#the unraveling blog

[renee-writer]

I can still remember the magic of the holidays as a child. I feel it linger even now.

I had parents who, at the time, lived pay check to pay check and worked hard to do just that. We didn’t have a whole lot, but I there was a feeling of gratitude for having the essentials.

Nothing was fancy. There wasn’t an abundance of anything. It was simple.

But I never noticed that as a kid.

Because during the holidays, my imagination would run wild.

I remember the first time we had jello at Thanksgiving and I’m pretty sure I didn’t eat anything else. I remember going to a little store that had a discount section and buying little snowman trinkets to gift family members. I was so excited to wrap them and give it to them. I remember folding up paper and cutting out snow flakes. I remember after a Christmas Eve service my sister and I being SO sure we saw Rudolph’s red blinking nose in the sky (it was an airplane). I could barely sleep that night. I remember our pj’s weren’t fancy Christmas matching sets, but adult sized Walmart shirts (and we loved them!)

And I guess I just want to remind parents, and grandparents, and whoever else that needs to hear it…

It’s okay to make the holidays simple this year. It’s been a hard year on a lot of people.. financially, physically, emotionally, etc.

Even if you haven’t in the past, you are allowed to scale back if you need to.

The holidays bring with them a sense of awe- of God, of beauty, of the atmosphere in general.

Kids, in particular, have a way of remembering very little about how grand something was, but forever treasure in their heart the feeling of wonder that was created.

That’s what I hold with me, even now.

Simple holidays and all.

~Kelli Bachara, The Unraveling Blog

[aphelea]

my personal proposal for the Timeline Problem is that we were all originally right with the early 2010s timeline, however, we incorporate the existence of the anti-hero lyrics by considering that, à la rick riordan, taylor swift may actually be an elf in keeper world. "but that doesn't fix the problem!" you say. no. it turns out that taylor actually has a unique ability: she's a time elf. a telf, if you will. and she accidentally time travelled while writing her hit 2022 album midnights and fell into her 2014 recording sessions for 1989, muttering the lyrics of a song that shouldn't technically exist. thus shake it off gains an extra verse and t-shirts are made for keefe to wear.

this becomes relevant in kotlc because telves actually use the void for time travel and sophie accidentally finds herself stuck with dinosaurs after keefe holds her hand and they have some weird mutual enhancing/healing thing happen. it turns out that the rocks gisela wants are from that asteroid thing. sophie wins. the end

[the-way-astray]

the elves don’t have coffee as confirmed by unraveled which means there’s a good chance della has never had any (we ignore her “walks among humans” because they seem like they weren’t very long) but i think she would get addicted to straight black coffee after like two drinks and make it look so appetizing, people (edaline and biana) are gaslighted into thinking it tastes good

[bookwyrminspiration]

I am once again beseeching everyone to be careful about spoilers!! tag even the faintest spoilers, don’t send asks with spoilers to people who don’t want them, be careful what you say in reblogs and tags because op may not have the book yet.

please be considerate of those still waiting <3

[waining-crescent-moon]

i was going to do this in a reblog but it felt a bit too long for that so i’m just going to make my own post and link the post i got this idea thing from here by the blog @telugu-girl-13

major unraveled spoilers!!!

I’ve decided to mostly go through this in sections so I will put a picture of what I’m talking about in each section.

I’ve had the Eleanor is alive theory since I found out she was ‘dead’ in legacy so I’m either being delusional or it was planned and just wasn’t obvious. I don’t have much evidence because a good amount of that theory was just knowing how Shannon tends to write. For example, she has faked or rewritten character deaths before. Helpfully, Keefe gave us the examples when he met Eleanor “‘Cause the only other explanation I can think of is that this is another secret-twin thing, and I’ve already lived through that twist—though I guess I also did the not-dead twist when I ran into Alvar. And when Fintan showed up again.” (Unraveled, 348). Clearly, Shannon is aware of how often she does this twist. Leading up to Unraveled she also said that she made the book because there were secrets that only made sense coming from Keefe’s perspective. That is not real proof, I’m aware, but it does mean that she has some plans for everything that happened in Unraveled, likely meaning there is more to find out about Eleanor’s situation. The main proof I have from the story is that Eleanor is the same age as the main cast which is also more of evidence based of off how Shannon writes. I do think that the twist was planned, Shannon just didn’t build up to it well enough.

