#the lost cities is messed up

[a-random-person-on-the-interent]

CALLING ALL PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE THE LOST CITIES AND THINK THEY'RE SHIT

we need to make like a discord or something to talk about it, or like write essays which I think I'm planning on doing, because the lost cities is shit, I feel very strongly about this as a disabled person, and you might ask why would me being disabled have anything to do with it, EUGENICS and the Talentless and even how disabled people are treated by the narrative. Because didn't Keefe descripe feeling talentless people as being hollow and not quite complete, WHICH IS WHAT DISABLED PEOPLE (or at least people with Autism like myself) HAVE BEEN CALLED FOR YEARS. I really want a charcter to have been born with a disability (ADHD, ASD, EDS, down syndrome, Dyslexia, dysgraphia, ect) or for the series to recognize that being talentless is having a disability or even the series to recongize mental health conditions (PTSD, BPD, Depression Schizoprenia, delusions) like Sophie has all the symptoms for PTSD, and one could argue she's dyslexic with her not being able to read runes. Also back to the eugenics talk, eugenics in history have been useally used on disabled people, like myself. There are no LGBTQ characters which can be fine, I'd like some but it's not a big problem expect... EUGENICS. the elves soiciety is based on Eugenics meaning that if someone was gay or lesbian or aroace, they probably would be scorned if not it being banned to be gay or lesbian. What about trans people? well the lost cities seem to function on that they are perfect the way they're born, and if one is not born perfect (Like the talentless) you are socially exiled. The susicde rates must be massive there, but I doubt anyone will talk about them because they'll be shamed.

Let's not even get into Exile cause that is just Touture, and I'm not kidding solitary confine meant is torture, fintans cell tourture, I'm not saying it isn't effective cause it is. but the elves claim to be morally superior to humans than do that. Memory breaks would also count as tourture as you are breaking someones mind till they are practically dead. And we saw how that effected Aladin. What about the white room tourture they had Vesperia be in for centuries. there politcal system is fucked too, Cause a friendship is just as important as a romantic relationship so if they wanted them to be completey unbiased the councliers shouldn't be allowed to have friends or family, and that doesn't stop the heart from from falling in love with someone and giving them special treatment.

I think anyone with half a brain could tell you that feeding carniverous animals strickly vegan diet is bad, so let's move on to the education system and I'm 90% sure that elves are just lying about how much they helped humans, like I'm 100% sure that Mr. Forkle only thinks he inspired Loki, cause if you know any myths about him you'd know they are not similar at all well maybe aside from the shapeshifting like didn't at one point they say they helped them discover electicity, like eceletricity was ORGINALLY discovered in 600 BCE they at that time were probbaly still living among humans, like I'm sorry but you guys probbaly didn't help with anything and might've actually prolonged the process because you thought you knew better. and y'know what they probbaly haven't even gotten to the center of the earth yet which is 2,9000 KM down, but back to education, it's so heavily bias, that all the other speices that aren't elves are like what the fuck is this, this isn't how it happened, so my best guess is that it's full of misinformation. Y'know what I should make a skit of, "If I was in the lost cities"

[book-lover85]

so I agree that Sophie kissing Keefe is probably one of the cheesiest things Shannon has written (not that that makes it inherently bad)

I actually think I like Sophie's second kiss with Keefe way more, where she gives him a little peck to reassure him he won't mess up in their relationship

she just gives him this casual sweet kiss to make him feel better

[siennamakeschaos]

this might bring up some problems...

(But this is literally the only space left in my bookcase.)

[myfairkatiecat]

I’m interested to find out what Keefe learned in Unraveled, but I’m even more interested to find out why he didn’t say anything about it in stellarlune

[telugu-girl-13]

I see why people ship Wylinh because she’s literally at his bed side day and night but hasn’t anyone considered the age gap? Linh is around fifteen and Wylie is somewhere from 18 to 20, which, human-wise, makes their relationship illegal. Also, Linh would be like that for ANYONE. If any of her friends were assaulted, she would spend all of her time on them. It’s her nature. She didn’t know Wylie prior to the attack, much less talk to him, but he was a friend of a friend’s, so she did what she could.

[darkchocolatedimples]

not me reading a keefitz fic where he’s writing letters when he runs away and he writes one to della and hits her with the “don’t we all want to marry a vacker” i’m dead im on the ground im bleeding don’t talk to me

[strawburrymeadows]

alright guys. nine months to make as many headcannons as i can about keefe in the forbidden cities before it becomes canon. lets get to work 💪💪

[clarissaweasley-10]

Honestly, l find it soo weird that there are people out there writing smut about kotlc characters... Maybe it's because I'm uncomfortable reading smut, but these characters are LITERAL KIDS? THEY ARE GODDAM MINORS!! Ik this may sound weird but, sometimes l just feel soo protective of them... STOP WRITING OBSENE STUFF ABT MY KIDS...

[mdemn]

yes, i love mde. yes, its my favorite of the mafia trilogy. yes, i can say with 100% conviction that objectively… tommy is not an interesting character. for him to be the protagonist, he sure does have no depth to his character written in the game

[moeblob]

Windy at my house + power flickering = no comm work = quick laptop doodle

[book-lover85]

I need overly competent and cocky Sophie in my life

like Kaz Brekker type of confidence

she knows way more than she lets on and her plan suddenly just falls into place

[castleofravens]

i want the council to be overthrown by the end of the series tbh. like it doesnt have to be part of the pre-existing groups (black swan or neverseen, i mean the black swan is boring now and sucking up to the council and the neverseen is........ i don't think they know what they're doing atp, fintan kinda... brought it together a bit better i think. or like more cohesively & theres... kind of a lack of stable/clear leadership or goals) but like what if a bunch of people (maybe fintan led... idk i want him to keep being relevant i think hes rlly interesting andlike... idk) (completely unrelated but i want to see him and marella have a similar relationship thatlike tiergan has w sophie and fitz)

like ik revolution isnt a likely thing that shannon will write for these books but i think it would be a good message?? for like kids ?? that like... not "you can't trust the government" but "always think critically about what the people in power are saying and why they're saying it"

(which is probably precisely why thats not likely to happen) (but a girl can dream...)

[myfairkatiecat]

Sophie: my boyfriend walked in on me with this other guy and I feel very caught for some reason. Surely that means nothing!

Me: *gets out my computer* time to bring the subtexts to the surface guys

[ssoineswolfbell]

SSO Promptober 2024 ↳ Day 10 - Mustard

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uncredited pics are mine, all taken in Seattle, 2019

[tangents-from-an-awkward-void]

Before Jolie died, she gave her world so much. Her relevancy, and the Ruewen's arc in general, died with Brant in Lodestar. Honestly, she could've been someone to guide Sophie if Jolie didn't die.

(Aka I wanted to do actual complete drawings for once so I drew Jolie Ruewen, she's cool and her and Prentice were the two original Black Swan Casualties.)

[in-tua-deep]

i have a star wars fic idea floating around my brain that is just a time travel fic centering around bodhi rook where part of the explanation for a suddenly-force-sensitive-bodhi is "the monster tore parts of me out and maybe that made more space for the force to fill in the gaps"