Standing In The Hall Of Fame

Jordan | she/her | 20 | Israel | Materials Engineering major on daytime, cat major at night | also extremely gay | I’m probably awake pulling an all-nighter because I procrastinate, so hit me up.

[annabethy]

Your honor, it’s the way that Percy and Annabeth love each other so much yet they are always best friends first, bickering with each other and being playful. They’re so in love but they always maintain their friendship and original dynamics from before they were dating. They’re best friends and soulmates in one, and it makes me emotional

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[caffeinatedflumadiddlebutpjo]

So Percy, being a sweetheart, was the kind of narrator to show us what a simp he was. Mr. Annabeth-was-getting-seriously-beautiful was perfectly fine spending passages talking about his future GF.

I just wanna establish that Annabeth as a narrator in the original PJO series would have be FERAL. She has a perfectly logical/more objective account of everything that happened except when it comes to Percy. Then suddenly it’s:

“What in the name of the gods is this? He decided to get attractive? When I specifically prayed and asked Aphrodite not to make him more attractive? I’m not shallow. Of course I’m not shallow. I just - I’m gonna kick his ass-"

“It’s not that I like him. I just think anyone who makes him sad should be dipped into a vat of hot oil.”

“Look, Percy’s smart. We don’t talk about it because he isn’t allowed to know, but he really is. The problem is that he can be the smartest person in the room, but miss things because he’s kind of a pessimist with self-esteem issues. I swear I’m going to fight him over it.”

“I laughed. What? It was funny. Just because he’s a son of Poseidon doesn’t mean he can’t be funny. What are you? The funny police? He said one funny thing. Back off.”

“I’m not in love with my best friend, okay? But by Hades and Zeus and Poseidon himself this random mortal girl better not be in love with him either. Why is she coloring on her jeans? Isn’t she rich? Buy a freaking notebook. The worst part is that I think I would normally like her. I’m just filled with this....rage that has absolutely nothing to do with Percy at all. You know, I bet this random rage is a sign from the gods. I shouldn’t trust her, right? Right.”

“....listen. We don’t need to talk about Mt. Saint Helens. What happened there happened. I made a tactical decision. As a daughter of Athena I don’t need to explain myself to random mortals. Leave me alone-”

“So what? I took the knife for him. Like you wouldn’t? We would all take the knife for Percy, calm down. It means absolutely nothing. Mind your business.”

“I know this may come as a shock to you, but... I think I like Percy. As more than a friend. I’ll give you a brief moment to be surprised since I did an excellent job keeping it under wraps.”

“So, I’m dating this dork of a demigod who is the best and a child of prophecy and the most loyal and funny and sarcastic and supportive and best person in the world and I’m allowed to gush a little because it’s been years of pent up affection and I bet none of you even saw this coming!”

“Bitch took my boyfriend. It’s been like three months.”

[caffeinatedflumadiddlebutpjo]

Remember that whole “what if someone sees me” thing from when Annabeth and Percy went on that love ride when they were 12? Percy does and sets out for revenge when he and Annabeth start dating.

Annabeth: I want to go to the restaurant-

Percy: but what if someone sees me with you?

Annabeth: what?

Percy: that would be so embarrassing

Annabeth: you just told the barista we were dating unprompted

Percy: so embarrassing. Like how you didn’t want to be seen with me on that love ride when we were 12-

Annabeth: oh my gods

I love petty Percy. Let him remember all his girlfriend’s slights against him.

Annabeth: why are you being weird? Just hold my hand, you dweeb-

Percy: but IF SOMEONE SEES ME-

Annabeth: I’ll tell them that you got lost and we’re looking for your real girlfriend

I just enjoy him teasing Annabeth tbh

Percy: you have to sit over there

Annabeth: why

Percy: Piper might see us sitting next to each other-

Annabeth: not this again

Percy: -and that would just be so embarrassing

Piper: wat

Annabeth: stop it. we were 12

Percy: my reputation is on the line

Annabeth: you know I was right, though? do you remember that part?

Piper: what’s happening

Annabeth: they literally filmed us on that ride and broadcasted it on Olympus. You can’t be bitter when my concerns were literally-

Percy: you dare underestimate my bitterness?

Piper: you two are the weirdest couple I know

Don’t let him ever forget this sin committed against him lol

Annabeth: are you ready?

Percy: I’m so nervous. What if someone sees us and thinks we’re together?

Annabeth: that would be a shame

Annabeth: for that to happen

Annabeth: on our wedding day

Percy: maybe we shouldn’t have invited so many people

[bentejam]

The Last Olympian pg.372-374

Wanted to finish this last year but some things happened. Enjoy!

