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Idk Gertrude being asexual and also being immortal is actually so important. Directly challenging the notion that asexual people can't possibly live their entire lives without sex and enjoy that life. She has a wonderful life and loves her friends (even with the nuance that she dislikes her curse of immortality)!

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Magnus Bane and Misty Moore/Rowan Berry diva-off when

I’m really hoping that I’m not the only person who’s thought of this but are there any crossover fics between Shadowhunters The Mortal Instruments and Dimension 20 The Unsleeping City

They’re both urban fantasy hidden world stories set in New York, surely I am not the only person who has been exposed to both of these enough to think of this

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growing up is realising Edmund's betrayal actually wasn't betrayal at all but just a stupid mistake of a kid that had bigger consequences than he could have known.

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So I rewatched The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe today and I gotta say it's weird to me that people misunderstand Edmund and rag on him about getting taken in by the White Witch because it could have happened to any of the siblings.

In fact, Lucy does the exact same thing Edmund does when she first comes to Narnia. She trusts the first person she meets, goes to his house, eats his food and is put under a spell. Literally the only difference is that Tumnus regretted his actions because he wasn't evil. The White Witch had no regrets about how she manipulated Edmund, but the fact remains that she and Tumnus do the same things.

If Lucy had encountered the Witch the first time she was in Narnia, it would have been incredibly easy for the Witch to trick her, probably without even using enchanted food. Lucy was very willing to trust Tumnus until he actually told her he was kidnapping her. If the Witch had been charming with her and asked her to bring her siblings to Narnia Lucy would have tried, just like Edmund.

Susan wouldn't have been much harder, but she would definitely have required some sort of spell since she's so skeptical. But we know that, presented with the actual evidence that Narnia exists, Susan does accept it. From there it'd be fairly easy for the Witch to manipulate her by playing off how Susan's siblings don't like to listen to her logic even when she's right or has better ideas. I think Susan would also like the idea of being a queen and making her siblings listen to her.

Peter is a little harder, just because he's older and more cautious, but I think that it could be done. He has, honestly, the same vice as Edmund at the beginning. He's frustrated at the defiance his little brother is giving him and overwhelmed by the situation he's in. If the Witch could convince him that, when she made him king, his siblings would finally obey him, I think that he, like Edmund, would fall for it (especially if magic was involved in tricking him).

So, yeah, Edmund is just the kid who happens to get taken in by the Witch, but it could have been ANY of the siblings who betrayed the others. And that's the point. Edmund could be any of us- and at the same time, he is all of us. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." That is the point that Lewis is making with Edmund. It is so easy to let ourselves be deceived when we hear what we want to hear, because that road seems so much easier. But in the end it traps us and enslaves us, like Edmund was to the Witch, and there is only one who can pay the price for our betrayal.

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Can we talk about how chaotic Narnian battles would feel?? Especially in Prince Caspian. Like, imagine you’re a little Telmarine soldier waiting for the catapults to go and you’ve got all your regiments in nice orderly rows and these two 16 year olds suddenly yell “charge” and the ground opens up beneath you, a mouse with a sword the size of a large pencil takes out your bestie, a griffin drops a dwarf 5 ft away from you and he comes up swinging. As you try to rationalize this, you’re stabbed by a twelve year old with a British accent. Finally, a really freaking big lion shows up, roars, and your entire army collectively pees their pants. At one point in the movie (yes I know the movies aren’t quite the same as the book but they’re still good) Peter says like “we have the element of surprise” like dude, you have drafted the trees I’m pretty sure everyone’s gonna be surprised no matter what.

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riz and adaine's little internal nerd club within the bad kids is soooo important to me. riz compiles dossiers of information for his failing party members that are like an inch thick, stuffed full of papers and forms and pamphlets about all the ways they can improve their academic standing, and then just so adaine feels included he makes a folder for her that's empty and simply says "hey adaine!" inside. literally who is doing it like them

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one of the best parts of fantasy high is that none of the main characters are in love with each other. they’re literally just the bestest friends ever. there’s also no drama, no backstabbing. just bestest friends. they’re all ride or die and would do anything for one another.

this becomes even funnier when you realize that the messiness got passed on to their parents instead. all of them have fucked each other. they’ve cheated on one another. there’s even been an std spread around them. they’re the pilf polycule.

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I don’t know if anyone will be able to do it like a starstruck odyssey did it. Being on your phone is 100% the right thing to do in a battle sometimes. Two guys make out sloppy style while the slugs in their brain duke it out. Entire armies of space ships are being put on hold by the psychic comms officer. Unhinged, all of it. No one is doing it like the Wurst

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It's always incredible to see how good Emily is at taking advantage of the rules of the world while going for out of the box moves that not many people could come up with.

One of my favorite incredibly genius moments is in FHSY, using the Forest of the Nightmare King rule that makes things real to make gems to revivify out of nothing.

Brennan said "in this space all the scary things Kalina does become real, your nightmares are real and WILL hurt you" and Emily went "Bet? Then if I create gems they are real too and my friends come back to life"

I love her mind, she is terrifyingly ingenious

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Shout out to this incredible exchange in a time quangle youtube comment section

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the average creator will never canonize a crackship. zac oyama, who yes ands a crackship into canon once a quangle, is an outlier and will not be counted.

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the prefrontal P.I.'s are getting along great so far. best friends forever

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dan fucks' pep talk ability adds such a funny layer to hunchfucks because why is fucks giving hunch weird pep talks that hunch remembers in times of hardship. why were they standing in front of a cow together. what led to "friends are a lot like steaks"

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I thought my blorbo was gonna be the sad detectives but truly I think it's the sexually repressed mad scientist who skulled maple syrup, who has thought about a girl who smiled at him everyday of his life since it happened, who tried to do a good thing once and it went so bad that he decided to never do that again until his midlife crisis hit him like a freight train and led to his defenestration.

I really do love this corporate freak, hope he freedives into total career meltdown, abandons his job, goes get laid and buys a lizard

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mentopolis is one of my favorite seasons because the premise is “what if inside out was set as a 30s noir, and the entire movie took place during the craziest 2 minutes of this depressed person’s life” and the moral is “maybe step away from work & be kinder to yourself and you’ll calm down”

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broke: i hyperfocus on things because im neurodivergent

woke: The Fix in my brain is more ripped than average