[ikeasharksss]

some things

im watching pjotv illlegally/pirating it until either s1 is done or d+ does something about it's $2mil donation to israel

as soon as i find a working pirate link it's going on a rb of this post & getting pinned

we're all in this together ppl, stopping genocide is more important than a tv show

[ikeasharksss]

EPISODES 1 & 2 OUT NOW!!! 123 MOVIES!!!

[bayetea]

I am a little drunk write now so sorry if this post is too incisive and eloquent to be understood by anyone but there is an unsolved mystery in the percy jackson universe ghat urgently needs solving and it's rhis:

where is He getting the fucking candy from

I'm shaking this is Serious. i have proposed some theories and evidence for everyone to look at but feel to share your own theories so long as they are pg-13 and rooted in Facts and Logic

THEORY 1. he gets the candy from a supplier who is one of his mortal "friends"

this excerpt is from botl but the illegal candy trade bit js from tlt and it's never mentioned again. percy is a total outcast in tlt and as far as I can remember he doesn't mention befriending a single person at yancy academy besides grover. so while percy may have pulled together a classroom friend or two by the time botl rolls around and he's newly attending goode high (paul's school) it just doesn't seem like percy had friends besides grover in tlt - especially given that he's gone to many different schools by the time tlt starts

grover has no need for mortal money and he eats fuckign. soda cans. he is probably not supplying the candy to percy

this doesn't mean that percy could not have been roped into an illegal candy trade by someone who is more of an acquaintance rather than an actual friend

THEORY 2: percy buys the candy himsef

percy has some cash in tlt. he may have used this cash to buy his candy in bulk for cheap to then sell it back to his peers at a higher rate for profit

we can safely reason that sally just gives percy some cash in case of emergencies or whatever else, so this holds up well enough

if sally told percy to only use the money for emergencies then I think he would feel too guilty to use it for other reasons. but sally is nice and fairly chill so she may have also told him that he can use it for other things he likes, including illegal contraband

THEORY 3: he steals the candy

percy jackson is a lot of things but he is NOT a thief;!!

THEORY 4: SALLY JACKSON is his illegal supplier

sally works at a fucikng candy shop. this is compelling evidence because she would just Give percy the candy for free. he can eat it himself or sell it back to his peers at unethical resale rates.me personally I am choosing tbe latter

is sally complicit in his crimes...? giving him "free samples" that she can grab at work and then encourage her son to sell them back to his schoolmates...? probably not to be honest because doing this could get percy in trouble, and with all the likely expensive private schools sally has to send percy to I don't think she's risking extra reasons that might get him expelled

this doesn't remove the possibility that percy might just keep a few extra gumballs from sally's free samples and sell them to his sugar-starved peers at yancy

CONCLUSION: theories 2 and 4 are rhe most viable and may even be occurring in tandem. either way though I am impressed by his business acumen percy jackson's broke ass belongs in JAIL

[mardyart]

mid/late 20s are made to rediscover your passions from when you were like 10 so nico di angelo it is

[the-ghost-king]

okay close your eyes and imagine... wait. you can't finish reading this post with your eyes closed. post canceled. open your ey- wait. oh no. OPEN YOUR EYES OPEN YOUR EYES OPEN YOUR EYES OPEN YOUR EYES OPEN YOUR EYEHS OPUN YOUR EYEDS ORPEM YOR EYEHS !!!!!!!!

[bayetea]

I would get annoyed if people make this post out to be something that it isn't but one reason why I like a mid-sized or plus-sized piper with a large chest/larger behind (basically any piper that doesn't have a waifish physique) is because I think that really lines up with the kind of teenage girl rick was going for in writing piper but wasn't able to execute effectively due to the misogynistic scaffolding with which he constructs her character, as well his own surface level analyses of why a teenage girl hailed as beautiful in a very superficial way might feel uncomfortable with the attention her "beauty" garners from others

any teen girl (especially teen girls in the bipoc category) who just so happens to have a body that gets labeled by the world as more ""mature"" knows what it's like to have their body made out to be an inherently sexual object. puberty can be such a humiliating experience on its own and then there's the added pain of being a girl with a large chest/large rear/etc and knowing that you're receiving more uncomfortable attention for it. when small girls wear miniskirts or tank tops it's acceptable and cute but when you do it it's vulgar and you get sent to the principal's office and have to borrow clothes from the lost and found to cover up more or else you get sent home. I would think this would be particularly exacerbated by the environment at those fancy private schools that tristan kept shipping her off to when all she wanted was a simpler life closer to her dad - hence why piper doesn't like telling people who her dad is because doing so will worsen the shallow manner with which people interact with her. piper values simplicity and being cared for based on who she is rather than what she looks like or who her dad is, yet she lives in a world that views her through such reductive circles of perception

