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The “I don’t know what weather I’m going out in, but I don’t want to wear a full sweatshirt, my stomach is fine being cold actually” shirt

First of all,This might sound harsh,but Percy didn't owe lapetus/bob 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵.

Didn't owe him an apology. Didn't owe him friendship. Didn't owe him so much as a checkup. Didn't owe him anything in "recompense" for getting his memory wiped.

You know why?

Because the only reason Percy needed to wipe lapetus' memory was because he was 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 Percy,Nico and Thalia. I don't know why people seem to be forgetting that.

And lapetus is a literal titan. Aka immortal. Aka 𝘶𝘯𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. Against three demigods.This was the 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 scenario that allowed Percy Nico and Thalia to walk away with their lives. The 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 way to neutralize him that was available to Percy.

Percy doesn't owe him anything because lapetus getting dipped into the Lethe was a result of his own actions. Was his own damn fault for trying to kill three kids. I don't see why Percy needs to apologise for that.

Secondly,umm 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 exactly would Percy have had the time or opportunity to check on him? 'the sword of hades' takes place in between BOTL and TLO. So after that,Percy was dealing with war preparations + the knowledge that he would more then likely die ina few months. Then he was actively fighting a war. And then-shortly after that-he was abducted,put in a 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 for six months,and 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 dropped off on the other side of the country with no memories.

Why and when exactly would Bob have been a priority for percy when he had a bunch of world ending shit to worry about? Sincerely speaking.

Third,you do know that Hades and Percy don't exactly have a good relationship. Percy is not Nico. He can't just waltze into the underworld whenever he feels like it. Not without risking major bodily harm or certain death(considering Hades attempts to do 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 two out of the three times Percy ended up there). And I don't see why he should.

However, the magic around Oggygia (no idea how to spell that) keeping heroes from returning, or Calypso from leaving? That magical prison is gone. A year later, she's free. For immortals who have lived for millenia, a year is the blink of an eye.

This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.

Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:

ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff

Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know they’re not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.

In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one I’m ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style. 

Here’s what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speech–that is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate “this speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.” Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so we’re talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.

A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of “language.” Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin. 

The tags are absolutely a factor. You want someone to take a breath in the middle of a sentence, you start a new tag. You want to have, as seen here, this removable piece between commas (does it have a name?) - you have 5 tags in this sentence alone. And sometimes you just

pause in the middle of a sentence…

and let your voice

language is this constantly evolving thing tbh, it doesn’t remain the same unless it’s dead and the people who used it gone so seeing the evolution of the language used on tumblr is literally so fucking amazing i want to cry with joy at it

because we also add in words from other languages, or make entirely new words up as additional terms to denote something (see ‘tol’ and ‘smol’ in relation to ‘tall’ and ‘small’) and this is constant. we are doing this daily without any sort of breathing space because there’s millions of us on this hellsite and we are constantly talking and so the language changes day-by-day until we have general, universal rules for what to do in a post, what to add in our tags, how to add it, why we add it, what we mean by it

we’ve created a language in the same way our ancestors all did: by building on the ones that came before and changing them to suit our needs and our system

and that’s fucking awesome okay

What?

What.

Every single person has the power to make a meaningful impact on the planet. I had the most fireflies in my town this summer simply because I have a large area where the grass is never cut.

And sometimes he and Roaring Abel smoked fiercely the whole evening and never said a word, while Cissy lay in the hammock swung between the verandah posts and Valancy sat idly on the steps, her hands clasped over her knees, and wondered dreamily if she were really Valancy Stirling and if it were only three weeks since she had left the ugly old house on Elm Street.

🏰HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BLUE CASTLE!

For the 100th birthday of one of my favorite books, I commissioned @sparemoon to do an art piece of Valancy, Barney, Cissy, and Roaring Abel. There were certain elements from the book that I wanted in the piece, and @sparemoon combined them all so skillfully and with the beauty and wonder that the book evokes, I could cry looking at this. I'm particularly thrilled that we now have art with Cissy and Roaring Abel, and more of Valancy and Barney.

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1896-1898

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Examples:

Shrek: Shrek not meeting Fiona results in a completely different timeline as we see in Shrek 4, and the plot of every previous movie plot is kicked off or moved by Fiona, so Shrek passes.

Cars: while Sally is the one of the reasons Lightning McQueen stays in Radiator Springs, I still believe Cars would remain mostly the same without her. Furthermore she’s barely in Cars 2 or 3, so Cars fails.

How to Train Your Dragon: Astrid is an integral part of the story as she is the reason Hiccup doesn’t abandon Berk with Toothless, so How to Train your Dragon passes.