#and class critique

[heteromerous-rhyming]

i think that i've figured out why i don't like show sally.

ok like don't get me wrong, virginia kull?? she ATE with that interpretation. her acting?? amazing. like i could truly get the core of her character.

it's just that i don't like the character the writers give us.

cw: discussion of abusive relationships, of toxic family dynamics, probably a good bit of generational trauma. I don't really get into details except with stuff shown on the show and written in the books but i wanted to be safe.

as someone from an immigrant household, as someone whose mom works a part time minimum wage job, as someone whose seen and been there as my parents fought, i just really really dislike sally's portrayal in the show. and it's partly because of poseidon and partly because of gabe (mostly because of her character in general but yeah, lets get the men out of the way first)

I feel strongly about poseidon in his relationship to sally very specifically. i don't mind his relationship to percy either books or show. but it's pretty damn clear to me that this show was written by someone who's never experienced sally's situation, of being the single working parent with an absentee partner (or in gabe's case a partner who literally ahHHHHHh). because from the beginning, from sally's reaction and snark to gabe, I felt like something was wrong or off, and it was Specifically the show because i read the books and i watched (some) of the musical and i never felt that way towards either of those. i'm not saying that my family situation is sally's (don't have a god for a father for one), but. by all accounts sally knows that this is an abusive relationship, the only reason that she's with gabe is because of the protection he offers percy. i have to assume that this is true because sally jackson turning gabe to stone is something i'm assuming is staying in the show, and i remember this being mentioned by grover? or someone in the first few episodes. and the cord that struck in me was not the traditional (that is, visible, defined, i don't like this word but i don't have a better one) abusive relationship but relationships in my community, of women staying with husbands because of their children, women outright saying this, women who know the world is cruel to single women and to single mothers specifically. sally, to me has never been under any illusions that gabe is any sort of relationship material. she has never been under any illusions that poseidon would be able to help in any way.

and that crux of sally's relationships made her first scene in the show all that more jarring. but it's not anything specifically that i can put a finger on. and maybe i'm wrong for this or maybe i'm expecting too much. but. sally doesn't have the resentment or the quietness or the bitterness or even the loudness that i expected. you have been the only true caretaker for your child, the only one in the house that really puts food on the table and on top of that is expected to do emotional labor? to cook and clean or at least pick up the food?

but she treats gabe like he's an annoyance. someone to brush off. and you see the manipulation tactics from gabe, you do, but.

its not that i want sally's spirit to be crushed. my mother's spirit wasn't crushed. the women in my community, they laugh, they cry, they watch silly tv shows, they have lives that they live, and in many cases they live well.

but the women that i know are also angry. they are either on fire or they used to burn. when they banter with their partners it often turns ugly because they are tired of the same damn argument day after day, because often the trivial things that are asked are compounded and compounded and compounded because you live in the same house, there is no escape, there is no private space, not really.

it's new york and sally works a job to support an apartment and her family. they are not well-off. sally has no support network we can see, and how could she? poseidon mentions that she has no one to talk to about these things, her parents are clearly out of the picture. all this to say. there is a certain understanding of class that exists within the books that was excised, i believe unknowingly, from the show, and it is the worse for it. there is a tiredness, a worn-down-ness from being low income that sally had in the books, but in the show i only see a struggling first time single parent. i don't see the complexity of a woman who literally gave up on finding a fulfilling relationship to be with a man for her child. i don't see the complexity of a woman working fulltime and still getting demanded from at home. and i didn't realize that I wanted to see that until I saw the show. i didn't realize that that was what i loved about the books.

i hate that they tried to bring poseidon back into sally's life as this perfect man who through cosmic forces can't help. i hate that sally calls him, i hate that he says he'll listen. but most of all i hate that sally just accepts him, falls into him. it's really hard to be a mother when your partner doesn't seem to help you parent in any way, even if he cannot help you. he's a greek god, there's no way in hell that he can begin to understand the lengths that sally has gone through to sacrifice and survive, the very human things that she's done. sally in the books thinks of poseidon as a sweet memory, almost a fairytale, and it's clear that this story is the one that brings her comfort. poseidon is a one night stand, a sweet stranger, she understands he's not coming back. but this poseidon comes when sally calls, and that i cannot believe. i cannot believe that she still thinks of him as the fairytale man, that she accepts him so easily if there isn't that distance. i cannot believe that there is no resentment, that she still puts faith in him as her god (the first episode when she talks about him just felt so wrong to me) if he's not a memory, but a recurring figure. this is not a story of star-crossed lovers, sally feels too real as a human being for that.

