#never will

[loganes]

03.17.2026 - sjs @ edm

[rosarrie]

little taste-tester

[mayhaps-a-blog]

And the tragedy of it is that Maul really did love having allies.

And he really did fight well with them.

And he really did respect them and want them all to escape.

And he let them go first while he held the line.

And he really did want them to listen so they could win (the only way Maul knew how).

And he may not have been right. But he also wasn't wrong.

And in the end, when he was torn between fighting with Daki and saving Devon, and he knew they were losing, and he knew all of them together couldn't defeat Vader, and he chooses Devon...

It's a betrayal, yes. He chose Devon not only because it was a fight he could win but also because he wanted her, wanted her master dead, and knew he could use it to turn her.

But honestly? If they'd had a moment to think, talk, plan, if they'd thought to discuss it beforehand instead of assuming they could win...

I think Daki would have agreed.

Someone needed to hold Vader back for the others to escape. It was a Crimson Dawn ship there for Maul, specifically - who knew what they'd have done with the others if Maul hadn't made it. Maul had to be on it. None of the others could have held off a Sith Lord long enough. And what Jedi Master wouldn't sacrifice himself for the lives of others?

Maul turned that moment into a betrayal. Instead of working with Daki until they came to the same conclusion, exhausted all other possibilities, and gave Daki his heroic death saving his padawan and the other innocents, Maul took away that choice. He left Daki alone, confused, betrayed and lost.

Just like Maul was.

[youknowwhyyy]

HOT TAKE

after multiple (countless) rewatches of the already life-changing “if I had to choose between saving you or saving Olympus” scene, i have one thing to say.

careful observation leads me to believe that Percy says, “I burn it all down,” not “I’d burn it all down.” a small change, but, frankly, it’s implications make me a tiny bit feral.

to be a grammar nerd for a second: “I would” is in subjunctive mood. basically, it’s used to describe hypothetical, often wishful ideas or thoughts. a future that may never come to pass. Percy saying, “[I would] burn it all down,” does imply that he’s already made his decision about the hypothetical future, but can’t escape the nature of the subjunctive. he's still worried about the potentiality.

the small change from, “I’d burn it all down,” to “I burn it all down,” wipes any hypotheticals off the board. it’s no longer an if-then scenario. in Annabeth vs Olympus, Percy’s response is certain, solid, and fully present (tense). he's not hesitating. for him, this is the only, logical, obvious reaction. I burn it all down. I burn it all down. I burn it all down.

I CAN’T BE THE FIRST ONE TO NOTICE THIS RIGHT

[marcidstars]

googling "what does a hangover feel like" like i'm twelve years old

[bonejar]

i would say the way the fanbase diminishes or flatly disregards the stakes of ilya's queerness as a russian athlete or goes full homonationalist at it deserves to be studied but anti-slavic/russian western supremacy, racism, queer erasure, etc is studied. at least somewhat. maybe we should study it more

[remikqq]

drew this for myself as a birthday present😙