Lipless Thomas

My AO3- LiplessThomas16 Girl (she/her) from Sri Lanka, artist, guitarist, crocheter, animal lover, bookworm, huge daydreamer, french learner, class topper, party animal, world class hugger, bilingualist

[atsumarii]

tbh pjo's main conflict feels so much more fleshed out than hoo's. in pjo you have the final battle last a few days, and you have percy strategizing and everyone being more serious. percy is treated like an intelligent character in tlo because he IS a smart person, he just gets flanderized into being an idiot. you have the characters panicking and getting tired and more than two characters dying in tragic ways, putting strain on the other characters. and everyone is stressed the fuck out. in hoo the final battle lasts like a few hours and gaia gets taken down relatively fast and the only prominent deaths are octavian's death and leo's death. and octavian's death is just a mentally ill teenager killing himself during an episode and it's not treated with the emotional weight it deserves because apparently he's pure evil and irredeemable. rick riordan i dont know what you were on while writing hoo but never go on that again. im not saying i didn't enjoy hoo, but oh boy do i have problems with it. unfortunately it's my favorite out of the three

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[hellenicnymph]

becky riordan confirms that the upcoming third season will have less fantasy via threads; questions why fans want to see more action scenes

mind you, the show is categorized in the action, adventure, and fantasy genres

the book series it was based on is also known for having, you know, a a demigod teenager fighting gods, monsters, and other demigod teenagers with a sword? where other demigod teenagers have knives, spears, bows...? where the last book is known for an all out war???

??? how is it unreasonable to expect an action adventure fantasy show to have action, adventure, and fantasy???

[lostinbooks16]

"Suprised how many adult fans want to see these kids fight" girl. Trust me when I say more than half your fans are adults who want the nostalgia of reading the series as 12yos again.

This show is slop- barely anyone, especially not the current ipad kids with their overstimulated brains and short af attention spans, are going to sit through this for over 2 seasons. Heck my sister and I started the show for the nostalgia but it was so mind numbingly boring and unappealing to the eye that we didn't even make it to the end of S1.

[kitkatopinions]

[maybemacdc]

quiet mornings

[raveninthedusk]

@morgwenmicrofic | prompt: "just this time" | pairing: morgana & gwen

inspired by this tiktok :) i made the list thinking of all the ways morgana and gwen could have been connected while morgana was in camelot, before she became, well, evil. and safe to say i cried :)

[lostinbooks16]

Tag, you’re it!

It's Tag Tuesday! If you want to play, post a snippet of one of your current WIPs. If you're not working on anything at the moment, rec one of your older works. Then send asks to 3 people to keep the game going!

Eeep! Thank you! <3<3<3

This is from a one-shot idea I had where Scott's wound from Theo keeps getting worse, and Stiles decides to go on an impromptu road trip to get Kira back to hopefully stop him from dying again. Liam ends up tagging along. And s5 Stiles and Liam trapped in a jeep for a few hours alone... does not go so well.

(This is very half-done and still needs a lot of editing, but hopefully it's coherent)

"Mason stopped me," Liam started again in a much quieter voice. He'd slumped back in his seat too, imitating his posture. "He pulled me away, and then called Scott's mom and sat with his dead body for fifteen minutes." 4 missed calls from Liam's Annoying Gay Friend. Are you sure you want to permenantly delete this voicemail? Stiles dug his nails into the sponge of the wheel- revelled in the dents he'd left behind. "And I know," Liam whispered- the edge in his voice clear even though his words were barely audible- "that if I'd been the one lying dead there instead of Scott, he'd be there too." Not like you.

[seth-whumps]

characters raised to be tools

Weapons. Trained, tested, forged in steel and fire. Failure is an inevitability that ends in death. Pain should not be felt--it should be recognized, familiar, and inconsequential

Martyrs. In the form of servants and princes, of leaders and underdogs. If blood is necessary, the martyr will lift their hands and offer it all

Shields. Like tempering a sword, but only to bear and not to lash out. Wounds are medals--not symbols of pride, but symbols of worth. A pretty shield is useless; scars mean a job well done

Experiments. Raised on the cold comfort of a lab table. Restraints are only necessary when they're not in their right mind. Is it honorable, to be twisted beyond recognition? Or is it just a necessary evil?

Monsters. Cruelty, caution, and regarding one as a creature beyond reasonable thought is tempering in its own right. But if you keep a leash at the right length, perhaps the massecre won't reach you. One can hope.

Idols. Pretty face, pretty name, pretty hands around their shoulders and throat. There to seduce, manipulate, force any feeling to come to the surface and twist it to their favor. Any genuinity stays locked behind the guilded cage that surrounds their pretty little heart

Trophies. Status and wealth and the traditions that keep someone at their heels, on their knees, to display and serve and decorate one's ballroom.

Sacrifices. Drenched in honorable clothes, prepared and adored and cleansed. The gift of hope at the cost of one's life. Is it taken with no fight? How can you escape the ropes you were born in?

[telumendils]

what makes me feel insane about interacting with people who use chat gpt in real life is that i can straight up be like "you know that program lies to you 50% of the time, right?" and they'll just laugh and shrug it off like it's no big deal they're feeding their brains false information because it's trendy. makes me wanna chew drywall.

