#callmara

[crispy-kitten-princess]

Rarepairing lol

[ashpkat]

Do you have any Calmara Headcannons?

i’m p sure this is the same ask i accidentally deleted but if it isn’t lmk!! personally i’ve never really thought too much on it 🤷‍♀️ unless i actively want to think about it callmara is (unfortunately) usually pushed to the back of my mind

here are some i just randomly thought up like. now:

- call taught himself how to braid so that he could braid tamara’s hair. it took a very long time and he still wasn’t very good at it, but she was flattered nonetheless

- tamara is there for call when he has horrible nightmares — if they could even be called that, they’re memories that still trickle out from when he unlocked maugris’s memories. she holds him close and tells him it will be okay and doesn’t hesitate to lend her shoulder for him to cry on

- ^^ adding onto that. in their collegium dorm they pushed their little twin sized beds together because they were too small to cuddle on alone. call has trouble falling asleep without the heartbeat of someone underneath his ear and tamara has trouble falling asleep if she doesn’t know if call is okay or not

- absolute the baddest couple at any fancy legacy dinner parties. they always have the matching color coordinated fits and tamara decks them out in the most expensive shit

- even though most would think it wouldn’t be tamara’s thing, she loved all the shabby dates call takes her on. she likes all the spots in asheville he takes her to just to eat a home packed meal, she likes the improv dates he takes her on down by cool lakes he finds on walks with havoc, and she just likes being with him

anyway. keep an eye on this post!! i might come back to it so i can add some more when i have the brain capacity

[sub-urbanwitch]

Callum and tamara on a date 😔

Ask and ye shall receive!

I imagine this would take place after one of Tamara’s classes at the Collegium- Call would pick her up, they’d get coffee, and then go sit on the seawall.

I think Call canonically drinks his coffee black (and frankly it suits him), and Tamara strikes me as a cream-no-sugar type.

[theenemyod]

I'm rereading tgt and WHAT IS THIS HETEROSEXUAL BULLSHIT CHOSE A BETTER TIME IDIOTS

[thesfromhms]

ooooooh what's callamara?

-normal anon

Favorite ship in the Magisterium series. They're a canon ship. Callum x Tamara :))

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

Call catching the others staring and terrified that they are going to reveal his secret but actually they are just in love with him

[alex-is-the-king-11111]

Why are heterosexual things happening in the place Jericho's old shit is kept what the fuck happened to respecting the dead?

[ashpkat]

canon callmara is CHEEKS lil bro. it could’ve been done good but no we can’t have shit 😭

[noodle-made-a-mistake]

A short list of things that bother me about the Magisterium canon:

Forgive me in advance for rambling, I have to get these thoughts out of my brain lmao (also it's been a couple years so correct me if I'm wrong! (I really hope I’m wrong on some of these :’) )) Spoilers ahead obviously!

● The lack of Calron :(

● Not taking the opportunity to develop Tamara's character and keeping her static until she's randomly just different. Strong female characters aren't just skilled and perfect until their one flaw (usually it's having feelings like any other human being) is revealed shockingly (that's just sloppy characterization), they should be crucial to the plot and not overlooked in favor of developing other characters (from what I remember she literally was my favorite while reading the series until she just got annoying (??) after a while, of course that could just be because the story is told through Call's perspective but still)

● The entire school system that I need more info on bc it sounds so unthought out and not like something that has existed for hundreds of years

● The forceful nature of making people serve as masters?? That makes no sense? Like, “Congratulations on not dying during your schooling or in the war(s), your prize is forced labor 👍.”

● Also THE COLLEGIUM WAS MENTIONED AND NEVER ELABORATED UPON

● TGT. Least favorite book. Get out. Tgt truthers how do you do it??

● The Maugris plot twist. It destroys the meaning behind the past four books. It's just so uncalled for and frankly just sloppy ig? I love the idea in a way, but only if it's foreshadowed from the beginning. Also I'm too attached to the complicated dynamic of Alastair raising his possible ex-bestie for it to end up like that

● The fact that the iron trio is out of school for half the series, I'd like to know what's normal, y'know??

● THE LACK OF ELABORATION ABOUT THE FIRST GEN I WANT TO KNOW MORE I HAVE TO KNOW MORE

● They did my man Constantine especially wrong, give him some ✨️character✨️ aside from E V I L and problematic (trademark) and charming (???)

● AND ALASTAIR GOD TELL ME MORE?? He's characterized as distant and obviously traumatized with his hate of his magic involved past but I just need to know what that past was like. Like who was he before his dead wife syndrome?? Idk but I'd of liked any excuse to know more about it just so I can understand him more??

● Please give me a single character trait of Declan's?? Like he was mentioned a handful of times and that's all we got. He was just some guy and I am hating it !!

