percy immediately apologizing to luke after he hurts him even though he is literally being betrayed because his fatal flaw is loyalty and he cannot fathom hurting the people he cares about… meanwhile luke turning around and hitting percy back without hesitation… i feel sick
zeus is so bold commenting on poseidon having a forbidden kid as if he doesn’t have TWO: one who is currently a tree and the other who’s being raised by wolves. be serious
the allergy i am seeing grow up around small talk in any form is troubling to me. do you know how to make friends with people in your physical environment? it typically starts with small talk. do you want to live in community? small talk. do you want to have the type of relationship with your neighbors where you can run over and borrow a battery for your smoke detector when it starts beeping at 10pm? small talk!! do you want leeway from your coworkers when you fuck up something small? you gotta be able to build a relationship and that’s small talk, baybeee.
“but i don’t need friends and i don’t care about community!” okay, lone ranger, what about the people in your community who need you? “but i have social anxiety!” me too, bud! we simply must soldier on. making up lists of questions to ask people helps. and people are predisposed to be generous, i’ve found. even if you make some kind of mistake, what is this but the natural give and take of human interaction? nobody is perfect.
you were not put on this earth to live by yourself and then die. you need people and people need you. treat those around you with curiosity and generousness of spirit and you will gain so much goodwill in return.
craft store employee, this nice little old lady, said “fuck capitalism” to me today
asked if they had empty bobbins cuz i couldnt find any and she launched into this shpiel about how they have a whole truckload of stuff waiting to be unpacked but corporate cut peoples hours so bad after christmas that its just her, the manager, and the fabric cutter on shift all day.
she went on to say “companies are in trouble” and i corrected her to “CEOs are greedy” and she looked around all furtive like and went, “yeah! they still get their bonuses but im down to 20 hours a week” and i said its the system working as intended to make the rich richer and she looks me dead in the eye and says “fuck capitalism” and totally misses the barcode on a thing she was scanning and just, doesnt charge me for it.
