#uhh kotlc

[unaside]

guys why do y’all hate fitz he’s my fav character please what did he do wrong😭

[floofeeeeee]

GUYSSS I just realized something that Sophie and tam have in common omg

Ok so Sophie pulls out her eyelashes and tam tugs on his bangs and they both seem to do that when there nervous or something on there mind

[anarchist-aquarius]

so this was their first interaction right

dex: screw that guy

fitz: they hate me cuz my daddy is rich, and im like, leave me aloneeee, they want me six feet deep in a ditch, dont hate me cuz my daddys rich motherfucking jealous bitchhh

sophie: 👁️👄👁️

[elgatoarcoiris]

Marelinh 🫶

Hii @cest--la--vee i was your kotlc secret santa ☃️ hope you like it!! I had so much fun drawing them💕

@song-tam

[kanerallels]

God bless Shannon Messenger for putting out the KOTLC graphic novel cause my little sister is reading it right now and she never reads

[how-did-i-get-to-here]

okay y'all, i've never actually done something like this but i decided on a whim the other day to start a sewing project, and i'm gonna do my best to document it here just for my own enjoyment lol!

the goal is basically to take this jacket (pictured below) that I bought on amazon for a kotlc halloween costume a few years ago and spruce it up a bit

the current plans are to:

reinforce the bottom edge of the skirt part so it has a little more structure

replace the buttons with ones that a) look nicer and b) are more durable (right now they're plastic and also have this crown/crest design that almost feels like it belongs on a flag or something??? idk I just don't like them very much and wanna have different ones)

maybe do some embroidery on the bottom edge of the skirt (and potentially other areas as well)??? i haven't fully decided yet but leaning towards yes if I can manage to teach myself embroidery before my interest in this project disappears lol

(i might also do something with the zipper pull, i can't really decide if i fully like it as is but that's a thing for future me to worry about haha)

but yeah i think the vision is mostly just fun jacket with vaguely steampunk-space-pirate vibes (à la the mechs lol) so we'll see what happens!

[clarityroses]

Characters and expression 👁️👁️

[eyeballsoup7310]

Bad news my brain has decided that my favorite characters are not in fact any of the likeable protagonists but rather the godawful team of arsonists, mad scientists, and murderguys

(+ the headshots I did for most of them before the full drawing)

Ruy’s all sketchy because of the device thing he wears that obscures the face, I could not be bothered to draw a net over Vespera’s hair so I changed it, and I know gethen’s meant to be Very blonde so let’s just say it’s like that cuz of uh. Bad hair care

Also I’m pretty sure Trix also keeps his identity hidden via cloak but I don’t care give that man some funky wind effects

[archived-and-moving]

Wait! I saw a post about a keeper graphic novel, do you know about this??

I personally don't have instagram, so talking to someone who does might be a little more helpful, but here's what I know:

Shannon Messenger posted on her account that there's a kotlc graphic novel that will cover half of the first book.

It's available for pre-order.

The main illustrator that it is credited is Gabriella Chianello, and the main author who's adapting the writing for the graphic novel is Celina Frenn.

Here's the links to all of these:

Shannon's announcement post

The link to pre-order

Celina Frenn's announcement post on twitter and her instagram account

Gabriella Chianello's instagram account

Also Fin's post about Gabriella Chianello's art because I thought it was cool and helpful.

[aphelea]

"Marella wonders if, when they told her she was unmatchable, she was supposed to feel disappointed, like she was missing out on the key to the rest of her life; as if, maybe, this sigh of relief that she breathes isn't normal. But, watching the flame in her hand catch the edges of room where they had told her she was worthless, without love, she finds she can't quite bring herself to care anymore."

uhh happy aro week day 4: matchmaking! thank you to @gay-otlc and @xanadaus for hosting :)

[unaside]

i’m crying i’m having an extremely hard time imagining alden and fitz in my mind i’m gonna kms if i don’t figure this out

[officially-shannon-messenger]

How fast do you write the books? Do you have to release them on the day it was said or can you do it early/late?

Well I can do it late if I need to, I just change the deadline. I tend not to do it early though

[rusted-phone-calls]

silveny is basically sophie's therapist........ which requires a psychology degree...... which requires you to study math extended module....... silveny knows math?

[permanently-stressed]

Can you please explain tam cam?? 😭😭🫶

Uhh, so, I'm one of tam cam's parents and what happened was basically:

@sasharcyreal (maddie) posted a kotlc book snippet with tam being his iconic self

i made a The Office joke about looking into cameras from that

She makes a post about Tam looking into the camera throughout the series

@myfairkatiecat joins us in brainstorming scenes in which tam is there staring, is the first to propose omniscient tam cam (? I can't remember if it was her or @swans-chirping-in-the-distance)

Maddie draws the meme

Katie and I spam post memes about the different tam camnable momments

Someone makes an accounts to collect the memes

everyone goes crazy trying to find out who it is (I am the first one to be accused, by both Katie and Aspen @aspenaspenaspenaspenaspen)

Katie figures out who it is and strikes a deal with tam cam (no one knows exactly how she's involved tho)

there are multiple adjancents accounts (@tam-cam-detective @another-tam-cam-detective @tam-cam-drama @tam-can-drama @tam-cam-stories)

Four fan pages start appearing, one for Aspen, one for Katie, one for Maddie, one for me

( @debutofanisafanpage I love you by the way )

And yeah, you're all set

Oh, and there is a series of clues going around via ask boxes

We're two clues in and the last clue will be a clue to their identity

NOW you're all caught up

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

sometimes I think about how little Sophie and Fitz actually know about each other

and I'm like... ur telling me these two have a deep congnate bond?? built upon trust and knowing the other person like that back of your hand? and yet the biggest secret keeping them from reaching maximum potential is... the fact that she had a crush on him?

It's giving lackluster. like lmaooooo

they know each other 'so well' and have talked for hours at a time, sharing secrets and opinions, but for some reason didn't know that their relationship was going to crash and burn over matchmaking?? like what shallow ass things were they talking about in all of their training sessions then?? favorite colors?

you would think that after years of being congnates with someone, you'd figure out whether or not you were really romantically compatible but uhh... I guess not??

I feel like what we know about Fitz is so horrendously vague in the books, considering how close they're said to be. Like is there a distinct thing we know really well about Fitz's childhood the way we do with Keefe?

I just feel like the books harp on how close Fitz and Sophie are, but in execution, it reads like they don't really know each other that well at all. And it's extremely prevalent in their lack of understanding of each other's side when it comes to matchmaking. They've been in each other's heads, sharing everything besides Sophie's big 'OH NO I LIKE YOU!!" secret... but they didn't realize how wildly different they viewed almost... everything?? bsfr

(I have big gripes with the books in general in the way they tell and don't show a lot, which makes dynamics come off more shallow and less developed too. which is very much how the cognate bond comes off.)

idek if this is coherent I am so exhausted.

also this isn't a hate post. It's a 'I'm mildly confused and have beef with the way KOTLC is written' post

[imobsessed123]

Uhh I got bored and tried to do the math and see how long it would take @daily-kotlc-sentence to do the whole series should I make a post about it