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og image is from hiihorse on insta :pp

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Haley! I don’t play but my bsf loves her <3

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I just feel like everyone in the Carry On fandom should read In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan and the graphic novel Fence by C.S. Pacat 😌

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one of my favourite things in in other lands is that elliot is such an unreliable narrator that you can really only tell on a reread. like sure, some of the things he says it's oh no boy you are definitely not comprehending something here (see Luke being upset for Unknown Reasons after elliot revealed that Adam tried to kiss him) but other things he presents so matter of factly that you really gotta look at what he's saying to see all the levels of bullshit going on

and this is majorly in part due to his massive amounts of self loathing

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this is so real

A few people in the tags on my Agatha romance plot line poll are voicing the same sorts of thoughts I had. I did not like her romance plot line because she had all these lines in the two previous books that, to me and many others, were implying her aromanticism. To have a chapter from her POV where she expresses feeling broken due to a suspected inability to feel that type of attraction only to later have this “resolved” by her finding the right person was extremely frustrating and disappointing.

Even beyond an aro reading of the character, it’s disappointing to see her coupled up at the end of the third book. So much of the first book was about subverting the expectations that come from these types of stories. One of these expectations seemed to me to be not just that the chosen one gets the perfect girl, but that all the characters are neatly coupled up by the end and have romance as a part of their story. In the first book not only is Agatha not with Simon, the chosen one, her supposed destiny, she’s not interested in coupling up and fulfilling that expectation placed on her by the world in which she lives and by the type of story she inhabits, at all. It feels like backtracking on her character growth to watch a romance play out for her in the third book.

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agatha being aromantic is real to ME

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number one truther of simon drools in his sleep and baz finds it terribly charming

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Had to draw the trio from from my fave book by @sarahreesbrennan as I reread for the millionth time 😮‍💨 They’re so fun