Where is the lie thou?
really crazy how much i’ve imagined this fic. like it’s soooooo imagined you wouldn’t even believe. not writing it though
random percy headcanons:
- wants to be the photographer friend SO bad and he technically is but like 70% of the pics come out blurry or weird bc there was a monster attack in the middle of them. his instagram is truly so chaotic looking.
- literally always has seashells on him someone will ask him for a pencil or spare change and he has to empty all his pockets of shells to find it. drops his backpack and a bunch of shells fall out. kicks his shoes off and sand and shells fly out and his mortal friends are like percy What the Fuck
- his eyes glow underwater!! bioluminescent king. no one told him though and he didn't find out until he joined his school's swim team and terrified everyone (he managed to convince them his contacts were having a weird reaction to chlorine lmao)
- he really likes art!! he doesn't just pretend to for rachel's sake he genuinely enjoys painting with her. he likes splatter paint, collages and pop art styles the best. one day after splitting some edibles they realized percy could manipulate water colors and went CRAZY with it
- will ask to be excused during class and comes back like an hour later with scorch marks all over his face bleeding from one of his ears covered in dust missing three fingernails rips in his jeans and a fat lip and the teacher is like percy what the actual hell were you doing in the bathroom all this time and he's just like uhhhhhh I have ibs
- the brand from camp jupiter did unfortunately (for sally) Unlock something in him lmfao he keeps getting shitty little tattoos. usually stick-n-poke but someone's friends cousin's girlfriend's brother has a gun that gets brought to parties every now and then. most of them are sloppy but you can tell what they are HOWEVER he has one that was supposed to be a seal that came out looking like one of those shitty ms paint crying memes. annabeth laughed at him for ten minutes straight when she saw it.
- he wanted to dye his hair blue but he was too chicken to bleach his entire head so he just did the tips. his hair is curly though so it looks absolutely ridiculous but he loves it
- percy and annabeth get a crusty little yappy white dog in college and he carries it around like a baby lmao
- back to his chaotic instagram, he's got so many pics of him like, relaxing at the bottom of the mariana trench or hugging a giant squid or riding on a whale shark and his mortal friends all think he's just really good at photoshop and this is a very specific bit he decided to commit to. they're always like lol percy where do you even FIND these pictures are you subscribed to like scientific journals for the laughs? but no he just took them all on his shell phone
- has an ongoing prank war with annabeth's little brothers bobby and matthew but like it's Unhinged. they're playing 5D chess and she has no idea whats going on
- weird tshirts!!! he loves them! like
- shit like this or those 'women want me fish fear me' shirts, anything with a funny or incomprehensible slogan is going in his closet right along with his band tees lmfao
- bought estelle a panda pillow pet when she was born 🥺
- can NOT bring himself to eat seafood no matter how many times poseidon has told him its fine. he's like NO these are my FRIENDS JONATHAN WAS TELLING ME ABOUT HIS GRANDDAUGHTERS WEDDING LITERALLY YESTERDAY WHY IS HE ON A PLATTER DAD. they had to give up and just start eating normal land food at the palace every time he comes to visit lmfao
- gets into horsegirl antics with hazel she NEEDS to know everything the horses have to say. they spend hours gossiping in the stables.
- movie nights in the poseidon cabin were 10000% a thing and when he was missing annabeth and thalia and grover (and a few others) would still sleep in there every now and then and talk about how much they miss him :(
- percy and beckendorf had the worlds most elaborate handshake
- he DOES impulse buy stuff just because they're ocean-themed. stuffed animals, home decor, school supplies, clothes, you name it he bought it if theres like a fish on it
- has more scars from crashing off his skateboard than he does from monster attacks
- grover is somehow the only person who's ever noticed percy is severely claustrophobic
- has a deep passion for adele. I can't explain this one I just feel and know it to be true.