● And Sarah. Like. She was a mom and liked peace as a concept but she also made a cool ass knife. That's a lot of things left up for interpretation. And I know Call wasn’t allowed to ask questions for plot reasons but god i wish he had more information about his own dead mother for Christ's sake

● Also other than a victim, who was Jericho? I need to know who this kid who drew scribbles in the margins of his very important journal while writing about how he was slowly being killed was. What was his relationship really like with his brother if he was so scared to say that he was dying or what gave him the impression that he didn't care?? It's fascinating and I need him under a microscope immediately

● Also the lack of queer representation until the last two books. AND THEN IT WASN'T EVEN ANY OF OUR MAIN CAST. Literally the saddest L ever :(

● AND AARON WAS NEVER CONFIRMED QUEER LIKE WHAT THE FUCK JUST L O O K AT HIS CHARACTER AND INFACT ALL OF OUR CORE CAST IS AT LEAST BI LIKE C O M E O N (ik they're like kids but even I knew I was not straight when I was like 11 and i lived in the most conservative non-LGBTQ-friendly town known to man)

● Low key, callmara was so bad, like I love them but not the way it happened, horrible set up. Tamara deserved so much better and to not have her entire character destroyed by becoming a love interest. I wish they thought about her as an independent character instead of the means to implement a romantic subplot in tgt, they did so good in the first books with that

● Also there's no elaboration on what chaos is. It's the mystical 5th element. Wow! Let's go girl, give us nothing! You'd think that if Makaris were so exceptionally rare and special that we'd get some explanation on how they come to be and what it is exactly that they can control but we're just left to assume it's the special "chosen one" type of thing. Idk it bothers me for some reason :/

That's just off the top of my head and it's been years since I read the series all the way through (I should do a reread soon). For the most part I adore this funky series and I hate to bash it but I felt the need to ramble about it's shortcomings because I'm not crazy, right?? It had so much potential! Anyway, I'm sort of glad for the blanks in the story despite complaining about them because it leaves room for fics and fan interpretations that I always love to see, but on the other hand, I'd like for the story to feel finished and not like a last minute science fair project.

Thanks for sticking around for my late night rambling lmao

[crispy-kitten-princess]

[ashpkat]

i’m in my callmara era and just thinking abt how much they were screwed over? like instead of using “i pushed you out of the way because i LOVE you call” they could’ve used a B subplot where call helps guide tamara through accepting her choices, accepting that she was just a kid and it wasn’t her fault that aaron died — it was alex. we could’ve seen tamara helping call through his grief, and instead of abandoning him, she could’ve shown him that it was alright to miss aaron but it isn’t okay to try and mess with the dead. oh, and have i mentioned that their entire romance subplot was completely misplaced? TSM was not the place for that. TSM was the place for grief, anguish, and pain. but you know what comes after you work through all that? HAPPINESS. like think of the callmara fans that would’ve come out if they had started the romance in TGT!!! as things are wrapping up call thinks back to all the moments that tamara has helped him, gave him a second chance, protected him, and was there for him in his grief. his strong, courageous, beautiful best friend that was ALWAYS there for him, ALWAYS reminded him that he was lovable and that he was never and would never be constantine madden or maugris or any of his alter egos. he could’ve told tamara all this AFTER (wait for it) they let aaron’s soul rest, not in the body of alex, but in the afterlife where aaron could be happy. and tamara would’ve be right there for him, as she always had been.

so when people ask me if i’m upset calron was never canon, believe me, i am, but you also have to focus on the actual canon ships as well that were done horribly. no one was ever done justice and calron wouldn’t have gotten justice either. it’s a lose lose situation, where no one gets what they want. yeah. fuck canon callmara. we all deserved better than what canon gave us.

[ashpkat]

yea like i hope everyone know i don’t accept callmara as a canon 💀💀 they’re just best friends yeah and they kiss sometimes it’s whatever they’re just really good friends. calron superior in terms of angst and yearning

(FINAL) DAY 5 OF TIT BOOK CLUB

WE'RE DONE WITH THE TIT BOOK CLUB! WOO-HOO!

I'll be looking forward to seeing y'alls ideas and interpretation of the prompts tomorrow!

Here are your final prompts!

What is the most iconic line in all of the book for you?

What do you wish would've been added to this book specifically?

What do you wish wasn't included?

Rate this book, independently of the other ones

5.(optional) what is the gayest moment in the book?

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[sub-urbanwitch]

Fine fine here’s my actual contribution for today.

[theenemyod]

Oh right straight people still exist

[thesfromhms]

Here to spread Callmara love because it is overshadowed by Calron and is hated on on Twitter for being straight

[ashpkat]

a lot of it is assorted screaming about what happened to the series

I'm so bored and want to think about Magisterium but too tired to work on my fanfiction. I need to talk about Magisterium with someone