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This song is bloodweave to me. Act 3 bloodweave

#so true bestie #it fits so well #and the song is also just really good

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

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The new live action Atla makes me sad because it's the same issue I have with a lot of legacy content now. It doesn't really capture the heart of the original and is just based in aesthetics. I haven't seen enough people talk about how the show completely misses the anti-colonial themes of the original. Jessie Gender has a great YouTube video about it explaining why things like getting rid of Sokka's sexism seem like small stupid changes no one should be upset about but actually are issues because the lessons and themes drawn from the original are warped. I agree adaptations should have changes but you can't lose the heart of the original story because then it's simply not the same story. And it will not have staying power because the original will be the one everyone goes back to.

I have to say I really liked the live action one piece because it kept the spirit of the original (at least so far) while making understandable adjustments (that still fit with the themes & characters) for the new medium. Not only in aesthetics but in the story. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off also did this very well in telling a new story by branching off from the original story but still maintaining the spirit of the original and building upon that spirit.

The live action atla disappoints me in a similar way to modern star wars. Sure, the aesthetics are there but it will never live up to the soul of the original, even though there are so many ways to comment on our current times in an adaptation.

#atla #atla live action #avatar the last airbender

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Hello avatar nation

#zukka #zukki #zuko #sokka #atla suki #atla #the live action is reminding me of how true this is #babes is 2024 multishipping or just liking a ship in theory is lovely #your ship doesnt have to be canon you can just have fun #i may be stoking the flames but counterpoint its really funny #avatar the last airbender

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family gathering. playing monopoly. getting close to the end. 12 year old turns to 8 year old brother and says it’s time to become esteemed colleagues. i say what? he says esteemed colleagues. they merge their money and assets and beat me at monopoly

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I’ve said it before and I will say it again: you can call Fantasy High a magic version of The Breakfast Club all you want, but Fantasy High is ACTUALLY a magic version of Lemonade Mouth

#why are you so right #its so upsettingly right

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i feel like the older and read the books at least 10 years ago percy jackson fans are less likely to be complaining about the show

from what im seeing from the latest episode (ep.6 - we take a zebra to vegas) i'm not seeing as many older fans complain as i am younger, newer fans

and it is not all of them, there are complaints coming from both sides and people loving it regardless from both sides, i personally just seem to see a difference

besides, all of these changes are being made by rick riordan, like y'know, the author

look, let me elaborate, spoilers for ep.6 if you haven't watched it

percy says he is going to santa monica to meet his dad. that isn't how it goes in the books, he is told to go to santa monica, but poseidon isn't meeting him there

‘If my father is so interested in me,’ I said, ‘why isn’t he here? Why doesn’t he speak to me?’ A cold current rose out of the depths. ‘Do not judge the Lord of the Sea too harshly,’ the Nereid told me. ‘He stands at the brink of an unwanted war. He has much to occupy his time. Besides, he is forbidden to help you directly. The gods may not show such favouritism.’ - the book

in the show, poseidon was going to meet percy but because the deadline passed, he had to leave

He waited as long as he could. The summer solstice passed earlier this evening. Zeus's deadline has elapsed. Your father has gone to marshal his forces and prepare for war. He asked that I relay a message. "This is not your fault. You were brave. You were strong. You made your father proud." - the show

like DUDE come on if you are mad he changed it to give us good dad poseidon you are out of whack

also to people saying 4 pearls and not 3, the prophecy is the same, he will fail to save what matters most in the end and that's sally. idk how rick is going to do it but let me tell you i am hyped to see it

(i would insert a comment about critical thinking skills and looking ahead but that feels too mean)

people will disagree with me and my opinion that the show is amazing regardless of the minor changes they made (i personally think the changes were good things that fill plot holes and make it better), and it's ok to disagree

and i want to make it very clear that younger, newer fans are just as valid as older, longer time fans. terms like "OG fan" are part of toxic fan culture that we need to drop bc it's not someone's fault if they didn't know about it or were too young to know about it (like so many newer pjo fans are younger than the book bc the book came out 19 years ago this year)

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On Medusa from the PJO TV Show: A Survivor and complicated antagonist

I'm not the only one obsessed with the version of Medusa and I know it.

