LITERALLY IF ANYONE HERE HAS A BOOTLEG OF THE LIGHTNING THIEF MUSICAL I WILL KILL FOR ONE, THERE ARE TOO MANY DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE BOOK AND I AM *TREMBLING*, LITERALLY *SHAKING* HERE ON MY COUCH LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK PLEASE HELP A GIRL OUT
ok so i take these classes w a bunch of showoffs who do a lot ofparkour/tricking/gymnastics/acrobatic-style bullshit and i genuinely believe Percy would do half this shit as well as other demigods so here is this fuckery
Percy has a natural affinity for it
by affinity i mean the water god in him makes things easier to jump/scale like it would be in a pool bc buoyancy science shit
so he can get pretty good air without a spring floor
but CHB has one bc u cant tell me Chiron would say it is useless (it isn’t. that shit makes u strong)
Percy could do a standing front tuck since he was 13
boy did arials and arabians like it was NOTHING
he goes back to high school n in the middle of gym some dipshit is goin hard and Percy just does a fuckin webster and chucks the dodgeball at him, pointing as him as his team lOSES THEIR SHIT
nobody knew Percy could do that
panties dropped, dicks were hard
boy does layout variations of stuff
his senior prank is getting a bunch of gymnast friends and just doing shit down the hallways
roundoff back handsprings
full outs
Percy one time does a back tuck off of lockers because a guy said he wouldn’t and Percy doesn’t play with that shit
nobody saw Annabeth do any until she busts into English doing back handsprings around the room because fuck you this is Annabeth Chase
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• Percy is the king of being Extra • let’s be real he’d probably do a handless aerial in battle just because he could • only when he can though one time he tried to cartwheel in front of a emplousa too piss her off and she nearly cut his arm off because was like “do you really think I’m gonna wait a solid ten seconds for you to finish jumping around so I can kill you please” • annabeth is massively the same • but more loving • she’ll grab his leg and throw him down to the ground during practice and pat his head when he complains that it was one of his better ones because while they may be dating Annabeth has no time for fooling around • s k a t e b o a r d i n g • no but imagine Percy who can skate and he can do all these fancy tricks • he’ll skate down handrails because he just can and everyone will be like whoa • Annabeth will say she’s not impressed but really of course she is • he’d be amazing • he’d probably do all these amazing tricks to show off but he can do them well • Jason would be deceased • actually everyone would be deceased who wouldn’t
– Percy tiding his skateboard but in a handstand for shits and giggles
– Annabeth has racked up three detentions in one semester for just fucking vaulting over a teacher
– “Teachers don’t like that” “I’ll do aerials around their desks then” “Annabeth do roundoffs, they get scared when you don’t use your hands” “Good. let them”
– Homecoming halftime is Annabeth and Percy bounding onto the field, just doing shit because they can.
– Annabeth launches a tshirt canon into the crowd directly after landing a backflip
– yes, she was holding the tshirt canon during the flip
– Percy doesnt even take his gum out of his mouth for websters
– Annabeth once said “Fuck you” and back handspringed out of the girl’s bathroom with a rebound that had like three feet of air
This is a legitimately fine poem. I say so with my BA in English and Philosophy and my PhD. It’s DAMN HARD to write something like this. Be impressed, yo.
Mr. Fox, sir, I won’t do it. I can’t say it. I won’t chew it.
Thank you W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan for my ability to cold-read this at high speed
I saw Lindy Hemming’s work in Wonder Woman and I almost
cried. Scratch that, I did cry. Lindy Hemming didn’t use fetish lingerie
as her starting point, she used armor. Actual armor. Roman armor, to be
specific. Romans made armor out of overlapping bands of very heavy
leather. Because it was organic material, very little of it survived,
but here’s a fragment:
You can see this same technique clearly on Antiope in Wonder Woman:
And you can see it here on Diana:
It’s been highly stylized on Diana, but the inspiration, the intent, is there:
Remember when I said sometimes I can tell exactly what a designer was
looking at when they designed something? This is a piece of Roman
leather armor made out of a crocodile hide:
This is one of Hippolyta’s costumes. I almost squealed out loud in the theater when I saw it!
All the Amazons had fantastic, warrior-based details. The folklore
about Amazons cutting off a breast so they were better able to fight?
(which has no historical basis, btw) Lindy Hemming gave them a metal
breast plate on one side:
And, as a side note, can we talk about the casting of the Amazons?
All those gorgeous, strong, athletic women of all ages… swoon!
Yes, Diana’s costume has been stylized and they made her attractive,
but that costume first and foremost is armor. It’s functional:
That skirt? The shape is Roman, cut high over the thighs so it doesn’t impede movement:
Those aren’t sexy thigh-high boots:
They’re Roman greaves, meant to protect, and they buckle on. Again, ARMOR!
With Wonder Woman, the starting point, the INTENT, is
everything. The reason I literally cried watching the Amazons fight is
that FINALLY, somebody started at the right place. That design showed
respect. The intent, right from the start, was to portray those women as
warriors, and that, at least for me, made all the difference.
I LOVED Diana’s costume here and the way the Amazons looked here 😀
I hardly ever hit the reblog button faster I am very picky on history, costume design, and armour. But this is good! And not even archaeologist me is upset about it 😉
It seems to always be the case that aliens have names that are “unpronounceable by the human tongue.” But, y’know, humans are actually really good mimics. We can do impressions of anything, and some of us are really good at it. What if that was a special skill of ours that was constantly surprising the aliens?
Alien talks about human like s/he’s not there, only to be shocked when its own language comes out of that strange little mouth.
Alien can’t figure out WHAT that noise onboard is, only to find human crewmate pranking it. (“As soon as he leaves, I’m gonna do the sound of a failing hover engine, okay? Just see where he looks first!”)
Alien hears a different noise and a thud, then “Sorry, I tripped.” (”But you squeaked.” “Yeah, didn’t mean to. Sounded kinda dumb.”)
Alien is alarmed to hear the sound of two Dangerous Animals coming from the containment room. Thinks the one has multiplied. Runs in, find human yowling back at it. (“It seemed lonely, so I was talking to it. Reminds me of a cat I had once.”)
The away team is threatened by a Large Animal protecting its young. Alien Captain knows what to do. Shoves the human up front and points. “Make the noises that the little ones are making. This is your time to shine.”
Magnus: I can’t believe you gave Simon a job because you wanted him to stay, what the hell is an Interim Chapter President Advisor? Is that even a thing?
Raphael, with a smug look: What the hell is ‘Virgin Shadowhunter Energy’? Is that even a thing?
Magnus: Why did I adopt you?
