I think the coolest part of my experience as a person who knows the movies and vaguely remembers them but never read the books watching the Percy Jackson series for the first time was realizing that Luke is the traitor.

Because I vaguely remembered that the guy who gives the flying sneakers to Percy (whose name I didn't remember) is also the one who stole the lightning so there whas I, watching the episode calmly, and when Luke gave the sneakers to Percy in the series I simply went crazy in my chair, like, "OMG WAS THAT YOU?!?!?!"

Somehow I think this shocked me more than if I had realized it in the final reveal.

The best part of that scene with Percy talking about a god of disappointment isn't even the line itself, but when the goddess of failure is mentioned and you can see for a few seconds him completely forgetting how human biology works and questioning if his mother was a lesbian this whole time before he felt offended

misa x her tragic lover rem

“Make more morally-grey female characters!!!” You guys couldn’t even handle Penelope Featherington.

Amazing animated pride & prejudice confession scene !!!

Percy: *sacrifices himself to save his friends*

Grover & Annabeth: having PTSD flashbacks

#that's family

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS — 1x03: We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium

i love you grover and how little regard you have for human life

girls want boys to act how they do in jane austen novels and they do—but it’s mr wickham

I think between the most common misinterpretations of Pride and Prejudice that irritates me the most i can say the one at the top is when they say that the story is about a woman fixing a complicated guy and this becomes references in terrible romances. I've heard this so many times and as a person who grew up with the 2005 film and reads the book at least once a year I need to get it off my chest.

Starting off, Darcy is not a "complicated man". He's not a bad guy who takes out his traumas on other people, he's not a guy who's waiting to be saved by a woman who "silences his demons" and even less a guy who mistreats the women he's with. Darcy is actually a rich man with rude manners and some class prejudices. The point is that Darcy is a man with moral convictions and feelings that make him a good man despite these aspects. His rude manners are a reflection of his class prejudice, but they do not dictate how he treats people for whom he has feelings of affection. The way he would be able to move the world for those he cares about and seek the closest thing to what is considered justice in the temporal context of the story reinforces the goodness of his character. This is even more evident in the comparison that is made between him and Wickeham, where one is unpleasant but good and the other is pleasant but a cheat.

And what Elizabeth does is far from correcting him. Darcy doesn't realize how his class prejudice affects the way he communicates with people and the view he has of himself because everyone always justifies his arrogance as fair because of his wealth. So he believes that Elizabeth admires him when, in reality, she despises him for these characteristics. And what she does is just say it to his face, something no one has done before, and that's it. This is Elizabeth's contribution to any development of Darcy, to say how arrogant and prejudiced he is. It is Darcy himself who reflects on her words and realizes that she is right and that he is not being as fair as he thought he was. He realizes his own prejudice and realizes his own arrogance and of his own free will decides to change because he wants to be a better and more pleasant person.

It could be said that it was fate that put him and Elizabeth in each other's path and made her realize, now with more pleasant manners without prejudices obscuring her actions, what a good man Darcy is and become enchanted by him. But if they hadn't met again, Darcy would still take on this challenge of re-educating himself and being a better person and Elizabeth would still continue to think of him as an arrogant man in whom she feels no interest.

The other issue is that Elizabeth is not perfect. She has her own prejudices that are overcome throughout the book thanks to her coexistence with Darcy and not because of Darcy. The fact that she lives with both Darcy and Wickeham at the same time is what makes her understand how unfair she was in her first impression and how foolish she was in being guided by that to define the characters of both. Kindness and amability are not synonymous with integrity and she learns this the hard way. It's a lesson that if she hadn't learned through her time with Darcy, she would have learned it in some other way because life has things like that.

Finally, they were essential in each other's lives because of the teachings they left to reflect on their actions in relation to the world and not because they depend on each other. Both are confronted with their prejudices and realize that they were not fair and try to change for better people regardless of whether they are together or not. Their meeting after realizing their errors in judgment is purely accidental. They don't change for each other, they change for themselves, because they realize how proud they were and want to be more fair, and after that they end up being placed back in each other's lives by chance. That's what makes them such an interesting couple and makes us wish we had what they have.

