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i am seeing all of the criticism of watchertv (and agreeing of course - it's entirely tone deaf and un-conducive among other things) but i feel as though the attitude i am seeing from a lot of people online involve absolving shane entirely, saying things like, "shane blink twice if they made you do this!" "shane "eat the rich" would never allow this!" "he was forced into this!" and redirecting all of the blame unto ryan and steven - mostly steven - saying that steven is the "ned fulmer of watcher" (wild thing to say) and delegating the responsibility of this decision entirely onto the two of them, and i cannot help but feel like there is an undeniable racial undertone to this rather vitrolic pivot. i understand being a fan of shane - i myself was a proud shaniac! - but i plead that we be conscious about woobifying an adult man who - though could have very well opposed the decision - was still one of the three ceos who okayed it! nothing is gained from scapegoating the two asian men and relinquishing the white one for the hate that this business venture is garnering. please, by all means, continue to criticize, but if you are, do it tastefully, and be careful with insinuations - especially without knowing the intricacies of the situation (and even if/when we do know something. criticism should never come from veiled bigotry) ! just because the property itself is shifting rather horribly doesn't mean we as watcherinas need to turn our community toxic <33

#watcher #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #watchertv #watcher entertainment #just. feel like people should be careful with this #this being said i really am grieving though #parasocial bond SEVERED #cries

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this just in: james somerton made the roblox oof

#hbomberguy #James Somerton #tommy tallarico #no but really fuck this guy #felt so deeply betrayed since i used to watch a lot of somertons quote on quote work #but now i have lots of new queer writer recs who i will support with all my heart #I LOVE YOU HARRIS

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very endeared by how mychem fans all collectively agree to speak about the band members. every post about them is like: oh yes, the vampire slash undead corpse of a very sickly but very sexy victorian man, the comic book nerd who is plagued with visions and vocal chords bathed in ichor and the inventor of Gender, the best thing to happen to music and probably some kind of god incarnate but we aren't sure yet, and the cat they brought in off the street who never left. also there is no drummer. yeah ignore the drums in the song, there isn't actually any drumming. the mychem drummer is as good as Bigfoot. some ppl swear they've heard one but most people think ur crazy. what drummer? I've certainly never seen one

#my chemical romance #frank iero #gerard way #Mikey way #ray toro #the black parade #mychem #they're so funny and the fandom is so funny too #I giggle every time I see them described like this like yeah that's about right #worlds funniest band

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#no no im totally normal about this why do you ask #pete wentz #fall out boy #so much for stardust #mania #patrick stump #andy hurley #joe trohman #love from the other side #the last of the real ones #Sprry every time i find a parallel in between fob songs i go crazy about it for 7 business days at least

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I think the idea of Jon walker accidentally releasing take a vacation remastered version on Apple Music before officially announcing it is hilarious and I hope its true but I also think the idea of him knowingly releasing it and saying absolutely nothing and instead just posting a Ryan ross meme to the the young veins story is just as funny and either way I love him so much

#Jon walker #the young veins #Ryan ross #take a vacation! #panic! at the disco #Ryan ross please come out of your cage

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its 2018. fall out boy released mania, Brendon urie released pray for the wicked, and twenty one pilots released trench. supernatural is on season 14 without any signs of destiel. Voltron season 8 just came out and decimated both klance and its fanbase. the third trials of Apollo came out and made everybody miserable. dan and Phil are on tour, and the final Phil is not on fire came out. Tumblr is never going to be the same.

