maddie?

"I feel so normal about him" well I dont. move

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

pjotv fans will straight up tell you the show is making the female characters so much more complex even though they scrubbed sally's story free off gabe's abuse and do the same for clarisse's fear of ares because hes primarily goofy as hell now and made annabeth a robot child soldier who needs to be taught how to be human and removed any of thalia's internal conflict of how she sees herself in relation to zeus and ultra-villified athena before she even actually appears in the story and canonized the ovid interpretation of medusa while sanitizing poseidon and finally created an original female character whose sole purpose is to absorb all of luke's villainous qualities so he can appear sympathetic without the villains' side losing its edge. did i miss anything

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

"Peggle make phone calls" has become shorthand for "fuck it, whatever" for me but no one ever knows what im talkingabout and it's also longer (longhand?)

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

The second worst part is, once you get older, you find yourself saying "you'll understand when you're older" with Full Comprehension of how fucking annoying you're being right now, but also knowing that it's all you can say.

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

The hippies, too, attempted this

Hippies, grunge kids, goths...but by the time emos came around, all the adults were like oh no, the boys have long hair & I can't tell everyone's gender, this is totally unprecedented & a massive issue. We need to bully them mercilessly

Chalk is squids road.