#i was telling my friend about the nonbinary heart and cookie scenes

[snixx]

I miss one day at a time:(

[gay-otlc]

Keeper (1) Recap

Everything I say is 100% true, if you were wondering.

Sophie's trich is so bad I'm so sorry honey

The driver from the beginning deserves a spinoff series. He also apparently has a tumblr account that he posted about this on, and that's how the Neverseen found Sophie in the human world.

Fintan lent Alvar his boyfriend's books (LOTR) and Fitz read them too.

There's a tribunal taking place at the beginning of book one. It's never mentioned again. Whose is it? Good question. Maybe Linh's?

All elves are canonically nonbinary. Elf is a gender in itself.

Sophie isn't a girl, she's an elf. Elwin isn't a man, he's an elf. Those two in particular are extra non of binary.

Sophie's place in her human family is totally a metaphor for being queer I don't make the rules. Could also be a neurodivergent metaphor- or both!

Sophie's favorite kind of cookie is E L fudges, her mom gives her some at the beginning.

The lost cities has so many gender roles, which is bad for Sophie who, as mentioned previously, is nonbinary.

Sophie is not a lady.

Alden IS a lady.

Alden is *winks* friends with Quinlin.

Seriously, he refers to Quinlin as his "friend" a LOT, who is he trying to convince? That's kinda gay ngl.

It's honestly so iconic of Tiergan to yell at Alden for two pages and then decide he doesn't want to interact with anyone ever. What a mood.

Sophie is really, really gay for Biana.

Sophie saying goodbye to her human family is so fucking sad no one talk to me

Biana is really, really gay for Sophie but denying it vehemently

Dex and Sophie friendship supremacy

Marella has a pretty homoerotic crush on Biana

The Deck scene -> Dex calling Fitz "his royal highness" -> rwrb au

As she should be, Marella is a Tiertice shipper.

The dadwin dynamic has been going on since pre-keeper and I love this so much.

Biana is avoiding Sophie because she’s terrified of catching feelings for a girl, in this essay I will-

Keefe and Fitz are dating.

Like, they are very much dating.

Biana gets so nervous asking Sophie to be friends, she's a gay mess and it's so cute.

Marella "giggles and stares" when the Vackers eat lunch with her, but Shannon never actually specifies which Vacker.

Clearly it's Biana.

It's so homophobic that Tiergan has to talk to Alden, honestly.

He enjoys spilling the Alden/Alina tea a little too much. We stan.

Shannon just decided to through in a little Marella/pyrokinesis irony.

Tiergan has to talk to Alden three whole times this book, and is therefore entitled to financial compensation. Or punching him. Either works.

Very cool of him to "forget" to return his leaping crystal to the forbidden cities.

Either Tiergan is terrible at keeping secrets or just Does Not Care if Sophie knows he's with the Black Swan. Or both.

TIERTICE ANGST

Biana is a lesbian.

Sophie tells Grady and Edaline she loves them and it's the sweetest fucking thing.

Fitz says "no reason to worry" and then has an internal crisis about turning into his father. Mood lmao

The scene where Sophie and Grady/Edaline talk about the cancelled adoption is so good, it has so much raw emotion and it completely shattered my heart. 10/10 I hate it.

Sophie's trich is so bad I'm so sorry honey, part two, electric boogaloo

Fintan has stayed close friends with most of the councillors, in conclusion, Fintante.

The scene where Stina tells Sophie why Biana initially became friends with her… just… oh shit

KOTLC is really not a kids book, just... why.

Because I'm not done screaming about Sophie & Grady & Edaline, the scene where Sophie unfades? And they talk to each other? Very sweet I love it.

Sophie broke so many laws... I'm a little gay for her ngl

(Biana is too)

SOPHIE & GRADY & EDALINE FAMILY (violent sobbing)