sally finds trust, finds contentment, in the books after percy leaves home, after she no longer has to put up with gabe for his safety. she does not find poseidon again. she marries a human man, a very ordinary human man who cares for her. poseidon visits after she is in this relationship and its an amicable one. he is percy's father but also distant memory all in one. sally has the strength to survive a terrible relationship and still find a way to heal and live fully after that.

but the anger. the fire was there. she turned gabe to stone. she reclaimed her life with her two hands.

you don't kill a man for no reason. you don't kill a man without emotion.

but it's that reason and that emotion that i don't get from the writer's room. and it just makes me deeply sad.

#probably got a bit too personal with this one boys #but i needed to get it out #because i realized i recognize sally's situation #percy jackson #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo show crit #adding tags bc i feel like i should explain #sally and poseidon are characters that have consistent (relatively despite my gripes with poseidon's) characterization #i don't like them for personal reasons partly #and partly bc they got rid of most of the gabe shittiness #and class critique #ofc #lol #but these are just my opinions #this isnt a specific critique of the show's writing #it's more of a critique of what themes they chose to keep in and the nuance that they missed by not keeping those themes #riordan literally says they toned down the abuse (if not eliminating it entirely) and i get that to an extent #but i think there are ways to address abuse in children/teen's tv shows #anywhoooooo #.

[geosaurus]

sinner, you better get ready

#aura blackquill #simon blackquill #athena cykes #ace attorney #dual destinies #i know i should have looked up japanese funeral traditions for Metis but researching it made me sad. sorry >_< #Also I hope Aura's critique of masculinity comes thru- that its constructed to extract value from the working class & excuse state violence #it changes how I percieve Auras resentment of Athena- its almost less directed at her and more at the concept of innocence itself #that is: the binary of innocence & guilt which a foundational myth of the carceral state and simon wields against himself to save athena. #ANYWAY Aura have big tiddy and hate the system and that is why we simp #Also the subtitle is a linga ignotica lyric and a folk song

[choccy-milky]

bruh i need to vent about a rude comment i got on my recent chap and also about clora, cuz its something thats been on my mind for a while now. it has spoilers to my most recent chap tho so im putting it below

so in my most recent chap clora gets hit by the killing curse but thanks to seb sacrificing himself for her, it doesn’t work/she survives. and I got a rly rude comment about how that’s super cringe and that clora is a "shoe horning of every possible manifestation of Mary-Sueism I have ever seen." theyre dropping my fic after almost 500k words bc apparently THAT’S where they draw the line and that "just somehow pulling it out the bag and surviving a killing curse from the power of love. In simpler terms, it’s absolutely cringe worthy" and "forgive me if I rolled an eye at the yet again invincible nature of Clora Clemons-the-one-eighth-Veela-extraordinaire"

BUT LIKE LMAO TELL ME U DIDN’T READ/WATCH HARRY POTTER WITHOUT TELLING ME. that’s literally what happens to harry??but its only cringe when it happens to our "mary-sue" clora? like yeah sure love magic might be a bit cringe but IM LITERALLY JUST PULLING FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL. of all the things to take issue with in my fic and interpretations, theyre taking issue with something that’s canon BAHAHA.

