#gabe plays

[imissthefire]

ikesoren brainworms, they're wrigglin' away, man. they're just. so good. so much growth. so patient with each other. so supportive. so honest, yet never unkind. just... so good.

#ikesoren #truly have me in a chokehold #can't get away from those aspec mercs #there's just such a lovely sense of boundaries and respect and love and support that often goes unsaid between them but is so clearly there #like neither of them are too stable mentally but their relationship (regardless if through a romantic/platonic lens) is so stable. #they grow together and sure there's definitely some not so great levels of codependency to an extent but it becomes so much more healthy #ugh i'm gonna stop here or else this will become another essay nobody asked for lol #nqp #gabe rambles #gabe plays #fe #fe por #i regret using the tags in advance im sorry if someone finds this whilst perusing fe or ikesoren or fe por tag and gets annoyed. #i just like to keep track of my posts on my blog. you know how it is #brainworms

[muzzleroars]

An idea: V1 finds a monitor, keyboard and mouse set up so that Gabe could also play cybergrind with it. He can't use his own moveset in-game because it's too complex to be coded into the game by terminal observation and since he isn't a machine he can't just upload the raw data inputs like V1 or the others can so he uses the same V1 gameplay we use when we play Ultrakill. So other machines see V1 fluidly wrecking everyone and a second stiffer, jankier gold V1 also wrecking them too but slightly slower than the blue one.

they love playing together!!!

(binary reads "no fun?")

#gabriel wasn't so sure about it since he's the opposite of a gamer #but then v1 took all this time to color his character like him #that he had to at least give it a try!!! #and now they love it they play together all the time #and gabe also gets to kind of see what it's like to be v1 :) #he's gained a lot of appreciation for its fighting style!! #cake answers #v1 #gabriel #doodle tag

[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

[anna-scribbles]

remember that time in feast when adrien and plagg played piano together 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭and he got adrien laughing and improvising and adrien said no one but his mom had ever made him feel like that. top scenes designed to break me in half

#im working on a scene right now. dont worry about it #ml #anna rambles #when adrien said plagg you know how to play piano?? and plagg just started playing with him #AUGH #the implication that adrien and emilie used to play silly improvised duets....and then after she died gabe made adrien just do solo pieces. #OW !!!!!!

[jaynaneeya]

I cannot stop laughing about this

#shipwrecked comedy #shipwrecked plays d&d #gabe greenspan #sean persaud #krystina arielle #mary kate wiles #sinead persaud #sarah grace hart #i love them all so much

[serenityfails]

given the fact that all of the bg3 characters can potentially fuck each other i think we're overdue for a good sex pollen orgy i think it could be very good character exploration material and i am not joking

#gabe plays bg3

[nixthelapin]

Why are there two of her??

Why is he huge??

What is going on here????

#the one with Toxinelle gives me musical vibes lol #but are there other powers at play?? #I did see the horse’s portal in a different promo scene #so maybe there’s more going on #I wonder if they ally with Monarch like ours do with Hesperia #or whatever other Gabe’s name is #now I just have more questions #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #mlb #Shadybug #Toxinelle #claw noir #griffe noire #miraculous tales of shadybug and claw noir #miraculous special #miraculous trailer

[miilkyrolls]

pov: Gabriel

#i finally got around to reading bloodbound(very late it ik) #when i saw this scene all i could think about was gabe from book 1 dropping their life savings for it💀 #immortal desires #choices stories we play #choices #gabriel adalhard #bloodbound #adrian raines #pixelberry #immortal desires 1

[cowsaresushi-coral]

pictures i drew for my friend when he was fighting gabriel.

yeah.

EDIT: whoever said "congrats," he said "thanks"

#doodles #ultrakill #gabriel #2023 #i watch him whenever he plays #yesterday was an endurance (affectionate) #also everyone around me agrees with me that gabe is kinda

[imissthefire]

babygirl came home <3

#i got stefan #so glad to have some more firepower in this fucking army holy shit #also his recruitment convos with mordecai AND micaiah were so cute #i save stated before recruiting so i could go back after doing one to do the other lol #also when mordecai mentioned everyone turning to stone and stefan was like ???? #first of all I feel like there may be a lore reason for this with the branded but idk #but also #it reminds me of that post about that guy that came into town a few months after the lockdown started who loved off grid #man came to get some oats and everyone was wearing masks and hardly anyone was out in the first place and this poor man had no idea why 😭 #anyway #nqp #gabe plays #fe #fe rd

[muzzleroars]

[ultrakill]

do you. think about angels and ais singing. together.

#ultrakill #i'm sorry this is another doodle page they're making me ill still #when i make posts like that know i'm drawing shit like this!!!! #also continuing to develop on how v1 communicates #i just. lost my mind thinking about them bonding through music #bc ais so often sing if they can when left idle #and singing is just. the default state of angels i think #ALSO also always thinking about how gabe can play the organ...ooughuhh #v1 #gabriel #doodle tag #blood tw

[gerrycoco]

This moment only gets funnier when you realize Sean in that moment is playing a character who is pretending to be another character who is meant to bear ressemblance to Gabe's character from Headless who is known for accidentally calling Sean's character dad twice

#shipwrecked comedy #shipwrecked plays d&d #mick schmixon #sean persaud #gabe greenspan #my gif #their dynamic never fails to crack me up

[pulpitude]

first time meeting a male li be like

mc:

hey nice to meet you ←

❤️ you're hot

❤️ i'm single and ready to mingle sugarplum

li: *smirks and backs mc against the wall* you wanna know what's nice? that body of yours babygirl *growls* [3 automatic ❤️ +desire points]

vs first time meeting a female li

mc:

i love what you're wearing!

thank you for helping me!

❤️ i want to bend you over and make you scream right here right now ←

li: *blushes furiously* oh! y-you think i'm p-pretty? >_< thank you,,, we'll make such great friends :3 !! [no visible romance points but hey the choice is marked with a heart]

#i typed this with no specific book in mind #but this is basically just gabe and aislinn #yes i've never played laws of attraction but i can tell from the first chapter lmao 😭 #playchoices #play choices #choices stories you play #choices stories we play #choices game #pixelberry #pb #pb choices #choices fandom #choices app #nsft ish

[griffinsboyfriend]

Here's my boys from Immortal Desires by the incomparable @hydn-jpg!! Cas, Alfyn (male MC), and Gabriel sleeping over, probably watching something scary or supernatural~

I wanted to see Gabriel with his hair down, and this was the perfect opportunity! I love this trio of dummies so much. Send @hydn-jpg some love! Thank you so much for your fabulous work!!!

#immortal desires #hydn.jpg #cas harlow #gabriel adalhard #male mc #alfyn lockhart #cas x mc x gabe #playchoices #fanart #choices stories you play #gay #mlm #polyamarous

[fandomgamersimp]

So I saw

And I just

#sry for the quality #meme #pixelberry choices #choices game #choices stories you play #pb choices #choices #playchoices #play choices #pixelberry #choices stories we play #immortal desires mc #immortal desires #vampires #immortal desires gabe #immortal desires cas #choices immortal desires #gabe x cas x mc #cas x gabe x mc #gabe adalhard #choices gabe #choices cas #cas harlow #immortal desires meme #immortal desires fanart #choices fanart #playchoices fanart #they're coming back from the Nexus

[harbingerofdespair]

I don't see what y'all talking about 😭 cas and gabe do NOT go well together. Y'all need help cause they fight and y'all call it chemistry

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices stories you play #immortal desires #Cassie Harlow #cas Harlow #gabe adalhard #immortal desires 2