My assumption for the Gisela bit is that it’s going to be revealed that she actually knew eleanor was alive and just needed her or something. Especially with how Eleanor mentions “Three days later a stranger showed up at our door and told me my dad was dead and I had to leave because I needed people to think I was dead too.” (Unraveled, 356). So, someone else knows about her being alive, possibly a neverseen member or someone connected to Gisela.

Eleanor also says “But…he’d made all these arrangements. Obituaries. Graves. A new name. New guardian. A bank account.” (Unraveled, 356). We know from this that she has a new ID and most interesting, to me at least, a new guardian. Having all this stuff means that it’s more her dad’s fault she’s still in London. With what we are given about her character in her scene it seems like it’s very important to her that she follows her dad’s instructions, even if it’s not the safest option. Keefe also describes her “bright red hair” a lot when he saw her. My theory for this is that it may be dyed, but that’s not confirmed, just what I got from the line. Also, the only thing people have to identify her is a grainy, black and white photo in a newspaper from like five years ago. I’m sure it would have been difficult right after he died when she looked the same but as we saw her dad got her a guardian before he died meaning there was probably a lot less suspicion on her.

[moonlitkissing]

Knitting is cancelled for today, I just unravelled the stupid neck again because my gauge was off again

[skepticalcartographer]

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other.

Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

~ Juliette Tahereh Mafi

(Unravel me)

[aurenflare]

latin textbook alvar vacker doodles bc as u all know i love him

[faggot-friday]

omg green day #1 artist twins

omg yayyyy i love twinning

[twinsfawn]

𖤐

[renee-writer]

I’ll never understand how you got through this horrid day.

And I only know a fraction of it.

How did you get yourself to go into the garden where you knew they’d take you? You knew everything that was going to happen and allowed it.

How did you deal with the pain of the whips tearing so deep into your back it got to your muscles? And the crown of thorns that pieced into your head?

How did the sight of pure hatred towards you in the eyes of the humans you created.. how did you still ask the Father to forgive them?

How did you stay quiet when you were getting questioned and accused? How did you remain quiet when the crowd who claimed to know God the most was screaming, “crucify” at you, God incarnate?

How did you carry that cross, like a criminal, to the top of Calvary knowing the worst pain was still ahead?

The pain of separation from the One you’ve always been one with.

I’ll never understand how you got through it.

I can only go back to this one truth: it was love.

Your wild, unfathomable, pure love, that kept you going.

Your love is the greatest gift there is, Jesus.

Ever.

And I only know a fraction of it.

~Kelli Bachara

[uhohbestie]

Will there be a TAMN playlist?

There will, yeah! Once the fic is finished Key and I are going to compile our many (many, many) TAMN-related/inspiration songs and make an "official" playlist! We don't want to spoil anything, though, so we're going to hang on to it until the fic is completely posted! - 🔒

[lucyshypemaster]

hello....is anyone still active here....

[battle-subway-ghost]

{Off screen post}

[Sprite paced around his room before collasping on his bed, head in hands.

Ghost hadn't been responding to his texts. Ghost.

Was his friend (?)

What he saw last night wasn't his friend.

Something was wrong with him. Really wrong.

Something was distorting him- ruining him... Rotting him from the inside out...

He didn't remember pressing call on Paris's number, but heard it ring out three times before his friend answered. ]

"Paris... I don't-You're not... Something's wrong."

{Off-screen post}

[Paris sat up fully on the couch, his head spinning slightly- ugh... He wasn't feeling very well today, not after last night.

He held his forehead with his hand, narrowing his eyes- the lights were hurting his head, and if it weren't for this call, he'd be laying down right now...

It took a moment for Paris to respond, sounding disgruntled yet concerned when he finally did. Thankfully though, he sounded... normal, for lack of better words. Tired, but himself]

"heh- Sprite? What's happening-? You alright??"

[desireeyvonnexo]

It’s soo hard to remain genuine when I’m always getting fucked over 🫠

[adorationmajestic]

My apologies to everyone following me for my TLT stuff but I have momentary switched focus. It may be a while before I swing back around.

Congratulations everyone following me for BG3. The fic's first work is almost done being written (I'm, perhaps, two or three chapters away from the end) at which point updates will resume. The story doesn't end there, but that's the best place to mark it complete before moving on to the second half of the story.