#its me. katie

[the-peoples-meow-meow-ag]

Blog Intro!

Welcome to a fan blog for my favorite streamer, punkquoththeraven, also known as Ash Gordon! They are a variety streamer on Twitch, including Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and generally a lot of indie games.

They’ve been streaming for just over a year, and are at just over 100 followers! I really enjoy their streams and want more people to appreciate them, so I thought a fan blog would be a fun way to talk about my favorite streamer (and pal)!

Their links include:

Twitch

Youtube Channel

Vods YouTube Channel

Twitter

TikTok

Instagram

Discord Server (also known as the meowmeowcord/mmcord)

On this blog, I'll be posting stream announcements when possible, screencaps from their streams, and hopefully more!

I hope you check out Ash Gordon, they're an incredibly lovely person and deserve all the support in the world 💜

[dreadfuldevotee]

Katy O' Brian as Jackie

-Love Lies Bleeding Dir. Rose Glass

[guessilllive]

Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

[skitskatdacat63]

Please take my low effort shitpost of our two Aston flopboys

Basically:

[heynhay]

please don't say you love me (x)

[jopzer]

wlw mlm hostility

[karamazovanon]

controversial opinion maybe but it BEWILDERS me when people (mostly americans ime) genuinely seriously with their whole chest complain about how impossibly hard russian names are. like. do a single google search. i don't see how you can comprehend that charles = chuck and margaret = peggy but can't fathom that rodion = rodya. how is this such a huge barrier of entry for people

[k4tie75]

See last night when matty turned the big light off and looked about, it's like that Hannah Montana scene where she says goodbye to her house

[im-smart-i-swear]

fuck this shit, vld warrior cats au in 2024. this thing has LORE btw. if you even care

[jujujun-s]

ok tell me if im too much of a lena stan and it's clouding my judgement

but isn't soo weird that Kara decided to treat Lena as a villain after seeing Lena be a good, righteous (just hurt) person in almost every timeline??? like don't get me wrong im glad Kara started standing up for herself but couldn't be me fr, not when Lena was all like “if the real Kara thought i was a villain, maybe it's all i really am”

i get the whole “it doesn't matter when i tell her” but girl it doesn't mean you have to give up on this timeline

[cavennmalore]

tagging @myfairkatiecat because it is only fair after you requested this word vomit lol

The thing about Keefe not being a good person is a little complicated. Full disclaimer, I don’t really believe in the whole good/bad person dichotomy, and definitely not for KIDS. Nevertheless, I don’t disagree with the people who say that Keefe isn’t the awesome person Sophie’s (biased) opinion makes him out to be. Not for the manipulative reasons -- which, Keefe is a teenage boy and I don't know about anyone else but that is like THE demographic for being a little messy in relationships lmao -- but for a lot of his planning. Joining the Neverseen without telling anyone what his plan was? Proposing himself as Mercadir without giving anyone a chance to refute him? Lying at the end of Legacy and showing up to the confrontation even though it was explicitly agreed he'd stay back? Basically, everything he did in Lodestar? Not great.

It's not Certified Good Guy Behavior. But that's his role. Keefe was literally designed to occupy this grey, questionable space, both in the narrative and outside of it. He's Sophie's character foil. Lady Gisela's plan revolves around pushing Keefe to become a worse and worse person; that involves raising him in a way that cultivates bad behavior and forcing him into increasingly extreme situations that are designed to make Keefe "ready" when the time comes. That is a huge part of the plots of Nightfall and Legacy.

Admittedly, I don't think Shannon has made him evil/grey enough, which I know isn't a popular take. There was real potential to make Keefe a wild card in Lodestar and make it so that the question isn't what stupid scheme is he planning? but to what extent have Lady Gisela's machinations worked? It's an interesting plotline to me. It's why I'm so excited for Unraveled; it's a chance to see this push-pull in action without Keefe's "north star" (AKA Sophie) guiding his decisions.

But a lot of people don't feel this way. A ton of the complaints I see around the book have to do with Keefe getting too much page time, the plotline taking up too much space in the story, etc. Which is fair! If you don't like Keefe, I'm sure a lot of this is grueling. However, a point I see connected to this line of thought is a wish for the books to return to a more ensemble vibe. That there should be more Dex, more Biana, more Stina, more Tam, etc. the way that it used to be.

That version of the books, though? It only really exists in the first book. Keefe is a prominent character in Exile and a huge driver of its plot. It's only in Book One where he only exists on the margins and isn't super involved. The ensemble cast has grown exponentially since then, to the point where there are frankly too many characters to keep track of in a scene without straight-up listing them all (which did happen but I'm forgetting which book). The decreased page time of supporting characters isn't solely because Keefe is eating the narrative, but because there are way too many characters for everyone to get a subplot; rather than have pre-existing characters solve issues, Shannon tends to just pull new ones in, and then leave them to hang out for the following books. If the series was for a more adult audience, I would say that it was time to start killing people off (like the popular critique of The Boys) but because this is a kids series, they're going to just hang around and not do much.

A lot of the nostalgia for this old version of KOTLC presents itself in fandom discussions of Dex. Full transparency: I didn't really like Dex that much in the early books when I did my reread. I found him unbearably rude to Fitz and Biana. His crush on Sophie felt invasive at times as if she was catering to a boy that was projecting his feelings and making her accommodate him. It's very similar stuff to the current criticism of Keefe! But I have yet to see any discussions around Dex that don't characterize him as kind, goofy, or sweet. Maybe there is some discussion of him being snarky or sarcastic. The most criticism I've seen of him is about how he treated Stina in his introduction, which was taken largely in isolation.

But that sweet, goofy version of Dex that people talk about missing? He doesn't exist. Sure, Dex mellowed out a ton in the later books, but he didn't become a whole new character. And I don't believe that he disappeared from the books in the way that some people claim. He just... doesn't have a subplot anymore. His crush on Sophie was resolved. It was a sticking point in his and Sophie's friendship which made him part of her character arc, and that arc is done. If that went on for any longer, it would be a drag on the pace of the series. Like I said before, the presence of so many side characters, each with their own needs and motivations, makes it difficult to introduce him into new stuff. It's why he gets so much more page time in Unlocked. With the presence of so many other characters, Shannon tends to handwave a lot of the background group dynamics. Dex ended up becoming close to Keefe and was able to shine there, away from Sophie's perspective and their finished arc.

All of this is to say, it's not wrong to dislike Keefe or like Dex. But I think a lot of the conversations surrounding these guys can get muddled in nostalgia and what people think the books should be rather than what they are. I'm (severely) guilty of it too. It's part of a broader trend in fandoms as "fandom" as a concept becomes more popular. That is a whole other post, though, and frankly, this one is long enough lol

[fatmaclover]

its late im high and i rewatched dee's dating a retarded person and i cant stop thinking about how gentle dennis is with joyce the whole episode. how he engages her interests and passions in a way they both can enjoy, building on her ideas with her, trying to lift her up, and idk. maybe im trying to be optimistic but dennis even looks worried for her once she runs off stage. him insulting the crowd for hurting his friend, trying to defend her, or get some sort of revenge, or something...

also something about how joyce is willing to perform in front of people with dennis but not mac despite her and macs friendship having lasted longer. idk. something about that is really meaningful to me.

[mcuamerica]

Why am I so obsessed with writing for Eris? I didn’t even like him that much when I read the books…

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Favorite Pacey/Joey Moments Per Episode: 4x1 Coming Home (Part 3)

[the-1ast-time]

[didsomeonesayventus]

little rushed admittedly but happy birthday alcryst my 2nd engage blorbo!!! smothers him in love