Frodo: “It’s a riddle. What’s the elvish word for friend?”

Trump: “Bela”

Do you believe in God? Specifically, my God.

(Yes) (No)

JD Vance: “It’s not there. I was poking around and didn’t find it.”

I see many of my favorites, so I’ll throw down the first book I really remember loving as a kid because it is so touching:

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, check out the author’s other series “The Underland Chronicles”. It’s a slightly younger audience than The Hunger Games, but it also tackles heavy themes. I love both.

For anyone passing through, this is book one in Percy Jackson and the Olympians young adult books. Basically the Greek gods are real and still exist in the modern world, and the demigods have to go on quests to save the world.

There are multiple spin offs and they are fantastic. These ones are basically direct sequels to the Percy Jackson books:

• Heroes of Olympus
• Trials of Apollo
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (6&7). More books are coming out for these ones that continue the story, but now where Percy is in college. Books 1-5 written in the early 2000s are him as a kid/high schooler.

I’ve only read these spin offs so far, and they are also great:

• The Kane Chronicles (Egyptian gods)
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (Norse gods)

There are other series he writes too, along with an imprint called Rick Riordan Presents where other starting authors can get imprinted and exposure - books that span many inclusive themes which is fantastic for diversity and inclusion.

Show:

• Grover betrays Percy
• Annabeth argues with them
• Percy picks Annabeth because she’d be willing to sacrifice him if the going gets tough (???)
• Percy runs from danger and is often saved. Barely fights. Dances and pees in the woods for comic relief.
• Gabe is loving and comic relief. Then suddenly he villainized Percy for stealing his car, which is completely out of left field for the character the show sets him up to be. He still gets turned to stone, which seems cruel.
• No tough choice or suspense when the offer for godship is made. We don’t see Annabeth nervously scared that she will lose her best friend.

Book:

• Grover is loyal, steadfast, and ardent friend.
• Same for Annabeth
• Percy picks Grover and Annabeth for his quest because he has faith in them.
• Percy tackles issues with courage. Despite being scared, he faces those challenges head on.
• Gabe is an asshole and abuser. He beats Percy’s mom. Gets turned to stone with the Medusa head.
• Percy turns down godship because he loves being a mortal and loves his friends. He’s also wise to the fact that the gods are so detached from humans, their creation, that he doesn’t want to become like them.

Those are just some of the major problems. Love the books, hate how they squandered the show. All they had to do was keep it consistent with the books. Such a shame.

Not just unexciting, but completely wrong. Despite Rick Riordan, the author, being fully involved in the show, he made so many changes that took away from the books. The series sucked for sure to the point that the first Percy Jackson Lightning Thief movie was actually more accurate to the book.

Found you, Timon & Pumba.

Republicans will just continue to blame the Democrats. The Republican cult will continue to believe them. They don’t care if they are hurting so long as their enemies hurt, too. The party of hatred and intolerance.

“I love the poorly educated!” - Donald Trump, 2016.

What an inspirational badass! Thank you for standing up for others.

The problem is you’re looking at her eyes. You’re supposed to watch her lips move.

The way she moves her lips… she’s a star.

Now you’re thinking like a president!

Universal Basic Income

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Throw ‘dem bows!

Zoomies are nice for sure.

Geoffrey Epstein is a great podiatrist. Protects his patients and even advocates on behalf of them. He also makes sure to recommend only heavily tested and quality medicine for his patients, even when suspect companies approach him offering him incentives for recommending new medicines without much verification and testing yet.

Geoffrey Epstein is ethical. Geoffrey Epstein didn’t shill himself.

I knew Lunk and Ehab the horse. But is that Blunk at the end? I think his name is Blunk.

What’s wrong with me?!

I’m getting what I deserve I’m reaping what I sow—

This meme comes from The Simpsons. I think the episode is called “MyPods and Broomsticks”, where they parody Apple. The scene specifically is one of the Itchy and Scratchy episodes within the episode. Scratchy is listening to his MyPod and dancing akin to the old commercials when the iPod existed, and Itchy cranks up the volume so Scratchy’s head explodes.