So, The Casting For The Percy Jackson Disney Series Has Come Out! Ive Only Seen The Adam Project, So

So, the casting for the Percy Jackson disney series has come out! I’ve only seen the Adam Project, so I don’t have any idea how the two actors playing Annabeth and Grover are on screen, but I’m sure that they’ll do their best (and trusting that Riordan has managed to find actors that capture the essence of his characters).

And, y’know, when the movies came out, I didn’t care as much about the differences between physical descriptions in the book and movies, but more that they’d screwed up the whole timeline.

A non-white child who can play Annabeth to a T? Is absolutely something I am more than willing to watch because representation is important, and being able to play a character and bring their personality to life in an authentic way? Way more important than what the actor looks like verses what the source material showed them to look like.

Started writing my own fanfic this week. I’m working on the outline, and it’s starting to look like it’s going to be at least 30 chapters long, and that doesn’t even count the amount of fluff scenes beginning to emerge in my head.

I‘ve been working on my own novel for about two years now, and I’m just barely half-way through the third draft. Hopefully fanfic writing doesn’t take as long.

Two days ago I watched the movie version of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” and fell in love. I have to say, however I haven’t read the books except for one glance years ago so I don’t know how good of an adaption the movie is compared to the books, but I do know that I want to read them now.

Looking back, leaving Christianity/Jesus was the best thing I have ever done for myself.

Hey while you're loving elephants: Denver Zoo has two teenage boy elephants and one Old Man Elephant named Groucho, and lately they've had the lads housed with him so he can teach them Proper Elephant Manners like how bulls raise teenage boy elephants in the wild. Bull elephants are apparently very into being parents but due to the matriarichal nature of most herds, they really only get to raise calves after they've hit puberty. My point is, one of the boys was being annoying and chasing rabbits so Groucho came up and jabbed him in the ass with a tusk, the lad ran around the enclosure crying then came back and did a lot of "I'm sorry I'll be good now dad" fawning and it was adorable.

OH MAN SEE SEE SEE i wish we knew so much more about how bull elephants interact with herds and families - we've documented bull elephants traveling to matriarchal herds and fake wrestling with male calves, and we've documented bulls protecting orphaned calves, but in god's name i want every in and out about it. everything we know about elephant social interaction is not enough. it's a Thing that introducing old bulls to a population lowers the amount of younger bulls in musth, also known as the state in which bull elephants desire nothing but murder and possibly sex, but - i want to know the precise mechanisms. old bull elephants teaching younger bulls manners renders me VERKLEMPT. i just wanna know every secret elephants have.

this is incredible though. peak teenage boy. groucho has his hands full and i fucking love him for that. get their asses, groucho.

I can’t believe I forgot how much I love the MerlinxMorgana ship from BBC’s Merlin.

Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath are perfection