Ok I hate endless franchises and reboots that no one asked for as much as the next guy, but BOY do I wish that the Percy Jackson universe becomes the next big thing. When I say I (and many other people I’m sure) would KILL to see Heroes of Olympus / Trials of Apollo on screen. Never before has something I love as much as these stories been adapted onscreen, and I am endlessly excited by the possibilities.
just imagine the batkids telling Bruce he’s delulu
kuboyasu definitely knows how to braid hair
slamming my head against a wall again and again and again and again
thinking about everyone tim’s lost since he became robin on this fine evening
Fight me on this (actually don't) but Tim is Dick's baby brother. He is the one Dick gets to take on silly adventures, they go to the grocery store and max out Bruce's credit card on the toys section. They take a weekend off to laze on Dick's couch watching bad movies and eating day old pizza until Tim says he wants something more substantial, but instead of cooking something, Dick presents him with a can of tomato soup and goes "Here's your dinner, your Majesty," and Tim's a menace so he drinks it straight from the can without heating it just to throw it up five minutes later.
Tim is the one who still goes up to Dick and tells him about his day, who asks him for advice, and calls him just to share a funny story. Tim is the one who tries to make Dick's favourite foods when he is down, who pulls Dick out of bed on the days he feels like drowning, he is the one who sits on Dick's living room when the world feels too big and he is too small, and Dick has piles of cases to finish.
Tim is the one Dick would go feral for, the one Dick doesn't know how to give up because he was the one that was there when shit hit the fan and Dick thought he would never get up again.
seeing percy, annabeth, and grover in the show, finally getting our first, real looks at them, and i can't stop thinking about the bridge from "try", one of the cut songs from the lightning thief musical.
The weight of the world's on my shoulders Like Atlas is crushing me down We're not brave, we're not strong, we're not soldiers My heart's just a drum, and, damn, does it pound
(not even touching on the atlas foreshadowing bc that gets me in a completely different way)
they're CHILDREN. this trio is a group of twelve-year-olds who have never faced this sort of danger before. not to mention what they've been through prior to this quest.
annabeth's run away from home because of her stepmother's hatred towards her. she's lost the person she sees as her older sister, and has pretty much no one who understands her.
percy has no one. from where he stands, his mother is dead, and his father doesn't care about him. he's been thrown into this world and all he knows is that everyone either thinks he should be dead or wants him dead.
grover's a failure. his father and uncle were killed, and his first time escorting half-bloods, he gets mixed around, and the daughter of zeus dies. this is his only chance to prove himself and find pan.
they're not soldiers. they're just trying to prove themselves and find somewhere they belong. they're not being brave, they're literally doing this because they have to. percy's the only one in the group with some kind of power, but even then, he hasn't been trained long, and doesn't know how to control it.
the tv series is going to absolutely wreck me because we know how traumatized and changed this trio becomes. we're going to see percy go from being bright-eyed and hopeful to weighed down and realistic. we're going to watch annabeth's heart break so many times, between thalia's death, luke's betrayal, and further down the road, thalia's departure with the hunt and luke's death. we're going to see grover's grief, his guilt, his desperation to be accepted and respected.
but we're also going to see them become a family, become an inseparable tangle of threads woven together by fate, and i cannot wait to see that.
*Crow conversation overheard on the streets of Ketterdam*
Inej: *shivers* hey Kaz, I'm a little cold do you think you could, you know
Kaz: of course *snaps fingers*
Jesper: *takes off coat and hands it to Inej*
Inej: thanks
Wylan: wait. what if I'm cold too?
Jesper: oh, well then *snaps fingers"
Kaz: *fans fingers out magician-ly, reaches inside coat to pull out, you guessed it, another coat that he hands to Wylan*
Wylan: *visibly confused* thank you? I think?
Inej & Jesper: *clap enthusiastically*
Kaz:*bows dramatically*
*Meanwhile trailing a little ways behind them*
Nina: *snorts* lol can you believe those dorks
Matthias: HoLy sHiT Nina did you see that!?!?! He pulled that coat out of NOWHERE!!!
Achilles: *after being asked why he did all of That™️ after the death of Patroclus* oh I’m sorry that my love language is acts of service! And I’m sorry all I know how to do is kill! I’m not the bad guy here!
A moment of peace and quiet before everything went looney tunes
ZUKKAAAAUUUGH HHH red and blue ships are . something .