#what a trip this book is though

[fisheito]

Something about dark nova yakumo makes me want to bully him. Every time I see him I want to shove him in a locker or pour mop water on his head. I'm not sure why; I don't feel that strongly about his other alts but for some reason just thinking of him in a school setting turns me into a generic high school bully.

you're so right nonsy i could be standing under my angelic umbrella with the utmost compassion and empathy for the rough life of a high schooler but if yakumo walks by in his stupid oversized untucked shirt i'm gon na

#knock his books over #yank his hair #pull his sweater over his head #grab his glasses and throw them down the hallway #kick him behind his knees #trip him in his silly little almost-platform shoes #when dark nova yaku first showed up i was thoroughly unimpressed with his look #i was summoning for him while simultaneously thinking [why am i even bothering. what am i doing. i don't even like *gestures to all of it*] #then i got him. and he did 10k damage or smth stupid like that. #i threw my hands up in defeat #he's OVERPOWERED. FANTASTIC. THE NERD DROWNING IN HIS CLOTHES HITS SO HARD THAT I *NEED* HIM ON MY TEAM #*grumbles the entire time i'm throwing intimacy gifts at him* #for real tho are all the uniforms at sorc trials this badly fitting? i like to imagine when yaku showed up as a ~special~ student #the admin were all SORRY! you're joining at a weird time so we can't order a uniform for you but we DO have some X-LaRGE spares!!! #his pants fit though so idk how that works. he just got whatever was left in the Lost and Found bin #i mEan cOME ON! LOOK AT THAT POSTURE! crnchyh like a n overcooked shrimp. gonna shred him #asks #nu carnival yakumo

[ceasarslegion]

Followers what do we think about the fact that i looked on my ticket and im flying on the same plane model that got boeing into their current mess in june twice

#its already booked and its the only trip that wasnt egregiously expensive though so. #like i'll probably be fine #i dont think anythings gonna happen. what are the odds bro #do you know how many planes fly every day. how many of that model. for how long now #the reason you hear about EVERY aviation accident is because theyre so rare #that 1 is too many. and it is yes. but i will be chill #i work in an airport and i havent seen a single incident in our airspace yet. and how many flights do i service every day #i dont really count i just take them as they go #many of which are 737 max 8s #which im not saying makes them unworthy of the vitriol theyre getting. i think they should be held accountable because it was willfully cost #cutting measures and not freak accidents that caused those incidenrs #but also i think i'll be like. fine #im not too worried about it #ramblings

[kirstielol]

It's supposed to thunderstorm on Saturday so our camping trip got cancelled a-fucking-gain. I'm so bummed out.

New weekend plans I guess 🍹🥴

#going out drinking with my parents then bbq-ing back at their place tomorrow #and sunday my friends and i might go hiking and chill at the beach? thats still a maybe plan though #just sooooooo upset that both camping trips we booked got rained out #how are you supposed to book trips.. it just sucks.. camping sites sell out as soon as they're available in march #like my friend had to set a timer and book as soon as they opened bookings #so what awful luck that the two weekends he booked got rained out #im just so mad that it happened with both trips #were trying to plan a rescheduled trip but weekends are fully booked until fall and not everyone could make a mid week trip #i think my bf and i might just plan a random mid week camping trip because fuck i wanna do at least 1 trip #😭 #anyway time to get drunk and play video games i guess.. been so bummed out all day

[cream-and-tea]

planning ghoststory book two and asking myself “does the intensity of pallas and calliopes hatred for each other come out of nowhere???” as if there isn’t a whole scene in lay me down where calliope tries to kill pallas by dropping a potted plant on their head looney-tunes style

#AND the entirety of chapter 13 lol i’m just having an ✨ insecurity ✨ moment #where it’s like huh maybe nothing i have ever written has ever made sense #it’ll pass just. blegh. #this particular worry is VERY funny though i’m sitting there going ‘was the intensity of this relationship established enough???’ #my brother in christ they attempt to violently physically attack each other in every scene they share in the first book i think it’s #established pretty well lmao #i think the shift from it being a minor part of the plot in lmd to a MAJOR part of the plot in book two is what’s tripping me up #like. it’s not a New Dynamic by any means but it is being very much spotlighted and also dug into #which means i kind of have to look at it through a different lens #the brainworms need to start worming yknow #wip: ghost story

[zickmonkey]

No unfortunately I do have the travel bug now- I listened to the Outlander theme song a little to hard and now I have to go back to Scotland. I didn't do it right last time.

