Disclaimer: MCU fans do not interact and this includes all the MCU characters. Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield's are the only live action Spider-man I like.
I haven't watched PJO TV show at all and not planning to watch it in future too. And no this has got nothing to do with the actors, enough with the racism, but the ghastly changes they've made in the plot. Also 'cause I hate both Disney and RR.
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Everyone keeps on going Peter Parker, Son of Athena. Peter Parker & Annabeth Chase are siblings. Some even make stories where Annabeth is Tony's biological daughter and Peter is his adopted son. And then are some where Annabeth is Bruce's biological daughter and Peter is Tony's biological son and they both have Athena for their mother in the last two AUs. It's just so weird given that all Athena children canonically have arachnophobia so, no they will not be running around with a spider symbol on their chest. I am not hating or complaining about those stories, just explaining my point. Sorry, if I've offended anyone.
Anyways, as I've mentioned before I hate MCU and all its characters so I'm going with the theory that MCU!Peter is a Son of Arachne. Now his other parent can be either Mary or Richard, its anybody's pick. And if someone asks how Arachne is his mother then according to RR, Loki despite being chained in a cave can be a biological parent of Samirah and Alex then Arachne can be Peter's mother too.
In this AU Infinity War and Endgame haven't taken place, only upto Homecoming has happened. As for why I hate MCU!Peter well they took the story of a canonical poc, i.e. Miles Morales and gave it to a white boy who is hero worshipping a man who never apologised for his warmongering past (Don't make the excuses that it was all Stane, Tony Stark should've paid attention since it was his company. He should take accountability for that. His whole 'my dad didn't love me and my parents died when I was an adolescent' schtick can't continue well into his middle age, especially given how he keeps on throwing money at everything [No, I am not Team Cap either]), continuously made lewd comments about his aunt May, and much more which you can know by going through the anti tags. Think of it as a new perspective going in, if your mind doesn't change then good for you but if it does... Well, refer to this, this, and this posts to get you started.
So, in my AU Annabeth, Percy and Rachel go to Columbia University (To hell with RR's Percy's Senior Year Adventures). Annabeth studies at GSAPP an idea I got thanks to The New Rome AU @greenconverses while Percy is a Classical Major, all credit goes to @darkmagyk and @phykios. Percy gets in 'cause he is a national level sailing champion, Annabeth is a promising talent in Architecture, this came from Daughter of Wisdom by @dotshiiki, and Rachel is studying Law and minoring in Art. Her father is so happy about the former, he elects to ignore the latter. It's a lady like talent after all. He gets the shock of his life when Rachel chooses Environmental Law for her specialisation. (And yes in this Annabeth & Rachel have gotten to know each after the 2nd Titan War, became friends during the months Percy was missing and now are BFFs [Screw RR and his inability or unwillingness to write female friendships])
So, MCU!Peter has learnt about Annabeth from Arachne after his spider powers develop or he has always known about her. Not shocking given Arachne has been stalking Annabeth her entire life. So, just imagine what he would do when learns that his mother dead 'cause this girl whom Arachne had harassed from the very beginning and was plotting a very gruesome death has outwitted her. I don't think the fallout would be good.
So, now he is going to carry his mother's revenge and will avenge her too. He is an Avenger after all.
You can guess Percabeth's reaction from this post by @silenab which I got from the account of @chironshorseass whose character introspection is noteworthy, others who are just as good are @perceabeth and @percabeth4life.
And well, that's it for now. If I get more ideas I'll add them and if anyone wants to go with this then please do so.
AoS S2 was good but it could've been better. So, here is my attempt at it. I've also gotten ideas from other authors and their works and have given them due credit. Basically it's an amalgamation of their and mine ideas. And if you want to make sense of this post its best to read them all if you haven't already.
I hc that Jin Bu-Yeon was fully healed in 1½ years and the rest ½ year was for acclimating. She sstarted escaping in the 3rd year.
In the show, when Ju-Wol tries to have JBY caught for a thief Park Dang-Gu is there on the premises (a parallel to S1E1) and he is the one who catches her but comes to the conclusion that she is someone from Jinyowon.
