomed siblings in every universe

[armofandruil]

jack's recruitment mission is so funny like you travel across the galaxy to collect the most powerful human biotic in history from a maximum security prison, so powerful they had to put them in cryo, and everyone's expecting this beefy jacked man but out pops Sinead O'Connor

[ladyignatius4]

It doesn't matter if you wrote 5,000 or 50 words today.

It doesn't matter if all you did was day-dream about your characters while staring at the ceiling.

You are still a writer and your progress is valid.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Especially the last one!

[mayaoii]

He is trying!

[1444galaxiesinthesky]

Maybe a controversial opinion

Tbh, it's understandable that the councillors thought that Shepard was insane about the whole Reapers thing in ME and ME2. Imagine some random soldier of a newly joined species comes to you and tells you that there are intelligent machines that want to slaughter a bunch of people every 50 000 years. And their evidence is all gone or just a bunch of experiences they (and their crew) witnessed. The crew's biased, obviously they'll follow their CO. Shepard wasn't even a high-ranking officer, only a Lt. Commander. Sovereign could be written off as a Geth creation because the Geth had kept to themselves for hundreds of years and no one knew what happened to them or what technological breakthroughs they had. The whole thing would probably sound like a conspiracy theory.

I feel like since we see the whole thing through Shepard's eyes, we believe that the Councillors were stupid for not believing the Commander. But we've also got to remember that these 3 people are expected to be responsible for billions or even trillions of people.

[frogribbit]

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

[gonnadosomethingwmylife]

peter burke is so funny bc he’s a completely normal guy except he’s been obsessed with two people to a point of stalking (his wife and the conman he chased for years) but it’s fine bc they’re just as obsessed with him 😭???