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[whimsicalcotton]

hi!! i have more music!!

all the songs are from the album two player game by joe iconis and george salazar (it's all musical theatre songs he's worked on from different projects. the whole album is great though i do recommend!)

anywho, i think both "broadway, here i come" and "the answer" are very rachel-coded. "the answer" especially for marrow!rachel bc she's running around with max's notebook and trying to figure out what's going on from more of an outsider's perspective than chloe has. "broadway, here i come" is just uh ooh ouch sad (he originally wrote it for the tv show smash so there's a lot of jeremy jordan singing it, if you like him).

"lisa" is a song i honestly feel like speaks to any of the crew (including kate and victoria tbh). very comparative in a similar way to how you write chloe and rachel putting the other on a pedestal at times, not seeing each other's bad traits but being so viscerally aware of their own. same with "norman" but i think that's maybe particularly rachel x victoria coded 👀👀

"the goodbye song" is also just very oh ouch considering the plot of lis and how they parallel the themes in the song. be it rachel to chloe, or chloe to max, or even all the versions of herself that Max leaves behind to her current self (that is slipping through her fingers faster and faster so i think that makes it haunting.)

lastly i think "song of the brown buffalo" also fits the vibe of ambermarsh, something very cutting but also very passionate and heightened in a way that their relationship is. (plus it isn't sad! yay! just pure groovy ass vibes and good mt lyrics.)

happy listening 🫡

not even 30 seconds into Broadway Here I Come and i'm going to fucking combust shdgfsjkdgfsjkdfhsk GOD. 100000000 points psychic damage in that first verse alone. lots of psychic damage also in "focused on my prize" & "will i retain my name" &

^^^ fucking this. i'm crawling all over the walls like a coked out spider. "is it a scream or a cheer? well, nevermind, i'll never find out" i'm turning to dust thanos style and dissipating on the breeze. thank u for the five-star rachel angst breakfast <3

(the bits of seafaring imagery in The Answer are also v painful and marrow flavored indeed. "when a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?" oughghghgh. writhing around in agony.)

actually wait i'm beginning to think you set out to murder me w/ this ask bc Norman is wrecking my shit also. you single-handedly just made my amberchase brainworms 459873495x worse. like for real are u in my brain bc this one bit in particular

is like. such a horrid perfect little encapsulation of my personal flavor of amberchase bc [about to sound very unwell] i think they're lowkey Wintergirls coded. she will not slap my hands because she understands!!!!

[bipercabeth]

you asked for and ask to write an essay on percabeth and i'm here to comply

i did in fact ask to be held accountable and y’all delivered. it’s been a hot second since i wrote an essay about pjo, bear with me. (based on this post.)

one of my favorite things about percabeth is actually one of my favorite things about romance as a genre in general. obviously pjo as a series is not a romance, and percy and annabeth’s relationship is not the core relationship of the series, (there is no sole core relationship of the series, which is why it works, but that’s a different post i don’t have the energy to make right now) but that’s also a strength! there is something so powerful about knowing two characters are going to end up together from their very first interaction and then having to wait to see the relationship grow. canon percabeth from book one means absolutely nothing. they are two twelve year olds who are in charge of saving the world for the first time without a single clue of what’s coming for them. annabeth says “he’s the one, he must be,” and we Know, but one of the defining characteristics of percy and annabeth’s relationship is that it is built on friendship and mutual understanding. it is not built on destiny or fate (the literal thesis of the entire series), it is built on moments like the conversation in the zoo car in tlt and the bubble at the bottom of siren bay, with absolutely no ulterior motive in the support they give each other. there are still cute, innocent moments where percy thinks annabeth looks pretty (circe’s island) or makes her blush, but it is so overwhelmingly platonic. they are children! they are still growing! they’re putting down roots and only just starting to realize how that makes them intertwined. 

it isn’t until ttc that we really see exactly how much untangling those roots hurts. despite the fact that annabeth isn’t physically present for the majority of the book, ttc is undoubtedly the romantic turning point of the series for percabeth, and a strong one at that. obviously there are moments where percy sneaks onto a forbidden quest with the explicit intention of saving her, spouts random facts about architecture he picked up from years of listening to her ramble on passionately, repeatedly dreams of her whereabouts, and sees her face in the literal goddess of love--those are all powerful and carry their own weight within the narrative. but my favorite part of ttc is that it is the book where percy and annabeth are truly the only people who understand the burden the other has taken on. they hold the sky and are marked with their matching grey streaks. they have other relationships and other struggles the other doesn’t understand, but this is something absolutely unique to them. this is what grounds them through botl and tlo, where the struggles that are unique to them begin to threaten the security of their relationship. 

