#spoon rambles

[aspoonfulofsugar53]

okay this is something i’ve been thinking about for a while but with season 2 coming to a close it’s time to type this post:

HoO needs to be an animated show.

not a live action series. not a 2-hour movie. an animated show, preferably with more than eight episodes - let’s go back to 22 episodes, 20ish minutes each. this just has soooo many benefits and good qualities, at least imo

• first of all, the cast. hoo takes place in the span of, what? less than a year after pjo ends, then the whole thing itself is less than a year, especially the three latter book that are back to back weeks/months. the cast is going to age DRASTICALLY between filming, and that’s without even taking into account the original pjo cast. animation will solve that problem since voice acting isn’t as age-limited (idk what to call it okay but you get me) as on-screen acting.

• another point about the cast/characters is that animation will allow them to design the characters according to the books’ description, and since for some fans this is a huge deal i’d consider this a benefit. the existing pjo characters can stay the same as in the live action show for continuity and obviously keep their original actors as their voice actors!! win win since i love the cast and i feel like getting them behind a mic will be amazing and hilarious (have you seen walker scobell in phineas and ferb??)

• guys. heroes of olympus is NOT going to fit in an 8 episode show. the first couple books, eh sure, but with the amount of separate side quests and chatacter arcs in 3,4,5 this is just not going to cut it. it’ll feel rushed.

• which brings me to my next point, and probably the one that matters the most to me personally - with the amount of lore, quests, characters, magic, creatures, shenanigans- this is going to take IMMENSE cgi and editing and idk and it’ll just look clunky(not sure if that’s the word i’m looking for) irl. but if the whole thing is ANIMATED, well - the sky’s the limit. heck, past the sky since they’re IN THE SKY HALF THE SERIES. IT’LL LOOK SO GODDAMN GOOD. so beautiful. i can see it it’ll be incredible.

🚫 now to debunk a counterpoint my friend has presented to me when i told her i think books generally should be turned into animation - the audience. according to her, making it live action over animated makes it more approachable to wider audiences and that way it doesn’t appear exclusively for kids. well, i think that once a fandom for pjo has already been established after five season (that i’m positive we’ll get) this isn’t worth sacrificing anymore. like at that point there’s an audience already so. not that the only viewers of hoo will be the people who watched pjo but yknow. the impact has been made.

anyway tho is all soooo hypothetical but if they’re already starting to think about an hoo show (which walker has. walker scobell is quite literally one of us.) I NEEDED TO GET THIS OUT

[spoonmoment119]

anyone who doesn't ship grumbo CLEARLY has never watched grian's season 6. he's insane. he'd do anything for mumbo.

[thespoonisvictory]

My Top 6 (!) Reads of 2026

I read 52 books this year and I'll post an entire list later but these were the best ones. I feel like I actually locked in on picking fun reads for myself that were For Me and not just what I saw on social media

First, honorable mentions: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (she's on here don't worry), Daughter's War by Christopher Buehlman, The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling, The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (it's true it's true), Refuse to be Done by Matt Bell

Ok.

6. The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

This is a part history part narrative retelling of a court case (and the lead up to it) in medieval france. French peasant Martin Guerre walks out on his wife Bertrande and one day a random guy who is NOT her husband shows up and says I'm Martin. thing is, he's kind of a much better guy than the original so she goes along with it. Eventually, his family accuses him of forgery, and they go to court. THIS BOOK IS SO FUCKING COOL. it has everything: crazy premise, insight into peasant life that is sorely missing, a look into how the judicial system worked without modern tech, and throughout the novel, feminist commentary about how Bertrande is stuck in an impossible situation.

Short, fascinating, fun, everyone should read.

5. Between Two Fires by Christorpher Buehlman

More medieval france content, set during the height of the black death with hallucinatory biblical horror. The descriptions of the decimated countryside and the random shit people have resorted to eating are so compelling. Stars a disgraced knight, child who maybe (?) is a voice of god, and an uncommonly sinful priest who go on an epic roadtrip to Avignon to carry out said child's prophetic vision. The dialogue between the three is so charming which is a plus. Def lost me a bit in the plot at the end, but I really enjoyed how disjointed and folktale esque it was.

4. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

I might like this more than Normal People which is crazy. Two brothers who are very different navigating their relationship after the death of their father, BOTH in problematic age gap relationships but are in opposite roles. The older perfectionist anxiety disorder brother and his relationships got to me. I found this funny in a way no other Rooney novel is. Featuring a whippet, incel yt videos, a Hilarious 23-year-old woman and very interesting contrasting narration styles.

3. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

FANTASY HEIST FANTASY HEIST. I would describe Scott Lynch's style as evil, sexy Brandon Sanderson. This book is somehow a tight 500 pages and it is fun as fuck, perfect pacing which is a rarity. If you like fantasy but are bored by modern releases read this, the biggest sin is that all the female characters are great but there aren't enough.

2. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

I liked the first Earthsea novel. This one was perfect. Perfect length, an inspiration for anyone who worldbuilds and wants to write meaningful fantasy. Ged's appearance was so charming but I felt like I could have stayed just with Tenar and loved it almost as much. I would say changed my opinion on what the ideal fantasy novel is.

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved is a gothic novel set in 1873, following a black woman who escaped slavery and fled north, but is currently being haunted (literally) by her past. This book weaves past and present storylines in such a devastating way. I could not believe how modern it felt and how much the characters moved me. Phrasing this is difficult, but this is such a vibrant, dark, lively vision of a time period I have always been taught about dryly through history class, and jesus christ man. You should read it now go in knowing nothing .

[alaspoon]

the poppy war really does exist just to give us a moral dilema on the ethics of warfare, genocide, colonialism, imperialism, and mass murder in the sake of vengence, revenge, and prevention of further death huh

[spoon-bender]

ONE is known for plot twists maybe we're still safe???? Cause shou and touchy toes just promising not to use psychic powers anymore is so ???? out of left field 

Like didn't we demonstrate with mob that repressing a part of yourself is Bad?? 

[aspoonfulofsugar53]

if Rollercoaster of Friendship is the rarijack eg special… Spring Breakdown is the sciset special

[aspoonfulofsugar53]

callback to a few years ago when they brought some space guy to lecture in my school and he asked “so how do we actually go to space? anyone have any idea?” and i sat in the front row and i deadass told him “you find five mechanical lions to form the giant robot voltron.”

and he was like “haha that’s a nice thought but we.. can’t do that 😀 any other ideas?”

[aspoonfulofsugar53]

this blog is infatuated with the peacock miraculous and everything related to it 

(umm especially with the kwami)