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fourleafclovxr · 6 months

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The consistent dehumanization language used in describing Palestinians in western media is unfathomable. The consistent denial of seeing our children as children. For everybody seeing this, don't fall into this, seek out the truth and educate yourself because that's the best and only way we can help people in Palestine. We have to amplify their voices.

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fourleafclovxr · 7 months

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Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

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fourleafclovxr · 10 months

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I find the time discrepancies in the SGE fairytales so fun... if you look at them in terms of their real-world dates, everything gets so batshit so fast. MOST of them are grimm's and therefore roughly 1800s, but not all of them. Dot is from the 1400s kinda time, bc that's when the Sheriff starts popping up in Robin Hood stuff. At his oldest, Tedros is probably from the 1100s (chetrien de troyes, marie de france, & geoffrey of monmouth wrote major arthurian works around here that form the basis a lot of the SGE stuff) and at their newest, Agatha and Sophie are probably from the v. early 1900s (gavaldon is industrialised, with a mill/factory; there's been 200 years of kidnapping and most of the tales are from the 1700s at the earliest). Even pushing them as close together as possible still only puts Tedros in the 1400s (gawain-poet and thomas malory) and the Readers in the 1800s (the earliest reader fairytales are 1700s and it's been hundreds of years). They have like a 400-500 year gap between them!! The people closest to Agatha and Sophie are Kiko and Hort, from 1904 when Peter Pan was first conceptualised (which could be extrapolated to explain why the two of them don't find Agatha and Sophie as off-putting as everyone else). I think it would be really interesting to lean hard on the idea of each of the kingdoms kind of being stuck persistently in their own time period, in order to provide consistent settings for stories, and how hard it is to impart any kind of change because of that. Which might explain why most of the students at SGE were so single-minded. So even if we don't take it all the way, fashions, music, culture, atittudes, beliefs must still vary massively between kingdoms...

#oh this slaps

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fourleafclovxr · 10 months

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At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.

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fourleafclovxr · 11 months

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The School for Good and Evil - Soman Chainani Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nicola/Sophie (The School for Good and Evil), Agatha/Tedros (The School for Good and Evil) Characters: Reena (The School for Good and Evil), Beatrix (The School for Good and Evil), Anadil (The School for Good and Evil), Hester (The School for Good and Evil), Hort (The School for Good and Evil), Tedros (The School for Good and Evil), Agatha (The School for Good and Evil), Clarissa Dovey Additional Tags: Weddings, POV Outsider, Letters, Humor, Alternate Universe Summary:

Nicola and Sophie never let anyone tell them what to do. There’s an obvious exception between each other- even their vows had a brief bicker in which Sophie tried to outdo Nicola’s devastating speech and sent Dovey outside in tears, and Hester out in hysterics. Which is why the advice box, bejeweled and crossed out “Suggestions” box (now dubbed ‘advice’), is such a popular stop in the reception hall.

#ren fic!! :0 #i love this so much. everyone go read it for sophie and nicola headmaster

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this is one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century and he would probably be the biggest blog on this site if he were still alive

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tl;dr (no spoilers)

overall: 7.5/10. i actually felt like i wanted to know what was going to happen next. i was invested so props to soman

what i liked:

soman writes homoeroticism incredibly well? i suspect this only extends to mlm but the midas scenes were so good.

a lot of good lines came out from this book like?? i will NOT forget those midas lines

sader lore and good & evil lore. awesome. i rly liked some of the concepts that were brought up bc they were exactly what i was wondering about from the main series

someone called himself "deviant and perverse" for presumably being straight. sorry, i laughed.

what could have been better:

i feel like the characters were a bit inconsistent sometimes (specifically the school masters and their feelings about good and evil).

the ending was. a little underwhelming to be honest

i'd have liked to see elaboration on the role of the storian in "keeping the woods alive" (mentioned once) because honestly, from this and the main series, its importance is questionable. like. why is this magic pen so instrumental to your fate. i don't get it. maybe i'm just nitpicking though.

(one spoilery complaint under the cut)

you're telling me that LOSER is lady lesso's ancestor?

liveblogging fotsge because i just bought it

alternatively: soman please don't disappoint me

i have no recollection of what happened in rotsge. fair warning.

"young lad with dark red curls and a smattering of freckles" oh a school master? i want to think he's a sader & a seer so i can say that my sader meta is supported by soman but this desc reminds me of tristan/yara actually...

did soman forget his own lore. didn't august sader tell rafal that he needed the readers.

hook is actually quite a good character and pissing off BOTH twins! good for him.

these evers are. wow. incredibly in character. they rly do capture the essence of good for the sake of being good? on that note, the commentary on evers being spoiled and bored in this duology has been pretty okay (if a bit. pointless? to be honest these books were pointless)

NAMELESS BOY? rhian love interest?

the idea of pan's world is actually really interesting. a place that doesn't follow good and evil, but rather chaos, which places good and evil as the opposite of chaos— order? and hook says "that's why it's so dangerous" which i guess does make sense from his pov but. i hope this concept gets explored more later

kyma questioning whether they're good is also v interesting! comparing the good pirates to evil pan (their roles are reversed, the pirates usually evil and pan usually good— also kyma seems traditional which explains her traditional fairytale view)

"close-shaven black hair [and] violet eyes" HELLO??? lady lesso??? what is your ancestor (?) doing in neverland (it can't be a coincidence right... knowing soman it could be though) one of pan's lost boys huh?

kyma IMMEDIATELY going against pan as soon as he threatened a fluffy animal. and getting them into trouble.

pan is getting more and more creepy though... especially for a thirteen-year-old?

