#anti dex dizznee

[the-way-astray]

okay but what if keefe and fitz kissed. while dex stood in the corner crying

[ann-lol]

Anti-Marella Rant/Analysis (but mainly rant) Post Ahead! I have VERY strong opinions on her so if you love her, I would recommend not reading this. Unless you want to anyway ofc! Either way enjoy! :)

Alright so I have many problems with this girl- like it’s actually insane. A problem I did have with her was her pick me behavior but @the-way-astray already explained in this post how in the very first few books almost everyone had a very misogynistic/sexist mindset so I’m not as bothered by that anymore. But her short story does contain a bit of what can be interpreted as pick me behavior so I will be going over that later.

Everblaze/Neverseen

My main gripe with Marella was her “problem” with Sophie in Everblaze/Neverseen. I briefly went over it in this post but basically for further analysis Marella blamed Sophie for not involving her in her dangerous and life threatening situations. She wanted to join the team and be a part of what Sophie was experiencing. Now I won’t say she didn’t have a reason to be jealous. She was obviously hurt that Fitz, Keefe, Dex and Biana were all involved in what Sophie was going through. She considered herself as much of a friend as they are to Sophie. So her jealousy is understandable. But every one of those people were either already involved or reached out to Sophie to be involved. Not one of them expected Sophie to involve them.

Fitz was the one who found Sophie from the very beginning. He knew the most about her compared to everyone else at that time. Keefe actively pressured Sophie into involving him, especially in Exlie. And we end up learning that his mother is part of the Neverseen, making him even more integrated and important to the story. Dex was kidnapped by the Neverseen with Sophie in the first book. He shares her trauma and he was the one who was forced to create the ability-restricting circlet for Sophie, as well as being the one to take it off for her. Biana’s involvement is similar to Keefe’s. She reached out to Sophie herself. Her guilt for not being a good friend in the beginning may have played a role in her wanting to be by Sophie’s side but regardless of her alternative motives she didn’t expect Sophie to involve her without even knowing if she wanted to be involved in the first place.

Marella’s response to Sophie not involving her was to basically gaslight Sophie into believing that she isn’t a good friend and to befriend both Sophie and Dex’s bully, Stina. Mind you, Marella HATED Stina and used to encourage Sophie to “take her down” in the first book. Yet she was willing to befriend this person just to spite Sophie.

Now some might think that she has changed since Everblaze/Neverseen but she proved that in Stellarlune she has actually NOT changed and if anything she just moved the goal post.

Stellarlune

In Stellarlune pages 409 - 410 she basically taunts Sophie into guessing whether or not they’re still friends.

Quotes:

"You started picturing me switching sides and setting everything on fire didn't you?...Was it an epic struggle between the moonlark and her fiery former friend?" - Marella

"Former?" - Sophie

"Well...in that scenario," - Marella

"And in this one?" - Sophie

"I'm sitting with you, aren't I?" - Marella.

"True" "So...does that mean we're good?" - Sophie

"Depends." - Marella

"On what?" - Sophie

This whole exchange infuriates me. STOP beating around the bush and having Sophie guessing at your every word. Just spill it.

So when Sophie wants confirmation on whether or not Marella thinks of them as friends, Marella starts assuming that Sophie has alternative motives for "hanging out with her".

Quote:

"Well, for one thing, I'm curious- are you only hanging out with me right now because you want to know how it went when I talked to Fintan about his cache?" - Marella

*Deep breathe* You first got angry with Sophie that she didn’t involve you in her life threatening, “go-lucky play dates”, as you seem to believe that’s what they are, and when Sophie decides to bring YOU in, involve YOU, give YOU a role here, you then have an issue with providing vital intel that only you can obtain? You were so willing to be a part of all this to the point that you mentally stressed the hell out of Sophie for it but when the time comes for you to play your part, just like you wanted, you want to have a problem with that as well?? MAKE. UP. YOUR. GOD. DAMN. MIND. *Breaths out*

Sophie then points out that Marella is the one technically hanging out with her and that she was the one who brought up Fintan.

Quotes:

"Technically you're hanging out with me," "I was already sitting here when you sat down. And you're the one who brought up Fintan- not me. I didn't even know you had a chance to talk to him yet." - Sophie

"Fair enough. But you're dying to ask about it now, aren't you?" - Marella

Is this a game for her? She's just trying to villainize Sophie at every turn, at this point. No matter what Sophie does or doesn't do, at the end of the day she has to be in the wrong? Really Marella?

