I feel like we, as a fandom have never collectively discussed how fucking awesome Rachel Elizabeth Dare is. I honestly think she's the most underappreciated character in the entire fandom. Like demigods, she's incredibly creative, thinks and behaves outside of what's expected of her in the mortal world, and has this incredible power of sight that no one else has. She hates her father for being a developer, she volunteers in her free time to help raise money for art programs for kids, she's a great friend to Percy, she's incredibly brave (i.e. going into the labyrinth because 'she had no summer plans' , flying into a war zone, hitting Kronos with a blue hairbrush), she's really funny, but all everyone talks about is how much they hate her because she's a rival for Percy's affections but when you think about it... hello!!! Of course Percy has a crush on her she's "just as brave as Annabeth", incredibly creative, has complex feelings towards her family and her own identity... are you sensing a pattern!! Percy has a type!! All of this is made funnier when you realize Rick Riordan describes Becky (his wife) as a creative who he trusts with everything like he basically wrote two incarnations of his wife in a love triangle LOL
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Anybody have any oneshot prompts or character study requests while I battle writer's block?
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Oh god they're being assholes to you again?
no assholes in my inbox today (yet?) but i got an ao3 comment that pissed me off. i don't think they were trying to be an asshole? i'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt that they just don't understand ao3/fic/commenting culture. i'm waiting to be less irritated before i respond.
i have more to say but i just posted the last chapter last night and don't want to spoil anything.
it's totally fine to only like to read one type of thing, but it's RIDICULOUS to expect authors to cater to your PERSONAL PREFERENCE.
alright i'm done. SIGH. thank you for the fabulous post! i love it so much <3
💜💜💜.
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No because watch me have a whole break down cause of the end of episode 6 for tsitp
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sometimes ill read posts that so deeply and fundamentally mischaracter ace attorney characters and ill literally get so upset.... i understand then more than you ever will
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Can we all agree that modern American schooling is a fucking authoritarian nightmare where children are treated like property?
Like I understood on some kind of gut level when I was still in school that it was all bullshit, but now that I’ve been out for a few years I see the whole thing for the truly cruel system the whole thing was. The relentless control adults over your time, your schedule, and your body? Pretty fucking traumatic, personally.
(this goes doubly for neuro-divergent, disabled, and in a lot of situations POC and queer people too, btw).
End Rant.
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"What is the mindscape?"
I thought I'd make this little post for anyone who's curious and also because it's a fun thing I wanted to share to clear up any confusion past/present/future ^^
In short? Think of the "mindscape" as its own little world (that also can mix with the real world) where characters come, go, and interact with me and other people! Like a hub-world I guess ^^'
(Irl it refers to our system "innerworld" ^^' )
But yeah! Juuuuuust thought I'd make a mini post about this for fun ^^
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the costuming in npmd is fucking genius
and i don’t mean the lords in black (although i could absolutely rant about how great their costumes are). i mean the “nerdy prudes” themselves.
peter’s outfit is reminiscent of a classic “nerd” outfit. but there’s a reason he dresses like that, one that the character has. and then he changes to a sweater in place of the bowtie and suspenders- because of steph. he still dresses like peter, but his outfit compliments hers more.
i love richie’s outfit- the patterns, the horrible layering- i knew kids like this growing up. and the hair? the sort of greasy, bedhead, scraggly hairdo. it’s just 🤌🤌
ruth’s outfit is nice- clearly they understood the assignment of how a queer person dresses (/lh)- but her whole display is ignored, the audience’s eyes immediately drawn to the head gear. just like the characters, we first see what’s “weird” about ruth.
i don’t have much to say about grace. she’s very put together, very neat. the pastel blues and pinks representing her softness innocence. also the butterflies clips in her hair slowly dwindling in numbers. that’s a good detail.
steph is very cool and alt. the cropped fleetwood mac shirt, the combat boots, the flannel- she understands the trends in fashion. but she makes it her own
TLDR; i fucking love costuming details
Edit: I made a part 2 about the lords in black, please hype it up bc i crave validation 😍😍
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I have rewrote the 4 due chapters for Pens & Paper at least seven times now 😀
Why does writing block suck so much 🫠
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Now you two think about what you've done and develop some healthier emotional coping mechanisms
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we were deprived of some kind of reunion between annabeth and thalia after the sea of monsters. in case some of y'all forgot, the last time thalia saw annabeth was when annabeth was seven-years-old, a child running from a neglectful family with nothing but the clothes on her back and a hammer. and the last time annabeth saw thalia was when she watched a monster literally rip thalia to shreds long enough for her, luke, and grover, to make it across the chb border. you can't tell me that after they get some time alone, annabeth didn't reveal that she's thirteen, and thalia didn't tear up. you can't tell me that annabeth didn't burst into tears while telling her what happened to luke and thalia didn't let her sob into her chest while also crying herself. you can't tell me that these two didn't talk about the first son of poseidon in centuries and wondered what that meant for the prophecy. you can't tell me that thalia didn't tease annbeth a little bit once she noticed that look in annabeth's eyes when talking about percy. i just need this to exist. somewhere. please.
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The Annabeth fell first part of the Annabeth fell first, Percy fell harder pipeline is highly underappreciated! That little girl had never opened up emotionally to anyone before and within two days she's willing to sacrifice her pride to protect him, making speeches about how he's better than the world she grew up in, and shooting heart eyes at him for making a turn out of a parking lot.
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Tumblr, why on earth, "based on my likes," you are recommending Beast/Gaston fanfiction.
I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE LIKED ANYTHING LIKE THAT
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Once saw a pjo Fan comment that Ares was Zeus favourite son because of trials of Apollo and I died inside a little bit. So enjoy my rant about it
1. Apollo in nearly every single myth is described as his dads favourite. No beating around the bush that’s his favourite son (and highly likely child).
2. The Iliad (basic Greek mythology reading) has Zeus tell everyone in the council that Ares is his least favourite child (most likely in all the Gods too)
3. Ares is incredibly loyal to his mother and through many texts (that aren’t biased towards Athena) is seen to love his siblings a whole lot, no matter what his mother says about them. In the myth of him getting abducted by the twin giants who were threatening to r@pe his mother and sister (Artemis) and to force them to marry them. Ares was angered by this and scared for this and tried to fight them by himself leading to his capture, torture and in some tales even r@pe until Hermes rescued him
4. He is the only God (in my memory) to not have ever sa ANYONE. Every single relationship was consensual and is the only man in his family to ever do so with Zeus, Hermes, Hephaestus, Apollo, Hades, Poseidon and Dionysus all having sa people
5. One thing that boils my blood the most though in pjo is his treatment of his children. Ares was despised by his father and his mother put a lot of pressure on him to be perfect for her legacy, causing him to act out a lot and be perceived as vicious and brutal. In every myth though he never wanted his children to feel the same way he did and was apart of every single one of his child’s life.
Hope you enjoyed my rant!!!! And if not well then idk what you want from me
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It kind of fucks me up to see some people come out of watching RGU having absorbed absolutely nothing of what the show has to say about patriarchy, misogyny, & queerphobia, outside of "men bad, lesbian good." Which like.....sure, I guess? in the absolute barest sense, I suppose RGU is partially about that.
But if this show's thesis were really as simple as "lesbian good," then Juri & her role as an antagonist on the mini patriarchy that is the Student Council would simply not exist at all. Juri would've won all the duels, kicked Akio in the nuts, freed Anthy, & ridden away into the sunset with Shiori in her arms before Utena even showed up if that were the case. But she obviously didn't do any of that despite being a lesbian, so there must be something more complicated at work here.
A lot of RGU's narrative is dedicated to deconstructing binary social systems & the ways in which they harm those trying to and/or being forced to fit within one of two narrow boxes; man vs woman, adult vs child, princess vs witch, prince vs devil, special vs not special, romantic vs platonic, etc. So for someone to watch all of that beautiful complexity, only to filter it through yet another essentialist binary...sucks, to say the least.
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Don’t Sleep on Headless
Hey everybody. Real talk time. If you want @shipwreckedcomedy to be able to keep making stuff, if you want to support female/POC indie creators, you need to watch Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story. We NEED you to watch and share it.
Headless is it for us. We pulled out all the stops for this. This show cost us a quarter of a mil to make (thanks to you!). The four of us at Shipwrecked paid ourselves none of that. We’ve worked on this show for three years now. This is what we gambled on.
The response to the show thus far has been so positive, and we’re so happy! But even for the small channel that we are, and even with the INCREDIBLE cast who gave their time to be a part of this project, the views we’ve been getting on this show are fewer than we hoped.
I remember a few weeks into The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Hank Green made a vlog talking about how the show wouldn’t be sustainable if it didn’t start getting more views. And it really helped! And that’s where we’re at. We can’t keep doing this if we don’t grow.
Don’t get me wrong, we are going to continue to put out Headless until Halloween and make it the absolute best show we can. But if we can’t grow as a company, we can’t keep making shows like this. It just isn’t sustainable for us.
We really thought this was gonna be the one to do it. We thought this was gonna be the thing to take us from small creators with less than 50K subscribers and a handful of views to a real, bona-fide channel with reach and influence that pulls the kind of viewership on our projects to match the amount of work we put into them. And I think it can be! It looks good enough to be on any streaming network. It makes me laugh every thirty seconds. But we are a small group and we NEED word of mouth for this show to succeed.
Shipwrecked is primarily female-run, making narrative content in a space where other (more successful) creators are predominantly male. I’m sorry to harp on this, but I can’t help but feel like we have to work so much harder to get the same amount (or a fraction) of attention.
The episodes we have yet to come in this show are so wild, so wacky, so Intense, and so heartfelt. SO many people put their hearts and souls into this show. I believe it can catch fire and become one of the most successful digital series out there. But WE NEED YOU TO WATCH IT.
The story we have playing out over the next few weeks is Shipwrecked at its most Shipwrecked. We have some surprises and reveals up our sleeves that I think you are really going to love. More than anything, we love unfolding a big story over a period of time and bringing people along for the ride. I’m so excited for you all to see what we have in store, and I promise you are going to want to do what you can to experience it in real time.
It’s free. It’s fun. It’s spooky. It’s funny. If you want Shipwrecked to be able to continue to make shows like this - original content, inspired by literature, with a mysterious twist and fresh humor - help us make Headless a success. We need you to take us there - we can’t do it on our own. ♥️💀🎃
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