Me Everyday After Uni, Spending Forty Agonizing Minutes On A Bus So Full Of People That No One Hangs

Me everyday after uni, spending forty agonizing minutes on a bus so full of people that no one hangs on to anything because we are all VERY aware of the lack of space required to fall in case of any harsh turns, watching the windows fog up while a girl rests her arm on my shoulder and another breathes directly in my face:

I'm living Andrew Minyard and Kaz Brekker's worst nightmare :)

Sooooo, since Sir Pentious didn't actually lose by going to heaven , can we confidently say that Alastor was the only one to lose the battle because he was not , as Carmilla suggested, out for love?

More on tonight's program

jeremy !!! jeremy tell me why you avoid cops and why your sister said you destroyed your family !!! tell me why you hate your stepfather and why you avoid your brother !!!! tell me why you have problems with money and why you're in therapy and why any mention of your family upsets you !!!!!! do you not want jean to call you 'knox' bc you want to be a good captain/his friend or do you have problems with your surname??????? tell me why you're forced to live at home and why you still playing exy is unforgivable to your sister !!!!! tell me what happened at the fall banquet !!!!!!!! what broke your family in half jeremy !!!!!!! STOP AVOIDING ME JEREMY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

Currently in my bed, reading the chalice of the gods (because the pjo brainrot has taken over me once again) while my sister watches the Percy Jackson series next to me.

Things are good.

(in the other room my younger brother is watching the pjo movies but we don't talk about that)

Since my PJO brainrot is back in full swing I went back to check out my notes on the sun and the star and let me tell you as an Italian that book was a whole experience ( I mean it mostly in a positive way I swear )

Allow me to elaborate

Nico, my man , my bestie, my dude is actually called NICCOLO. I know this doesn't seem like much but it's such a normal regular name I was stunned speechless. Do I know someone named Percy? Or Annabeth? Or Even Bianca?No. Do I know someone named Niccolo?? YES. Don't ask me to elaborate further , this was just extremely weird

Then there was this part were Nico tells us his mother had him learn Dante.

And honestly this feels like Rick looked up "Italian+author+hell" and went along with the first thing that came up. Rationally I know that he probably put a little more thought behind this but to me this felt so random. I don't know how things were in the 1930s but I'm pretty sure people didn't just read those books to literal children. Yes ,the Divine Comedy was very important in the development of the Italian language but my brother is eight years old and guess what? I'd never read him those books. We don't even know about them until middle school. Unless Maria di Angelo was a very passionate literature teacher I really don't see why she would read those books to Nico. I'm laughing so hard at the mental image of Rick going " Yes, Italians probably love this man so much that they have parts of his works memorized from an early age" like babe no we immediately forget about him one day after finishing high school.

3. Not happy, Rick then proceeded to say this about Dante's inferno , which honestly made me laugh so hard

If you want to warm up your kid to the idea of Underworld you should just not use these books and not just because of Dante's non-existent survival skills. They are extremely gory, the souls there are obviously full of despair and they get tortured in the most awful and depressing ways it's very much not appropriate for a child. I'm imagining Maria tucking her sweet little son in and then opening the Inferno and going " these people were awful in life so now they rot in a swamp and eat each other for all eternity :)) Get your sleep so tomorrow we can read about those who were doomed to lay in flaming tombs and the ones that are eternally teared apart by ravenous dogs :)))"

4. Back to a sillier note we have this infamous word that killed me

Listen, I have no idea who Rick's source is but they have it very much wrong. On the other hand Maria's Italian is from the 1930s so it's most definitely me who's in the wrong , but still. Nowadays the spelling is "figliolo" and it's still kind of and awkward word that is being used less and less. This particular spelling makes it sound even more ancient and dramatic so I was immediately taken aback.

Now that I've thought about it a little more I'm pretty sure this spelling still exists but it's from a dialect, not proper Italian, so you use it only if you want to sound very dramatic. Tbh I've only ever heard southern Italian grannies say that so it checks out

keeping you honest

you ask me to stand down, remember my promise you “don't need protection”, i'm keeping you honest I did what I had to do I knew what I was getting into

Here take your knives back, remember your armor I don’t care for secrets or lies on my honor I guess I’m at the end of my ruse Well I’d do it all again just for you

throw down your cigarette i'll keep it burning i'm not a pipedream no matter your wording I'm standing right in front of you I swear i'm fine it's only a bruise

You toss my keys over, you think that you’re winning But i’m not defeated i don’t think you’re empty I’m not backing down from you I swear I’m fine it’s just a tattoo

You can hate me all you want you can tell me to leave you alone you can ask me if i understand if it means losing you then no

How could I live with myself if i didn't try? How could i face you without putting my neck on the line? You say “your crumbling psyche is your problem not mine” But who's watching your back if you're watching ours all the time?

You can hate me all you want you can tell me to leave you alone you can ask me if i understand if it means losing you then no

you ask me to stand down, remember my promise you “don't need protection”, i'm keeping you honest I did what I had to do I’d do it all again just for you