#anywhoooooo

[buckleysevan]

@lgbtqcreators creator bingo ㅡ blending

ANNA’S 1K CELEBRATION ↳ 🌗 rose tyler or martha jones for @bellamysgriffin (insp)

#gifs* #gfx* #1k celebration #doctor who #dwedit #rose tyler #billie piper #timelordgifs #usergif #femalecharacters #userkimchi #jemmablossom #useraurore #alielook #userraffa #usertreena #userriel #userpegs #userdanahscott #userbuckleys #userfern #i remade the 4th gif like 10 times #still not satisfied with it #anywhoooooo #rose is loml #my fav companion #no one will ever compare to her #<33333

[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 #.

[inexplicablymine]

SOME SENTENCES MONDAY

Okay buttercups I have returned again (funny how life uproots you when you thought you were getting settled into it)

But the muse fluttered in and delivered a songfic to my ear and then fluttered away again so while I will be giving y’all the last chapter of Little Drummerboy soon, in the mean time let this tide you over (and will post on Wednesday!!)

You’re Gonna Go Far

He would let the rich pavement and wide open highways take him home. Texas bluebonnet wild, cicada strong, sideways pampas grass floating freeways situated between wildfire season and the inevitable downpour of hail that tramples Mother Nature's roadside finger paintings.

But he fucking can’t.

Because New York City doesn’t have cicadas; it has cockroaches. And the only driving he can do is driving snot-nosed WASPy kids in his law program towards the singular direction of fucking doing their god damn work because they’re all adults and group projects are the sin of the earth.

He can’t take the key around his neck and let it be a homing device protective shield across his heart when he’s run out of air and the gas tank goes low.

Thank you to all of these wonderful people who have tagged me when I have been waffling about with nothing to do or say: @onthewaytosomewhere @happiness-of-the-pursuit @stereopticons @suseagull04 @theprinceandagcd

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@welcometololaland @leaves-of-laurelin @thedramasummer @three-drink-amy @rmd-writes

OKAY and just a few more (lol): @everwitch-magiks (this is the under 5k fic we are all shocked happened) @anchoredarchangel @dumbpeachjuice @smc-27 @sightetsound

@gayrootvegetable @heartitinthesilence @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @hillerskas @myheartalivewrites

No pressure I am just late (as always) and playing catch up

#six sentences sunday #seven sentence sunday #inexplicablymine wip #fic: you’re gonna go far #yes this is a song fic #yes it is hurt/comfort #yes you do get it on Wednesday #yes I wrote it in a Beas blackout #anywhoooooo #red white and royal blue #firstprince #ao3 #inexplicablymine

[rosenfey]

think I'm gonna revamp fay a bit. not too much just soften her a bit. she is still going to be hardened by the wasteland but I want her to be more dorky and more unshakeably good in a way.

#ambie.txt #oc: fay templeton #she has always been very kind but I want to. make her more optimistic cheerful vibe kinda #she is still gonna be a badass with a big gun but also a bit more dorky and kind #and just. unwilling to let the world break her #it's just she's been my oc for so long I wanna refine her a bit. #not really change change but enhance ya know #anywhoooooo #might info dump soon-ish

[hotgirlcoded]

hiiiii brandon duhaime ☺️ uhhhh who said that 👀🫣

#anywhoooooo #lisa.txt

[misty-missdee]

It's really endearing that EVERY tekken commentator seems to know the name for EVERY move of EVERY charcater even the less used ones.

no one: ...

Tekken commentators: OH AND THEY HIT THE DEATH SANDWICH OUTTA NOWHERE, WOW!!!

#yes thats a real move name #i dont play armor king but i looked up some funny ones #anywhoooooo #tekken #fighting games #video games

[https-yeonjun]

i feel like gross doesn't make sense yet like everything so far is just set up and like the story starts making sense in the second half but i was just going through my queued posts and i'm reading it and i'm like we're almost halfway done and nothing has happened 🤔🤔🤔 but i know things are going to happen because i've written almost everything lol

and also i feel like what has been posted rn makes even less sense because i have queued the rest of the posts for the week and like more stuff has happened and the story is moving but it is moving very slowly ??? idk idk i'm just curious to know how it feels reading it like as i'm posting

#this is me just rambling oml #anywhoooooo #fay thinks 💭 #gross <3

[simgerale]

just a normal tuesday night...