we can use all of this to further reason why piper canonically prefers baggy clothes; it may be true that piper just doesn't like "girly" clothes in the way that a gender nonconforming girl might not like them but her reasons for not liking them are, by rick, always tied to a dislike of receiving attention and a disdain for girly girls, rather than simply not enjoying them for herself in a more neutral way. hence why I enjoy the aforementioned headcanon that piper is bigger and that she's used to people being weird about her body so she prefers hiding it, something that a lot of girls who are bigger/""bustier"" (not a fan of that word but as I type this I lack an alternative) are told is necessary to appear appropriately modest in public and/or professional spaces

there's even this bit after the claiming scene where aphrodite puts piper in a dress that shows off her cleavage, jason mentions that he has to try and suppress his attraction to her ("he wanted to wrap his arms around her, but he restrained himself") because he doesn't want to be like the other people who are only paying attention to her because of this transformation - which is to say that even jason notices the uncomfortable ways that piper is treated by others because of her appearance. the problem isn't piper or her body or the girly clothing, it's the way people perceive and behave around her because of the way she looks

so I think a piper with larger proportions just makes a lot of sense - it's at least preferable over things like "piper doesn't wear makeup and I, jason, assume that it's because she's not an attention-seeker" and "piper has a raggedy appearance, she does this on purpose because she's just too pretty and she wants to hide it". we get all these moments in the series (namely tlh) that frame conventional femininity as a thing that must be rejected and degraded in order to be seen as heroic, intelligent, tough, etc, and in many ways it's useful to show girls that they should never feel like they are obligated to align themselves with the construct that is femininity. however I find rick's approach to this extremely lacking because a lot of the time rick emphasizes the "piper is down to earth and humble and naturally beautiful, unlike other flashy shallow girls (aphrodite kids) who draw attention to themselves on purpose" of it all rather than standing firm on and emphasizing that there is a problem with the way we value and evaluate women&girls' bodies regardless of how feminine or unfeminine they are

tangentially I've posted about issues like this in the writing before and had people respond with things like "it's a shame that these books are for middle schoolers otherwise this could have been unpacked in-text so well" and I take issue with this because 1. rick wrote this himself! he wrote the line about piper being forced into a low-cut top that shows off her breasts and he wrote that charmspeak hinges upon how attracted the target is to the user. what you might consider to be too mature and complicated for a middle grade book series is already woven throughout the subtext (and actual text) of the series. 2. given rick's particular misogyny let's not assume that the thing holding him back from exploring this subject was the middle-grade rating of his books. we've had implied domestic violence, racism, ableism, oaths of virginity, etc take place in these books. we have male characters presented as insecure about how big their muscles are compared to other guys. is the line really drawn at examining how a girl is sexualized by others and how that might make her feel? because I think that's the same mindset that leads to bigger girls having to wear borrowed clothes from the lost and found

[mistertoe]

tfw youre haunted by the cringey thing you said as a 15 year old (it will haunt you forever)

[primordialcell]

i feel like scary standing water and i want to feel like a river or at least a creek

[gen-reads-tournament]

Gen Reads Tournament

Submissions are: OPEN

FAQ:

What is this tournament?

This is a bracket for books with no or very low romantic content, that aren't just for kids. Why? Because it can be really hard to find books that fit that brief, even for the mod (a trained librarian!) This tournament will highlight some gen reads, and at the end, all submissions will be added to a Google spreadsheet, which will be posted on this blog and left up for community reference and romance-free book recommendations.

Define "gen"?

In fanfiction, a gen fic is a story that focuses on something other than sex or romance. For the purposes of this tournament, any book with no or minimal focus on romance (i.e. background pairings but no romantic plots or subplots) is fair game! Canonically aro and/or ace characters are a bonus but not necessary.

What should I submit?

Any book or book series (audiobooks, ebooks, comics and graphic novels included), fiction poetry and biography, any and all genres, as long as it is romance-free or otherwise fits under the label of "gen"! You may submit as many titles as you'd like, but please for the sake of the mod's inbox limit yourself to submitting each individual title only once.

Can I submit propaganda for my favorite gen read?

YES! Propaganda is encouraged! This is first and foremost an excuse to crowdsource book recommendations for gen readers! I'm not going to completely ban anti-propaganda (defined as criticizing a competitor to promote your own favorite book), but please keep it in the spirit of friendly rivalry or I will be forced to revise that policy.