[that-one--book-nerd]

happy birthday Annabeth Chase you were my original gay awakening™, 13 year old me was just too blind to see it

[kitkat30]

this bread tiny

yeast

[ana-logical]

it made me laugh in an unholy fashion at four in the goddamn morning, so here, have this.

[wizard0rb]

should i post the walmart comic

or should i simply wait

[wizard0rb]

If no one responds then I will have no choice

[wizard0rb]

one sec

[wizard0rb]

here it is. the surreal horror walmart comic i made in eighth(?) grade.

[kengi-bengi-alt]

8TH  GRADE?!?!!?!?

[venustaurus]

playlist for different moods

heart rush - for when you are smitten and blush everytime you see someone

oh, honey honey - that romantic comedy type of love that you wish to have one day

heatwave - under the harsh sun, covered in sweat and everything feels like it’s on fire

lucky strike - it’s the middle of the day and you’re on the long empty road and the warm sticky air blows through your hair

venus in taurus - for the fragile and deeply in love 

the good side - you woke up, the sun glimmers through the window, you hear distant sounds of other lives waking up, everything will be okay

on the rocks - a party has finally died down, you and your friends are in a daze cleaning things up in a dark lit room and your skin feels like glitter and smoke

hold on a sec i’m having an out of body experience - it’s the middle of the night and you desperately want to be anywhere but here so you dance it out

graveyard shift - for when you’re driving at night going nowhere in particular, and your only companion are the soft yellow street lights and hum of your car

in the present with you - when you’re hopelessly in love and want to spend today, tomorrow, and the rest of tomorrows with someone

after hours - lights off, skin to skin, touch starved and a hunger for desire

five drinks in - alcohol swims in you as you softly sip on your drink and all you want is to place your head on someone’s shoulder, close your eyes, and feel the world slowly spin around you

levitating - you’re head is in the clouds, butterflies feel like they’re fluttering all over your skin, the world in your head feels effervescent 

[sapphicladiesletsride-deactivat]

I’m on a vexleth kick I’m sorry everyone I can’t stop

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was drawing a bunch of pentagrams in my notebook during math class because I was bored and I think I drew 150 pentagrams in total before a devilish-looking guy wearing a red suit broke down the door of the classroom and yelled “wHAT the fUCK do you wANT?!”

[almost-always-eventually-right]

this username escapes me every single time

[zoozve]

i cant stop thinking about this post

[dkpsyhog]

I love the idea that when you draw a pentagram Hell gets an @everyone discord ping

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[jewish-tutter]

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

[rizaoftheowls]

Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Let’s eat some fried food. Candles!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.

[rizaoftheowls]

Yup. Or as we say, “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.”

[galaxy-of-great-possibilities]

thank you for the desc’s bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated

[above-d-clouds]

A handy table for everyone:

[allthingshyper]

That is surprisingly helpful thank you

[alittledropofheaven]

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery...

[alex51324]

Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it.  The key points:

It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates.  When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department.  Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do.  (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)

Her characterization of the episode:   “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.

A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*--quelle surprise).  

(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.) 

The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it--and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either.  We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.  

She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views.  (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people--that’s a lot of different views.)  If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on.  (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG--I’m not sure how it works, exactly.)  Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry.  (Another thing our current president does constantly--notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)

So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:

The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.  

Two inmates fought that policy in court.

Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so--but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).

Harris also worked to change the policy.  

If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with.  Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change.  If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it--again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.  

What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war.  As VP, she’s going to need those skills--especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction.  We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.  

[armeleia]

This.

I get it, I really do - but Trump has literally stripped away rights from trans kids and fucked the careers of trans people in the military. Pence believes in conversion therapy.

We can remember and discuss these issues, but at the end of the day, Trump/Pence is the greater evil and we need to vote in a unified way to get them out of office because the second term would be so much worse. Don’t vote independent, just suck it up and recognize that we’re not gonna get a perfect candidate ever.

Voting Trump is a face full of glass shards, and a vote for an independent is a vote for Trump. This isn’t complicated.

[animatedamerican]

I had not seen this explanation, and I’m reblogging it because I probably have followers who haven’t either.

[imahopelessromanticonacid]

The day I listen to ‘all too well’ and don’t fluctuate between fifteen different emotions, it’s the day I died on the inside

[heeeygracie]

I CAN DO THAT?!

Set somewhere in S6, wherein Kara and Lena are still in a rocky place but there is tension. 👀👀👀 (I mean there has always been some, since season 2 but you know what I mean 👀👀👀 and to answer Kara’s question, since season 2, Supergirl! Lol kidding)

[meetmebehindthemall13]

FOLKLORE IS NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, IT’S NOT ABOUT HER! IT’S FROM MADE UP CHARACTERS POVs!1!1!1!

