#as good as dead spoilers

[autisticcasforthewin]

My friend has the right impression of this man

[cupidsatdawn]

Me when Max accuses pip of being the murderer when I know she did it:

[knifexwife]

if i had a nickel for every time holly jackson ended her book with the main love interest reaching out to the main character without getting any definite reply i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[garvalhaminho]

"and the funny thing is i would've married you if you'd have stuck around" have i ever heard a more ravi singh coded line

[smallsinger5901]

My mum is reading as good as dead

she read the first two books, loved them (tho she wasnt a fan of how unhinged pip was getting at the end of ggbb… ohhhh boyyy)

She’s got about 20 pages left until pip gets kidnapped. She’s sure DT is Jason, but she did consider Daniel da silva tbf. Its funny bc when we watched the show she said the most attractive actor was Jasons 😭😭 this was before she started reading it as well

she’s mad that Pip is taking Xanax and not telling ravi bc she’s scared they’ll break up. That conversation w/ me pretty much went like

her: she shouldn’t be doing that, what if he breaks up with her?

me: do you seriously think Ravi would ever break up with Pip?

her: … no. But he’ll be hurt, and he doesn’t deserve that :(

I’m veerrryyy excited to see her reaction to the rest of the book

[sunmoonyandstars]

Pip in As Good As Dead:

[highladyofterrasen7]

Pip: you’re in his dms

Pip: I covered up a murder with him

Pip: we’re not the same

[an-theduckin]

If I had a nickel for everytime the main character from a media I really enjoyed killed the antagonist (who hurt them n was gonna kill them) with a hammer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't alot but it's weird it happened twice.

[xx-midnight-candy-goblin-xx]

As Good As Dead

AKA R.i.p Pip

[spiritxbone]

The last 5% As Good as Dead is so fucking stupid and completely antithetical to the entire trilogy. You spend three whole books discussing how the police are incompetent, racist, and just search for the easiest answer instead of actually investigating the case. They don’t want truth, they want the case closed. THEN after perfectly pulling off the greatest murder and framing of the century, Pop is convinced that the police are gonna realize the truth because her headphones were in Jason’s house? He was murdered miles away, there’s no evidence of them together, and there’s TONS of physical and electronic evidence framing Max. The police have a perfect suspect and nothing connecting pip to the murder. So she has to ignore her bf and cut off all her friends for a year because SOMEHOW that’s less suspicious than just ignoring it.

The last bit of the book could have been left out completely and it would have been better. It would have tied perfectly into the “police just looking for the answer that’s handed to them” theme that was established for the first two novels.

[just-another-romantic]

A Pip x Ravi Headcannon I cant get my mind off of

Ok so I finished reading As Good as Dead today (emotional damage) and I am FIXIATED on the “Hey Sarge, remember me?” text. Cannot stop thinking about it. So here’s what I think happened leading up to day 694 and the events afterwards.

Ravi was the first person to tell Pip about the results of the trial.

Pip had probably been getting texts from her family or friends that went unanswered regarding the trial, because they knew she had to be interested in it (not knowing why of course) so she obvi knew it was coming up soon

But Ravi broke the news to her first

If you think Ravi wasn’t involved in the case, you are damn wrong

Obviously he wasn’t appearing at every single trial or obsessively searching for updates on the news (he found himself itching to reload the page again and again on day 92, but stopped himself, because he knew that Pip would tell him not to, that it would leave a trace, it was suspicious)

He would get news updates by glancing at the local newspaper, or having his friends look it up on their phones

Ravi wasn’t there in person when Max was sentenced, but you can bet your bottom dollar that he was watching it on a livestream

The live stream was casted on the TV from his mom’s Facebook, the page titled “Justice for Jason” receiving an influx of comments, likes, and shares. But he was just a watcher, waiting with a baited breath.

His mom sat beside him on the couch, his dad next to her. The Singh family rigid with anxiety, waiting for the verdict again, almost eight years later.

The Judge rose before the microphone, and Ravi’s breath caught in his throat.

“Under a unanimous decision, Max Hastings has been found guilty of the murder of Jason Bell, in first degree.”

The world around him went quiet. Still. Dead. The room was suddenly so small, yet so big. His mother gasped, grabbing onto Ravi, exclaiming that the justice system finally did something good, something right. But Ravi’s ears were ringing. He wasn’t focusing on Max’s reaction, the uproar in the court from the Hasting’s family, or even his father’s comments, all Ravi heard over and over was guilty guilty guilty. Because for him, for Pip, that meant innocent.

The reason why it took so long (three minutes) for Ravi to text Pip was because he was half in shock, half celebrating with his parents, half worried that Pip wouldn’t be interested in the case in him anymore, and half trying to figure out what the fuck to say.

But with the results of the trial and all the bad that led up to it, Ravi wondered if he finally managed to take half of Pip’s suffering. If there was still room for some good.

