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i hate elon musk.

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Estimating how old Alluka got locked up.

Alluka has always been odd to me.

She was weird in my eyes because I couldn’t comprehend how “normal” she sounded and acted when she got released from her so-called room after all these years.

Like yeah no zoldyck is actually sane in the head no matter who it is but it still made me wonder how long has Alluka been locked up. Cuz it’s been more than just five years, it must’ve been a whole decade.

We may not exactly know when she got locked up but we can still estimate the answer.

And to do that, we’ll need Killua’s and Alluka’s age when Nanika first made herself present since Killua is a year older than Alluka.

It was explicitly said that Killua was forced at the age of six to battle in the martial arts tournament at the Heavens Arena. Once he would reach the 200th floor, he’d be allowed to go back home. He returned after two years which would make him 8 at that time.

We know that he couldn’t have been eight years old when Alluka got put in isolation because the flashback with Mitsuba (Nanika’s first victim) had Killua looking way too young to be 8.

Meaning that all the events that transpired due to Nanika’s victims and their bloodshed must’ve happened when Killua was exactly 6 years old, making Alluka 5 years old at the time.

We can also conclude that the year this all took place in was in 1994 thanks to the manga’s timeline.

So now that we know Alluka got locked up at the age of 5, let’s also see how long she has been in isolation for.

Alluka was born in 1989, got confined at 5 years old in 1994 and got released by Killua in 2000.

So to conclude, Alluka has been imprisoned in the estate for 6 years and finally left Kukuroo Mountain after 11 years.

the fact that i can’t call or text my mutuals to see if they wanna grab a coffee with me tomorrow is homophobic

Watching the new Percy Jackson episode, and while by no means is the show perfect, I do love how they updated the blending of Greek mythology and the American Gothic for social commentary.

What I mean is Echidna, the mother of monsters, is some respectable-looking vaguely southern white woman who is able to convince the police on the train that three kids shattered a train window and used those institutions to isolate the kids so she can target them and scare them for the chimera's hunt. The way that the police especially treat Annabeth. Now, as a young black girl, she has to know how to ask if they're getting arrested, and gets called out by the police for her tone.

And then, at the St. Louis Arch, we see Grover upset because of the museum, which is basically a monument to Manifest Destiny (literally, there's a shot where the words are in full display in the background). And while they say, "Grover is upset because he doesn't like it when people hurt animals," they explicitly depict America's colonization and destruction of indigenous communities as The Bad Thing. It adds another layer of flavor for the whole "Pan is missing" - it's not just about Climate Change. It's about the extermination of indigenous groups (the centaurs they saw on the train, the reminder that there used to be more of them until humans started killing them). They say "humans" are bad, but they're showing us Western/American colonizers.

Also, a rare yet interesting moment of conflict between Annabeth as a daughter of Athena and Grover as a Satyr. Annabeth insists that the museum's commodifying and glorifying of American colonization is "not what the arch is actually about, it's about architecture and math," but Athena is the goddess who protects social institutions and a patron goddess of the state, law, order, industry, and war. The Industrial Revolution and Western social institutions definitely contributed to colonialism; just saying. We also see in this episode that Athena can be arrogant and cruel - letting a monster go after her own daughter because she was embarrassed.

Anyway, idk. Maybe I'm overthinking this but these were the things that popped out to me on first watch, and now that I think about them more, I would love a continuation of these kinds of themes and tropes in future seasons, if we get them.

It might’ve been to define his character from the trio a bit aesthetically. Often good main character designs are good because of the unique physical characteristic that makes them stand out in a photo. In the show Grover and Annabeth both have dark hair so if Percy had entirely dark hair he would lose a bit of that attention in photos even if it would be more realistic.

The directors chose to keep the trios natural curls in the show and surrounding events which was an amazing decision in my opinion. A lot of shows ignore the huge amount of people who have curly hair and perfer actors with straight or waves hair hair. It seems like keeping Percy’s hair blond could’ve even been a way to avoid having to straighten Percy’s hair. Grover and Percy have very similar hair especially if you look at more recent interviews. So if they were to have Percy’s hair darker they would’ve still needed to differentiate it from Grover in some way and most fan drawings of Percy have his hair much straighter so I am sure that’s what would’ve happened.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

you know how the argonauts used Orpheus to play music past the sirens so they wouldn’t die?

It would be hilarious if in season two when Percy and Annabeth are on the Queen Anne’s Revenge and Percy just puts in AirPods and you hear nothing but Shake It Off Taylor’s Version for the next four minutes as annabeth is screaming for the sirens and Percy is trying to keep her on the boat.

Rewatched this show recently. It makes me nauseous