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counting-stars-gayly · 4 months

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I’m actually LOVING how Rick Riordan, and the other writers of the show, took his initial concept of a Percabeth rivalry fueled by that of their parents and kind of turned it on its head?

Now, instead of Annabeth being wary of Percy because he’s a son of Poseidon, he’s wary of her because she made a callous impression on him. They get off to a rocky start even before finding out who Percy’s father is, and when they finally do, Annabeth doesn’t care. Instead of them fighting because of who their parents are, they’re fighting over their own opposed worldviews.

Then, instead of them arguing over which of the gods is cooler and who was right in the story of Medusa, they realize that, just like Medusa, Annabeth is a victim of her mother and that, unlike Medusa, she is a far kinder and stronger person, unwilling to repeat the cycle of hurt. They realize that, like his father, Percy often acts without considering potential consequences and that, unlike his father, he is a far kinder and stronger person, willing to step up for someone he wronged and whom he cares about.

Instead of Percy and Annabeth’s rivalry being focused on that of their parents, it’s focused on who they are, themselves. But the path to friendship is still the same: a realization that they have each other’s backs, no matter what, because they’re not their parents after all.

#i kind of typed this in my essay voice because I knew it would be long so ignore that #also I don’t actually know which of the other writers are playing big parts in percabeth’s story so threats why I put a focus on Riordan #that’s*#aaaaanyhoo if I’m being honest I definitely prefer this version of percabeth #AND I like that Medusa said ‘‘we are not our parents until we choose to be. you three have chosen’’ implying that she thinks they’ve chosen #to be their parents only for Percy to reveal in the next episode that he’s chosen to be better than his father.#that was a really nice touch 👌👌👌#percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo disney+#percy jackson disney+#percy jackson #annabeth chase #Percabeth #rick riordan #Medusa #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers

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shadowqueendiangelo · 4 months

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“The way the gods want us to think. Gotta burn an offering to get a parent’s attention. Gotta beat up on Clarisse just to get my father to admit he’s my father. It isn’t supposed to work that way.”

They need to stop RIGHT NOW before I write a whole analysis on Percy and Luke and how they are the perfect foils for each other. How this show is setting it up PERFECTLY, how Percy understands Luke PERFECTLY but had love and support. Had care.

#in this essay i will #pjo disney+#pjo #percy jackson #pjo tv spoilers #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #luke castellan

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helpallthenamesaretakenblog · 10 days

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the day that people realise that not one person in the rachel/percy/annabeth love triangle is deserved to be hated on or was in the wrong and that all three of them were just scared and confused teenagers is the day that humanity will be fully pure, I'll tell you that.

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trolledu · 1 year

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Watching TV-shows in 2023

Ania and I have been watching a lot of TV-shows this winter. We started with some light-hearted fun with Tim Burton’s Wednesday. For us, it was a brilliantly done and ‘un-put-down-able’ series, which we devoured in the space of a week or so. I remember we laughed quite hard at Wednesday’s dancing and loved her awesome family and werewolf friend and straight after finishing we looked to see if Burton had another season planned. The answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’

After that we watched some of the old Alf episodes, some Simpsons too and Family Guy and Futurama. You surely remember Alf, right? I don’t know how old you are, but I used to watch Alf quite a bit as a kid. Can’t remember if it aired on the National TV stations or the paid ones that we didn’t have, but I saw a good few episodes of Alf as a kid growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1990s.

These days I can watch Alf to my heart’s content, but Ania isn’t too keen on it. She doesn’t like ‘Parks and Recreation’ too much either and late last night, whenever I switched to it for comic relief from ‘The Walking Dead’, she would put her head down on a sofa pillow and start nodding off, but she said she was actually watching and would laugh at something from time to time.

I must admit Parks and Recreation has dated a little, just a little. It is strikingly too much like The Office, but I quite like the plot. Anyway, we only got through three or maybe 2 episodes of Parks, before we hung the wires up for the night. We had finished Watchmen earlier that day and after the third episode of The Walking Dead- what do they call them, the Zombies? Creepers? No. Wait a second, let me ask GPT- Walkers, that’s right - after the 3 episode, we felt so bad that we just couldn’t go on.

In terms of their production quality, today’s TV-series are more and more like feature length films and this was clearly visible with the opening of The Last of Us. It’s a smash hit and everyone is riveted, waiting for the next episode. It kinda feels like waiting for the apocalypse, in a way... but this new one, The Last of Us, is hitting quite close to home.

