Honestly, big fan of how fucking Weird™ Neuvillette is

He can't do small talk for shit, his idea of a pastime is standing soaking wet in the rain with no umbrella, he'll infodump cool water facts at you given half the opportunity. He's the adoptive father of several dozen(?) immortal kids. He's a lawyer. He's inexplicably talented at making pottery.

He's somehow simultaneously the coolest and the lamest person in Fontaine

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

I think its very funny that throughout most of Marcel’s trial, Childe was just sat there in the audience probably bored out of his fucking mind

All he probably wanted was a fight LMAOO

actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.

And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).

But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.

And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?

On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?

But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.

And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.

And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.

Carmy + Luca

sorta kinda a prequel to my previous comic / AU (???)

been listening to music recently

look within

happy hozier day to all those who celebrate

Thinking about this and So that was okay? and I don’t think you’re ready and I didn’t wanna pressure you and Are you absolutely sure about this?

I just have really strong feelings about characters who are trying to be the person they needed when they were younger

Eddie trying repeatedly to make a move on Steve, sometimes chickening out himself but often the kids or Robin interrupting, and he grows increasingly frustrated.

Only for Steve to be the one who gets too impatient and finally snaps at the kids to "get out so Eddie can finally fucking kiss me, I've waited long enough and I'm not letting you brats ruin my chances again!"

Mike bluescreens, 404 error page not found

Haha

ultimate selves

🐱🐱🐱

Yes, the idea of Sokka kissing Zuko first and leaving him bewildered is cute…

But imagine- Zuko just going for it and kissing Sokka in the middle of a conversation. Quick and over before he can even process it, Zuko’s ears turning red as realization sinks in. For once shutting Sokka up, leaving him breathless, his jaw dropped, his heart pounding.

And before Zuko can apologize or pretend he didn’t just kiss him, Sokka grabs him by the front of his shirt and is returning the kiss, drowning him with his affections.