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A big talking point around Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld is the concern about it getting cancelled after the first season. Many people seem apprehensive about starting the show because they don't want to get invested in something that's going to leave them hanging. Many other people are pointing out this is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy; people don't watch the show because they're afraid it will get cancelled, and then it gets cancelled because not enough people watched the show.

I'm going to side-step that argument and make a different one: you should watch Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld because it's still a great show even if it does get cancelled after its first season. While it would be awesome for this show to continue, what we have right now is a rather complete story that doesn't leave you hanging. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger and there aren't really any loose threads after the finale. If someone told me Jentry Chau was intended to be one season only from the beginning, I'd believe them.

I'm not saying Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld shouldn't continue. I really want it to. What I'm saying is that you're not risking as much by watching the first season now as you may think it you are. The people that made the show have voiced that they want to make more, but they clearly made the first season to stand on its own in case they can't.

So please, watch Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. It does not need more, but I and everyone else who's watched it really want more.

The discus was fucking deadly and homophobic what the hell?? TWO different gay lovers of 2 different gods killed by a fucking metal frisbee?? And then both dudes were turned into purple and yellow flowers??

Also imagine being the fastest god and not being fast enough to save your boyfriend. Imagine being the god of medicine and not being able to heal your boyfriend. Fucking tragic.

Here's the long-promised Latin resources masterpost! Resource recs are always appreciated and I'll try to update this post from time to time. :)

Study and fluency tips, plus my review of a few different Latin textbooks here

Free online resources here

Suggestions for if you've studied Latin in the past and want to brush up/re-learn here

Tips for expanding vocabulary here

Links for Latin literature and suggestions on which works to start with here

Salvete!

if you’re not ending your emails with “kill me! your slave and enemy,” then what are you doing with your life

pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

im only a man when im a grown ass man and im only a woman when god forbid women do anything

any time other than that? im a fucking Echidna

If by some miracle sweet potato Hitler doesn't win come the end of the week, this won't be necessary, but should he win here are some of the first things to be aware of or do.

If you know a trans person, no you don't. Respect them as best you can in private but you know nothing in public.

Be aware that TikTok will likely be banned, find new platforms to spread information. Fuck Twitter and what ever tiktok replacement he's working on.

Learn to Garden, even in winter so you can feed yourself should prices skyrocket

Get an air purifier. The Clean Air Act is likely to be stripped of its power with the EPA deregulated, air quality is going to suffer

Should you have kids, try to supplement history/social studies education. That's the first place they will attack, if you need help ask, history teacher will help

Try and do what you can to be aware of your health before January.

Help one another. That's the best way we can move forward and make change in the future.

Can we just... stop harassing greek myth media artists on TikTok? They're people too, and i've spoken to quite a few of the creators people are targetting. They're all just really nice people who don't deserve the hate

You don't have to hate on SfS because it's not like Epic. Casper had stated multiple times that he was making something different, so don't hate on something just because it's not what you thought it'd be.

You don't need to hate on epic artists for not following canon one to one. It's an interpretation for a reason, to be INTERPERATED in a different way than the original source material!

Don't be an ass because you don't like someone's design, it's clear that most if not all people who complain about this have no idea how hard it is to come up with a design you feel good with using.

Seriously, pull yourself together and fuck off.

me, praying: “let your deadly arrows strike the evildoers and tormenters in this world, as you have done so valiantly before. vanquisher of evil, shine light on us mortals, and free us from oppressive forces, remind us how you got your epithets!”

Apollon: “… you’ve gotta stop asking me to kill politicians”

me: “please just one arrow you know exactly where to aim it”

I've been rotating this thought in my mind for a while: People in fandom have a very weird fixation on age gaps.

There's a tendency to instantly assume an age gap is always bad or problematic but it's not the case at all, especially in fiction and doubly so for a human/non-human ship.

The most recent example would be Kit and Jentry (from Jentry Chau vs The Underworld).

Let's start from the general topic: When is the age an issue?

Most rational people acknowledge age gaps are pretty common in real life. Between adults, an age gap isn't as much of a problem because we're dealing with people on the same stage of life, a 24yo shouldn't have any issues dating a 30yo just by the virtue of one party being older. They're both years into adulthood there's no moral or legal argument to make there.

A 30yo dating an 18yo raises eyebrows because we recognize the difference between their lives experiences, it's still not immoral or illegal but many would find it suspect due to a potential power imbalance compounding with financial dependence or adult life experience. It still doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is exploitative or abusive just because of the age gap but the probability of it is way higher.

The age gaps between minors can be similarly suspect just as in a case of a minor and a freshly minted adult. Things like that need to be carefully evaluated on a case by case basis.

Now, to the point: fictional characters dating non-human/long lived/immortal characters when is it problematic and when it doesn't matter at all?

The fictional narratives often play around with what age means for an immortal character, how they perceive the passage of time, how they grow and change with time, if at all?

In case of Kit, the narrative positions him in a similar spot to Michael who's a regular highschooler. He behaves in ways consistent with a teenager too, socially clumsy, not very developed emotionally and impulsive just like Jentry. The only mark of his age we can see is the compounded trauma he carries with him.

He has no social advantage over other characters, no financial advantage, no maturity advantage as his lived experience in society is so different and fragmented he cannot reliably pull from it to have an upper hand in any way.

That's why it personally drives me a bit crazy when people pull the age gap card as if it matters when it's the least relevant part of why he should never be together with Jentry. With so many other, serious red flags about him, throwing an absurd "pedophile" label diminishes the angles of possible character interpretation. It makes people miss out on all of the things that are actually wrong with him that should be talked about more and are leagues more interesting.