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CLOSE-UP IN Phoenix Jackson Mendoza's Aragon Costume

It’s a CAPPED PEN!!! not a clicketty one.😭😭🥹🥹🥹

you know that’s exactly the reason he made it a cap

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Because the crabs are raised in a lab, they don’t have any experience with predators. So before putting them onto the reef, Spadaro and his team may have to condition them to fear things like octopuses, snappers, and groupers.

One way to do this is by using puppets modeled after predators. By putting these puppets in the tanks while poking at the crabs, the crabs learn to move away from the threat. Several months ago, Mote partnered with a local elementary school and had students craft hand puppets, modeled after crab predators, to use in fear conditioning. (Fortunately, the crabs don’t have great vision.)

"Can you describe your prior work experience?"

"I'm a professional crab botherer."

The original percy jackson series is about cycles of abuse and neglect, right. Were introduced to percy as a kid who has clearly been left behind by a school system that has given up on him, restless and unengaged and self-defetist because hes been given nothing that works for him and no one even tries to meet him where he is. Then hes told no, listen, your neurodivergence is amazing and you just need to be given something that actually utilizes your unique palatte. And thats obviously the uplifting idea rick wanted for his kids, right. But once we get to know chb the same cycles are happening there too. There are kids "left behind" there too for one reason or another, because their parents dont want to claim them, because their parents werent important enough to get a cabin. Do you get it, all the kids who dont fit the most common neurotypes get shoved into the same closet. Kids are being left in a cruel world to fend for themselves without the tools they need. Theyre dying because no one bothered to accommodate them. Its such an obvious parallel that the first chapter introduces a teacher whos written to be especially hard on percys disability and she turns out to literally be one of these monsters trying to kill him. Meanwhile sally jackson tells him she named him after Perseus because she wanted a redemption for a hero whos story ended in tragedy. Meanwhile every book in the series replicates a greek myth step for step until the moment they break the cycle. Annabeth, playing Odysseus, is talked down from her hubris and grounded by her friends. Percy, playing Heracles, meets someone wronged by the original Heracles and rights his wrongs by refusing to go down the same selfish path as him. Monsters are reborn because they are--as the books explicitly call them--achetypes. These kids are stuck inside the cyclical nature of mythology because thats what happens to mythology, it gets retold over and over again. But these are the kids who have to live it. The series ends with percy being offered immortality and he rejects it because he wants to use his godly favor to force them to break their cycle of neglecting their kids. The series ends with a declaration that we cant keep letting this happen. The very first book offees the same choice. It ends with percy refusing to keep the head of medusa as a spoil of war, refusing his heroic reward. He lets his mother have the head and use it to kill gabe. Isnt that fucking crazy for a kids book? Gabe wasnt a Monster. He wasnt going to Turn to Dust and Disappear in a narratively convenient way. He was a living breathing mortal dude and percy and his mom killed him without remorse. Break the cycle of abuse!!!! Dont let this happen again!!! Anyway thats why the original percy jackson series is Hey where are you going with our breadsticks

Ok firstly l already love love LOVE analysis’ like this and this is fucking AMAZING but also like

percy’s choice to refuse immortality and to tell the gods to break the cycle is just such an empowering scene, and when l first read the book, l read that chapter over and over and over again and l didn’t know why, but it’s just because that scene just gives you that moment of oh, wow, and it feels like that first domino falling, that first action that very first step, in a series of chain reactions that’s going to lead us to a better place.

And yeah, I’m future series we see that’s things aren’t going perfectly because nothing’s perfect, y’know, and that’s just reality, but you can still see that chain of dominoes falling one after another, and you realise that this can happen, we can break this cycle, and you see that Percy’s world isn’t so different from ours, because both worlds are still incredibly messed up with so many problems that still haven’t been solved, but these books just make it a little better, and a little more hopeful, and OH MY GOD THE NEW PERCY JACKSON SERIES EPISODE TITLES

he was the cool uncle

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Gonna try and get back into oc art with some prompt lists. Ill finish up angeltober as well

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