you know what time it is, holding a gladiator to thine jugular, tell me ur elias headcanons oomf
I got like. PARAGRAPHS into this and then tumblr shit the bed and deleted it so please know I am putting in the WORK to answer this lmfao. Putting some of it under the cut bc idk what constitutes spoilers exactly.
I appreciate your microphone and the raised gladiator blade, though you know not what you do. :3c here we go
Elias Headcanons (take 2):
this is somewhat confirmed by WOG but I think he genuinely prefers coffee to tea.
I think he has HARD, non-negotiable opinions about things like which weights of paper are appropriate for paperwork, brands of pens (although he personally uses a fountain pen that he's been buying from the same company under different names for decades), types and brands of folders for certain applications, what kind of letterhead official Institute correspondence happens on. Rosie has the Institute Bible that is an actual honest to goodness leather-bound tome with all this information by category for requisitions.
I think he genuinely enjoys paperwork. Chain of documentation and custody, tagging and provenance for the pieces in artifact storage, ledger reconciliation and the like. The whole weird little bureaucrat thing isn't an act I think he's just Like That.
I think he's extroverted and sociable and, despite how antagonistic his presence and interactions with the Archives crew tend to be, I think he genuinely likes the lot of them. He's keenly aware that they're like. Level 10 player characters in a level 50 zone and that HIS level marker has question marks by it, but it's NICE for him, in a weird way, to have people around who have some fucking idea what's going on. I think he wants to be able to actually talk about this stuff he's been sitting on for 100+ years, there's an element of like. 'C'mon it's a LITTLE impressive. Fascinating, to say the least, right??' to him, at least to me.
In that vein, I also think that he, in his own mind, was really trying not to hurt any of them (aside from Jon of course, though even that was only ever meant to be Just Enough to mark him for things). There are a multitude of times when we're shown what it looks like when he doesn't feel the need to show any restraint, but he's really pretty remarkably patient and difficult to get to a point of hostility when it comes to the rest of them. He only really brings out things he considers to be the nuclear option when they've pushed and pushed and pushed and he doesn't see how else to make an urgent situation stop. ( Martin with the files, Melanie with the murder attempts, Daisy, etc etc). He also, aside from vocal stimming by his own admission with the title Detective, addresses them all by first name. idk how to articulate this one better exactly but I think in his head he was protecting them, to a certain degree.
I think he exists in the same kind of opposing two-factor state that a lot of really smart people do, which is oscillating between bone deep soul crushing boredom, and a constant low-level existential terror about dying without having actually accomplished anything. (what he wants to accomplish Isn't Good, of course, but still)
I think that his use of like. Manual, mundane weaponry when he kills is directly due to his insistence that his choices are his own, and that he isn't being controlled. He's the Avatar of the Beholding, he doesn't actually need a lead pipe or a gun or a knife or anything like that to kill with, but he chooses non-magical implements, for lack of better term, because he has to choose to use them. he has to make the physical effort, he can't channel the Eye into beating a man to death. It's as much about autonomy for him as it is love of the game lmfao.
Bonus treat (for me lmfao): I think that man is a sensationally good kisser, and it's infuriated and enthralled anyone he's ever gotten his mouth on.
im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"
Thereās a strange thing about memoriesāsometimes, they feel like the only thing we have left. I close my eyes, and I can still see my family sitting around the dinner table, laughing at a joke my uncle made. I can still hear my mother calling me to come inside before it gets too late. I can still feel the warm sun on my face as I walked home from school, thinking about my next big dream.
Now, those moments feel like they belong to another life. The streets arenāt the same. The people arenāt the same. And IāI donāt know if Iām the same either. But I hold onto those memories so tightly because they remind me of who I am, of the love Iāve known, of the warmth that still exists somewhere in this world.
If youāre reading this, take a moment to appreciate the little things. Hug your family. Send a message to an old friend. Step outside and take a deep breath of fresh air. šæ These are the moments that matter. These are the things that make life beautiful.
