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wait the name Vespera mean evening star. Like the star only rises at nightfall. I didn’t notice that.
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need someone to sock Ro on behalf of Fitz at some point.
I'm tired of this
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Keefe: Mama didn't raise a quitter but she did raise a fool and it turns out those two things are a TERRIBLE COMBINATION.
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I reread this three times because the words both said before but my brain was saying before for one and after for the other
please reblog if you vote!
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I wrote a song from the perspective of Linh Song
A lot of people have the misconception that Linh is a softspoken, quiet girl. But in reality, once they got out of the environment of exillium where they literally weren’t allowed to talk, she is ALWAYS staring her opinion. Perhaps tam’s protectiveness over her makes us think she needs protecting. Maybe that’s where this misconception comes from. But rereading stellarlune only made me want to drive home this point even more—Linh is outspoken! She knows what she believes and she doesn’t back down. I hope this song reflects that through its use of water imagery 🥰
Lyrics under the cut:
I’m usually seen as half of a whole
But I cause a whole lot of chaos on my own
I was the half that was too dangerous
But no one leaves their other half all alone
I hold the power, I’m learning control
With patience and time, I’ll be unstoppable
If this wave is going to crash
I might as well ride it
Why should I fight it?
Can’t keep me quiet
No matter what you say
You won’t chase this power away
So don’t even try it
I don’t stay quiet
I say the things that come into my mind
Chip away at my resolve, you won’t find a single crack
And if my thoughts and theirs just aren’t aligned
Out of sight I’ve grown stronger, do they want me back?
I hold the power, I won’t apologize
There’s water in my grasp and there’s fire in my eyes
This wave is going to crash
You might as well ride it
No way to fight it
Can’t keep me quiet
No matter what you say
You won’t chase this power away
Don’t even deny it
I don’t stay quiet
Let it wash over you
You’ll find me standing my ground
You’ll be disappointed if you’re still waiting
For me to learn not to make a sound
This wave is going to crash
You might as well ride it
No way to fight it
Can’t keep me quiet
No matter what you say
You won’t chase this power away
Let’s not deny it
I don’t stay quiet
Let it wash over you
You’ll find me standing my ground
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lava cake ig (very rough sketch)
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yeeeees
ok so hear me out ok! Just hear me out…. What if, in unraveled, every third chapter is a flashback chapter. Like to before Sophie got to the lost cities. This could really help and three dimensionalise (that’s not a word but whatever hopefully you get what I’m trying to say) all the characters, to get to see them before the story starts. This could be especially helpful with Fitz and Biana since Biana has just not been getting much attention the last couple books and Fitz has been used like a climbing rung for Sophie’s ark, not to mention how it could give us more into Keefe’s early childhood trauma and what happened to him at Candleshade. AND Shannon could sneak in that plot twist to the flashbacks instead of setting up something in the human world which I feel like would be way easier.
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I wrote a song from the perspective of Jolie Ruewen
You guys voted for a song to Brant after her death, so here it is! I’ve been looking for an excuse to use this chord progression (which is ironic, cause I actually messed up the piano on the last chorus in this recording). Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Thank you all for your support!
Lyrics under the cut:
I knew I was playing with fire
I shouldn’t be shocked I got burned
I understood you when no one else did
And I know my love was returned
I know I felt dangerously guilty
I should have known you were acting strange
The world wasn’t kind to you, it wasn’t fair
But I can’t forgive how you’ve changed
I still see our shadows on the walls
Of every place we’ve been
And I still hear the sweet, sweet words
That flowed to me from your pen
But our end was the beginning
Of something I can’t ignore
The scars are not the reason
I don’t recognize you anymore
She is one way that I haunt you
I know you see me on her face
I hope that you also see all that I stood for
And think of the past you’ve erased
I still see our shadows on the walls
Of every place we’ve been
And I still hear the sweet, sweet words
That flowed to me from your pen
But our end was the beginning
Of something I can’t ignore
The scars are not the reason
I don’t recognize you anymore
I hope you never forget me
Cause I know that you’ll always care
I hope you imagine what I’d say to you
Doing all these things if I was there
I’d say I still see our shadows on the walls
Of every place we’ve been
And I still hear the sweet, sweet words
That flowed to me from your pen
But our end was the beginning
Of something I can’t ignore
The scars are not the reason
I don’t recognize you anymore
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Not attempted murder
Tell me about a fictional character you absolutely despise BUT you must find at least one good thing about them. If you fail to do that - you lose /@i-send-you-random-asks
ANSJDJNSJDJWND okay okay okay. So if you don’t know im. I’m a little bit unhinged about my fictional children.
