man that’s actually kind of fucked up. like there’s this guy, and he tries to start this revolution, but here’s the thing: he’s just some fucking guy! he’s some uneducated laborer from a tiny village with uneducated-laborer-from-a-tiny-village problems. he was probably born out of wedlock, which he gets teased for by the other villagers - because of course. of course. his is not an easy life. he’s got these brothers, and a bunch of sisters, and his dad probably died when he was young. everything in his village is made out of stone so this kid has to start walking to the nearest big city because where else can a carpenter find work? dontcha know herod’s building in the city again? so he and his brothers set off and then like. it’s fine. it’s normal. but then this bastard turns 30 and he gets radicalized by this weird bitch eating honey by a river.

then this fucking 30 year old, illiterate, peasant-class laborer was like, “hey! what if i . fight rome, actually”, and his entire family is like “y’shua WHAT” and he just goes and does it! and everyone keeps calling him messiah but he’s not, is the thing! he failed to fulfill every messianic prophecy! objectively speaking, he threw himself at the empire and was skewered for it and he died! he died like hezekiah before him! like hezekiah’s children, like judas of galilee!

and then fucking PAUL came along and casually redefined thousands of years of pre-existing scripture to fit this narrative that oh actually the people he was trying to save, the people whose sole vested interest he had in mind when he went wandering around the countryside with his band of also-uneducated, rabble-rousing, trouble-making revolutionaries - yeah actually he hated them and blames them for his death. meanwhile fucking pilate, who was so notorious for just casually slaughtering members of the community that jerusalem put forth a FORMAL COMPLAINT TO THE EMPEROR - herod antipas, the roman empire all of it- yeah let’s just casually wash them from guilt, so we can make roman conversion easier.

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

not to be strange and abnormal on main but yo can we talk about this. the unwavering gaze that lasts... suspiciously long. the small chuckle that turns into a shy grin. the fact that this is the softest and most wholesome we see david look in the entire movie. this man is head over HEELS for michael are you fucking kidding me. this is not a "boy oh boy i cant wait to manipulate this dude into becoming a vampire with me and my buds" look, this is a "oh holy shit this is the cutest guy ive ever seen i need to hold my composure and act like a totally cool and normal dude so he likes me" look.

dropping a nuke on him

cheers to the man who sleeps during the end of the world

Grantaire sketch.

Micron 0.2. Derwent HB and 9B

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.01

Akihiko becoming a cop is something that simply doesn’t happen in the coma route cuz Shinji would see that shit and be like Aki what the actual hell is wrong with you

man it's him the man

its so funny to me how oscar piastri is super photogenic and naturally cute when hes just existing but when hes posing for a picture he looks so stiff 😭

LOOK AT THIS. BEAUTIFUL beautiful amazing showstopping

why does he stand like that

I didn't even really like tamlin in acotar BUT OH MY GOD. Even I feel the need to defend him with the way he's written in acomaf. ITS SO BLATANT, that he is only written this way to make way for Rhys because he's acting DIRECTLY CONTRADICTORY TO THE WAY HE DID IN THE FIRST BOOK.

I get the thing with aramantha changed him but JESUS CHRIST, THESE CHANGES ARENT EVEN LOGICAL FROM A NARRATIVE STANDPOINT.

The ending to acomaf is so ridiculous I'm going to explode. Lucien mating Elain, feyre's sisters being turned into fae for no reason, tamlin turning into fucking Grima Wormtongue, it's so ridiculous that it has no emotional impact, its just frustrating.

The stakes aren't even high, it's just OMG the king of hybern is going to turn feyre's sisters and the mortal queens into fae oh no!

And like yeah I get how traumatizing that is for Nesta and elain because they don't want it, but it's just a stupid stake from a narrative standpoint. It's completely anticlimactic. We know it's traumatizing, but we also know that these characters will get over it and the book will just chug along. Like they were human, now they're fae. Nothing else really changed.

And the whole Lucien and Elain mating situation is so dumb. Honestly the way romance is done in the book is stupid. It feels like a fanfic with the way every single minor character has to be paired up with each other.

Idk it's just dumb and the plot was really meandering and I feel like ive wasted my time.

I know I'm rambling but I really can't get over the tamlin thing, there are no words for how much it pisses me off.

Tamlin being the only high lord who held out the longest against aramantha and hybern's forces, suffering for 50 years and watching his people die for his refusal to submit, going 3 months forced to being eye candy utm and watch his people be held captive, the High Lord who didn't even want to be high lord and only wanted to play the fiddle but still rose to the challenge to try and do right by the spring court being reduced to what he was at the end of acomaf while rhysand who sexually assaulted feyre and leaves women in his court to have their wings clipped and sold off but gets sjm's version of a shitty redemption arc

This isn't even a "fun bad" series to read, it's just exhausting

Hey, I just watched Dead Poets Society for the first time ever! Now, if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna go sit in the corner of my room and scream!

coughing and hacking

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Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave /

...well, better than the alternative /

Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples /

Love, Me Normally

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I know you dont care about pesterquest but i wanna know, did you think they wrote eridan well or bad?

bad

been obsessed with dq11 lately. im puttign them in my mouth