[basicwhitewitchy]

"Next time give me the money dont just set it on the counter."

MOTHERFUCKER I TRIED. YOU WERE SO BUSY GRABBING THE BAGS THAT MY ARM STARTED HURTING FROM HOLDING IT OUT.

"Your snooty every time I come in and ive tried giving you the benefit of the doubt"

OH IM SORRY I CANT REGULATE MY TONE AND FACIAL FEATURES. SO SORRY YOU FIND MY ATTITUDE SNOOTY AND RUDE ILL JUST CARVE MYSELF A NEW BRAIN SO I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER.

"I called you ten times and I know you heard me."

THE OVEN IS SO LOUD I CANT HEAR MY SELF THINK MUCH LESS YOUR MUTED ASS GOING "MA'AM" IN A OCTAVE THAT WOULDNT SCARE A SQUIRREL.

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

this is prime proof that this ENTIRE WEBSITE is autistic because nowhere else would a no tags post that's just an informative list about slang get this much traction.

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

anyway more addittions

“30-50 wild hogs” for someone making ABSURD excuses for violence.

“what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” for how do you know that without being a part of it.

“anyone in this thread smoke weed” for the shit you people are saying is so off topic this might as well be a general discussion forum

“dogs are boys and cats are girls” for ooh ur mindset did not grow past 4th grade, huh

“color theory in a childrens hospital” for bending over backwards to not agree that YEA, that thing Came Off Weird

“you are a tar pit” for someone finding any reason to respond with outrage.

“is the __ in the room with us right now?” for I Don’t Think That’s Real.

“bean soup? im allergic to beans!” for ik this doesn’t work for you, but that’s not a flaw. not everything can be for you.

“people irl: hey man hows it going” for this will Never Matter irl

[benevolenterrancy]

Shen Qiao and Shen Qingqiu would either be very close friends or would be extremely passive aggressive to each other while bitching in private. Or both

I don't know how they would get along on a conversational level either but I DO know that he would sniff out that protagonist energy in a second (he's genre savvy, he knows what happens when you mess with an "ex" martial arts master who seems blind and helpless, especially if they're carrying a walking stick) and he wants nothing to do with that, he has his hands full dealing with his own protagonist, thanks

[benevolenterrancy]

love watching Yan Wushi fumble this so hard that he's now jealous of himself

[ifellintothestyx]

It will never not be funny to me that in Thousand Autumns, Shen Qiao is just the one normal, reasonable person while everyone else is living in a classic Wuxia drama

Basically every book conversation is just this:

Yu Ai: I had to poison you because you disagreed with everything I said, so I deemed you an incapable and naive sect leader! You would bring Mt. Xuandu to ruin!

Shen Qiao: I'm sorry, "had" to? We could've talked things out, y'know, like how normal people settle disagreements, but no, poison was clearly the only option left. You "had" to poison me. Right.

---

Yan Wushi: You and I are diametrically opposed. You are weak and undeserving of my attention. You fail to live up to my expectations and bring shame upon your master's legacy. Why would I need a friend like you so presume?

Shen Qiao: I didn't say you needed one, just that that's what I call you. You literally followed me around for months, ate with me, sparred with me, saved my life, and opened my eyes to the outside world... What on earth did you want me to call you that wouldn't be rude?

(Honestly knowing YWS's melodramatic ass, SQ probably just went through a mental list of statuses you could give to someone based on their proximity, realized that YWS is very much an outlier and also very much particular about his titles and general importance, picked "friend" as the safest option.)

---

Chen Gong: You look down on me because I'm from poor origins and never had the background or pedigree that you did so you disdain my methods!

Shen Qiao: ... You are holding. A child. Hostage. Literally every time I've met you you're doing something that doesn't agree with my morals and endangering human life. I genuinely do not care about your background, you just happen to be doing something I don't agree with and also tends to end up becoming my problem.

(No really, CG has like such a massive unrequited hatred for SQ while SQ is just lamenting that they somehow always end up meeting at the worst times in the worst places)

---

Half of the characters: Look how lowly you've become! From sect leader to boy toy! Everyone point and laugh!

Shen Qiao: Harsh but true, I suppose. Oh well, I should get back to what I'm doing.

[for-eveerr-young]

random ramble, but one of the things i really like about rick riordan is the fact that he tries.

do i have a lot of complaints about how he decided to write a bunch of things in the stories? yes, i do. i have A LOT to critize. (especially about the whole thing with piper. and also about how will bisexuality is portrayed in the stories but anyway)

but he tries. like, he truly does. there are so many queer characters in the story, there are canon same-sex couples, we have magnus, who is the main character and it's pansexual, and his love interest is genderfluid.

we have disabled people!! and they are not treated like something to be fixed or pited!!!

we have representation in a way that doesn't fell forced (at least, not for me), it's just. IS. this people are just there. these parts of them are important, yes, but they're not everything they are.

and like. solangelo is the second most loved ship, losing only to the main characters relationship, and they are a same-sex couple. AND THEY ARE FULLY CANON!!!! that's sooo important

so, YES, he should get better in a lot of things, and YES, he deserves the criticism, but you can't deny that he is always always and always trying. with flaws? yes, with a lot of flaws, but he IS doing something, which is GOOD. especially in this economy

and yes the bar is in hell. but anyways

ramble is over, thank you

[basicwhitewitchy]

I dont think I ever explained why I despise tbe Greek vs Romans thing in Heroes of Olympus.

