#and that matters

[agreysexualromantic]

Ok I know we have all analyzed this scene to death but can we just pause and giggle at this particular moment here?

Wylan literally chuckling and hiding under the table and popping his head up to say "sure" to Jesper's (date) suggestion?

Like, the power of Jesper flirting with him is sending him directly under the fucking table.

Wylan needing a minute to figure out how to respond because sometimes he just gets overwhelmed by Jesper's Jesperness.

Wylan proceeding to be the one to just lay it all out there because he's actually brave and honest and willing to be the one who goes there first.

These two.

I can't.

#guaranteed he's blushing under there #wylan van eck #wylan x jesper #jesper fahey #six of crows #precious beans #Wylan kisses jesper first #and that matters #wesper #wesper kiss #wylan van sunshine #wylan hendriks #soc #sab s2 #shadow and bone netflix

[ofswordsandpens]

Okay compiling my most critical opinions on the pjo show so far (episodes 1 & 2)

The Gods' Conflict, Foreshadowing, & Big Three Kids

The show has seemingly dropped a lot of the foreshadowing and threat regarding the gods impending war over the theft of the lightning bolt. In the book, Percy remarks about how the weather's been inexplicably weird and extreme. When he gets to camp everyone is on pins and needles about something and they don't want to talk about it but its still very present. By the time he's claimed as a son of Poseidon and everyone's like "oh fuck" and then Chiron finally explains to Percy that the gods think he's the lightning thief, everything clicks into place for the reader. It all makes sense why everything seems so wrong... because things are wrong. Meanwhile in the show, that doesn't carry through as much, so the reveal of the conflict between the gods and why that's a big deal falls flat in comparison imo.

They dropped/stalled the foreshadowing of the fates and the cutting of the string. They could very well include this in future episodes, and probably will, but I think the timing of it - Percy seeing this before he even knew he was a demigod - again carries some hefty significance and helped set the foreboding tone of things being wrong even from the beginning.

They did drop Zeus's attack on Percy in the minotaur battle completely, which does disappoint me. In the book, its lightning that blasts the car off the road. In the show, Sally seemingly loses control of the car. That change is pretty significant, because it's again losing the power of RR's foreshadowing in the book. The attack on Percy outside the camp borders was a duel attack from Zeus and Hades.

Finally, I don't like the changes they made to Percy's claiming scene, namely, the reaction from the rest of CHB. Percy being a son of Poseidon is a huge deal. When Percy's claimed, the attitude is very much begrudging reverence paired with genuine fear of what it means and what he represents. In the book, Percy is claimed. People gasp. Everyone kneels. Annabeth says, "This is really not good." In the show, Percy is claimed. People... stand there? Annabeth smiles - she's going to get her quest. The only person who has the most outright negative reaction is Luke. I won't go so far to say this is out of character for Annabeth, but it is focusing on an entirely different aspect of her character in the moment, and what the audience gets from Percy's claiming scene here, the tone, is now different from the book. Basically, the reverence and fear don't really carry across to the show, which I think is important.

The phrase "forbidden child" slaps tho.

2. Gabe's Characterization, Sally's Characterization, & Why the Changes do Make a Difference

I'm going to say this with great care: The show has absolutely depicted an abusive relationship between Sally and Gabe. The show has shown Sally to be a strong woman who would do anything for her child. The show has shown Gabe to be a controlling, toxic man.

What they have depicted in the show does not read like the characters and dynamic in the books.

Book Gabe is a violent, menacing drunk. He is so disgusting and vile that monsters avoid him. This is overwhelmingly apparent from the second Percy gets home in the book, even before he is aware of the physical abuse Sally has been facing. Percy has already been dealing with physical abuse from him, amongst other things (edit to be more specific: this is including verbal, emotional, & financial abuse). I've already spoke to it here, in-depth, so I'll try to keep it short but all of this has not been translated accurately to the screen. (Is this to say that a person must be overtly abusive to be abusive? No. But does this character on-screen feel like Smelly Gabe? No.) These things have shaped Percy (and Sally) in very specific ways. As others have mentioned: Percy cannot stand alcohol. He meets Dionysus and is reminded of his step-father. He gets to Tartarus and the air reminds him of Gabe.... The character on screen, while abusive, does not share this presence at all, and that makes a difference.

