I've been reading your crits of the show, some I agree with some I don't. But anyways we're past the halfway point of the show, would you say that there's more things you like in it or more you don't?
well, with every episode my expectations get lower and lower for the following one when I should be getting more excited so I think that best summarizes my experience so far
I by no means think the show is bad. It's enjoyable. Just that as adaptation its fine? I simply don't think its an amazing book-to-screen adaptation so far... which given how the creators talked about it, it should be. Sure it's faithful in terms of plot. But there's a lot more to making a screen adaptation good outside of it hitting the same plot points of the book.
If you've gone through my crit tag of the show, you know what I dislike about it so I won't iterate all of that here. Instead, to speak to what I do like about the show: The actors are amazing, and elevates the show to a level that it wouldn't be at if it weren't for them; there's a great emphasis on the relationships between the characters, and even if the show has altered the emotional dynamics in a way I don't like, the complexity of their relationships are still there; and I like how present the anger and derision towards the gods is throughout the show.
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actually annabeth joining luke's army as a double agent for chb but percy doesn't know this so he just thinks alright and grabs grover and hooks it over there bc annabeth does what she wants and he knows there's no convincing her otherwise bc she's a stubborn ass and also ares fucking sucks so as far as percy's concerned the gods can suck it based on that alone
grover is just ??? bc he does NOT want to be over here and percy's just like "look, we can't convince annabeth to not be part of monster army, so the only option is to be part of it ourselves" and annabeth walks in on them trying to join (or rather percy trying to join for both of them and grover looking on the verge of tears) and she's just ??? bc what the fuck percy why are you two here
whole time percy is going on a rant about ares and how he sucks and how he's pretty sure the god has abused clarisse ("maybe we should get clarisse to sign up with us") because no one believes that he wants to join luke's army and they just thinkk he wants to spy on them so he's trying to show that he thinks gods (well at least one god) is a total ass and can get obliterated and percy will be happy to do that bc he did it once before, he can totally do it again! and if they get clarisse she can deliver the final blow as an FU
someone asks why grover's there and percy is like "um. he's my best friend? he has to come with me? what, you think I'm gonna fucking fight my best friend? are you stupid?"
meanwhile grover is having the worst panic attack of his life. like why is this how he discovers percy has no morals. couldn't it be something smaller like putting french fries in a strawberry milkshake?
and annabeth is resisting the urge to start screaming and now she's gotta vouch for percy and her vouch for percy is basically "if it came to saving me and grover or a bus full of people about to plunge into the atlantic, percy would save us, no hesitation" and everyone's like "jesus christ, the hell is wrong with this kid" because like maybe they're on the side of a cannibalistic titan but they're not fucking evil
ofc once they're let into the group, annabeth drags them both to the side and wrings percy a new one for fucking up her double agent plans and they're both whisper-arguing bc it's not his fault he didn't know she didn't really shack up with the enemy, but like fuck off percy, you didn't have to follow me here! why the hell would you choose to come here, were you going to try and kidnap me and bring me back to camp by force??
and percy is just like "yes that is 100% what i was going to do, i was definitely not joining with the intent to be by your side and blow up olympus because i'd rather destroy the world than fight my friend" and grover turns to annabeth and is just "he's fucking lying" "yeah i know"
anyway grover is released as a double agent for the monster army (but actually for CHB) bc the idea is that he can help them get more demigods to their side as a searcher being sent out to grab kids and he's mentally banging his head bc NOW he has to figure out how to get unclaimed demigods safely to camp without making it look like he took them there on purpose and if it looks like he defected back to CHB, they'll probably kill annabeth and maim or imprison percy and good gods, percy i hate you so much rn
percy? idk. it's past summer so he just goes home and luke is like "bro you can't just fucking leave" "um no offense luke but if you try to stop me from going home to my mom who i love more than life itself i will legit eat you" and then he goes home
come december, grover is calling percy up like "hey i found these fucking powerful ass kids, plz help me get them to camp without making it look like i got them there on purpose" and so they gotta loop annabeth in who's just mentally banging her head and cursing percy out over this whole thing as she strategizes a way to get the army there but have them fuck up so badly it would look super suspicious if grover just shoved them over
so first she yells at percy then she makes grover call thalia up so she can help him and it'll be okay 'cause she's in the same area as him so it won't look suspicious, it'll just seem like camp sent her in with him, like they do sometimes when there's dangerous monsters that a satyr might not be able to handle by themselves.