JBY decides to run along with it and tells PDG and JW that she is from a noble family who have decided to send her to Jinyowon to become a priestess but it's not the life she wants so she this is her rebellion and umpteenth attempt at snatching her freedom. It's truth anyways.
I also hc that all those Jinyowon guards are female members of minor nobility. Honestly, since in S1 we got to see the life of male mages at Jeongjingak, in S2 that same treatment should've given to women in Jinyowon. They could've shown more about what divine powers actually are
In that year JBY becomes friends with JW too. I seriously missed their friendship in S2. (S2 denied us so many female only moments. Seriously they should've stuck to 20 episodes.)
She become friends with PDG too. They often met at Chwiseonru and he taught her all sorts of business knowledge. JBY tells PDG that he need not be happy in front of her all the time 'cause she doesn't hide her hopelessness from him. (They made PDG so one dimensional. Another wasted character)
JBY has also met Go Won during that year and not after her marriage. And just like in the show over here too both are unaware of each other's identity. They do congratulate themselves for hiding their identity so well.
Has anyone read Ghost Marriage by @repeatinglitanies? If not go ahead and read it now.
In my AU Jang Uk after slayed the soul shifter in Jinyowon strikes the deal with Jin Ho-Gyeong but HYG is far too obsrinate and outright rejects him. Its when Uk is about to leave he encounters JBY and it all follows just like in the show.
Before the wedding Jin Cho-Yeon confesses to JBY that she had another suitor who could've freed her. Hearing her description JBY realises its Uk and tells her of meeting him and the offer she made to him. When the barge goes JCY concludes that it's Uk's doing but pretends otherwise. She too doesn't want the horrible fate her mother has decided for JBY to come true and at the same time wants to see what PDG would've done on the knowledge that it was her wedding. (S2 did JCY and PDG so dirty. JCY had such potential for a great arc and Yoo In-Soo never got to show his range.)
I just love the whole bridenapping arc especially since the bride herself has staged it. The dumbstruck look on everyone's face when JBY tells them that it was her idea is priceless. Not to mention Uk being given all sorts of motivations for actions and none of them reaching close must have exasperated him so much.
The whole Jinyowon's lantern scene I like to imagine happen along the lines of Every Rose Has Its Thorns, Every Light Has Its Shadow by vanillascribble. It makes Uk seem less of a bastard than in show. His high EQ really took a hit in S2 but that's given since he was actually depressed and suicidal.
I also love when in Ep2 after Park Jin asks Uk why he abducted JBY on her wedding day his answer was, 'She was pretty. I was mesmerized by her beauty.' He tries so hard to sound cheeky when it's the truth. (The bts scenes of the tracking bracelet where Lee Jae-Wook improvised are proof that he was running on same wavelength.)
Anyways, JBY after 3 days are finished is scared that Uk will abandon her and learns that her other betrothed is looking for her and the rest of the events are like in the show.
Uk returns from killing another soul shifter to a missing betrothed, all sorts of rumor running through the capital and a turned off Jinyowon lantern.
PDG and JCY are present at the Unanimous Assembly. This is where PDG and JBY learn who other one actually is.
Their declaration at Unanimous Assembly is iconic. All the fragile peace Daeho had managed to keep for 3 years is spectacularly ruined by these two.
Plus I love Go Youn Jung's expressions when Uk enters. She portrayed JBY's disbelief, desperation, and hope so well. It was the moment she truly sold the character.
After Uk destroys the tracking spool, Kim Dojuu has him brought back the next morning 'cause unless he is slaying soul shifters there is no reason to avoid his wounded wife.
In The brazier on a summer day by Apple_95 JBY admits to Uk that kissing him before the thread torture reminds of another kiss and how wildly different they were.
In this AU Uk is stunned that she has a past but decides that at least this will mean she won't keep holding on unnecessary hopes. Though he does spend days wondering away from home who this man is that she remembers even after memory loss.
