#yes this is about kotlc
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it should be a crime for writers/creators to not make a crazy wall for their story that connects pictures representing the characters and plot points together with an obscene amount of yarn.
#i'm joking but like am i wrong#yes this is about kotlc#but it's also about other things#kotlc#i feel like so many stories would be better if authors or creators did this more i mean this with 100% seriousness#each character arc and plot line would come to a satisfying conclusion if creators did this more#because there would be a way to track every single thing that happens in the series and they wouldn't randomly forget things#it would also keep the cast of characters and the amount of plot points from getting too large for the author to handle#if there's too many things (characters/plot lines) on the wall for YOU to work with then there's too many things for the AUDIENCE too#sometimes limits are a good thing#making a crazy wall about a story in the making is a fun visual way to create those limits for yourself and keep track of stuff easily#it's also good for planning future events/characters/major plot points and then helping to connect them to past ones#a story should be about CONNECTION. everything should be CONNECTED to something else somehow. that's why these sorts of walls are so godly#yeah it's work but creating a whole-ass story is work regardless might as well make it fun for yourself and satisfying for the audience#also yes this is inspired by jenny nicholson and mike's mic thank you for asking
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When you only like a Fandom because of its fics but can't tolerate it otherwise
@crymeariveronceagain :3
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me after getting out of a dead fandom and entering a new one that's actually active
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Oh nothing I’m fine, just thinking about how Sophie’s self-doubt (Fitz could never like me, I’m not the kind of girl Fitz would ever be with, Fitz wouldn’t wait for me) turned into doubting Fitz once they were in their relationship (Fitz will care that I’m unmatchable, even if he says he doesn’t he’ll care, Fitz won’t want to wait around for me to figure out who my parents are, Fitz won’t want to be with someone who could cause a scandal…)
What started about anxiety about herself and her crush turned into anxiety about their relationship no matter how many times Fitz proves that he was willing to stay, go at her pace, and work it out. And I think that’s part of why Sophitz fell apart in the end.
#sophitz tragedy!#yes I can be sad about the Sophitz tragedy while shipping sokeefe#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#sophie foster#fitz vacker
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Stina's biggest weakness on Team V is her commitment to the bit
Sophie would lie and say Stina is her sister for whatever reason and Stina would commit to the bit with her entire soul. Yeah of course they're sisters can't you tell, they look alike🤨🤨? They literally share a birthday what do you mean they're not sisters???? Sophie's short because Stina sat on her in the womb, duh, moron🙄
Or like
Biana would say they have to break into a government building and Stina will object until the very end but the second they have to do any work Stina already has blueprints, guard schedules and routes, the janitor is passed out(that was Dex's idea Stina suggested throwing them off a bridge so she wouldn't have to deal with them)
(Also she bullies Wylie but that's another issue entirely)
#stina commits to the bit faster than Sophie can commit crimes#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#stina heks#she'll object to any and all ideas but her commitment to the bit is fabulous#yes this hc is based off of Katie's Copper Mares fic#name a better commitment to the bit I'll wait#she and Keefe would get along so well if she weren't trying to strangle him#< that could honestly be said about Stina and a lot of people
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Now why am I watching miraculous ladybug and thought about how Adrien/Chat Noir reminds me of Keefe Sencen??? HELLLO? Someone needs to save me.
#I already have enough to write about. I don’t need another AU#yes I do BARK HAIRHENQIGSJWJWGWJWUHE#kotlc#kotlc fandom#kotlc thoughts#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc sophie#kotlc keefe#keefe sencen#kotlc fitz#fitz vacker#kotlc biana
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The best part of reading books when I was younger was not knowing there was a fandom for it and getting to form my completely own opinions and having no one but myself to fuel my imagination
#yes this about kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc#I loved a lot of characters I though we were supposed to dislike but then I came on tumblr and realized a lot of people feel the same???#fitz vacker#stina heks#kotlc fitz#stina kotlc#no fandom#but there was indeed a fandom#a small one but whatever#I also hadn’t discovered fanfiction yet#my innocent eyes are now obliterated and sometimes I wish I could go back but what’s done is done#kotlc opinions#kotlc fandom#kotlc tumblr#this is also about all of those books I read as a kid#city of ember#I loved that one#it’s still unpopular though
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i don't think the Vacker parents are good. I don't think they're necessarily the worst, either. They're a very shade of grey.
