initially, i wasn’t really sold on the new cast announcements. or at least one. and thatttttt was annabeth

the reason why was because she’s the one character i liked that i felt like i looked like, and that was strong and smart and someone i could actually use as a role model and connect with! like hey!!! that looks like me!!! i can be Her!!!!

what im realizing is im grown now. im a whole ass adult. and now it’s time for a whole new generation of girls to have someone strong and smart that they can look up to and see themselves in. Leah Jeffries is gonna kill it and inspire a new generation of kids who can see themselves in a character that defies so many negative stereotypes of women. some other kids get the same joy i did and get to say “that’s me!!! That can be me!!!” while they’re looking at annabeth on the screen and I’m so happy for them

change is hard for some people, especially when you’ve had a certain image in your head for 10+ years. i think… hesitancy is to be expected? but just know, Leah Jeffries is gonna kick ass.

side note; if you’re mad solely because of her race being different but you’re not mad about Grover’s race being different or Percy being blonde, then idk what to tell u that’s just problematic all together lMFAO

can’t believe there’s going to be a new generation of pjo fans who automatically picture walker scobell when they think of percy jackson and not a hodgepodge of viria and burdge’s fanart. does that make me old

I don't understand the desperation to make the show's version of Annabeth blonde when it wouldn't make sense. Like, the "dumb blonde" trope only applies to white people with naturally blonde hair. In my opinion, her being black fits the point Riordan was trying to make about Annabeth being underestimated due to her appearance just as well, and more fitting for the time period we're in. Like, I have never heard someone bring up the dumb blonde trope in 2022, but black girls are still seen as less intelligent than their white counterparts.

Also, the gray eyes are unnecessary because it never really made sense for Athena to affect her appearance when the gods have no DNA.

i think the eye color of gods seem to be an exception to the whole “no DNA thing”

like percy’s “sea green eyes” are the exact same shade as his father’s, thalia has “electric blue eyes” and piper and hazel both have eye colors they (probably) didn’t get from their parents.

also, one of athena’s THINGs is the color of her eyes, more so than any other god. she’s the grey eyed goddess. i think annabeth having grey eyes would be a cool connection to her mother (and her siblings)

like try to imagine percy without his trademark green eyes that he got from his father. i don’t think we should take that away from annabeth just because she’s black

EVERYBODY WAKE UP PJO CASTING DROPPED

If you want another actress for Annabeth, just remember what Rick Riordan said

hi just a gentle reminder— please don’t shame artists if they draw a black annabeth, and please don’t accuse artists of whitewashing annabeth if they draw a white annabeth (unless they’re specifically drawing Leah Jeffries portrayal or fanart of the show!)

Wahoo the casting choices

The Cure - Vinyl Sleeve From Pornography 

i made a uquiz that tells you what your true astrological sign is, but its vague and based on nothing

“we’ll figure it out together” is my love language

In Philippine mythology, Haliya the masked goddess, Mayari the one-eyed Goddess of beauty and war, and Bulan the lover of the death god Sidapa were the three surviving moons,The rest were devoured by Bakunawa the sea serpent, who was once a beautiful but vain sea goddess who loved them. Haliya and Bakunawa would fight during eclipses, and during these times, it is said that the people would cry, as it was Bakunawa eating the moons that was causing the eclipse. It was the cries of these people that Haliya would use as her weapons and armor during her battle with Bakunawa.

candace be like "i know a spot" and then takes you to an empty backyard

i don’t know if this was triggered by something else but it’s really annoying and suspicious seeing the “depicting it in media doesn’t mean endorsing it in real life” crowd out in full force immediately after people start up some really important conversations about copaganda

visiting my parents which means the tv is permanently stuck to one of 5 channels that just rotate through an endless parade of cop procedurals as background noise and we have

Show #1: three instances of “i want a lawyer” being code for This Person is Evil, the hero condescending to a domestic violence survivor about how it’s her fault her abuser isn’t in jail (she comes around after he nearly kills her and the cops have a snide “i told you so” moment), the resident social justice cop says body cams are good and gets scoffed at for being a shrill sjw by everyone else.

Show #2: five white cops have a completely dispassionate conversation over 2 murdered black boys who have not been mentioned again in the episode so far. white female cop spends a scene condescending to and making weird sexual jokes to the ruthless drug dealers (who are all black men). white man cop intimidating his black informant the entire episode in a way very blatantly framed as being cool.

there’s a fucktrillion of these things on tv. they’re all like this. they are the closest thing that so many people have interacting with cops and the justice system in general, and their impact is obvious. i’m sorry that you got a tumblr anon saying that you approve of war crimes because you have a steven universe avatar but actually we do need to have conversations about the how and why of the ways certain things are depicted in media.

I would love for the people in the notes of this post hand-wringing about how questioning copaganda is a win for Big Censorship to take a look at this thread from writer/producer Glen Mazzara on the temper tantrum the LAPD threw over The Shield. tl;dr, they threatened to sue FOX if anyone on the show even mentioned that the story was based on the Rampart scandal – a real incident of horrendous police abuse. Someone else in the thread mentions similar issues with a project that has yet to be released because of a similar tantrum. The LAPD – and who knows how many other police departments – throwing around money, lawyers, and who knows what other kind of threats to ensure that their image remains squeaky clean is basically the definition of censorship. 

The media you consume was not created in a void, the vast majority of it was wrung through an army of personnel to make it as profitable as possible. Do you know how many stories haven’t, and will never, see the light of day because of this? Having six billion cop shows isn’t a sign that we live in some creative freedom utopia, it’s a sign that an unfathomable amount of money goes into sanitizing and lionizing the police.

Stop with the “criticizing a thing I like is censorship” ninth-grader-who-just-discovered-pop-punk nonsense and start thinking about the actual censorship that goes into the production of the media you’ve built your identities around consuming.