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The funniest and greatest part of trc was going from blue’s pov (poly and raised in a commune) to ronan’s pov (catholic and insane). One chapter blue is like me and the boys are all in love with each other, the concept of having one true love is limiting because loving someone now doesn’t negate the love you might feel for someone else in the future, i can kiss my friends and be attracted to them without anything changing between us and next chapter you have ronan going if after i die my boyfriend likes someone else more than me or even the same amount as me i’m dreaming a bomb and blowing us all up.

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the US education system isn't even that bad. many countries have objectively worse-funded education systems, but don't display the same belligerent idiocy as them. the fundamental issue is that USAmericans have no real reason to care about the rest of the world, as it will never meaningfully affect their lives unless they decide to go on vacation or take part in an invasion. their lack of intellectual curiosity is because the rest of the world never really registers as a real place.

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drops them in a gothic horror au

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adam being able to stay on top of his classes while working three jobs while helping gansey find glendower while framing their teacher for murder while investing in his gay teenage romance while coping with a recent break up and his best friend dating that girl now while bringing his dad to court while moving out of his parents place into his own place while evolving into who he really is will always be incredibly impressive if you think about it he’s basically Barbie

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i often wonder whether the reason wymack is so lenient with andrew is bc andrew reminds him so much of himself. he’s fiercely, violently protective - something wymack can understand, as he beat his dad up for hurting his mother - and andrew is honestly a lot more aligned in the giving-people-an-extra-chance-than-they-thought-they’d-get ideology than the upperclassmen are.

think, andrew only accepting the fox contract bc nicky and aaron could get their degrees as well - something that would have been years off for aaron without a scholarship, and wouldn’t have been done at all (at least, not in the states) for nicky. think, kevin getting the chance to learn to stand on his own feet, neil getting the chance to learn to stop running, both bc of andrew. even his method of getting aaron clean gives aaron the chance to do what he wants with his life - though, it obviously could’ve been handled better, i believe that andrew chose to lock aaron in the bathroom because he knew that aaron wanted to go to med school, to become a doctor, which would have become a lot more difficult if he’d had rehab on his record. even with matt, though again his methods aren’t great, andrew gives him the opportunity to get sober for good. he’s constantly giving people the chance to deal with their issues for good, not by coddling them but by forcing them to turn around and face them head on. as far as giving out extra chances at life goes, that’s a pretty solid way to get people to turn their own life around for the better.

in fact, andrew goes out of his way to tell renee that he won’t break his neck for the upperclassmen, so that renee knows she should watch their backs. he didn’t have to tell her anything, he could’ve just left them all to their own devices, but he still gave them the opportunity for safety even tho they’d already written him off completely by that point.

idk maybe this analysis is off and ppl don’t agree with me but even in the books andrew is said to be ‘collecting strays’, which is exactly what wymack does.

just - wymack and andrew are very similar, and i love their relationship to bits.

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The Raven King // Greywaren // Richard Siken // Call Down The Hawk

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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