T Minus Eight Days

T minus eight days

OK guys, we have eight days to wait, after the first day of non sleeping doing t he Odysseus challenge I can tell you I start seeing large weird fish in the water, will update later.

Season 2 is over but that doesn't mean I'm gonna stop trying to recruit my friends to join in my brainrot.

Someone made a post about the abysmal state of Jewish rep in Rick Riordan’s universe so now I’m thinking about how I would do Jewish characters in that.

Jew at Camp Half Blood: *gets their menorah out*

Cabinmate: Oh, that’s so cool, what’re you celebrating?

Jew: Hannakah! It’s a holiday celebrating an ancient military revolt!

Cabinmate: Neat, against who?

Jew: *sweats nervously*

Cabinmate: An ancient military revolt against who?

Alternatively:

Jew at Camp Jupiter: Yeah, I’m pretty bummed out today. It’s the saddest day in the Jewish calendar.

Friend: I didn’t know that— what makes it so sad?

Jew: Uhhhhhhhh

Jew: Uhhhh

idk if this is too dark but jewish is culture is whenever you go on a trip with your tzofim shevet that requires flying you lie about what you are and tell everyone you're a tennis team. jewish culture is getting information about the conference for jewish teens you're attending and being told you cannot tell anyone where it is. jewish culture is everyone you're with a large group of jews wondering if someone will come in with a bomb and blow you all up. i wish i could feel safe being in large groups in jewish spaces but i get so scared

not too dark. thats part of what this blog is for, to hold these darker things we don’t have anywhere else to share <333

West Belfast, Ireland

and you can see it when he says hearts of cinder cannot die.

He says the sentence in the not reversed order. He says it in the correct order. He says it in the right order. Because he has become right, he is in the right side, he is doing the right thing

I think the reason Viren’s redemption works is that he ultimately got nothing out of it. The popular idea of a villain redemption is a bad guy changing their ways and eventually being accepted by their former enemies, often becoming one of the heroes themselves. But that wasn’t the case with Viren. Soren didn’t forgive him. Ezran didn’t forgive him. He wasn’t welcomed with open arms. He was locked in the dungeon, presumedly for life. And when he atoned for his past through a heroic final act, no one except Soren even knew about it. And that still didn’t earn him forgiveness.

But that’s how we know that Viren truly changed. For seeking the right path, he received nothing but rejection and death. And he was okay with that. He understood these were the natural consequences of his actions. He accepted what he had done was wrong. His sacrifice was sincere, a servant dying for his kingdom, a father dying for his son. He wasn’t seeking forgiveness, or glory, or power.

Because he had changed.