She's beautiful, she's eerily calm, she says, "I am a survivor," and you feel that. She is the symbol for women out there who don't want to be bullied anymore, and more recently Medusa's head has become a symbol of women fighting back with the #MeToo movement.

But I'm not writing this to talk about Medusa as the Gorgon from the Greek mythos. I'm here to talk about how she was written in the PJO TV Show. So let's get into it, shall we?

Note that some ideas from this meta are expanded on from this Variety article where the writers of the show and Rick and Rebecca Riordan, speak about the changes they made from the book to show adaptation.

A victim of an abuse of power

In the Variety article, Rick says, “There are many versions from ancient times of what happened in that temple with Medusa and Poseidon and Athena. Who’s to blame? Who’s the abuser? What’s the real story? It’s fiction, but it certainly is important to acknowledge that there is abuse involved here. Abuse of power.”

Like in all Greek myths, there is never exactly one "correct" version of a story. In many, Medusa and Poseidon basically have a one-night stand. In some, they have a mutual affair. In others, it's Poseidon who seduces Medusa into Athena's temple, and in others still, Medusa is a victim of assault.

What most versions of the myths do have in common is the fact that Medusa and Poseidon had some sort of relationship that produced at least two children (Pegasus and Chrysaor). Most versions (both Greek and Roman) also depict her as a tragic figure and a beautiful maiden.

Athena is involved in earlier myths as the goddess who put her head onto the shield that averts the gaze of enemies. In later myths, she is the one who curses Medusa to transform into what we know of her today after Athena discovers her relationship with Poseidon on her sacred ground. Poseidon, of course, gets let off scot-free.

Depending on how you read into the myths, there could be a variety of different things happening here. So, I like what the show did. They made it vague enough that this is still middle-grade level like the books, but they also expanded on what the books couldn't because they are originally written from 12-year-old Percy's POV.

They basically keep nearly all aspects of the story and original myth possible. But in the end, Medusa is indeed a victim of abuse.

Her real curse is not that she is hideous and turns people who look into her eyes into stone, but that she is made invisible by the curse and she is not heard. Not one person can look her in the eye and live to tell the tale. She can't show her beauty, so she chooses to live with what she has. Even with a slanted hat covering half her face and eyes, you can tell she's statuesque (see what I did there?) and a beauty.

She chooses elegant clothes, pretty jewelry, a neat hairstyle, a hat that accents what you can see of her features, and red lipstick that makes you think she could be desirable.

But it doesn't change the fact that Poseidon had his way with her, told her he loved her, and then she was the only one left with the punishment for what happened between them. Athena cursed her out of anger.

Medusa revered Athena who is a virgin goddess, and of course, Athena would be upset when one of her devout followers is suddenly not a virgin too. Yet, Medusa mentioned earlier in her narrative in episode 3 that Athena never answered her prayers at all and never gave an indication that she was listening. So out of all the times she pays attention, it's to curse her for something she doesn't like?

Athena paid attention to Medusa when it was convenient to her and Poseidon left her when Medusa was no longer useful to him after she was cursed.

This version of Medusa is left to the wolves to defend herself and live with herself, a victim of abuse of power from multiple ends and from gods she thought she could trust.

Medusa and Sally Jackson

What I found the most interesting in episode 3 was the fact that Medusa sprinkles the seeds of doubt into Percy's mind that maybe the loving relationship he thought his mother had with Poseidon was not what actually happened.

In the Variety article, Rebecca Riordan says, that Percy has to think ‘What has my father done? Has he changed? How do I see myself in relationship to that?' while Rick says that “Percy can only judge his father by the wreckage he has left behind."

The fact of the matter is, Percy is 12. The book series is for a middle-grade audience, and the show is too. So people out there thinking "This could've been darker!" need to calm down and take a back seat. The books always did a good job of introducing deeper, darker topics to children. The show should stick to the same strategy to keep what made the original story so good.

But, what the show does here is make you think. If Poseidon could abandon Medusa like that, use her like that, then maybe Sally Jackson was abandoned and used too.

Her show story does a good job of connecting two women who had a relationship with the same god, connecting women who thought they could trust someone but were left to fend for themselves.