Edit: To emphasize once more, I am not saying that the show has not depicted a realistic portrayal of abuse. It has (verbal, emotional, & financial so far). It has also distinctly changed the tone and Gabe's presence from the book, to the extent that it no longer feels like the same character and that does have a rippling effect on the dynamics he shares with both Sally and Percy.

3. The Lack of Annabeth

Annabeth in the show is just like... really not as present as she is in the book so far, and I'm just kinda like, why lol?

Annabeth in the books is already way more involved in Percy's life. She was in the infirmary feeding Percy ambrosia after the attack (ulterior quest motives lol), she's the one who lead Percy around camp and re-explained godly parentage to him - and its a moment where she's very sincere with him, and even trying to help him! Instead these moments are given to Chiron and Luke, which I do get the merit of, but still, these were her moments!

Annabeth in the books had already surmised that the gods were fighting, something was stolen, and the something bad was going to happen, all before Percy had even been claimed. And she shared that with him! Again, the loss of foreshadowing and little bonding moments has me :(

I'm a little worried how they're going to deal with her crush on Luke because its pretty central to her character in the books! It helps Luke to manipulate her and also keeps her from admitting he's done something wrong. Also, it was very sweet and funny reading her get flustered - It drove home the point that she was just a kid with a crush that she didn't know how to handle. But in the show Luke spoke to her and I was expecting there to be some sort of reaction to it and there just... wasn't? (This is not something I'm laying at Leah's feet btw! Only the writers/directors!) We're only two episodes in tho so maybe we'll see it some more moving forward.

4. The Minotaur Battle

Again, I've already spoken about this in depth here but !!

The lack of Zeus's lightning strike, them all coming to a standstill and just chatting instead of running for their lives, Grover being awake and just sort of off to the side watching the fight, Sally being like "Promise Me Grover Swear it"... it all just doesn't ring right to me

I wanted more panic, more terror, more urgency. Higher stakes. I wanted Grover unconscious, I wanted to see Percy drag him into camp, and I wanted to see more of Percy's grief alongside his rage. Like the book did.

The pacing in the show here, and just overall, is weird

5. Other Stuff

Mrs. Dodds fight kind of fell flat too. It was honestly too sudden and Percy killing her in the show seemed even more accidental than in the book lol. Like, accidental impalement vs intentional swing of the sword.

They really had show Grover throw Percy to the wolves and not just gaslight him, but low-key have a part in getting him expelled? Not sure how I feel about it tbh.

More New York. I wish we had gotten the part of Percy taking the bus home with Grover included cause like? Him ditching Grover was funny, but it would have been the perfect opportunity to show Percy traveling through New York and establish it has his home. Shots of him looking at the city, walking the streets, interacting with people near his building.. yeah.

More Montauk too tbh. Like more shots of him and Sally on the beach rather than just the cabin.

Nectar and Ambrosia! Unless I missed it, which I might have, why have we still not gotten an onscreen depiction of it yet lmao.

#I'll add more tags/thoughts to this later lmao but! #pjo adaptation #pjo #percy jackson #pjo show crit #had to expand more on Gabe cause im already getting comments like: /you know there's more abuse than physical right?/ #yes #I never said there wasnt #I never said that was the only form of abuse percy and sally faced #I said both show Gabe and book Gabe are abusive #but its played differently #tone wise #presence wise #and that matters

[grapejuicegay]

there is a parallel between mhok fixing day's shoes the moment day wants to use them again and august not only not finding a replacement for day's hair band but also not being able to find day a gift that isn't hie own head band which is tne thing they shared and that day has no possible use for anymore and more than just pity it was the very clear implication that august made that day's life has ended with his lack of vision and that everything in his life is the things that used to be there before. where even with the shoes mhok had been asking day to go for a run for a while and he refused to until august asked but mhok never touched the shoes until day asked him to and he also added some changes like the bright neon shoelaces (easier for day to see so he can maybe tie them himself? don't talk to me....) and a little pin of his favorite flower because that is a thing day still likes and the bright colour is a thing he likes NOW and the shoes are something he wants to use NOW do you see what I'm saying here

#and mhok fixes day's headband for the marathon later on #and it's for DAY to use NOW #and just the way mhok looks at day today as a person with likes and dislikes and interests and hobbies #and how august can't look beyond who he was #and how gee maybe is somewhere in the middle but as a person from his past #one who tries her best #and that MATTERS #because when day gets overwhelmed and mhok isn't there he calls her #and he can call her #and through august you can really see what day means when he says that mhok #is the only person who doesn't make him feel like he's disabled #and also gee now #and how that does make a difference #because look at day at the beginning who would barely leave his room #to day today who comes back home and his mom is surprised that he's back so early #oh god i love this show so much i wanna cry #last twilight #last twilight series

[queenofthearchipelago]

Can we... maybe stop hating on Eddie so hard? I get the fans for his character are passionate but just because you may not understand the love or think Argyle deserves it more (they can both be loved, okay?) or something doesn't mean that we should hate on Eddie this much, even going so far as to almost call Eddie fans bad stranger things fans or calling Eddie a bad character.

