All My Fandom Junk

This is a secondary blog for all the fandom/media franchises that I like. Disney, Dreamworks, Marvel, Anime, Netflix, HBO, book franchises, etc.

[midnightrings]

Endless gifs of Edwina Sharma - 4/∞

[prinnay]

Coworkers trying on magic coats

[heathcliffgirl1847]

when people are named baker or fuller or tanner or something its like HA 🫵 I KNOW WHAT YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDPA DID 🫵🫵

[once-upon-an-animation]

Just saw the castings for Hera , Demeter, and Apollo.

1) Ming Na Wen as Hera - Considering Rick’s history with the ‘mean Asian woman/girl’ stereotype in his works, I don’t know how to feel about this. I don’t trust him or the rest of the writing crew to approach East Asian Hera with caution, especially because the source material has already demonstrated Hera to be an ill-spirited, inconsiderate, petty and vain woman. After Mrs. Chase and Drew Tanaka, it would be pretty nice for the Riordanverse to have an East Asian female who isn’t a mean person? Idk. I’m not East Asian myself, so my voice shouldn’t be centered in this dialogue.

2) Jennifer Beals as Demeter - have no thoughts on this. Demeter continues to be treated as an afterthought-nobody in the Riordanverse, so unless the show team plans to expand on her role in a meaningful and thoughtful way, I couldn’t care less.

3) Hubert Smielecki as Apollo - let’s have a moment of silence for all the PJO Twitter Stans who promised to have a major mega meltdown if a White guy was cast as Apollo.

[dapiando]

ik this is late but i saw your post about leah's interview where she says she doesn't understand why people think show percabeth is rushed and it confused me bc hasn't walker been in interviews talking about how he's been encouraged to 'lean into' percabeth and that they always end up using that take, and how there are lines that he feels belong in season 5? so they literally have their main actors saying opposite things regarding percabeth in interviews??

i'll concede maybe 'rushed' is the wrong word though. show percabeth is extremely heavy-handed and lacking the subtlety that made book percabeth's development feel natural. people aren't calling it rushed for no reason lol

Considering walker's interview happened before the season released (or very early on, i forget) and leah's after, I feel like it's safe to assume her comments on this subject were very much comming from disney's crisis management re: the reception of season 2. Like I said on my post, I don't fully believe this is her totally genuine opinion on the topic, it might be (i dont know her or her personal opinions), but you can notice the difference in how the two of them talk about it. Walker's take on it is from a performance standpoint and how he understands the character he's playing ("percy wouldn't say this/act like this at this point in the story"), whereas Leah's is a writing and audience perception pov ("people were already saying there's too much percabeth in the show, so annabeth couldn't kiss him"). And ofc actors can talk about the writing of their show, but she doesn't talk about it in the way it impacts her performance, she focuses on why the changes were made (to appease the viewers), which seems much more like a production/studio concern rather than a individual actor's.

Disney's PR training is no joke, so I don't think it's unlikely that we will be seeing a subtle backpedal on this opinion in future walker interviews, bc they def cant have their two stars having such diverging takes. But I also don't doubt they might try to milk the "this silly boy is Blind to romance" angle, since way back during s1 press, he mentioned he didn't notice percabeth was meant to be a thing (cause you know, he was like 9 when he read it, it makes sense he wasn't attuned to the friends to lovers subplot in the ya adventure series), and people still use this as a reason to argue he shouldn't be listened to when talking about percabeth.

[fanfic-lover-girl]

I'm sorry but if a character's backstory needs to change to fit the actor, the actor does not embody that character. The actor should be moulded to fit the character, not the other way around.

[6noura]

"But Rick said–" Let me stop you right there.

The day you guys realize Rick will say anything to get the fandom's attention is the day I'll rest

[helenofsparta2]

Percy Jackson is the only fandom I've been in, where you get called a "book purist" because you actually wanted an adaptation of the book series, and not a worse rewrite, where they completely change entire characterizations, plots and themes of the original story

[oxyintelligent]

I don’t know, I find it genuinely upsetting that Rick Riordan spent +10 years egging on his fans’ anger about how much the movies failed them and how they deserved a faithful adaptation, only to finally get that chance and choose to rewrite his books and materialize his retcons instead.

[verabraun-art]

@ladynoirfanao3 had been waiting to commission a Lukanette piece for a while, and I just want to thank her so much for choosing me for it! 💙🙏🏻 It was amazing to work on, and it’s truly one of my favorite illustrations of the year! follow me on instagram verabraun_art

[lymphonodge]

scrappy doo has been found dead in miami

[snootgaze-deactivated20170620]

is he okay

[lymphonodge]

hes alright but he died

[tepkunset]

when you ask a knowledge keeper something and they say "good question"

[once-upon-an-animation]

What if we boot Rick out and let Walker take over? 🤔

[sentient-stove]

Rick Riordan so scared of Percy&Annabeth having unintentional negative consequences to some of their actions that he ended up leaving Hylla and Reyna on that damn island and gave them no future conflict with Percy lol

[demigodsanswer]

I honestly don't think people would be so frustrated with any short comings or plot changes in the TV show if RR, show runners and writers, and even cast members didn't immediately talk to the press about why they needed to make XYZ change because the books were so bad actually, and their change is so good and so smart.

I think, for the most part, people understand that changes need to be made to fit a new medium and a new demographic of people engaging with it, but each change made so far seems to come along with some put down of the books. Books that are 1) good, 2) beloved, and 3) the primary reason anyone is watching the show.

[once-upon-an-animation]

*taps sign*

[sentient-stove]

Broke (show!zeus): extra petty tyrant god who punishes his daughters in an extremely one dimensional way

Woke (book!zeus): god who loves his daughters but his intervention often comes across as self serving and tends to damage his relationship with them

[once-upon-an-animation]

Very glad I jumped ship after the siren episode because the show’s refusal to allow any god to be nuanced and complexed aside from Poseidon and Hermes would have driven me insane.

Rick has always had a very poor handle on how complicated of an entity Zeus should be, but this show proves that he has completely lost the art of nuance that made this series so compelling in the first place.

I don’t usually hope for shows to get cancelled because I know a lot of people are depending on this production for work, but if that’s the only way for Rick and Disney to realize how badly they fumbled with this adaptation, then…………