Sophie caught on that Marella is trying to test her so she basically says that she’ll wait until Marella wants to tell her about Fintan and also that a friend wouldn’t hold back vital info.

Quote:

"Not really- because a friend would never hold back something important. So you'll tell me when you're ready. Or you have nothing worth telling. Either way, there's no point asking you about it. Especially since you're clearly trying you test me right now, and I'm not going to fall for it." - Sophie

The fact that Sophie has to feel like her "friend" is testing her is unbelievably sad. Having to prove to your friend that you're not a bad person when you've literally given them NO reason to even believe that you are, while simultaneously trying not be killed by your enemies, sounds mentally draining.

Now I will say that Sophie's tone in that quote was very stern but at the same time she's responding to all of Marella's previous comments so it's completely appropriate. But in Marella’s mind, she believes that Sophie now has an attitude. Sophie is literally making a valid point and if anything Marella is the one with the attitude. She's actively trying to start problems with Sophie from nothing.

Quote:

"You really are much feistier now. I can't decide how I feel about it."

Newsflash Marella, we don't care how you feel about it. And frankly you don't deserve that sort of attention considering how you're acting.

Maruca comes in asking how Marella feels about what and Marella responds with: "Sophie's new attitude."

Stina, of course, comes in and says: "That's easy. I'm definitely not a fan."

Again NO ONE CARES about what either of you feel about people's personalities. A bully and a gaslighter don't deserve that kind of privilege. How about you look in the mirror first, change yourself and THEN you'll have a right to speak up about others.

(A little off topic, but Shannon completely fumbled with Stina in Stellarlune. She was actually enjoyable in Legacy- I mean like she was literally getting more character development than Marella was and then she got screwed over. Ugh Shannon.)

Anyway back to the rant, Sophie responds to Stina basically saying that if Stina isn't liking her "new attitude" and then she's obviously doing something right. (Honestly, slay)

On page 411, Marella and Stina begin to insult/make fun of Sophie. Mocking her recent company and how they've "influenced" her.

Quote:

"It's like she's been hanging around Ro too much and picked up a case of the Snarky Comback." - Marella

Marella began to ask where Ro was and Sophie responded vaguely not wanting to explain out loud because she wanted to telepathically update everyone instead. Yet Marella still continued to make fun of her anyway.

Quote:

"Clearly you've also picked up some avoiding skills from the Forkle."

Sophie and Marella have a small exchange about how they'll just keep their updates to themselves until the team arrives so they won't have to repeat themselves.

Marella and Stina proceed to whisper and giggle amongst themselves, saying who knows what about Sophie.

It was also implied that there was an obvious divide between everyone, on page 412. Sophie’s group and Marella’s group. Why is Marella actively causing riffs in the group when they should all be focusing on defeating their enemies instead??

Anyway, that's the end of her moments in Stellarlune (just the book). Now to the short story!

Marella's Short Story

Now in her short story Marella showcases a little bit of her pick me behavior. She basically found it “annoying” how easily Linh was able to control her abilities even though Linh worked so hard for it.

Quote:

"But the fact that Linh could stand in a sea of frozen water and do nothing except keep the falling snow from setting on her flushed pink cheeks was very...annoying" - Marella

Now this could be seen as jealousy, which is a fine flaw to have, especially in her case, considering her crazy, out-of-control pyrokinetic abilities, but at the same time it could be interpreted that she just genuinely doesn’t like people being better than her, especially girls. She has expressed many times her "annoyance" with girls specifically (Sophie and Linh being direct targets of this). She never really specifically mentions any of the boys being annoying. Whenever she's really talking about boys she's just basically fawning over them (a trait many pick mes posses) Now I'm not saying finding guys attractive will inherently make you a pick me, but fawning over boys while degrading girls does make you a pick me.

Now it is a little stretch, in all honesty. Her comment about Linh can be interpreted in many different ways. It's also just a single comment- and one that she didn't even say out loud so I'm not too bothered by it. The short story IS where I see the most Marelinh proof though, ironic as it is. I’m genuinely hoping that she and Linh become a thing. She did after all call Linh “peaceful” “pretty” and “perfect” all in one sentence. (Shannon, make it so that Linh is the one that changes Marella and I might actually end up liking her)

Now what I didn't like is her comments afterwards.

