Percy Jackson In A Nutshell

i hope they give lin manuel miranda as hermes a five minute rap solo in the middle of the pjo series where he rhymes words like “god” and “dad bod” together and then percy is like “hamilton? more like hermilton am i right” and then it’s just never acknowledged again

the frequency of needing to food shop because you eat food and therefore deplete what you previously bought and need to restock…………being an adult is a nightmare

there are only gonna be 8 episodes in the first season SO. which 8 chapter titles do y'all want to be episode titles?

I'll go first

I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher (duh)

I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

I Ruin a Perfectly Good Bus

A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers

Annabeth Does Obedience School

We Take a Zebra to Vegas

We Find Out the Truth, Sort of

The Prophecy Comes True

Today's Verse - Psalm 94:18-19 https://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/todaysverse.cgi?day=20220823&amp%3Bver=niv&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=tv&utm_term=en

thinking about this moment again:

particularly in regards to this conversation:

thinking about inej, who is actively dying, asking kaz for an apology. inej, whose native tongue leaves no room for triviality here. this isn’t “you were mean to me and you need to make nice,” it’s so much deeper.

this is “promise me you won’t treat me like a piece in your chess game again. promise me you won’t keep acting like i’m replaceable. promise me i’m not just another one of your investments.”

this is the first time we see inej holding kaz accountable, the first time we see her ask him to be more, to do better. this is the precursor to the “without armor” conversation. and i think it’s fitting that we never hear whether or not kaz did apologize. because at this point, i don’t think he’s ready to give inej what she’s really asking for here, and in a way, it’s best that she doesn’t hear him say the words. he’s not ready to mean them yet.

the way jordie haunts the narrative truly haunts me. the way he carried kaz to shore, the way he demands to be remembered. the way he drives kaz's plans and schemes and has woven his way into the platform that kaz brekker has built for himself.

the way jordie has kept kaz afloat for years. but the way he's also kept kaz in the water for years. the way kaz has been kicking and kicking toward the moment of recompense and revenge, his hands never leaving jordie. his kickboard, his lighthouse, the thing keeping him alive and the thing keeping him half in the grave, dragging him down as much as he's guiding him.

the way jordie was once a light for kaz, the way kaz has found light in inej. the way inej is the reason kaz didn't drown in fjerda, the reason to keep swimming, the reason to live. the way jordie was once a brother for kaz, the way kaz has found a brother in jesper. the way jesper is someone for kaz to protect and to forgive, and the way he's more capable of doing so now.

the way jordie is avenged by kaz, but the way that isn't where the story ends. kaz destroying pekka isn't it. it doesn't have to be it anymore. because everything that jordie was to kaz, everything he's clung to, he's found elsewhere. and yes, he still has to learn to take his hands off his brother, but there are reasons to now, there are reasons to climb out of that water. to forgive, to move on, to learn to forget in moments when remembering does nothing but drag him down.

the way jordie is, in so many ways, what holds this story together. the way kaz no longer needing him or his ghost is what sets the story free. is what sets jordie free.

I love movies where the plot takes place in less than a day. It’s like. What if these people were experiencing the worst 8 hours of the entire lives and you got to see the highlight reel?

Okay, but following Obi-Wan’s apparent return from the dead after the Crisis on Naboo arc, I like to believe that younglings and padawans across the Temple were just like, “Yeah, death had a near-Obi-Wan Kenobi experience,” and then rolled with it.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn’t cheat death. He wins fair and square.”

“General Grievous checks his closet every night for Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

“Obi-Wan Kenobi once played Corellian roulette with a fully-loaded sniper rifle and won.”

“Obi-Wan Kenobi was once bitten by a acklay and after five days of excruciating pain, the acklay died.”

Then somehow the clones heard about it and it went downhill from there.