#that's what I love about kotlc#many shades of grey#yes I know I have a different Vacker parents opinion every day shut up#kotlc#kale's unfinished thoughts#kotlc vackers
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Watching keepblr rediscover things on a loop such as the name meanings, theories, and the block button has really got me out here feeling old as hell
#it happens annually#yes my child Dex’s name does mean to dye#dye as in dye your hair#not die as in dead#oh my#kotlc#kotlc discourse#have they learned about sherrif iggy yet though is the question
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real quick because the fandom's experiencing some growing pains--reminder to be nice to new fans! yes they'll have different dynamics, energies, and ways of doing things, but that's not a bad thing
we are all here to enjoy ourselves, so let them enjoy themselves. we were all new at one point. if its harmless, who cares! block if its that much of a problem/nuisance
we do not need a fandom generational divide, please and thanks <3
(and to new fans: hi! sometimes we have genuine points about etiquette like spam and tagging conventions to make the space better for everyone, but otherwise! just have fun!)
#kotlc#i made my 'this aged me ten years' post in jest#but seeing a couple other opinions. i do not want that to turn into anything#new fans are fully welcome here#yes there's fandom history i'm happy to pass down about#trends and jokes we've had and ways we've done things before#but that does not mean it needs to stay like that#the kotlc fandom is VERY fluid#there's always people coming and going given the intended audience#so I want to say: you are welcome here#have fun#you do not need to do what we've done before
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When you find a tag for some random ship that you haven’t seen before, and is also not something you thought of.
But you read the fanfic/tumblr post anyway
And then you read more
And in the course of a few hours you now really like this ship and have a billion of your own head cannons about it and will defend it with your life.
Bonus if the ship will never be cannon ever, but your delusion enough to think that it could totally work and might happen.
#Guys this happens to me a lot#I don’t know why#I’ve been converted one to many times#Ashler#from sbg#I blame tragedry from that#zukka#dont know how that happened#valgrace#fedex#kotlc fedex#i was like that ship is weird#Now I’m obsessed with it#Dex was in denial about his crush on Fitz and that why he hated him in the first book#I will not hear differently#Also#yes the bonus was definitely about FedEx#cartercy#im not overtly attached that one#But I have read a few really good fanfics about them
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but they're going to allow alina, a beguiler, in. ah, yes, the sense it makes
#yes i know alina is a councillor. i simply do not care#also grady don't piss me off. every time this man starts whining about how he wants to go places instead of someone equally skilled#i'm like. sir where is the trust. what the fuck#kotlc#kotlc lodestar#lodestar#kotlc grady#grady ruewen#grady is so annoying in this book. why is he like this. i know he lost a daughter but like. he's still annoying me
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It was even stranger seeing Fitz in elvin clothes: a long blue tunic with elaborate embroidery around the edges and slender pockets sewn into the sleeves…
(quote from book one, page 71)
i know we make fun at how ankle pockets were forgotten about but can we please bring attention to elvin sleeve pockets. hello give our kids more sleeve pockets they deserve it!!
also how slender are we talking here in this quote because it’d be funny if fitz could only fit like. a penny. into these pockets
#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc shitpost#rereading kotlc is so funny because i get too excited to read it properly now. i saw fitz’s name and processed that Fitz Was There and#stimmed too hard to read lol. yes i know he’s always gonna be in certain pages but it’s been so long for me. baby boy i know you didn’t mis#me but MAN i missed you not getting mischaracterized in canon <333333#when i get to the point where he’s reading 101 ways to catch the wind on the couch waiting for sophie to get up i am going to EXPLODE#because i saw a post once about how that’s level two material and he’s a level four in this so he’s just rereading it for fun. ‘cause he’s#NERRRRDDDDDD <33333#yes i have based small headcanons on this what about it. yes i have autism what about it /lh but also /srs lol#fitz vacker
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keefe was actually insane for this
#I've been slandering keefe a lot lately so.... here's some keefe appreciation!#ok but srsly#other than sophie obviously being the main unfortunate victim#keefe is also a victim with the way the fandom barely pays any attention to his character and only focuses on his good looks and sokeefe#like yes he is loved but do y'all ever see people actually CARING about his character?? other than yk...sokeefe#don't come at me for this one i know shannon has been focusing the last few books on him#but im deadass serious when i say that barely anyone talks about his character as a whole#keefe is genuinely an incredibly cool character#and i legit screamed when i read this part#“I could keep it with the jewel I sliced out of Dimitar’s ear when I beat him at sparring.“ is SO CUNTY LIKE#the girls who get it get it#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#keefe sencen#kotlc flashback
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The misunderstanding of how Sophie "didn't realize her feelings for Keefe" in this fandom is wild tbh.