Quotes:

"Then again, everyone annoyed Marella a little"

"But it wasn't Marella's fault!"

"People tended to be annoying."

She sounds like she has a victim mentality here. She believes that it isn't her fault that she finds everyone annoying because everyone tends to be annoying...

Has she once considered that everyone around her isn't actually annoying and that she's just easily offended and sensitive? She's literally saying that one of her best friends, if not her best friend, is annoying because she has such good control over her ability. If THAT annoys her then yeah no wonder she finds everyone and everything annoying.

Now aside from everything I've said there are certain aspects that make me like Marella, believe it or not. The way she cares deeply for her mother. The way she wanted to manifest as an empath just to help her identify her mother's emotions. That is very sweet and considerate of her. I respect that, a lot. But the way she treats her mother won't erase the way she treats Sophie and others. She needs to seriously acknowledge her behavior and the way she makes people around her feel. She's been getting more page time in the most recent books so I hope Shannon gives her character some development in the newer ones.

So yep! This is the rant lol. Feel free to express your thoughts and/or opinions on this post. Whether you agree or not, I'd love to hear it! :)

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[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

kotlcblr should shut the fuck up actually

Keefe is a mid character at best and people are allowed to be mad he's getting so much focus over the main damned character

Also everyone else has equal if not more potential for development than Keefe and yet constantly giving him plots has taken away any space for them. Its annoying and it sucks and people are allowed to be mad about it

That said Keefe is the most popular damned character in the whole series. Everyone complaining about widespread Keefe hate what invisible demons are you fighting

Dex isn't a cinnamon roll nor is he a bully. Stina regularly called him and his parents elf slurs and never changes her views throughout the entire series. He pulled a prank on her as revenge for something she did, and they live in a world where temporary body modification means nothing. The next scene we see her in she has her back, she's fine, AND she sneaks a live creature into Dex's locker - which requires DNA to get into

Alden sucks. However he does not mean to. Cassius on the other hand is a genuine asshole who knows he sucks and still abuses his son and I cannot believe people are defending him

Tiana and Dexiana are both mid and Biana is a boring character

Stina is barely developed, never really stopped being mean, and a bigot. People need to shut the fuck up about her

Christians are not oppressed especially not in this fandom and everyone should shut up about it.

[lucyshypemaster]

wylinh shippers, dni. dexiana shippers, 𝒹𝓂 𝓂ℯ...

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

okay, so i already said i don't like keefe, but i want to expand on the fact that him getting all these books of development and NOT developing is so annoying when amazing characters like linh, tam, biana, marella and fitz are all sidelined is so annoying.

his whole family drama was focused on in neverseen and then could have been drawn out in lodestar when he runs away, and then in flashback, we get the vackers, but in sooo much more depth because they're so intricate, and then we get more of the diznees because two chapters in book six was not enough and linh and tam talk about how they're dealing with all that happened in nightfall with their parents, and marella's storyline with her family is expanded.

but instead all this falls to the background and we get constant repetition of sophie worrying about keefe when all these characters have minor lines about all this every now and then.

like, stop focusing on him!!! give me fitz and biana explaining how it was to grow up in a family that expected perfection and always feeling like they were failing only to have their brother betray them all instead of just hinting at it every now and then and moving on, give me linh and tam working through the fact that they were abandoned by their parents and society for something out of their control and continue on from what started in nightfall, give me marella discussing the stress of how everyone views her family. even dex has been sidelined, the boy sophie calls her best friend, and his family are so tragic and interesting. why weren't they given more time to develop???

[shadowuserannie]

Miraculous: Tales of Sophie Foster And Fitz Vacker?

Sophie settles the box of mallowmelt on her chosen desk first, checking how many pieces are left. As she does, a hand reaches out and flicks her on the forehead.

She winces, pulling back and frowning at the perpetrator. As expected.

Keefe Sencen.

“Aw, look at that cute little crease between your brows. What caused it?” Keefe laughed. “Screw off, Foster. I really don’t want to hit a girl, and I need this desk.”

“I’ve been in this exact spot since I started at Foxfire.” Sophie replied, curling her hands into fists and trying not to show that they were shaking.

“Yeah, whatever. Look, I have a friend finally being let out today, and I need this spot.”

“There are empty desks.” Sophie gestured to the multiple, still-empty tables in the classroom.

Keefe smirked, in that completely unbothered way that always annoyed her. “Aw, that’s cute. Feeling feisty today, huh? Just go sit by the new guy over there.” He waved offhandedly at the glasses-wearing boy in the front row. “Who knows, maybe he’ll fall for your charms.”

Sophie scowled, but she couldn’t think of anything else to say. Then Keefe’s cavalry showed up.

“Foster, hurry up and shoo, already,” snapped Stina.

Sophie shook her head, glancing down at her shoes. Leave me alone.

“Wow, what a way to start off the year. Brilliant asshole behaviour there.”

Sophie’s head snapped up. The new guy was standing there with his arms folded, glaring at Keefe and Stina.

“Oh great. What are you going to do, report me?” Keefe teased. There was an excited sparkle in his ice blue eyes.

“You wish, pick-me girl.” The boy rolled his eyes, strode over, and grabbed Sophie by the arm. “Come on. Let’s get you away from the jerks.”

Keefe laughed, and Sophie’s cheeks heated up in embarrassment. “It’s fine, really-”

“No, no! Go on, new kid.” Keefe smirked.

The boy rolled his eyes at Keefe, pulling Sophie over to his desk. She tripped, and the mallowmelt box spilled on the floor.

Keefe’s laughter echoed in her ears as Sophie bent down to begin cleaning up. That stupid, grating sound. A single solitary piece of mallowmelt was left, and she placed it on the desk and began to wipe at the floor.

The boy joined her, scrubbing away the cake. “Sorry about that.” He said, holding out a hand to her to take the dirty tissues.

“…Keefe and Stina are just like that. You didn’t have to interfere.” Sophie muttered. Internally, though, the boy had just earned +10 friendship points.

“Eh, what kind of superhero fan would I be if I just stood by while others were bullied? Though I probably shouldn't have pulled you so hard. That’s on me.”

The boy steps away from her to throw the dirty tissues in the trashcan next to the teacher’s desk as Sophie takes a seat. She glances at the lone piece of mallowmelt, then offers it to him as he’s sitting down. “Thanks, though.”

“No need.” The boy accepts the piece of mallowmelt, but breaks it in half and passes it back to her. A spark of warmth blooms in Sophie’s heart. Make those friendship points +20.

He bites into it and grins up at her. “Wow, this is good stuff. I’m Dex, by the way.”

“Sophie.” It’s stupid, but just this small encounter with Dex has brightened up what had looked like another dreary year.

[floofeeeeee]

Dex dizziness for character bingo?🙏

I think he’s silly lil guy :)

he’s a pretty good character I feel like if he got more page time to develop I’d like him a lot more. I also think he works a bit better in a dynamic you know? He doesn’t really have a strong character by himself compared to someone like biana who works well in dynamics but can hold herself pretty well on her own

But otherwise love him 💖

[crippling-pages]

I am a FIRM believer in that Dex should've had the book 9 cover and not Maruca. You can't change my mind.

[kotlc-ships101]

THE TRUTH

[smolandweirdwriter]

My friend, looking at my pinterest board of teal hair colors: You want to dye your hair teal? But I thought you hated--

Me: 

TEAL

[the-way-astray]

Heyyy any chance you could make a post explaining why you don't like dex? :33

sure! @unaside i believe you also wanted to know

it's actually very similar to the reasons i dislike keefe. when he's jealous of fitz, he tends to humiliate sophie over it, he's whiny, in general i despise characters/people in real life that immediately start off a friendship with an expectation of romance tied to it at some point, i despise the sodex kiss scene and prefer to pretend it didn't happen (though that was mostly sophie's fault), and just like keefe he acts ridiculously possessive over sophie. he's incredibly immature for his age, just like keefe (gagging at fitz, volunteering sophie to be in a very intimate position with him without her permission, tearing down sophie and fitz's relationship, etc.) and i find that he just in general has no personality besides being vaguely bitchy sometimes, and that gets resolved by the fourth book. basically, he's someone i would steer very clear of in real life. i dislike his character immensely and found him unbearable to deal with as i read the story.

however. having said all of that. as i said in this post, i can't argue that dex is a poorly written character as i could with keefe, because the difference here is that the narrative makes all of the above out to be flaws and punishes dex for them or develops him accordingly. the jealousy towards fitz and subsequent sophitz bashing? villainized throughout the series and eventually resolved. his crush on sophie which results in him treating her poorly and expecting her to cater to it? developed out of when sophie rejects him and therefore proves his beliefs about her wrong (and you notice he gets way more chill about her relationship to fitz later on). the immature behavior slowly grinds to a halt and by legacy era it's basically gone. so i can't argue that his flaws aren't developed from or villainized, just because i found them annoying (which is what you're supposed to feel). his entire arc is about learning to become less jealous of fitz and to get over his crush on sophie/stop treating her badly because of it.