No matter where life takes me, Iāll never stop cherishing the love that shaped me. And I hope, wherever you are, you never stop appreciating the love around you too. š
And I'm now waiting to be Vetted by @gazavetters š
My name is Abdelmajed, and I am a survivor of the war in Gaza. Everything I once knew has been taken awayāmy home, my safety, and the people
seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises itās about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors
I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me
Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.
As someone in and around their 30ās it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through
Women can wear pants and play sports and thatās equality. Women donāt just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. Sheās probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But sheās still a person!
If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, thatās girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls donāt HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
What I donāt think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
Uh she canāt do that, thatās a blue job, sheās a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, sheās having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? Sheās just a girl. You canāt expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic
i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboardā¦this being one of them
honestly I hate ācan you pet the dog?!?ā not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of ācan you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loopā and that very quickly fell away to being āwell now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or theyāre going to get lettersā
One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any āclick button to see cute animationā would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet
why has everyone just decided to disregard everything that makes percy interesting?
we are always begging for a main character who is given a life outside of being a main character and then we were given percy jackson, a demigod in the summer, saving the world and looking good doing it, but is also just a kid.
he skateboards and collects them, he listens to punk rock and alternative rock (are they the same thing or is punk rock a sub-genre?) but doesn't dress 'alt' (like thalia) and has anger issues and has been kicked out of multiple schools for said anger issues, some of them being (court-ordered) military schools.
he also has problems with authorities who abuse their power (gabe, the gods, the nypd etc.) and will not hesitate to call you out on your bullshit no matter how powerful and important and feared you are.
but he has morals and doesn't do things without reason. he has a level of maturity and integrity that isn't even present in most adults. he is really smart and gets better grades than annabeth, and is the most considerate person you will ever meet. he is humble and never tries to be the center of attention.
he's not the most optimistic person in the entire world, but he tries to find reasons to be happy in really crappy situations (when they were traversing Tartarus and he was so happy that annabeth was with him that he started smiling).
he is always grateful for everything he has and tries to show genuine interest in all the things that interest his loved ones, even if they bore him to death (like annabeth with her architecture).
and we completely erase that for some reason to make him nothing but 'annabeth chases' boyfriend,' and, well he is her boyfriend, and he's very proud of that fact, but he is his own person as well.
people get really mad when we erase all of annabeth's character to make her nothing more than percy jacksons' girlfriend but we do it to percy all the time.
Looking back, Percyās bet with Phineas in the Son of Neptune is one of the most metal things Iāve ever read. He looked Gaia in the eye and said āIām valuable to you? Prove it.ā He dared her to kill him as a power play and it fucking worked. Absolutely unhinged.
As a mass comm major, IF THERE IS SOMETHING UNJUST OR IMMORAL BEING DONE CALL YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATION THEY WILL HELP MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE
Cities and government agencies HATE bad press. This story that was told to me by the journalist that covered this, and he showed us the piece:
There was a traffic light that was set up on the far side of an overpass, but it was improperly hung so you couldnāt see the light until it was too late. There were accidents there EVERY SINGLE DAY and calls to the city did NOTHING.
Someone had the idea to call the local news station and this dude went out to see. As he was interviewing someone, there was a wreck.
Guess what happened after that piece aired?
Suddenly the city had the time to lower the traffic light and the accidents stopped.
Journalists get a bad rep, and while big stations like Fox deserve it, I think more thought should be given to who youāre actually shitting on when you say āI hate journalists.ā Because weāre overworked, underpaid, constantly shit on, but we still do the job because we want to help people. All professional, prestigious journalists that Iāve met hate the government and will do whatever they can to get the information and change thatās needed. Being a journalist is a dangerous profession: at every professional convention Iāve been at thereās a fund for the families of journalists that have been killed (thereās a lot!) and a long memoriam roll.
What I really like about this is that the containers all have prominent labels with a camera pointing directly at them, but itās still called a double-blind trial because the researcher isnāt present and the bear canāt read
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