- he and annabeth both proposed to each other at the same time and they were SO mad about it they kept yelling over each other's speeches lmao
- he can SING but he doesn't know it. sally keeps trying to record him singing to himself but something always happens to the camera and she loses the evidence
- called chiron a brony one time and mr d thought it was so funny he was nice to percy for an entire week
- the camp keeps trying to convince him to teach sword fighting lessons to the younger kids but he can NOT bring himself to swing a sword at a 9 year old so he keeps getting injured
- has the most complicated iced coffee order in the world his go-to local coffee shop finally just put the damn drink on the menu and named it after him
- he IS the quiet kid in the back of your math class that always has his hood up to try and hide his headphones and eats increasingly elaborate meals out of his backpack when the teacher isn't looking. one time someone caught him with a rotisserie chicken in the middle of a geometry final.
- he argued that he DID have enough to share with the class
- currently obsessed with the image of him knocking back a container of sea salt as if it was a shot and his mortal friends being like hey! what the actual fuck! and he's just like uhhhhh anemia kills!
- its his birthday<3
Anonymous asked:
do you think it'll all be okay?
b0nkcreat answered:
yeah. even if it won’t i’ve got people to love in the meantime
I love the wholesome solutions the Gaang always comes up with
Feeling bumped about not being a useful team member? Time for retail therapy!
Fire Nation kids are stripped from their freedom of expression? Alright, we’re throwing a dance party in a cave :)
You’re anxious because you need to defeat the Fire Lord in three days? That’s rough, maybe try screaming into a koala sheep.
youtubers love to say “i hope i’m pronouncing that correctly” while recording themselves in a video that they upload to the internet, which they have access to
Hint: its because the video is not as well researched as its presentation implies
Hint: it’s because sometimes it’s hard to pronounce words especially if you don’t use them very often
Don’t leave this in the tags!! They’re good points! An attempt is better than nothing!
It’s one thing to listen to a correct pronunciation. It’s another to actually have your mouth form the words, especially when you’re using a sound you don’t normally use in your native language.
Maybe they’re not saying “I didn’t look up the actual pronunciation and I’m just winging it.” Maybe it’s “I looked it up and it uses a sound that I don’t use in my day to day speech and I don’t think I did it quite right but I tried.”
And sometimes, there aren’t sufficient resources to teach you the correct pronunciation! Sometimes you’ll get bot-made videos that contradict each other.
This this this this. As someone who struggles to pronounce a couple of words I use fairly often my FIRST LANGUAGE, thanks to those particular sounds just being difficult shapes for me to string together coherently, I am constantly afraid of fucking up words in other languages or even just with roots in other languages.
It’s one thing to not even try, but the “I hope I’m doing this correctly” isn’t always “I’m hoping I can just wing this word with whatever I think it’s supposed to sound like,” a lot of times it “okay so I’ve looked it up and tried it a few times so I’m really hoping its coming out right, but I’m not used enough to the language to really be sure .”
Languages are fucking DIFFICULT for a lot of people. Not just the repeating/speaking part, but also the ability to HEAR and RECOGNIZE the patterns and sounds.
This. Look, I absolutely want to pronounce long scientific words and the names of people from other ethnic groups and words in other languages correctly. But I spent years of my childhood desperately attempting and failing to be able to do the Hungarian gutteral r of my direct family history. I had speech therapy as a kid to get English phonemes down, expecting me to manage ones I'm not used to is unfair unless you're giving me years to practice.
Also, sometimes there are conflicts on how a word is pronounced. We already know about a lot of the English words that are spelled the same but get pronounced differently depending on context, imagine how much more confusing that is for someone from an outside perspective. "Lead" as in "lead them here," and "lead" as in "lead balloon" both look the samr but use different sounds. And when you apply that to a language you don't know that already uses sounds you're unfamiliar with, mistakes are gonna happen. Then you have dead languages. There's conflict on things as basic as the pronunciation of mythological names occasionally!
Then, of course, there's regional pronunciations. Nobody that isn't from a very small sliver of my home county knows how "Corral Creek" is pronounced even though it LOOKS like it should be pretty simple, and I'd never get mad at someone for pronouncing it the way it looks. Because who the hell would look at that and think "yeah, that's pronounced Krel Crick"? Not many people! And you're likely not gonna find that on the internet either, because I'm probably about the only person who has ever brought it up online.