Eddie is literally the only character in the ENTIRETY of Stranger Things that is an outcast that also inspired the audience to see him as one right off the bat. All the other characters, we're encouraged to find reasons to like them immediately. Eddie though? He's loud, he's weird, he's jumping on the table and getting in girl's faces as they walk by minding their own business. He seems stubborn and a bit scary (evidenced by how worried Mike and Dustin were to ask him to move the DnD game). He was an outcast and for most of episode 1, the show asks you to look at him as one.

Until Crissy. We see he's actually kind. He's not that scary. He's sweet with her, and understanding. He's genuinely funny. You start to notice that his smile isn't fake, his eyes glint with this bright spark of life.

And then we watch him go through this season so incredibly scared. He's on the run for murder, and he's trying to understand all this supernatural stuff that's so much weirder than he is.

He was the only stranger things character NOT fighting to be himself. He already was himself, and at the first mistake, the first time he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, the world chased him down for it. He deserved to live, to get to be himself until he was old. And that's heartbreaking that he didn't get to.

I don't know how to explain to you guys the importance of EDDIE saying the line "Conformity's killing the kids". The one character in the whole show who isn't comforming. I don't know how to explain to you the layers of meaning in the fact that he's the only character who died this season. And I don't know how to explain to you the meaning of Eddie acting as a foil for Jason, who Lucas goes on to describe as "normal's a raging phycopath." Jason, the normal raging phycopath. Eddie, the weird and kind outcast.

Like, look, Eddie was really important. He was an incredible character. He was written with such love and care. He mattered to people. He mattered to the characters. What a complete insult to the story we all witnessed to say that Eddie barely had screentime, to say that he only died to "further Dustin's arc", that he didn't matter. To say that Argyle deserves that attention instead of Eddie. Argyle has his meaning too, as does every character here and we can love them for what they bring together.

Surely we can love these characters for the good they bring to our lives on an individual basis and encourage others to take whatever good from this show that they can, because there's a LOT of good here.

Because look, Eddie is one of those rare characters who mattered more to us the viewers than the other characters. WE needed to see him die. WE needed to learn from that. I get Eddie fans wanting him back, I wish he had lived too. I get why he won't return, but I won't begrudge them that feeling of wanting him back.

I get that crushing feeling of watching Eddie die and realizing just for far conformity was willing to go to kill the kids.

And all of that, absolutely ALL of it, would be completely gone and absent from this show without him.

#I'm just a little sick of people hating on eddie for no reason? #you dont get it #thats fine #let them have their corner of this fandom in peace #I'm not eddie obsessed but I know a meaningful and well written character when I see one #he does deserve the love he gets #the entire hawkins plot falls apart without him #the whole POINT was protecting Eddie #and they FAILED #we focus so much on the byler verses midleven of it all and that Eleven failed to defeat one #but Nancy and Steve and Dustin failed to protect Eddie #and that MATTERS #that duffers said it will continue to matter into season 5 #theres layers of meaning to him that havent even been explored by the show yet #I'm literally mostly in this fandom to scream about my love of mike and Will and analyze the upside down but let's quit with the eddie hate #byler #stranger things #eddie munson #thoughtsfromthequeen

[twinksintrees]

one thing about malcolm bright is that he will care so much

#prodigal son #like he is so annoying and such a know it all but he does care #and that matters #malcom bright

[uncontinuous]

“I think she’s the person you love the most in the world.”

I knew it was coming but I was not ready for the feelings it would evoke.

#elementary lb #the way elementary writes platonic love is so fucking beautiful #the sheer weight it gives platonic love is so beautiful #elementary could've given in to so many fucking tropes #could've taken the easy way out #and made it a cliche will they won't they het romance #instead they build something so meaningful #sherlock and joan love each other the most in the world #they're just not IN LOVE with each other and that's okay too #they're each others platonic soulmates; each other's person #and that matters

[grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark]

Shout out to the Jewish people that helped me unlearn some toxic lessons christianity had taaught me.

