What we also need to get into is how fucked up Kuras gotta be for Leander to turn out that way because, at the end of the day, Kuras was kind of like a mentor to Leander so if Leander can come out like That then what the fuck does Kuras have in store.
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The problem with big fandoms (using "problem" in a very loose sense here) is that it's really hard to stumble across the weird niche undertagged stuff when its being buried in five million coffee shop/royalty/high school/soulmate aus. If there are 150 works in the tag total you can look through very quickly and find anything that appeals to you. When there are over a million it is much harder to do that.
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just my current thoughts on the pjo show and how they changed gabe's character.
when i first saw the show, i was a bit disappointed at how the abuse wasn't really there (which, writing that feels like a horrible thought to have had). gabe just seemed like a whiny loser instead of a mean, smelly, controlling person who we later learn is physically harming sally. did i want it to be a bit more book accurate? yes, because i was excited to see him get what he deserved at the end of the season.
but now, im glad they changed it. i've been watching alyson stoner's series Dear Hollywood, where she breaks down a lot of the psychology of child actors as they get into the industry and how it continues to affect them throughout the years. and having the show be completely book accurate with gabe's representation would probably have harmed walker in the long run. yeah, he was a bit older (12 or 13 when they filmed i believe) so not in the very first formative years of development, but that's still much too early to have to act with something like that.
yes, walker is a fantastic actor, and he probably can separate reality from fiction very well. and obviously what happens on set isn't "real". but still, having an abusive parent on-screen, even though gabe isn't physically abusive to percy, could have caused actual consequences to walker's brain that he probably wouldn't have understood for years. and i would MUCH rather have the kids be in a safe and comfortable environment while working for my entertainment than get something that is the same as rick riordan wrote 15 years ago.
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Fluffy hair and honey eyes
My little mechanic in training.
My oc Dalia and her little robo-brother <333
She likes to tinker ala Tinkerbell, but her experiments always end up in a computer or robot short-circuiting. Except this one for some reason. He has survived, against all odds.
Her father's plan was to give her a new toy to experiment on but she ended up *cough* giving him sentience *cough* I mean– with a new brother.
Now she's gonna teach him stuff. U know, about feelings and organic life.
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People who don't know dog body language who have pushy sketchy dogs are so awful to be around. I told our housemates that their dog Klaus doesn't like me when we went out to watch the eclipse earlier today because I didn't want to go in the fenced yard with him out and they were like "oh no he's fine don't worry." When he saw me he charged up to the fence, high flagged tail, snorting and barking and jumping at the fence and they still were like "oh he's friendly, he just wants to smell you, see his tail is wagging". Like my dude... tail wagging does not mean friendly, and what about the noises he's making rn sounds friendly to you?
Selene's sister grabbed him and I thought she was going to take him inside because she acted like she was going to, but instead she stopped halfway and just held him back while I came into the yard and then let him go to run up and sniff me, which he had very stiff body language the entire time he did so. For a while after that he ignored me because of the kids calling him away and was chill, but still kept coming over and sniffing me occasionally and was very tense each time so I just tried to stay calm and sweet talk him and didn't try to touch him to help defuse the situation.
Then I walked a little away from the group to point out a plant in the yard to Selene's mom which was a mistake because once I was out of the little circle we were standing in he started body blocking me, tense face, stiff body, whale eyeing, and then jumping at me and barking. They tried to call him away and were like "oh he's just trying to get you to play, sorry he's so demanding of attention." I started trying to walk toward the gate to leave because he very much was NOT trying to get me to play and I did not feel confident in their ability to control him, and he immediately did it again. And again they tried to call him away. And I got maybe another two steps before he turned right back around and did it again. And they called him away again saying he was just trying to play. Rinse and repeat for a total of like six times of him body blocking me, tense and whale eyeing, and then jumping at me and barking. All while they're just laughing like "Sorry, Klaus just really loves playing". Dudes your dog is actually behaving aggressively toward me right now, please get control over him so I can leave he is NOT TRYING TO PLAY WITH ME.
This is the second time I've been invited into the yard while Klaus was out and the first time they kept telling me the same thing but he was actually following me around growling at me then and they were still like "oh it's just cuz he doesn't know you yet, he'll warm up to you, he's friendly". YOUR DOG IS SKETCHY. I DONT WANT TO INTERACT WITH HIM. HE DOESN'T LIKE ME. PLEASE JUST PUT HIM INSIDE WHEN I'M IN THE YARD WITH Y'ALL. And PLEASE learn some dog body language because nothing about his right now says "friendly" at all!!!!! Not even a little!!!! TAIL WAGGING DOES NOT MEAN FRIENDLY, ESPECIALLY A HIGH FLAGGED TAIL.
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My problem is that I cannot see wobbly loosely goosey world building that has fun bits without wanting to try and take them and rearrange them in a way that makes sense.
The result of this is that I CANNOT stop thinking about Foodcourtia and how this presumably Irken-controlled station functions in this genocidal space empire when most of the customers seem to be other aliens. I am trying to figure out how I can make it align with the “superior alien race” rhetoric that non-Irkens can go to space Burger King and essentially hassle the Irkens working there for gross hot dogs. All the whole knowing full well the authorial intent started and ended at “heehoo Zim works at Space McDonald’s”.
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nearly done with my op reread and for the longest time my theory was that the d marked the descendants of the people native of the island that eight hundred years ago fought the twenty nations, but rereading the part about lili I thought maybe it's more lax and it marks everyone who opposed the current government in general, not just those from the island - she was the queen of one of the twenty kingdoms after all, and imu didn't seem to know the nefertaris had a d in the name as well, but before the war there would have been no reason to hide it? so i think it's something they added to their names later, maybe to recognise each other as allies? or something? the kozuki were obviously allied too and don't have a d though, so I can't say this theory makes a hundred percent sense. also i find interesting how law is hiding the water part of his name too together with the d, i wonder if that has any further meaning? another interesting thing is that there seems to have been some form of prophecy or prediction about what's currently happening in the manga, since oden knew he had to wait twenty years and the sea monsters in the oden flashback on fishmen island were talking about it too... maybe a prediction about a war? since oden wanted to unleash pluton. I wonder what exactly they found out on laugh tale that made them all laugh when the events the wg is keeping secret seem to be this tragic... also, i think i never even noticed during my first readthrough of egghead but there's someone offshore with blackbeard's flag? a small boat, it seems, but I think atm we know all blackbeard pirates are either on the pirate island or fighting against the hearts (;;;) so I wonder who exactly that is? also, I didn't catch this either first time around but I feel like the germa might just be heading there as well right now lmao the thing with kuma returning to mariejois happening so soon after vp talked about the ancient robot attacking mariejois and no one knowing why is also suspicious to me, I wonder if vegpunk used data from that robot to turn kuma into a cyborg and that's tied to why he returned there for apparently no reason...?? anyway I thought rereading would help me clear up some questions but instead it left me with even more kkkk should have figured
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adam fox going to the 2023 asg and deciding to wear the most ridiculously large hat is so fun. i love him
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