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Percy Jackson as Jake Peralta Quotes

(aka a collection of Jake Peralta quotes that Percy has definitely said at some point)

(to Annabeth) “My god you’re even more stunning up close.”

(to a god) “With all due respect, I’m gonna completely ignore everything you just said.”

(to a monster): What the hell’s Othello? I’m calling you the bird from Aladdin.”

(to Leo on the Argo II) “If the toilets drain into the ocean, does that mean a tiny shark could swim up and bite me in the butt?”

(to Grover, after a battle) “The doctor said all my bleeding was internal, and that’s where the blood is supposed to be.”

(to Annabeth, again) “I’m cute about everything.”

I think the most important thing Eragon could do for the reformation of the Riders, to ensure that they don't collapse like before, is to demand that only adults are tested against the eggs. Like I would say at least 25 years old.

The fact that humans used to be tested at 10 is abhorrent to me. They can't consent to the responsibilities of a Rider at that age. They wouldn't understand the huge ramifications on the rest of their life at all. An inherently immature child with such little life experience would just think that being a dragon rider is the coolest thing ever, they can't critically analyze this choice. Such an enormous, deeply affecting decision that cannot be undone, should never have been made available to children.

Also it's fucking indoctrination. We know their taken from their homes (Brom leaves Kausta to go to Illirea) and there's no evidence that their families go with them. They, 10 year old children, are taken from their homes, families, and cultures to be taught by and organization that they were expected to be a part of their entire lives (which were extended indefinitely!) and, as far as we know, they had no option to leave.

Oromis says the elves were tested at age 20 which I can think of two reasons for. One: elves age slower than humans and a 20 year old elf is as mature as a 10 year old human. This is the one I imagine is true. And so, the elven Riders go through the same stuff that the humans do and truly none of the Riders have the benefit of an upbringing outside of the Riders instruction. Two: the elves were given special privilege and the Riders deliberately waited until they were older to test them. This possibility is particularly awful because of the sense of racial superiority at it's core. The human children would be tested at a more vulnerable age so that the Riders would lean very heavily in favor of the elves, in their philosophies, politics, governing, and of course, their racial bias.

And even though I think the first explanation is the actual reason, the second one is still at play. Regardless of any equivalence of their mental or physical maturity at those ages, 20 years is twice as much life experience than 10.

Eragon included all the races in the spell that bonds Riders to dragons, which is incredibly important. But if he wants to actually make good on his promise to give them an equal place in the Riders, he has to fucking do this. What's the point if they leave their home, their people, and their culture as children and get all their education from age 10 (or equivalent) from the Riders? What new perspectives and ideas would they be able to bring? What understanding of or connection to their race would they have? What would be the point? All they would be left with is a group of people to powerful for their own good that were all taught to think and act in the same way and it would fall to pieces just like it did before.

And what makes me so sad is that Eragon still went through all this. 16 is still too fucking young. I feel like the benefits he got from being a bit older and being taught for a shorter span of time were really made up for by the way he was ensnared in so many enormous responsibilities that people presented as obligations or even debts that they could use to get him to comply, specifically the elves. He didn't deserve it and I want him to have the opportunity and the critical thinking to realize all this, both for his own sake and for the sake of every single Rider that will come after him.

It enrages me that the books never acknowledged this. It's fucking criminal to me. All those children deserved better and the Riders of old deserved to be dismantled.

I want leggings with fun patterns on them but I’m fat so I’m not allowed to have nice things

I want a skirt with skeletons on it but I’m fat so I’m not allowed to have nice things.

I see you’re a fat person looking to buy clothes. You can have uuhhh affordable and ugly as hell or expensive and kinda meh. There are no other options unless you have the time to make clothes yourself. Also if you don’t wear the best and most expensive clothes in the world possible then you are going to be labeled a slob.

The Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena | Rick Riordan

I’m realizing that MoA is the percabeth book. these two are so precious!! <3

I was inspired by this post and so I did a little sketch of it. I assume they’re trying to come up with a plan to defeat some villain. 

dark hannah montana

show me the worst of both worlds

The fact that both of zukos abusers used lightning against zuko and instead of learning to use lightning himself like he could have he learned how to redirect the lightning and let it pass through him and then straight clean out of him… Do you ever think about how that is literally physically representing how instead of absorbing his father and sisters abuse he lets it pass through him and instead of soaking it in and letting it destroy him he redirects it away from himself… I just want some peace in my life

turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and it’s 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if they’re gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them what’s happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyone’s going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i don’t know who to tell and what good telling people will do because we’re a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know there’s twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we can’t do anything to stop them. they’ve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i don’t think they’ll rest until every last one of us is dead.

we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. we’re not asking for a lot here.

Alagaesian Species Study: DRAGONS (Part 1)

While I find it reasonable that the dragons of Alagaesia didn’t (and still probably don’t) mate for life, I was curious as to how their species would have gotten along as much since Paolini never went into detail, save for a tidbit Saphira told Eragon from Glaedr that was just that. Not only this, but I wondered how mating rituals would go aside from the whole ‘Female-grabbing-Male-Tail-and-hoping-he-didn’t-attack’. So doing some research on various other dragon species closest in appearance and even mannerisms of the Wild Alagasian Dragons of old from games, stories, even some fantasy ‘textbooks’ such as Ernest Drake’s Complete Book of Dragonology, I buckled down and have drawn some of my own conclusions that I’d like to share from a combination of theories and/or possible scenarios of how the Wild Dragon’s behaved and dictated their daily lives. Sooo~ without further ado, sit back because this is (hopefully) satisfyingly informative report.

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