HumbleFangirl

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth." - Baha'u'llah

[golden-wisegirl]

biblically accurate percy jackson and annabeth chase btw

edit: keep em coming !!!!!

another one thank you 🤧

well 😋😋

[twinsarekeepers-deactivated2026]

I really love how the show is emphasizing that even though Percy wants Annabeth to act like a kid her age, he’s not successful in being the person who can do that for her. He’s just a kid himself and he can’t make her feel safe in the way a parent does, nor should he. He’s her partner and her equal and they grow together, which is why she can never just be a kid around him.

Annabeth ending the season in Thalia’s arms, though. Because even though Thalia acknowledged how much she’s grown, it was the first time Annabeth truly felt like the kid she is.

[andrew-garfielld]

AYO EDEBIRI AND JEREMY ALLEN WHITE — 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards (January 07, 2024)

[backstepping]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

[comehomet0myheart]

Past Lives works so well for me because I am so enamoured with pragmatism in fiction.

I read and watch a lot of stories about idealized love stories and I often enjoy them too! I spent my entire childhood believing that the teenagers who got together in the media I consumed would stay together forever. And then as I got older, I was naturally introduced to more stories about romances that didn’t work out. Still, it’s hard for me to think about those as pragmatic, most of them have this desire for sadness in them. They would make me feel as though the devastation was the point, that the narrative was forcefully bent toward the saddest outcome.

Past Lives doesn’t make me feel this way. Nora doesn’t stop talking to Hae Sung because of an unforeseen tragic circumstance. She makes a choice and goes through with it. Hae Sung puts it best during their conversation at the end of the film. She is the kind of person to leave. And he loves her because she is that kind of person. The “what-if” isn’t in wondering about if circumstances were different. No matter what, she would have chosen her plays over anything else. Her husband even notes that so much of how their relationship happened is because he fit so well into the life she wanted. The whole reason this film is called “Past Lives” is because that’s the only way to ponder about whether Nora and Hae Sung could be together.

It’s such a delightfully Asian perspective on it. “In another life” films are so common, but I always feel like Western movies do it in a kind of parallel universe kind of way. I love that in this one, Nora is so steadfast and consistent in her personality and desires, that there is no real contemplation and consideration of making her and Hae Sung’s relationship work. There is only a longing and a love.

[mydairpercabeth]

just saw the most heartbreaking annabeth take from ep 3

[mo-mode]

“But what does Grover bring to the table? He’s just the comedy relief character.” Grover is juggling the role of babysitter, mediator, and emotional manipulator and he cracks jokes too? Give him a BREAK

[bluechocolatechips]

annabeth trying to dismantle a GOD's unbeatable machine because her fatal flaw is hubris and percy just knowing he was going to sit on the machine because his fatal flaw is loyalty THIS FUCKING WRITERS ROOM PLEASE SPARE ME

[coutureicons]

[greenconverses]

been reading you for at LEAST a decade and all your versions of percabeth are canon to me <3 that being said, i’m looking for a percabeth breakup/makeup fic and i can’t find it. i think it was called After??? do you know what happened to it and if it still exists??? i’m back in my percabeth hole and want to relive the glory days

I believe you're looking for @ignitesthestxrs' masterpiece; it's one of my favorites!

You can find it here.

[audarcy]

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

[bellamyblcke]

i think one of the interesting things in tsitp is that conrad and jeremiah both deeply suffer from being susannah’s sons. like susannah wanted everything to be perfect and light all the time and she has one son with severe anxiety issues who thinks if he just suffers alone everything will be all right and one son who is an extreme people pleaser who won’t ever center his own needs. and you get the two of them in a love triangle and suddenly you have a recipe for disaster. i think both kids have a lot of growing up to do, like conrad desperately needs to learn to be honest about how he’s feeling and actually let people in and jeremiah needs to stop performing okay at every turn and actually work through his issues. and the fact that the love triangle with belly has set them at odds with each other where they both feel that they just have to be okay with whatever happens and will therefore behave in their typical dysfunctional ways… it’s messed up! its heartbreaking! it’s a residual symptom of their grief! they can never escape their mother not really! and while i don’t think susannah did any of it intentionally i think like with what we see with aunt julia she didn’t realize the amount of pressure her desire for happiness was and now she has two sons who really struggle with how to be happy at all

[cal-kestis]

GRATUITOUS GIFS OF ANTHONY BRIDGERTON 🎩 (13/?) ↳ being cute in the background

[joeypottrs]

“You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires…. Night and day, I dream of you...”

ANTHONY BRIDGERTON AND KATE SHARMA IN BRIDGERTON SEASON TWO (PART ONE)

(part two)

[naslostcontrol]

BRIDGERTON Season 2 + tumblr (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) and one twitter posts (7)

[kathanisharma]

thinking about how in the epilogue, anthony kisses kate right where the bee stung her

[mskatesharma]

Kate + saying 'yes'

I can't stop thinking about how Anthony is asking Kate this question at this moment, because every other time he's asked Kate a (important) question that he desperately wants her to answer 'yes' to, she's always essentially said 'no', because she doesn't think she deserves to answer 'yes' to the things desperately wants (these are just the instances from the top of my head):

- episode 4

- episode 5

- episode 6

- episode 7

- episode 8

And even though she's actually the one asking him to dance in episode 8, he still needs to be certain that she's not going to change her mind about this dance; this dance that they both think will be their last together, and probably one of the last times they'll ever see each other. And even then, Kate doesn't actually say 'yes', she just holds her hand out for him to take.

And then when the dance is over, they hold hands for the longest time because they don't want it to be over, and you can feel the anguish in the way they're looking at each other; they don't want to be the first to let go, in fact they don't want to let go at all, but it becomes too much for Kate because she's convinced that he doesn't actually love her. Even with everything that's happened, Kate is convinced that she doesn't deserve his love, or rather; that she hasn't done enough to earn his love, so she has to walk away.

And so then when do we finally get Kate saying yes to Anthony? After he's found her in the rose garden, and told her that he loves her and wants to marry her because he can't imagine his life without her. It's nothing to do duty, or her being a burden and having to earn her place and prove herself; Anthony loves Kate simply for *her*. And so this is when she finally says 'yes' to Anthony, and with this 'yes' she's promising her life to him, and that's the most important 'yes' she can give him, because finally she believes that she deserves it.