and since im on the topic of clora being mary sue can I just say I hate the misogyny/internalized misogyny that i've seen some people (NOT A LOT, THANKFULLY) treat her with. like i get it, im not pale and blonde and as conventionally pretty as clora is, but even if I was, is that a reason to hate me?? and does being beautiful and well-liked = mary sue? bc as far as I know, mary sue is a chara who is just naturally amazing at everything and doesnt need to try hard and theyre just inexplicably great for no reason (like mc in the base game BAHHAA) if anything the mary sue in MY fic is seb LMAO (but hes a boy so its ok). like clora has worked hard and studied magic all her life due to being a squib and wanting to make up for not being able to DO it. she isnt good at flying, seb is still better at her than duelling, shes really short sighted when it comes to doing/thinking whats best for others and can be a huge idiot.... and like. the only guys that have even shown interest in clora on a real scale have been seb and leander (and then lawley for blackmail purposes, and also bc he hates seb) so its not like literally everyone is falling over themselves for her?? like her interactions with the main cast of boys (ominis, garreth, amit) theyre all indifferent to her LMAO but still, the fact that shes pretty and guys here and there might look at her and go o shes cute! doesnt make her a mary sue SORRy thats just called being attractive idk its just annoying that ppl automatically see a nice kind beautiful female character without any VISIBLE flaws and go SHES TOO PERFECT!! MARY SUE!! WAH IM JEALOUS! and like I get it bc when I was younger I probs would have been annoyed by clora as well due to my own insecurities and internalized misogyny but hey, how about u just realize that’s ur own problem and your own jealousy, and not a real one HAHAH anyway ive since evolved bc I used to be a ‘not like other girls’ type girl back in highschool. trying to be super tomboy-y bc I thought being feminine was cringe and too basic but now ive embraced it and love girly things and dresses and charas like clora who are still strong and showcase their strengths and weaknesses in subtler ways, and I want to smooch her and make out with her. get behind me clora ill protect you🤺🤺🤺

#choccytalky #finally using that tag #tho its more like CHOCCYRANTY holy this is so long BHAHAHA #also one more thing idk why ppl think its ok to give unsolicited criticism to fanfic writers. like these are stories we're writing for US #and for free like u dont have to rudely declare how unhappy you are with it and that youre stopping. like what do u want me to do #do u want a refund?? BYE!! JUST GO!! like. i also wouldnt want unsolicited criticism or critiques on my visual/drawn art #and ppl understand that. so whys it so hard to understand ppl ALSO dont want it on their writing? both take effort #and giving actual valid criticism is a skill (which is why it was literally a CLASS when i was in uni) #i need a drink #and by that i mean COKE ZERO BABYYYYYYY #AND MORE DRAGONS DOGMA 2

[temeyes]

oh yeah, laswell would definitely make a decision for you @mossy-mushroom

#but honestly? as a fine arts graduate? i SUPER get how you feel HAHAHA #me and my class had a petition to get our techniques prof laid off because all he would critique was how “ugly” all our paintings were- #and he would personally retouch our paintings just to “raise” our grades. tho he didn't get laid off. he got less classes to handle instead #so if u and ur classmates share the same sentiments? i say go crazy just to shit on your prof (LMAOOOJKJKJK) #answered asks #mossy-mushroom #anon #call of duty #my art #2024 #kate laswell #watcher 1 #nikolai #nikolai cod #laswell cod

[blueskittlesart]

I go to an art school and 15-20 minutes per person is pretty much standard for crits here because class sizes are small and they want to make sure you get thorough advice on whatever you’re working on. so it’s kind of funny in like a “oh wow my experiences are NOT universal” way seeing you suffer. Sorry lol.

See i understand spending 15-20 mins on the piece if it NEEDS that amount of attention, but this was A) 20 minutes for EVERY SINGLE PIECE regardless of how strong the work was (and she WOULD NOT move on even when we straight up told her the piece was strong enough that we didn't have anything else to say), meaning that the crits on stronger work very quickly devolved into nitpicking as opposed to actual helpful advice, and B) it was NOT A SKETCH CRIT, this was a FINAL crit, so we're showing work that should, in theory, be in its most finished form. 20 minutes for sketches or in-progress work makes more sense to me because your work is less finished at that stage and you have actual time to implement the suggested changes, but for FINAL CRIT??? it's just BEGGING to have everyone leave discouraged and angry imo. it's one thing if the work isn't up to the standard of a final piece and NEEDS substantial crit, but there's no reason to force students to spend 20 minutes nitpicking the details of a portfolio-ready finished piece. it just wastes everyone's time.