#sorry I'm going to a con rn and I'm wearing my lance Voltron jacket which is both layered in meta irony and also very sincere to my past #what a crazy year. I was 13. #fall out boy #panic! at the disco #twenty one pilots #supernatural #destiel #voltron #klance #trials of apollo #riordanverse #dan and phil #dan howell #Phil lester #pinof #I have a genuine love for this period of my life and all of these things (except for Brendon urie) #cringe is dead. I love you fandom

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#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #michael sheen #david tennant #neil gaiman #richard siken #web weave #Anyways back at it again with devastating richard siken and gay tv parallels #i need them back rn. Come on lets fix this

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i posted this on my spam story the night before season two dropped. i should have been more specific as to what i wanted

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #TO BE VERY CLEAR I UNDERSTAND WHY THE ENDING HAPPENED THE WAY IT HAPPENED #THAT DOESNT MAKE IT LESS PAINFUL #neil gaiman #NEILLLLLL #lord #im sick to my stomach

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#destiel #dean winchester #castiel #supernatural #a little life #hanya yanagihara #quotes #web weaving #this is so messed up sorry if i had to think abt this so do all of u #Im going to start cryign

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#merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin emrys #richard siken #web weave #AAAHAHSBDBFKSKENF #this made me ill to put together sorry u all have to see it too

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Arthur saying "you'd better be right about this Merlin" as if merlin has been wrong even ONCE before. once and future king of being a little bitch is what you are

#I love Arthur pendragon so bad it makes me ill #merlin #Arthur pendragon #bbc merlin #merthur #merlin rewatch #they're so stupid they should kiss #merlin emrys

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will solace get behind me right now you are a young child and u had the right to be weary of the underworld especially being who u are. ur allowed to make mistakes and be an accidental asshole because we all make mistakes and are accidental assholes, as long as u acknowledge where u went wrong and begin to make an effort to change, which! Will! did! Actively!!!!! he is always caring and understanding and Nico so obviously feels so comfortable around Will in a way he has not ever been shown to feel with anybody else..... will is a silly nerd boy with crazy powers. and Nico fell for that for a reason!!!!!

idk I guess it just rubs me the wrong way that other ships in the riordanverse get such different treatment.... like when annabeth displays prejudice to Percy for being a son of Poseidon because of their parents rivalries its understood because she's a child who's been brought up with this mindset, but when its Will and Nico they're held to such impossible standards of being consistently perfect..... even though they literally are like the healthiest and most realistically displayed teenage couple the riordanverse has ever had.... I just wonder (know) why this divide exists and I am upset with the sheer amount of un-nuanced takes regarding Will and Nico and this book.... like what do u guys want!!! you want queer ships to be treated the same as straight ships, and then we get mark oshiro doing that, and giving us a wonderfully flawed and wonderfully soft and sweet dynamic, and its scrutinized on every imaginable level for critiques that would never come to another pair :(

not liking tsats is okay! I don't want to force people into liking a book just because I adored it! but when all the criticisms I see of tsats are very clearly things that could be said about all the other books..... it doesn't track and is rather uncomfortable to listen to

tldr will solace I love u so dearly and I hope will and Nico get to go on their cute private lil picnic very soon

#will solace #nico di angelo #solangelo #the sun and the star #tsats #riordanverse #Percy jackson #annabeth chase #the heroes of olympus #pjo #I LOVE U SILLY SON OF APOLLO I LOVE U SILLY SUN OF HADES #GO!! BE FREE!! BE CRINGE!!! MAKE MISTAKES!!!!!

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tsats spoilers!!!

I am like the ten thousandth person to say this but I cannot stand the tsats complaint of Nico being 'out of character' because it literally! ignores! the! whole! point! of! his! and! will's! development! when it comes to Nico's personality!

this exchange from the ending of the book says it perfectly!

"I don't want a version of you that I've made up in my head, and I don't want to treat you like you are a /literal/ ball of darkness or anything, either. And I think sometimes I have."

"But I also fed into that," said Nico. "My problem is that I never let anyone believe that I was anything /but/ a ball of darkness. Even though deep down I wanted to have friends and be cared for. But I couldn't let go of all the hurt and pain I was in."

like........ IT IS SO SPELLED OUT RIGHT THERE! in shoving Nico into this box of emo personality and not allowing him to be a silly cringey teenage boy who wants hugs and kisses and friends and fun, its just playing into the exact kind of behaviour Will is apologizing for, and Nico is admitting to! let these boys communicate and have this impeccably healthy relationship, and let Nico be a kid!!!! let him be happy! it is not out of character for somebody to heal!

