With Poseidon showing up to save Percy on Olympus, Percy is given a more tangible reason to reject Luke’s statement of ‘the gods are bad parents’.

Book!Percy may have been more inclined towards this plea, having never had a major moment where his father really showed up for him, and he witnesses the shortcomings in the Olympians. Such as when they debate killing him after he stopped a war.

But show!Percy is less inclined to Luke’s side because yeah, some of the gods are bad parents. He witnesses them at their worst, when Athena puts her daughter in danger out of spite, and Hermes is willfully negligent (even if it is, as he claims, for the best). But Poseidon shows the gods at their best as parents. He quite literally shows up and takes a significant blow to his pride for his son.

So when show!Percy sees these characteristic in more stark contrast, (instead of the more gray of the books where he could be swayed either way), he is able to conceptualize ‘the gods can be better than this’ with a hopeful outlook. Maybe his father hasn’t been there for him much, but it isn’t fair to lump the Olympians together under a label of ‘bad parents’ when there are obviously areas in between, and evidence that they are capable of being better.

I see discomfort with toshiro for having feelings for a wlw. but let me raise you this. what if toshiro decided to transition, and what if laios did too. and what if they kissed.

double the yuri, amirite?

I was thinking, if Finwë had to choose, like, let’s say he was offered reembodiement (let’s say Fëanor had already been reeembodied) but he could only keep one of his marriage bonds, who would he choose

(This, of course, is just a thought experiment, Finwë when petitioning Miriel reembodiement does put it that he loves both of them, but I just wondered if anyone had headcanons about it. Like, the “I love both equally” is a nice sentiment but it would be awkward either way he picks, it sort of reminds me of those “which spouse would you be buried with” kind of things)

(Also, while I appreciate the sentiment, for the sake of the experimentation there is no cheating and answering Elwë, also also, Finwë’s choice doesn’t mean they are going to take him back)

just a thought but like. if akiyama, who’s established as being a bizarrely talented investigator in y5, suspected kiryu’s death to have been faked (or at least “fishy” in his own words) basically on the fucking Spot, i feel like it just makes sense that majima would’ve been just as quick, if not quicker to see where shit wasn’t adding up and become skeptical that the whole thing was a coverup. reason being, in y5 he put shit together and figured out the grand scheme going on so damn early most people didn’t even suspect yet that there was any scheme going on. he then faked his own death well enough to get it in the papers and had masterminded himself all the way to the final boss (with some help of course) before things backfired on him. so he’s got some crazy good skills when it comes to reading people, figuring out their intentions, putting puzzle pieces together, etc– way better than he wants people knowing, generally– and he knows the hallmark signs of a faked death because he’s literally done it before. all that on top of knowing kiryu like the back of his hand and knowing damn well how hard this man is to kill, and how prone to running away from shit for the sake of the safety of people he cares about (for better or for worse) he is. he could absolutely put together that, if given the opportunity by some faction or powerful individual, kiryu would sacrifice his identity and status as a legit living person for the assured safety of others, or for yakuza tensions to diminish, or maybe even as an act of self-flagellation.

tldr: I think the reasons majima didn’t go rogue/apeshit after kiryu’s alleged death are that A) for once he has saejima around to reign him in and make it feel less like Everything has been lost, B) I think he’s legitimately known pretty much all along that kiryu didn’t die that day; nor would he believe it unless he saw it with his own eye.

Random assortment of silly doodles of Simon being silly cause I think he should be allowed to be silly sometimes.

The text says (in order):

1. “God won’t let me die” on the back of some shorts lmaoooooo

2. CAUTION: Smokin’ Hot Dad and there is a grill in the middle of the shirt too. Especially hard to read cause he also has a cross necklace over it.

3. Knows exactly the abomination he is wearing and is just waiting for someone to notice it -> and the shirt itself says “Je-Sus” and as an AmongUs Jesus on it.

4. <- Looking up cool rocks (on Google)?

5. He says “eh?”

6. No text for this one but that is one of those gag shirts that has the NES controller on the chest in a specific spot, if you’ve seen them you know lol idk how else to explain them.

7. (Imagine the Simon’s Quest text box sound) HAVE SOME CHOCCY MILK CAUSE UR AWESOME! (Choccy as in chocolate, every time I read this one I think of chalk-y milk and then die a bit imagining the texture of that eeee)

8. No text, but haha dragon ball death pose

9. The one in the bottom corner says “evily scheming” in quotes cause whatever he’s thinking about is not evil at all lol

10. No text for this one, but I doodled this cause I kept missing the jump in this level, it was my first time playing it when I drew this so I was not very good yet. I love how the rings have little bats tho, like that’s such a cute detail. :3

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For weeks, I’ve been haunted by the concept of the Salamanca twins not having the same blood type…

This isn’t explicitly canon, but it’s lightly implied that Marco was the only one with the correct blood type to give Nacho the transfusion, so, at the very least, that’s one way to interpret it. And fraternal twins are just as likely to have different blood types as anybody else, so it’s not at all improbable that they would.

