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winepresswrath · 2 years

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I am haunted by Alecto the Ninth's potential to give me the awkward family dinner of all time. I can see it already out of the corner of my eye. With every glimpse my yearning intensifies, matched only by my fear that it would be too powerful and overwhelm the narrative and thus won't happen.

#if not for awkward family dinner then WHY is John rping family time with Gideon and Ianthe!!!#why the psychosexual dysfunction gang reminding us all that there are no takebacks on love?#why John wishing he was harrow's father and g1deon and Pyrrha feeling some kind of way about Gideon?#why is pash Gideon's cousin?#why is alecto john's ex-wife and harrow's first crush?#and pyrrha's lil bits all at once?#why Magnus making anniversary dinner and harrow's bone soup and Nona's book of family meals?#it has to be for the most excruciating food based family gathering of all time.#yes fine also for character development and some important thematic stuff #and an exploration of what it means to have a family and a place in a community & the contrast between how Gideon has always longed so #intensely for acceptance and a place in the universe where she can feel like her contributions are valuable and valued vs.#Harrow identifying so strongly with the ninth and her duty to it & the way she is its future because it's future was stolen to create her #and how what the ninth offers and demands is so monstrous and they can't escape it #they have to find a way to live with it- live with each other- if they're going to live at all #and how that's reflected in all the families we see #and we see this at its best with Magnus and Abigail and imo Pyrrha loving as best she can #but ianthe and coronabeth #palamedes and cam #oh man the eighth do we see it with the eighth #who are we to one another what do I ask of you what can I give you #see how I exist in the context of you; change that context and I become something new #and John and Alecto! he changes her so much. takes her out of her original place and purpose #makes her into something new. and he does it to himself #by doing it to her. and she changed him first. but still! it's terribly one sided #BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR THE AWKWARD FAMILY DINNER OF ALL TIME

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