Welp

okay, I just finish watching all the new episodes and here is my reaction...

Threads Of Fate / Sketch

Chat is his costume valid

Nico: Cause I'm half Greek? We are all half Greek? The gods are Greek?

Percy: I know we're hardwired for ancient Greek but like, I need lessons to actually understand it? Wouldn't it be your third language?

Nico: my dad lived with us in Italy, why wouldn't he speak his native language? I grew up speaking both Greek and Italian.

Leo: i think the more important thing we're ignoring here is that Hades was a present dad.

Nico: is, I live with him sometimes.

Leo: How was that childhood? Like *puts on a high voice* 'oh papa can you read me a bedtime story?' And he goes *puts on a deep voice* 'yes my little bambinas' and pulls out the necronomicon?

Nico: The necronomicon is fictional but points for knowing what that is and also no, he just told us stories he heard from the long dead, Mama was the weird one —but—

Nico: *turns around* Pollux, your dad was around when you were a kid; did you learn Greek?

Pollux: ναι. Different dialects tho.

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(a realization about dialogue formatting, from a comic artist turned novelist.)

One of the first things a novice writer learns about speech tags is that they’re part of the “scaffolding” of prose. They should be largely invisible to the reader: use them when necessary, omit them when not, and be sparing in the application of verbs other than “said”. They serve only the function of clarifying who is speaking when it is necessary to do so.

Except:

Sometimes you might want to use a speech tag in spite of the redundancy. The fact that the reader’s eyes slide right over them is an exploitable property. By slicing a line of dialogue in half with a speech tag, you can force the reader to perceive a meaningful pause between two utterances—and the effect is much stronger than you might get out of an ellipsis or an em dash. Developing an intuition for when and how to do this is a huge part of learning to write dialogue, I think.

the best fucking joke ever made.

I was actually screaming when he yelled flame on, it just took me so off guard.

and thank god they let that man swear.

Deadpool and Wolverine really saved the MCU in my mind.

Finally some good fucking content.

And my personal favorite

yeah they were flirting in that honda odyssey