One Of My Favourite Parts Of Working With Kids Is Like… Very Gently Subverting Their Idea Of Gendered

Watching the PJO show as a book fan, like:

y’all know that fresh prince of bel air episode where everyone but Will gets on the Oprah show so Will just keeps asking passive aggressive questions about nephew abandonment from the crowd? that’s how i want Jason to let the family know he’s alive.

like, he’s wanted to get onto that show for YEARS. he’s TOLD Bruce about how much he loves the Oprah show. and Bruce is like ‘oh i know her, maybe one day we can go :)’ but then he fucking DIES and gets sidelined with all the LOA Joker Red Hood crime lord fuckery he has going on and the family no longer even knows he’s alive. so fast forward he finds out that the entire Wayne family is going to be appearing on the Oprah winfrey show to commemorate the death of their darling lost son and brother. WITHOUT HIM. and Jason Todd, legally dead Jason Todd, is keeping his identity a secret for a REASON Jason Todd, is fucking PISSED.

Bruce, Dick, Tim, and Damian smiling at the audience:

Oprah: and our next question, sir what’s your name?

Jason, glaring daggers from the audience: Todd Peters.

The family: *smiles slowly drop into a look of horror as a clearly recognisable Jason Todd leans into the microphone*

Jason, arms folded: yeah, i got a question for Bruce. hypothetically, if you had a real kind, happy son whom you claimed to love with your whole heart, and you KNEW he wanted to be on the Oprah show, would you let him go? or would you wait until he was declared legally dead so you could go without him?

Bruce:

Everyone:

Damian: father that reminds me i have something to tell you-

The "They're making Luke seem more sympathetic" arguement drives me insane

That's the point! Luke WAS right! Luke has valid reasons to hate the gods!!! He just went about it the wrong way, but Luke was absolutely 100% right, even percy knew that in the end

You know when you have an idea, like a sparkle and you literally have to stop in the middle of the room to process what the hell was that. To catch this little sparkle and look at it but it's running away from you. In your head you're trying to find this sparkle again, looking for it everywhere, trying to remember how it looked like

But in reality you're just staring at nothing, standing in the middle of the room lol

In all seriousness though---

Korra got a ton---and I mean a TON---of hate, for daring to be a headstrong, non-genderconforming woman of color. So forgive me if I don't react well to "korrasami doesn't deserve it"

Korra already fought through enough misogyny and racism while it was actively airing. She already got enough criticism for not being the "target audience" of 8-12 age males who buy action figures. She already got enough criticism for having flaws as a woman, for not "acting ladylike". She already got enough criticism for not being white or white passing in a show that has ZERO white characters. So when you come at korrasami fans with "they don't deserve it"? Don't be surprised when korrasami fans look at it with a lens of suspicion, because korrasami already fought through the criticism, already fought through being stuck in the "dead slot" air time in nickelodeon (which they were moved to in season three, when the show runners actively started hinting at a wlw ship), already fought through being pulled off air and onto online viewing only, in 2014, for those of you who are a bit young. (Obergefell vs Hodges, the Supreme Court case which legalized gay marriage nationwide in the US, happen on June 26, 2016). "They only held hands in the finale" because that's all they could get away with at the time. They were the FIRST. Bubbeline came later. Rupphire came later. Catradora came later. There are still no notable mlm ships in children's media, so the work ISN'T done. Korrasami fans "screech and yell" at you for not understanding because you accuse them of "queerbaiting" without understanding that they were the FIRST in their time to OPENLY hint at being gay on a a children's television network. In a time, for most intents and purposes in the US, being gay was still ILLEGAL.

And by the way? The Owl House, a recent, animatec children's show on Disney, was recently canceled for not being "the Disney brand". It features a bisexual woman of color (in an EXPLICITLY wlw relationship) as the main character, not unsimilar to Korra. Misogyny is not dead. Homophobia is not dead. Know your history, and know the work isn't done.

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

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I saw a lot of unwarranted criticism against ep06 of the Percy Jackson TV series, how there's no Lady Gaga or it didn't match the book. I think you guys were colored by the movie too much, with the trippy colorful lights and Grover's dancing. Iconic as that scene would be, it only works when the trio are late teenagers or near adults. Are you sure you're comfortable watching a bunch of 12 year olds gambling and clubbing?

Even if we followed the book exactly it would be a boring episode. If you remember The Lightning Thief, that chapter consists of the trio playing games all day and Percy only realised what was wrong when he saw the 70s-looking guy.

A scene like that would only last at least 10 minutes max, just like in the movie. It would be an empty episode leaving you wondering why they didn't just cut the entire lotus scene entirely and just explain the Nico plot points with a sentence in the future season.

I think this episode worked well when you insisted on having the Lotus casino scene. Instead of watching kids wasting time playing games. You get to explore the relationship between Hermes with Luke, and what's Annabeth's thoughts on it. And why after all this time Annabeth still believe in Luke. We also get to see the parenting style between Hermes and Poseidon. And how different Walker's Percy idea of his father is from ep03 till now.

Also, the taxi scene is fun. No notes.

Did I mention I participate in this year's HxH Big Bang? Because I do :) And I haven't drawn the boys for ages, so here we go)

Estimating how old Alluka got locked up.

Alluka has always been odd to me.

She was weird in my eyes because I couldn’t comprehend how “normal” she sounded and acted when she got released from her so-called room after all these years.

Like yeah no zoldyck is actually sane in the head no matter who it is but it still made me wonder how long has Alluka been locked up. Cuz it’s been more than just five years, it must’ve been a whole decade.

We may not exactly know when she got locked up but we can still estimate the answer.

And to do that, we’ll need Killua’s and Alluka’s age when Nanika first made herself present since Killua is a year older than Alluka.

It was explicitly said that Killua was forced at the age of six to battle in the martial arts tournament at the Heavens Arena. Once he would reach the 200th floor, he’d be allowed to go back home. He returned after two years which would make him 8 at that time.

We know that he couldn’t have been eight years old when Alluka got put in isolation because the flashback with Mitsuba (Nanika’s first victim) had Killua looking way too young to be 8.

Meaning that all the events that transpired due to Nanika’s victims and their bloodshed must’ve happened when Killua was exactly 6 years old, making Alluka 5 years old at the time.

We can also conclude that the year this all took place in was in 1994 thanks to the manga’s timeline.

So now that we know Alluka got locked up at the age of 5, let’s also see how long she has been in isolation for.

Alluka was born in 1989, got confined at 5 years old in 1994 and got released by Killua in 2000.

So to conclude, Alluka has been imprisoned in the estate for 6 years and finally left Kukuroo Mountain after 11 years.