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[TRIALS OF APOLLO SPOILER]
I just...
Don't imagine how Nico reacted when he found out that Jason, the first one to accept him, the biggest Solangelo shipper, the one who encouraged him to stay at Camp Half Blood, the one who was always there for him... is gone.
Headcanon
That Apollo is going to replace Dionysus as Camp Director at the end of Trials of Apollo.
The Percy Jackson Fandom and the Avatar the Last Airbender Fandom are so similar because neither of them have movies... 😐
Will someone please be the Orpheus to my Eurydice?
(Without the dying)
Percy Jackson is freaking terrifying
I bet, after hearing about Tartarus (the gods were all pretty much incapacitated when it happened), the gods decided they should just leave Percy alone.
Because like, before all of that, I think the gods were a little intimidated of Percy (especially after he gave up immortality), and of course Hera would have to avoid Percy and Annabeth for the rest of their existence because they would not hold back from her. So, like, after Tartarus, Percy has seen everything. He's faced Tartarus himself, he's not threatened by the gods.
This is proven in ToA when Apollo shows up at his door and Percy's just like, "Why?" No respect or acknowledgment of Apollo being a literal God (he didn't know that Apollo had been turned human at this point). Apollo was even a little nervous around him (and Meg freaking hid behind Apollo).
The gods felt threatened by Percy already, but after Tartarus, I bet NONE of them wanted to go near him again.
Here's one reason why I think Hermione wasn't in Ravenclaw:
In Half-Blood Prince, Hermione was so annoyed and angered by Harry's textbook. Harry would be doing the potion a different way, and Hermione would get so frustrated about it, and stubbornly insist that he do it the way it was written.
Here's the thing: most Ravenclaws wouldn't do that. They'd look at the new instructions and go, neat! let's try this out! And they'd just sort of experiment with it, and sometimes it didn't work out, and they'd be a little disappointed but go on with their day. But if it did work, they'd share it with everyone- a better way of doing the potion. They wouldn't feel held back by the rules, they'd appreciate the new information that would help them improve.
I love Hermione, don't get me wrong, but I think her stubbornness and pride sometimes get in the way of her wisdom and cleverness, which is part of the reason she wasn't in Ravenclaw. And of course her bravery and all that means she's a perfect Gryffindor, obviously.
Just once, I want a camper to NEVER call Mr. D the right name. Like, if their name is like, Anna Smith, Mr. D would be like, "Ava Sutton?" And she'd be like, "Mr. Z, is that you?" Or something like that and they'd have immense battles where they would come up with more ridiculous names. Idk I just think this would be awesome.
all atla fans (especially new atla fans) should definitely watch the dragon prince it’s incredible
Honestly, they could make an entire season of The Dragon Prince with only either Aaravos and/or Commander Gren and I'd still be obsessed with it.
“Give me a healthy teen romance!’
“Give me a queer couple!”
“Give me biracial couples!”
“Give me queer and biracial couples! And this time wlw”
“Now give me a queer, biracial, wlw couple and one of them is deaf!”
In conclusion: The Dragon Prince is one of the best shows on rn and the amount of representation, especially with the couples in it, is just great. Go watch it!
The Dragon Prince did friends to lovers wayyy better than Avatar the Last Airbender and you can't change my mind.
Give me a fic about a princess in a tower...
But this time she's not alone: she has a handmaiden. And this is your stereotypical princess who moans about wanting her knight/prince to come rescue her blah blah blah.
And the thing is, her handmaiden is DESPERATELY in love with her. She is constantly trying to explain that the princess doesn't need a prince, they can just chill and live in this bougie tower that meets all their needs and more. But, the princess is stuck in her "woe is me life". So, fed up with all the moaning, the handmaiden decides that enough is enough. She goes on a quest to find a knight that will come save the princess (because she does love her and wants her to be happy).
Along the way, she meets several knights and princes who are perfectly willing to save the princess. However, on the way back to the tower, something happens to the hero every time, causing him to die or get injured or just really not be able to go save the princess, so the handmaiden has to go find another one.
Eventually, she meets the witch who placed the curse on the princess or whatever the backstory is, and the witch says that no knight or prince will ever save the princess. The handmaiden is freaking out and is all sad but the witch just kind of winks at her and disappears. The handmaiden realizes that what the heck. She doesn't need a hero to rescue the princess, she can do it herself. So the witch helps her get some armor and the handmaiden goes and rescues the princess.
The princess thinks her rescuer is a guy, and is all like, yes! Please marry me! But when the handmaiden reveals that it was her the princess is like... ooh, this is awkward... and the handmaiden reveals her love for the princess and the princess is like, sorry I'm straight... but now we can go together to find me a husband won't that be fun?!
