Martin Blackwood writing extremely mediocre poetry for himself and himself alone in his late 20s is like soooo endearingly cringey but then YOU try writing extremely mediocre poetry for yourself and yourself alone in your late 20s and it's like OH. OH GIRL I GET IT!
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I understand not wanting your party members to walk into a lake and drown themselves but also Laudna has the fuckin WORST bedside manner lol. Yes, your much-needed long rest was just interrupted in a creepy abandoned town where you know weird charm-shit happened and the LAST thing you need right now is for anyone to lose focus. But also "Can you not wait? You can wait 5 minutes." talking to someone who has waited months and doesn't know if their loved one is even ALIVE and has confessed to you how much he misses them and how much it hurts and they could be outside breathing alive right now—
And on the surface, it looks like Chet is enabling a bad decision when he says "You probably heard Dorian. He's probably outside." and yeahh, okay, maybe he is a little bit. But right after that he's about to protest with something about Orym and it's like yeah. ORYM said he heard something. When has there been a time when ORYM heard something, and it wasn't real? How many times has Orym heard something and it's saved our asses? Before Chet is being hit with his own need to check out the lake, he's giving Orym the benefit of the doubt. And while he is an enabler by nature, he's keeping his voice soft rather than his usual, over-the-top "let's fuck around and find out" energy that he brings to dangerous situations like this.
You can't have everyone in the group treating a dilemma with the same amount of sympathy and care. What makes the BH so fascinating to watch is the variation in responses and different ways they interact with each other. You need a balance of someone who will take the cold, unyielding stance against something that is so obviously a trap, and someone that is aware of the risks but willing to speak up for that person and humor them when they're so clearly struggling.
I have a lot of feelings about Laudna and Chetney's instinctual responses and I think both stances are fascinating and they've both shattered my heart to pieces
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Honestly amazing to me that fic crossovers between the same characters from different universes aren't more popular in our fandom. Like where's a fic where main universe Dick, Talon Dick, Earth 3 Dick, and Dark Knights of Steel Dick all end up in the same universe and have to work together?
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Manifesting MM Casey Jones with a Very Messy Sketch Page! 😤💕
Their head is full of love for only 3 Things: hockey, fighting, & friends. April asks him to help her investigations in exchange for helping him with school. She & Raph respectfully beat each other up on the regular.
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okay. so i rewatched the episode to really see what I didn't like about it. and i think that its mostly just how they handled Luke's backstory reveal and talking about May Castellan. Like in this episode (which is only 30 minutes which is not doing them any favors) they just go ahead and reveal everything about May, her being a "seer" and all that. But in the books the May Castellan plot is one of the biggest reveals we get in the whole series. And in this episode we learn a watered down version of it 3rd hand from Annabeth as they're actively doing something else. It just lessens the blow of it in my opinion. Like in the books when they meet her, it's like a punch to the chest, it's scary and sad and a devastating look at her and Luke's background and relationship with the gods. And having it reduced to a side note exposition feels rushed and clunky. To me, it honestly reads like they don't think they're going to get renewed and are wanting to fit as much of the over-arching plot in as possible.
I think another thing that could be affecting it is Rick's lack of screenwriting experience. Obviously he isn't the only writer on the crew but he clearly had a large influential say in what happens, imdb even lists him as a writer in some episodes. He obviously is an extremely talented and successful writer, but he isn't a screenwriter, he's a book author, which are completely different mediums that use different techniques. Good foreshadowing in a tv show uses the "show don't tell" technique, and alludes to important things that you might miss on the first watch. But the show seems to be taking the extremely blatant exposition route with both telling on May Castellan so soon and setting Percy up to scorn the gods.
Like i feel like May could be brought up early in this season and it work well, but it has to be told by Luke. Like potentially at the end when during his reveal to Percy, with a whole "not everybody gets to go home and see their mom at the end of the summer" type of vibe. Like i think that would have been beautiful and really worked. Not as an aside from Annabeth in the middle of the Lotus Hotel.
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As requested by @spooky-cowfish here's a gifset with Chris for everyone's viewing pleasure!
I'm not 100% happy with the quality, but I agree that this part of the video is totally gif worthy
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I wanted to make a hypothetical cover to my fic so I indulged ^_^ It's a parody of fabiniku's volume 1 cover of course
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