His thumbs lingered over the keyboard. Ravi ran upstairs after the commotion died down, only wanting to celebrate this moment with one person. What could he say? “You’re innocent, it’s gonna be ok” seemed to risky. Asking “Did you see the news” sounded too detached like he didn’t care, like he hadn’t been thinking about her for almost two years

But he typed it without thinking. His fingers did the work.

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”

Ravi’s heart inflated when he saw the read receipt immediately, the text bubble emerging almost immediately afterwards

Pip had been in class, hadn’t been watching the news for the past few hours. She had an exam coming up, and she used her studying as a distraction

But when she pulled out her phone, she ignored the calls from Nat and Connor, and all of the texts from Cara and Naomi, and her eyes went straight to Ravi’s name

“Give me a sec.”

She said

A few states away, Ravi’s heart deflated a little. Did she not care about the case? About him? Had she found someone else to fill the same never ending void that Ravi held in his own chest?

Her name lit up across his phone screen. The ringtone he had for her was still the same, a stupid Taylor Swift song he caught her singing one day.

Pip held her breath

Ravi’s thumb hovered over the green accept button and tried not to let his anxiety get the best of him.

How much had she changed? Was she safe? Was she all alone at college? Did she still see Jason Bell’s head caved in every time she closed her eyes? Did she hear Ravi’s voice next to her throughout the day, the same way he did her’s?

But he looked at her contact photo, an old one from one of their first dates. It was at Ravi’s favorite sandwich shop. Pippa had two pringles in her mouth, creating the beak of a duck. Her eyes were alive. Bright.

He saw that and knew.

He accepted the call and brought the phone up to his ear.

“Ravi?” Pip breathed.

And in that moment, nothing else mattered. The trial. The distance between them. That all consuming darkness.

Ravi’s face broke into a grin. “Hey Sarge. It’s me.”

States away, in the security of her dorm room, Pip had the freedom to cry. So, upon hearing Ravi’s voice again, she broke.

She caught the sob in her hand, muffling the cries through the phone.

Ravi heard her. “You ok there, Pippus? You sound like you’re crying.”

Pip couldn’t lie to him. Not to anyone. Not anymore. No more lies, it just fed the void.

She sniffed, “Just happy.” Which said everything. I’m free. You’re ok. You didn’t forget me. I missed you. I love you. I want you back.

Tears were rolling down his cheeks too, tasting salty on his lips. “You big softie.”

Pip choked on a laugh. The first one she had let out in a long time. In the 694 days since she heard his voice, he still sounded the same.

“Yea, I can say the same for you.”

The next question lingered in Ravi’s throat. Come home. But he couldn’t ask that of her. To return to the town that had broke her. To a place filled with so much evil and hatred. She was too good for all of that ugly. She needed something good.

Pip beat him to it. “I don’t have classes tomorrow.”

The way her voice trailed off at the end answered Ravi’s question. The silence said everything. It always had said everything for them.

Come see me.

“I can be there by tonight,” Ravi said. The distance between us is too great, but feels like nothing all the same.

Pip let herself cry freely at this point. She whispered, “Drive fast.” I never stopped wondering if you were okay.

“I will.” I would be there right this moment if I could.

“There’s a sandwich shop you’ll really like on campus.” I never stopped thinking about you.

“I can’t wait to try it, Sarge.” I can’t wait to see you.

“I’ll see you soon.” I’ve been waiting for this moment for two years, and I would have continued to wait for it my whole life.

“I’ll text you when I’m on my way.” I don’t want to hang up. I missed your voice.

There was no stopping the next words. “I love you,” Pip said.

Ravi felt like he could fly. “I love you too Pip.”

And that night, when Pippa watched Ravi’s car pull into her dorm parking lot, she knew she was home.

[cupidsatdawn]

Ravi after realizing that he can’t call the police because pip will get arrested

[almosttenaciousmoon]

I miss you, I’m sorry by Gracie Abrams but it’s Pippa and Ravi at the end of as good as dead

[garvalhaminho]

tfw when you kill your kidnapper/a serial killer and rapist n you and your partner blame another serial rapist for his murder

[smallsinger5901]

A little snippet of the As Good As Dead fanfic I’m currently writing! It’ll be a fairly short multi-part fic, taking place just after Pip escapes from her abduction. (Edit 16/6/24: that ‘fairly short’ fic is now the longest agggtm series fic on all of ao3) What if Pip decided to make Hawkins believe her another way? Pip sees Jason Bell’s car pull into the driveway and decides to keep running. She stays in hiding, leaving clues for Ravi to solve the mystery of her disappearance and ‘murder’- but can Ravi ever make the police believe him?

[katesharmasheart]

Even though I spoiled myself of the end of this trilogy back to when I started reading the 2nd book, nothing prepared me by the emotional distress it caused me at 2 am in the morning.

I truly believed that for a moment, they couldn't pull it off , but then that ending 😭😭😭 and then that text🥹