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memes-of-london · 5 months

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DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

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memes-of-london · 1 year

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Round 2: Match 28 of 32

Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:

Ms. Frizzle:

Vanquished (so far): Fujimoto

"She's magic. That's all I have to say."

"She's the most wizardly woman with modern style that ive seen as of yet ... a wizard will lean more heavily into the "pursuit of knowledge" aspect of magic often to their own detriment manifesting in antisocialism. Often. Not always. Miss. Frizzle is very obviously all about that sweet sweet pursuit of knowledge but avoids the downsides of research-rabbit-holes by conducting her research with and for her class. The sheer publicity of this would get her closer to sorcerers than anything but the very backbone of her use of magic is academia so she's very securely a wizard"

Peter Grant:

Vanquished (so far): Quentin Coldwater

"He has canonically read Discworld"

"Peter has dabbled in poor little meow meowism!!"

"He's a lad. The clash of his working class and mixed race heritage with stuffy traditional posh English wizardry. Likes to science his magic and his posh mentor HATES that."

#peter grant #hes so not winning this but we gotta make an effoet

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memes-of-london · 1 year

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Round 1: Match 56 of 64

Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:

Peter Grant:

"He's a lad. The clash of his working class and mixed race heritage with stuffy traditional posh English wizardry. Likes to science his magic and his posh mentor HATES that."

Quentin Coldwater:

"He's a poor pathetic meow meow"

#polls #peter is the best

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memes-of-london · 2 years

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sooooooooooo…Amongst Our Weapons is allegedly out on April 7th but it has no cover and no summary on Amazon. Does anybody have better evidence that it actually is going to hit that release date?

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memes-of-london · 2 years

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Any guesses? I'm clueless!

#oh???

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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woww okay unfollowing now! was a huge fan of her moving to India to develop magical surgical techniques without any ethical oversight, had no idea she was perpetuating English colonialism in Wales.

#rivers of london #helena

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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Me? Haunted by my copy of the Rivers of London book False Value, which is a glow-in-the-dark edition and only fits on my top shelf, where it can float at me as I fall asleep? It's more likely than you think!

#spooky

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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Sahra and Peter fighting crime or something

#peter grant #sahra guleed #hell yeah

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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Alternative version of that scene where Nightingale finally shows Peter the Black Library where they get f*cking decked by Aspergillosis shortly thereafter because the wizards crammed way to much unsorted and uncatalogued, potentially waterlogged, potentially fire damaged, potentially chemically contaminated archival material into an unventilated, not-climate controlled cellar room, left it mostly untouched for more than half a century and somehow expected that to go over fine.

#nightingale

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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#i bet he can enter rooms completely silently and scare the shit out of people but he usually doesn't because it's not polite

Why did you leave this in the tags op

Thomas and Molly basically only interacted with each other for like 70 years, right? You ever wonder what mannerisms Thomas picked up from her?

#nightingale #molly

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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just learned about a building in london that is so poorly designed it becomes a death ray that melts cars and creates a downdraft effect with wind so powerful that it knocks full grown adults to the ground

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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idk if you do requests at all (and feel very free to ignore this if you don't!) but would you ever consider drawing sahra in her iconic hijab+ushanka (or at least, a big furry hat with earflaps) outfit from whispers underground?

Sure, why not? For thee:

#sahra guleed #fantastic

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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The most troubled of Starlings

From A Guide to Troubled Wizards

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#haha rip #peter grant

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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various discourse crossing my dash today is reminding me that my favourite villain redemption/enemies-to-lovers dynamic (applicable to Kaysanova but far from exclusive to it) is not “Character A, a good person, redeems Character B”, because that’s…boring and buys into shitty narratives sold to (mostly) women about (mostly) abusive men. you can’t change people from the outside.

what it is, is "Character A, a good person, extends Character B the basic amount of decency and kindness they would extend to anybody, and Character B is thereby motivated to put in the hard yards to improve themselves". Because you get the satisfaction of kindness being rewarded, and the satisfaction of someone becoming better, and you put zero responsibility on Character A to do anything special or sacrificial, or set their own needs aside.

and yes, this is pretty much exactly how I see the Joe/Nicky Crusades-era dynamic going down; Joe, after (justifiably and reciprocally) killing Nicky a bunch, figuring out that that isn’t going to work and refusing to keep doing it, and then just…being a basically decent person, including keeping the personal boundaries he needs to deal with the situation. And Nicky, who is probably already traumatised by everything he’s been through/participated in (regardless of the extent of that participation), trying to return that decency and eventually gaining perspective on what he was part of, and committing himself to doing some real good.

because, despite Nicky saying in the movie that ‘it’s like destiny’, I am much less interested in destined romance than in people actively doing the work and making the choice to be good for each other. destiny only gets you so far.

(fwiw my favourite version of this dynamic in another fandom is entirely non-romantic, and it’s the mini-redemption arc Varvara under goes in the RoL books/comics, which is pretty explicitly because Peter (and his colleagues, but mostly Peter) treat her humanely and respectfully, while also arresting her for the very real crimes she did in fact commit. and notably in that series the tragedy for Peter is that he does keep going out of his way to try and proactively redeem/rescue someone who isn’t interested in being redeemed, for whom his basic decency/kindness wasn’t enough, and you know what it ends in? massive trauma for him!)

#ah oof #peter grant #varvara #lesley #the old guard

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memes-of-london · 3 years

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