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SPOILERS FOR MISS PEREGRINE’S MUSEUM OF WONDERS!!

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I’m sorry but what in the fresh hell is this, even Caul doesn’t recognise himself

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Miss Peregrines Museum of Wonders, chapters 1-3

Bet you anything that peculiars have arguments over who can call themselves by what label or who can call themselves peculiar, similar to terminally online people who think ace people ain’t queer enough

We really got Riggs (unintentionally?) writing queer theory on how labels are kinda useless

Hey how come Noor doesn’t get an invite to annotate about light shapers, she’s one. And she’s new here too, shouldn’t this book also be written for her?

Finn!! Shapeshifters!!!! >:)

“Only ymbrynnes can shapeshift” my ass. If most ymbrynnes have to go to their special school to learn how to shift properly, would that not apply to other shapeshifters? Maybe some peculiars have no peculiarity in evidence because they were never given the opportunity to learn how to shapeshift.

Well damn if making animal noises in a way animals understand makes you peculiar then I guess I better go find an Ymbrynne :/

Oop there it is, Alma doesn’t agree on who should be called what

I think it’s inhumane for the ymbrynnes to have sent Sweedlepipe somewhere he couldn’t talk to trees. That’s a kind of isolation. I can’t even talk to plants, I’m just going to school to be an enthobotanist, and I’d be pissed the fuck off if someone tried to tell me no plants. Even people who don’t talk to plants need them.

Oh okay so y’all want to hear ‘bout folk healers? So my anthropology professor (Ed, he’s great) was a nurse for a long time and he worked down near the Gullah-Geechee people. He had this one patient, an old Gullah man, who had astronomically high blood pressure. They did everything for this man; diets, physical therapy, meds. If you can think of it, they did it. His daughters were the ones sending him to the doctor on the mainland, they wanted him to get proper medical care (and this is not an anti-professional medicine story, professional medicine is absolutely necessary and useful). His sister wanted him to go down the street and see their folk healer. So they try everything for this man and nothin works, not a thing. So one week he goes down the street to see his folk healer, he knows them personally and has been seeing them for his entire life. And they have a good time catching up and his healer checks him over and at the end his healer tells him what he needs to do. He needs to boil Spanish moss in water and pour that into his shoes and leave it sitting for a while. Then wear the shoes. And he does, for a couple weeks he does this. He goes back to his doctor at the hospital and they check his numbers and he’s got absolutely beautiful blood pressure. Like there was never a damn thing wrong with him. To this day, it’s been like 20 years since this happened, Ed will tell this story to all his classes and he is always so excited about it, and I am too because that’s what ethnobotany is. They checked this man over, top to bottom, every test they could do, they checked the moss and the water and his shoes and they talked to his folk healer and they couldn’t find a thing to hint at what fixed this guy. No chemicals in the moss or water that would be affecting him. Nothin special about his feet. The folk healer wouldn’t give them a satisfactory explanation, as is their right, no one’s gotta tell you anything. So yeah. Ed’s theory is an anthropological one, that because this guy trusted his folk healer he was susceptible to treatment in a way that he wasn’t with the doctor, and that is a legit and respectable argument in the anthropological community. Hell, I believe it, that’s just a way that human brains can work. But it does tempt me to think it could be peculiars.

All plants are sentient if you look close enough

There should be more on peculiar plants

Oh no fuckin way Doyle would be able to keep his mouth shut about peculiars he would have told every person he ever met about peculiars in detail. Absolute clown of a man.

May Jeremy Bentham’s name be erased from history and I’d like very much to do irreparable damage to his mummy by pissing on it.

Oh oh the sheer bitchiness of the Jeremy Bentham section is delicious though

Okay more evidence for Myron Trans: changed his last name and for why? Because he’s trans and wanted a better surname.

Do you all know how much I hate Jeremy fucking Bentham’s shit-clogged guts? I’m going to resurrect him just to kill him again. Fuckin panopticon bullshit, “oh everyone will behave if they feel that everyone’s watching them at all times”, if there is no privacy there is not freedom and moral utilitarianism is such inconsiderate, capitalist and status quo upholding pig shit. Cop behaviour.

Stink-ass.

Ironic that he’d propose the panopticon when he had to keep being peculiar a secret though. Idiot, thought he’d be immune to observation.

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Miss Peregrines Museum of Wonders, Introduction:

This was going to be my usual 3 chapter length review, but it got long so you get just the introduction.

