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Daughter of War: Chapter 4
There are some games—Percy had learned the hard way, at a very young age—that he couldn’t win with his powers. Lupa had warned him— that the sea does not like to be restrained, and the blood of the oceans has to be kept under control, lest they drown out the entire world in its rage. It was the curse of being a demigod, having the powers of a god, and being made to live as a human.
Full chapter on AO3
If you're ever bored, here's a list of Studio Ghibli films you can watch for free.
Castle In The Sky (1986) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Only Yesterday (1991) Porco Rosso (1992) Pom Poko (1994) Whisper of the Heart (1995) Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) Spirited Away (2001) The Cat Returns (2002) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008) The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.
For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.
how do I not share this, though (HIGHLY RECOMMENDING HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE IT’S MY FAVORITE)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) The Wind Rises (2013)
These are so good if you need something to calm you down on a bad day or after panics :)
a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features
do you get it or do you not know anything
more examples that people keep getting upset with me for not adding
That’s just how black cats be
artists obsessed and possessed by one single all-consuming theme or image and returning to it over and over until the day they die…. rearranging your entire life into an altar of unflinching devotion for this one thing, the only thing, and through that devotion making it everything….that’s how you touch the universe i think.
Hey just to chime in as a senior software engineer at a company even bigger than Twitter - I would like to assure everyone this is even stupider than it sounds.
Code is collaborative. Code is extremely even more collaborative at big companies, where I'd argue the value of your paycheck is for your ability to work adeptly inside the jenga-tower ecosystem of large, legacy, actively-deployed codebases and NOT for your ability to just open a blank file and start building your own bullshit.
Even in the most independent project I had to date, in a relatively newish repo (only a few years old) building out an entirely new feature--within the 100-ish touched files in my pull request, only about 20 of those files were new. The rest of those files contained careful augmentations and refactors of existing infrastructure to accommodate the new feature - because good code is usually modular and abstracted via very intentional architectural design. I built out a system that binds similar features to the same contracts, ensuring managing code need only be written once, behaviors will not stray between sibling features, and future new features could be easily written in to the system I abstracted.
If Elon Muskrat asked me to print that out? What? the diffs? Should I print (if I had to wager a guess) all ~10,000 lines of code contained within the touched files with in-line diffs of my changes? What about the functions, interfaces, etc. I'm importing from other untouched files? You won't be able to understand either Jack nor Shit of what they're doing in my code if you can't reference their actual implementation. Or should I just print the parts that I wrote and changed, which would be about as useful as a roadmap where you've scalpeled out the start and end points and said "and there's roads and stuff between these two places".
Twitter is not some little start-up where each engineer independently owns all their own files in the codebase. Muskscat should PROBABLY know this via Tesla or Space-X, but clearly he knows nothing about how either of those companies run under the covers.
I hope every Twitter engineer is laughing their ass off at him. And also printing out a few copies of their resume while they're wasting entire trees on this bullshit.
Your periodic reminder that Elon is, IN FACT, NOT an engineer of ANY sort, NOT in fact a programmer of any sort, nor, IN FACT, at all smart. He's the spoiled rich child of two spoiled rich people who made obscene money from a stolen aparthied era south african emerald mine run by slave labor. He took the money his parents gave him that they made in this HORRIBLY unethical manner, and spent it BUYING THE RIGHT TO CALL HIMSELF FOUNDER AND INVENTOR of things that were already doing well. Contracts to work under him ALL INCLUDE CLAUSES THAT HE GETS THE CREDIT FOR WHAT YOU CREATE. The man hasn't ever had a single idea that wasn't "Hey, I should get credit for that!" He DIDN'T found paypal, he bought the right to call himself the founder. He DIDN'T found Tesla or invent ANY of their products, he bought the RIGHT to call himself the founder and claim he invented things. He Is JUST a Pile of MONEY with no actual talent or brain.
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Day 29 - Psychosomatic Bullshit
Found the post!
i’m right and i should say it
There's a secret clit on top of every bald man's head
????????
I need to know more
The spark notes of the situation:
The current world champion was beat by this chess master who was considered low on the ranks. The world champion threw, in my opinion, a hissy fit and left the tournament they were in. World champion went to twitter to post some vague tweet about how the person who beat him could have cheated. This sparked a debate about how he could have cheated. The incredible normal and genius minds over at reddit came up with a theory about how he could hide a device to feed him information- anal beads. There's zero proof this happened, no way to prove it, and no proof even that the player even cheated. News articles are still deciding to write about it anyway.
This is like watching a conspiracy theory develop in real time, like... this could not be more obviously a smear campaign, even without knowing any details. Yet here we are. Anal bead cheatery.