JBY upon learning that her friend is also her sister's former fiancé invites both of them and Yul for dinner at Jang household. She also invites JW and Won but both decline.
Uk runs into Yul and PDG when they are leaving for dinner and bewilderedly tags along. They also happen into Heo Yun-ok and PDG being a meddler at heart extends the invitation.
JCY is decidedly not pleased to see HYO and even more to learn who invited her. Neither is Kim Dojuu but she is far too happy that the house is filled again with friends and laughter.
JCY introduces HYO to JBY as 'the girl whose only tragedy is her feelings aren't returned by the man she likes'. Uk too is aware of HYO's feelings for him and avoids her politely and deftly as always by making Yul sit between them. (He does this in show too as seen in S2E6)
When leaving JCY all but drags HYO out claiming she'll escort her home after all she is a skilled fighter too. PDG and Yul go to Chwiseonru and by the next day entire capital knows of this dinner.
Uk admits to JBY that this was the most happy he has been in a long time and he is grateful to her for arranging this. (This post by @fake-married-my-dead-fiance gave me idea for this)
Uk is surprised to know that JBY has been friends with PDG, JW and some eunuch from the royal palce for quite some time.
The gossip next day is ranging from 'Will Songrim and Jinyowon be allies again?' to 'Those Jin Sisters are stealing 2 of Daeho's most eligible bachelors'. Neither of the adults are impressed.
But it still doesn't convince people that Uk and JBY are truly married, most believe its a ploy by Uk or a political move.
The whole JBY staying home all day waiting for Uk was nonsense. You are telling me a woman who entered in a marriage with a complete stranger to gain freedom would voluntarily choose to stay at home? NO! Absolutely Not! JBY is living her life to the fullest, yes she does miss very much Uk but he is a stranger to her like she is to him.
At the Stone Tower when Uk points out that he has found a use for JBY for the first time she realises that he too is looking for someone in her stead just like JHG.
Jin Mu has fake!Naksu attack JBY at Chwiseonru but JBY has recollections of her earlier life and beheads her. This clue JW that she is actually Naksu|Mudeok, who cooks up a story that Master Lee was the one who sent aid their way.
JBY keeps on wondering how much of those skills were a result of the jade egg or her own abilities.
JBY is justifiably furious at being used as a pawn and insists that she too is going to participate in the fake!Naksu downfall plan. Look, JBY kept finding new methods to run from Jinyowon, it's a waste of her character potential to not utilise it.)
Jang Uk isn't happy but JBY puts her foot down and everyone has to go along with it
JBY starts spending more time at Songrim much to Uk's chagrin, he is running out of places to escape her. Until one evening he finds her drinking with Master Heo and bemusedly joins them.
When Seo Yun-oh and those pathetic lackeys of Cha Beom ask for JBY at Chwiseonru, Yul isn't there to stop her. So, when she goes there those scumbags are talking about how despite being hunted by Naksu she isn't worth Uk's attention and doesn't matter to him as much
But the only thing JBY thinks how fortunate she is to have escaped marriage to such a horrible man and when she turns to leave things get ugly. She fights them (though this time no memories appear) by hitting them with anything she can find but it's useless. Thankfully, Uk appears and hands over Naksu's sword to JBY and beats the shit out of them without using Ice Stone's power.
It's an important moment for Uk as he realises that it's his neglect has made others disrespect her.
But all JBY can wonder why holding Naksu's sword was a comfort, when she was feeling so much rage, frustration, helplessness?
JW suggests that JBY take up sword dancing to see how much of that skill is hers. Much to JBY's surprise apart from fleeing from her family this is another time she doesn't stumble or trip.
There's more action at the Queen's Banquet (Open to everyone's interpretation)
Please read this gorgeous analysis by @tansu-bomb of S2Ep4 ending Ep5 beginning.
After their return from the royal palace Uk gives the same spiel he did in the show but here JBY tells him that he truly is like her mother. The only difference between them so far was that he left her to her own devices, but now? Maybe she has escaped one prison for another.
At So-I's gambling den JBY is present and the real one uses her powers to save So-I (Seriously, why did they kill her?)
