Claim your “Kali and Erica as women of color deserved better writers” ticket here!
These divas will always be famous to me
I hate how the writers wrote kali to be suspicious and then had more than half of the viewers frame her as a traitor when all she did was tell el what she thought was the best thing she could do. she came from a childhood of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. its no wonder she has this pessimistic outlook on-life.
the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.
You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it
you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.
Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."
And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.
we dont talk enough about how winona rider was literally the face of stranger things back when season one was released. she was the thing that got most people watching and got this show to the level of fame that it became eventually with her amazing performances in the first season. then the fifth season came along and reduced her down to someone who makes quirky one-liners, someone whose arc is literally just "learning to not be an overbearing mother to her son", and someone who just becomes a cop's wife at the end. apparently the original ending for joyce wasn't to use the axe to chop vecna's head off, and winona had to suggest it to be her.
justice for joyce actually, justice for all female characters on this show.
Walker's acting in the latest episode is so so brilliant.
The anger, the helplessness, the fear when he realises that Annabeth's dying, while Clarisse refuses to give up the fleece. You know, he would have gone to war, there and then. That he would have gone to any extent to get it to Annabeth in time. I know percabeth stans (me included) squeal about our OTP, but for me, this scene establishes Percy's fatal flaw.
It could have been anyone outside the cave instead of Annabeth. It could have been a close friend like Grover, a mean frenemy like Clarisse, an opponent like Luke or even a nameless camper who has only smiled at him once. If they were in a life or death situation and Percy had the power to change that outcome he would do it. Even if it jeopardises the quest, even if it challenges the authority of the Gods, even if it means you're playing with fate.
Because in that moment he isn't a forbidden child of the three or a hero that has to earn their glory. He's not Perseus, son of the sea God. In that moment, he's just Sally Jackson's son.
ep6 is tearing me to pieces. the fact that percy spends the entire season trying to convince annabeth that luke is unreedemable. untrustworthy. that they should avoid aiding him at all costs. until annabeth gets hurt. and he's suddenly willing to bargain. beg on his knees for luke to save her.
I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
it's very wild to me that byler is mainstream now. second most popular st ship on ao3. literally everyone talking about conformitygate. does anyone remember when this ship was a fringe theory that emerged because someone in 2016 said huh i think mike smiles at will in the same way he does el
*s3 will’s voice* Can we please focus on fanon now?
i know that conformity gate is just a theory and that we won't be getting another episode today and that they'll be announcing spin offs like it's a marvel timeline but i would be lying if i said there isn't a part of me that believes it. that tiny glimmer of hope, that dreamer, the child inside of me who watched this show when it first aired. for her, i want there to be a more cohesive ending.