SADERS WORKING WITH PAN????? guys look my meta was right. the saders being on the side of CHAOS instead of good and evil?? because it'll turn out better for them??

"three children who go exploring an enchanted island" rafal i'm pretty sure that's kind of important for you...

kyma is so. good. and her conversation with the ingertroll is oddly touching. she's like the sensible, good version of evelyn sader and i am HERE for it

i deeply enjoy midas' character. i wonder what the significance of the name is? midas, the greedy king, ruined by his greed? (greed for what?) (also he said gay rights. happy pride!)

i also have to say that soman writes homoeroticism incredibly well and that he should have done this more if he wanted people to think his books had good lgbtq+ rep because they would eat it up

luoto bakthi is really. the villains in this series are a lot more sinister than in the proper sge series and i'm actually kind of impressed?

that was over really quickly! good job kyma!

MALICE ROOM 66???????

"a bug crept into the plot" ie rhian spying idk this is reminding me of agatha in her cockroach form

aladdin is so annoying. please don't call kyma your soulmate you are fifteen years old. kyma is so right stop thinking about yourself!!

SADER LORE... whose side are the brothers on? pretending not to see hook and kyma? exceptions to them aging ten years for pans? THEM TELLING HOOK TO GO TO SCHOOL?

"how much these two paying you?" "not enough." i laughed sorry mistral twins. pay your employees right!

MIDAS HAS GOLD POWERS??? ok maybe the name had a more obvious meaning. should have expected that

hephaestus and the pirate captain are such an iconic duo.

midas saving rafal was the obvious choice to be honest. which brother has been a manipulative lying asshole? not rafal! and his little speech about it being midas' choice was nice.

uniting the schools under pan huh? i see where tlea rafal got the idea from

aladdin ffs STOP being jealous of hook i'm pretty sure he has more love interests (cough. rhian and rafal. cough) than kyma??? and you have more important things to worry about???

rhian is. so evil. i see it now. literal snake

fala is back!!!!

midas has THREE school masters fighting over him. it's pretty easy to forget he's the First ever reader but that says something about him.

"what he'd assumed about himself had guided his actions, and because of his actions, his true nature had irrevocably changed." this is such a clever thing to say actually! the it's not who you are, it's what you do messaging is rly coming through.

the storian guiding pan... writing his story for him... and to HELP him... i could say a lot about destiny but i won't bc it wouldn't be coherent

midas :(

i'm becoming a rafal supporter tbh,,,

rafal & hook reunion! finally!

(can't only men be seers. anyway) sader family showdown!! the elders supporting rafal the boys supporting pan and marialena??

the storian "keeps [their] world alive with its tales"?? how??

RHIAN????????????????????? i mean it makes sense the evil school master but like. But Like. school years trilogy rafal?? what??

the saders having different visions Precisely because the divergence was necessary for the future to become reality. this says a lot about seers. they're not all-powerful nor all-knowing, they're just tools trying to enable the "best" future, the stable one, the one that doesn't result in what. death?

whose side are they on?? their own or this grand unknown destiny's??

midas having nothing but rafal. okay soman. OKAY.

BOTIC REALLY IS A LESSO??????????????????

so pan has the power to change the future? to get the story back?

pan's thoughts on free will vs a good life are actually pretty interesting.

marialena you SNAKE. but also her being evil and her family being good. the interaction between good & evil, and the seers who are seemingly above it. huh. but why would she support rhian... what is her big picture...

midas is being so soft with rafal i really. i'm becoming a midas supporter too i fear

ok rafal is still evil never mind

holy shit rhian just MURDERED a guy. he's plenty evil.

so what happens when both brothers are evil? by nature or by choice?

WHAT IS MARIALENA'S AIM.

midas :(((

how is botic a lesso. man is pathetic

"good always wins" rhian doesn't that go against your ENTIRE philosophy of balance

NOT THE GOLDEN ARROW it is NOT midas' fault.

the rafal -> hook -> kyma relationships. nice.

"his princess" no more aladdin!! yes!!

"when a lost boy serves his purpose, it's time for him to grow up. only there is no growing up in my world." that hits deep tbh.

MIDAS :(((( his lines about how he became more than a boy in gavaldon... how it's not The End... his belief in rafal to his last moments... rafal BETTER make this right

oh my god the gold. seriously. the entire school?

"two brothers, eternal once more" wow. AND WHO WAS THE GUY FROM THE FIRST SCENE. i doubt he's a sader but??

the tale of pan and pen?????

the concept of pans being good and their shadows being evil is v interesting especially when you remember that you kill pan by killing his shadow.

the evil always wins, it always destroys the balance. so the evil has to be eliminated by the storian. and that's why the shadow is the thing that has to be killed. wow.

SO THE MAN WAS A PAN. OKAY.

"a gold-soaked corpse ready to fly" soman rly did write quite a few good quotes in this book

"far from the tyranny of men" midas :( kyma :(

RHIAN JUST MURDERED HIM???? WTF??????? RAFAL???????????

rhian you bastard

how is he the school master

i mean i knew it made sense but. this is incredibly unsatisfying.

oh the pirate captain is blackbeard is he.

do they KNOW it's rhian?

uhh is he calling himself "deviant and perverse" for being. straight. i mean. okay i guess.

#sge #school for good and evil #fotsge #fotsge spoilers #fall of the school for good and evil

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