Additional aromantic and gen book-finding resources under the cut:

aro & ace books

Goodreads aro shelf

[whizzergoindown]

[unganseylike]

was voulez-vous on kavinsky's fourth of july party playlist

[unganseylike]

k: are you coming to Fourth? bring something impressive ;)

ronan: im not going to your stupid party

k: i kidnapped your brother

ronan:

[bayetea]

your comments on the post about annabeth and rick's misogynistic biases mentioned that percy is fatphobic. would you mind elaborating on this?

this feels like such a loaded question (no hate to u anon you're fine) so I want to clarify that I didn't really say that percy was fatphobic so much as I meant that rick himself is fatphobic, hence why he gives percy shitty lines of dialogue like this in tlo

percy's descriptions of clarisse's physical appearance aren't exactly kind either but I don't think they reached a point of being as bad as this line about leneus (though I feel like people might read this and feel a need to defend percy by saying that leneus was being a jerk so percy had a right to be fatphobic, or that this line isn't that bad because percy's only using a neutral descriptor about leneus' body which... please don't do that. there was absolutely no good reason to mention leneus' weight here. the line obviously exists to make fun of leneus being fat, we don't need to sugarcoat fatphobia to defend a fictional character)

I think it's the same problem of percy having some weird comments about characters (women&girls) who wear makeup as well as the aphrodite cabin in general. a character writing issue exists when percy is framed as a hero who evidentially stands up against bullies and hates people who make fun of others for being different and then rick gives him dialogue like this where he sounds like a fatphobic bully

percy isn't the only one like this either, leo also has an unpleasant way of likening some fat tourists in moa to "manatees stuffed into beach clothes" - and I'm only bringing up leo to indicate that rick's own biases are a pervasive thing that touch multiple characters as well as the story itself (remember when frank got magical liposuction in hoh for no reason other than to "reward" him for his heroism with a slimmer body.... lol. those "manatee" tourists also turned out to be evil monsters later. gee I'm noticing a pattern in rick associating fat/lack thereof with moral goodness). as I said in my recent post about thalia having sexist dialogue, this is just the problem of an author whose own bigotries stain the characters themselves in a way that lacks critical intentionality

this particularly sucks when one of pjo's many themes is disability/anti-ableism. it would be one thing if the fatphobia of it all were like annabeth's (metaphorical) ableism towards tyson where she learns the errors of her ways and apologizes for her behavior, but moments like this aren't framed like that. you the reader are intended to take the "overweight satyr" line as a sick burn. you're intended to think that calling fat people manatees is silly and funny. but why? I think the answer is pretty obvious, and the problem lies with the author's sense of humor

[lilboreddev-blog]

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

[thatblackwatchdouche-blog-blog]

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[wheezecheese]

I HAVE to reblog this eleven million note post. That’s the most notes I’ve ever seen on tumblr. Also my name is Jade, not Amanda.

[ghostbibooo]

I ain’t no Amanda, I’m a Spirit

[sanyamoloko]

Niko and his hellhound

[g0thnico]

[nicothespy]

no, nico di angelo would not be a jobless, uneducated housewife. no, he wouldnt reduce himself so his only purpose is to stay home while will works. no, that is not in character (it is literally the opposite)

finding out ppl genuinely keep talking about him like that even as a joke is insane. nico di angelo who went to find the doors of death on his own. nico di angelo who wanted to sacrifice his own soul to bring his sister back. nico di angelo who was willing to disappear into the shadows to save camp (a place that hadn’t yet accepted him). nico di angelo who went to tartarus to save Bob. nico di angelo who insisted on bringing people on mini non-official quests for the greater good, even going alone. nico di angelo who in the court of the dead admits he can’t sit still without adventure. who cant settle in peace without making a change, helping people.

also a side tangent: i dont think solangelo would settle into mortal life. nico especially is too disconnected and he’s finally turned camp into a home. i think the only thing camp half blood can learn from camp jupiter is new rome and i think that now campers are living longer, they could find a way for some to settle at camp for a longer time rather than always ‘graduating’ camp. plus, nico’s being set up to test lots of therapy methods etc etc for other campers so i think he could have a big role in campers’ mental health

many people say will would be that, but i think thats funny knowing will explicitly stated thats not his field. hes a medic, not a mental health specialist. thats why he sent nico to mr D. to begin with

[nicothespy]

lets all talk about nico di angelo getting groomed by minos more ok? without emo jokes preferably

[hallownest-archive-deactivated2]

imo the best way to interpret those “real people don’t do x” writing advice posts is “most people don’t do x, so if a character does x, it should be a distinguishing trait.” human behavior is infinitely varied; for any x, there are real people who do x. we can’t make absolute statements. we can, however, make probabilistic ones.

for example, most people don’t address each other by name in the middle of a casual conversation. if all your characters do that, your dialogue will sound stilted and unnatural. but if just one character does that, then it tells us something about that character.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]