Crewniverse tricked us into thinking that Pink’s palanquin is a lot bigger than it is – same with Pink. When Blue walks up to her own palanquin, it’s obvious that it’s just the right size for her. But when she’s next to Pink’s, there are a LOT of optical illusions going on:
Blue was kneeling or crouching by it at first, making it look bigger.
Blue still looks shorter because she’s slouching.
The way the palanquin is leaning makes the roof look higher.
The flowers obscure the bottom, making it hard to see just how big it is.
The palanquin is on a hill, making it higher, and thus bigger-looking.
The legs are extended (the ones on Blue’s were retracted), making it higher.
So let’s break through the illusions and find out just how big it is:
Already we can see that the palanquin is a lot smaller than it initially looks. Let’s find out how much smaller Pink really is next to Blue.
So it looks like Pink is less than half as tall as Blue. Probably about halfway up her thigh. Looks like Pink’s palanquin proves:
The common theory that Pink is the newest Diamond.
A theory I’ve had that the Diamonds, unlike their Gems, grew up.
Looks like Pink is even newer than I thought! No wonder Blue (and Eyeball and Holly Blue and even Yellow) seem to act as if Pink was especially precious: She’s just a little kid!
To add to this, her chair is super small on the moon base
no one talks about how rick riordan literally scammed disney
dead ass pjo was that seemingly “normal” kids fantasy series with a seemingly white straight kid saving the world and it’s a fucking success. percy jackson? iconic! ppl fucking love percy and his character and then hoo comes out? everyone is pumped bc everyone is in love with that world. the first book? two main bad ass poc characters. the second book? two more bad ass poc characters! the fourth book and there’s literally a gay character and it’s not like disney could say no. hoo ends and then there’s magnus chase and ppl are fucking pumped bc that’s annabeth chase’s cousin and in the first book there’s a muslim girl and by the second book there’s a transgender and genderfluid character. trials of apollo? a main gay couple in a happy relationship and a fucking bi character. could disney say no? no. literal 10 year olds are reading books with heaps of representation all published by disney. rick riordan played the game. you step in thinking ur just gonna get white cishets and you walk out surrounded by different cultures and rainbows.
tldr; rick started out with the basic pasty white and straight series which got hella successful and used his success to pusblish more books and allow only one (1) cishet and only one (1) white
i doubt he planned it but deadass it would be so funny if that’s what happened
I saw him speak on /writing in the UK right before (or early in on when) his series hit it big. Planned. Definitely planned.
Thousand percent planned. Also Percy? Has a learning disability. RR’s son inspired him to write bc he is ADHD and dyslexic. This was all planned. He is all about inclusivity and representation.
He also makes his books incredibly funny, which is rather rare for YA and makes them more accessible to kids who don’t really like to read. In addition to having loads of POV character who have trouble reading themselves.
For those who’ve been living under a YA rock, this is Rick Riordan:
It annoys me how common a sci-fi plot “get X(often a woman/woman-coded synthetic) to The Scientists so they can create a cure/vaccine, but then it turns out they have to kill/disassemble X to do it” Is. Like, I’m no scientist or doctor merely a humble internet-snake, but that’s not how vaccines work. Killing the only person who either produces antibodies effective against The Plague, or whose body and history could provide clues to treating it, is literally the last thing you would do.
EDIT 1: No, wait, it is not “the last thing you would do”; you would just literally never do that. Like, what the hell are you thinking? “We’ve got to take out her Brain/HD to Create The Cure/Extract The Antiapocalypse Equation” No you don’t you idiot get a syringe/Thumb drive and put the hacksaw down >:(
It would be nice if there were a trilogy or something where first book is get ms. mcguffin to scientists, second book is ms. mcguffin safe with scientists while ragtag squad is still outside being roughed up by the apocalypse, and third book ties up the increasing tension and unhappiness of ms. mcguffin by having her, rightly or wrongly, escape from the scientists and attempt to meet back up with ragtag squad, even though literally no one asked for her to do this, but she’s not the sort of person who can handle being kept mewed up safe while her nascent World’s Revolution Squad Of Heroes scatters to the four winds and obscurity without her.
Because then all sorts of characters get a little bit of what they want, and a little bit thwarted, and a lot pissed off at one another, AND the scientists get plenty of samples to be getting on with.
(Our Staff: Ok this got Long so I’m putting most of it under a cut)
They were taking blood.
AGAIN.
This time it was techguy Jansen, originally Scienceguy Jansen but No, they said, Not Scienceguy, he doesn’t have this thing from Back Then that you need to be a Scienceguy, somesuch DoctorIt or something, so he’s not a Doctor so he’s not a Scienceguy. No It means No Doctor means Lab Technician ergo techguy. The lowercase is important for Hierarchy.
Whatever.
AAAAaannyway, techguy Jansen’s alright, better than others not so great as others. All Right. He has a first name of course like everyone here, Inside, Zeek, which is short for something he won’t say and gets flustered about when she asks other people about it which is Humorous but unfortunately it’s just the two of them here in the lab today now so teasing was No Dice. AAAaannnddd…. shestillwasn’treallyusetothewhole: First Name Thing. They did things different Out There; Lastname, Placename, Madename, favorite Backthing, Whatever, any Nick or Pseud you(or others) wanted so long’s you answered to it. So long’s it wasn’t You. So long’s it wasn’t too Personal.
So Long’s there wern’t no danger of anybody getting too Attached.
YEAH! EXACTLY, SEE? No one is terrible, no one is wrong for no reason who shouldn’t be. There’s plenty of tension and heartbreak without wasting time show-and-telling about a bunch of worthless enemy idiots whose motives make no sense!
I feel like the story here is incomplete if you don’t mention that he commissioned an artist for a borderline furry porn interpretation of an irl encounter he had with the very same artist he commissioned
honestly yeah I can’t believe I left that part out