Heo Yun-ok blames JBY in Master Heo's earshot who reprimands her for such unseemly behaviour.
Uk does promise to JHG that he'll send JBY back but at Sejukwon gives her money and tells her to go anywhere she pleases.
Master Lee doesn't tell Yul that Naksu's soul will disappear but to JHG and asks her to let the nature run its course.
Their reconciliation happens as in the show but Uk goes to visit Won not that day but next.
That night Uk and JBY are about to reach second base but are interrupted by So-I appearing at the Jang household. She confesses to them and Kim Dojuu that Mudeok was given a potion by Jin Mu which made her run wild.
When she leaves Uk breaks down, he finally has proof but she isn't here and at times he did wonder if Mudeok did kill him for revenge that's why he wanted to know what were her last thoughts. He hates himself for doubting her.
But JBY points out that too much trust and love is dangerous just like too much rain causes floods. Mudeok wouldn't be upset with him.
Uk doesn't agree with her and confesses the truth of his birth. He tells her of the conversation he had with Park Jin right after he was resurrected, where the latter plainly told him that from his mother's death, PDG/JCY's wedding massacre and Naksu all happened because he was born. It's all his fault. (Seriously, Park Jin does it so many times in the series.)
JBY furiously denies it but after a lifetime of thinking it and being told by almost eery other adult (except Kim Dojuu, Master Lee and Master Heo) Uk can't wrap his head around it so easily.
I also would like to draw attention to how deeply misogynistic Daeho society is and how they hate Jinyowon 'cause it doesn't adhere to their norms. They panic when Yul is attacked but Naksu and So-I's mistreatment is nothing to them. So, when in the future the truth comes out people are willing to forgive Yul 'cause he wasn't fully healed but Naksu's murder spree at the wedding despite being proven was due to Jin Mu's machinations is still loudly protested against.
When next day Uk goes to visit Won, JBY goes to Songrim and rains a tirade on Park Jin that it's his fault Uk is this much depressed. (It's the truth, in both seaons Uk was depressed after Park Jin blames him. Not surprising since he is the only father figure Uk has known his whole life. It's only thanks to Cho Yeong's machinations each time he finds something else to focus on.)
Over there JBY runs into Yul who offeres to take her to Danhangyeokk. Still reeling from her encounter with Park Jin, she thoughtlessly agrees. There Yul confesses that this was the place where they met for the first time and stabs both of them. [See Ep6 for reference] (It wasn't removal of blood parasite that changed Yul's feelings but Master Lee's revelation and even then he kept on saying that they would make each other unhappy.)
They are saved by the timely appearance of Master Lee along with Uk and Won.
Everyone except Master Lee, JHG, JCY, JW, HYO is confused by Yul's actions.
I also want Uk and Yul have a discussion like they did in S2E5. This time on how Yul readily killed her and gave his own life too while Uk pretended he didn't know who she was both times to protect her. It also makes any guilt CY feels equal to Yul's.
Uk is by JBY's side the entire time of her convalescence.
On the day JBY is released from Sejukwon, HYO attacks her with . And Cho Yeong's memories return.
CY rejects Uk like in Ep 8 but here Uk does recognise that the one standing before him is his master.
He lets her go because they both need to come to terms with it, there is Jin Mu and his organization to deal with and Master Lee to confront.
Master Lee tells him that if had told Uk truth from the beginning they would've been attached to each other in a very unhealthy and obsessive manner, something similar to JHG aand JBY. So, no he doesn't regret hiding things from them.
Uk makes his plans like in the show and CY starts gathering her own allies. JW tells her that she knew her real identity all along and that she would help her. JCY's arc goes more along the line of Apple_95's story (It's so good, I won't ever make any changes), she recruits So-I and Won too after all they too were used like puppets by Jin Mu.
CY purposefully runs into Jin Mu and pretends that she is done with Uk playing hot and cold with her feelings, how disgusted she is to be hold on the same standard as Naksu. Jin Mu falls for it hook, line and sinker.
