Waiting For The Part Of The Show When Annabeth And Grover Say The Most Wild Inside Joke Ever And Percy

Waiting for the part of the show when Annabeth and Grover say the most wild inside joke ever and Percy is left confused because I want more Annabeth and Grover acknowledging the bond they’d have from traveling all those years ago.

*Bonus; Annabeth calming down and slowly and somberly saying something about Thalia liking the joke because from my read on the show Annabeth is pushed in a more idolizing Thalia angle from what I’ve interpreted so far.

This post was hard to write because I have a cat named Granger and kept wanting to correct Grover to it. Sadly I don’t have any creative flows going on at the moment so no big posts that I can say will happen (though I am working on some art👀…)

Anyway might finally get around to reading the Aeneid because I’m getting to the final sprint for TSoA and my tolerance for it is slowly chipping off. I love it it’s great, but the me inside of me that likes the classical epic can’t help but sit there and go, “Why is Patroclus a tiny little babygirl? I thought that was ________’s job? Patroclus was not this afraid of battle why have we babygirled him in the bad way??” That is just my read on it but from what I remember generally Patroclus was a silly little guy that could most certainly hold his own and was effective in battle (I know it’s just for the story but I can’t do many mythological re-telling/ anything that moves in line with varying mythologies, PJO hit the sweet spot for me, while things like a thousand steps into the night I generally didn’t find too wild, though it’s mythos I’m not familiar with. But stuff like TsoA or the loose stuff marvel does completely turns me away *other than moon knight I love moon knight*) and blah,blah, blah something about boxing I might post a draft I made about Palamedes.

Also on the topic of TSoA it’s the only book that I accidentally read hoarse as horse.

Wow another short post but I genuinely can’t escape Octavian (Augustus Caesar? No idea what to call him at this point)/Julius Caesar

Luckily my brain decided to latch onto Pompey the great and not him so it’s not everyday.

But everywhere I look I see him.

I was watching Wendell and wild.

WENDELL. AND. WILD!!

And his bust was there! Not an exact but pretty much.

I yelled out Julius Caesar’s name so loud. Genuinely the bust in the movie looks like a solid mix between,

These two so anyone’s guess is as good as mine.

I’ll never escape Rome

Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed

are we told on how Probatio’s work?

Did people like Octavian, Michael Kahale, Bryce Lawerence, etc. have to go through the Probatio process??

Would go look in the book but I’m not swimming through it again to try and find answers. That’s… probably my fault but I just got back from vocal auditions (fingers crossed I get the LeFou role-) and I don’t want to try and scramble through it to figure out.

Anyway this is 100% me just not remembering it and I will probably go back and try to read through for information. About all the roles, for the post. Probably might just post the beginning of my drafting process. Auhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyway another Bryce Lawerence post soon potentially because he’s so silly and I like talking about him. Possibly might be an outlining for a Bryce underworld trip thing? Either it’d be in the same style I write all my posts, or an actual story? We’ll see when we get there I guess.

Anyway Bryce headcanon of the day is that through exile he got a pet reptile. Don’t know what type but he thought it’d be cool and actually took pretty good care of it. Or it’s a mouse. I like the idea of Bryce Lawerence with a mouse so really it’s all up for debate (or maybe a rat. I can see Bryce with a rat.)

Working on doing that ranking post, doing the gathering of various online sources because at the moment I don’t have any Rome books :[

Anyway would like to say everytime I see a post about something Rome related I start a very stupid laugh my friends have likened to a bird, dolphin, or hyena. Love seeing them,

My musical production begins meetings sooner and sooner every minute and… I should probably practice my audition a bit more lol-

But uhhhh, substance- working my way through TBoSaS (the ballad of songbirds and snakes) sadly I probably won’t do much, about hunger games. But if I do let it be known that it would be mostly about,

District 2

The Capitol

District 4

Because that’s what I’m interested in, the Capitol mostly because it just haifjwbdiekanfnrjrjw- hits the yummy part of my brain.

Anyway, more Octavian general hcs, or another Michael Kahale one? We’ll see what I decide to do while waiting for both my McDonald’s and the new episode.

Okay that’s all (it’s going to be an Octavian post all about his siblings/family)

ALSO! I’m working to get a grip on Ancient Roman naming conventions(?) and posting my hcs about that an applying it to Camp Jupiter or whatever, also the Ranking post will be the first time I’ll bring up New Rome (gonna talk about the governance, which I think I’ll pull from late Republic? We’ll see idk I don’t usually pull from specific eras of Rome intentionally-) weapons post coming up, and more in depth map one :3

Times Caligula was probably fucking with people

I have a pet theory that at least some of Caligula's "madness" was really him being a huge troll and screwing with people, and that several incidents the ancient historians take seriously were shitty jokes taken out of context. From Suetonius, Gaius:

Wandering into emperor Tiberius' bedroom at night with a dagger, thinking, "Eh..." and wandering back out. (12)

Chucking money into crowds to make people scramble for it. (18, 26)

Telling people "I'm gonna fuck the moon." (22)

Getting into arguments with a statue of Jupiter. (22)

Constantly pranking his uncle Claudius. (23)

[Caligula's daughter violently attacks her playmates] Caligula: "Yep, she's definitely mine." (25)

Promising an exciting gladiator show and then swapping in old shitty fighters at the last second. (26)

Reminding people "I could kill you whenever I like." (29, 32)

Grumbling about how the empire was too peaceful and there was nothing heroic left for him to do. (31)

"Everyone reads Homer. I should ban him and see what happens." (34)

Leading an army to the coast, making them gather seashells as "spoils of war," then telling them "Treat yourselves!" on the tiny monetary bonus he awarded them. (46)

Practicing goofy faces in his mirror to freak people out. (50)

Invites three terrified senators to the palace in the dead of night. Jumps out from behind a curtain and does a song and dance number in drag. Refuses to explain. Leaves. (54)

Does not actually make his horse consul, but pampers it so much people said he wanted to. (55)

Taunts the praetorian guards with so many "sissy" jokes they get fed up and shank him. (56, 58)

When people heard he was dead they thought he was pulling a stunt. (60)