the only thing is that this arc is resolved in like nightfall era, meaning that for the latter half of the series, he's not in it as much, leading to movements such as the dexvolution or the begging to make dex more relevant again. which i don't agree with, i think the fact that his arc has basically ended means he would eat up a lot of time that could go to something better if he was in the story more (which i think i touched on in the post linked above). but again, i say that as someone who is biased when it comes to him; as i've already said, i don't really like him.

this is very much a case of "i dislike a fictional person" more so than it is a case of "i dislike a character". and i think it's really important to make the difference clear. do i like dex? no. but i do think he's a well-written character. it's just that his flaws and general personality and arc don't gel with me (i hate the "guy learns not to be a incel" arc on principle, it's tiring for me, but that's entirely personal preference), but shannon did write it well, for what it's worth.

now if only she could do the same with keefe (which for me, is a case of "i hate a character" not a case of "i hate a fictional person").

tldr: dex is a trope i really don't like, however shannon executed that trope well, making it so that i can't argue that he's a poorly written character, but i still hate him as a person.

[ann-lol]

Two things that BETTER happen by the end of kotlc is One: Dex and Biana become a couple- Shannon STOP PUSHING TIANA PLEASE!! They have no chemistry! (Sorry Tiana shippers) and Two: Elwin adopts Keefe! If Keefe ends up living with and/or forgiving Cassius I’m burning all my books…

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

A small collection of KOTLC things Shannon told me at 3am

I promise she told me guys, this is totally legit

Dex Dizznee isn’t actually blonde but ginger, he gets his hair color from his dad. The three triplets all have strawberry blonde hair like their mom. His hair is also curly but like, loosely curly, and it’s really dry from all the shit he ‘experiments’ on it with.

Fitz Vacker once accidentally stumbled into a musical while in the human world and now absolutely loves musical songs. His favorite is Phantom of the Opera. It wasn’t like Alden was constantly watching him in the human world so he’d sometimes just sneak into theaters to listen and watch the shows.

Maruca Chebota is the most middle child ever. She has an older and a younger brother, but also another older cousin (Wylie) and two younger cousins. She’s even in the middle in terms of that, which is ironic because her mom is also the middle child between her two siblings.

Terik is Talentless, but he’s got basically a watered-down version of Empathy from his parents, who were both incredibly powerful Empaths who had been tasked with making sure Elves turned into myth for humans. He’s been scamming the whole Elven society for centuries and isn’t about to stop now.

Alina’s family was involved in a scandal when she was very young that resulted in them being cast out from the Nobility and their birth funds being revoked, though they were allowed to remain in Talentless cities. She decided to pursue Alden primarily for his family name - and the fact that she would up being one of the first people on his Match list was just the cherry on top. It made it even worse when he decided to marry Della instead, though at that point it was later enough she could detach herself from her family anyway.

Sophie Foster’s human family were anti-vaxx, Protestant, and Republican. Sophie was always a bit too busy trying to manage her telepathy to notice much about their political stances. Amy is growing to be significantly more liberal and had began to openly argue with them before everything in Nightfall happened.

Alina is Fitz’s biological mother. After Alvar was born and already not shaping up into the son Alden wanted by age 11, she used his desperation to Beguile him into having a child with her. When Alden realized what she’d done he did his best to cut all contact with her, though he did take Fitz, something with both Alina and Della resented. Alvar knew about this, which is why he dislikes Fitz so much while still loving his younger sister, Biana.

Livvy Soden is a triple agent, working in the Black Swan as a spy for the Neverseen as a spy for the Black Swan. No one is quite sure what her intentions are any more.

Wylie Endal has his own group of friends, who are all in their early 20s, and who love making fun of him for being forced to hang out with a bunch of teenagers. His best friend among them is Tanho, who’s Talentless, and was kicked out of his house at age 15 as a result after an abusive childhood. He stayed with Wylie and Tiergan for a few months after while trying to sort himself out, and is a large part of the reason why Wylie is now as observant and skeptical as he is.

Stina Heks isn’t actually an Empath, she’s a Mesmer, but a weak one. Not that she knows it.