Reducing the story of Darcy and Elizabeth to an asshole man who is fixed up by a woman is a mistake so grotesque that it is noticeable that it could only have been said by a person who has never seen the story or seen it with their ass.

The main reason my favorite Sherlock is from Elementary is because he was the first one I was able to visualize while reading the books for the first time.

Elementary's Sherlock is eccentric, everyone who meets him quickly realizes that he's not "just a guy", and him has this view of himself, but at the same time he's polite, almost like an english lord at times, and genuinely cares about the people around him and the customers. He is a complicated man, but he is a good man above all. At the end of the day he cares somehow and that's why he became a detective instead of anything else.

I felt this coming from ACD Holmes the first time I read the books. A little different due to each person's context, but it was there. ACD Holmes is a complicated man, but he is a good man above all else and that is what sets him apart from Moriarty and so many other rivals who used they genius for their own benefit above even human lives.

I don't think that Elementary's Sherlock is the definitive adaptation of Holmes, far from it, what I think is that he manages to convey this very important characteristic of the character very well, I would even say better than other equally famous versions, and it makes him my favorite compared to the others I like so much too.

Something just occurred to me, am I crazy or has every woman who had sex naked in this series died?

Light has feelings just as well as L. Those big, wet “I love you too, Ryuzaki” eyes don’t lie. (When L tells Light that he’s the first friend he’s ever had) and then the way he’s like “that’s…all it took?” (When Rem agrees to kill him) I don’t remember if I’ve said it on here before, but that’s all the proof you need. Light wished it was harder to kill him than it actually was. Kira needed to take L out for his ultimate plan, but Light is still in there and he’s not ready to let go.

Also, on the topic of the Lawlight fight, I feel like it went beyond just being L’s prime suspect and wanting to be cleared, I feel like Light hit L over it because he doesn’t want L to think he’s Kira on a personal level. I.E. that toxic “I love you so much I’m going to hit some sense into that head of yours” kind of dynamic. “I’m not the terrible person you think I am and I’m extremely desperate for you to see that. Look in my eyes, do you really think I’m that terrible?” but in trying to knock some sense into that person, you sort of prove their point by being violent. (Sickening, Yagami, Sickening)

So Light didn’t have to see L as worth fighting with, but he did

Light didn’t have to go check on L in the rain the day he died, but he did

Light didn’t have to dry L’s hair for him, but he did

He didn’t have to catch him when he fell, but without wasting a second to think, that’s the exactly what he did.

And without L, Light is pretty much void of all morality anymore. If you thought he was bad in the first half, he’s extremely scummy in the second. Without L, what’s the point of being a good person anymore? What’s the point of trying? The only thing he’s living for is the chance at becoming God. He will defend L’s name anyway, despite the fact that it’s the antithesis of Kira. L was his beloved; whether or not he’ll ever come out and say it. Whether you see it as just platonic or romantic/sexual, Lawlight isn’t just a rivalry. They truly felt for each other.

The way in which Vanessa and John Clare's relationship is built along the lines of the relationship between the old blind man and the original creature, using as a parallel the subplot of the girl who is physically blind to say how compassion is not really the result of blindness, but about seeing beauty with the eyes of the soul and that's exactly what Vanessa does even though she's not physically blind is very special to me.

I don't know how canonical the comics really are, but Jonathan Harker being practically a male version of Vanessa in this universe made me think things about Mina which I don't think I need to elaborate

A confession about Frankenstein is that I tried to read the book for the first time ia a moment when Victor's melancholy irritated me deeply to the point of making me put the book down several times, but I was persistent and that's good because when it got to the narrative part of the Creature I felt rewarded enough to reread the book a year later with a new perspective and wow, what an incredible book!

Surely Landor must have thought he did well being assigned to solve the murders he himself was committing, but before he made a fool of everyone by incorporating Satanist practices into their own crimes, he certainly wondered what the hell he had gotten himself into to have Satanist out of nowhere around the crimes. Like, what the fuck is going on among these young man?!