So… let’s see who our options are here…
Uh John gaius has some redeeming factors but bringing them up makes him less fun to hate…
Ianthe tridentarius is such a wet cat. Such a failure. But I don’t really despise her, so long as she keeps her mitts off harrow…
Lady Gisela? I do in fact despise that woman…
COOL OKAY
so Lady Gisela is basically the sometimes-head of the sometimes-terrorist/revolutionary organization/resistance/disorganized mess that is the neverseen, the bad guys (?) who kinda make a good point but are shit at actually making it WELL
bonus reasons for hating her guts are: emotional manipulation of both her son and spouse, emotinal/mental abuse of her son and spouse, lying, experimentation on her son, attempted murder, and a bunch of others I can’t really think of right now (im sure my other people will be able to mention them in the tags)
But I mean she’s not WRONG about her motivations? Like the world they live in isn’t very good and does need change but… you know. She’s evil so.
Idk man, she’s a semi-prominent villain in a YA fantasy novel series who borderline abuses her son and commits heinous crimes on the side.
She’s not really the most complex villain but whatcha gonna do?
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I wrote a song from the perspective of Amy Foster
I was having some Amy Foster feelings so here, have this! I feel like we don’t talk enough about the implications of Amy going about her daily life knowing there’s this whole war going on that no other humans know about, and her sister is out there risking her life, and half the stuff she’s learning in school might not even be true. So, have a song about it!
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Can’t read my textbook
What if it’s wrong
Can’t help but miss a place
I know I don’t belong
I miss the way things were
I miss my family
It’s strange knowing more about my parents
Than they know about me
With every storm and wildfire
I wonder if the world is ending
I wonder if you’re alive
And one day I’ll be like fifty
Which is weird, cause you’ll still look twenty
Then again, that’s if you survive
I hope you know you have me
Even if you don’t, not really
Just remember there’s a girl
Wishing you luck from outside of your world
Sometimes I wonder
If you’re okay
Would anybody call me
If you ever weren’t one day?
Each passing day
The urge gets harder
To suppress to remind them
That they had a second daughter
With each natural disaster
I wonder, are the bad guys winning?
I’ve got no way to know
I hope one day it’s over
I’ll tease you about the boys and drama
And we’ll just catch up slow
I hope you know you have me
Even if you don’t, not really
Just remember there’s a girl
Routing for you from outside of your world
I hope you know you have me
Even if in my mind only
Just remember there’s a girl
Thinking of you from outside of your world
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what i'm getting from the reactions to book 9.5 is that this is all of us right now
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first time we see alvar he chugs a glass of wine in a sip, talks about his 3 girlfriends and proceeds to call known facts a hoax. truly what a guy
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no Shannon’s the one who pronounces it wrong /s
wait is it pronounced KEEF-E or just KEEF 😭
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How did Gethen get that dog? What did he do with it when he was done?
I always imagined a pomeranian dog based on the description, so in my mind he rolled up to a dog breeder in the human world with his elvin birth fund full of Lusters
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To add to the first part about Fitz, you described matchmaking as being the last straw. I haven’t read Legacy for awhile, but I think it’s possible that he was mostly bothered by all those things, and he dressed it up as the problem being matchmaking because it felt like easiest thing to be upset about. Finding a shallower reason for his feelings instead of having to deal with all those other more complex reasons, like Sophie letting Alvar go, and her basically emotionally cheating with his best friend. I’ve grown apart from friends and know it’s dufficult to be honest with yourself about no longer having that person as a friend, and I think Keefe and Fitz have grown apart, clear by how they both elevate their relationship with Sophie over each other, and Keefe’s obvious disdain for Fitz in Unlocked. (though in Stellarlune in the last scene Fitz went to check on Keefe and I liked that I really want their relationship to heal) and that could also add some emotional turmoil in Fitz’s life.