It’s not actually Fitz who has the Nobility attitude towards humans, as in condescending and ignorant, though it does seem that way - he spent far too much time in the human world to not pick up on some of the good and interesting parts of humanity as well. It’s Biana, who spent most of her childhood being raised in a fairly isolated group of Elves who all had huge superiority complexes towards other species.

Ruewen is Edaline and Juline’s last names. Juline took Kesler’s last name to finally shut up her parents, who were harping on about how Kesler was using her for her family.

Grady Ruewen’s mother disappeared soon after he manifested as a Mesmer at age 12, resulting in a huge amount of people blaming him for it and his family, already in a precarious social position, to get hit even harder. Taking Edaline’s last name allowed him to entirely reform himself to a new person to the outside world. At least, until Jolie died.

Jolie Ruewen was a part of the Elven equivalent of a punk rock band, which tends to have a slightly more melodious (though still loud and chaotic) sound than human rock. Brant was their singer, and they had their first kiss during a concert, to excite the crowd even more. They decided they liked it and just kept doing it even off stage.

The movement began a few decades earlier, after an illegal trip to the human realm gave some twenty year old elves the idea to begin making their own instruments to try and mimic the sounds they found in the human world.

Tam and Linh Song grew up purposefully separated from each other, with Tam mainly spending time with their Dad and Linh their mom. As a result, Linh developed a love of painting, as it’s some of the only pleasant times she can recall with her mother, and Tam developed a hatred of economics and desk chairs.

Keefe Sencen and Linh Song are really good friends. No one else is aware of this. They also regularly vandalize council buildings.

Despite what certain artists and books will tell you, Elven houses are not made of crystal. They’re based on Ancient architecture, mainly using stone or wood or both, and have a wide variety of designs and patterns depending on where you go.

Most Elves do live in populated cities. Rimshire is a small-ish house located on the outskirts of Mysterium, not as close to the more densely populated parts of the city, but still with a lot of people. However, as Nobility usually do love in isolated, grand estates, it took a bit for Juline to get used to it. As Kesler grew up in a much smaller house with five siblings, he had the opposite experience.

Marella Redek’s favorite aunt is a Neverseen member. Marella is a Black Swan member. They have fought each other before and the next day hugged at a family gathering. Neither are aware of this.

Fitz Vacker talks to his stuffed animals. He has more than one - he has Mr Snuggles, obviously, but also Biana gave him one during Flashback, and Keefe made him one before he left for the Neverseen the first time. They all give different advice. Mr Snuggles sounds like Tiergan, the one Biana gave him sounds like Alvar, and the one Keefe made him sounds like Keefe.

Rayni Aria (Glimmer) was lying about her entire backstory in Stellarlune. Tam is the only one who knows what actually happened to her.

Rayni and Linh eventually grow to tolerate each other, if for Tam’s sake only. Linh can’t deal with having to share the one person she’d always thought would put her first (nevermind if he always would anyway); Rayni sees Linh’s hostility and automatically returns it with her own. As they get used to each other, they can be in a room without arguing or passive aggressively insulting each other.

Despite this, they’re actually very similar people, which makes them both even angrier. Linh can’t even make fun of how he acted with Keefe anymore now because of how she and Rayni act.

The reason Bronte is so mad at Fintan is that he found out that Fintan was dating JRR Tolkien at the same time as they were secretly dating (as to avoid being kicked out from the Council). Fintan was under the mistaken impression Bronte was also dating him, Bronte had misspoken and said he was ‘dating’ Tolkien instead of ‘rating’ Tolkien (as in, his books).

Fitz and Dex are in love, the Vackers are Desi, and Fintan has a flat ass. This is common knowledge though.

[hi-imgrapes]

Even more Taylor Swift Songs That Just Sound Like Dex Dizznee

-Enchanted

-Bejeweled

-Look What You Made Me Do

-White Horse (um, helloooo? sodex??)

-Anti-Hero

[gay-otlc]

Fic Masterpost

KOTLC:

A Little Bit of Love and a Whole Lot of Trust: The four horse girls of the apocalypse celebrate Hanukkah together.

A Risk I Want To Take: Marella is afraid of losing control and hurting Linh.

Alden Sucks: The Vackers are Jewish and Alden is anti-semetic. See @vacker-jew-au​ for more Jewish Vackers content.

