We only see each other at funerals
(On Jason, Thalia, Nico, Bianca, and their parallels/connections)
The Titan's Curse (Rick Riordan), @/anxiousmaya_, Right Now (Gracie Abrams), The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan), Joan of Arc (Mary Gordon), The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan), Episodes Toward and Elegy for Halley's Comet (Lindsey Drager), Jason Grace (Riordan Wiki), The Gods Show Up (Michael Kinnucan), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), What the Living Do (Marie Howe), The House of Hades (Rick Riordan), Planet of Love (Richard Siken), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), Tangerine (Nolune), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan), I Bet On Losing Dogs (Mitski), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/abhorarchive (Twitter), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), Seventeen (MARINA), The Burning Maze (Rick Riordan), @/rollercoasterwords, The Tyrant's Tomb (Rick Riordan), @/the-overanalyst, Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley), Grit (Silas Denver Martin), Softcore (The Neighbourhood), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Frost (Mitski), @/moonbends, I'm Your Man (Mitski), Sun Bleached Flies (Ethel Cain), The Tower of Nero (Rick Riordan), Three (Sleeping At Last), My Art
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Thinking ab Liu Kang… thinking about a god who thinks he has lived this new life well, has learned the rises and falls of divine existence and knows what to expect, only to remember he is just a boy given too much power when he reaches a present he cannot control. Faces he used to laugh with, people he has seen grown old, different and changed, but so much the same. Events he thought he had avoided repeating themselves, his timeline slipping from underneath him for the first time possibly in millennia. What is a god meant to do when he cannot escape his own mortality, cannot escape the ghosts yet to come, the blood he must prepare to have spilled at his feet? What is a god meant to do when he cannot fathom his own power? When he is still just a boy so scared to be champion, but must now hold the weight of the universe on his shoulders?
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THIS IS NOT ABOUT QUEEN ELIZABETHS PASSING BTW
I dont give a fuck about her
There's another reason I think it's very detrimental for our collective health that we've made grief into this private affair, something we have to, at least attempt to, hide away lest we inconvenience the public with our human emotions.
Maybe the Victorians overdid it with rules of decorum, but they were on to something about signalling your grief, so that other's could pay respect and be aware of what the mourner is going through.
I'm not saying that we should go back to a year swathed in black crepe and veil (although rock it if you want to), but it would be nice, if possible, that people would offer you sympathy and less suspicious stares if you suddenly starts breaking down in the breakfast isle because something silly reminded you of THEM. Nowadays it seems like any public displays of emotions is something to be embarassed about. A loss of control. It's so inhuman.
Some places are beginning to introduce a sunflower lanyard, to be worn by people with cognitive or physical challenges, to let people know they might need extra time and care. This is a great concept, and at least in my country I've heard that people have had good experiences with wearing one.
I think we should introduce a black lanyard for grieving people, so that they too can recieve the public sympathy they need to help them through a difficult time. Hell, even depressed people should wear it if they want to, so that they can cry without shame, and that people may offer them words of encouragement and care, instead of being ignored or looked at with disdain.
Maybe it's the country I live in (Denmark) that's just cold as fuck towards public displays of uncontrollable emotions, but I think a little more sympathy and understanding would do us all good, and if a signal such as a black lanyard is needed, then so fucking be it.
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ia i think lestat just said that about antoinette cause he was being petty, louis had just called him 'my love' to get him to drink poison essentially when he has NEVER use that word to him in their 30 odd years together.. he was just reacting to that hurt and i think he wasn't stupid enough to think louis would've stuck around if he had claudia killed. he wouldn't even let her leave on the train. i assume he would've immediately killed antoinette (he can even frame it as "revenge" for killing claudia) and then prob would've had to kidnap louis and lock him up to stop him from un-aliving himself.
Yep. There's no way that Lestat actually believed Antoinette could ever replace Claudia for Louis especially when he's repeatedly used her before the finale to rile up Louis when he felt neglected by him or wanted him back. I think people just take what he says to be what he actually meant because we only see these events from Louis' point of view and we've been introduced to Claudia's through her diaries, but never Lestat's. But we do get this repeated thing where Lestat says something for the sake of causing a reaction, either from Louis or Claudia, so it's not far-fetched to see that he tried to play up Antoinette being "important" to him in some way purely to make Louis angry.
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thinking about octavia x seven 1.0 from when they first dated and i like to think the relationship while like passionate and full of like love it wasn’t as perfect as they may remember it. I think any relationship with super high highs probably has pretty low lows too.
Esp when it’s someone you’ve actually already known for a decade lol. I think there are certain things/behaviors that are fine with a friendship but don’t carry over to a partnership so i like to think while no one ever thought they would implode the way they did, i like to think it was always possible just because of the nature of their relationship which bordered on codependency fjdjdd.
I wanna get more into specifics but i have to wait until there’s more information but for what i have now on seven x mc (specifically for octavia) dynamic. i like to think seven was always just a little bit more in love than octavia was. While octavia would never have voted seven out of the band. They also never would’ve given up on their dream for seven, or left the band because they’re not that kind of person or friend. The idea of abandoning the rest of the band is really a place they would’ve put their foot down, because while they love seven (and even tho seven is incredibly important to them) and it honestly kind of disappoints her that seven would think that way.
aNYWAY that’s most of the thoughts i have rn i can’t wait to actually get all the information and see what all the after-vote party fight was about. i’m on the edge of my seat, legit this is all i think about rn DJSJ
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Harrow had beheld her. She had beheld Harrow. And nothing had ever gone right after that, never ever.
What always kills me at this part is the implication that things were ever right between Gideon and Harrow. There’s nothing positive in the summary of their shared childhood. They fight each other bloody and betray each other at the drop of a hat.
It’s always been horrible, but Gideon goes and makes it worse, and even before she’s willing to admit that there are layers to her and Harrow, that it doesn’t start and end with simple hatred -- there’s this sense of loss. A childhood together turns into sharing a secret that could topple a planet, and even though both options are kind of terrible, one is infinitely better, and that’s the one they can’t get back.
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