#the fowl twins

[rayghosts]

jk rowling: wrote a childrens book series in the 2000s about a society of outcasts, which attracted a lot of queer fans because of its themes on acceptance. comes out as transphobic, tweets out "merry terfmas 😘," and proceeds to write a crime novel about a man who disguises himself as a woman to kill people

eoin colfer: wrote a childrens book series in the 2000s that he describes as "die hard but with fairies," which attracted a lot of queer fans because he accidentally gave his male protagonist a feminine name. is confused but supportive of his largely queer fanbase, leaves nice comments on trans artemis fanart, and proceeds to have one of the protagonists in the sequel series marry a ghost princess inhabiting the clone body of her evil uncle, which when she asks if its weird, the protagonist responds with “Maybe people would think you strange back in the olden days, but kids these days don’t care about stuff like insides and outsides matching”

[af-answers]

I have a question for the twins! What mythical creature do you wish you were?

Hey mod, have you looked at the number of characters or notes on the posts from MOD? The No.1 Anon (how does that anon use anon if it's disabled? weird) was talking abt numbers. Your whole puzzle is beyond me, I'm no Artemis Fowl, I congratulate you for not having a mental breakdown and moving across the world to leave everything behind.

Myles: I'd be a bai ze, or hakutaku in Japanese myth. They were all-knowing ox-creatures thought to ward off evil spirits.

Beckett: I'd be a heckin' DRAGON!

Mod: It's cool, the puzzles were a way to avoid a breakdown. It was only half-successful, heheh.

[astraeajackson]

myles: *labours for three whole days to figure out the passcode to artemis's lab*

myles: *refuses to tell beckett what it is*

myles: *heads outside and immediately falls into a suspiciously large hole*

myles, who has the physical capabilities of a glue stick: HELP

beckett, who took less than three seconds to dig said hole: gimme the passcode bitch

[jewishdragon]

I was not ready for a trans rights speech in the final Artemis fowl book. (The third book of the fowl twins).

But here we are.

[joellalovestoread]

guys.

my cringe was actually painful.

nice try myles. I love you, but seriously, that hurt me inside.

[koreanbibliophilegirl]

(In no particular order)

My "Top 5" favorite characters!! (I don't usually pick faves, especially not across multiple things...😅 these are just a few of my faves that I could think of.)

Tagged by @bixxibee, no-pressure tagging @tang0w0tek @colormints-art @an-amalgamation-of-things @charles-simmons @dreamshaxd @greenbeany @kadextra and anyone else who wants to try! :D

[irunaki]

BEACH DAY!!

[eucalyptusnomore]

Myles would be the type of guy to just fangirl (in a Fowl way) over Dune or sm like. just straight analysing each scene and rereading the trilogy every night etc. etc.

And he'd lore dump to Beckett and he'd kinda be a bit indifferent (still listening intently tho ofc) but then Myles would mention the Muad'dib or the worms and he'd suddenly gain interest bc. creature

[genderlesssnake]

I just started rereading Artemis Fowl, and now I’m very confused about Lazuli’s genetics.

Spoilers for the end of The Fowl Twins book 3

So, Lazuli is supposed to be a hybrid of elf and pixie with a little bit of goblin, and at the end of the last book it was revealed that her mom was the fairy that Artemis gets the fairy bible from. Initially I thought this was really cool, but while rereading the first book I realized that her mom is a sprite? Does that mean that her dad is also a pixel with a bit of goblin, and Lazuli’s phenotype just doesn’t show any sprite traits?

I considered that maybe Artemis mistook the fairy for a sprite when she actually wasn’t, but that seems unlikely since she had green skin, which as far as I know is only a trait that sprites have.

[hastings727]

So I managed to find a copy of the first Fowl Twins book on the internet archive and finished it within two days. I'm not sure if it was an earlier manuscript or something but that was easily the most flaunting Eoins done in his writing. Halfway through it I was like God damn, he's *really* flexing here. But again, I dunno if that was a "beta version" or something. But it was enjoyable, to be sure.

It reaches a level of absurdity of character traits that bordered on anime levels of wtf, which I appreciate greatly.

Seriously, a 150 year old fancy pants British noble, a fucking nun, and an extremely small troll?

And then the twins, my God the twins. Two different kinds of autistic, and yet they work so well together.

Much like the book, tbqh. My only gripe is that Lazuli felt a bit under developed in terms of her backstory. We learn alot about her being a hybrid, but not alot about her life and personality. But I'm sure we'll get more in a later book.

Also the opportunity to see Holly made me so happy.

[fowlblue]

Myles and Beckett energy:

[af-answers]

My favorite number is 26040566546403670636635, what's yours?

Artemis: We are not answering this question, because no one in this bloody found family respects me, and so their answer will inevitably be:

Holly, Juliet, Mulch, Foaly, Beckett, Lazuli, Doodah, Minerva, Vinyaya, Lili, etc.: 4.

Myles: The only correct answer can be Fibonacci sequence, as it is the formula for perfection.

Beckett: Of course you'd ruin the joke.

Myles: I never joke about numbers.

[gracieblood]

me: yes i like eoin colfer

also me: has read. the first fowl twins book because he came into my middle school one time to promote it and i think he signed it for me. decided not to read the rest of the series because im lazy.

[astraeajackson]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARTEMIS FOWL YOU ABSOLUTE GENIUS AND MY RELUCTANTLY REFORMED CRIMINAL MASTERMIND NO MATTER WHAT MYLES SAYS HE WILL NEVER BE BETTER THAN YOU POOKIE YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH SO ENJOY YOUR FIVE YEARS CHILLING IN SPACE WITH BUTLER

FAV ARTEMIS FOWL QUOTE: if i win, i'm a prodigy. if i lose, then i'm crazy. that's the way history is written.

[kpopandbookschild]

Book poll round 1 #4

[joellalovestoread]

”Myles could not know this, but he was one of only half a dozen twelve-year-olds worldwide to use the word bothersome in a sentence that day, and the other five were reading aloud from a Victorian novel.”