#alex bailey

[cryoverlife]

The only reason some “kid’s books” are called kid’s books is cause the trauma the twelve year old went through is never properly addressed.

[pansy-picnics]

i love these guys i wish the people drawing art for this book had any idea what 11-15 year olds looked like

[jingledbells]

ngl i don’t like either of alex’s love interests. she needs to kiss a girl instead

[your-mommy-ems]

the land of stories

i wasn't a harry potter or pjo girlie i was a land of stories and tale of magic girlieeee. this also took me a little longer cause i got lazy halfway through finding everything and making it ����

@arqbella, @midiosaamor, @runwiththerain, @maybxlle, @xo-zozo

[astro-can]

tweaking because I’m hyperfixating on the land of stories again

[lucyshypemaster]

in another universe, alex bailey and sophie foster are best friends.

[beyondtheseaofstars]

the feeling when you get possessed

[bouncybouncy-bubbles]

[blanks--pace]

Rubbing my hands together like an evil fly I love making crossovers that only appeal to me

Alex and Rin, my two favourite characters that have a lot more in common than you'd expect

[tootalltech]

okay i have thought for A While now (and not without talking to one of my tlos friends, shout out sam <3) that chris colfer did not have lloyd in mind at all when he wrote the first 2 books of tlos. like he hadn't even come up with him. and i think there's a lot of evidence for this that is not ENTIRELY explained by the argument of "well john and fg just wanted to keep his existence a secret from the twins". but i realized last night that maybe one of the strongest pieces of evidence is EZMIA.

because here's the thing. bear with me for a second. ezmia absolutely knew about john's existence, right? like. alright i don't have the second book on me rn but she clearly knew about charlotte, and she wouldn't know about charlotte without knowing of john (iirc she thinks charlotte is alex, but this still shows that she knows of john because how else would she know that the fairy godmother has a granddaughter, right?). and given the fact that she was fg's protegee, she would have been around both john AND LLOYD during her training. those are the sons of her mentor who live in the same kingdom (and probably the exact same castle) as she does. lloyd is literally referred to as "the other heir" by fg, which i guess indicates that ezmia was needed to replace lloyd? because he would've been the heir after john but then his magic got drained? point is he would've been around at the same time ezmia was being trained, and especially if she was needed to REPLACE him, she would have known about him. i've seen others point out that they probably would've been about the same age. now. keeping all this in mind...

do you really think. that if ezmia knew about this terrible uncle the twins have (AND SHE THINKS CHARLOTTE IS ONE OF THE TWINS FOR A WHILE), she really wouldn't have dangled it in their faces every chance she got? especially if she realized when talking to the real alex and conner that they don't even know who this guy is. don't you think she would've taunted them with it, given the way she is. don't you think she would've tried to rub it in charlotte's face during one of their scenes together. but she does nothing of the sort. you know why? because chris colfer hadn't thought of lloyd yet. LMAO.

it's not a big deal. i still love tlos and all the books with lloyd especially but like. think of the missed opportunities with lloyd. think about how much it could've been hinted at in the first 2 books if chris had thought of it. it would've been so fun. if anyone has lines in the first 2 books that they think ARE hints at him then please let me know because i think what's in there is just evidence to the contrary LMAO

[pansy-picnics]

Hey there are land of stories fans here right? I was thinking about it again am i the only one who just gets unreasonably angry thinking about the ending of book 2 for no reason. LIKE THE BUILDUP IS SOOO FUCKING GOOD AND THEN IT JUST. DROPS. FOR NO REASON. AND EYE HATE IT.

conners abandonment issues and alex’s rejection sensitivity are just bubbling up for the first time in SUCH a tense scene here it’s genuinely SO powerful because the narrative has been hinting towards their separate paths for the ENTIRE BOOK and conners been REJECTING it the ENTIRE time because he’s a PUSSY. and when i was listening to it again i was 100% expecting them to both start SCREAMING at each other and for charlotte to have to drag conner through that portal KICKING AND SCREAMING but instead conners just like “:( ….Okieeeee…..Ily alex 🥺” and then they just LEAVE?!(!?!!? LIKE?!?!?!?? I HATE ITTTTT I HATE IT SO MUCH,!?!!?

