This Is Like 100% Petty All Things Considered But I Just Can’t Wait Until Some Of U Learn That It Is

Something funny to me about Percy Jackson is the family tree. The greek gods were wild and married and had kids with relatives. It's all pretty fucking incest-y dude. But that makes the demogods related too. Like. Lemme point out a few connections.

Percy - Annabeth: 1st cousins once removed

Percy - Nico: 1st cousins

Percy - Piper: 1st cousins once removed* OR she is his great-great-great-grand aunt/cousin**

Piper - Leo: 1st cousins ALSO could be in a weird kinda stepsibling situation because Aphrodite and Hephaestsus are divorced

Like what's that like??

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Demigod #1: ugh you're a bitch

Demigod #2: I'm your aunt so shut up!!

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Percabeth: making out, living the life, happy for fucking once

New demigod: you're actually cousins. Did you know? You're kissing a family member :D

Percabeth:

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You're some poor guy listening to group of weird fucked up teens and half of them are dating. Then one of them fucking just looks at you and is like

"Technically we're all related you know"

* According to Homer, Aphrodite is Zeus' kid

** Aphrodite is Uranus' kid, who is Zeus' like great-grandfatger, according to Hesiod

Are you a "Mike pays special attention to how much Will talks" truther or a "Will is much more talkative around Mike" truther?

Oliver: Collage really does change people huh. ____ I just love the idea of Oliver being baffled by playboy Brucie when all he knew about him is that playground weirdo who never stop talking about forensics and constantly got his ass kicked by kids who picked on him before he got expelled from their school.

but it’s SO clear that visenya and rhaenys did 99% of the actual conquering and ruling and aegon was just a convenient man to be king. this is why grrm’s work is so compelling and frustrating in turns—he’s WILDLY aware of how gender and gendered violence in feudalism works, but there’s always just one element of critique missing even though he’s clearly aiming to criticize feudalism. and women keep dying in childbirth! and the princess of dorne is still unnamed! and we know more about tyrion’s missing uncle than minisa whent or joanna lannister combined!

unfortunately i do find this funny

What do you think of Starklings' reaction to Sansa divulging Ned's plans to Cersei? Will there be anger or resentment or forgiveness? How do you think George is going handle this plot?

Ned divulged Ned's plans to Cersei.

Littlefinger divulged Ned's plans to Cersei.

Sansa? Asked the queen if she could be allowed to stay in KL because her father had zero effort to spare to try and explain to her why he was ripping her away from the place had had sacrificed her wolf for. Then was grilled about the name of the ship they were going to take North.

GRRM might use this detail in his Stark sister conflict resolution plot, as a misconception to overcome. Seems like the kind of "every lie contains a kernel of truth" bit of information he likes to twist and exploit.

Key word: lie.

And really, the only Starkling who would actually fall for that lie? Arya. The others lack her negative bias, Bran likely watched the whole thing live on TreeVision, and Jon has his own Ned anger issues to help him understand just why Sansa did what she did.

It's going to be nice seeing Arya overcome her bias and "look with her eyes", which was Syrio's final lesson about perception of fact v. prejudice.

Satisfying, don't you think?

to say that Alec’s behavior in season one towards clary stems entirely from his complicated relationship with jace is just ignorant. like im not even trying to be rude, it’s just not canon at all.

Regardless of whether or not you feel clary, jace, and izzy were justified in their actions, you have to acknowledge that they broke the law.

They went on unsanctioned missions, they went to the city of bones, they disregarded orders.

Even if you agree with their motivations, you have to understand that they broke the law on their own accord. And in doing so, they undermined Alec’s leadership. Even if they didn’t mean to.

And then when confronted about it, they often used his sexuality as a reason to justify this. Again, whether or not it was intentional is a matter of opinion.

Clary runs away? “Admit you love jace” Alec questions jace’s judgment around clary to izzy? Izzy asks if he’s just jealous. Alec and jace are fighting? Jace accuses Alec of making decisions solely because of his feelings.

Keep in mind that Alec is not out yet. Alec is not comfortable with his sexuality. The clave is homophobic.

So yes, Alec was unfair and rude towards clary in season one and had more than a few problematic moments. But clary, jace, and izzy undermined his leadership which resulted in the clave questioning his capabilities and his almost arranged marriage, refused to listen to his logical concerns about their decisions, and used his sexuality for their own justifications.

To say his actions resulted solely from his feelings is to deny the facts, to promote the predatory gay stereotype, and diminish the complexities associated with his relationship towards clary and the developments he’s made throughout the following season.