#carry on spoilers

[watfordgrimoire]

Simon is still allowed on Watford grounds, but the gate does not open for him anymore (Carry On 505)

[a-random-queer-fanpeep]

Fuck the mage, that is a kid, you can give him a ride

Also, "I hadn't meant to slay that dragon"!!! 11yo Simon killing the dragon on accident, presumably because he was 11 or 12 and panicked, and then everyone praises him for it and people (the mage) using it to treat him like he's so grown up!!! And he has dreams (probably nightmares) about it!!!! How would that not mess someone up??? Simon "living weapon" Snow starting early, both in life and book pacing (literally page one in my copy).

[your-local-asexual-loser]

Okay but if you think about it, Simon really is yhe prophesised one. The greatest threat to magic was the Humdrum, yes, but technically Simon didn't create it. The Mage did. The Mage inadvertently made the Humdrum while trying so hard to make the Chose One prophecies come true. And Simon was the one who stopped the Humdrum.

[hunter-the-gae]

Okay, this book was top-tier, to say the least. I saw someone write a review that said, "J.K. Rowling wishes she could write this good" or something like that. I honestly agree. This book has got to be one of my favourite reads ever. It has HEA, it's lgbtqia+, and it gives the "coming of age" genre new life (in my personal view).

The book starts "in medias res" (in the middle of things). This really gives the feel of how the most epics are written, which always starts in the middle of things. But this isn't an epic. The book starts slow, and there are questions after questions. But I suggest focusing mainly on the character dynamics for the beginning. I went into this book with the knowledge that Simon and Baz eventually ended up together, so that's what really kept me going and what I latched on to first. I looked at the way Simon would describe things in great detail and, at every turn, bring up Baz. He loved The Mage like a father and talked about him a great deal, but less in comparison to Baz. The only person that he talked about more than Baz was Penelope, and that was because she was his best friend. In the first 3 chapters alone, Simon mentions Agatha (his GIRLFRIEND) a maximum of 4 times. Compared to how much he mentioned everyone else, it was kind of concerning. You can pick up on how most characters are going to be throughout the novel very easily through the first 6 or so chapters. What I really loved about the beginning of the book, though, is the fact that although it starts in medias res every POV explains things so effortlessly, although sometimes you can tell that they are going out of their way to explain these things. But at the same time, it feels natural. That makes the book so easy to read, and the writing style is phenomenal; it flows so beautifully. To me, it feels like treading water or cutting through jello. I do have a lot to say about characters and character relations, but I will save that for another post. Once you get to where everything starts to pick up, towards the end, you can clearly see the flaws on all sides. The Mage and the Old Families. They both think they are right, but each side is a little or a lot wrong. It's such a beautifully written ethical conundrum; I love it. This heavily reminds me of American politics, and that's kind of funny. This book simultaneously feels light yet heavy.

[nine-frogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

unpopular book opinion: i actually don't mind and often quite like when the main character in a fantasy story loses their powers at the end of a book/ book series

[hinamie]

10 years later

[may12324]

She remade her, she held her bones in her hands and put each piece back together. Only to have to carry on without her.

Everything she did, she did for Falin

~

Inspired by The Locked Tomb and Howls Moving Castle, and also how hot these two look in these outfits/forms. This will be a future print for cons this year.

[st-hedge]

Okay supergiant okay I’m invested

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[dufrau]

thinking about shauna listening to jackie talk about jeff like he never even mattered when shauna is pregnant with his baby because she just wanted something jackie had and wanted to be wanted by someone who wanted jackie and now jackie doesnt even care anymore and shauna is stuck with this forever. and then jackie dies and then the baby dies but not before shauna has to give birth to him in the wilderness in winter surrounded by people who eat the dead and now fucking jeff sadecki is the last thing she has of either of them and what the hell is she supposed to do with that? she's stuck with him forever.

thinking about shauna beating lottie almost all the way to death to get all of that rage out of her and then when that rage is out of her they give her a knife and tell her to slit natalie's throat, and then when natalie runs and shauna is let off the hook for one thing for once they give her the knife again and tell her to cut up javi, the closest thing to a baby, so they can eat him, and now she's stuck with this, too. and all that rage she burned off didn't go anywhere, really. it's still right there.

and then im thinking about shauna watching lottie and everybody else crown natalie the queen for virtue of not dying, which is the same thing everybody has been doing, except for jackie and the baby and javi who all took chunks of shauna with them and left her with nothing but a knife.

im thinking about shauna who watches everybody gossip and laugh through the springtime knowing that when winter comes she will be the person who will have to cut them all up one by one so the rest of them can live and its very easy to see why she isnt friends with any of them anymore by then. she looks at them and she sees cuts of meat and how is she supposed to look at anybody normally ever again after that?

and its cruel, of course it is, everything she does to coach ben. it's not his fault, it's not about him at all, really, except that he is exactly the problem. he's innocent. he judges them. he sees what they have had to do to survive and pretends he never profited from any of it. pretends to be above it, uninvolved. he judges them. he judges her.

and shauna needs complicity from these people. she needs somebody else to know what it feels like to hold the knife. she needs people to be stuck with those guilty votes forever. tai with the gun and melissa with the knife and natalie at the butcher's table so that she's not the only one. and so ben is the sacrifice.

i saw somebody say that shauna doesnt want natalie to have to feel the pain of butchering a person, thats why she puts the cloth over his face. but that's not true. she *needs* natalie to know the pain of it, the guilt of it, the weight. The cloth is a lie she told herself would make it easier but she knows that Natalie is about to know what the inside of this man's joints look like either way and that she's going to be stuck knowing that forever.

they are going to be rescued someday and everybody will say "we did what we had to do to survive" and shauna needs to not be the only one who really has to mean that when she says it. and i guess she has that now. or she's about to.

[nataliescatorccio]

YELLOWJACKETS 1.10 | 3.04

[damian-navarro-art]

ROBINS

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Carrie Kelley, Mia Mizoguchi

I’ve been wanting to make this piece for a long time and im really happy that It’s finally but im sure i will probably make more Robins pieces in my future.. Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian were all so meaningful to me on my teens (and they still do) but i literally had like an obsession phase with each one of them during those years and now most recently Maps became one of my favorite DC characters as well!, haven’t really engaged with Carrie or Steph yet but I know i well that i will the moment i start reading more about them:)

The Robins mean a lot to me as i know most of you do too, they remind me all of my adolescence and i they are a big part of this love that i have for comics and DC , hope you like it!

[sometimesrendog]

[Day 172] Uiscefhuaraithe / The feel of coldness only water brings

[d0gtoothjones]

Shadowplay ( Empty room )

[tessxblxckthorn]

i just realised that the next time leia sees obi-wan he gets killed and i am not well.

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

Carry me home