LIKE YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME ANYONE LET ALONE THIS THIRTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WOULD BE THIS CHILL ABOUT THIS. FOR ALL THEY KNOW THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME THEYRE SEEING EACH OTHER LIKE. EVER? AFTER CONNER ALREADY ALMOST LOST EVERYTHING? AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THEYRE JUST GONNA HUG IT OUT?!,!!?? THESE TWO??? ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT???????????

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CRAZY ASS CLIFFHANGER CHRIS COULDVE LEFT THIS ON. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE INSANITY THAT WOULDVE ENSUED. IF WE SAW THEM ACTUALLY FIGHT FOR ONCE. IF WE SAW CONNER GET DRAGGED THROUGH THE PORTAL SECONDS BEFORE IT CLOSES KICKING AND SCREAMING WHILE ALEX IS SEETHING WITH RAGE. IF IT JUST ENDED WITH CONNER THINKING HIS SISTER MAY AS WELL BE DEAD AND THAT HED NEVER SEE HER AGAIN. GOD. CAN YOU IMAGINEEEEEEE.

and don’t you DARE fucking tell me “Uhmmm its a kids book 🤓☝️” Because i will actually start bashing you to death with hammers. A guy literally got shot in this series and we saw it live do not even try to tell me THIS is crossing the line. Be fucking for real.

[bberry005]

me, reading land of stories as an overachieving, smart ass, elementary school aged girl who wanted nothing more than to live in a fantasy world: wow i am so alex bailey. alex bailey is me. we are one and the same

me, re-reading land of stories now: oh fuck i was conner the whole time

[theenemyod]

Pair of fictional twins: *exists*

Me: *already opening google docs* one of you is going to die and the other one is going to go insane believing it was their fault and they should've done something to stop it and feel like they always have a piece missing from them, also probably try resurrection.

[bethordnz]

you know in booktok when people say ‘*author* basically raised me’ ?? well i have that, but its kinda weird. obviously rick riordan, cause his books were the ones that made me realize how much i loved reading. then chris colfer, cause he’s a genius and when i read them for the first time i just fell for every single character. little me who loved disney movies loved tlos just as much. then there’s james riley, and that’s the weird thing. i never read one of his books completely. i read the first 100 pages of half upon a time but i never finished it. and i started story thieves but also dropped it. and somehow, still, i feel such a connection to his books and the way he writes. i used to reread story thieves all the time, but i have never read the end. never. and i have no idea why. i just dropped it every time.

[fourayedasshole]

What’s somthing from tlos or atom that just stuck with you.

I SHALL GO FIRST.

That fact that the twins forgot about there own birthday in like the 3 or 4th book. I found it incredibly sad. I think it’s cuz the 1 and 2 book where taken around there birthdays.

Like they are literally only teenagers so busy they forgot about their own birthday.

I feel so bad for them

[smolandweirdwriter]

forever and always thinking about the tragedy that is Conner Bailey stuck in his sister’s shadow. In the otherworld he could never be as good as her. Not for a moment, not for a second, not ever. In the land of stories she’s the fairy godmother and he’s just… there. Is he still important overall, to the story, to Alex, to his friends, to the people they help? YES, OF COURSE. but not when compared to her. Not when she’s the one on the pedestal. But with her in the land of stories and him in the otherworld, he gets to be someone— he gets to be an author. But more than that, he gets to be Conner, and for once it’s not something to be ashamed of.

on that note, forever and always thinking about the tragedy that is Alex Bailey stuck in a world that she cannot love because it did not love her first. She was so afraid of failing in the otherworld, because there success is defined by a letter or a number— your grades, how many people like you, how many posts you have, how much money you make. It’s not about who she is or who she tries to be or how much she cares. In the land of stories, she gets to care without being ridiculed for it. She gets to care and the outcome is that someone else’s life is better for it.

So no. I don’t think they could ever exist in the same world indefinitely. I think they need to live two separate lives and meet up whenever possible. And that is why the series ends so perfectly. They can still see each other. They can still be together. But they are two sides of the same coin: one cannot exist without the other, but they can never be the same if they are always compared.