idc what you “old pjo fans” say. I like the new books

I like seeing Nico on his recovery journey.

I like seeing Will’s and Nico’s feelings.

I like seeing a new style of writing.

I like seeing him bring back the og gang and messing around.

I like him mixing up the story. I like him focusing on ‘minor’ deities

I like him expanding the narrative.

“ it’s not how it used to be wah wah wah”

I don’t give one flying fuck. I don’t care if he’s ’forgetting details’ who cares?! If you like the old novels that badly then just fucking read those?! No one’s forcing you to read the new ones?????

Also for people who don’t know I’m a Hellenist and I’m sick of seeing “ my religion isn’t a fandom! Stop making it a fandom… yap yap yap” like no disrespect but you realize they are talking about how the gods are talking about… specifically in a series…. Right? Just let people live man. Also “ Pjo isn’t Greek mythology “ like… thats what it’s about… not everything is 100% correct to the myths or to you… but that’s what’s it’s fucking talking about????????

…

So just to get it out of the way, yes they made Romeo the villain, and yes it broke me to see another one of these takes but my main issue with the comic is HOW BAD they fumbled this idea.

The comic plays with the idea of Romeo being a master manipulator, able to wrap vulnerable people around his finger, and I think the way they played with this idea was genuinely interesting at first. Specifically with how it tied to Romeo and Juliet’s dynamic, as a lot of Romeo’s abuse was often hidden by kind words and gestures of affection. It felt realistic in a way where you understood why exactly Juliet chose to stay with him (which I’ll get to Juliet later), but in season 2 they just reduced him to a stereotypical “EVIL” villian, like the rubbing hands together evilly and cackling type of villian in Saturday morning Cartoons😭

(LIKE WHAT WAS THIS PANEL😭)

(Compare this to season 1 where panels like this were genuinely chilling, it gave off the impression that he WAS a competent, conniving, intelligent, and dangerous person)

And like his plan, wtf was his plan😭 the comic tries so hard to make you think he’s this master planner playing 4D chess with everyone but his plan made no sense.

HIS GOAL:

Gaining the power of both houses (and Verona I guess) by uniting the two through making a Capulet fall in love with him

Ok so he starts off by trying to court Rosaline, which works for awhile, but then he suddenly ditches Rosaline because she was “distracting” or whatever, courts Juliet instead and they fake their deaths run away for 3 years and in all those years Romeo waits for Juliet to go “oh I wanna go back to Verona maybe idk🤪✌️” LIKE WHAT😭

HIS WHOLE PLAN BANKS ON JULIET SAYING “oh I wanna go back” or “oh the people hate us Romeo start the plan” (which is honestly in character because if there’s anything this twink will do he will listen to his wife who he loves so much)

LIKE NO YOU DIDNT YOU FUCKING LIAR😭

Later He successfully takes over Verona and Rosaline and a couple of others start planning against him (which their plan also doesn’t make any sense btw) and Romeo tries to prevent this by marrying her or whatever, completely neglecting the fact that Juliet is still running around able to do whatever she wants and she’s cool with the staff at his castle which is how she was able to break in😭

okay i feel guilty not giving any progress updates at all so here's what's going on.

i'm trying to scan all my magazines and upload them into a giant google drive at once, including rescanning my volume 5. also the app i use for scanning has that stupid watermark and i get a 3 day trial to remove it so that's when i want to save all the pictures. that way there's no water mark blocking anything.

for now on, i will post mostly talking heads stuff, maybe other new wave bands i get into that don't fit my active side blog ( @tragic-vaudeville ), some nonband interests, and my art. i probably wont talk or post about oingo boingo much anymore regardless of the outcome of Danny's allegations. i may talk about the other band members and the songs/albums but that's it.

Does anyone else find out a creator, artist, or someone you looked up to did something terribly wrong and everything that they made or anything related to it that you found comfort in is just… gone?

Like, I remember feeling that comfort. I remember feeling happy and inspired. But now all of that’s gone. All of my respect, inspiration, and comfort is just gone. And I can’t look at it the same way anymore without feeling uncomfortable.

Idk, I just wanted to rant about this since I have nothing to do at the moment.

I don’t really cringe at “ cringe” compilations.

I can criticize them if they are nsfw or sexual ( or something else that shouldn’t be put on TikTok or any social media that kids are on)

I can say that they need to put warnings or just say it’s not really my thing to watch.

Maybe I’m too young to be a hateful person? But I don’t know… I just I feel like I don’t really see it.

I’ve seen the best artist ever and they ship sharpwolf and guess what? I still like them because I personally think it’s stupid to hate someone just because they ship something. Agree or disagree idc because this is my opinion.

go check out these amazing artists ( that yes ship sharpwolf): @lewis-hem-theficreader @sketchbook-fiend