I swear, every time I think it’s gonna be the last book, Riggs comes up with an other one. This is far from a complaint, I want every little bit of anything I can get from these books. But this has happened three times now :/

Y’all are right. The little motifs in this book are fuckin ugly. Miss Peregrine would be much classier than this.

Also why’d they change her handwriting? We already have examples of her writing and uh. It’s not that.

Okay I swear that this whole thing is not going to be negative, we are going to have some fun here, but. I did the math and Alma is at least 58. What’s this bullshit with her picture showing her as 25-30 (?) years old.

Can we please please please have publications of Miss P’s other books next?? 🥺 I’ll never threaten to hit Riggs with a metal folding chair again 🥺

Okay back to complaining. Miss P would never have her silhouette done like that. She is a gentlewoman >:/

Today on Peculiars Are Jews: the book starts by informing the reader that they are being hunted and warning about how the Normal People will try to hurt you if they find out you’re different

Ooo faulty time loops 👀 what does that entail and how can I get in one?

Yet again, Peculiars Are Jews: “there was a time when all we had to worry about was being burned at the stake. It was a simpler world then.”

I would like to remind everyone that I am Jewish so I do get to make my fucked up little Jokes

Lovin’ these pink pages, they’re very fun

Hey so with the mention of the peculiar world spanning..well. The world. Do y’all think that other parts of the world (i.e. not europe or america) would rely so heavily on ymbrynnes? I genuinely want to know what other peculiar societies look like. We know that when Myron and Jack were building the Panloopticon they went outside of Europe and America and got loop dna from some pretty surprising places, so we know there are other loops and European peculiars have/had enough connection that the boys were capable of going there on friendly terms and gathering their samples. So there at very least was some connection to other places. That might have deteriorated with the introduction of hollows and wights roamin’ around and scaring everyone into staying in their loops. And we know that Noor was in fact born in Bombay and her parents were killed by a hollow, so we know that the wights reach extended outside of Europe/America. They had to get there somehow and it seems like it would be pretty hard to transport hollows by plane, so I’d guess they did a little loop hopping to get to baby Noor. Which would require a loop to be somewhere near Noor in the first place. Idk I just want to see places outside of Europe/America and know what the peculiar situation with them is.

This is probably the only book that’s like “Thank G-d no one believes in magic anymore”

Alsooo. Some of my opinions have changed since last time I shared my thoughts with you all and I am kinda critical of the ymbrynnes now. Not in a wight kinda way, because fuck those guys. And obviously this is fiction and also I’m not involved in any sort of peculiar society, so I can’t say what’s best, but who could, really?

That being said, Alma points out that many peculiars never meet an ymbrynne. And excuse me if this is wrong, but aren’t demi-ymbrynnes a little more common than full ymbrynnes? And I don’t believe this is ever directly addressed, but in the first three books there’s no mention of demi-ymbrynnes and it’s said that Miss Avocet’s Ymbrynne Academy trains ymbrynnes, specifically. Not demi-ymbrynnes. So uh. Would it not make more sense for the Ymbrynne Academy to train both demi-ymbrynnes and ymbrynnes and use the ymbrynnes to look for peculiar people and help relocate them and start loops and then leave demi-ymbrynnes in charge of running them? Not saying that full ymbrynnes wouldn’t be involved in running loops at all, but if they’re the ones who can find people and turn into birds and start loops and are more rare, why have them be focused on running one loop at a time? If anyone disagrees with this I would very much like to hear about it

Aaaand again with Peculiars Are Jews: “This is the book for them: the young [Jew] (or the old one) who’s never had the benefit of [a Rabbi’s/Jewish community’s] guidance; who is lonely and filled with questions.”

I know only one other Jewish person in this fandom so I’m pretty sure that most of the rest of you don’t get it when I say Peculiars Are Jews but I am right. It’s about the hidden culture! The questions! The alienation! The secret wonder! Randomly seeing an other person somewhere and just Knowing that they’re one of you! The Rituals! And yeah that does sound a lot like queerness too and Peculiars very much are queers. But they are also Jews and no one else is gonna talk about it.

Oooo fuck, the rest of the last paragraph for the introduction 😔 peculiars are queers and they are Jews and they are neurodivergent.

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*blocks the Miss Peregrine’s Museum of Wonders tag and sighs dramatically* see you soon, when I get the book 😔