#Jerico Soberanis

[writingdesksrasin]

AOAS is actually so weird out of context. The main baddie is literally from mars, he killed an entire planet, was beheaded, and then started wearing one of the MC’s best friend’s body like the other 17% of the headless horseman for the ~drama~. One of the main driving plot points of the first book is Mars Man kidnapping Basically The President’s daughter and forcing the MC to babysit her against his will while he studies to get his license to kill. My man floods Basically NATO with mind-controlled sharks and yells “lol nope, u thought” while watching world leaders get eaten from a helicopter. The B-plot is New Jesus trying to navigate the intricacies of religion and developing a dysfunctional-ass found family that consists of his tour manager, a stubborn but devout theatre kid, a jean-cloaked ex-killer, and Robot God. He falls in love with a sexy sea captain who gets possessed by Robot God bc it’s in love. There’s deep talks about nature and morality of humanity. The two MC’s bang while dying of hypothermia while sinking to the bottom of the ocean. This isn’t even half of it.

[arcofacatboy]

Please read this whole post, there’s no meme or catch to this, I’m not staying quiet on this.

this is the first post I’m making about Neal Shusterman’s recent actions - the second is about AI art usage, but this is so, so much more important.

Neal being complicit in the genocide that is occurring currently in Palestine and Gaza. Neal seems to have just gotten back from a book tour promoting a graphic novel he wrote, called Courage to Dream, which is about the Holocaust. He sent an email to everyone subscribed to his online newsletter.

Neal took this as an opportunity to state that he saw how “both sides” - both Israel and Palestinians - were doing things he did not condone, and that he would be remaining neutral.

Obviously Neal isn’t wrong in some of his wording, but what he’s fundamentally trying to say here is wrong and harmful. It doesn’t take someone who has lived through genocide to recognize that a genocide is happening. Genocide is a complex topic, but not in a “both sides should be shown kindness” way. It is complex in the fact that this has been going on for years, that history is repeating itself, and that people in positions of power are so easily falling for Zionist and colonialist propaganda because of their own bigotry and bias against those living in Palestine. How did you just go on tour promoting a book about the stories of people who were being targeted and killed in a genocide, and your first statement upon returning from that tour is to email all the subscribers of your newsletter that you’re “not qualified” to talk about genocide, and that you’re refusing to support the people being eradicated? Why did you write a book about genocide in the first place if you didn’t think you were qualified to talk about it? How do you write a whole graphic novel detailing the stories of people in what is the most known genocide in modern history and not see that Israel is trying to wipe Palestinians off the map?

Being opposed to genocide isn’t a simplistic opinion. It’s fucking common sense.

[only-a-moment-ago]

I love greyson and jeri because what do you mean this was all in their VERY FIRST INTERACTION

"I very much like your eyes..." (later) Greyson found himself blushing despite himself.

Greyson had entered this whole thing assuming he would be in control of the conversation, but clearly he was not. And yet he was beginning to grin as well. He was sure, though, that he only had one grin, and that it looked profoundly stupid

Jeri smiled with the warmth of the Madagascan sun. "Hello, Greyson." That simple greeting seemed to both melt him and freeze him at once. Madagascans were known to be charming- perhaps that was all. Or perhaps not. he realized he'd have to unpack it later.

"I noticed a change in your physiology as you spoke to the salvage captain," the Thunderhead said. (later) "I believe she had an effect on you," it said.

[annoying--moth]

[haljeexyee]

Scythe meme’s day: ???

YOU GUYS TIED THE POLE SO I HAD TO DO BOTH OF THE SHIPS 🫶

Characters: Greyson Tolliver, Jerico Soberanis, Scythe Morrison — Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

Scythe Characters As Weird Shit My Friends And I Say Because I Can

Curie, standing on a stepladder: You don't have to be straight, the clock has to be straight.

Citra: Well that's rude. The clock can be whatever it wants to be.

Rowan: Let the clock love who it wants to love!

Rand: I was just giving a detailed explanation of how you suck it.

Volta: I'm gonna crash this fucking car.

Chomsky: Sometimes you just gotta do it and see what happens.

Volta: You knew what would happen! It blew up!

Mentor! Faraday: She's attacking me!

Apprentice! Curie: I'm hugging you.

Rowan: Do-nut order donuts.

Citra: I hate you.

Goddard: My god, Xenocrates! There's a fuck you!

Tyger: Wow, my head really just flew across the room.

Rand: I'm taking your silence as a sign I should kill the child.

Rowan, to Citra: Did you die? Guess I'll die too.

Greyson, gesturing proudly at Jeri: Nonbinary noodle!

Faraday, in the middle of a thought: -ledge.

Munira: Ledge?

Faraday, nodding: Ledge.

[bugwat3r]

[nczaversnick]

Can we please pour one out for the Jerichos?

Both Jerico Soberanis (Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman) and Jericho Northwood (The Last Magician series by Lisa Maxwell) unapologetically kick ass and take names in their respective stories. Both die (and technically survive the end of the story) protecting the female protagonist (and none of them are romantically entangled in any way)

These two characters die to defend what she represents and out of hope for the future. For the idea that things should be different than they are and I love them both for it

[fortheloveofapples]

The ending of The Toll absolutely floored me. I am in tears

[gayscytheblog]

AOAS AS FURBIES BECAUSE I LOVE THEM

I love furb… and aoas…

Citra Terranova

Giraffe 1998/99 Furb or Tiger 1998/99 Furb

She wears her robe almost all the time bc it’s cool :3

Uuuh I forgot her eye color it was brown I think though

Black beak and turquoise tongue because it’s COOL

Sassy bitch

Ben Terranova

Seahorse 1999 Furby Baby

Idiot gay boy

Rowan Damisch

Witches Cat 1998/99 Furb

Brown eyes

Black beak and red tongue bc hes edgy

Idk what he would wear for clothes, maybe his robe??? Idk

Might revoke his eyelash rights. Might.

