#gabe's thoughts

[gabetheunknown]

Modern day Geralt exclusively calling Cirilla by her full name when he’s around Jaskier because Jaskier has a stupid Iphone and Geralt is super done with Siri constantly telling him “I’m sorry I didn’t get that”

#the witcher #the witcher shitpost #siri #ciri #cirilla fiona elen riannon #geralt #jaskier #gabe's thoughts #I'm procrastinating on my fic

[wannabepapa]

casually thinking about some poor creature needing a host to carry their young and i happily oblige. not only do i get to help some poor creature to finally get the family they've always wanted but i have the joy of carrying babies 🥰

#gabe's thoughts #tmpreg #nonbinary preg #domestic things #monster preg #;me and my partner are talking creature preg and i am in uch a domestic mood for some unnatural creature incubating in my womb #;just a cute little wiggly creature that knows nothing but my warmth and love as their parent worships me for giving them a family

[bluebelledmoon]

"The Final Photoshoot"

gabriel agreste was soon found being strangled by a blue feathered boy after this was released

#GUYS I DID IT #this was a large project for me please give me compliments #want to hear the thoughts behind this piece? okay #this was basically for gabriels own ego- the twin rings and the halo ring representing adrien being a sentimonster #its gabe's display of his power and a flex to himself #this took forever #i love it though #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #ml #ml art #artists on tumblr #bluebelledmoon's art #my art #ml season 5 #sentimonsters #felix agreste #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #miraculous fanart #adrien

[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

[little2nerdy]

so glad gabe still got turned to stone. that’s all i really needed from this series

#percy jackson #pjo season 1 #pjo tv show #percy pjo #pjo spoilers #pjo tv #pjo show #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo #pjo disney+ #pjoverse #percy series #annabeth percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #rick riordan #riordanverse #gabe ugliano #maren’s thoughts

[bookishjules]

sally and gabe's exchange about not liking to watch the knicks alone was such a brave addition, given where the season will end for them, but boy did it add so much.

in the books, we only ever see one dynamic between them--something i think can be pretty decently summed up by the bean dip: gabe yells at sally, sally says in a minute, gabe yells at sally, sally makes enough bean dip to get him through the weekend. sally is upset but she breathes and caters to the house rat's wishes (or at least says the things he wants to hear) because she knows she can't rock the boat too much, lest percy lose that extra layer of protection. in order for her to fight back, there would need to be some legit reason for gabe to stick around despite the opposition.

in the show, we've gotten to see how featuring sally's strength in a different way calls that reason into existence, no matter how small it may be. it creates so much more nuance in the relationship, and makes it make more sense before we are provided with the real reason sally is with him.

the knicks. the knicks is a thing they share, a thing they can call a truce on. and the way they both say they can't watch the games alone... it implies a level of loneliness, not just the one we gather that sally feels without percy there throughout the year, but also for gabe. instead of percy coming home to a poker game with between gabe and his gross friends, he arrives at the door as eddie the super is leaving, and they share a moment of solidarity at despising gabe, and then when he enters the apartment, the poker table is folded up against the wall...

now i'm not trying to make gabe a sympathetic character here. he's an asshat. but i do think making him and his relationship with sally more nuanced does a lot for character building and motivations that we just didn't see in the books, and i commend them for that.

#i need to get through all my thoughts before i start reading other people's lol #pjo tv #pjo tv show #sally jackson #gabe ugliano #pjo #pjo tv spoilers #percy jackson

[peridots-pixiwolf]

[Start ID. A digital drawing of Gabriel and V1 from Ultrakill in super-saturated, pixellated colors. It seemingly takes place during phase two of his second fight, judging by Gabe's bright yellow-cyan wings and the consequent blush shining through his helmet. Gabriel is pictured on the left, facing the left side of the screen with his head turned to V1, preparing to strike them with the bloodied spear in his right hand. Small but frequent splatters of blood dot his armor and outstretched wings, fabrics torn through in places. V1 is on the right, aiming its piercer revolver at his face. Their arms are stacked in pairs on either side, idle Feedbacker and Knuckleblaster on the left and Whiplash tucked atop their default arm on the right. Both parties are stylized to resemble insects, Gabe with beetle wings and a halo in the shape of antennae, and V1 with the four wings, four arms, short antennae and bristles expected of a dragonfly. End ID]

woah.... happy 1 year anniversary to gay people

also a couple alts (background removed, just gabe, and just v1, respectively) in hopes it'll be a little easier to understand what's going on and all!

additionally once again: special thanks to @magnumopos and @muzzleroars , neither of which I have actually spoken to in my life but both of which are credited with partially inspiring this! (dedicated section under the readmore due to the fact I do not generally tag people at all ever and wasn't sure if I should, but thought it was worth mentioning!) The former for giving me the wonderful idea of dragonfly V1, the latter for drawing V1 like a strange little creature + for the feedbacker plate, I enjoy both your works :]

(retroactively, on march 27th of 2024, assigning them a full bingo with credit to deep-space-lines. ehehehehe)

#peridots-art #gabriel ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #ultrakill #bots #bugs #drawing them more buggish now... i have a whole chart listing uk characters as bugs and it's so fun #v1 is dragonflyish for many reasons and gabriel (+ council)'s heavily bee-coded but I like drawing him more beetlelike. anyway #eyestrain #blood #gabv1el #< yes gabe's wholeheartedly trying to kill v1 and v1's actively harming him. yes this is ship art. they're having fun #not a thing that I feel I really need to clarify when it comes to ultrakill i just thought it was funny #anyway. yes yes more ultrabright ecstasy-winged gabriel with blood all over him. as to be expected of my ultrakill fanart. however #this obviously isn't my usual style but it WAS pretty fun to draw. i wanted to draw something chaotic and abnormal anyway for this #i kind of wanted it to be a successor to the nov29 gabe post and to mess around with it so. task completed 👍 #there definitely was more i wanted to say here (besides clarifying it's been a year since the act 2 release + that means a lot to me) #but i can't think of anything else so woe! bugs be upon ye #actually aug22 addition: if this inspires your own uk art in any way shape or form. PLEASE tag me in it :]

[mipexch]

I still need to fully watch the dev stream but genderless angels using masculine pronouns based on hierarchy is both extremely interesting & scratches that trans Gabriel itch even more. Could either interpret him as just simply being nonbinary and continuing to use he/him as a fuck you to the council and the system they adhere to while also being true to himself or just push it all the way and say he’s a transguy. Someone said something about the way the council instantly refers to him as an ‘it’ when he’s failed (while also making sense canonically with the way the hierarchy works and threatening his status with this usage) gives them the feeling of a parent unsatisfied with their child enough to ignore their wants to be referred and identify the way they choose as if it is a privilege. I think Gabriel’s connection and identity with gender is heavily up to interpretation and honestly he can be whatever you want him to be, but I’m choosing to connect his he/him genderless transness etc with things I’ve personally experienced. the trans allegory is strong with this one

#gabriel #ultrakill #thoughts on it #makes me very very very happy #not just because im a nonbinary hehim user but hc my trans gabe headcanon can be pushed further into the bounds of canon #that angel is transgender #not to say the council acts as his parents btw. its just an easy correlation

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

chat is this real

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#i need you all to know there was like 20 seconds of silence after this #heelo. can anyone. hear me. HHELLO #i am searching for a completely different clip from a stream i already watched #where he did the 'original' gabe voice that was nothing like what we ended up with #i thought i wrote it down. I DIDNT....... #so now im going through the auto generated subtitles for all the streams ive already seen till i hopefully find it #so i can edit it down and put it on here for anyone who is curious #this is going to be a very slow process that ill be doing only when im at work #so be patient #non voice post #video

[guardianspirits13]

Ok, everyone who was upset about Gabe delivering the prophecy and just completely forgot the original text, raise your hand 🖐️

#im in the same boat tbh #i completely forgot but in the back of my mind i thought i remembered something of the sort #turns out we all have collective amnesia about the first prophecy haha #pjo tv #pjo show #the lightning thief #oracle #prophecy #pjo adaptation #percy jackson tv series #gabe ugliano #percy jackson

[gabetheunknown]

replaying the Witcher 3 because I suck, anyways my boyfriend knows I write geraskier fanfiction and the moment he decided to look on my screen was when my objective was "Follow the smell of Dandelions cologne with your Witcher senses" and he just chuckled and said

"if this isn't inspiration for a new fanfiction, I don't know what is"

bless his soul, he's so supportive xd

#gabe's thoughts #i love him #the witcher 3 #geraskier #gerlion

[wannabepapa]

in the domestic way where all i can think about is being in the arms of a polycule, not sure whose little nugget is growing inside me currently but everyone is super excited for the baby. everyone is arguing with each other (it's playful) about who will be the next person to get me pregnant all the while their hands are all splayed over my bump.

need to make this dream a reality o i s2g I'm just garbage at the whole dating scene.

#gabe's thoughts #domestic things #;is it the possibly diagnosed neurospiciness? or the social anxiety? #;one will never know #;but i do love in my own special way and i think i am enjoyable company #;sighs

[batcavescolony]

I feel like people aren't getting it. In. The. Books. Perseus. Jackson. Is. An. Unreliable. Narrator. This goes for everything he thinks. Percy loves his mother, so he writes her praises. In the show we get to see what Sally does from an outside POV not filtered through a child that idolizes his mother. It's not ooc for Sally to act like she does in the show. she's a single mother raising a neurodivergent, Demigod, and she's scared that when the Gods get to him they'll corrupt him. She's not suddenly a girl boss we're getting to see her for how she is.

#percy jackson #sally jackson #“sHe sToOd uP tO gABe sHe wOuLdnT dO tHat' she did it because percy needed to get to montock so she could tell him about how hes a demigod #sally as a character will do anything for her son. gabe being abusive doesnt negate what she needs to. do for her son. in in the book the #second gabe was no longer needed she turned him into a statue and sold him to to the highest bidder. she was putting up with the abuse for #percys sake. and this is then woman that grebbed a gun and started fighting in the battle of Manhattan. shes not weak. you can be two things #she can be motherly and strong. and obviously she has her douts. she thinks shes failing. she called posiden when it was too much and he #reassured her she was doing her best and she needs to do what she thinks is best. and we are only seeing some scenes #we're seeing whats relevant to the plot and whats relative is sally preparing Percy. and she obviously cares for her son and her son for her #she has to be a good mother cus percy is literally going to the underworld to save her. just stfu about the book #ive read the books to but some of you are awful. like no adaptation is to the letter. somethings had to be cut or glossed over and some are #changed because money or that a book is a different medium then a show or movie! you cant do everything cus its impossible. #were in a completely different pov. we're not in Percys head seeing his thoughts. #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches

[sixofbabycrows]

ngl i loved gabe getting petrified just cause he took the liberty to open percy’s mail even more than sally doing it on purpose in the book. like the guy got himself killed by being an asshole and they didn’t even have to try lmao

#i almost threw hands when i thought they didn’t add the gabe thing but luckily i stayed for post credits #percy jackson #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[tsurangaconundrum]

sometimes i see a lot of posts about a guy from a band being gay and then i make my guess on how many kids i think he has with his wife

#i thought gabe saporta would have more kids. i was leaning 2 or maybe 3 #han talks