I love Caravan Palace’s music cause there’s an inherent eeriness to it. Not only is it bumping and just makes you want to move along to it, it feels like there’s an underlying creepiness to it (not in a bad way). Like, it feels like the kind of music you’d find playing on an old record player in the middle of the woods kinda jams. Or something you’d find on an obscure radio station in the middle of nowhere. Like can you imagine flipping through static and dead air, until Clash starts playing? Or what about pressing play on a random cd player and Aftermath starts up?
I think most of that is due to y’know, the electro swing aspect, the fact it’s supposed to sound reminiscent of the 20s. Idk, Caravan Palace’s songs always have a bit of a “ghostly” feel to them, but it’s not malicious by any means. It feels like, “yeah this house is haunted but the ghost is chill, come on relax and let’s vibe a bit” kinda beat.
Such a satisfying arc of seeing Mew getting the tape and almost playing it out loud to Ton’s dad before savagely saying his moms thought him better (implying Ton is just plain nasty) and throwing the USB to Ton’s feet (but notice he didn’t delete his copy on the phone - which means Mew can always blackmail Ton to be in line, anytime)
I love that when Apollo shows up on Percy’s doorstep, the first thing out of Percy’s mouth is, “Why?” How very Gen Z of him to be like, “yes I will help you because I’m not an asshole but also can I please get a break from saving the world for one second I’ve got math homework I really need to get done.”
it’s official, my favourite thing about PJO is that even without having read the books before, I’ve seen enough prophecies in YA books to guess the end correctly
Losing it at the new DD. This is such the perfect format for this story. The captain is the only one left, his right hand has thrown himself overboard, he has to get this ship to England with a monster he doesn’t know about on ship with him.
Meanwhile Mina is getting increasingly despairing and worried about Lucy and Jonathan - and just like Jonathan her entries get shorter and less descriptive the more upset she is. The terror, for the reader at least, comes from seeing these two seemingly totally separate stories and knowing vaguely that they will intertwine maybe but we don’t know why or how, if it’s coincidence or not, whether the characters will be safe, so on.