#extra annoying puzzle piece here is that she didn't have an in-progress group crit even tho we had a week in between sketch and final #so when we're spending 20 mins critiquing the finals its like. ok why didn't anyone tell me this crit BEFORE i did all the work #to bring it to final??? yknow? #sigh. and also worth noting this is specifically an illustration class and i've never had any other classes in the illustration dept #run crits this way. it might be beneficial in other disciplines but with illustration i think its just. a bad way to run class #and this prof has an illustration degree from this school. i checked. lmfao #asks

[dotsz]

my body is not me its all meat

#dots draws #dots art #dysphoria #any critique on this is appreciated bcive been staring at it forever #and dont even know how im gonna like develop it for class . ergh #artists on tumblr

[iamtylersperfecthand]

not a new take at all, but as much as I love Fight Club for being a delicious work of art, Tyler Durden's assumptions about the way the world works absolutely crumble when you critically think about them for more than 10 seconds and it takes everything in me not to scream from his pseudo-intellectual bs.

like fool literally took a guy, Ramond K. Hessel, working the nightshift at a rundown liquor store who dropped out of vetrinary school and held him at gunpoint telling him he had 6 weeks to get back into the process of achieving his career dreams or he'd be killed. it's hard to tell but it doesn't sound like Ramond's first language is english, and given his shitty job, his reason for dropping out being "too much school" obviously seems like more like he just can't afford school. sure, a little motivation in the form of a death threat might make him look a little harder for scholarships, but it appears that Tyler assumes that "too much school" means Ramond just got discouraged and gave up to live a most unfulfilling life. in his rhetoric throughout the movie, it is clear Tyler gives no thought to any systems of oppression and is operating from such an immense level of middle-class white christian masculinity bias (I say as someone with similar biases) that his hot takes and grand gestures fail to hit as hard as he seems to think they should.

in Tyler's attempts to subvert the traditional capitalist bootstraps mentality, he just ends up rebranding it towards his arguably much more patriarchal anarcho-primitivist vision. it's a ridiculous notion that the way to a more equal society is self-hatred and destruction. I love gay little fights with aesthetically grimey lighting and silly triphop music, why can't Tyler just shut up sometimes!!

#fight club #tyler durden #i hate tyler durden #the vague image of a literary critique #baby's first liberal arts class #the narrator has a public responsibility to keep tyler contained so less 14 year old andrew tate boys get exposed to ecoterrorist fantasies

[wormonastringtime]

#hi i did this in class on thursday :) if anyone has any critiques lmk im curious!! #for anyone curious the dimensions of this are 12x24 inches #my art #traditional art #charcoal #still life

[thirstyvampyr]

repeat after me: movies don't need to be masterpieces. you liked it? good, all that matters! it's art, did it make you feel something? nice, me too!

#saltburn #cinema #there's nothing new under the sun #everything takes inspiration from something else #if i see one more talented mr ripley or class critique braindead take im gonna snap #you'd banish me if i showed you movies i enjoy lmao #plot what plot #good writing? never heard of her #who cares #we're all gonna die the same #go rewatch saltburn instead of giving clicks to haters lol

[nerves-nebula]

Love that you’ve created a space where “that fic almost made me throw up” is high praise <3

that space is everywhere if you believe in yourself and love ART

#nnstuff #asks are sweethearts #ask #teenage mutant neglected turtles #tmnt abe #caracal carousel #no but fr in my art class we just did a critique of thumbnails and we were like #girl you gotta make this drawing more violent and bloody really lean into the cannibalism

[bo-how]

To Share in the Act of Creation (mixed media, 2024)

#art #mixed media #transmasc #nonbinary #art doll #(i’ve been looking for an artsy use for my empty T vials for SO LONG! im so happy with how this came out 😭🤍) #(took this into class for critique and someone said looked handmade but like /positive and i could CRY that’s my EXACT GOAL!!!) #(the art doll portion is inspired by strangegutz! i would tag him but i am scawed of being perceived 😅 go peep his stuff tho it’s so cool!)