#I don't even watch Outlander #Never read the books #I don't even know what RIGHT would've been it's so fucking crazy #Plus if doing it right has anything to do with Outlander my hotel was literally right by a filming location #Like we walked past Jamie's print shop several times #I was already thinking “TeeHee what if I planned a silly little trip for my birthday every year?” #Wondering where I'd go. #(I was largely thinking UK again- maybe a different city) #I WAS thinking same person though which is kind of why the UK #But I think I might try saving up for Iceland for my next (big) trip #Go with my mom <3 #Maybe even small trips for my birthday #nevermind #“small trips” to me means “in Canada” and my birthday is in January #Yeah I am NOT walking hours in British Columbia in January. Sorry #Snow would cover EVERYTHING #(I know coasts work different but like come on) #And you can't even go Whale watching in January! #IN Canada Montreal only. But not in January I want to go back to BC and to Halifax #Toronto but not for Toronto for my bestie #I'm gonna go look up flight prices brb #jamie shut the fuck up #personal blog #just vibing #rambling

[practically-an-x-man]

see I looked it up bc I want to get a tattoo based on it (was thinking a neotraditional tiger, but to make it an eagle-headed tiger and include the line "Then the lights went down, and Shadow saw the gods") and I wanted to double-check that it was an eagle head, and instead found that the carousel and the giant whale and everything actually completely legit

Now I kinda want to go visit it someday lol

#american gods #what sucks is I used to live in the Midwest where visiting Wisconsin wouldn't be too much of a trip #but now i'm in the South so like... much more of an endeavor to go visit now I guess #I'm sure I'll go see it eventually though. seems really cool. and I want to see how much the book added and how much is real

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of the horrors brian goosebumpsphantomoftheauditorium is still So funny for being like yeah i'm a ghost i know i'm a ghost. & he's befriended the horror fan menace duo who are giggling clutching each other like omg omg okay. we're fine. we're breaking into the school at night to investigate the horrors aaaa what if there's a ghost eek ok ok!!! & brian ghost who knows he's a ghost is like omg guys aaaa stopppp ;;m;; suffering thee Most but he's not putting on an act to conceal his phantomly destiny. he's just like that

#it's brian colson i believe (unless it's colsen. but i think colson) but clearly this is clearer #the book was killing me & i'm telling you brian especially. his whole thing is being So nervous about everything all the time #which maybe that's meant to be due to [you Did die; alarmingly] but it really does just seem like Mostly personality #the cadence & content of the exchange where he's bemoaning getting paint on his clothes off to the side lays me tf out #just the dynamic like brooke & zeke are Speculating abt Schemes & Ghosts & being hilarious too; here's tina joining in; also magical #while multiple times people just completely in stride And in earnest respond to brian's complete focus on his paint stains issue #goosebumps the musical #also getting Thank You For Being A Friend points like enduring the deadly trapdoors & mystery of; for all he knew ig; a whole other ghost #he has no stake in that beyond just genuinely helping out / providing what moral support he can lol #and You Know What They Say. you probably could've revealed your ghost status & destiny & Just Asked lmao #but maybe he was too nervous like think i'll have to Haint Style Steal Your Breath or sm shit b/c that's easier than a ghost reveal convo #is that a george costanza style approach? i have never seen a full seinfeld episode. no limits to the time/effort/complexity in avoiding #some comparatively more minor issue / hurdle? i understand the like archetypical achievement character of all time in that for sure.... #like yeah they Are alarmed by the apparent ghost / apparent guy who wants to kill them / you as Actual Ghost but they roll w/it too #cracking open goosebumps of all time The Ghost Next Door... #i also need to crack open (press play) goosebumps the musical phantom of the auditorium original studio cast recording again soon #brian's pleeease let this be a normal field trip to brooke & zeke's beep beep seatbelts everyone! dream team for real #completely innocuous haunting except there's a separate totally unrelated guy taking a totally counterproductive approach to things.... #scooby doo villaining it will Not bring the meddling kids!! if i act scary to said kids they'll learn anything besides that I'm scary!!! #bring emile back here like yeah we'll cover for you for real though. appeal to tina's theatre devotion like become frenemies to friends fr #goosebumps ghosts you Do just fulfill your Purpose & then Transcend but brian was just a guy hanging out prior. could do that again