It's not that she had no choice in what she was feeling. It's that she had a crush on Fitz basically from the beginning--one based mostly on looks at first--that slowly developed into more as their relationship became closer. But Sophie had already acknowledged that she had a crush on him from basically the day they met.
That wasn't her first thought when she met Keefe. She noticed he was attractive, sure, but she was used to the suspicious way everyone looked like the epitome of human beauty standards by now. So she didn't view all of her interactions with Keefe through the same lens through which she viewed her interactions with Fitz.
She developed very close relationships with both boys, even just as friends. It's clear from Sophie's actions and behavior around Keefe that she cares about him, is comfortable with him, and their relationship truly is stronger than a lot of her other friendships. Even just as a friendship.
She also devloped a very close friendship with Fitz. It's clear that they trust each other a lot, especially in the earlier books, and their cognate bond only strengthened that. There was clearly something special about their friendship as well. But Sophie saw all of the moments through the lens of her crush.
Love is a choice, but feelings can creep up on you. They really can. If they couldn't, maybe I'd be able to stop having a stupid crush on one of my gay best friends, cause that's seriously going nowhere. Sophie developed feelings for Keefe slowly, while she also had feelings for Fitz. That's part of what was so complicated.
So in Lodestar, when Keefe grabs her hand and feels her "heart emotions," it's not that he's feeling her real emotions, and her head is all filled with Fitz but all of that is just superficial emotions. What's really happening is that he's feeling from her the emotions she has yet to name. When Sophie enhances him, Keefe doesn't need Sophie to acknowledge to herself what the feelings are in order for him to know them.
Are you guys all seriously telling me you've never had a crush on someone that you told yourself wasn't a crush very convincingly for a long time, only to eventually realize that it was definitely a crush for a lot of that tme? Because... that's a normal thing that happens sometimes.
It's not that Fitz was in her head and Keefe was in her heart. Both of them were probably in her heart, because she'd developed close relationships with both of them and began to have romantic feelings for them both. But she hadn't thought about her feelings for Keefe, whereas she spent a lot of time thinking about her feelings for Fitz. That's why Keefe could only tell her feelings for him when he could feel her heart emotions.
She also just... began to lose some of her feelings for Fitz around Legacy, and her feelings for Keefe definitely grew. It doesn't mean her feelings for Fitz were never real, but I can't say I'm surprised that a fifteen-year-old girl ended up changing her mind about what she wanted.
Anyway, I'm not saying it's a plot line you have to like, but I think a lot of people, including a lot of sokeefe shippers, think that the idea was "Fitz was in Sophie's head (she THOUGHT she liked him) but Keefe was in her heart (she ACTUALLY liked him and didn't even realize it!)" and that's just. Not even what happened. That's not the point of the whole head/heart emotions thing at all.
#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#sophie foster#keefe sencen#fitz vacker#can people. please figure this out.#yes this post is for wattpad sokeefers#stop writing fanfic like keefe was the one she REALLY liked all along#like no she liked them both#yes her feelings for keefe snuck up on her gradually and because she didn't think about them she went a while without acknowledging them#but that's. not the same thing#this post is ALSO for people who dislike that plot point because they think it takes away sophie's agency#like no she definitely makes a DECISION to be with Keefe in the end#she has a choice and she makes the choice#it really is possible to like someone and not acknowledge it for a while. like. that happens a lot. specifically to teenagers.#sokeefe#sophitz
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Keeper Big Bang!
So as some of you may know (as I talk about it basically non-stop), I was participating in the @keeper-big-bang-2024 this year! Now that the collection has been revealed, I can finally post my big bang fic on here!
Title: now in a mirror dimly
Summary:
...then, face to face.
Canon roleswap: During Neverseen, instead of Gisela being captured and tortured by the ogres who have turned on her, instead, their victim is Fintan. After making his escape, he turns to the only place he has left to run: the doorstep of his long-estranged older brother. This changes both nothing and everything.
Featuring: Bronte, who is old and tired and haunted, and who walks a fine line between Councillor and brother. Fintan, who is desperate and proud and clever, and who cannot be certain of what he really wants. Oralie, who is grieving and shattered and brave, and who endures more than anyone could ever have asked of her. The rest of the Council, who really would like to know what the fuck is going on.
Wordcount: 11,595
AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59598520
Also, be sure to check out the wonderful art from both of my artists @bookwyrminspiration here and @discordzero here. Couldn't have asked for better people to work with in this event!
#my writing#semp writes#kotlc#councillor bronte#fintan pyren#did i write almost 10k of this in the span of like 4 days? yes#am i mentally ill? dont worry about it
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