#make no mistake i love light novel perry too

[kitsquared]

A bunch of light novel scenes and details i think about. Some i wished or still hope show up in some form in the manhwa

Milaowm light novel Spoilers !!

In that one meal scene where Therdeo gives Pereshati his pudding then addresses Celphius who immediately is upset cuz he thinks Therdeo will take his pudding skkjsks

When Therdeo says he never went to a festival so Pereshati drags him around to hsve fun until the night ?????

^^ (So much fun Pereshati was sore ?? And servants thought they had a long night aljdksks but also?? What did they do that Pereshati is sore and Therdeo had fun too??? This was soo early in the series)

Kinda want to see some version of the teddy bear cake with Adeus in the manhwa

I think it's badass the Lapileons wear earrings to have 1 method in which they can defend themselves by pricking their hand, etc. (They do not wear jewelry in the manhwa which makes sense in that retelling)

I want to see Pereshati, on the ground, in a puddle of Therdeo's blood, hands and clothes stained in his blood from a severe seizure and suddenly struck with the possibility that he could die in the manhwa :) i need it

I think about Adeus running down the burning hills carrying Perry with his injured foot

"A rebel heard the call and came. " aaaaaaaaaaa what a way to reveal himself!

When countess Berdict was MIA, they sent out a knight paige to find more info and he got killed. I never feared so much for our best boy Sir Joseph in the manhwa until then 🫢😫

Therdeo kissing Pereshati's forehead to check for poison, not realizing what he did lol

In the latest chapters of the manhwa, Saoirse is among those who hasn't but should have something to say about Perry staying in these circumstances; In the light novel, Saoirse takes Perry on a trip to talk about her feelings

^^ So I think or hope she will take Pereshati aside in the manhwa to talk about how she feels being in the family; that Pereshati isnt staying solely to help the Lapileons but that she also wants to be in the family <3 i think their talk would be the final main conversation on this

Therdeo's coronation, but mainly when Therdeo knelts down before Pereshati in front of everyone signaling that she is more important than even the emperor and everyone kneels before her !! 😳🤭 jaw dropped at this

^^ (I'll be honest, not a big fan of Therdeo being emperor; he even says at some point he didn't like being in leadership positions. So I'm glad Seungu introduced the ambitious crown princess in the manhwa)

Pereshati slapping Princess Dodolea during the Hunting festival (fuck yeah)

Pereshati flipping a table on Harari, getting cake and tea everywhere and on her and walks away ( Harari was being rude and crossed the line but I thought flipping the table was wild lol they were at the academy. I was in shock haha)

Then like. 10 minutes later Countess Berdict asks that Perry accompany her to a location and Perry does so many precautions and i thought. Wow she's so reasonable oh yeah she flipped a table just earlier ksjdjsska

I need to see Pereshati with a dagger strapped to her leg 🙏

vv Okay so. This scene between Adeus and Therdeo... it's in the near end of the main story. Adeus tells Therdeo, smiling, "I do like her Grace, but to be honest, I like you, too."

And Therdeo says back, " Why thank you."

He smiled back, "But it's unfortunate. I'm not really interested in men."

Me :

Gay Rights ??? 🏳️‍🌈

This is a very hetero romance story but how easily he said that. Idk. Gays in this world??

Ive also never thought to put them together until right then alsjsksksls i know what u said Therdeo but it's happening in my head and Adeus and sir Raymon, too ^^

Pereshati beating Witch Dodolea with her own magic's logic :) it was pretty good

Celphius winking and holding a thumbs up at Pereshati after Therdeo repeatedly loses cool hearing the word lips and kiss akdhdksks

Lady Gloria patting Pereshati's head, kind of like what Therdeo did to Perry and i think about that a lot

Actually Perry willing to leave Adeus to the side of the road when they first met kahsjsks

Pereshati and Therdeo spending nights in the kitchen making meals together after the curse lifted 🥺❤️

I only read 1-2 chapters of the side stories.. but Therdeo baking the cake for Larissa's birthday 😭❤️❤️

[fleurdehivers]

Can u like.. link that pynch playlist u were talking about? Because i think you have great taste

sure i can! i’m going to apologise in advance because you probably just wanted the link – hope it works! –, but i’m going to explain my choices of songs a little because i kind of envisioned it as a sort of soundtrack to the series. so there are different ‘blocks’ of songs each one referring to a particular book or even a single chapter or scene. 

