"live well, percy jackson."

gee | ♀ | demi | 🇧🇬 basically a random clusterfuck of fandoms. i take all crack ships seriously. sometimes art, sometimes fic. occasionally nsfw. (header by the lovely jinngersnap.)

[ironpour]

I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[trautkeinenartigenkindern]

I'm about to say something controversial. I watched Nolan's Odyssey today and overall enjoyed it. Details under the readmore

Stuff they changed that annoyed me:

- Odysseus doesn't feign madness, instead honorably follows Melenaus because he fears Agamemnon's reaction if he doesn't

- Odysseus is more honorable than he is smart, what's that stupid fucking Thing with warning the prey. Idiot (I know it ties into the overall characterization and final message, but ugh. This is ODYSSEUS)

- Doesn't even eat any of the Cyclops' sheep, the Cyclop just starts eating people willy nilly. Okay then. Kinda following that:

- His men dying is truly more whims of the immortals instead of Odysseus' decisions. Sigh.

-Sinon's change of narrative is kind of ambivalent, at least it's interesting I guess, but again. It's Sinon!

- Melantho being Like That... is not innovative at all and very much follows the misogyny of the original. Found it tiring and boring.

Stuff I liked:

- Penelope... of course they went with that casting. And I think that's fully correct, don't know what people's deal is.

- The colors are actually fine? Have you been to the Mediterranean? It looks like that when you walk around there.

- Being inside the horse felt more believable than it ever did in any book version I ever read

- The opening of the gates was also pretty realistic. It's a stealth AND speed mission and it's a close call. It has to be.

- Agamemnon being so fucking unlikeable. They put him into historical and political context pretty well. This is HIS war and he was willing to sacrifice all these people including his daughter.

- Zendaya as Athena/ Cassandra. I mean... it's Zendaya. But I really liked this version, because it focuses on her canonical horror of what she has unleashed upon Troy.

- I liked that it assumed you are here because you like the Myths and know something about it. Little references everywhere, doesn't bother immediately explaining everything

- Callipso as an ambivalent yet sympathetic character, but also the horror of her. She decides what's good for you and you WILL like it.

- Speaking of horror: Great body horror with Circe. That transformation is PAINFUL. Same with the the depiction of Hades

- How the men stop listening to Odysseus and start following Eurylochos

- Tom Holland in that wonderful outfit. The one when he does paperwork at night. That's the guy the internet fell in love with, very Umbrella reminiscent

- Pretty great depiction of the classic kind of PTSD as it was first constructed by western psychiatry. The wounds you afflict yourself with by being a war criminal

- And finally: Taking responsibility even for stuff you're not actually responsible for is a kind of hubris. Important message to myself and many people I know, actually.

- Bonus: This movie ISN'T grimdark! I know we all harp on Nolan for making everything grimdark, but this movie really isn't. They really said "most wars are crimes so terrible that we lose our own humanity when we engage in them. However, we can reforge that. We can decide to not engage again."

[brighteuphony]

Poor Sakura, she's gotta depend on others to read to her.

Kakashi falling apart when reading Icha out loud will never not send me.

[lamuliz]

two pretty bestfriends

[gvardiol]

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM???

now you have!!!! 🥰🎀

[postalswag]

[translatingpostsinfrench]

swagpostal

[temothylol]

if i came to investigate a case and the main suspect was named “judas duplicitous” i’d throw in the towel dude

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

the benoit blanc movies show really beautifully how to write a queer character whose story is not centered around their queerness. it's shown that benoit blanc is gay married (to hugh grant!) it's shown that he participates in queer mediums like musical theater and fashion, but none of those things are ever explicitly remarked on. he doesn't have a big coming out scene because he doesn't need one; and the subtle details about him not speaking to his mother, the way he associates a church with homophobia, allows us to draw conclusions about how his family felt about his queerness without making that the sole conflict in his story. the conflict in benoit blanc's story is not that he exists in the world as a gay person, it's that he's always trying to wrangle a bunch of 30 somethings into not confessing to crimes they didn't commit

[rainynightinneverland]

I know it just came out but Benoit Blanc’s clear visceral reaction talking about his parents and especially his mother being very religious and not getting along with them while standing in the church talking to a priest and trying to get back into his Benoit Blanc-groove where he’s comfortable again just broke my heart right from the damn get go

[rainynightinneverland]

Happy Pride to Benoit Blanc and Phillip and their sourdough starter!

[bulkhummus]

someone sent me an anon ask about rocky meeting eva and i tried to post it not once but twice and tumblr ate it both times so now im just regular posting it here

i think ryland would grow to understand stratt’s choice with time, and even thank her logic of it because it led to his meeting of rocky, but i dont think he’d ever really forgive her for what she did to him

(Ryland had to prep rocky before they touched down to meet Stratt so he wouldnt charge her at first sight)

thank you for the request :o)

[bulkhummus]

someone sent me an anon ask about rocky meeting eva and i tried to post it not once but twice and tumblr ate it both times so now im just regular posting it here

i think ryland would grow to understand stratt’s choice with time, and even thank her logic of it because it led to his meeting of rocky, but i dont think he’d ever really forgive her for what she did to him

(Ryland had to prep rocky before they touched down to meet Stratt so he wouldnt charge her at first sight)

thank you for the request :o)

[edgebug]

"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."

"come again?"

"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."

"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."

a long and judgmental pause. then:

"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"

[vampirejuno]

Can you imagine being stuck in space completely alone with only the corpses of your friends for company, and the first living thing you meet after 46 years of that misery is a fucking weird alien creature who just rolls up with crazy advanced tech and goes "hi let's work together" and makes it possible for you to save your world through the power of friendship and molecular biology. AND THEN you find out that in this creature's language, its name means "mercy". Happened to my good friend Rocky btw

[atomikats]

curiouser and curiouser

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[djpachipikachu]

rocky being a fucking freak is my favorite headcanon This is who was first contact with aliens. doomed all eridians really