#ts4 legacy #ML:G1 #i'm kind of digging the red borders for her #it's out of my comfort zone to do it for actual every-day posts #but...................i'm gonna stick with it #her gen will be red cause of........yknow....... #excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! not sure if i'll finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i think i'm gonna change lifespan to normal? to make sure i speed things up???? #idk yet lol #anywhoooooo

[suashii]

howdy :3 i won’t be active today but i hope everyone has a great friday and a great start to their weekend !! ♡

#☁︎ manon's mind #one year anni w/ my lover! :) #we’re trying to do a no phones day so #no phone heh #anywhoooooo #drink your water eat your meals take your meds #kisses mwah mwah >3<

[shea-like-the-butter]

Sunday, September 10th 2023

It’s the damn season 🏈🤠

#quite literally just turned my phone off in order to avoid work #I can’t believe I was there so much the past 2days fuck em #anywhoooooo #so hyped for football season #gimmick anything to care about tbh #numb this brain #me #ootd #outfit

[mxgyver]

I was tagged by the lovely laur @inklore 🫶💙

no pressure tags: @laracrofted, @theharddeck, @rhettabbotts, @bobfloydsbabe, @ryebecca, @rae-gar-targaryen, @withahappyrefrain, & anyone else who would like to do this! 💙

website for stats here

#okay the ms blondie one shouldn’t shock me too much and yet… #i can’t help that some of her newer songs are catchy #i fucking LOVE third eye blind #their music is like the vibe i want to give off #anywhoooooo #have fun y’all!!! #also my apologies if i’ve tagged you & you’ve already done this 🙈 #tagged #tag games

[caramelmochacrow]

im getting tired quicker, not in a ramble-y mood either.....

#crow talks #too tired to do anything so ig i'll sleep #tomorrow i need to do my assignments so i can lighten my load #anywhoooooo #gn!!!!

[animationismycomfort]

✨hello blobs✨

thought I’d change my profile

because I wasn’t really feelin it anymore

and I thought this one was cooler and nicer

so what do you guys think?

🌑

#my stuffy stuff #I did this and decided this today right now #im very impulsive sometimes #anywhoooooo #hope y’all like it

[tinycatstars]

grrrrr the desire to be cared for but the anxiety of asking to be cared for ):

#emmy talks #kinda vent? but not rlly #i WAS gonna hang at my bfs this weekend but now we're going out bc he's busy and i'm buys ): and i was gonna b small and now i CANT cause #we're gonna b in public and i h8 being small in public ): grrrr wan #anywhoooooo #wah the inner dilemma of asking for help when i need it </3 #🌀

[topsytervy]

Have you ever needed to cry so bad just for your mental health so you can feel better but cant because you're at work???

#legit me right now #i need a cry so bad #this week has already been very irritable for me and its just begun #anywhoooooo #ill just write it out as a blurb or something and pray that it helps

[fuyuseiza]

hi there!

fuyu✫彡 here~ :D

I feel a self-(re)introduction was long overdue on this blog...oops. Anywho! The warmest of welcomes to all the lovely people who happen to visit/follow this humble space I call my art blog. 

Nowadays, I’m mostly into drawing BTS fanart but I still love drawing anime fanart and cute girls from time to time hehe 

Please, enjoy your stay⌒°ʚ(ෆ❛ั ᴗ ❛ัʃƪ)ɞ♡°⌒

p.s.: this will be my chibi persona for when I answer asks or just share my random thoughts under #fuyutalks

That’s all! Have a lovely day~ 🐰💗

#fuyu talks #i still die of cuteness everytime i see my chibi lol #it's def cuter than irl me please don't get mistaken IM NOT EVEN CLOSE to being that cute #anywhoooooo #i'll get to posting art now