[leenfiend]

Can u tell I love their loser fail dynamic

Plugging our pjo zine applications again too @twofoldzines

[lostinbooks16]

Once again having the repeated urge to get a boyfriend just so I can act out scenes from my fanfics to see if they make sense

[localvillagecryptid]

"Jinx left so Vi wouldn't have to choose between them, she left so Vi could finally be happy"

Is anyone else bothered by the implication that a relatively NEW girlfriend would be capable of making someone just as if not MORE happy than healing their relationship with their sister, who they spent YEARS wanting to make up with?

Me personally, I can get over a bad breakup. But if either of my sisters DIED, or simply chose to actively walk out of my life forever, that would fucking break me. I would not, in fact, move on. And maybe it's different for you guys, but Vi consistently spent an entire season trying to find and make up with Jinx. I don't know what the hell happened in season 2, but her saying "the only thing that kept me going was the thought of getting back to you" about her 7-year prison sentence doesn't sound like "I'll be better off with this girl I've dated for a total of 2 weeks".

Why is there an immediate assumption that any romantic relationship holds just as much if not MORE weight than any platonic/familial one? I'm sorry but why is it even a contest? I'm fully convinced that in season 1, had Jinx not demanded Vi kill Caitlyn- aka take a life, ANY life- and instead asked for LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE, she'd have done it. Remember what she said? She said they could leave the entire city behind, just the two of them, and never come back. She was ready to leave their home, leave Caitlyn, leave all of it, for Jinx. Because at the end of the day, all she wanted was her sister back. But suddenly season 2 rolls around and it's "Caitlyn makes her happier." When? Where? How? I don't see any scenes of Caitlyn making Vi happy. Oh but she did hit her though, after getting upset that Vi didn't want her to shoot at a kid.

I'm sick of romantic relationships being taken as "naturally" being the priority. Maybe if you're married with kids or something, you'll prioritize your partner over your friends, sure (but if you have kids they still take priority over your partner IMO). But a 2-week-long situationship? I've known people who get ghosted after longer than that. Fucking be real with me.

I'm simply not convinced that Caitlyn should matter this much to Vi so quickly. It shouldn't even be a competition. I genuinely cannot imagine Vi, who's SOLE MOTIVATION in season 1 was Jinx, and who's SOLE MOTIVATION in EVERY UNIVERSE and TIMELINE was her FAMILY, would ever "move on" and "be happier" with any romantic partner. Callous as it may sound, she can always get another girlfriend. There's no replacing her sister.

[your-worst-kenemy]

I actually really love this take because it’s completely true for most of storytelling when it comes to romance. The romantic relationship completely takes over a story and takes priority over any other loved ones.

This is why I get so angry about the Caitvi prison scene, because why would Vi prioritize Caitlyn (who imprisoned Jinx in the first place WITHOUT TELLING VI RIGHT AWAY) in that moment instead of trying to find Jinx as soon as she was able, as she’s been trying to do for the majority of the show by that point 😭😭

[liplessthomas16]

one of the many many reasons Vi deserved better than caitlyn

[justaz]

i have to squint at the timeline a little but i'm a big fan of the idea that percy watched a couple episodes of avatar the last airbender as a kid and tried waterbending and was successful and showed sally all excitedly and she immediately banned the show

[helenvaughans]

why are the most powerful people in the world all such whiny fucking babies now

[alphacrone]

when i’m sad i like to think about little prehistoric toddlers tagging along with the adults who are foraging and getting really excited over a Cool Rock or Big Leaf and handing it to a parent to put in the baskets with the Actual Food and the parents having to carry around all their baby’s little Treasures the way modern parents end up with acorns and flowers in their pockets after a trip to the park

[devilfromtheriverstyx]

Okay okay so… season 2

As someone who’s special interest is Percy Jackson, season two is just greatly upsetting.

I had some faith guys, I really did. And while it was better than the first season, it still fell into all the pitfalls that the first season did. I was hoping the last episode would pull the season out of the gutter but it just sealed its fate and made the hole deeper.

I couldn’t help but thinking MULTIPLE times during the season “wow, the movie did this better”/“this is nearly shot for shot from the movie.” (See the scene with the Grey Ladies and the taxi as an example for the latter.)

I think the fandom needs to get a grip and actually watch the movie. Sure, the movie changes a lot but it keeps the spirit of the books. On the other hand, the series gets more ‘right’ but loses the fun that the books had a replaces it with boredom.

The series makes me feel nothing. Oh Tyson fake out death? Nothing, Percy doesn’t act like he cares that Tyson’s dead or just Tyson in general. Chris is a traitor? Wow, who?? I only know that guy’s name. Oh Thalia’s back and she hates her dad? We’ve been told the whole season she’d be back so no surprise there(effectively ruining your cliffhanger); and we could do something interesting with this but we won’t because it’s the PJO tv show and it won’t actually do anything cool.

Me and my friends have joked about how it’s like a bunch of robots talking to each other since last season. It only got worse this season. Have yall ever played Genshin Impact? 85% of people talking this season felt like that. Where they stand in a circle, stare at each other, and talk without emoting, no matter what is happening.

Guys. Just because RR approved the changes doesn’t mean it’s good??? Stop this Uncle Rick shit because bro does not care

[tpwrtrmnky]

I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.