[ikana-ko]

aaaaa I’m going to Tokyo on Sunday 🎉

#yipppeeee #I only went for one night on a v dramatic and stressful family trip #so I’m excited to actually see what I want to with no emotional hardships #I gotta go get Shinkansen tickets though oop #Josie.txt #last minute plans and bookings lessgo

[percyjaczon]

i’ve only watched up till ep 4 of pjotv (🏴‍☠️ ofc) and i’m mostly finding it pretty bad, but i do think there’s some genuinely interesting tidbits in there. one of them was the line from annabeth about how she had to fight for thalia’s love — i thought that thalia making annabeth earn her love is a pretty interesting characterization choice for thalia. yes, it is a drastic change from tlo and ‘the demigod diaries’, where it was clear that thalia is soft for annabeth right away and tries her best to do right by her from the moment they meet, but when you keep in mind some of the context from the book + show, i think that the change they made does line up with thalia’s character.

ok so first of all, annabeth’s recounting of her relationship w/ luke and thalia is meant to parallel her upbringing with her father and stepmother, the loving doting father figure and the harsher mother figure (which was . . . smth, but that’s a whole other issue). smth that i realized later on was that this kind of alludes to thalia’s own upbringing as well. thalia has been taking care of herself pretty much her entire life, and even when she was on the run, she had to fight to survive by herself for years before she met luke. though it deviates from her book characterization, it makes sense that this would be the only lifestyle she’s ever known, and that she would expect others to behave similarly. luke could prove he could handle himself, but a 7 y/o child is dependent on others, smth that thalia couldn’t fathom, hence leading to her making annabeth ‘fight’ to earn her love.

to add on to my prev point about thalia’s upbringing, i kept on thinking about how in the show, they stress that demigods have to earn their olympian parent’s love. this is shown the most through annabeth’s relationship with athena, where she constantly has to be at her best to maintain athena’s favor and one little thing can cause it to be lost forever. while the line about thalia making annabeth earn her love was meant to reinforce why annabeth believes love is conditional, i also think that it could be a nod to how thalia bought into this mentality of conditional love as a result of her own relationship with her olympian parent. in the books, while she does feel bitter and resentful towards her father at times, thalia does believe in zeus and wants a connection with him. in ‘the demigod diaries’, thalia and luke only end up taking annabeth in bc of the chain of events that came from thalia chasing after what she thought was a sign from her dad! with the show’s insistence that (most) olympian love is conditional, it makes sense that thalia had to fight to gain zeus’s "love", and i think it makes sense then that mentality would transfer over to a relationship where she has to assume a parental role of sorts. i think it’s an interesting contrast to luke, who rejects everything about his olympian father and gives love unconditionally when he assumes a parental role. since luke (+ percy at this point in time) are irreverent of the olympians and actively question the way they treat their kids (ntm how both do know unconditional love from their mortal mother, regardless of their respective difficult home lives), of course they reject how the olympians show their “love” and give their own love freely regardless. but thalia and annabeth were seeking for a connection with their immortal parent, and have thus internalized this mentality that love is conditional.

also idk if the writers are keeping hoo canon in mind while they were constructing the tv versions of these characters, but the first thing that immediately came to mind when i heard this line was that thalia’s mentality had to have smth to do with the loss of jason. when thalia meets annabeth, she is only 12 years old, and jason would’ve probably ‘died’ 4 years ago. jason was most likely the first person that thalia had loved unconditionally, and its pretty obv that his disappearance shakes her up a lot, given that it’s the final catalyst to her running away from home and his memory is so painful that she never even told her best friends abt him. i think she did feel partly responsible for jason’s ‘death’ bc she didn’t keep her eyes on him and i think she did carry that guilt even 4 years after the fact. which is why i think it’s entirely plausible that thalia would not be so keen on opening up and getting attached to another young child.

ok last point on this but i also think the implications of this line would make the ttc emotional climax hit so much harder (assuming they ever get that far lol). luke, who was maybe the first person who had loved annabeth so easily and readily, manipulates and harms annabeth with no (observable) qualms. and thalia, who had been so hard on a 7 y/o annabeth, is so aghast by his treatment of her that she finally accepts her best friend is no longer the person she remembers and ends up kicking him off a cliff, and annabeth has to watch all this go down. isn’t that just heartwrenching?

