I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.
Why is this literally all my doomed ships bro😭
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I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.
Why is this literally all my doomed ships bro😭
see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup
one day it'll happen to you. you will stay up a bit too late playing a video game and not get to bed on time. I've done it before, you'll think. I'll be fine. but no. you will make it through most of the next day and then at about 2pm you will feel like a reanimated corpse whose sim meters are all completely fucked and nothing hurts exactly but everything does feel very bad. and you'll think oh yeah. I'm not twenty anymore
the 3 rules of enjoying Any fandom are 1. follow everyone who you find funny 2. block everyone who you find annoying 3. when you like someone's art tell them
Do not attempt to out-malicious-compliance the staff at the malicious compliance conference.
Some dipshit decided to pay the conference fee ($250) in quarters. He handed us a wrapped plastic bag full of loose change. "It's all there," he said with a shit-eating grin, "you can count it."
Oh buddy. We're going to count it. What were you expecting?
At about the time I got to $60, he offered to give us $300 collateral so he could get his badge and go to the conference.
No, bud. You get to watch the most dyscalculic staffer count to a thousand while all your friends go in to the breakfast and find seats for the first talk.
"Ruining someone's day" is the favorite hobby of everyone here. Why would you hand us the perfect opportunity to wreck your shit and think that was an own? Half the con is calling him "Untraceable," the other half is calling him "Quarter Boy" and nobody cares what he says his handle is.
I spent an hour counting that and made him go fetch me baggies to hold it every fifty dollars.
This ended up being a good bonus prank for me too, because when the counting was done I wrapped the bags in gaffer's tape and spent the rest of the day handing it to people very casually while saying "oh here, hold this for a sec" and then watching they weren't ready for the weight (I only did this to people I know well enough to know this wouldn't hurt them).
It's an infosec conference, so it's a weekend in a hotel full of people whose favorite thing is breaking the law and whose second favorite thing is following the letter of the law while cheerfully violating the spirit.
Thank you, that means a lot coming from you, @unyanizedcatboys
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Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.
Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.
This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?
But also… RAD PLAYING MY DUDEEEE
this is the coolest guy alive actually
I think this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life that involves a violin
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you've met me at a very "yeah i'm trying to work on that" time in my life
You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes
F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
I've seen Poasts dunking on annabeth for basically sucking at being the leader of the botl quest and with some credit to that point it is absolutely true that she messed up and made some bad/dangerous/questionable choices whilst occupying that leadership role i.e. her attitude in the sphinx scene perhaps being the most egregious offense, being not only an act of self-sabotage but an act that immediately results in the violent endangerment of her friends (see: hubris, specifically her excessive pride)
but to the point of annabeth floundering on this quest (never mind the immense psychological torment of the botl prophecy, which predicts "a child of athena's last stand" and a "fate worse than death" for a person she loves), I think it's important to note that the labyrinth quest was straight up impossible to complete in the beginning, and the same cannot be said of the quest for zeus' bolt, the quest for the golden fleece, or the quest to rescue annabeth and artemis. in this way botl's difficulty level is distinct from all previous adventures in the series. if a quest leader's role is to take charge and guide the direction of the quest itself then she absolutely could not have succeeded in that role because it's impossible to navigate the labyrinth without the aid of a god (i.e. hephaestus' spider, hera's blessings), ariadne's string, or a clear-sighted mortal. percy blows up in a volcano and grover and tyson go missing on annabeth's disaster quest in part because she simply did not have all of the tools she needed in order to succeed (hera even says to her face that percy holds the key to this quest, not annabeth; it wasn't without additional guidance that percy could even realize what hera was referring to)
the hopelessness of annabeth's efforts is something the audience can infer from the beginning, and it's the reason why percy expresses doubt in annabeth's stubborn commitment to her fruitless attempts at coordination. at one point she even resorts to using math as a navigation tool, to using numerical logic for a maze that defies all logic - she was desperate, but she really was trying. this is very in-character for her; we have more than a few in-text indications in botl that annabeth is at least subconsciously aware that she won't be able to figure out the labyrinth, but as shown in the sphinx quote, she's wisdom's daughter, and she won't shy away from a challenge and she doesn't want others to know that she's struggling. she's a perseverant girl even to the detriment of herself and others, and it wounds her deeply to acknowledge and openly admit that she's incapable of doing something, to admit that she requires the aid of another to achieve her goals (see: hubris)
so, incomes rachel to do just that, and annabeth loses her goddamn mind over it
her reaction to rachel is interesting because it's more complicated than mere romantic jealousy. just like the sphinx scene, annabeth's animosity towards rachel is, aside from her reservations about having a mortal on a dangerous demigod quest, straight up illogical behavior. everything about her unwillingness to let rachel on the quest is wholly inconducive to its successful completion. the issue isn't solely that rachel is a romantic rival and thus she doesn't want to be anywhere near her (though it is undeniably one core influence - the botl love triangles aren't just pointless drama, they're very important to the overall story); rachel essentially becomes the new leader and guide of the labyrinth quest, replacing annabeth in that role - annabeth, the girl who struggles with feeling important, who seeks glory and fame for her greatness, who covets opportunities to exercise her skill, all of which is evidenced by her character's desires which had been hitherto set up throughout the series:
^from the lightning thief
^from the sea of monsters
^from the battle of the labyrinth
so I love the botl quest being the one that annabeth of all people gets to lead because it's the perfect obstacle for her character. she wants to prove herself, she believes that she is capable of impossibly herculean feats and then the first quest she gets to lead is impossible to lead without the aid of the last person in the world she wants to accept help from. truly the best kind of conflict to throw at a character like her
and if we can go back to ttc and remember when athena looked directly into the camera and told us that fatal flaws are dangerous but can still be good in small doses then we can discuss the role of annabeth's hubris a bit more effectively. I bring this up because I've also seen people upset that annabeth isn't "punished" or condemned enough by the larger narrative for her hubris/that her hubris wasn't "corrected" or "overcome" sufficiently, and I see where this idea comes from but I think it overly conflates that which is the standard character flaw in general literature with fatal flaws (hamartia) as they exist in tragedies, especially greek tragedies and aristotelian philosophical frameworks
(mini-tangent: literary scholars have been debating over the meanings and purpose of hamartia for a hot minute and especially in the twentieth century and beyond; I won't get into it here but check the tags of this post for a tiny bit more detail on this if you're interested)
the fatal flaw is not necessarily constructed as a lesson that the hero learns from or a stain on their character that can and should be washed away with effort, it is better envisioned as an everlasting flame inside the body that burns and dooms the hero once it grows too large. notably this "flame" cannot be evicted from the hero's interior because it is so innate, particularly as rick employs said device in pjo: annabeth states that hubris is the flaw of children of athena, bianca states that holding grudges is dangerous for children of hades, as though their godly ancestry had predetermined their characters from the moment they were born. this has its root in the issue of the unchangeable nature of fate vs. the agency and free will of humanity that the first 5 books like to play around with
literary scholar ac bradley discusses hamartia in his famous writings on shakespearean tragedies - which are, yes, shakespearean, but I'm not going to waste time building a venn diagram to show the key differences and similarities between greek tragedies and shakespearean tragedies (feel free to google that if you're interested in this subject); instead let's just take a brief look at how he characterizes the dramatic literary device that is the "fatal flaw" (hamartia):
(if you're a shakespeare scholar and my mentioning bradley just sent shivers down your spine don't worry I'm very aware of his Flaws and using his readings sparingly)
"his weakness or defect is so intertwined with everything that is admirable in him". I'm going to bring this up again later so put a pin in this quote
you may have already noticed that I've said nothing about hoo or mark of athena so far and I think I have to disclose that this is intentional; there are many good reasons why many readers do not consider hoo to be a worthy successor to the first series. this post is not for my criticisms of rick's approach to fatal flaws and annabeth's character in hoo (though believe me I have plenty of those), so we're just going to ignore hoo with regards to discussion of annabeth's hubris here. back to pjo
botl is the book where annabeth's hubris truly sets fire to the page. her eventual acceptance/tolerance of rachel represents the beginning cooldowns of the worst effects of her fatal flaw. the most notable interaction where annabeth recognizes her own hubris and keeps it at bay is when she finally accepts in tlo that she cannot change luke or save him from his tragic fate. the death of silena and luke's role in that event is what finally cements this conclusion, something that she's been unable to accept for years, something that her siren vision in som told us she desired so extremely. she really believed that she'd be able to save him, as though she, once again, believed that she was capable of impossible feats like changing luke's fate (see: hubris!)
re: the issue of "is annabeth sufficiently corrected of and condemned for her flaws by the narrative?", I want to raise a counterpoint that might help reshape this mindset: do we believe that arachne deserved her terrible fate as punishment for her hubris? I don't even like the pjgg/pjgh books but percy himself sure didn't think so in his greek gods narration, where he tells us outright that he doesn't agree with the "preachy moral" of arachne's story:
so it's all the more appropriate that, towards the end of botl, percy expresses a really interesting idea that moves in conversation with pjo's overarching thematic commitment to breaking from the cycles of suffering seen throughout greek mythology and tragedies. do our flaws have to be extracted from our bodies? do flawed beings have to be punished like arachne? pjo lands on a more hopeful, freeing, and malleable conclusion: annabeth's hubris, like percy's own loyalty, can be maddening, it can be dangerous, it can be managed, and it is "so intertwined with everything that is admirable" in her
percy likens annabeth's hubris towards the sphinx to her ability to confidently defy the queen of the gods, even though hera helped out both of them significantly during the quest - because honor and subservience to the gods is not superior to either of their individual principles. in a more ancient tragedy or parable, they would have been punished narratively for this kind of behavior. annabeth can stand up for nico and go against hera, functionally her own patron goddess during botl, because of this stubbornness that's rooted so deeply in her identity. this scalding flame inside of annabeth doesn't need to be extinguished
realizing a headcanon of yours happens to make an element of canon even more heartbreaking when you hadn't even considered it from that angle previously
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sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.
like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.
“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.
“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.
okay. something about the way i worded this is making people think this is a vent thing about real relationships. and it’s fine if that’s where it took you. but i feel like i need to be transparent here: this be blorboposting. karlach cliffgate and her terrible awful no good very bad betrayal.
they are seasoning my fucking post with unknown herbs. beefleaf. the fuck’s a beefleaf. why are you putting that in the stew.
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