And yes CY tells Won the truth. It goes along the line the conversation they have in Gwido. He is angry, terrified but relieved too. He is also pleased that they've become good friends now who can speak of their insecurities without any fear unlike when she was Mudeok they only told each other their ugly feelings, all the while wondering how to hold this over each other.
This is also when Won goes to ask Uk in riddle that does he know who his wife really is? Uk is so offended when he realises that CY told Won truth but not him. Won as their canonical relationship therapist tells him to go have a conversation with her and clear the air.
This is when the Uk arriving at Jinyowon scene is. It happens ditto to the show. But given that here Uk knows her true identity, it adds another layer to the conversation they have. They basically revert to what they actually are. CY merciless to everyone including herself and Uk manipulative to the end.
Uk is furious and hurt that she will keep on this pretenc no matter what. But he is also scared that when she keeps on saying she is still in love with her previous lover, does that means she prefers him from 3 years ago?. It hits him harder as now with hindsight he can see that this is his payback for telling her that to him she was merely Mudeok's substitute.
(Ok, I love that Jinyowon Annex scene, it's one of the few scenes where Uk is so visibly out of control and desperate, he has shockingly properly mourned Mudeok and placed her in his past, has astonishingly found love again and now she is rejecting him for a man who from her past, who doesn't even recognkse her. So far I've only seen only 1 version of this scene from Uk's PoV. It's keeps switching on and off by varoque.)
In the Gwido, CY saves herself from the wraith. Read What If.... by JustWriteIt13 if you want to know the fight scene in detail.
Uk's revelation doesn't shock CY much. She knows him and it's not that surprising that he knew it though she can't help but think of their last conversation in Jinyowon's Annex conversation in different light.
O' Sword, Beloved by OLadyofHallowedHeights is a conversation CY holds with Uk before they are married since she is concerned of his plans after she dies.
After real JBY takes control of her body, plot goes according to Last War by Monmonie2003. It's so good and personally I'm of the opinion that the fight with the Firebird was very underwhelming.
But I am going with repeatinglitanies and vanillascribble that CY is the Firebird. And like the latter's story CY convinces everyone to let her deal with firebird so it can bid its farewell to the Ice Dragon. She strongly feels that their situation mirrors her and Uk's.
Even without the Firebird, the rest have a lot to deal with. Jin Mu's organization, the Unanimous Assembly, the King and royal guards, etc.
And the 7 stars with King's star are Cho Yeong, Jin Bu-Yeon, Jin Cho-Yeon, Park Dang-Gu, Go Won, Seo Yul and So-I.
The Unanimous Assembly holds a rain making ritual, where CY has to act as the Jinyowon's head priestess but JBY is the one who runs the show.
And while I do agree that CY not picking up sword again makes sense for her character arc but it's JBY who should've killed Jin Mu with that cursed ice stone and CY should've beheaded him. They are the ones whose life was ruined by him since childhood.
CY almost dies in the process but is revived by the Ice Dragon in gratitude. (I also kind of like to imagine her with short hair since she was caught in a literal inferno.)
When CY wakes up JBY informs everyone that to restore Jinyowon she'll require time. And its time they need since entire Daeho is convinced that JBY's real face belongs to Naksu and CY's to JBY. A revelation like this can't come so quick.
So, the next year goes with CY continuing the pretense of JBY while the latter fixes Jinyowon and the former along with Uk carches the escaped relics. This goes like Alchemy of Souls Season 3: Virtue's Monster by @gossamerorigins. It's canon for me at this point.
My fancast for PJO because I think we all should imagine as we please to without people being awful to us.
I grew up reading books so blonde Annabeth was always in my head but Leahbeth is doubtlessly brilliant. Before that I had never imagined Annabeth any other way though I headcanoned Percy as Cuban and Grover as Black.
After seeing Leah as Annabeth and Walker as Percy I wondered why stop there? Why can't we have these characters as every ethnicity as we please?
