#the bureau of magical things

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Darra and Kyra from The Bureau of Magical Things Kimie Tsukakoshi and Julian Cullen

stop they're so cute!

[scottsumrners]

the ending of The Bureau of Magical Things was great until the very last minute. like girl why do you care about your bio dad? be so fr right now

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Best trio

[coolusernamehere]

maybe this is too niche….

[louisandhazza]

i was watching 'the bureau of magical things' on netflix and i don't know why it's so underrated like wtf???!!!

and also I'd like to have fanfics on Darra Blackwell X reader... coz i might have a crush on him

[100hearteyes]

So I speed watched (ten hours crammed into two) season 2 of The Bureau of Magical Things. I know it's for children (also, who cares); I was curious to see if they would give the very obviously sapphic character a sapphic love interest. The answer is they did... but didn't.

They built her side storyline around a character that has all the workings of a love interest – enemies to friends to """lovers""", special concern for each other's safety (going so far as to only being worried about THAT person amongst like seven of them and being ready to go to extreme lengths to make sure they're safe), spend all their extra time together, long stares, dopey smiles, saying the time they've known each other has been memorable, saving one another, making special childhood smoothies for comfort, one of them saying the other looks cute and everyone looking at them like 👀 that's gay 👀, etc etc etc (also, I already knew and love the actress who plays Tayla, Miah Madden, from another show - she's suuuper adorable and very, very talented imho), all without outright "calling" her a love interest.

I mean, google "bureau magical things imogen tayla". You'll see I'm not imagining things. IT'S MADE ITS WAY TO TUMBLR ALREADY.

So you have everyone paired off in actual couples except for two girls who are very clearly romantic but it never gets past the friendship stage, officially. And I get it, children's show, but also??? That doesn't fly anymore??? And it's a pity, because it's an adorable series, definitely something I would be okay with my young kids watching (if I had any), but this really sets it back. Modern TV isn't there anymore.

I mean, they're adorable and VERY CLEARLY romantic, even if the show doesn't make it official. But TV has already reached the era of calling a spade a spade. Even children's TV.

[via-ad-insaniam]

I cannot believe that The Bureau of Magical Things had a spoiler in the fucking intro 😂

[blogquantumreality]

So I wanna talk about Orla Maguire (TBoMT)

I've been re-watching the series along with @ayalaatreides (thanks to Teleparty!) and I'd forgotten a lot of the Season 1 stuff so I was somewhat unprepared for the Shit Gets Absolutely Real in S01E06 ("The Test").

Spoilers ensue, so I'm putting the rest under a Read More:

What I love about this episode is it digs into the very real challenges Kyra will face as a Tri-ling in the magical world she's only just begun to navigate via Professor Maxwell's school in River City, and the series personifies those challenges in the form of Orla Maguire, an elf:

Melanie Zanetti (Orla's actress) just nailed the menacingly benevolent way she approaches Kyra.

She's all smiles, but you can just tell she's ready to stab Kyra in the back at the slightest opportunity, and boy, does she get that chance this episode!

And she grabs the Shadow Cloud, after which she espies Peter across a park and chooses to let it out there:

And right here, this is where she crosses the Moral Event Horizon.

She purposely moves the cloud near Peter.

I believe this was deliberate, because doing this sets Kyra up for two equally bad alternatives:

She takes her mind off the Shadow Cloud threat and will have to rush and save Peter, failing the test, or

She fails to save Peter and ends up letting the Cloud go on to do further damage before containing it.

Kyra, luckily, knocks Peter out of the way and distracts him while Imogen manages to vacuum the cloud up using a magical artifact.

But regardless of the outcome, thanks to Orla Kyra was doomed to fail this test anyway, and we see that the reason for this is due to deep-seated prejudices that still exist within the magical world of TBoMT:

These prejudices play out in the relative socioeconomic positions of the Maxwell School students:

Imogen's and Darra's parents are hinted to be quite wealthy, given Orla's remarks about generous donations to the Department of Magical Intervention (also, noteworthy is that they're all full-blooded elves).

Lily's (a full-blooded fairy) father Sean Reegan (also a fairy) is at this point hinted to be a high official in the DMI (we later find out he's the Director of the DMI - effectively the Minister for Magic).

Ruksy's family situation isn't elaborated on by this point. However, given that she is treated the same as Lily, we can conclude that Ruksy's family is probably the equivalent of magical middle class.

But Kyra is a Tri-ling in a world where any mixed-ancestry magical people are regarded with suspicion at best, and her father is a policeman - good at his job, but hardly a rising star destined for fame and fortune.

So this firmly puts Kyra at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy, a situation which Professor Maxwell sympathizes with, being a half-ling himself. He also remarks (anviliciously, perhaps, but some things need to be said) that it means Kyra will have to work twice as hard to be considered as good as the other students.

To bring this back to Orla, it's impressive how well this episode uses her character as a vehicle to show the extent of discrimination Kyra will face, and how prejudice against her can easily lead to abuses of magical power in ways that could hurt Kyra or her friends.

I'm purposely avoiding spoilers for Orla's later character arc, but feel free to bring those up if you've already seen the entire series and want to discuss! :)

[insufferable-yapper]

Imogen and Darra were absolutely competing for Kyra attention like listen they both continued to interact which isn’t unusual on it’s on own but Imogen expresses a lot of anger directed at Kyra so why continue interacting with her right? Right, anyways she also constantly demands her full attention for things that shouldn’t even really matter to her, Kyra that is, therefore Imogen likely harbors some type of feelings for her

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The Bureau of Magical Things intro

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Julian Cullen as Darra in The Bureau of Magical Things

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Kygen? Imora? Idk but the writing was a little 💅

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Darra the Tease?

I'm surprised people don't make a deal out of this: Darra was probably originally written as a player / tease / bad boy. We see this most obviously in the first two episodes of the first season. 1. The flirty look he gives Kyra, a complete stranger, as they pass each other at the juice place. (ep 01) 2. Immediately after, when Imogen hassles him about getting home late last night, he says he was at a wild goblin party. (ep 01) 3. When Kyra joins them for class, as they're flirting, Imogen pointedly interrupts by asking Darra about his date with the tree nymph. (ep 02) 4. When Imogen says she isn't trying to protect Darra from Kyra; rather, she wants to protect Kyra from Darra. (ep 10) 5. Also, there are a few places throughout the series when Darra teases Imogen and the girls, not in a flirty way, but in a mischievous way that we don't see consistently from him (e.g. "Ooh, Imogen misses the teacher"). It seems that this "teasing" side of Darra was written out, forgotten about, or just ignored in later episodes. Not sure why. Maybe because the show writers didn't want to focus too much on Darra + Kyra; the show is not actually a "teen drama," after all. Or maybe because Julian Cullen was a new actor and this type of character didn't look natural on him? I think Darra's personality probably became quieter to suit the actor. Anyone have other thoughts?

[imayjustbejamesmoriarty]

Speed binged the new season of The bureau of magical things and it's decent enough. Apart from the ending. The ending is awful. Even for a show that is rather loose with the concept of plots making sense, this made absolutely no sense.

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No actually I'm obsessed with her brother...

[blogquantumreality]

Kyra Glen in The Bureau of Magical Things S02E08 "Almost Famous"