And the handmaiden just... leaves. She's like nah I'm done with your crap.
And idk that is something that I would read the CRAP out of. Anyway, have a lovely day.
Okay so I love the headcanon that Percy is an amazing singer because he's related to sirens, but think about it... Percy's also related to Cyclopes.
Give me Percy who is crazy good at impressions. He's not Cyclops-level, but it's still insane how accurate he is.
He just sort of figured it out randomly one day. Like, he was hanging out with the seven at camp half blood or something, and they're joking around being cute, when Leo says something in a weird voice that it makes everyone laugh. And Percy, being the sass master that he is, imitates the voice, but does it spot on on the first try. And everyone's sort of like 😳 uh, Percy? And then they play with it and see how far it goes, but as soon as Percy sees how uncomfortable it makes Annabeth, he stops.
Most of the time he doesn't do it (because he doesn't like making Annabeth uncomfortable), but when he does it's enchanting. He can imitate voices like it's nothing, and don't even get me started on accents. Man can speak in ANY accent perfectly and it kind of annoys people who actually have those accents because of a "he doesn't even go here!" sort of a thing.
Also, he is good at imitating singers. He can sing their songs in their own style and voice perfectly, so he sometimes gives mini concerts where he dresses up like the singer and performs. Mostly it's just to Annabeth, but he will dress up as ANY singer, no matter which one. Give me Miley Cyrus!Percy, Rihanna!Percy, Prince!Percy, etc.
I just really love this headcanon, anyway you can go back to scrolling now, have a lovely day 💖
Okay, I just rewatched Zootopia, and here are my thoughts in the context of today's society:
Zootopia did an EXCELLENT job with portraying how the policing system is SUPPOSED to behave. Cops who see the racism and other bad behavior that they are upholding and then strive to learn from and fix it.
However, in the movie, we really only see Judy being the one dealing with those issues. Who knows what other Zootopian cops acted like? Did they give innocent predators the benefit of the doubt? Or did they perpetuate the stereotype by unnecessarily enforcing violence on innocent people in the fear of what they "might" do? We just don't know.
As far as we can assume, things did not change immediately after the movies events. Sure, Nick was able to become the first Fox Cop, but how much progress did they really make? I doubt that Zootopia's citizens were instantly non paranoid or racist toward predators, and the cops would be the same way.
As more and more statistics and information is brought to light in this day and age, we can see the need for new, better forms of response to emergencies that the police would typically handle. This would then make Zootopia more of a historical piece. UNLESS...
Okay, here's my idea. Disney does a sequel to Zootopia, but in this one, they address the ideas of defunding and reforming the policing system.
They show that things didn't change automatically. Ordinary citizens were still racist, cops still perpetuated racial stereotypes, and even a scene of racial profiling and/or police brutality. Yes, it's a kids' movie, but that's exactly why we need to show these things. Educate them on why things like this are bad.
Have Judy realize the problems within her own system. We know how BADLY Judy had wanted to be a cop for her whole life, so have her realize that the system she works for is corrupt. Have her change her ways and fight against police brutality. Have predators explain to her what defunding the police would look like and how it would help. Have her become an advocate for better ways.
Show a corrupt prey politician (perhaps the successor to Mayor Lionheart?). Sort of like the assistant mayor from the first movie, but not as blatantly violent. Just one that encourages the violence and continually makes things worse. Show how Judy helps the predators protest for their right to be treated equally, but they are constantly put down and thwarted.
The plot of the movie is to fight against the corrupt mayor and police department, and Judy learning along the way.
Have the movie end with the politician out of office, and a new one in (a predator, probably, maybe even Nick?) who works to dismantle the system. They show how defunding the police could work. Social workers, health care, decriminalizing behaviors that are treatable, having affordable housing, and creating an all-new Crime-response group that is highly trained (seriously, like it takes years of training and a test you have to pass) headed by Judy that acts as a new system that is way better for ALL of Zootopia.
Sound familiar?
I need kids' movies that address these issues and show kids the better way. Zootopia is the perfect storyline to do that in.
This sounds like far too radical an idea for Disney to touch. Even if they did, I would not trust them to handle it sensitively.
I think focusing on police at all is a mistake here -- the whole issue is far too fraught and controversial for any popular media to tackle right now, and likely will remain so for the foreseeable future. What interested me about Zootopia was never the failure of this one particular institution, but what it said about racism and prejudice as a whole in all aspects of society. I think a better sequel idea would be to move away from the idea of a direct continuation, and focus on a completely different cast in a completely different walk of life. A bottom-up perspective to complement Zootopia’s top-down, perhaps?