#thalia grace #pjotv #the more i think about it the more i like it and see the potential in this change #i think it adds smth v interesting to the thalia-luke-annabeth dynamic esp re: ttc #though this isn’t to say that the og trip dynamic as in the books was lacking or wasn’t as interesting #but i do think an adapatation should try to uncover new depths to a character and not just simply stick to what’s in the src material #anyways. had to get this off my chest i rlly wanted to talk abt this choice lmao #ozzies

[supercantaloupe]

genuinely except for maybe a passing interest in seeing camelot (which is closing too soon for me to do anything about anyway) i haven't wanted to actually Go To New York to see smth on broadway since the music man. i am going to do everything in my power however to go see this cabaret tho

#i still think it would be most at home in the cits but it's at the august wilson. oh well i'm gonna salivate over it anyway #OMG and it'll be almost exactly ten years since i first saw it on broadway with the last revival too. meant to be #sasha speaks #anyway i don't even think camelot is a great show but that's mostly from a book side of things #and i'm still very curious what changes they made to the book with this production #plus i just really like what bartlett sher and lincoln center theater are doing in general with these classic revivals #never got to see it though. alas... #maybe it'll tour...the cast won't be as star studded but if i can see it then i'll see it #and yeah 1776 and sweeney both looked interesting too but those weren't anything i couldn't wait to see #1776 i just caught on tour anyway and sweeney will tour within the next two uears so whatever #i guess parade looks interesting but honestly i think i'd only go if i was already in the city. i wouldn't plan a whole trip around it #the last show i caught in nyc was fiddler in yiddish which was great but also It's Fiddler and that was off broadway #actual proper broadway i haven't been interested in since the music man lol #(i did also see six but that was more for my mom than anything else. i thought it was Fine.)

[eggmeralda]

happy 10th anniversary to when I started remembering everything forever

#the day i watched that video #that led me to another video #where i heard that song #that got me into that band #and i became obsessed with that genre #and 13yo me was like ''this seems like a significant moment. maybe i should remember it'' and then i have done so with #every memory since then #anyway apparently 6 sep 2013 was when i liked the video #also while we're at it. happy 9th anniversary to the depression day 1 #nothing caused it in particular i just. got depressed on that day and then my brain has been different since #idk what i was doing 8 years ago. probably depriving myself of sleep to get high and probably listening to the who #actually wait no the day before i read about the catcher in the rye and 15yo me was like wow he sounds soo <3<3 #so i imagine the next day i was Thinking about holden caulfield. even though i didn't read the book until december #i know this day in 2016 i was listening to the monkees. nothing specific i just know i was going through another massive monkees phase #2017?????? no recollection #2018? also idk #2019 i feel like despite being a good year some bad vibes were starting to settle in #2020 i was on a camping trip :) #2021 i was also on a camping trip :) but this one was dead. first one was good though #2022 i was probably at work. thinking about swag. eating honeycomb bites. and watching breaking bad i imagine #and 2023 i am in the sad thoughts bc i need to get a job but my executive dysfunction is preventing me from doing anything #anyway happy 10 years of weird obsessive memory hoarding <3 #ramble

[lunarsapphism]

i miss my partner :(

#i know theyre having fun on their trip and they absolutely deserve a break and to relax #but also. woe is me what am i without my love here in my arms etc etc #we are going to watch percy jackson when they get back though and im so fucking excited for that #both that i get to watch it and i get to watch it with them #idk if they've thought of it but the pjo book series is one of the reasons we became friends #they recommended it to me and i read it #that was fourth grade #now we're here and get to watch the tv adaptation together :] #we've come so far. its sweet to think about #makes me happy #aiilov-personal

[clownboy-yeehonk]

Is it even Thanksgiving week if your extended family isn't giving you extreme agita