Look at where Sally Jackson is now at this point in the story. Not only was she forced to marry Gabe Ugliano to use his stench to protect her son who attracts monsters, but he is an abusive man both to her and to her son at least verbally. In the books, it's not suggested until the very end of The Lightning Thief that Gabe has been hitting her outside of Percy's POV. I've seen people forget that and immediately write off that Gabe wasn't "abusive enough". C'mon people. Just because Sally fights back verbally doesn't mean he wasn't still abusive in his actions in the first two episodes. Even if they decide not to suggest that he was also physically abusive to Sally, doesn't make him sneakily using her phone, demanding to ask why she has to use his car, and demanding for her to make food for him any less abusive.

Sally chose that life because the most important person in the world to her is her son, and even though Gabe is a total jerk, she convinced herself that she could take what he gave her because what he did to her was better than having her son being hunted and maimed by a bunch of Greek monsters because of who he is. To top it all off, now Hades stole her away into the Underworld.

Medusa, in a similar way, was left to fend for herself. She chose what was best for her, and lived in her new form because she could not change what had happened. She wants to save Sally too because she sees Percy as a boy whose mom was abused the same way she was.

Medusa's brilliant role as an antagonist

Now we're here, the main reason I wanted to write this giant thing. I saw a weird take on Twitter saying that Medusa in the show should not have been beheaded like she was in the books because then that negates her whole story and what she stood for.

Well, in my opinion, that is a shallow take on what the show's Medusa is trying to portray.

Medusa is an antagonist. In the myths, she is an antagonist. In the books, she is an antagonist. In the show, she is an antagonist. She gets in the way of Percy's path for his quest, she suggests that he doesn't need Annabeth and Grover, and that only she can save his mom with him.

In both the books and the show, there are hundreds of statues of people she had turned. Sure, some of them could've been attacking her, but there were a lot of people there who were victims too. I'm sure that screaming lady didn't mean to do something to Medusa, and Grover's Uncle Ferdinand? He was the only statue who appeared calm and collected and there was nothing to suggest that he was out to get her. He was only on his journey to find Pan.

Medusa has killed people, and innocent people at that. For thousands of years. And not just people she had to, and not a small amount. Then, she suggests that Percy let her kill his two friends who are children.

To her, Annabeth and Grover are dead weight because of their loyalty to the gods. Annabeth wants to be noticed by her mother. Grover wants to make sure the world doesn't end. I mean, they all don't want the world to end but I digress.

Medusa hates the gods. She wants to save a woman who is like her. She will protect that woman's child. But she will do anything and destroy anyone to get that end result.

A victim is still a victim even if they are a villain or an antagonist. Her methods don't make her any less of a victim of abuse. But that doesn't mean they are right.

So yes, when Percy runs away from her to keep his friends alive and she takes off her hat to stalk them around the room to turn them into stone, she does indeed need to be beheaded. There is literally no other way to defeat her. They can't look at her or they die. So they have to make her stop moving.

Unfortunately, a person like her with deep and complicated motivations would never change their mind when they feel they are betrayed. So, Percy did what he could to protect himself and his friends from dying.

Still, it's a poetic death as it is in the books. He mails her head to the gods and mentions Athena specifically for her punishment of Medusa. He's impertinent.

Medusa didn't deserve to be punished. But it's been millennia and she made her choices. The abusers did not get the punishment they deserved, but maybe now they will. Medusa's head in her (temporary) death, will be a testament to her victory, but also a testament to her downfall.

#pjo tv spoilers #pjo

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being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

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something a little hard to put into words

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I thought this exact same thing and if you look at the lyrics of Guitar's Serenade, it definitely seems related to Jove and Lamiroir in hindsight

"Burning on in my heart. Fire.

Burn my love away. All away.

Like a bullet of love. Fire.

Take my life away. All away.

Guitar, Guitar...

Up together to the sky."

Her love literally was burned away rip

Thinking about Turnabout Serenade (as I often do) and just realizing... Klavier said he got that guitar from Lamiroir as a gift, and that Lamiroir had owned for a while prior to giving to him, and that she gave it him because she wasn't using it. Did that guitar..... did that guitar originally belong to Apollo's dad?!?!?!?!?!?! DID MORE OF JOVE JUSTICE'S PROPERTY GET BURNED UP IN A MUDER CONSPIRACY?!?!?!?!?!? Even 21 years after his death he can't catch a fucking break!

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ps5 brain monday

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if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people

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sorry guys this blog is officially run by my rabbit, he claimed it as his own along with my computer. goodbye.