You may enjoy the fanfiction Pack Street, which I feel does a good job of doing what I describe, as well as addressing what work still needs to be done after the ending of the film.
I agree that it is radical, but I truly think Disney needs a little radical right now haha. And I like the idea of a bottom-up perspective (I will definitely look into Pack Street), I was just thinking about how generally, we don't often see the "after" in stories. The idea is that we can't assume everything got better immediately after the movie ended, which is what children's media tends to portray. I think it needs some more development, especially in an issue such as racism, because racism hasn't gone away even after the Emancipation Proclamation, even after the 14th and 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Act of 1965 were passed, and it won't go away any time soon. Difficult topics handled in gentle, easy to understand ways is what Disney is good at and what we need more of.
Also, this is off-topic, but I'm really curious as to if it's only mammals that are "evolved", because they only mention animals. Does that mean birds and fish and reptiles aren't evolved? Or have they and they just don't live in Zootopia? Idk this is just what my brain does 😅
Okay, I just rewatched Zootopia, and here are my thoughts in the context of today's society:
Zootopia did an EXCELLENT job with portraying how the policing system is SUPPOSED to behave. Cops who see the racism and other bad behavior that they are upholding and then strive to learn from and fix it.
However, in the movie, we really only see Judy being the one dealing with those issues. Who knows what other Zootopian cops acted like? Did they give innocent predators the benefit of the doubt? Or did they perpetuate the stereotype by unnecessarily enforcing violence on innocent people in the fear of what they "might" do? We just don't know.
As far as we can assume, things did not change immediately after the movies events. Sure, Nick was able to become the first Fox Cop, but how much progress did they really make? I doubt that Zootopia's citizens were instantly non paranoid or racist toward predators, and the cops would be the same way.
As more and more statistics and information is brought to light in this day and age, we can see the need for new, better forms of response to emergencies that the police would typically handle. This would then make Zootopia more of a historical piece. UNLESS...
Okay, here's my idea. Disney does a sequel to Zootopia, but in this one, they address the ideas of defunding and reforming the policing system.
They show that things didn't change automatically. Ordinary citizens were still racist, cops still perpetuated racial stereotypes, and even a scene of racial profiling and/or police brutality. Yes, it's a kids' movie, but that's exactly why we need to show these things. Educate them on why things like this are bad.
Have Judy realize the problems within her own system. We know how BADLY Judy had wanted to be a cop for her whole life, so have her realize that the system she works for is corrupt. Have her change her ways and fight against police brutality. Have predators explain to her what defunding the police would look like and how it would help. Have her become an advocate for better ways.
Show a corrupt prey politician (perhaps the successor to Mayor Lionheart?). Sort of like the assistant mayor from the first movie, but not as blatantly violent. Just one that encourages the violence and continually makes things worse. Show how Judy helps the predators protest for their right to be treated equally, but they are constantly put down and thwarted.
The plot of the movie is to fight against the corrupt mayor and police department, and Judy learning along the way.
Have the movie end with the politician out of office, and a new one in (a predator, probably, maybe even Nick?) who works to dismantle the system. They show how defunding the police could work. Social workers, health care, decriminalizing behaviors that are treatable, having affordable housing, and creating an all-new Crime-response group that is highly trained (seriously, like it takes years of training and a test you have to pass) headed by Judy that acts as a new system that is way better for ALL of Zootopia.
Sound familiar?
I need kids' movies that address these issues and show kids the better way. Zootopia is the perfect storyline to do that in.
Reblog if you would read a book with NO romance arc and a female, asexual main character
Someone said no one would ever read my book because there’s no love triangle. Prove them wrong?
i would write that if this gets 130,000 notes.
BOOST THIS VERSION I WANT THIS SO MUCH
reblogging again because: sure, i wont not read it because of no love triangle, l will probably never get *around* to reading it because of depression.
PLEASE!!!
I would 50000% READ THIS!!!! This sounds so good!
Okay, I’ve been sitting on (no pun intended) this theory for awhile now because it’s not even really a theory, so much as it is speculation. (”Uncle, that’s what all theories are!”) Anyway, hear me out:
tl;dr: Iroh was depressed, and thus in a passive state, up until the end of Book One, whereupon Zhao’s act of violence snapped him out of it.
We know that Lu Ten died during the original Siege on Ba Sing Se and it’s heavily implied that losing Lu Ten caused Iroh to “fall apart” and ultimately end the Siege itself:
(Image Descriptions: First two images are of Iroh chained, saying, “I acknowledge my defeat at Ba Sing Se. My men was tired and I was tired.” The third image is of Iroh at Lu Ten’s grave. The fourth and fifth images are of Young Azula talking to Young Zuko: “He found out his son died and he just fell apart. A real general would stay and burn Ba Sing Se to the ground.”)