Because our favourite characters often are those who look like us, speak the same language, have the same culture, food, music, upbringing, like us. It makes them more relatable to us. Leah's casting has included black culture through Annabeth (maybe its just me but I didn't see much of black culture in this fandom before Leahbeth) so here we are let's make these characters more ours. Racists can hate all they want.
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Any kind of hateful comments against any culture, ethnicity, religion won't be tolerated so take your hatred somewhere else.
Eva Green as black haired Athena
Rosamund Pike as blonde Athena
So, as we already have Leah Sava Jeffries here are others
Mckenna Grace and Emily VanCamp as blonde Annabeth
Billie Gadsdon and Raffey Cassidy as black haired Annabeth
Taylor Richardson as redhead Annabeth
Zhao Lusi as Chinese Annabeth
Go Youn-jung as Korean Annabeth
If anyone has got fancasts of other characters or want to add in this, I would love to see those.
And since I've added Annabeth Wayne tag I'll say my fancast for it is a mix of Gotham 2014 to Batman 2022, and Superman 2025.
John Stamos and Lori Loughlin as Percy and Annabeth (Actually, I was going to make Stamos as Dick Grayson since he has a mullet in the show but then I learned he is half-greek and well who else he can be but Percy. Plus Loughlin is blonde and thus I can't fancast her as Kory)
I recently watched Superman (2025) and now its canon for me along with Batman (2022).
So, here are my headcanons for Annabeth Wayne AU
1. Why did it take me so much time to learn that Lous Lane is canonically dyslexic? I hc that she and Bruce meet in college and become friends not a shocker since they both are unhinged. Anyways, this leads for Bruce to create so many aids through WE for people with learning disabilities.
This is why Waynes know Annabeth is dyslexic from the beginning. Annabeth isn't frustrated by her dyslexia since she has her godmother to look up to.
2. Annabeth's favourite superhero is Mr. Terrific. No further discussion. *cue sad batfam and Clark*
Last one isn't specific for this AU
3. When Metropolis citizens were evacuating some even went to Gotham. Additional point to the eternal Gotham vs Metropolis rivalry.
To everyone saying Gladys and Hector are same as Cora and Robert. The answer is NO
Gladys by Bertha's own admission in S3E3 is 17. We've barely seen her interact with Hector. Immediately after her marriage she is shipped off to England from everything she is familiar.
Cora was 20 when her parents took her to London for the Season. She experienced what'll happen when she'll marry into these bankrupt people with their white elephant estates. She'll always be social climber to them. Her half jewish ancestry a constant reminder.
Did Cora have a choice? No. Did she know what life she'll live? Yes.
Plus while Robert proposed during her first season in London. It took them 2 years to marry. Violet canonically objected to the match and they must have spent time on hashing out the details on Cora's dowry and the entail.
During those 2 years Cora must have returned to America at least once. Robert might have visited her. We don't know for sure but even with chaperones Cora and Robert must have gotten some semblance of each other's character.
Remember Cora was 22 when she and Robert married. Note the difference between theirs and Gladys and Hector's relationship.
And stop putting Bertha Russell on the same level with Martha Levinson and Violet Crawley.
We as a society don't talk often about how the ending given to My Fair Lady by Hollywood is absolutely rubbish.
Eliza Doolittle from the start is shown as an independent woman who only wants to gain skills to further her career. Yes for a brief moment there she is attracted to Professor Higgins but I like to attribute it to proximity for a long period of time (6 months according to the wager) but after the Embassy Ball she calls Higgins out for his highhanded, misogynistic personality. Then why is she shown to go back to him to in the end?
George Bernard Shaw, writer of Pygmalion from which the plot of My Fair Lady is drawn up, protested the ending till 1938 that Eliza going back to Higgins is unacceptable to him and he gives a marvelous explanation for it
"When Eliza emancipates herself – when Galatea comes to life – she must not relapse. She must retain her pride and triumph to the end. When Higgins takes your arm on 'consort battleship' you must instantly throw him off with implacable pride; and this is the note until the final 'Buy them yourself.' He will go out on the balcony to watch your departure; come back triumphantly into the room; exclaim 'Galatea!' (meaning that the statue has come to life at last); and – curtain. Thus he gets the last word; and you get it too."