He could also feel frustrated with Keefe and Sophie’s relationship while Sophitz was dating, and like you said, the secrets, and Sophie hiding things about the matchmaking could seem to him like a more up front secret that he can justify feeling hurt about because she’s hiding things about her romantic life from him, her romantic partner, whereas it would be difficult to justify to himself feeling threatened by Keefe’s relationship with Sophie, and Sophie doing an incredibly selfless thing by letting his brother go.
I probably didn’t explain this well and got my facts wrong, but to summarize: Fitz was upset with Sophie for a lot of things, and chose the most logical of the reasons and used that as the reason he was upset. He wasn’t as upset about it as he made it seem, but he had a bunch of of other things he was upset about roles up behind it.
An analogy I think of is overstimulation (well, my personal experience with it) I’m not usually crying because it’s to loud, or because there are to many people, or because I feel lonely, or because I’ve done a lot today and am tired, I’m crying because it’s all those things at once, but when I try to explain it to another person, I sum it up to “it’s to loud” because it IS loud, so that makes sense.
Anyway, I agree with a lot of your points. Sokeefe did seem very rushed.
genuine thoughts on Sokeefe. Go 🎤
This is gonna piss somebody off. They're probably one of my least favorite ships in fiction to date. Only coming slightly before Jude and Cardan lol It's not a popular opinion, I know, so please don't come @ me. And I haven't read the books in so long... I might have details screwy.
PS: I don't hate Sokeefe shippers, ship away, it doesn't bother me. but I hold deep animosity for the way the ship is written.
Sokeefe feels contrived, and unplanned. Which is the appeal to many, but the turn off for me. Genuinely. I think I just have issues with the writing and execution of it. If you have to completely ruin the other love interest (Fitz) to convince me that the runner up is better... we got issues.
Allow me to explain:
Fitzphie felt intentional and planned. And sue me, I hate love triangles and I like when someone can just unequivocally choose someone and stick with them.
I used to really ship Fitzphie, but after Legacy I was really annoyed with the way Shannon wrote it all playing out. It felt fabricated and convoluted and completely out of character. Sure, I can pathologize why Fitz would care about matchmaking to the moon and back... but canonically, it doesn't even make sense. He was okay with going to Exullium and ruining his reputation that way, he was okay with infiltrating the ogre king's mind, and throwing hands with his brother publicly, being seen with Sophie, and befriending outcasts- but matchmaking is his last straw?? That's what suddenly got him pissed off? Not the fact that Sophie was keeping secrets, emotionally confiding in Keefe and not Fitz, whilst claiming Fitz as her boyfriend, letting his traitorous brother go etc...
^THOSE are all way more valid reasons to break up a ship like Fitzphie. That's a break up I can respect. Bc we know Fitz values honesty, trust and dependability. That tracks. We know he struggles with anger, but only when something actually serious is happening: His dad's mind breaking, Alvar betraying them <- arguably bigger deals than matchmaking by a LANDSLIDE. but anyway- I'm fine with them being broken up. I just wish it hadn't taken a complete character assassination and a stupid reason. I am of the mind that Fitz straight up just deserves better atp and that he's been ooc for the last few books and held to unfair standards compared to Keefe and Sophie's characters. Which just makes me pissed off at the whole ship lmao
(this all led to me beginning to dislike the series as a whole, and Fitz becoming my favorite character.)
OKAY- now for Sokeefe.