#trolleng #trolledu #speaking #reading #unputdownable #South Africa #writing #writers #Poland #tv-shows #Netflix #TV-essay #TV-Show Essay #TV Studies #The Last of Us

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talistheintrovert · 2 months

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made a three hour Psych retrospective

IT'S FULL OF DELICIOUS FLAVOUR 🍍

#psych #shawn spencer #burton guster #carlton lassiter #juliet o'hara #henry spencer #karen vick #pierre despereaux #james roday rodriguez #steve franks #dule hill #timothy omundson #maggie lawson #video essay #tv show #retrospective #psych retrospective #my videos #Youtube

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balletfilmss · 3 months

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“we need more complex characters!”

yall still can’t handle luke castellan.

#i could write ESSAYS on his character #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo fandom #luke castellan #charlie bushnell #pjo show #luke castellan pjo #percy jackson show #percy show #complex characters #pjo tv #pjo series #pjo tv show

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people-wxtching · 2 years

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Yeah, I know many people have talked about this already but I need to say it as well before I explode.

I love visually seeing how the campers are all age accurately cast. In the books, it didn't hit me as hard because it was something I read when I myself was around 12. Even upon rereading I just go back to my 12-year-old body and the age is just this textual evidence that I KNOW exists but it doesn't truly impact me as much as it really should.

With this still, though, it's clearly visible how young all of them are. And it's scary. It's just the teaser trailer and it's already scary to think just how tiny and innocent they are, and how many hardships they have to go through at such a tender age.

But the scariest part about the scary part?

The youngest campers. That little girl (sorry for the bad quality) who's sitting right behind the girl with glasses looks around 7-8 at most. She's so small, so tiny, and yet she's at a camp where she has to learn how to survive and fight off monsters 100 times her size.

And the essence of all this is exactly what the movies failed to capture. The movies had a mostly adult cast, with zero ideas of what they were doing with the plot and characterization that could make the movies as impactful as the books, and focused a little too much on getting their Percabeth ship going, with absolutely no buildup of trust or slowly falling for each other or anything.

But with this show, I'm sure it'll be a lot more emotional and real because while it is sad that they're all just little kids, it's also a reflection of reality. Not every kid has a wonderful life; we all have to fight our own monsters no matter how young we may be, because life doesn't wait to see how old you are to throw problems at you. It doesn't have an age limit for trauma and hardships. The younger you are, the harder it impacts your life, and them being this small has a much more impactful meaning to it than watching almost adults go through the same problems that often get solved in an underwhelming manner.

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sarcastic-pun-master · 4 months

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this site is going explode when they drop that first seaweed brain and wise girl

#pjo tv show #gay tape #the gifsets #the yelling #the essays

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mo-mode · 5 months

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OKAY BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THE PJO BOOKS ARE cuz I really hope that this tv series becomes a jumping off point for kids with ADHD and dyslexia and other ND stuff to finally find a book series they love, not just because I loved it myself but because ND kids deserve to fall in love with books!!!

My brother is a genius, super smart guy I am so proud of him every single day, but he was always so behind in school because his dyslexia went undiagnosed for ages (my whole family’s dyslexic but his is the worst case by far) and compared to me who was a complete book worm my whole life, he had NOTHING to love in books because every time he read them, he just struggled over and over again. He had given up on books, learning, everything because no books spoke to him and made him WANT to keep trying. Jump cut to me introducing him to the PJO book series!! I was probably ranting about them because I was just an AuDHD girlie hyperfixating and I don’t even remember how I convinced him to read it but you know what happened when DID start reading it??? HE NEVER STOPPED! THAT HAD NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE AND IT WAS SO EXCITING FOR MY FAMILY (MY MOM IS LITERALLY A READING SPECIALIST FOR KIDS SHE WAS SO FUCKING STOKED) THAT THEY GOT HIM THE PJO BOX SET FOR CHRISTMAS AND THAT IS THE MOST WELL-LOVED, YELLOW-PAGED, FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS BOX SET IN OUR HOUSE FULL OF BOOKS BECAUSE MY BROTHER AND I KEEP READING THEM!!!!

I WANT THE SAME FOR THIS NEW GENERATION OF KIDS!! I WANT SOME OF THESE GEN ALPHA BABIES TO STUMBLE UPON THE SHOW, WATCH IT, PICK UP THE BOOKS, AND HAVE A COME TO JESUS MOMENT JUST LIKE MY BROTHER DID BECAUSE THAT’S WHY THEY’RE SO IMPORTANT!!! BECAUSE THERE IS A BOOK SERIES (SEVERAL EVEN) THAT SPEAKS SO WELL TO THE KIDS THAT HAVE GIVEN UP ON LISTENING

anyway here’s to the anniversary of getting our PJO box set, Merry Christmas :)

