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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#happy April 25th <3 #miss congeniality #movies

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and would it be an over-exaggeration for me to say that the crowning scene in Miss Congeniality (2000) is the funniest 2 minutes in cinema history

#the movies a hot mess and parts of it have aged so so horribly but I love it so much #but god that crowning scene... #I think its Stan never breaking his speech that just elevates it to another level #and that one cut away shot to Cheryl open mouth wailing #It kills me every time #miss congeniality

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reblog to give your mutuals a burned cd

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Richard wrote misogynistic portrayals for most pjo women into his books, then went off and repeated it onscreen but worse

literally. girlbossified and fucked up sally's character, athena is unnecessarily villainous (while poseidon is sanitized...coincidence I think not!), frederick's actions are blamed on his new wife (and they literally didn't address that whole annabeth having regrets thing but I have a feeling it was about annabeth not reaching out to her dad...it's not the child's responsibility to reach out and try to mend the relationship...like richard's handling of their relationship was already bad enough in the books), thalia adding onto annabeth's trauma and "making her work for it" like wtf was that, annabeth getting stripped of her personality and turned into the stoic child soldier smart girl who struggles with emotions because how dare she act like a 12-year-old girl, percy "saving" her from her incorrect worldview and Showing Her The Way and how to act like a human (BOOOO annabeth is literally his mortal point, what reminds him of his humanity! she is the idealist! she's the one to not give up on luke, not him! like no the point is not that he's always been Not Like Everyone Else; percy spends the whole pjo series building up his worldview which is the accumulation of all of the lessons he's learned from all of the other characters and his experiences throughout the series. but ofc in the show he just shows up with it. I'm sure he'll be talk no jutsuing everyone soon enough ughhh), no goddess appearances, etc etc. and to think they thought they ate with that medusa redemption...athena is criticized for her actions and yet poseidon is never really scrutinized for assaulting her and is redeemed to be a loving caring father...

#literally every word of this #pjo #pjo show crit

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I just saw someone say the percy jackson show should’ve done a 4th wall break type thing to compensate for the first person pov in the book instead of having so many odd conversations and exposition and someone said they should’ve done an enola holmes or fleabag type narrating/4th wall break. and now I’ll never stop thinking about the potential they had with percy giving looks directly to the camera. how much funnier the show would have been. how we would’ve seen his goofy personality and sarcasm so much more

#lmao Im dying at any of the characters doing something bizarre #and percy giving a look directly to the camera #pjo #percy jackson #pjo show crit

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“Your boyfriend is evil!” “Your boyfriend is cruel and horrifying!” Well, he’s a joy to me. Maybe it’s a you problem.

#lmao prev #also anidala lowkey #star wars

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muriel and beano are a sisters goal fr

#pjo #percy jackson

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ive been thinking a lot about how the pjo universe will continue and truthfully I dont think it can (in a meaningful way) until rr commits to actually taking a stance on tlo and moving forward accordingly. tlo wasn't really a victory, percy didn't reform anything. he managed to get zeus to make a tiny concession that, when you think about it, benefits the gods much more than it does their children. I mean... claiming is a meaningful gesture and all, but thats really all it is. the whole pay your child support joke is funny, but claiming their kids doesn't amount to offering any of the structural support that would actually substantially improve their lives.

what's interesting is how ingrained it is in the culture of chb how they define themselves by who their parents are. depending on how devoted they are, who their godly parent is influences their opinions and perceptions of themselves and others. (see the percabeth poseidon/athena rivalry and how the camp started to split up into its own mini war in tlt). those kids, no matter whether they've even met their parents, clearly shape some aspects of their identity around their parent.

keeping in mind that the gods and their power are derived from worship, and how their kids practice their own form of worship simply by existing, claiming them strengthens them inherently. not to mention that the gods use their kids to do things they couldn't themselves, like percy being poseidons hail mary to stop the war in tlt.

meanwhile gods are forbidden from interfering with human fate, demigods are still in danger from monsters and are trapped by fate and prophecy and even if the gods do break their oaths, they dont even really suffer for it.

tlo is a really bitter victory against a force they cannot defeat and cannot strongarm into changing.

