Latest Book Haul Including This Winter/Spring 1962 Issue Of The Paris Review

y'all aren't going to BELIEVE this

I only got these books for $6, literally crying happy tears rn. I found them in my local thrift store and grabbed them immediately

literally ITCHING for the genshin maintenance run to be over brkskentkr

Mualani WILL be mine the stars say so

lowkey praying tiktok users dont end up over here

tumblr has a fragile ecosystem they couldnt even comprehend he/him lesbians they will not last

I think this was the first time in a damn while I actually had to put a book down and have a break from reading

I read the tws, I knew this scene would be here, but fucking hell

currently running to my cat video compilations to fix this, the book is "The Marrow Thieves" By Cherie Dimaline, I'll do a full book review once im done reading it

"theres no way out of this one, not this time" clearly you dont know these bumbling idiots very well

the omegaverse tiktoks are all fun and games till you properly acknowledge how it reflects on our own society and how we treat women.

heat suppressants (and other basic things needed to function) being ridiculously expensive and inaccessible

at the same time, suppressants being something expected for omega's to take and pushed on to them – then shamed when they dont

omega's using dangerous alternatives to said supplements they can't access

a strict societal expectation for omegas to end up with alphas (sounds a bit like heteronormativity to me, no?)

under paid omegas who are treated unfairly in the work environment, pushed to provide form within the home instead

alpha's (men) having a clear privilege in quite literally everything, "top of the food chain"

honestly, the list goes on

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

(taken from @/sarahofmagdalene on instagram.)

A NOTE TO THOSE WHO MAY BE PARTICIPATING IN PRO PALESTINE ACTIONS IN VANCOUVER.

Please, even if you don’t live in Vancouver, reblog to spread awareness. The canadian media isn’t covering the protests, let alone the hostility protesters face, so we can only rely on each other to get news like this around!

EDIT: if you have either made this post about whether the punisher would disagree with the above, or you intend to do that, you are now being heavily advised to donate to either unrwa or the pcrf. i don’t care if you can’t spare more than a fucking nickel, donate the nickel. you saw a post about trying to keep anti-genocide protesters safe & reacted like this was fandom discourse, pay up & learn how to fuckin behave.

reblog this version going forward please.

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