Zephr

He/Him AO3 author writing in the PJO fandom. Zeph_r on AO3

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@no1blackjackfan @demigodwablog Aphrodite kids used to have to break a persons heart as a rite of passage, though I think Silena ended that when she became counselor.

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@angelicsolaces Piper coulda been yelling “SHIT YOURSELF” At the giants but instead she was hitting them with Christmas hams….

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@fierrowill This is pretty intentional in order to show the contrast between how she’s treated and how her brother is treated due to racism though? Like she’s explicitly meant to be light skinned, enough to pass as white, so that you see how much better she’s treated.

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@no1blackjackfan There are mutants in X-men that literally kill people just by existing or interacting like normal humans. Zootopia has the “predator” discrimination which is an INSANE thing to point to as an allegory.

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@no1blackjackfan It’s also so strange and dysfunctional that these kinds of media always end up including innate traits that make discrimination justified. Like yea man the Orcs in Warcraft came through the Dark Portal literally hopped up on evil demon juice that made them violent by nature

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@brnacctxo Breaking News: American-Europe international flight to Greece knocked out of Sky by flying boulders. More at 11pm.

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@no1blackjackfan Sadly Rick has decided that the girls in his story have to either join the hunters or get a boyfriend (or girlfriend), sometimes in that order.

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Translated from Portuguese. Comment on the latest chapter of the Percabeth fic I’m writing. Deeply unserious part of the fandom, though I am impressed at the prose. Very eloquent for a “Kill yourself NOW!” post.

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@angelicsolaces Yea I mean I read the convo, you and the other guy seem to just go at it a lot, which is fine ig. Just sad to see that it’s basically all about personal interpretations of canon.

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This fandom is so broken man.

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@angelicsolaces Sorry, it’s a sensitive topic for a lot of people so I try to be very clear and well-spoken rather than keeping it short. TLDR, it sucks to see people at each others throats over identity stuff, especially when identity in canon is so poorly handled by Rick anyway.

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@angelicsolaces I love this series, I love the versions of the characters that I enjoy and grew up with, and I’m thrilled there’s versions that people can enjoy in a new or different way. I just wish we could stop doing this kind of infighting. ❤️❤️

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@angelicsolaces Simply swapping one identity for another is naive. The value of representation is not just seeing oneself on screen or on paper, but being able to relate. It’s fine to draw or headcanon whatever but assigning “value” to headcanon and then arguing over it is so dumb.

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@angelicsolaces Sorry, I’m using the whole back and forth between you and the other guy to say that there’s so much tit for tat and it’s all over identity and it’s so divisive for no reason. And I say no reason because the idea that diversity and representation is achieved by—

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@angelicsolaces I get that the show brought a lot of young people to the fandom and that twitter is a world of short and quippy statements, but there’s a disappointing lack of awareness as to what the kind of diversity Olympics people keep playing does to the perception of the community.

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@angelicsolaces Every argument this fandom ever has boils down to residual suspicions/resentment over Leah’s casting. Press someone on either side enough and it just becomes accusations of racism, and all of that is owed to right-wing bad actors hijacking the casting to further their agenda.

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@DuncanBrola @wheelercoded @mikeaegyo This is a good bit but I’m not nearly informed on the dynamics of the Twitter side of this fandom to understand whether it’s actually funny or not.

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@DuncanBrola @wheelercoded I love the commitment to the “spiteposter” but I’m not going to stoop low enough to defend myself from empty accusations. This fandom has an issue with assigning value metrics to identity and just completely ignoring the purpose of representation entirely.

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@angelicsolaces It’s about the entire fandom post-show cast reveal. I’ve never seen a schism so violent and immediate and it was all a result of a poisoned well by bad actors that used genuine responses from both sides as seeds to plant the everblossoming racial divide in this fandom.

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@DuncanBrola The character in canon just results in a flat and pointless change. Will and Nico are white in canon, and their characters reflect that even in the absence of distinct cultural practices. Representation isn’t just physical trait oriented, it’s cultural.

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@DuncanBrola I understand your perspective, but I have to say that the current dialogue around representation feels so tokenizing and checklist oriented. Identity informs a character. Making a character gay or a different race or disabled and failing to account for how that would affect—