To put it bluntly it doesnt do shit.

Octavian is seemingly the only roman that cares about the Argos attack on New Rome, the gods are literally the same character with just their names swapped, and the greeks dont find out about the war happening until mid-late House of Hades.

Reyna watches her second home be attacked by a ship carrying the two people who she blamed for the destruction of her first home and then takes Annabeth at her word about the eidolons, Octavian is Bad Guy™️ so he can't be seen caring about anything other than himself, and the background characters are all tragic victims of Octavians manipulation and the reader must ignore that the romans were more than happy to attack the seven before Octavian even got off the Argo.

The gods are supposedly being torn between their greek and roman halves but they literally aren't.

Despite the Romans demanding revenge for the Argo attacking, Nemesis' roman counterpart Invidia is nowhere to be found. Baccus is just Dionysus with a different soda preference. There wasnt any different between Venus and Aphrodite. All Mars and Ares did was give Frank a headache. Hecate was all greek with no sign of Trivia and the opposite is true of Bellona and Enyo.

The only god that showed signs of being "torn" between greek and roman was Victoria/Nike. Even that didnt matter cause she was barely in the story.

The war also just freaking stalled once the Seven left Charleston.

It took about half of Mark of Athena for the seven and the roman legion to cross the entirety of America. It then takes the roman legion almost an entire book length to get from Charleston to New York City (mid MoA to early-mid HoH). Even then it takes until the almost the end of Blood of Olympus for Reyna and Nico to get to long island and deal with Octavian and his allies.

None of the demigods/legacies act like they're at war with each other with the exception of Octavian and Clarisse and the gods are their normal, distant selfs that require a sacrifice before they help anyone.

[titansandcurses]

forget monsters and gods, the most magical part of the riordanverse is that none of the characters ever get sunburnt despite the fact that they never put on sunscreen

[thoodleoo]

oh so when other people call a baby "cute enough to eat" it's sweet and charming. but when i, cronus,

[raccoonmilf]

I so rarely see Cronus spelled like this (normally I see it as Kronos) so my first thought was “did that happen in homestuck? Did Cronus Ampora eat babies??”

[starlightshadowsworld]

“Jason should’ve been buried in Camp Jupiter”, “Jason should’ve been buried in Camp Halfblood”, “Jason should’ve been buried with his mother”

Jason Grace was right to be cremated and had his ashes scattered into the wind so that he could be free, unbound and no longer forced to conform to other’s expectations of him.

Not trapped in a box for all of eternity like he already spent his whole life doing.

[garpen]

"you already left kudos here"

And??? Let me like it again??? Clearly it deserves more??

[mangoheadpiranha]

puptavian

[red-garden]

Mu Qingfang reading a post apocalyptic far future book series published by Shang Qinghua about a foreign nation called “America”’s health care system, and he gets so mad it kills him, and he transmigrates into RFK. Scum system self saving villain.

[basicwhitewitchy]

As realistic a Rumi as I can do

[basicwhitewitchy]

— According to tria nomina, Octavia is named (prenomen) because she is her father's eighth child, Agrippina is her second name (nomen) because it is her father's name. Her cognomen is Videnia, (from Latin Videns, to see, an allusion to her prophetic gift and ability to see the future)

— I also think that Octavia doesn't really have a mother in the full sense of the phrase "have a mother" — I think her mother is either dead or not interested in her, or even worse, they don't have the best relationship and they've never been close, roughly speaking, she has a family. only the father, who is obviously not the best, and the brothers who have no interest... This, combined with her vulnerability in other aspects, makes her literally an ideal target for Gaia

I dont know much about how Romans named their kids but that sounds so interesting.

Octavias mom probably had an arranged marriage to her dad since Octavias family supposedly is traced back to Ceaser. Which definitely scarred her into keeping her trans identity a secret until she had enough power to be free of her family's grasp

[basicwhitewitchy]

— Octavia is evidently the eighth child of her father, Agrippa, as her name suggests

— Octavia is actually terrified that her father will marry her off (the New Romans are pragmatists; a woman is a woman, which means she can be used to cement an alliance or simply be wed for profit)

— Octavia is her father's only daughter, while the other seven children are boys; she has only older brothers

— Octavia reflexively feels a deep envy toward Reyna, who literally embodies her dream of what a woman's life could be

Octavia definitely has a get out bag to bolt just in case anyone finds out.

[freezer-bride-your-sweet-divine]

inspired by @basicwhitewitchy

Transfem Octavian who lets her hair grow long, even if it is of poor quality due to her mediocre health - thin translucent silky strands similar to willow flowers. She keeps her hair loose or only half-gathered, as if she's trying to hide or hide

Transfem Octavian who is afraid of Apollo's favor and don't even dare to pray that it doesn't go any further, this is the fear that she can't tell anyone, the fear that she's even ashamed of... But we all know how we ended up with the women to whom Apollo gave a vision of the future?

Transfem Octavian who does not allow anyone to tell her real name and she clings to her birth name even if it causes her terrible dysphoria because it seems to be a defense, no matter how stupid and illusory she is... Even Octavia Agrippina or Via makes her heart soften with warmth

Transfem Octavian who perfectly understands the fate of a Roman woman and desperately clings to power, because it seems to be the only real protection and opportunity to control her fate, her life