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i have a degrassi opinion that would get me killed but it’s fandom is dead so it’s in the vault !!

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The very few people who ask to hear my take … I stalked their accounts and they’re the people that are gonna get me btw so I’m still keeping my mouth shut😭😭😭

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i know everyone makes fun of ginny and georgia because they wrote the teens in the first couple seasons was certainly … interesting. but im genuinely obsessed with the shows ability to make such full characters who’s actions whether or not you agree with them make so much sense systemically if that makes sense.

i just truly love georgia’s writing, ginny’s writing, ginny’s half almost hatred for her mother failing her in so many ways but still NEEDING to save her from a poor fate, all the little ways she behaves like georgia, all the little way she doesn’t. her (very very valid btw!!!) resentment toward georgia. georgia not understanding the resentment AT ALL bc to herself she did literally everything in her power to protect.

max struggling just as much as marcus, just being queen of masking so no one knows, marcus resenting her care and her attitude because it’s too much for him on top of HIS mental illness (which is obviously going to make him selfish bc that’s just what it does so he doesn’t even know she’s struggling.)

the way ginny can try her hardest to help marcus work through what’s going on with him but doesn’t understand it when that same mental health struggle is coming from max because of how she presents. the push and pull of abby and ginny being at odds constantly to then them pulling closer and pushing max out.

marcus’s self sabotage, marcus and ginny’s bond no matter what the other is going through, marcus and max’s sibling ship, even marcus and abby’s little childhood besties by proxy crumbs. annnnd my trio i’ll always miss when max and marcus were the two closest to ginny and they all three were good.

ginny and bracia becoming closer, ginny feeling safe in that bond with a black girl because it’s a side herself she seems to feel is ignored/missed out on.

i genuinely love it all so much and it’s very real and deep and confusing and i just think the way these relationships are panning out whether it be in terms of family trauma/patterns, friendships, conflicts of interracial friendships, romances, trying to have these relationships when mental illness is in the way. just so fun to watch pan out. and also painful but i digress. 😭

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also romeo bambrilla of daisy haites is so underrated and if daisy doesn’t want him, i do.

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never shutting up about toxic romantic lukabeth btw. i need rick to leave that in for me. he’s not going to. but i do need him too. just saying.

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i am more annoyed than i initially thought that no one acknowledges bj ballentine being SA’d.

especially bc everything he does that they hate is a result of him not addressing it himself.

[ahecen]

[norman rockwell freedom of speech painting] I don’t like when people erase romantic lukabeth from existence

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“let’s talk about it!!”

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i have a degrassi opinion that would get me killed but it’s fandom is dead so it’s in the vault !!

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being forced to read everyone boil magnolia and bj down to cheap tropes and negative traits when they’re so whole and so deep.

magnolia is quite literally my favorite depiction of someone who’s a social butterfly, charming, popular, etc. but SO aggressively neurodivergent.

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bj ballentine i’m so sorry they completely ignore your trauma, complexity and overall personality bc of a trope.

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“i don’t wanna be a bitch but you guys are really boring”

i think there’s a bit of an epidemic with people reading books only to self insert with a dream partner rather than just reading to experience stories.

if you just don’t like/connect with certain characters no one can negate that, however some of the conversations i witness people having about certain male characters is solely watered down to the fact that their not a perfect “book boyfriend” which drives me insane.

gerard gibson is pretty much ignored by all the boys of tommen readers because he’s victimized and has a flipped savior story (his love interest being the savior). most people can’t bring themselves to outwardly dislike him, but they aren’t quite sure where to file him in their head because he wasn’t written as a book boyfriend, he was written as a character. he has how own shit, his own motivations, how own baggage. he’s his own, full, and well rounded character. they want book boyfriends so he’s not mentioned at all.

joey lynch is either completely and totally unfairly villainized for how how treated aoife, or his depth is completely ignored in favor of him being this protective savior character. his actual motivations and reasons for sometimes “acting out” and endangering others being painted as irredeemable moments when it’s obvious he’s struggling and has every right to be. but alternatively the other side pretends aoife who was breaking her back to provide for herself and also fighting for her life to bring his ass back every time, didn’t do enough and wasn’t sympathetic enough to his issues. (or didnt pay enough attention to his siblings? as though that’s even on her??). joey lynch has entirely too much backstory for us to solely whine about the times he was high and acted like an asshole. you guys are so boring.