He didn’t have the mental strength to fight at Ba Sing Se, but that’s not the only time that he refused to fight.
He never tried to take the throne from Ozai. He never once tried to find out what happened to Ursa. And I hate to do this, but he didn’t even put up that much of a fight when a thirteen-year-old asked to attend a war meeting. And when they were in that war meeting, who was the one to speak out against the immorality of war? Zuko. Not Iroh, even though he was sitting right next to him.
(Image description: Zuko standing up at the war meeting. We can see that Iroh is sitting next to him.)
When Zuko was in the Agni Kai Chamber, on his hands and knees, crying, begging for mercy…Iroh just…looks away…
(Image description: Iroh looking away.)
And I’m not going to lie, this theory was originally just going to be a post talking about how guilty Iroh must have felt, but I think it goes a lot deeper than that. I could make a post arguing that Iroh’s misjudgement and lack of action were what led to Zuko being scarred, but to do so would be to blame Iroh, and I don’t want to blame Iroh. Because it’s not his fault. I think that, in this moment, he’s still in a depressive, passive, state from what happened to Lu Ten. Iroh essentially has PTSD. He saw what war can do, so he freezes and backs down at any sign of a fight.
And we see, all throughout Book One, how many times Iroh tries to actively stop Zuko from fighting:
(Image descriptions: Two nearly-identical shots of Iroh breaking up a fight between Zuko and another character, the Pirate Captain and Lieutenant Jee, respectively.)
He only fights when he has to, such as when the Earth Kingdom soldiers capture him in Winter Solstice. Even then, he uses his chains to disarm two of them and knock them unconscious (a waterbender technique btw) while Zuko takes out the third. By all accounts, Iroh is a pacifist during Book One. He’s certainly passive. I really think it’s because Lu Ten’s death (which, remember, only took place a few years prior) is still bothering him. Hence my original claim that Iroh’s essentially in a depressive state during Book One.
So, what happens?
Zhao happens.
This image has haunted me for a decade and a half:
(Image description: Iroh looking absolutely devastated.)
This is right after Zhao kills the Moon Spirit koi fish. Something about this has always gotten to me. It’s just so intense. It’s like you see this other side of Iroh that you had never seen before. (Remember, at this point, any viewers wouldn’t know about Lu Ten.) And what happens right after?
(Image descriptions: #1: Iroh attacking multiple soldiers. #2: General Zhao looking horrified. #3: A shot of Iroh standing over multiple bodies on the ground.)
Iroh starts actively attacking them all, to the point where Zhao backs away, horrified, because he’s never seen this side of Iroh. Neither has the audience. For the first time, Iroh is actively attacking someone, triggered by Zhao’s violence. I don’t know if it was just the cosmic stakes of the spirit being killed that triggered his anger, if it was the straw on the ostrich-horse’s back, if the way that the koi fish was killed was somehow reminiscent of Lu Ten’s death, or if it was a combination of reasons. Either way, Zhao snaps Iroh out of whatever passive funk he was in.
From that moment on, Iroh acts like a man who was a general for years. In the very first episode of Book Two (the next canonical episode), we see that Iroh doesn’t trust Azula and is on guard, even jaded:
(Image descriptions: Two shots of Iroh looking around suspiciously.)
Then, when it’s revealed that Azula had tricked them, Iroh wastes no time in attacking multiple guards:
(Image descriptions. #1: Iroh kicking a guard off the ship entrance. #2: Iroh firebending at three separate guards surrounding him.)
In a later episode, when Zuko thinks that Iroh’s going to say that he should be nice to Azula because she’s family, what does Iroh say, instead?
No. She’s crazy and she needs to go down.
This Iroh is a completely different person than the Iroh that we saw in Book One, because this Iroh has been snapped out of his depressed, passive, funk by the senseless act of violence that he witnessed. This Iroh is willing to fight and be an active participant in creating change. This Iroh is a General. This Iroh is the Dragon of the West. Incidentally, we see Iroh call himself that when he actively attacks a full room of Dai Li soldiers:
(Image description: Iroh breathing fire onto a room filled with soldiers.)
And we all know how fitting it is that Iroh is the one to liberate Ba Sing Se, but just think about the difference. The original Siege on Ba Sing Se took him 600 days, nearly two years, and he still wasn’t able to break through. In the final battle (albeit with a little help from the comet), Iroh was able to effectively create a fireball and blast through the wall in a single moment:
And that is my speculation…analysis…theory…thing of how Iroh went from being a fighter to being a depressed pacifist to being a better fighter, all in the background of a series that focuses on a dozen other well-rounded characters. It really is the show that keeps on giving…