Ok. Sure Jan!

In this essay I will explain why I think it’s quite the opposite. For the record I don’t think there has ever been a more personal, emotionally transparent and intimate album.

The 1

- Lyrical reference to ME! “I never leave well enough alone”

- TIWWCHNT aesthetics (Roaring twenties, jumping in pool from the trampoline, feeling so Gatsby for that whole year).

- Curiously associated to “the 1”, Big Sur highway or the Subway Line in NYC

Cardigan

- Reference to High Line in the West Village. Because when it’s like 10 minutes from Franklin Street or Charles Street, MUST be about other people right?

- Once in 20 lifetimes, 20 is almost the new 13 lately.

- “Loves me like I’m brand new” CIWYW vibes/main concept

The last great American dynasty

- Explicit parallels between Rebekah’s life and Taylor’s and the way the neighbors judged both of them. The parties, loud women, pack bitch friends.

- Interesting St. Louis reference

- Interesting “wedding was charming if a little gauche” (gauche defintion by dictionary.com: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless) ...........ring any bell?

Exile

- I’m just going to leave these here and not even gonna waist my time explaining

My tears recochet

- Obvious reference to BMR, SBX2

- Very suspicious at the diamond ring but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt

Mirrorball

- On the pressure that the desire to always be liked, appreciated, validated, approved by others please watch Miss Americana.

- On the pressure of double standards in the music industry for women, her words: “Be new to us, be young to us—but only in a new way and only the way we want. Reinvent yourself but only in a way that we find to be equally comforting and a challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find interesting enough to entertain us, but not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable. This is probably one of my last opportunities as an artist to grasp on to that kind of success, so I don't know. As I'm reaching 30, I want to work really hard, um, while society is still tolerating me being successful."

Seven

- Chilhood memories in Pennsylvania under her, are there still beautiful things?

- Won’t comment on braids like a pattern or the hide in the closet lines.

August

- Guest starring the recurring theme of hiding and keeping things secret, let’s make it a regular character because it’s here to stay.

- Will you call when you’re back at school. CAN name of someone who was attending school while having a relationship with Taylor. But won’t.

This is me trying

- Pulling car off the road to the lookout. Now there’s some suggestive photo reference for this line. Google it: Taylor Swift Big Sur

- “It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town.” I’m sure everybody has to live with the face of their ex lover on screens all over your town, especially when the city screams their name. Very common.

Illicit affairs

- “You showed me colors you know I can’t see with anyone else” AND “you taught me a secret language I can’t speak with anyone else” sound very autobiographical but I will give this the benefit of the doubt as well.

- “And you know damn well for you I would ruin myself” is the big sister of “And baby, for you, I would fall from grace just to touch your face”, fight me on that.

Invisible string

- Centennial park in Nashville.

- Bad blood, Yogurt shop.

- Thread of gold.

- Blues and then purple-pink skies.

- Dive bar reference. Dive bar where you at.

Mad woman

- SBX2

- Cannons firing at a yatch. Sure it’s a fictional Betty here talking.

- Witch hunt makes yet another appearance.

Epiphany

- This actually is too personal for the whole world.

Betty

- Wondering if Betty’s garden has a gate you could sneak through.

- Inez and James, Blake and Ryan’s daughters. BOTH female. But sure take only what you need from Taylor’s personal life inspiration.

Peace

- So the person who’s writing is convinced that danger and troubles are always going to come to them and their lover because of their very identity, because of who they are and who they represent. Archer anyone? “Who could ever leave me baby but who could stay”.

- Robbers to the east. Clowns to the West (capitalized).

- Your brother as my brother.

- Love for show and dying for the same love in secret.

Hoax

- My best laid plan....“I am an architect I’m drawing up the plans”

- “You knew the hero died so what's the movie for?” Is “And all of my hero died all alone”‘s cousin. Study that family tree.

- “You know I left a part of me back in New York”

- Your faithless love is the only hoax I believe in. Either you feel this or you don’t. I don’t make the rules.

[ohgaylor]

Taylor has literally been like:

maybe reputation’s themes of love in secret and secret moments no one knows about and stolen stares and pining for someone gorgeous will convince them. no?

okay maybe lover’s crystal skies, rainbows eeeverywhere, gay pride parades, gaylor park, marrying your childhood friend, and stepping into daylight motifs would work. no? that didn’t do it?

fine. here’s an album about childhood love, about loving a girl with braids who has to hide in closets and a girl named betty who I just want to kiss in the garden in front of her stupid friends. how about now? do you get it yet?