Weve All Heard Of Mansplaining. Now Get Ready For: PJO Book Purist-splaining. Its Like Mansplaining,

We’ve all heard of mansplaining. Now get ready for: PJO book purist-splaining. It’s like mansplaining, but every time you even think about liking a change made in the show, they jump down your throat with “ACTUALLY in the books…” because the show is “doing it all wrong” and the change is “so out of character” and “doesn’t even make sense :/”

SUSIE: Ms. Emily! Ms. Emily!

PUPPET/CHARLIE: S-Susie? What on earth are you calling me that for? Just Charlie's fine.

SUSIE: But my papa says that's what you call important people. // PUPPET/CHARLIE: (important...?)

Later... // CHARLIE: Cassidy? Could I ask you a question? // CASSIDY: Shoot. // CHARLIE: To the youngest ones... Am I... important?

-stare-

CASSIDY: Are you trying to get me to feed your hero complex? // CHARLIE: ?! N-no! Wait, I don't have a--

CASSIDY: Do you really not know? You're practically their mother.

CHARLIE: M-Mother!? They know how old I am, right??? // CASSIDY: of course they do. Okay, maybe not a mother exactly. But Charlie, you put yourself in a position of authority over four young children who had just lost their parents. Who do you think fills that sudden void of responsibility in their minds?

CHARLIE: Five. // CASSIDY: What? // CHARLIE: You're the fifth. // CASSIDY: Oh. Ew. Gross. You're not my mom.

CHARLIE: I need to go lie down.

I think it's visually apparent that I drew these in the middle of the night

shampoo & conditioner… aka the “salt & pepper” of being in the shower. 1 reblog = 1 agree. cheers

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

shoutout to the slow artists. the artists with hardly any time for art. the artists who reach the end of the day with no energy for art. you got this i believe in you and you are no less valued than anyone else