Summer Love

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Can we talk about Percy seeing his mom in the underworld?

Look at how horrified he is.

There isn’t even a sliver of relief at seeing his mom again. The only thing on his face is wide-eyed terror.

Now look at what Sally looked like:

Did anyone else think that it seemed kind of familiar?

Did anyone else think that it kind of looks like she’s frozen in gold?

Percy saw his mom and it instantly reminded him of being encased inside Hephaestus’s trap in Waterland. Paralyzed and awake while he suffocated slowly and painfully. He’s remembering the panic he felt when he thought he was going to die and how much it hurt when he was freed; Even though he was alive, his lungs burned with every inhale and his head spun from lack of oxygen.

Now he’s putting his mom in that position

He’s retrieving

I hate the like…. cutesy plasticization of animated movie monsters. Many of the dragons in How to Train Your Dragon were a little too simplified and smooth to suit the surrounding animation style but it worked well enough. It definitely did not work in The Sea Beast, which was otherwise cute—every single monster was distractingly flat and oversimplified that particular “CGI designed to become plastic toys” way that I really don’t think matched the richness of every other texture in the movie.

Energy: Base of the Lower Falls, Yellowstone National Park

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“A healthy relationship is where two independent people just make a deal that they will help the other person be the best version of themselves.”

— Unknown

"Miles never went anywhere without carrying an air of his mother’s love about him, always obviously a boy who was loved. And to learn how to love at the table of a woman like Rio and a man like Jeff was to care and care and care until it became devotion."

- from this fic on ao3 (i never got over that quote. i've read it for the first time a year ago and it stuck with me still)

What are they saying?

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Northern Saw-whet Owl