[craftingcreatures]

Hey, I'm writing a paper for my philosophy class, can anyone recommend any resources regarding how inconspicuous or "boring" species get ignored by conservation efforts/the public at large in favour of cute and cuddly things? Thanks

#ecology #conservation #The class is Philosophical Ethics if anyone wants to know #I'm critiquing the idea of Utilitarianism (things are only valuable if they benefit humanity)

[grendelsmilf]

i was so angry at promising young woman's ending (not even in a good way! i like when movies leave me angry. thaf was just silly) i thought i'd never watch one of her movies again but a lot of people were like "oh this one is better!". and i fell for it. it both is a little better and isn't at all. idk she just doesn't have anything interesting to say ever?

i haven’t seen pyw so i can’t comment but this movie was sooo stupid it literally just felt like a vehicle thru which to deliver aesthetically immaculate yet vapid tropes off a gothic melodrama bingo card. every frame is beautiful but doesn’t cohere in any way with the consecutive shot. every moment of shock value doesn’t land because the film is, at its core, hollow. the fact that the ending is supposed to be a twist when we’ve been seeing this guy do his weird little freak shit the whole time is laughable. some truly great actors in this, being forced to deliver tumblr “x reader imagines” level dialogue. a movie about how the striving middle class (who actually lie about their struggles to seem more sympathetic than they actually are) covet the opulence and glamor you are naturally owed as english aristocracy and will do horrific, disgusting things to seize that power from you out of some sick and twisted obsession with the ideal of wealth. we cannot allow these people into our homes, graciously let them eat off our plates, sleep in our beds, share our bathtubs!!! they will poison our booze, slit our throats, give us sinister nighttime handjobs, wrest control of our health and bodily autonomy!!!! i mean, didn’t you see the angel devil imagery??? that was pretty clever, right

#ask #anon #saltburn #ppl saying the movie isn’t abt class are fundamentally wrong #just bc it isn’t a COGENT or CORRECT class critique #doesn’t mean the text isn’t communicating a LOT

[onsecondandfirstplace]

Kant talks a lot about common sense for a person that has none at all

#rereading stuff for class #tbh i don’t might kant bc i know how important it is but reading him just feels ridiculous #kant #immanuel kant #enlightenment #enlightenment philosophy #philosophy #critique of pure reason #common sense #insomnia ramblings #textpost #philosophy memes

[alwaysbewoke]

#late capitalism #contemporary economy #income inequality #corporate power #shrinking middle class #economic absurdities #capitalist system #socio-economic critique #economic critique #wealth disparity #capitalist society #economic system #baltimore bridge collapse #infrastructure disaster #francis scott key bridge #construction accident #rescue operations #salvage effort #port of baltimore #supply chains #federal government #reconstruction cost #insurance claims #liability

[elftwink]

you guys know that "landlords are leeches get a real job" is a haha funny bit you say to illustrate the hypocrisy of the rhetoric surrounding work and what qualifies as 'contributing' to capitalist society and not a coherent leftist belief right? you guys are saying that because it's funny to watch landlords sputter to come up with a response to the kind of attitude they have always subjected tenants and renters to and not because you genuinely believe your worth is determined by the money you earn under capitalism, right? you understand that once you believe it is possible for someone (even landlords) to be a 'leech' on society if they arent working (or aren't working enough, or aren't doing the right kind of work, etc), this will bleed into the way you think of everyone else too, right? you guys know that legitimate and meaningful critiques of landlords are not and can never be based on whether or not they are working because that is irrelevant to the fact that they own property for the express purpose of charging other people for access to shelter, which is a basic human need and shouldnt be controlled by the whims of Some Guy just because its his name on the deed... right???

#good idea generator #preaching to the choir on this one for sure i just sometimes see interactions on this website that worry me #like babygirl what about people who cannot work due to circumstance ability or both? ppl who will NEVER work? #do u think theyre leeches too??? you can SAY 'oh well i obviously dont mean those ppl' but like #the rhetoric was designed to be used against Those People specifically to turn YOU against THEM when youre on the same side #its funny to use against the ruling class but its not like. effective except as a snappy comeback #additionally what about landlords who do work?? who have dayjobs?? #landlords who do live in the property they rent. who rent out bedrooms or basement suites or the like #are these people no longer leeches? do you think this system of land ownership is fine if all parties have jobs?? #do you see what i am saying. it is not possible to critique capitalism as a system #while relying on the frameworks capitalism uses to prop itself up. #you will only EVER end up tacitly supporting the very thing you declare youre against