Grace

[cikebabbler]

can't really blame rf kuang for being so on the nose, literal, and explicit on her messaging in babel. I mean she was really screaming her message through the pages. but can't really be mad at that after decades of sff authors using metaphors and allegories and allusions and parallels to criticize capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism, and to emphasize the importance of resistance—armed resistance. and every single time people would cheer on the fictional resistance, yet would still side with the oppresors in real life.

[serendipitouslyyyyyy]

sometimes i think a little too hard about how percy jackson started as bedtime stories that rick riordan would tell his son when he was being bullied for his adhd and dyslexia because he wanted to let his kid know that he could also be a hero. and how after his first books were so successful he started to realize that there are lots of kids out there who don't see themselves in any heroes because of various other aspects of themselves, and he doesn't want any kid to feel like how his did, so he started writing heroes that were poc and gay and religious minorities and homeless and genderqueer and physically disabled and from an array of different cultures and he just made it his absolute mission to make sure every single kid could see themselves in his universe. about how the primary purpose of these books is to make kids feel a little bit less alone, and how the percy jackson books are so well loved because they are, themselves, an act of love. percy jackson came into existence as an act of love towards his struggling son and this story grew and expanded into what it is today because so many kids needed that same kind of love, and even those of us that aren't kids anymore still find a home in a story that was made for that exact purpose. and then i cry.

[waltricia]

I genuinely love this candle symbolism.

For her, it’s been burning. For him, it’s finally igniting.

( And actually his candle is already low and a liiittttle bit lit, implying the love was always there, burning so low as to not be noticed, but surely burning nonetheless 🔥♥️ )

[kosmogrl]

[disruptedthesky]

shattered fantasy

shattered reality

[batmanego]

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[batmanego]

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

[batmanego]

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

[sigridstumb]

For 3000.

For three. fucking. thousand. years. So, let's say that average human lifespan (if you make it to adulthood) has been around 50-65 years. (Childhood death rates make the average lower, I'm not talking about that.) So, 3000 divided by 50 is 60. Sixty generations. (More or less, just vibe with me here, m'kay.)

Sixty generations.

During that time there have been at least 30 wars fought in this part of the U.K.. That we know about. Any number of famines. A few rounds of plague, including the terrible Black Death in which about a third of Europe, including England, died. Whole villages erased by death. During this time there were at least three massive, cataclysmic, religious shifts. Two small ice ages occurred. The country shifted from small croft to large village to towns with a middle class to religious fiefdoms to freeholds to large towns to cities.

During this time infants died and crops failed. During this time people moved and left home, never to return. During this time families thrived and new farms were established.

For three goddamn thousand fucking years, sixty generations of humans have kept this horse alive. We don't even know WHY people wanted this horse. We don't know what it was for, we don't know who designed or built it. We don't know and we don't NEED to know --

-- for three THOUSAND YEARS humans have kept this horse alive.

And there is no fucking way we are going to let the horse die now. I love people sometimes. Sometimes, humans are fucking amazing.

[99-97]

Did it hurt? When i told you to google it and i was right

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

[purplewilmon]

[justaleafinthewind]

Percy's little head shake when he realizes he has to leave Annabeth behind? the way he presses his lips together like he's trying not to cry and his jaw is trembling? hello???

but then his exhale when he sees that she's there with him on the beach and she's okay? the way his lips start to turn up for the beginning of a smile and all the tension leaks out of his shoulders immediately? HELLO???

[indestinatus]

EYES: the trio; perfect casting

[slowburnsucker]

Full faith in Uncle Rick and his vision🫡

[jakeperalta]

THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECATION WEEK → day 7: free choice

The Tributes maintaining their compassion and humanity (or, being more than just a piece in the Capitol's games)

[cdyssey]

genuinely stunned at the fantastic choice for Percy not to pray to his absent and unknown father—like he did in the books—but to his mother.

the show is really taking us to one of riordan’s central theses straight off the bat.

parenthood isn’t about power and legacy and the recognition of shared blood.

It’s about the incredible act of showing up for your child—again and again and a-fucking-gain. That’s how you inspire respect. That’s how you become a child’s patron and beloved god.

[ruegarding]

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

[andrew-garfielld]

Bonus:

“Percy, you can't ship Medusa's head to Olympus.” “Why not?”

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS (2023-) S01E03 | “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium”

[rosesradio]

”i’m still unsure about blonde percy lol he looks like will solace” shut tf up. annabeth saying “not you, sunshine” altered my brain chemistry on a molecular level.