And that was distressing enough… the potential that, despite being so close they essentially function as one person, they couldn’t give each other a life-saving transfusion in an emergency… But then I looked up what blood types are compatible and realized it’s WORSE than that…

Marco is canonically O-negative. He was chosen to give Nacho the transfusion because O-negatives can give to anyone, so they didn’t have to know Nacho’s blood type to know it would work. BUT, O-negatives can ONLY take O-negative, which means that, assuming they do have different blood types, Marco would be able to save Leonel via transfusion, but Leonel wouldn’t be able to save Marco.

And that is just. SO much more fucked up than I even thought!!!!!!! What the fuck. Who allowed this????????

They’re calling my baby Gojo, Joseph Joestar now

“What If…Venom Had Possessed the Punisher?” What If…? (Vol. 1/1989), #44.

Writer: Kurt Busiek; Penciler and Inker: Luke McDonnell; Colorist: Tom Vincent; Letterer: Janice Chiang

Ohhhhhh my god I try so hard to be chill and normal about this but I’m sick of every morro redemption fic involving Lloyd being wildly forgiving of morro and being his number one supporter and being a “good cousin” I’m so sick of it I’m so sick of it I’m so sick of it

thinking about how much of a menace the trio of adam, max and anne marie were in paris

2023 reads / storygraph

Small Joys

literary fiction set in 2005 rural south England

follows a depressed/anxious young Black man who’s moved back to his hometown after dropping out of uni, becoming friends with the excessively joyful new flatmate who takes him under his wing

recognising mental health struggles and harmful relationship and finding community and happiness

music, birdwatching

gay MC, ace-coded SC

you ever think about how by yakuza 8 haruto will be 8 years old and won’t remember kiryu at all, and if/when he shows back up kiryu will be a total stranger to him. haha

thought drop of the day is handmaiden reader and butcher osamu.

your charge is arranged to marry kita shinsuke, prince of the neighboring country. on the first morning of your princess’ visit to her future castle, you make your way into the kitchens early morning to make her tea because she gets rather sleepless sleeping outside the comfort of her own downs.

you find osamu butchering meat that’s meant to be prepared for the day. it’s a sweet, peasant romance. osamu brings you flowers strategically plucked from kita’s gardens.

(you know kita would notice a single petal out of place)

you teach him the dances of royalty that you’ve observed from the sidelines of a ballroom, a bird’s song as melody. there is nothing wrong with what either you are doing, especially since the families are meant to meld together eventually.

a happiness blooms that you hardly recognize the princess’ cold attitude towards you. it’s not one morning, when you are late delivering her tea because you couldn’t force yourself out of osamu’s hold, that she snaps.

the princess slaps the cup and saucer from your hand. it splatters over her dress you’ve prepared for her, but the shock is surmounted by pain when the princess starts telling you she hates you.

she knocks her fists at your chest in anger that’s quickly overtaken by grief, transforming into a childish tantrum. she clings to the neckline of your dress, drags herself down and you cannot help but just press her against you as she cries.

you’re so lucky, the princess mourns. why do you get to love who you want?

you inform kita of the princess’s condition.

“her constitution is weak,” you mention. “she must not be used to the weather here.”

kita, a kind man, there is nothing wrong with him aside from that he is not what your princess desires, understands. he does not pry.

he does not expect anything.

the next day, he loses his butcher, his princess, and her handmaiden.

then there is a sequel with the runaway prince sakusa and milkmaiden reader (ex runaway princess)

Honestly tbh, I do really appreciate Jungkook repping an affordable and comfortable brand like CK. I feel like he could’ve gone to any major fashion house but he decided to slum it with the regular folk.

Ok what is UP w Scotty’s love life??

First we have Who Mourns for Adonais, where my boy just throws himself at a god willy nilly for poaching his girl, and Kirk has to remind him to be professional several times.

Then in Wolf in the Fold, we get this from McCoy:

“Don’t forget, the explosion that threw Scotty against the bulkhead was caused by a woman. […] Matter of fact, considerable psychological damage could have been caused. For example, his total resentment toward women.”

First of all, wtf. A girl causes an explosion and you come to hate all girls??? My dude??? Even saying it’s due to head injury is a bit much, I don’t see traffic accident victims coming to hate all cars? And the prescription is to hang out with girls until you stop hating them??? What kind of 60s sexism is this???

Then The Lights of Zetar opens with Kirk saying:

“When a man of Scott’s year falls in love, the loneliness of his life is suddenly revealed to him. His whole heart once throbbed only to the ship’s engines, he could only talk to the ship. Now he can see nothing but the woman.”

So the takeaway here is:

1/ Kirk and McCoy are very concerned about Scotty’s personal life. Not only because they’re his friends, but also because he’s vital to the ship’s operations and

2/ He’s a fucking powder keg, and it’s somewhat to do with his age. Devoting 2/3 of his life to a ship leaves him pretty immature romantically. Even if the hatred in Wolf was caused by a concussion, his behavior elsewhere demonstrates that he gets so intense about love that he forgets self-preservation, sound judgement and his usual sense of duty.

No wonder these two have to babysit him. My man goes 0 to 60 in 3.5. He’s very sweet to his love interests, yes, but his total devotion makes him a liability.