Alien: Sophie and Dex talk about gender

Am I Pretty: I'm back to torture Biana more. Biana is Struggling™ post-Nightfall and it's yet another songfic.

And They Were Roommates: Flashback but we get the Keefe and Fitz roommates we were robbed of

Awed By Her Splendor: Sappho poetry, Sophiana, and lesbian sun and moon.

Bad With People: Dex Dizznee is good at a lot of things. One thing Dex is decidedly not good at is people.

Beautiful Mistake: Fitz and Dex had always been destined for destruction, for shouted words at a dinner table, cold glances from disapproving fathers, stormy exits from the outcast, but how could Fitz be a mistake when he was so beautiful?

Break The Rules: Marella is banished to Exillium for being a lesbian pyrokinetic, where she meets Linh and forms a gay revolution. (And fanart by the amazingly talented @thecatdemon!!!)

Cognate Rings: Fitz coming to terms with being aromantic.

Dear Maruca: Biana writes a letter to Maruca.

Defeated By Gay Panic (and a stupid elf cold): Hekster sickfic

Doesn't Pull Away: Short fic on the relationship between Marella and Fintan

Don't Know How To Love People: Stina doesn't think love is worth the effort. It definitely wouldn't be worth the effort to fall in love with Sophie. So it's easier to be an asshole to her.

Empty Space: Post-Flashback angst with Tam's found family.

Fairy Tale Kisses: The first time Marella kissed Biana Vacker, both were six years old and Marella thought Biana looked like a princess. Marella would quite like to marry a princess, she thought, like in fairy tales.

For The Honor Of The Moonlark: SPOP, but make it KOTLC.

Fortunate: Sophie tries to make latkes. It goes badly.

Flowers On The Grave: Sophie visits her old house and grieves the child that she used to be

Girls Like Girls: Biana should like boys, but she likes Sophie instead, and wonders what’s wrong with her. (A songfic to Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko)

Green: Grady and Edaline mourning Jolie.

Grom Queen: Grom, but make it Biana and Maruca.

Hearts Are Stupid Like That: After Nightfall, Maruca visits Biana in the healing center. They have a long overdue talk.

how could something so beautiful hurt?: Marella pyrokinetic Hanukkah angst.

I Kissed Sophie Foster: I Kissed Shara Wheeler, but make it Hekster.

Illegal Rebellions Can Be Stressful: Black Swan game nights.

Invisible: Biana feels invisible, and Linh is the only person who’s ever really seen her.

Jealousy: Keefe is in love with both Sophie and Fitz, and they love each other, but not him.

Keepers of the Chaos: The KOTLC characters are fans of a show... about us.

Little Miss Perfect: A songfic exploring Biana and Maruca's relationship pre-Keeper.

Lost: When he's lost, like it's gravity, he's pulled to Fitz. At least this fucked up universe gave him Fitz Vacker.

No Limits To Love: As he falls in love with both Sophie and Fitz, Keefe tries to understand what love means, and how he can love more than one person.

Pain Is Waiting Alone At The Corner: At Alden's funeral, Quinlin and Tiergan talk about the lovers they've lost.

Perfect: Fitz can’t love Keefe, because he’s perfect.

Pretendaer: Ae can’t catch a fucking break, so, a songfic of Biana struggling with aer gender.

Pride: Various KOTLC characters and their first time at a pride parade.

Sappho And Her Training Partner: Bronte is unaware that Marella and Linh are in a romantic relationship.

Say Goodbye Like You Mean It: Biana, before her friendship with Maruca fell apart + Maruca, after.

Say Goodbye The Hundredth Time: The family Tiergan has lost over the years, and how he remembers them.

Sick of the Silence: AU where Fitz moves to Solreef during Flashback.

Snap the Pen in Half: Tiergan writes Prentice letters while he's in Exile

someone will remember us, i say: Sophie and Biana read Sappho poetry.

Starlight And Superheroes: Biana, being Jewish, is one of the only superheroes available on Christmas, and she’s pretty sure falling for the villain Moonlark isn’t part of her job description.

Tales Like These Tragically End Badly: Marelliana songfic to "loved you a little."

The Owl Haven: Hollow Mind: The Owl House KOTLC au, retelling Hollow Mind.

This Is Where We're Supposed To Be: 11K Delivvy fic.

To Love Unafraid (With An Ugly, Poisonous Heart): Marella has OCD, and her intrusive thoughts center around hurting her girlfriend, Biana.