knowing that percabeth is endgame from the first interaction is what lays the groundwork for botl and tlo (especially the space between) where their relationship is tested. percy is pulled toward normality and rachel, which hurts annabeth, and annabeth is pulled toward luke, which hurts percy. the strife they go through and overcome is necessary to set them up for success; it’s why it’s believable that they are going to college together (though i refuse to accept they leave nyc and my blog acknowledges nothing past pjo as canon (keep this in mind while reading this post)) and are going to last. being close with rachel allows percy the narrative ability to choose annabeth knowing she is what he wants rather than the only option. they have grown with and because of each other, and the climax of the series relies almost entirely on the traits they bring out in each other. there is no way percy gives luke the knife without annabeth in the room. there is no way annabeth is secure enough in her relationships to keep from giving into luke before this without percy in her life. it’s here at sixteen instead of twelve--still very much kids, but kids who have years of shared experience, friendship, and love under their belt--that they are ready to capital L Love each other. they have put in the work and shown each other and the reader that they’re ready for it in ways they couldn’t have fathomed in the beginning. 

it is such a joy to read about two people who love each other so fiercely from the very beginning without having this love undercut by romance. the romance comes when they’re ready for it, when the world is saved and they have time to figure themselves and each other out. it is such a beautiful standard to set in a children’s series. i genuinely get emotional thinking about kids growing up with such a wonderful example of healthy love to look up to. percy and annabeth are kids, and they’re allowed to make mistakes, and they are allowed to love each other anyway for it. 

[bbyannabeth]

your top 50 tracks are taylor are you okay? like, emotionally? (but also not me checking and seeing that she's my top artist long term when i only started really listening to her in like october/november oop)

i am absolutely NOT okay pls😭😭 but listening to taylor gives me so much serotonin so like it does make me very happy.... but i am also a big mess

[whimsicalcotton]

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- “I'm really the closest thing you have to help, huh?” Veronica flashes a hollow, cynical smile. “That's pretty sad, Heather.” -

[bipercabeth]

Your new blog theme and layout is so pretty!!!

that’s thanks to @filipinopercy ! it’s literally so gorgeous i’ll just open my blog to stare at it

[bipercabeth]

I saw the post you reblogged about “imagine you’re a writer,” and, I haven’t reread Roommates or your other fics in a minute, but I’m absolutely sure some of the lines you wrote related to me so much that I told my therapist about them and used to them to exemplify how I felt. (also, I’m sorry people are being so invasive about when you’re going to update it. Whenever you update it it’s going to be a lovely little surprise that makes so many people have a brighter day! Thank you for writing it)

this is so unbelievably sweet thank u so much

[whimsicalcotton]

for the whump asks with max (and/or chloe and Rachel): 3 (favorite canon moment); 20 (anything else you want to share that you haven’t been able to?)👀

3. What’s your favorite canon moment with this character? in terms of whump moments specifically it has to be when Max passes out in the junkyard. the fact that even after that she Still doesn't admit out loud that overusing her powers puts a huge strain on her body is Peak whumpable bastard content. and one of her immediate comments after waking up being "this is kinda fun. scary and stupid but fun," is very. girl Please seek medical attention <3

20. Anything else you’d like to share about them I haven’t asked?

ok rambling more on a point from the previous answer, i love that (iirc) Max never really outright tells Chloe how much her powers can hurt her. she just keeps getting nosebleeds and blacking out at random and leaving poor Chloe to put two and two together and deal with the aftermath by herself. like in that junkyard scene after she says "this is kinda fun" to Chloe she immediately thinks these powers are messing with my head. girl say that! say that out loud to your friend who would want nothing more than to make sure you're okay!! girl Please seek medical attention!!!

[whimsicalcotton]

just, like, in solidarity re: writing drunk- one time i drank a whole bottle a lot of wine and was like “okay perfect time to finish an essay!” for one of my classes??? (i didn’t finish it that night but i did write like two paragraphs and have too much fun dancing around to music) so. not currently able to drink but so right there w you in spirit 🫡🫡🫡🗣️

oh my god drunk writing an essay for a class??? now That's bravery sjdfhkdsjk