(i’m gonna get heat for this one) but bj ballentine is also a victim of this. bj ballentine gets ugly, messy, toxic, and you later find out why but he is given absolutely no mercy when it comes to those who read magnolia parks. his entire background is forgotten and tossed aside all because no one can stomach cheating trope? (which also irks me bc it’s not even a trope really, it’s a blip in the insane timeline and lives of magnolia and bj honestly.) everyone wants to talk about his cheating exclusively but there’s never any mention of his assault, his going to therapy, his growth, etc. even if you hold the belief he didn’t grow, that part of his story is still TOTALLY ignored. i genuinely applaud the fact that you would never take back a cheating partner, good for you, truly. but bj ballentine was not written to be your hypothetical book boyfriend, he was written to be bj ballentine. to water him down to this one event when we get SO MUCH character out of him is so odd to me. you have to throw out more than half the story for that to work! he’s fiercely loyal, protective, smart, a bit arrogant, seemingly has a death wish (goading julian is crazy). very family orientated and not just with his own. (his relationship with bridget and bushka genuinely turns my heart to mush.) and had even the ice queen daisy haites herself charmed and in the palm of his hand in less than like 10 minutes. (her spilling her feelings to him and him giving advice was so sweet)

anyway i could drone on about this forever. connell waldron is overhated, people care too much about percy jackson’s 3 seconds with rachel dare and his small comments about calypso.

i don’t know when this started and why i’ve never been affected by it, but i just got online one day and everyone stopped reading stories to read stories. they want to agree and feel comfortable in every aspect and that’s honestly a bit scary to me. 😇

[friedwizardwhispers]

please let Show!Percy be mad at Athena when they meet in Titans curse. Let him be pissed for the Arch and the sirens and the way she's been treating Annabeth.

I need this beef to be two-sided. Even if she does get to his insecurities in said conversation and it still stops him from confessing.

[hugenthusiast]

We often talk about Annabeth being jealous of Percy's relationship to his mom, but there is something to be said about a god breaking a divine promise to have a son because he fell in love while you just appeared at your own father's door when he didn't even had sex and proceded to neglect you while raising his own family. Do you understand what I'm trying to say here

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wow!

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please comment your fave percabeth fics im trying to fill a void. thank you. 🩷

[vecimelon]

Maybe a hot take: I think Annabeth has had some romantic but not fully romantic feelings for Luke and he may or may not have returned it in maybe sort of a romantic way and for a period she is tangled up in and very confused by her feelings for him and that's a very fascinating part of both her character arc and their relationship arc and I hate seeing it being denied

Also I think Percy has had maybe a tiny crush on Rachel and vice versa but at the end of the day they're mostly two confused teenagers who have helped and supported each other through a very messed up adolescence period which makes their relationship so wonderfully interesting and I hate seeing that being denied too

I love both the Annabeth/Luke relationship and the Percy/Rachel relationship, not in the sense that I ship them but more like they're intriguing and fun to explore and much deeper and more complicated than the fandom often gives them credits for. Relationships shouldn't and can't be divided strictly into the kind that's romantic and the kind that's not. Yes there are romantic elements in these relationships but it's much more than that. Sure you can still say Annabeth is an idiot for liking Luke and Rachel is a bitch for liking Percy and Percy is a jerk for liking Rachel and Luke is a creep for liking Annabeth but it's just not that simple and shallow and I hope more people can see it.

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percabeth isn’t percabeth without luke or rachel !!! scream it from the rooftops !!

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my fave percabeth fanfic writers are the ones who actually explore the push and pull of percy and annabeth’s diff attachment styles and/or do NOT shy away from the annabeth/luke thing.

like yes this is a weird, unbalanced, (almost incestuous if you squint?), toxic, trauma bond!! that’s so juicy let’s explore it pls!!

(tbc before someone misinterprets me, i am not stating i ship luke & annabeth, im stating that that dynamic exists the way it does for a reason and my pet peeve is people ignoring it bc it’s weird. some things are weird. especially involving traumatized children/teens/young adults.)

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need more percabeth exploration of the fact that annabeth has anxious avoidant attachment style mhmmm (according to me btw)

fics/analysis on her being used to abandonment, having to work hard to be loved/notice, and (imo) having an anxious avoidant attachment style and how that (almost!) directly contrasts the way percy navigates personal relationships/loves is actually just crack to me.

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i’m sorry, was NOT familiar with the song silver spoon by erin lecount until a percabeth edit i just saw 3 second ago?? omg that’s so their song ??? need a fic inspired by this now 🧘‍♀️