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Polyphemus almost marrying Grover might seem random at first. You wouldn't be blamed if assumed that Rick did that cuz satyrs and goats, and he raises sheeps, but there's also more precedent than that

It's a reference to a small comedy theater piece, Cyclops, by Euripides, very Adam Sandler type of humor. Where Polyphemus tries to, er, marry a satyr named Silenus. In this version, tough, he is aware he is satyr, and that he is a man, even comparing Silenus to Ganimedes.

The whole thing very much reads like Odyssey's fanfic (aren't those popular nowdays?), if a bunch of satyrs somehow got on board with Odysseu's crew. It might have something to do with the very obscure reference that quots Penelope as Pan's mother, but I'll not be the one uraveling that one

That's like an act of an Avatar, like separating an island, fighting a volcano, that's a level of power only the Avatar was shown to be able to perform

It's hard to measure what's the norm for air benders, cuz we only have very few examples in the shows, and one of them is Aang, who's the Avatar prodigy, but the other elements really never measure to anything like this. The closest thing to it, was when Ozai was up to his eye balls in Sozin's juice, and, even then, I don't think it quiet measures to it alone

It probably was just a bit of power scaling moving on, as the more the story goes on, more it streches what the magic system can do, as there is that impulse to write a cool scene, and Kelsang was just a leap

But I do wonder what would be the in universe justification. There are things in Avatar's world that enhance's a bender power, like if the winds are already strong, like Autum or a storm. Tough, I certainly doubt they were sailing in a storm

When Percy meets Hermes, he asks Percy for a soda

This is a reference to Bauci and Philemon (yes, like a digimon), where Hermes does a secret test of character by begging food

Zeus decides to destroy humanity, but Hermes convinced him to see if there were good humans. They them disguise themselves as humans and go home to home asking hospitality (yes, like Sodoma and Gomorra), until they're accepted by Bauci and Philemon, who share the little of food they had.

The funny part is that Hermes puts a spell on their bag so it never runs out of food, no matter how much they take

This, off course, might also be referenced in Leo's utility belt.

Philemon and Bauci are also referenced in the interactive story Demigods of Olympus, as restaurant with infinity refiel

As the god of travelers, Hermes was big on the hospitality thing, so Percy is essentially passing a secret test of character when he offers him drink while Hermes is "disguised"

With Shadow of Kyoshi, when he was talking to Aang, he lied

And we have thousands of possible justifications for why he did, he was trying to cover Yangchen's legacy, he told Aang what he had to hear. Whatever, I'm not questioning the retcon

The spirits weren't angry cuz he was neglecting his duties, they did it cuz he kept killing them. And he kept killing them cuz they were angry. Catch 88.

But Aang was put in the same situation, fighting a spirit duo to a promise Yangchen had mediated being broken, and knowing the true could have helped Aang a lot, because he really didn't know how Yu Dao could escalate to a ful on life time war against the spirits

I can imagine Kuruk learning General Old Iron is going to the material old, and desperatly dialing the avatar phone, but the lines are down

Afterwards everything, he pulls Aang, like, "...so, about killing Old Iron."

Most animes have some level of super strenght and durability, with the roots of shonen in martial arts animes like Dragon Ball. Specially with isekais popularizing the overpowered protagonist trope

And I don't think it's bad, on contrary, this is popular for a reson. But watching JoJo and Daemons of The Shadow Realm, both animes with summoning based super powers, it is really refreshing to see protagonists having to worry about injuries from things smaller than meteorite

Writing wise, it really open so many more possibilities for fight coreography

A zibra is genetically close to a horse, so Percy probablt can talk to any Equidae, like horses, zibras and donkeys and mules.

But what if something like a deer or a camel? It's not genetically a horse, but it is similar. Maybe Poseidon has like a trade mark dispute with Prometheus over having copied his designs

It definetly should work on a moose, cuz mooses dive underwater,

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Seagulls! It's literally in the name!

You know, "the writer should've (proceeds to describe something completly unrelated to the story's themes) instead"?

The closest thing I've seen is they wasted a perfectly good plot point, but I think it's different from that. Like, something that isn't a plot point in the original story, but the fandom kinda gets lost in headcanons and what ifs and then patting themselves on the back for coming up from something better

You know when a writer comes up with a concept, there is like infinity possibilities to where it takes the story? But when you actually write the thing, it kinda has to callapse into one thing?

This fandom tendency I'm seeing is kinda like when Tolkien writes "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit", he has to write the story, but the fandom kinda goes, actually, hobbits should like in trees and Bilbo should've been a dwarf instead, and the story is bad because he isn't.

Só pra deixar claro, esse não é um post sobre se houve traição, porquê eu só vejo as pessoas discutirem isso sobre Dom Casmurro, mas sim sobre o POV do filho do casal

Não importa de que lado da cerca você fique, o Ezequiel é uma figura tão trágica, quase morto pelo próprio pai, e então abandonado.

Ele obviamente saberia que algum bafafá danado aconteceu para os pais se divorciarem daquela forma, e ele nunca mais ver o pai. Mas eu sempre me perguntei o quanto ele saberia

Segundo o Ezequiel (ou, melhor, segundo o que o Casmurro diz que o Ezequiel diz), a mãe dele descrevia o Bentinho da forma mais magnanime, o que é bem difícil de pensar, considerando que ele tentou matar o filho dela envenenado

Considerando o livro, pode

a) Catupí realmente falava bem do Bentinho, seja por culpa ou até por ainda ter carinho pelo ex-marido, apesar de tudo

b) Ezequiel estava mentindo, pra não fazer desfeita ao pai

c) Casmurro estava mentindo ou lembrando errado ou exagerando

O que leva a questão de que Ezequiel ainda tratava o Bentinho como pai, apesar de não vê-lo a muito tempo, e apesar das circunstâncias do divórcio.

Isso obviamente descarta a ideia de que ele se lembrava de que o pai tentou assassiná-lo por cafezinho. O que faz sentido, ele era tão pequeno, pode ser a Catupi quis proteger ele da verdade. E ele deve não saber ou não acreditar na ideia do Bentinho de que o Escobar era seu pai de verdade

Ou então o Dom Casmurro mentiu. De novo, sempre uma possibilidade.