(also sorry for replying so late, i had a full day)

i’m going to put the rest under a ‘keep reading’ cut because this is going to be long.

the raven boys comprises the songs from when you were young by the killers to sky full of songs by florence. the songs from luck by american authors to can’t help falling in love by elvis refer to the dream thieves and a few of them come from mstief’s soundcloud playlist for the novel (nominally luck, fight song, keep it low, daydreaming). from welcome home, son by american authors to the chain by fleetwood mac we’re in blue lily, lily blue. from in my veins by andrew belle to winter winds by mumford i’m following the events of the raven king. and the songs from first day of my life by bright eyes to the end refer to adam and ronan’s life after chapter 67 of trk… in my head when i made the playlist til death do us part by white lion was about their marriage, but yeah that’s just a hc.

okay, this is the part that you can totally skip and i wouldn’t blame you if you did. BUT. these are the songs that reminded me of specific moments in the story:

snake eyes is about calla revealing her insight into ronan’s mind and calling him a snake in trb

pills is about ronan punching adam’s father

daydreaming is about ronan experimenting with his abilities in tdt

unattainable and can’t help falling in love with you are about ronan voicing his second secret at the end of tdt

welcome home, son and home are about ronan being able to return to the barns

the songs from skin graph to somebody to die for are a hypothetical mix for the cassette ronan leaves in adam’s car and i took them from another playlist, made for the fic things you know by heart by moreraventhanothers (they wouldn’t be my choice of songs for the playlist, they feel too romantic, but i liked the songs so that’s that)

the songs from take me to church to devil side are about the church scene in bllb

church refers to the quote at the start of chapter 18 of trk

angels and first time he kissed a boy are about adam and ronan’s first kiss

i want to know what love is is about adam and gansey’s conversation soon after

trade mistakes and together we will live forever are about the rest of adam and ronan’s night

the moon is down and mr loverman are about ronan being alone at the barns when adam is away for college

and then (i’m sorry, this is going to end soon i promise) these are the lyrics that really screamed pynch imho.

When We Were Young, The Killers

[about adam]

Watch it now, here he comes

He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus

But he talks like a gentlemen

Like you imagined when you were young

The Bad in Each Other, Feist 

[adam]

Speak plain he said

But didn’t say

He acted that way

Therein lies the doubt

We had the same feelings

[both]

When a good man and a good woman

Can’t find the good in each other

Then a good man and a good woman

Will bring out the worst in the other

The bad in each other

But what and how

To find us now

When we’ve become two

Pills, The Perishers

[ronan]

I hope my fists

can fight for two

So you’ll never have to see

What we’ve grown to be

Snake Eyes, Mumford & Sons

[about ronan]

It’s in the eyes

I can tell, you will always be danger

Fight Song, The Republic Tigers

[both]

Everyday we’re fighting, and we’re

Causing bolts of lightning, like a

Hot and cold collision in the sky.

[ronan]

If you cared, there’d be love in the air.

Thisle & Weeds, Mumford & Sons

[adam]

Spare me your judgments and spare me your dreams

‘Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams

Unattainable, Little Joy

[ronan]

Only when the goal is unattainable

Do I start to feel like I’m losing myself

And this deep secret that hasn’t come out yet

Is buried down deep with the rest

I can’t coerce you into this one

Jealousy lay all your spells to bed

I’ll choose unloved instead

Can’t Help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley

[ronan]

Shall I stay

Would it be a sin

If I can’t help falling in love with you

Wolves Without Teeth, Of Monsters And Men

[ronan]

You hover like a hummingbird

Haunt me in my sleep

You’ll sailing from another world

Sinking in my sea, oh

You’re feeding on my energy

I’m letting go of it

I can see through you

We are the same

It’s perfectly strange

I Wanna Be Yours, Arctic Monkeys

[ronan]