Some names: The target of this insane smear campaign is 19 year old Hans Niemann. The world champion claiming he cheated is Carlsen, and the majority of the conspiracy hinges on a "statistical analysis" by a different grandmaster, Nakamura. Nakamura was set to face Niemann himself, but claims he will not do so because he doesn't 'trust' Niemann.
Setting aside the fact that the "statistics" that Nakamura used to propagate this conspiracy aren't particularly accurate in the first place?
The software used to generate the "perfect game" to compare against is literally, specifically not to be used for cheating detection. That is prominent in the terms of its service, its manual, and website.
But when Nakaumura went on his massively popular twitch livestream to show off the "proof" he conspicuously did not point out that little fact.
The entire video is him and his cohost just being unspeakably bad at statistics for an hour.
Professionals and international grandmasters who watched the game in which Niemann is accused of cheating pointed out at the time and have repeated since then that Carlsen played abnormally poorly, and Niemann actually played roughly on average for his recent performances.
At least one French grandmaster has stated outright that this appears to be a slander campaign to end Niemann's career when he's barely started.
And the reason I keep mentioning how young he is?
Because he did admit to cheating once: years ago, as a child. He was twelve years old when he cheated in online games.
12! Years! Old!
Now, combined with the basically fraudulent "statistical analysis," people are demanding that he be banned from the sport for life on the basis that he 'confessed to the crime.'
It's all so fucking horrible.
Did you know Elon Musk is the fucker who claimed this poor young man was using sex toys to cheat?
Imagine being told that because when you were in fucking middle school you cheated at an online game, one of the richest, most powerful, most destructive men on the planet gets to spearhead a massive sexual harassment campaign against you, and end your career permanently.
This is one of those instances where I don't like Tumblr automatically hiding the end of long posts, because a lot of people are seeing the first tweet, but most people probably aren't seeing the things people are appending about how this is a smear campaign.
whenever i see that post about swapping female characters with male ones in video games i always think about this
finally…men are becoming sluts again
nature is healing
So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.
Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.
One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.
All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.
So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.
And Mr. Hargrove loved it.
It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.
Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”
And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.
Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.
One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.
That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.
And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.
And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)
So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.
Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.
This is the first time I’ve seen this post but I know I’m gonna love reading it every time it shows up on my dash
hello. i absolutely adore your writing & the way u write percabeth. its just so satisfying, the dialog & the settings that u come up with, leaves me sated as if i had a good meal hahaha. i was just wondering, if you'll ever consider writing regency percabeth bc tbh, one can never have enough regency percabeth😆
thank you so much! I’ve always taken inspiration from fics I’ve read and shows/movies I watch, so I wouldn’t completely rule out anything. I’d love any recommendations you have and hopefully I get inspired! :)
Daughter of War: Chapter 4
A HoO AU, where Annabeth gets exchanged instead of Percy.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Sorry for being offline for so long, but just wanted to drop by and tell you that my HoO AU was just updated! So you can read the next chapter on Ao3 rn!
So, lately I've been finding myself feeling... annoyed with very modern reimaginings of Greek myths being presented as like the "secretly TRUE versions of the myths before they were warped by the patriarchy."
Like, I don't really have an issue with #GirlBoss Persephone retellings (even if I find them a bit tired because they so often have to rely on villifying Demeter to do so.) But to act like that very modern interpretation of the character and story has any basis in the classical sources is just untrue, and it is frustrating because it refuses to engage with the difficult or uncomfortable aspects of stories that are 3000 years old. It refuses to engage with the cultural differences and history of these stories that still find ways to speak to us today. Instead it just seeks to sanitize and erase the bits that don't fit into our modern sensibilities.
But the one that *really* gets me is Medusa. Because as modern audiences, the idea that Medusa being turned into a monster was *punishment* by Athena for being *raped* by Poseidon is really upsetting. And I've seen people legitimately try to say that *actually* Athena would never do that. Athena was actually *protecting* Medusa by making her a monster so that she wouldn't be assaulted again. #feminism
But HERES THE THING- the entire idea that Medusa was transformed by Athena after being raped? COMES FROM FUCKING OVID.
(Ovid is a Roman writer who HEAVILY REIMAGINED the Greek myths in Metamorphoses because he was working with a Roman world view and political agenda.)
All EARLIER classical (and actually Greek) sources have Medusa being *born a Gorgon.* (whether the Gordons as a rule are beautiful or monsterous varies, and Hesoid does mention in the Theogny that Poseidon and Medusa had a thing, but he doesn't describe it as rape. But that they "lay in a meadow of soft flowers", and theres no description of her being transformed because of this.)
So like.
No.
no.
Obviously, the idea that there is some "true" Canon Orthodox version of these myths just...isn't true. That's just not how that worked.
But no. There is no classical support for any of that.