According to Shaw Eliza and Freddy get married and are happily running a green grocery-cum-flower shop, with Colonel Pickering providing them with funds for it. Freddy is truthfully a much better choice, yeah he is a himbo but he is kind, doesn't look down on Eliza and loves her for who she is unlike Higgins whose goal is to mould her into what a perfect woman is according to him.
Two well known versions of My Fair Lady are
Rex Harrison plays Professor Higgins in both.
1) The Broadway version in 1956 starring the magnificent Julie Andrews (of Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Victor Victoria, Princess Diaries, etc.) and John Michael King (from various musical theaters)
And
2) My Fair Lady 1964 starring the iconic Audrey Hepburn (of Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, Charade, etc.) Hepburn's father was a Nazi sympathizer but she danced to secretly raise money for the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis even though she was literally starving. Her mother and she also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in the family. She was a UNICEF ambassador and continued to do humanitarian work even while diagnosed with cancer.
Not sorry for getting sidetracked, I am sick of people remembering her as just a pretty face.
and the dynamic Jeremy Brett (of Dracula, Rebecca [In this Mrs. Danvers played by Anna Massey; she and Brett had divorced by then], various Shakespeare plays, and most popularly known for Granada's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, etc. [More famously known as the most faithful adaption of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes isn't a condescending know-it-all but an empathic, cheeky, genius. It also does justice to other character such as Dr. Watson {Victorian Husbands}, Mrs. Hudson {Not just a character for laughs}, and most especially Irene Adler who is often portrayed as a notch on Holmes' bedpost and not the brilliant woman she was and for whom Holmes had immense respect] He has also played both Dorian Gray & Basil Hallward as well as Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson). Also well known for his work in mental health
Sorry, got distracted a huge Holmes aficionado and it is a wonderful series
In both Eliza returns to Higgins and while yeah actors didn't have much sway in the plot direction but I do wish someone had stayed true to Shaw and if not him then at least to Eliza.
Metamorphoses a poem by the Roman poet Ovid is the basis for this story. In it the sculptor Pygmalion is disgusted by prostitutes and decides to remain celibate but then creates a statue of a woman whom he deems perfect and falls in love with her, and yes he does the deed with it. Later Venus brings the statue to life and they live 'happily ever after'.
This is awful beyond measure 'cause what is this other than society and patriarchy shaping women into what they think is right. Not that I am surprised that Ovid is the creator of it. His other famous story of Medusa is that she was raped in Athena's temple by Poseidon and then Athen cursed her, is a well known to all. Few know that in the Greek version she is the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto and her and Poseidon get together in a field. Athena is nowhere in the Greek story but of course Ovid just had to go ahead and butcher it and put two women down.
Honestly, why don't we follow Shaw's version more or if that is unacceptable then let Eliza remain what she is at the start an independent woman who takes good care of herself.
It galls me that fanfiction fails here with all the stories being of Eliza and Higgins pairing. Why are we doing this?
Now I am going to add as many tags I can for maximum reach, sue me!
Kim Sa-bi from Resident Playbook is such a hypocrite.
In ep. 4 when Oh Yi-young is tasked by Professor Seo to write a paper, Sa-bi in her jealousy deleted the paper and then even threw away an important note Professor Seo left for Yi-young.
It waz only because Yi-young has a large heart that she forgave Sa-bi after she learns those deeds (on her own because Sa-bi never confessed or apologised). She even included Sa-bi in an important surgery. And all Yi-young received was a measly 'I'm sorry but don't ask why'.
Yi-young never should've forgiven her, instead should've brought Sa-bi's actions to light since this set a dangerous precedent.
In ep. 6 when Pyo Nam-kyung forgets to add material in hers and Sa-bi's paper, Sa-bi is all 'but its hurt me so I should point it out and get an apology in return'. Like what is with that two-faced attitude?
And when Sa-bi learns that the cold, robotic colleague Nam-kyung was complaining was her, she reacts in a 'are you sure that's not Yi-young?'