Secrets I have held in my heart

Are harder to hide than I thought

Maybe I just wanna be yours

I wanna be yours

I wanna be yours

From Afar, Vance Joy

[ronan]

They told me “boy, look the other way”

Told me “boy, bite your tongue”

‘Cause that’s not the way

Yeah, that’s not the way

Oh, that’s just not the way that friends behave

Oh, that’s just not the way that friends behave

You light me up across the room

Two falling sparks, one willing fool

And I, I always knew that I would love you from afar

And that is just the way that we remain

Oh, that will be the way that we remain

It shouldn’t come as a surprise

What I’m feeling, what I’m feeling now

It shouldn’t come as a surprise

The Run And Go, twenty one pilots

[ronan]

I can’t take them on my own, my own

Oh, I’m not the one you know, you know

I have killed a man and all I know

Don’t wanna call you in the nighttime

Don’t wanna give you all my pieces

Don’t wanna hand you all my trouble

Don’t wanna give you all my demons

You’ll have to watch me struggle

From several rooms away

But tonight I’ll need you to stay

Devil Side, Foxes

[adam]

Run and hide, it’s gonna be bad tonight

‘Cause here comes your devil side

It’s gonna ruin me

It’s almost like, slow motion suicide

Watching your devil side, get between you and me

Still I want you, but not for your devil side

Not for your haunted life, just for you

So tell me why I deal with your devil side

I deal with your dangerous mind, but never with you

Church, Fall Out Boy

[ronan]

If you were church, I’d get on my knees

Confess my love, I’d know where to be

My sanctuary, you’re holy to me

If you were church, I’d get on my knees

My Body Is A Cage, Arcade Fire

[ronan]

My body is a cage

That keeps me from dancing with the one I love

But my mind holds the key

Angels, The xx

[both]

You move through the room

Like breathing was easy

If someone believed me

They would be

As in love with you as I am

And everyday

I am learning about you

The things that no one else sees

And with words unspoken

A silent devotion

I know you know what I mean

And the end is unknown

But I think I’m ready

As long as you’re with me

I Want to Know What Love Is, Foreigner

[adam!]

I’ve gotta take a little time

A little time to think things over

In my life there’s been heartache and pain

I wanna know what love is

I want you to show me

I wanna feel what love is

I know you can show me

I’m gonna take a little time,

A little time to look around me

I’ve got nowhere left to hide

It looks like love has finally found me

Trade Mistakes, Panic! At the Disco

[ronan]

I may never sleep tonight

As long as you’re still burning bright

First Day Of My Life, Bright Eyes

[ronan]

Yours is the first face that I saw

I think I was blind before I met you

“This is the first day of my life

I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you

But, now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you

And I’d probably be happy”

[adam]

So if you wanna be with me

With these things there’s no telling

We’ll just have to wait and see

But I’d rather be working for a paycheck

Than waiting to win the lottery

Besides, maybe this time it’s different

I mean I really think you like me, me, me, me

Drive, Halsey

[ronan]

My hands wrapped around a stick shift

Swerving on the 405, I can never keep my eyes off this

My neck, the feeling of your soft lips

Illuminated in the light, bouncing off the exit signs I missed

[adam]

And California [Henrietta] never felt like home to me

Carves into my hollow chest, spreads over the emptiness

Over analyze again

Starving, Hailee Steinfeld

[adam]

I didn’t know that I was starving till I tasted you

[ronan]

You know just how to make my heart beat faster

arms, Christina Perri

[adam]

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart

But you came around

And you knocked me off the ground from the start

How many times will let you me change my mind and turn around

I can’t decide if I’ll let you save my life or if I’ll drown

The world is coming down on me

And I can’t find a reason to be loved

I’ve never truly loved ‘till you put your arms around me

And I believe that it’s easier for you to let me go

I hope that you see right through my walls

I’ll never let a love get so close

You put your arms around me and I’m home

The Moon Is Down, Radical Face

[adam]

There ain’t no moon tonight

It’s hard for me to see

But if I can catch a glimpse of you

It helps me feel at ease

It helps me sleep

[ronan]

You were never at rest

You were always somewhere-bound

But as for me, I’m the simple kind

I’ll live and die in this town

[newyorktheater]

What is a gay play? These three very different plays in the first week of the new Rave Theater Festival could all arguably fit the label, but it would mean stretching the definition beyond the normal assumptions.