#my brother is an AMAZING architect student now #I’m so fucking proud of him #I also helped him proofread his college essay about how much he loves the PJO books #gen alpha is going to have such an amazing book series to read #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson the lightning thief #percy jackson tv show #pjo disney+#pjo tv show #pjo fandom #pjo hoo toa #pjo series #pjoverse

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posallys · 4 months

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It's the way that, even with age appropriate casts, writers and directors continue to make characters more mature/strip them of whatever child-like personality traits they truly possess in favor of turning children into what is a caricature of an adult...they're meant to be 12. They were cast as a 12 year old. Let them be 12, let them be silly, let them make mistakes because they're not adults--that's the point. They're supposed to feel enormous pressure and loss and it's supposed to be uncomfortable to watch because it IS a completely vile situation. 12 year olds shouldn't constantly be in life and death situations, they shouldn't be ventuing across the country on their own, they shouldn't have adult-like pressure on them, but they DO, and the fact that they're 12 and ACT like they're 12 is important because it emphasize how wrong the situation is, it emphasize how gross the gods' ways are, it emphasize how right luke is in his line of thought even if he may have gone about it wrong.

#IN THIS ESSAY I WILL YELL ABOUT THE TRIO BEING STRIPED OF MUCH OF THEIR SILLINESS #like YEAH some of it is there. but most of it isn't #why is annabeth just an adult.#let her be twelve god fucking damn it #pjo tv #pjo series #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #I HATE IT HERE

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counting-stars-gayly · 4 months

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Book: "I don't know what my mom will do. I just know I'll fight next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain."

Show: "You've done more for me in the past few days than my dad's done for me in my entire life. If I have to stick with someone, I—" "Careful. I think you were about to call me your friend."

#AAAAAAAAAAH #I don't have the words for an essay rn because life is life-ing but I hope you guys Get It #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #rick riordan #pjo books #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo disney+#pjo adaptation #pjo ep 4 #pjo 1x04 #we take a zebra to vegas #I plunge to my death

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watchyourbuck · 4 days

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I get the feeling Eddie will isolate himself after everything unravels and it takes Buck, Chris and his family to help him out of the darkness.

Maybe another breakdown as he finally let's Shannon go??

Because I can't see a world where Buck would let anything happen to Eddie or Chris, unless they really had a bad fight, but then he wouldn't leave Chris...

I agree with you, anon. I think that’s actually why the headline of that article said that Eddie will feel isolated from everyone.

I don’t understand these theories where people say that Buck is going to banish Eddie from his life and only talk to Chris, or worse, that he’ll take Chris? It makes no sense. For starters Chris is older now, he’s not a child, and even if he was, Buck would have absolutely no rights to take away someone’s child, no matter how close they are (because the will thing would only operate if Eddie died, not before that). And even if for whatever reason Chris was really in danger, Buck could still not take him, he’d have to call SS or the police, otherwise it’s kidnapping.

On the other hand, I think Buck will be most likely be worried about Eddie because this is clearly a delusion, and he’s cheating on his girlfriend (which Buck did as well at some point in his story so I don’t think he’ll take a moral high ground), and he’s holding onto the memory of his dead wife and projecting it onto another woman who’s got nothing to do with it. He’s clearly not okay.

My take is that Buck (as soon as he finds out), will let Eddie know that what he’s doing is wrong and that he’s worried and that he should seek help and I think Eddie will not like that, and in this rage/shame haze he’ll tell Marisol and she’ll break up with him, and Chris will hear this and also be upset with him, and Eddie will just— feel alone.

#I keep writing fucking essays on these but I have so many thoughts #my 911 opinions #911 #911 fox #911 tv show #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #shannon diaz #christopher diaz #marisol 911 #evan buck buckley #911 spoilers #911 on abc #911 season seven #911 season 7 #911 show #911 s7 #911 speculation

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helpallthenamesaretakenblog · 1 month

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The Judo Flip Scene; The Scene that Divided the Percy Jackson Fandom: What Went Wrong?

Annabeth grabbed his wrist and flipped him over her shoulder. He slammed into the stone pavement. Romans cried out. Some surged forward, but Reyna shouted, “Hold! Stand down!”

Annabeth put her knee on Percy’s chest. She pushed her forearm against his throat. She didn’t care what the Romans thought. A white-hot lump of anger expanded in her chest—a tumor of worry and bitterness that she’d been carrying around since last autumn.

“If you ever leave me again,” she said, her eyes stinging, “I swear to all the gods—”

Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth.

“Consider me warned,” Percy said. “I missed you, too.

-Mark of Athena

This scene is one of the, if not most, controversial scenes in the entirety of Rick Riordan's books. It has caused many fans to go deep into the morality of the scene--into the question of boundaries, whether it is just a good boundaries into Percy and Annabeth's relationships or just abusive behaviour. In this post, I will talk about my opinion on, 'What went wrong?'

