The Only Thing I'm Sad About Is My Image Of Percy Will Be Replaced From Viria's Art To This Lil Cutie...

The only thing I'm sad about is my image of Percy will be replaced from Viria's art to this lil cutie... I'm sad but eyy i'm not complaining about the change

ITS OFFICIAL!!! THE PERCY, ANNABETH, AND GROVER HAS BEEN CASTED IN THE UPCOMING PERCY JACKSON SERIES ON DISNEY+!!

ITS A SHAME PEOPLE AREN’T HAPPY THAT ANNABETH CHASE WILL BE PORTRAYED AS A PERSON OF COLOR. NONETHELESS, PEOPLE WHO SIMPLY CARE ABOUT HER CHARACTER APPEARANCE ARE MISSING THE POINT!

ITS ONLY GOOD FOR THE ACTORS TO PLAY THE CHARACTERS RIGHT AND WELL, AND THE APPEARANCE WOULDN’T REALLY MATTER ACCORDING TO RICK RIORDAN. PLUS HAIR IS EASY TO CHANGE AND ALTER.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE AMAZING KIDS AND LETS HOPE FOR THEM TO MAKE OUR CHILDHOOD BOOK SERIES, A REALITY.

Things that should be illegal:

That guy

With the crimson red hair

And the heterochromatic eyes

Who is absolute

And the Captain of Rakuzan

Known as the emperor

Who threatened to gouge his eyes out

And made me fall in love with him

It’s Akashi

Akashi should be illegal

in summary: we all love him :) 

Gale's Analysis: Abuela Alma: Generational Trauma

Now this analysis will be talking about Encanto, so before any of that.

Spoilers down below.

Alma Madrigal is the most divisive character introduced in Encanto. People saying she is the villain of the movie, to saying that she didnt deserve to be forgiven. or she got off too easy.

But lets actually talk about Alma.

We see her backstory twice.

The first time its told, it is stated more as a message of hope and Magic. Painting the loss of her husband as a heroic sacrifice. But then leads to the magic/ Encanto being discovered. Alma tells Mirabel that the Encanto protects them and that she will get a gift, that she will use to help the community.

The second time the. story is told, it is a lot more vivid and real. Alma's home was burnt down by invaders, and she had to flee with her town and her JUST BORN triplets. Pedro's sacrifice to try and stop the invaders was shown as more of a tragedy, showing how she broke down. Showing Alma was in grief.

This is when we see a bit more of the true Alma Madrigal.

The truth is that Alma isnt just some perfectionist Abuela that just wants things to be perfect for the sake of tradition and respect.

Alma Madrigal is a widow that lost everything and doing her best not to lose it again.

Before watching the movie I thought the powers that were distributed were random and just for fun.

Pepa's Weather powers

Bruno's Future Vision

Julietta's Healing food

Isabella's Power to grow things

Dolores' Super hearing

Luisa's Super Strength

Camilo's Shape Shifting

Antonio's ability to talk to animal's

But after thinking, all of these abilities represent something Alma Madrigal had to do since the passing of her Husband. Each power is a representation of something she had to do.

Weather the storm,

Look towards the future

Heal the damaged community

Grow the town

Listen to the problems of the town

Bear the burdens of everyone

Be whatever was needed

and

Be understanding to everyone and make order out of chaos (talk to animals.

The house was giving the children the powers to better understand Alma and help her work through each burden. But it ended up just having the children bear those versions of the problem. (The Generational trauma)

She was giving each of her descendants a power she wish she had. Something that she wished she could be.

But the most important representation was when Mirabel didnt get a power.

Feeling powerless and trying to prove yourself worthy.

Alma Madrigal is a tragic figure because she bears the burden of not just her family but every single person that fled with her when the invaders destroyed her home.

Because of the Encanto saving their lives, she felt that she needed to lock away her emotion and give her all to helping others and proving Worthy of the encanto.

Mirabel is the one that could understand Alma the best, because she is the only one that truly understood what Alma went through in her darkest moments, and what Alma fears the most.

Alma in the start of the movie sees all of her worst fears the moment she sees Mirabel not get a power. The potential of losing EVERYTHING she has done her best to avoid.

Her cold action and her constant need to prove that SHE and her family were worthy of this Encanto has made her turn the power/room giving ceremony into a spectacle. Made her demand better of her family, believing that things not going perfectly is a sign of her world falling apart.

This mentality explains all her interactions with her family. How Mirabel's actions that seem counter to her tradition is such a shock to her.

Alma realized when the house is cracking, that its been falling apart. That with Bruno gone, there was no way of knowing how to fix it. So Her response to this was to Triple down and try to hold it all together, to minimize damage by not trying to prod and poke. The best thing she can do is what she always done when horrific events hit. Internalize and keep quiet.

Mirabel is the opposite. She sees that the house is breaking and believes that it needs to be fixed, that they need to find the root of the pain, even if it means for a brief moment to cause pain.

Alma and Mirabel's arguement is this clash in ideologies which then brings the truth to the surface, and it causes the house to break apart. Because the foundation has finally broken down.

After Alma sees her house destroyed, losing her home for the second time, it made her realize that this wasnt the worst thing that could happen. It was losing her family. It was seeing Mirabel go missing that had her have this revelation.

Alma needed to realize how far her loss had impacted her, how it was damaging others because she refused to seek help.

The foundation was cracked and it needed to be fixed.

And sometimes that foundation needs to break down so a new can be started.

Alma needed to see what her expectation and her trauma had been doing to her family.

She wasnt purposefully putting this pain and expectations on her family. She didnt realize how damaging those expectations were.

So when people say that Alma got off too easy or she didnt deserve a second chance, i vehemently disagree.

Alma isnt Mother Gothel or the evil step mother. She is an abuela with Trauma from losing her husband that is just trying to make sense of a miracle and doing her best to try and prove herself worthy of something she had no way of proving.

(There is an allegory of the Encanto being equivalent to God's love and Blessings. But thats something for another day.)

Alma deserves a chance to see that she was misguided, to try and rectify the damage she done.

While the movie doesnt go deep as I would like to discuss this.

I feel that Alma didnt get off to easy.

i like daydreaming and purposely being delusional. i don’t care it’s fun. what else is there to do?

Ahhhh!!!! I can imagine them doing the Schuyler Sister songggggggg,,, who's gonna be Peggy??

Rengoku : [ reads a letter from Y/n]

Uzui: [looks over Rengoku shoulder] (teasingly) I am just saying if you really love me you would share them?

Rengoku: [looks at Tengen] HA NO-