They feel contrived and like a fan-service. Don't hate me PLEASE-
You mean to tell me I read 7 books straight of Sophie pining after Fitz, never commenting on having romantic feelings for Keefe (aside from loving him in general as a friend and finding him attractive and him making suggestive comments about her feelings and being overly touchy feely and her deliberately choosing not to examine it) only for Sophie to suddenly act like she hadn't been obsessed with Fitz for 7 books straight the moment she had him?? because of some stupid concept about head and heart emotions?? (It's world building. I get it. Doesn't mean I don't find it hilariously dumb.)
I ALWAYS got the undertone of Keefe pining for Sophie, but she did not have that energy back towards him. In fact, she seemed wildly uncomfortable in some scenes (the one in Nightfall?? I think?? Where he backs her up against a wall??) and she seemed to not understand and be completely oblivious to his suggestive comments, aside from making her blushy and self conscious cuz she's an insecure character.
So anyway, after the Fitzphie break up, reading Stellarlune- I KNEW she was going to end up with Keefe. Not because it made sense, or because it had been foreshadowed in SOPHIE"S POV, but bc the fans wanted it and Keefe is a favorite, and he grew on Shannon. I just- maybe I'm just bitter, but I have never been under the impression that Sophie genuinely wanted a romantic relationship with Keefe. Until this book. Which felt like whiplash to me.
Wasn't our girl just crying over Fitz? like what is going onnnn
I could respect Sokeefe If Sophie had been having a mental war between Fitz and Keefe since at least book five, I'd believe that she had real romantic feelings for Keefe. BUT SHE DIDN"T. at least- not that I remember. So with the lack of build up on her part, but the readers obvious awareness of Keefe's feelings for her... it falls flat. Had Shannon planned on Sokeefe being endgame and had she sprinkled in more deliberate and crushy thoughts that could only be interpreted as romantic on Sophie's part, I would feel less blindsided. I would feel like it was all intentional. Like Keefe wasn't the only one pining for 9 books. Like Sophie wanted it just as bad as him.
like how long does it really take someone to realize they like someone?? I just find the whole thing to be unrealistic. How can Sophie be THAT unself aware? (I know the argument is that she didn't allow herself to like him bc it would put their friendship on the line but girl- it was obvious Keefe liked her and I just don't think she's that purposefully dumb.)
bro I could go on forever.
I didn't even touch on Keefe and Sophie's personalities and why I don't particularly like them as individual characters. That's a rant for another time.
im sorry! please forgive me.
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Yeah, I think Shannon is just so good at hiding her foreshadowing that we don’t until our 42nd reread of the series. She writes in a way where it takes a lot of dedication to understand the more complex emotional things, but if you don’t understand, you wont be super confused, which I think is a good style considering the age range of both her target audience, and the older people who read it when they were the target audience and are still really dedicated who can still examine the books and find more depth, even if it isn’t really a casual read or reread for older readers.
This is all really interesting and I can definitely see where you get all your points from.
Shannon's almost forceful characterization of Sophie being oblivious came at an extreme detriment to me shipping Sokeefe.
She was so intentionally oblivious about Sophie's feelings regarding Keefe to the point I was genuinely like "How tf is Shannon gonna convince me Sophie liked Keefe the whole time???"
Because it just doesn't make sense to me that Sophie could be so upfront and aware of her feelings for Fitz, and she was able to tell Dex liked her, but she's just a void when it comes to anything having to do with Keefe. I get the whole idea of head and heart emotions, and Sophie's unwillingness to acknowledge her own feelings for Keefe-
but how on EARTH did this girl manage to come out 9 books later thinking Keefe was going to reject her?? be serious. She may be in denial about her own feelings- but if she could interpret Dex's crush on her and Jensi's, she should have been able to interpret Keefe's obvious obsession with her as well.
he was so obvious. and really- nothing was stopping Sophie from interpreting the way he treated her as romantic, so like- why is she so cool with seeing Fitz in a romantic light, and not Keefe?
her forceful obliviousness made it seem like she genuinely didn't think of him in that way and so the build up on her crush on Keefe was severely lacking for me. HIS build up and his feelings towards her were written so intentionally- but it doesn't have the same energy on Sophie's part.
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