Thanks.
2022 Selina Kyle is SOFT and characterized with traditionally feminine traits in stark contrast to Batman and the Riddler and it’s bumming me out how many fanworks vaguely or not-so-vaguely erase that. I’ve read fics that basically copy-and-paste Bruce’s toxic masculinity and difficulty being vulnerable with someone onto Selina as a way to give her some angsty inner conflict and just…Did we see the same movie??
These are two people whose backgrounds are basically as far apart as they could possibly be, it makes sense that their very similar traumas would not affect them the same way. It’s kind of an important thing in the movie how Bruce, Selina, and Edward all responded in different ways to being orphaned and alone most of their lives, you know. And it seems clear based on her characterization that while Bruce has in large part chosen his isolation, Selina’s trauma hasn’t made her reluctant to connect with people in quite the same way.
Yes, Selina’s chosen to pursue some payback against her father at the expense of having other things in her present life. In some ways she has more of a double life than Bruce is living at this point. All this is isolating and hasn’t exactly brought her into contact with a lot of trustworthy people. At the same time, ordinary people outside of the criminal underworld are not typically going to be the kind she can fully be herself with either. Even getting close to Annika was probably partly to get information from her, and must have required some compartmentalizing, as much as she genuinely cared about her. And that relationship seems to show she is used to being the one to take care of other people.
But almost as soon as she and Batman are thrown together and she feels a real kinship with him, and this man treats her like she herself is worth protecting, she is able to pretty readily open her heart to another person. All things considered, Selina is clearly much less messed up than Bruce when it comes to relationships. If she had the support of someone like Alfred in her life, she surely wouldn’t have kept them at arm’s length most of her life as Bruce has done with him.
I mean, it’s all there in the way she takes in all these stray cats, and also obviously identifies with the strays. She chose the cat theme for her alter-ego for a reason. It comes naturally to her to be kind to others she identifies with because she has always felt alone herself. She’s survived on her own for so long, and it means so much to her to feel cared for that way for the first time in so long when Batman physically protects her and thinks of her feelings (even in small ways, like when he locks eyes with her with concern while listening to the recording of Annika’s murder, making the connection to how her mom died and knowing how horrible this must feel…I cry). Selina is the one who makes the move to kiss him both times, she is very tender and sweet with him, and she freaking asks him to leave Gotham with her - she demonstrably does not have to angstily reconcile these feelings the way he does. She isn’t worrying that she is less of a Strong Female Character TM if she wants the bat D for Christ sake, because she’s actually written like a real human person and not the honestly superficial-as-fuck, supposedly one-size-fits-all idea of what even makes a “strong female character” that is generally agreed upon by abled white people.
It feels simplifying to say that the way she’s turned out differently than him and the Riddler has everything to do with how being white and male makes one internalize different lessons from the world about one’s own individual importance and how to deal with pain, but in this case the shoe fits pretty damn well? Selina is the only female character in this movie with any real development, and it feels significant that although she can defend herself and is willing to use violence, she generally operates like a classic noir femme fatale, through duplicity and subterfuge instead of direct confrontation or aggression. Even if she never slept with anyone to get close to Falcone’s outfit, she certainly knows how to use her sexuality and attractiveness as a tool. It’s definitely part of why Bruce’s first instincts are to suspect she could be an untrustworthy and immoral person, when ironically she’s just a woman trying to take care of herself, not destructively forcing her extreme convictions on the world like two guys we know.
She’s a very damaged and traumatized person who shows it in her own way, of course. Considering how obviously more fucked up and not ready for a relationship Batman is, one could certainly say she forgives his faults and trusts him a little too quickly and easily, despite what she claims about also assuming the worst about people, because she is lonely and she can’t not see herself in him in a way that hits a nerve. Strays truly are a weakness for her, lol. And she must want to kill Falcone at first because part of her thinks she doesn’t deserve better than to throw her future away in a much more life-changing way than any of her crimes so far. But the difference is Selina doesn’t bleed out in a way that hurts other people. And not having learned the same toxic aggro way to deal with trauma as Bruce, she doesn’t necessarily have the same issues with intimacy either.
Other people have already discussed at length and better than I can how the way a lot of fandom is portraying Selina is so obviously rooted in racism, but I guess this post is a long way of saying that this version of her is…not really that different from the Catwomen we know from other canon, lol (without the film pretending that her race doesn’t matter). And yet people look at her and are like “Badass bi girlboss who will step on you, obviously.” Catwoman has generally always been a beautiful, sexy, feminine antagonist who uses the way she’s perceived as a woman and the attraction men have to her to her advantage and also has a huge romantic side. Funny how suddenly people just can’t see the character in a similar way when, you know…it’s Zoe Kravitz.