and then she makes percy go with them as support for grover's "nefarious" deeds since thalia's there. and it's a whole fucking thing, and mentally she's just like "oh thank fuck" when artemis and the hunters show up.
they retreat back to wherever the monster army was at this time (not the boat, but like idk. atlas' post? were they all chilling there or was it just luke and some ppl being assholes and everyone else was still on the boat, i can't remember) and curse their loss of two powerful and clueless demigods, only for percy to call annabeth up a couple hours later like "hey, remember those kids from a couple hours ago with the manticore and the hunters and everything"
"percy it was two hours ago, ofc i remember it, my memory isn't as shit as yours" "right right, you're elephant" "oh my- why are you calling me!!" "oh yeah. uh. well. they're kinda in my house" "what??" "yeah they're sitting right across from me. my mom's giving them some hot chocolate."
"how the hell?"
"i have no clue. they also have no clue. they just, uh, didn't feel safe at camp, bc grover was being weird about trying to save them. which, um, yeah, makes sense. and they don't like thalia because her spear scares them 'cause they don't like lightning. and also the girl said the hunters keep trying to convince her to join them which is freaking her out, so they didn't want to stay at camp. and then suddenly they were in my house."
"..."
"what do i do?"
this time annabeth bangs her head physically on the closest wall. and somewhere in the fine forests of new york, grover is banging his head on the nearest tree, both of them unified in their feelings of "for fucks sake percy i hate you so much rn"
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how to curate your fandom experience 101 on tumblr (its ridiculously easy I promise)
follow blogs you like
unfollow blogs when you see them posting shit you dislike
block blogs if you find them offensive (or just block without any reasons)
add keywords in filter tags/content (highly recommended)
talk shit about something you hate in your own space
do not deliberately seek fight (ie: send anon hate, tag hate post with ship you hate etc etc)
have one or two mutuals who have the same interest as you
ship and let ship, stay in your own space (or turf??)
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Here's where I'll be living for now:
Personal Website (started on Neocities, now I have my own domain!)
Pillowfort
Bluesky (main art account)
Bluesky (personal)
Sheezy.art
Etc
Other stuff I'm a part of (it's just the one for now lol) :
32bit.cafe - a really wonderful indie web community. I've been inactive and hibernating lately but I love it there.
I'll update this post with more stuff if I get more stuff. If we know each other, I'll be happy to talk on Discord or just anything that isn't social media DMs. My feelings about posting art online have shifted a lot but keeping in touch with people is still really important to me.
Please let me know of any forums/servers/IRC chats/whatever you're a part of or would recommend and I may check them out, because I've been trying to get people back into forums for years
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I dunno if anyone else would be up for it, but I just had an idea. I know we all love dunking on ND’s little garbage fire of a shit show. I know I do. But I just got to thinking, most of us use our knowledge (all accurate, albeit limited) of the OG show for comparison of how things could have been different if not better. So I was thinking all is Spop critics could make a discord so we could group chat about that stuff since group chatting was essentially killed on tumblr. We could host watch parties for the old series, exchange ideas, redesigns, rewrites and be creative and stuff. Of course all criticism of ND’s thing is welcome, I think it’d be nice for us to have a gc with some positivity too and where we could all new things about She-Ra and MOTU in general. Idk, just an idea.
I honestly thought a Discord server like this already existed (maybe there is? If anyone wants to tell us). Regardless, I think this would be a great idea. Though you'd have to make sure no one with ill intent joined the server (like say, a SPOP stan looking for trouble).
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