Scythe Faraday

Koala 1998/99 Furb

Black eyes bc IDK

Wears his robe all the time

No lashes because fuck you Faraday you don’t get pretty boy privileges (i love faraday though)

Grey beak and black tongue

Scythe Curie

Champagne 1998/99 Furb or Snowball 1998/99 Furb

Light grey eyes with a tint of purple at the bottoms

Always wears her robe

Light purple beak and dark purple tongue

Shitlord Goddard

This one

Faceplate would be dark blue or black though

Dark blue beak, light blue tongue

Scythe Volta

BUMBLE BEE 1998/99 FURB (one of my favs)

Yellow eyes. Not bc it’s canon but because they would be COOL.

Uuuuuuh brown or black beak with yellow tongue

Always wears his robe

Has some scars on his feet and sides (from s/h)

50/50 on the lashes, might look better without.

Scythe Rand

Peacock looking Furby Boom (2013) (or a green custom Furb Boom)

But her Furby faceplate thingy would be dark green instead

Black beak, dark green tongue

Black ears would look cool

Dark green feet would also look cool

Scythe Morrison

Dragon 1998/99 Furb

Wears his fucking jean robe everywhere

Jurby

Jerico Soberanis (as suggested by my boyfriend)

Gorilla 1998/99 Furb

Brown eyes (def has some cool gold accents though bc ITS COOL)

Wears gold jewelry and shirt

Gold beak, uuuuuuuh black tongue bc it looks cool

Greyson Tolliver

Wolf 1998/99 Furb or Church Mouse 1998/99 Furb

Grey feet though

Wears his weird The Toll shit because it makes him look less boring

Grey eyes

Grey beak

Purple tongue because it matches his outfit

The Thunderhead (if it was a Furb)

Thundy would be a Furby Connect (2016) and idk which one but it would be one.

Just less farting and more uh

Serious Thunderhead shit

EXTRAS:

Scythe Alighieri

This but different hair and eyes.

Gross.

Scythe Hypatia (bc shes silly)

Belongs to @sp1derbitez :3!!

Red Wolf 1998/99 Furb

Possibly silvery eyes? Idk it would look cool

Originally didn’t have eyelashes but she gave herself eyelashes bc she’s cool

Dark brown beak with a dark red tongue

Always wears robe

[eversoslightlyburnttoast]

Jeri is in the works, a little nervous to ink and color. I dont wanna mess this drawing up and do her dirty 😭

[moosha-mushroom]

Scythe Art dump istg the fandom is dead and I intend to resurrect it. Greyson is so fucking amazing. I love him so goddamn much.

[arcofacatboy]

also Neal shusterman or someone on his social media team is doing shady shit involving AI art

Separating this from the post about Neal taking a “neutral” (complicit) stance on genocide, since art thievery and falsely crediting an artist is much, much less harmful than encouraging people to stay silent about the genocide in Palestine.

On December 7th, 2023, Neal Shusterman made this post to his various social media accounts - I took the screenshot from his Twitter.

Neal does fanart promotion all the time, so this was nothing out of the ordinary for him, except that even though I’ve only read half of Gleanings, I could immediately tell that this wasn’t a character from Gleanings, with the obvious clue being that Rowan is the only character in the series to have ever worn a black robe, and this clearly isn’t supposed to be him.

You’ll notice I blurred the artist’s name here - I did that intentionally so they don’t face harassment from people who didn’t read my post closely enough, but if you want to support her work you can easily find this post on Neal’s socials and get her username (while it’s linked on all of his social medias, the username corresponds to an Instagram account).

To me, this post screamed AI generated artwork, and the more I looked into it, the worse it seemed to get. The cover of the copy of Gleanings in that “photo” is in German - the artist Neal credited does not seem to speak any German whatsoever. In that case, why would they pick a copy of Gleanings in a language they don’t speak to overlay this art? The artist Neal credited never posted this piece of artwork, although they had made a different piece of fanart for the series that was in a completely different style to this one. The style of the piece of AOAS fanart the artist posted THEMSELVES had a completely different art style from the art Neal credited them with.

I ended up reaching out to the artist and asked if they had actually drawn this art piece, or if they knew who did. They responded today.

(My message before I sent the screenshot to them was apologizing for confusing wording in my original messages, and the fact Instagram’s crappy messaging system never sent them the art piece I was asking about in the first place. This confused the artist, which is partially my fault since I used a translator app to translate my message into their native language, which I’m sure screwed up grammar somewhere. I wanted to make sure they knew I wasn’t accusing THEM of using AI, but rather suspecting someone was using AI and saying they drew the AI generated art.)

So, Neal, or someone who manages his social media, put this artist in a damn hard spot and told everyone that the artist made something that was made by AI. And again, absolutely no hate or disrespect to the artist, they didn’t know this was happening and they were very kind and understanding. If you do seek out their account, give them a follow!

[only-a-moment-ago]

Citra: You know, Jeri gives Greyson flowers all the time. I wish you would be more like them. Rowan: Okay...? *later* Rowan: *gives flowers to greyson* Greyson: Wha- Rowan: I don't know man I'm just as confused

[annoying--moth]

Oh yeah here's this Jeri I drew

[haljeexyee]

Day 3: Kinda nsfw but this is funny and reminded me of them

Characters: Greyson Tolliver (The Toll), Jerico Soberanis — Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman