Started Rewatching The Bear For Like The Third Time And My Hyperfixation Has Reawakened

being excited for The Bear season 3 then remembering that I will yet again have to suffer

Last year for my fall undergrad thesis (2021), I illustrated dust jackets for Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series. Each cover was meant to focus on the different arenas portrayed in the books alongside little details for avid readers. When lined up on a shelf, the book spines create on continuous city scene. For my thesis display, the book titles and author’s name were printed in reflective gold to stand out. A very fun project.

If you love me, give me hell

Spn writers after dropping the most heartbreaking, gut wrenching, tragic tidbit of Dean’s past for laughs in the middle of a low- stakes silly goofy episode and never mentioning it again

me rereading pjo as an adult and listening to Luke talk about how shitty the gods are

Look I know they would’ve never done it but can you how imagine how funny it would’ve been if they kept Dean fourteen for the rest of season 10 after about a boy. Imagine the comedic potential, especially if they met up with Cas. “Dean got zapped back to fourteen by a witch and we kept him that way because the mark of Cain is gone but don’t worry we’ll figure out how turn him back ” “you WHAT-“

I have no explanation for this

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

I could care less about the PJO casting, but if they don’t cast Paul Rudd as Paul Blofis I’m gonna be so upset

Anyways that trailer was amazing