blind adoration isn’t hot ❤️ critical thinking, guys!!

Something that is confusing me is how many people are defending the changes Rick made and defending Rick himself in regards to the show.

He lied to us.

He got the entire fandom to hype up the show, got the show made on the basis of getting a book accurate adaption. This was supposed to be something accurate to the books, including the book characters, the book scenes, the book stakes- we were supposed to get to see our favorite moments in the books on screen.

And then he went and rewrote the book.

This adaption isn't the book we read. The characters aren't the characters we read. Grover's personality was wholesale replaced. This is something entirely new-

And whether you like it for itself is a different matter entirely, but the point is that... this isn't The Lightning Thief that we read years ago.

He lied to us.

what if i killed myself huh? HUH?

someone talk to me the way henry talks about fanny <33

"'...with such unpretending gentleness, so much as if it were a matter of course that she was not to have a moment at her own command, her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back, and in the midst of all this, still speaking at intervals to /me/, or listening, and as if she liked to listen, to what I said. Had you seen her so, Mary, you would not have implied the possibility of her power over my heart ever ceasing.'"

i literally ceased to exist

"'I could so wholly and absolutely confide in her,' said he;' and /that/ is what I want.'"

...but at the same time there was a pointedness in his manner of asking her which she did not like, and she saw his eye glancing for a moment at her necklace, with a smile—she thought there was a smile—which made her blush and feel wretched.

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

he’s such a self absorbed asshole how can people genuinely ship him with fanny 😭 while i also find myself charmed by him, i feel it under delusion! jane austen had no right spewing the most loving things about fanny from our local fboy’s mouth 😍

Every once in a while I’ll come across a post being like “why did Jane Austen throw away Henry Crawford’s redemption arc that’s who Fanny should have married” and I would love for them to explain how a man refusing to accept a woman’s no for months & recruiting her entire shitty family to similarly pressure her into a marriage she doesn’t want was a “redemption arc” and not like more proof that he’s an asshole

henry crawford winning me over with his trust fund baby frat boy seducer aura was not on my 2024 bingo card!

how anyone can hate fanny price is so beyond me because how can you not relate to being left out and simultaneously wishing to be included but also knowing that's not what you really want, you just want to be understood and loved by those who actually know you

Piper: Today is a day of running through hurdles.

Jason: Aren’t you supposed to jump OVER hurdles?

Piper: Whatever. Fear is only something to be afraid of if you let it scare you.

Sophie: Do you take constructive criticism?

Keefe: I only take cash or credit.

everyone slags off jason so much and it sucks 😭 literally leave him alone you don’t get it

Jason Grace who could kill a man before he could write his name.

Jason Grace who had to look after himself when he ate poisonous berries.

Because the first rule of the Wolf House is self reliance.

Jason Grace who could command armies but couldn't tie his shoes.

Jason Grace who never cried infront of people because to do so would show weakness.

And the wolves would eat him alive.

Jason Grace who survived multiple assassination attempts both prior to and after becoming Praetor.

And could never trust so easily.

Jason Grace who doesn't know what his mother looks like but knows the names and faces of every fallen soilder by heart.

Jason Grace who doesn't smile because no one ever taught him how too.

Jason Grace who sleeps with his coin under his pillow and never tells anyone he's afraid of the dark.

Jason Grace who was never allowed to be a kid, he was made to fight.

Lupa taught him to rely on himself alone and the Legion taught him to be a one man army.

No one ever asked what he wanted... To do so would mean they saw him as human.

I am once again asking all the burnt out gifted kids to revisit hoo and consider jason's arc in this series bc this bitch GETS IT. he had always lived his life under the expectations of others and then he loses everything and tries to pick it back up but realizes he's not what he used to be and creates a new path for himself !!!

Percy: I learnt some very valuable lessons from this.

Annabeth: I’m guessing they are all horrible distortions on the lessons

Percy: Death isn’t real, and I’m basically a god

i’ve seen this assertion and tweets like it several times so let’s actually check the text, shall we! first, what he is referencing is this moment during the war games in son of neptune:

notice how it says he’s fighting in “a completely unorthodox style” unlike how a roman would fight and this is why they aren’t prepared for his assault. it also says the sheer novelty of losing has thrown the defense into chaos. now considering jason is considered a sword master and spent MONTHS with the greeks, it’s safe to assume he’d have trained in their sword fighting methods. yes jason trained in one specific style of combat but so did percy, we just never see a situation where jason has to sword fight all of the greeks. in fact, he even says in house of hades that he struggled with the strict rules of the romans

now let’s get to the meat and potatoes: who would actually win in a fair fight? many people assert percy could and use this quote from mark of athena as evidence:

now if we look at this, we may think this proves anything but it doesn’t. two teenage boys having a pissing contest and each saying they’re better than the other is not evidence that either one actually is. so here’s the relevant parts of the fight that they’re talking about, which happens right before that scene

jason and percy are fighting and jason knocks percy off of his horse with a lightning blast (i would argue that bouncing lightning off of your sword is not predictable). he has his sword six inches from percy’s face when piper distracts him with charmspeak. this gives percy time to recover and he is able to sweep his legs under jason, making him hit his head and fall unconscious. percy almost kills jason until piper is able to charmspeak him. now piper is clearly a variable in this fight seeing as she stopped each of them from killing the other so if you take her out, what happens? easy. jason stabs percy through the face and wins. it is only because piper stopped jason in the first place that percy even had a chance to get that close to killing him at all. sure they are both highly skilled fighters and had he not used lightning, jason might not have won, but he did use the lightning because he has it along with flight and being able to harness air. percy discovered in tartarus that he was able to bend poison to kill akhlys; what happens when jason realizes he can pull the air from peoples’ lungs?

i understand percy is everyone’s favorite but can we please use our brains from time to time? yall hate jason for not being percy and refuse to acknowledge anything that makes him interesting because you base all of your info off of the lost hero in which he spends the majority of the book without a memory so OBVIOUSLY he wouldn’t be super interesting to read. even in his first chapter of the lost hero, he is knocking the socks off of his opponents AND by the end of the book, already learning greek fighting techniques of slashing rather than stabbing

anyway idk how to wrap this up i just want yall to acknowledge that jason is OP

the reason jason is so tragic is like. not because he died. it’s because he never lived. he was shaped into a leader and he himself was not some great tough leader of rome he was just. some kid. who wanted to know what love looked like. percy got a happy ending with annabeth even after everything but jason never even knew how to. hold hands properly. without questioning everything about himself always. he never got to be himself. i’m choking

LISTEN TO ME: I swear to god if y’all start shipping Leah and Walker (literal KIDS!!!) and make it weird for them I will put snakes in your left shoe. These are kids. They are not their characters. Pull it together.

Nico: I think I’m having a mid-life crisis.

Will: You’re like 15 years old

Nico: I MIGHT DIE AT 30!!!

Kaz in the epilogue of Crooked Kingdom, watching Inej carve Pekka Rollins' chest: