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A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!

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Trend i’m noticing looking for books with my little sister

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if i'm not DISGUSTINGLY in love with at least one (1) of the characters in any given piece of media it is not for me. if i have no one to crawl and weep for? can't get into it. if there is not one single character that makes me want to bash my head through a wall and then write ten thousand (fictional or academic) words about them then what is the point. respectfully

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Made an arcane fan animation hehe

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man of progress

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adam + looking out for people

(all excerpts from book 1)

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in another universe, they grow up together

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“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”

— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit

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is there anything so undoing as a daughter?

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Why can’t we just stay right here?

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1. gansey saying this literally at all is fucking INSANE . 2. "good" implies that ronan did indeed nod like he understood. 3. ronan being upset that his little task got taken from him .... god. i think this was not discussed as it should have been

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media like arcane, into the spiderverse, and castlevania have permanently raised my bar for what mature fantasy/sci fi series can look like

can you imagine if any of those were live action?

everything fantastical should be animated. thats my take

EVERYTHING

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Everything between Jayce and Viktor can really be traced back to their childhood inciting incidents and it’s killing me.

Jayce: a miracle saves him and his mom, forever imprinting him with the certainty that miracles do exist, they can be controlled, he can save his loved ones no matter how awful things get, if he can just be smart and bold and quick enough.

Viktor: he saw the horror of what Singed had done—of forcing a creature to live against its will, of the degradation and terror of being fundamentally changed. For a while he thought he understood Singed, when he decided that he was willing to throw away all his principles to survive his own body. But he didn’t, really. He didn’t understand. There was still a line he would not cross. He wanted to die human.

It’s fitting, then, and unspeakably tragic, that Jayce is the one who played Singed’s role in the end. Because you can’t ask Jayce to let a loved one go, when he knows there’s a miracle that can save him, the solution is right there, it will work if you will just let him try—and so he forces a change onto Viktor against his will. He traps him into the Arcane, takes apart and reassembles his body, strips him of his selfhood and humanity. All so that Viktor will live. Singed wasn’t talking about the desperation not to die—he was talking about the desperation not to lose someone you love.

And so Viktor is…changed. He lives, whether he wants to or not.

And so Jayce loses him anyway.

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understatement of the year

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Gansey’s moment of “she makes me quiet” when all Blue has ever been for others is an amplifier will never not live rent free in my mind

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Haikyuu, AFTG, Six of crows, The raven cycle... do I just love media with crows/ravens in it?