maverickk

oh hey that me!

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

extremely telling when people are capable of assessing how ooc percy is/isn't in post-pjo book depictions of percy but annabeth/percabeth haters (usually the same people) wholeheartedly believe that 1. post-pjo annabeth is infallibly accurate annabeth writing 2. post-pjo percabeth is an infallibly accurate depiction (or a good continuation) of their original dynamic. you can hate any character or ship for pretty much any reason but many people who attempt to articulate and justify their hatred in logical reasoning end up making it clear that their grasp on those characters/ships is too flimsy and biased to be making those assertions and criticisms in the first place, nor do they understand that many of the actual problems with the way annabeth (and percabeth) are written are rooted in rick's misogynistic writing - and instead of calling out rick, they blame the fictional woman for it

oh so you don't like the judo flip scene? you think it only gets a pass because annabeth is a girl and percy is a boy? you think that physically attacking your partner is abuse regardless of gender? annabeth is supposed to be a good person, so why do you think rick wrote that then? why do you think the hunters' virulently antagonizing men gets a pass when that wouldn't fly if the genders were reversed? why do you think the amazons say that the chained men in their headquarters "know their place" when a group of men saying the same thing about women in bondage wouldn't be okay? is this maybe reflective of some hegemonic worldview about women and men whose echoes are blatant in rick's writing of women? are these writing choices perpetuating the belief that women are weak and harmless and men are strong and bad, therefore men can't be abused, therefore women's violence against them doesn't count? is it telling us that rick doesn't take women seriously, doesn't regard women as powerful, doesn't think women are equal to men and thinks he can only write strong female characters if they talk down to and beat up men a la 2010s black widow? is this why the aphrodite cabin is degraded for its femininity and piper's rejection of their conventions is framed as something that makes her superior to her siblings? is this why the longer pjo goes on percabeth turns more and more into the "competent girl/useless boy" trope? does that maybe say more about rick and his misogynistic writing than it does about his female characters? is this maybe why it's essential to interpret the books through the lens of feminist media theory so that we can avoid uncritically internalizing these worldviews or blaming fictional women and girls for their existence? oh you don't say

my humours have balanced. I have become mentally normal again

my humours have balanced. I have become mentally normal again

something that i just thought about: percy really grabbed will solace in the battle of manhattan and was like “we riding rn bitches” and stole a motorcycle and fucking drove it like it was nothing because annabeth was in danger

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

Not being able to understand all the languages of the world fucks me up. There's so much art by people and while translations are available (sometimes), the contours of the original text will forever be alien to me. Sad.

Somebody tell me to finish writing my one shot of the gods reacting to Percy's death

Mission accomplished, will edit and post tomorrow!

Why are you lgbtq+? wrong answers only GO

Everyone is fighting a tough battle so reblog to give previous a sword 🗡️

To all my writer friends who are on the struggle bus/suffering from writer's block/just dealing with life stuff right now!