Stormy Weather

“Stormy Weather” has nothing to do with the 1943 Lena Horne movie of the same name, but it does borrow from Gilligan’s Island (a storm traps the characters on an island, in this case Fire Island) and Boys in the Band (a group of gay men gather for a birthday party), and  Naked Boys Singing (there’s nudity, although much less of it and very little singing) — as well as from any number of forgettable peekaboo gay plays that were not as funny or clever or even as sexy as they pretended to be, and in which the acting seemed beside the point.

Tim and Mark, who are both in their 40s, were long-time lovers who recently split up. Tim is in their house in the Pines on Fire Island alone with their teenage daughter Tina, when a storm causes Mark’s yacht to crash, and forces him to take refuge in the house, leading to a series of shouting matches between Tim and Mark which I guess were supposed to be amusing. During the course of the play, we also meet:

Michel, Tim’s houseboy, who spends the entire time shirtless.

Jake, a deckhand on the yacht, who also spends the entire time shirtless.

Bobby, Tim’s new 22-year-old boyfriend (it’s his birthday), who spends some of his time shirtless and pants-less.

Harold, Mark’s new (age appropriate) boyfriend, who spends some of his time shirtless. “I’m Harry,” he says at one point to Bobby. “I can see that,” Bobby says, looking at his hairy chest.

Harrison, Harold’s straight teenage son, arrives on stage shirtless and pants-less, stared at by Tina. Harrison and Tina instantly become an item.

Over the course of “Stormy Weather,” we learn of all sorts of cross connections – Harold is also Tim’s ex-boss, and Mark is Bobby’s therapist – while several characters disengage from their current partners and re-engage with others. I disengaged from it all.

  Ni Mi Madre

Arturo Luis Soria III comes onto stage wearing only a pair of underpants, and puts on an elegant white dress, becoming Bete (sounds like Bet-chi) whose first words are: “I love Madonna.Let me tell you if it were another life baby I could’ve been Madonna.” And we’re launched into what initially seems like a drag queen’s stand-up comic routine impersonating an over-the-top would-be diva. She drinks too much, and complains about how her third husband “doesn’t take advantage of my body… When Christmas comes around I’m buying him a GPS system to my vagina .”  Bete mentions the word “vagina” or its synonyms more times than any woman I’ve ever talked to.

But it soon becomes clear, when Bete starts talking about her gay son Arturo, that the playwright and performer has created a show about his mother.

That doesn’t make her any less outrageous. “Arturo is an entertainer, the actor, the attention seeker, the ADADGG-C-something—one of those diseases that the American people come up with so that way they don’t beat their kids.”

She calls her son “my heart.”  She assigns all her children body parts. Her next-oldest daughter “my appendix. They’re there but they’ve stopped serving a purpose and if they explode, you’re fucked.”

But amid the hilarity – and much of it is quite funny – there is a glimpse of issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and immigration that confronted Bete and her son. Bete, the light-skinned daughter of a dark-skinned Brazilian, recalls how her mother shunned her. At one point, Soria portrays Bete imitating his father, whom she calls the Ecuadorian Communist: “There’s nothing wrong with gay people. I don’t have anything wrong with gay people. But no son of mine is going to be gay…people. “

At the end of “Ni Mi Madre,” Bete engages in a ritual seeking forgiveness from her mother, and from her children, and from herself.

The true spirit of Soria’s play — that it’s an odd, outrageous, but deeply felt homage — is summed by the words on the last page of the program: “Call your Mom.”

Sweet Lorraine

I was excited to learn of a play that would dramatize the storied friendship between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Both were renowned and influential writers who had great success at a young age, Baldwin with his first novel “Go Tell It on the Mountain” at age 29 , Hansberry with her first Broadway play “A Raisin in the Sun”  at age 28. (Baldwin was also a Broadway playwright.) Six years apart in age, they shared a high profile as intellectuals and activists. Both were African-Americans, and both were  queer, although Baldwin was more public about his sexuality.