#mainly theres more then one correcr way to look at any one thing because everyone has vastly diffrent #exprince with life and what they feel. and if it rings true with you #the it is true to you #and that matters #ik this doesnt make much sense b #sorry im bad at words

[onewomancitadel]

Not that this is topical or anything but I remember crying alone in my bedroom reading the premiere leaks of TROS. Anyway

#that memory still hurts so much lol #by that point I had already read the leaks and I was convinced it was so bad it couldn't be real #hey it might be made up fiction but it does touch you emotionally for a reason #and that matters

[casquecest]

I really love the fact Massachusetts sends these out several weeks (nearly two months) in advance of Election Day. They contain a rundown of the proposed questions that will be on November's ballot, as well as brief arguments for and against each proposed measure written by proponents and opponents submitted to the State, as well as the full text of the proposed legislation.

While I was quite aware of Question 1, as it's made its rounds on TV, and is, honestly, the 'sexy' question on the ballot meant to bring Bay Staters out to vote due to its potential divisiveness, what I wasn't aware of was Question 2, which is to do with dental insurance in the state. Question 2 will affect more people in the state, I think, but it's been given no air time (that I've seen, but I spend far too much time at work).

I moved here nearly seven years ago, so it might havr changed in the states in which I used to live and they may do similar things now, but I think it's important and wonderful that Massachusetts tries to educate its voters.

#Maybe no one reads it like I do #It could be tossed out with the circulars winding up in the mailbox #but at least Mass tries #And that matters #This is me #Massachusetts #Boston you're my home #I KNOW my votes for Questions 1 and 3 but 2 I need to understand the implications more #It's the most complicated one on the ballot I think #I HAVE dental insurance I got through the state portal and it's wicked cheap #I don't know how many other people in MA have it #I'm voting for whatever expands coverage but keeps it affordable and I'm too deep in drinks to determine that at present #I need to see numbers

[latefrequencies]

thinking about RSG and taking comfort in the fact that no matter how “”wrong”” I get the characters or relationship (either actually wrong or only wrong in the eyes of readers I could never please anyway), The Themes are are least deeply woven into the work and that’s the important thing

#this has been a self related post #gay alien sunday #rsg is a reflection of a lot of things but one of those things is a reflection of h2g2 itself #or rather what i got from h2g2 #what i learned from it that i accepted because i could laugh at it and then found myself seriously confronting when i could no longer laugh #the conclusions h2g2 helped me come to are the conclusions that ford and arthur come to by the end of rsg #a lot of the things abt the characterization are probably going to feel really really off in places #because we never see the characters doing in canon the kinds of things they do in rsg #so while my ideas for what they'd do in those situations are obviously #based on traits they do display in canon situations #or traits that aren't displayed in canon but that i think they would have for xyz canon-supported reason #there's like. there's only so much it can genuinely read like the characters from a sci-fi comedy #when they're living out a drama largely set on earth #but the themes #The Themes #The Themes are present #and that matters

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #blind #visually impaired #braille #mona lisa #inclusion #inclusivity #accessibility #disabled lives matter #disabled life #disabled #louvre #art museum #museum #louvre museum

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

#spending the next week and a half with the shittiest country internet #and i cannot watch shit no matter how long i buffer

[iapislazuli]

idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it

#dia noises #its content aware fill. ai generated. it doesnt matter

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

#who cares if its platonic love who fucking CARES if its because they wanna kiss like the devotion and the tenderness is there no matter what #mainly brought to you by: jack and anne from black sails but also probably sydcarmy and msr #sydcarmy #msr #rackhanne #the bear #black sails #txf #the x files #mulder x scully #sydney x carmy #jack rackham x anne bonny #oh wait perhaps also theonsa if you squint #maybe not

[queerstudiesnatural]

some of my favourite sign fails <3

#eat jessica's family <3 #you don't matter give up <3 #him in us is heaven <3 #rain posts

[surkeart]

be free!!

#surkeart #my art #cringe culture is dead #keep doing what makes you happy no matter what others think #youre awesome #sonic #furby #long furby #furry #fursuit #brony #mlp #naruto #cosplay #gengar #people #trans #DO NOT REPOST thanks