First, let us dissect this scene, shall we? We have Annabeth, who has lost her only proof of permanence for six months. The guy she was dreading would die for five years before she thought they had their happy ending was suddenly snatched in a time where she thought life couldn't get any better. During this time;

she saw jason falling in love with piper and was stressed that percy would be doing the same without her

she was stressed percy would never even remember her.

she canonically spent hundreds and thousands of drachmas (and probably time too) on iris messaging every monster and god she could just so that she could find him

she spent a WHOLE lot of energy on this.

she was probably advised by people in camp to find another guy, probably got these comments regularly

she was also troubled by athena's roman form to find athena parthenos statue and ditch finding percy, which must have been hard to handle

she was in charge of helping build a WHOLE WAR SHIP

she was also in charge of rebuilding the home of the gods

And you know what? It makes sense that she would have all of these emotions buried inside her. It makes sense that she would be angry, stressed, and depressed and that she would bury all of this inside. "During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth’s feelings. They’d grown painfully intense—like she’d been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn’t sure which was more excruciating—living with that horrible absence, or being with him again" Yep, homegirl was going through some stuff.

Though we don't know what his thoughts were on his point of view, from the fact that he laughs and never brings it up later, we can conclude that Rick wanted us to know that he didn't care, and that these interactions are common between both of them, though one could argue that isn't really reliable.

So; Annabeth having an outburst of emotions is a completely normal reaction, judging the amount of things she has gone through, even though it isn't the right way to express her feelings. But, why is the judo flip scene actually bad? Why did it give even percabeth shippers the ick?

The Way Rick Wrote It: Rick treated the scene as if it was funny, Annabeth was such a girly girlboss who did it to keep Percy in his place. "I only judoflip my boyfriend". And people were mad. Mad that girls are portrayed to be girlbosses by making them violent. Mad that this violence was against a guy who was implied to be abused in his childhood.

My Argument: This scene was written in a time where media with violent comedy was popular among kids (tom and jerry, oggy and the cockroaches, i see you), and that it aged badly. Another important thing: a lot of the fandom also thought of it as percabeth's most romantic moments, and hyped it up so much, which contributes towards the whole ick of the scene.

My Argument: One thing to take into account was that the romans were really on guard when the greeks arrived. they were scared it was going to be an ambush. so when annabeth judoflips percy, their nerves took over. i fully believe the humor of 'i only judoflip my bf' was just their way of diffusing a potentially dangerous situation of misunderstanding.

But in the end I do agree, the way this was written was a major disservice to the feelings that Annabeth was experiencing that time. Rick failed to portray that scene as an exhausted traumatised teenager having an unhealthy outburst of emotions, which is what it really was. Instead, he tried to make it a funny type of scene, and the fandom carried it forward by hyping the scene up as if it was one of percabeth's most romantic moments, and even though the intentions were good, he failed to convey the meaning behind what they said properly.

So now that we've answered the question this post was made for, I'd like to end this post with a positive note. I'd like to point out that in cotg, there is no moment that annabeth physically hurted (hurted is too much of an overstatement) percy if you think about it, which shows that she has improved. If you want proof, I searched any time where Annabeth teased percy physically when he said something 'stupid' and what I found was 'nudged me with her toe' and 'lightly pinched me'. So, even though Rick messed up in writing that one scene more than ten years ago, it's safe to say he has improved.

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representative-democracy · 6 months

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Happy one year anniversary to my The Terror brainrot 🎉

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+ some extra Goodsir and Silna!!

#taking a break from my essays by making shitposts for this perfect TV show #i've got some more Involved memes cooking but I gotta wait until I'm not drowning in school work #the terror #the terror amc #henry peglar #john bridgens #bridglar #james fitzjames #cornelius hickey #harry goodsir #tuunbaq #francis crozier #thomas blanky #silna #the terror shitposting #james clark ross #george hodgson

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fleuresdumonde · 10 months

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Crazy how we are post “Piracy hurts books/movie/video game” era and into “Piracy might be the only thing that could save (insert media here) from being lost forever” era

#I’m going crazy watching 3 hours videos essays about lost tv shows and video game only saved in parts by pirates #if you love something keep a copie close to your heart #piracy

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twohornycannibals · 28 days

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the best part about queer media these days is like... how did Hannibal (2013!) do a better job with their gay men than Loki (2023!). Like how is Loki's gay ending MORE horrific than two gay men falling off a cliff?

#this is a late loki post i know #i just sometimes i just think about and i just you know how you just when you #...#hannibal and will r the best gay rep and in this essay i will #hannibal #hannigram #loki #loki tv show #lokius

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