“Sweet Lorraine” imagines James visiting Lorraine in her hospital room in 1965, a week before she died from cancer at the age of 34.  They catch up, joke around, discuss politics, debate issues, argue. She admits to being angry with him for not visiting her sooner. They probe each other’s opinions, even about God.

  Lorraine: Do you ever wish you still believed in God, Jimmy?

James: The only type of fiction I care for is the kind I write.

Lorraine: Well, I do. It keeps me up at night. I lay in this bed and ponder how simple life would be if there was someone, cosmical, in our corner….

  They quote lines from other artists and intellectuals, and from each other’s work – which rings true, or at least is how we would like to imagine them. Inevitably in a play about two real-life historical figures, they drop in little biographical tidbits about one another that, in real life, two best friends would already know, but that theatergoers will certainly appreciate hearing.  The maneuvering to get to this exposition is sometimes stilted, but often deftly done.

  Lorraine:You sometimes sound just like my daddy.

James: So, he was a wise, incredibly handsome and debonair man?

Lorraine:He was, until good ‘ol American racism killed him too early.

    The sweetest surprise in “Sweet Lorraine” is the presence of Valisia LeKae, five-time Broadway veteran,  who was nominated for a Tony for her exquisite portrayal of Diana Ross in “Motown.”  LeKae had to drop out of Motown after a diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Here she is more than five years later, portraying a woman dying of pancreatic cancer,  which is brave and admirable and reason enough to be happy that this production exists. (She has a fine companion and sparring partner in Christopher Augustin as Baldwin.)

  “Sweet Lorraine” is a terrific idea, and my hope is that the creative team continues to work on the play beyond its handful of performances at the Rave Festival.

  There are what I consider some mistakes, such as the opening scene of Lorraine talking on the telephone with her ex-husband Robert. She is ranting about “The Drinking Gourd,” a television script about slavery that NBC commissioned from her (years before “Roots”!) and then declined to broadcast. The problem is not that this happened in 1960, five years before the play is supposed to take place (One expects this kind of fudging of time for dramatic purposes.)   My problem is that Lorraine Hansberry is presented as foul-mouthed and soap-boxy. The first words out of her mouth are: “Fuck them! Fuck them all!” She calls the NBC executives “white devils” and compares herself to Anne Frank and Emmitt Till and Beethoven trying to create the Ninth Symphony.

It would shock me if any of the sentences in this opening telephone rant come verbatim from Lorraine Hansberry. Did she really curse so much? It strikes me as unlikely; she was the daughter of a proper, proud affluent Chicago family; her mother was a schoolteacher. I’ve read all of her plays, and I can’t remember any of her characters being so loose with four-letter words. But, more importantly, the cursing and self-aggrandizement is symptomatic of a certain uncharacteristic lack of sophistication in the way that the Lorraine of the play expresses herself.

As I wrote when reviewing Imani Perry’s book, Looking For Lorraine,

https://newyorktheater.me/2019/02/15/looking-for-lorraine-the-radiant-and-radical-life-of-lorraine-hansberry/, Hansberry was unquestionably a radical activist, so much so that the FBI had her under surveillance for years. But her impassioned sentences were also elegant, erudite, well-reasoned and witty. Could this really only have been when she put them down on paper?

  It’s worth noting that the James Baldwin of “Sweet Lorraine” brings up his homosexuality early and often, complete with campy references. But there is no mention of Lorraine Hansberry’s own queer identity – just a fleeting line about her wanting to see “the end to queer persecution.” It’s well established that Hansberry not only had a female lover  but wrote for pioneering lesbian publications, albeit under a pseudonym – a fact that Baldwin surely knew, and a subject that might well have come up in what could have been their last conversation together.

  Rave Theater Festival Reviews: Sweet Lorraine, Ni Mi Madre, Stormy Weather What is a gay play? These three very different plays in the first week of the new Rave Theater Festival could all arguably fit the label, but it would mean stretching the definition beyond the normal assumptions.