I am convinced that none of the series post pjo have worked because none of them can commit on what the ending of tlo really means.

if the thesis statement is that demigods are just doomed by the narrative, which is what's hinted at, then fucking commit to that and make it a tragedy. rr cant do that however because it doesn't at all fit into how he writes, so right now all the series are stuck in a place where theyre either standalone adventures in the pjouniverse (tsats, cotg) that function more as companion novels to the main series, or series (hoo, toa) whose conclusion is that yeah things do sure suck but theres fuck all I can do about it.

its a tragedy thats not allowed to be a tragedy, which means that even if the books are fun on an individual level, in an overarching aspect they are infested with this depressing resignation, where characters have resigned themselves to be content with how things are. characters arent allowed to be upset because if theyre allowed to be angry that anger has to lead somewhere which its never does.

the universe is standing at a crossroads between 'overthrowing the gods/changing the status quo' and ' commit to the tragedy of what it means to be a hero' and and we haven't moved forward since the last olympian was published.

#the last paragraph..... #pjo #percy jackson #you stated it so beautifully

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canon clarisse and annabeth interaction

#asldfjasdkfja #pjo #annabeth chase #clarisse la rue #percy jackson #percabeth

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I put one quip about the pjo show in the tags of my own post and I got people coming out of the wood work telling me that I just "don't understand what the show did!!!" and once again, it seems I must clarify that unfortunately I do understand <3 I simply didn't like it <3

#if you truly hate show crit EVEN IN THE TAGS of my OWN post Im begging y'all to simply block me for both of our sakes #pjo show crit

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our fates are entwined whether you like it or not you stupid bastard

#pjo #percy jackson #luke castellan

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i understand the appeal of publishing "fic with the serial numbers filed off" as original work but i also feel like. what makes something a good fic is at odds with what makes something a good original story.

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#jewelry dish #dr pepper cans #lamp #coaster #claw clip #prints #glasses #medicine #airpods #in the tags

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by Onidaiko

#art #ocean

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i feel like percy is the type of fighter who would laugh if a monster ran away from him out of fear. but annabeth is the type of fighter who would call them a coward and run after it.

#yeah no cause Percy thoughts on it were so funny too like #/Annabeth I admire you for being your true self <3 but also please for the love of god shut up/ #pjo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth

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Zoolander (2001) dir. Ben Stiller

#movies #this is my favorite meme of all time #I hate that the tiktok audio got deleted #funny

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imagine writing this. imagine writing percy increasingly losing himself to his anger and his resentment, sympathizing with Luke, spiraling, being immensely powerful, burning away at his mortality, and not knowing how to deal with any of it. Desperate for help and the one time he breaks down enough to try and get it (Jason) his worst thoughts and perceptions of himself are inadvertently affirmed. He never talks about it to Annabeth. He never talks about it to his mom. Oh but everyone is aware of it. Aware of his anger. Afraid of his anger. Concerned for him and by him. They give each other looks, worried, because they recognize what a danger he could be — to himself, to others, to the gods. But no one says anything, at least not to Percy. No one helps him. No one intervenes. They don't know how to, it seems. (Or maybe they're afraid to). And so they all pretend everything is fine. Percy pretends, bottling it all up inside until the pressure gets too great and that anger boils over and he loses it all over again. He's so desperate for normalcy that he'll take anything, believes in all of the sweet, sugar-spun tales of New Rome and looks away from the rotting underside. He lets himself believe that once he's there the gods will have to leave him alone, because he's done with it all, he's retired (and the gods always keep their promises don't they?).

Imagine writing what is arguably the well-plotted, compelling, and tragic beginnings of a fallen hero arc for percy and none of it being intentional.

RR's penchant for Percy to be explosively angry and scarily powerful, alongside characterizing him as jaded and resentful and desperate, mixed with his refusal to write any in-depth emotional resolution to any time Percy snaps has created an enthralling narrative of a hero just about to fall from grace. and it's all seemingly an accident.

Oh, and another, amazing, unintentional coincidence? if you're taking RR's word that Percy is still 17, that's also the age Luke was when he failed his quest, marking the beginning of his fall as a hero. Like. The narrative parallels are all there. And without any meaning for them to be.

#pjo #percy jackson #mine