#tsats #tsats spoilers #the sun and the star #solangelo #nico di angelo #will solace #riordanverse #Percy jackson #heroes of olympus #anyways will is a freaking gem in this scene (and the whole book) I'm just obsessed w him #ARGHHHHHH

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I bought and read the sun and the star today and..... nobody talk to me rn. I can TELL where mark oshiro pulled through for us. this book is so unapologetically queer, and melded with rick's always wonderful action sequences makes for such a lovely read... it really solidifies Will and Nico's chemistry and history and the wonderful way they love both romantically and as friends.... it never fell into the miscommunication trope even when the boys argued, and instead had them talk it out and be so transparent the whole way through...... it was so cavity-inducing-ly cheesy with just the right moments of incredible fluff and tragedy. I just love them. I love how dorky they are together. two cringe fail (affectionate) losers who are just so so smitten by one another and putting in a beautiful and mature effort towards loving one another the exact way the other needs to be loved. I am just so happy that this book exists within the riordanverse canon

#solangelo #the sun and the star #will solace #nico di angelo #rick riordan #riordanverse #Percy jackson #the heroes of olympus #WILL SOLACE NATION RISE!!!! istg I have been obsessed w this bitch since he was a barely mentioned minor character in tlo #and to see him now on the COVER of a book ...... yeah I'm ill. #book didn't overstay its welcome and like all my bingo predictions came true #I'm just...... heart so full...... #need to collect my thoughts.... but yeah.... yeah it was good #so many amazing quotes. so much artwork potential #and if u didn't like it well that's okay! but I could not stop smiling my whole read through & to me that is worth something :]

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this paragraph fucks me up so bad (always but especially on reread post tears waiting to be diamonds) because we know elliot was absolutely right about himself. elliot schafer at 24 still upholding his morals and being exiled for treason when he refused to bend to injustice and spearheading even more revolution in the borderlands. jase could never handle him bc be made the mistake of thinking elliot could be ‘handled’ at all. like oh my god r u kidding me

#elliot schafer #luke sunborn #sunbrat #in other lands #tears waiting to be diamonds #sarah rees brennan #srb #like ur JOKING ME RN. BY THE TIME HES TWENTY HES UNSTOPPABLE

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something something Nico's comical lack of self preservation skills stems from the fact that he is basically guaranteed immortality because no matter what happens to him (especially in tartarus) hades would keep him safe/bring him back. and so because of this seemingly positive thing, Nico doesn't value his life whatsoever. and then having will solace show up and is the first person to be like: no, your silly quirky 'if I die I die' attitude is NOT funny and is actually quite CONCERNING and I want to keep you SAFE despite your imperviousness to death. and how this is such a poignant pillar of their dynamic that I don't even think rick realized he inadvertently created. in this essay I will....

#nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #the sun and the star #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #rick riordan #like BYE they're so its rotten work ......... #it fucks me up #bc its not like Nico is intentionally seeking out death or harm but the fact that he is so nonchalant about it happening #and will is like. actually no just because u can't die doesn't mean u shouldn't take care of yourself #riordanverse #AAAAAAAAAAA

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if I see one more mf call will solace a himbo.... you forget the sacred texts!! pure of heart and DUMB of ASS. will solace is a DOCTOR. that bitch aint a himbo. he's a STEMBRO. he probably that dude to be like oh I love maths its all patterns :3 and he definitely forces Nico to watch vsauce!! get it right!!

#will solace #the heroes of olympus #the trials of apollo #the sun and the star #Nico di angelo #solangelo #tsats #rick riordan #riordanverse #this bitch is barely pure of heart he's on the war council #I MEAN THAT AFFECTIONATELY AS A JOKE OFC HE IS A VERY KIND BOY.... #I just love my baby angel William Andrew solace so much