I'll never like her. She like a young Myung Eun-won to me.
Charlotte understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.
To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn’t a compliment to a woman, it’s more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.
“For a woman raised to be purely ornamental, marriage is her livelihood. If Lady Ingram hadn’t married for money she would have been a fool.” “So you truly don’t despise Lady Ingram?” “For making rational choices for herself? No, I do not despise her. I do not applaud her, but I do not find her decision to marry the richest man interested in her reprehensible.”
A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
Mrs. Watson had once relayed to Charlotte an opinion on an adolescent Lady Ingram, by a woman who had worked for the Grevilles. Her main impression of Lady Ingram at that age was one of frustration. A frustration that approached rage, at times. Lady Ingram hadn’t been angry because she’d wished to marry a different man, as Mrs. Watson had thought at the time, but because her life hadn’t been her own. Charlotte did not pity Lady Ingram—the woman played no small role in her own fate. But she sometimes thought of the former Miss Alexandra Greville, brought to London and told to smile, told to be happy that an eligible man loved her, told that upon marriage she would have everything a woman could desire. When it should have been obvious to all who knew her that such a life would unravel her. Yet they’d pushed it on her with all their might—and made it plain that for her to do anything else would be a gross betrayal to her family. Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn’t escape the expectations that came of being women.
Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas
I love Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas. It's genderbent version of the OG Sherlock Holmes. The characters are intriguing, the plot is engaging and the romance while minimal leaves one yearning for more. There is friendship, sisterhood, mentorship, queer as well as autisitc and anxiety ridden characters, different perspectives from people who have lived varied lives, the feminism isn't too on nose. It's really good.
Though the one character I can't get out of my head is Alexandra Greville or as she is more commonly know Lady Ingram. Though unlike with Mrs. Watson who is bisexual, it's never specified that Charlotte is demisexual or that Former Lady Ingram she is aro-ace but it's the conclusion I've come to.
I truly love Lord Ingram or Ash as his friends call him, he is a good father, friend, person; in fact a literal green forest. But my heart breaks for this woman and all others in the past and present who are tied to the marriage yoke because it's the norm and good for them.
This doesn't mean I support her actions of being a spy for Moriarty, plotting her husband's murder, and even unknowingly giving up her sister's life to save her own but I can't ignore the fact that she did this to escape a life that was thrust upon her.
She could've done better, her actions are inexcusable but it's just not fair that women are confined to a certain life no matter the era.
And a standing ovation to Sherry Thomas for creating such compelling characters.
1) Roman!Percy being switched to Camp Half Blood while Greek!Jason is in Cam Jupiter
2) Annabeth and Reyna are the ones who are switched instead
There are some really good stories in both of these.
But what I am quite interested is in Annabeth and Reyna are switched except this time there is also Roman!Percy at Camp Jupiter as the Co-Praetor with Reyna and Greek!Jason is the leader of Camp Half-Blood with Annabeth.
This is a good plot point to dish out their powers, skills and trauma ('cause where will we be without angst and PTSD).
I just think there is a lot of potential to it. I kind of got the idea from would it really kill you (if we kissed) by @greenconverses. It's one of the best stories ever, go read it if you haven't already.
Plus there are quite a few stories where Percy is a god and Annabeth's the Titan Killer not unlike the aforementioned story where both are Titan Killers.
I am just going to tag the authors I know are on Tumblr: @perceabeth, @greenconverses, @forevfangirlwrites, @perseannabeth, @impossibleandinsufferable, @caffeinatedflumadiddlebutpjo, @mrthology, @blackjacktheboss, @phykios, @darkmagyk, @seaweedbraens, @dotshiiki, @annaethchase, @sar-soor, @imaginmatrix, @percabeth4life, @romanitas, @bananannabeth , @whitesunlars, @chironshorseass
Guys, I've just found a story where Annabeth and Reyna are indeed exchanged and there is Roman!Percy. Plus this story has a very interesting plot and includes historical accuracy that is the Capitoline Triad.