Untitled Sophiana fic: Sophie gives Biana a pride pin

Untitled Tiergan/Alden as exes fic: Tiergan shows up to yell at Alden for breaking Prentice's mind, and Tiergan and Alden are exes.

Used To Receiving Flowers: Biana hates receiving flowers from boys who only like her looks, but when she receives flowers and notes from a secret admirer who seems to like her for her, she doesn’t mind as much.

We Can Leave This World, Leave It All Behind: Stellarlune fix it, sokeefitz + run away with me trope

Writing Ask Game: Compilation: I had people send me a character and a word, I wrote short fics, and I put them all into one ao3 work.

You Rock My World: Tiergan and Prentice join the Black Swan without telling the other. They start dating as Granite and Keeper, unaware that they've already been dating as Tiergan and Prentice for years. Shenanigans ensue.

You're A Lot Like Me: Marella and Fintan parallels

THE OWL HOUSE:

Bard Magic Can Be Cool: Raine begins teaching Eda bard magic.

i tripped and ended up falling for you: Eda takes Raine to the Human Realm, trying to convince xemself it's not a date. It is very much a date.

Hey, You, Don't You Think It's Kinda Cute: Eda and Raine during that King's Tide scene.

Mundane Slice Of Life: Luz panics over her first date with Amity. Eda tries to reassure her.

Stop Running Away From Your Feelings (Hoot Hoot): Luz talks to Eda about what happend with Raine at the coven day parade.

Try Again: Eda and Raine during O Titan, Where Art Thou.

Untitled raeda fic: Eda comes out to Raine as genderqueer.

THE GREAT LIBRARY:

A Great Deal More Than He Expected: Dario reads Santi's journal and makes the shocking discovery that Santi and Wolfe might not be 100% heterosexual.

Able To Love As Deeply As Normal People: Glain and Morgan discuss aromanticism.

Born Wrong: Wolfe is queer of gender.

Deadly, But Elegant: Glain is nonbinary, feels dysphoric in a dress, and gets some more gender-affirming clothing with the help of their wonderful found family.

Too Much Love Will Kill You: Santi's biggest character flaw is loving Wolfe too much.

You Don't Have To Hide Yourself: Santi comes out to Wolfe as trans, and Wolfe decides to support him in the most Wolfe way imaginable: Researching gender.

THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES:

A Dozen Reasons In This Gun: Daisy and Basira's relationship

Skin: Analysis of Jane Prentiss and dermatillomania.

Unclean: Longer analysis of Jane Prentiss and dermatillomania + contamination OCD.

[the-way-astray]

ok so keefe doesnt like you and you dont like him

this has been established

but how would this affect ur relationships with the rest of the crew

ANOTHER ASK THAT I HAVE NOT SEEN UNTIL THIS POINT tumblr when i catch you . . .

i'd like to think it wouldn't affect my relationships with them too much.

i like sophie and fitz fine. realistically speaking, my reaction to keefe would be to stay as far away from him as possible and interact with him never. if he notices and tries to reach out, well, fuck him. sophie and fitz would likely notice my desperate attempts to avoid keefe at all costs and be slightly puzzled, and if they confronted me about it, i'd list off all the things i don't like about keefe and leave it there. they may get slightly defensive at first, but i think they would eventually accept the truth. that he sucks balls.

i don't care about dex (ew). but i think he would care a bit too much that i don't like keefe, because he and keefe are pretty similar. he may or may not confront me, at which point i may or may not tell him that i'm not his biggest fan either. that may piss some people in the crew off.

biana i'm utterly neutral on. i honestly have no idea how she would react, seeing as she has no canon personality whatsoever to me.

i think tam would be a bit put off by the ferocity of my hatred (tam's dislike for keefe is very mild-annoyance-y) and claim i'm giving him too much power by hating him so ferociously, to which i would say i keep my hatred quiet unless called out on it.

linh wouldn't care, i feel. she's not close enough to keefe.

marella would find it amusing. because she loves drama and gossip.

maruca, hmm. i have no idea. shannon please do something with her.

stina probably wouldn't even realize i'm avoiding keefe, i think.

and wylie would try to sit me down and have a talk in which he explains keefe's bad childhood to me after i go on a lengthy rant against him. to which i would say i know but that's an explanation, not an excuse and that everyone was only encouraging his shitty behavior by making excuses for him and dumping pity on him. which wylie may reflect on and see my point. or at least he would respect it.