#woke up to an angry 5 paragraph essay of text messages #from my cousin because she was pissed about the trip to france #that i researched planned and invited her on #shes mad bc i was upset with her when she was nearly an hour late getting to the airport #bc she packed last second and left the house late #even though i told her how important leaving on time was to me bc it would cause me ungodly amounts of anxiety #and i was exhausted after our overnight flight and was cranky #which i apologized multiple times for bc i did feel bad for being tired and cranky #she never apologized for being late btw #and i got a fucking thesis statement of texts calling me rude dismissive and that she “didnt know who i thought i was talking to like that” #even though shes the one that complained about every. single. thing. all week #like she called everything we did and everywhere we ate a crappy tourist trap #and went on about how she didnt like the itinerary #which she had at the time we booked the goddamn trip #and i just feel so exhausted #and frustrated and hurt bc what am i gonna do #she sent a barrage of texts accusing me of being a shitty person for wanting to be on time and being tired our first day #and now she wont respond #so like what am i gonna do #shes my cousin and i love her but this is such a dick move and not a proper way to handle being upset #like its so immature! #i did all the work in terms of planning and researching and evrrything #for her to complain and be a snob about everything the whole time #AND now get yelled at at 8am sunday morning about how i didnt cater to her enough #like i had a great time anyway i cannot emphasize enough how much i loved the trip wven with her complaining #but like shes the unreasonable one here #i apologized profusely for being cranky and said i was also exhausted bc we were on the SAME OVERNIGHT FLIGHT I CAN BE TIRED TOO #and just bc i wasnt sulking all week like a child doesnt mean she didnt say or do anything to hurt my feelings #and even though objectively i know shes being unfair and angry and hurt right now #i feel really really really shitty and guilty and even if im right im still the one feeling like trash and crying rn

[villaneve]

the way i was talking with my manager today and he casually dropped that if i wanted to, i could go to new york in a couple weeks to do some in office planning with another team member…

like i had basically come to terms with the fact i probably wasn’t gonna get to see the final sondheim show but if work is literally paying for my flight and hotel and meals…… how could i not……. and if i wanted to get REALLY crazy with it i could see all three sondheim shows that will be on broadway. although the merrily prices are so ridiculous even then i don’t know if i could bring myself to pay them. especially once you do the usd to cad conversion. but STILL

#ive had the vaguest plans of wanting to put together a sondheim trip for SO LONG #but it was gonna be soooooo expensive #now everything just got so much more real #ive got the sign off from my manager so i just need the other guy on my team to not be like oh thats stupid #which i dont think he will #im gonna bring it up on thursday #and then send my manager a message either thursday or friday getting him to confirm its ok #AND THEN I CAN BOOK FLIGHTS AND HOTELS #im thinking fly up on wed fly back on sat #which would give me three show slots for sure #four if i book a late sat flight and go to a matinee #though honestly idk what else i should see #lsoh maybe #maybe just see what cheap rush tickets i can get day of #lol the way i have already planned this whole thing if it falls through for some reason im gonna be so sad

[tardis--dreams]

Now that one month has passed the time started racing again and i feel like I'm almost home again and have no time left here lmao

#like what #I've filled up my weekends with city trips #got 5 planned now #busan‚ gwangju‚ gyeongju‚ sokcho‚ and daegu #and one time suwon somewhere in between there #so essentially half of my weekends are booked out and i have a lot of work to do for uni as well #so time will fly by #it's almost scary #i still haven't done much in seoul either so i want to do something small (like one activity) every weekend I'm here now #i should go to the national museum tomorrow so i start Doing stuff this weekend already #i wanna go for another run tomorrow morning too if my legs feel up for it (because oh boy did it feel nice to run and i work out a lot at #home and don't usually get extremely sore because i think my body is used to most of the movements but this took me out #i love it though. love some sore muscles) #anyway #i also have to write my term papers now and finish my assignment for tuesday and prepare for that stupid interview #I'm having fun here #void screams

[loverofallthingssmart]

i am a firm believer in explore ur interests! who cares if anything is bad! do it bc u love it! but also some people just shouldn’t publish books..

#did not expect this to be good like it’s hayley kiyoko i just requested this arc #bc i knew it’d be easy to get ANDD i could probably finish it in a day and boost my ratings #but my god 10 pages in im sooo tired like #even the like oooh what is the mc alluding to this is so mysterious is so glaringly obvious like..it’s cool i just wanted smth easy to read #on this day trip and i’ve finished like three other books it’s fine #i can be so normal even though she’s judging someone for saying howdy to her 😭😭