Okay so I just finished Stellerlune and first of all I think Shannon was afraid of a riot because that’s the most page time Dex has had since like book one, second of all Ro being there was fantaboulus, and third of all regarding Keefe OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH! IM DYING! AND THE KISS! OH MY GOOD LORD! FITZ TOOK IT SURPRISINGLY WELL! DID I ALREADY SAY OH MY GOSH? AND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON TGE FRIKITY FRACKITY ELYSIAN BEING A HUMAN! THAT FRIKING PLOT TWIST TOOK ALMOST AS MUCH COURAGE TO WRITE “If it weren’t for the baby” LIKE REALLY SHANNON??!? But like she gave me Sokeefe so I can’t be as mad but stiLL!
okay okay so corona and ianthe's mother's name is canonically "violabeth" (whence "coronabeth" gains the "beth"). viola is latin/italian in origin, meaning purple; corona means crown or wreath. congrats, your third house monarch (whose assigned house colour is purple) is called purplebeth and crownbeth
but also! in pondering this, my mind was also drawn to viola from shakespeare's twelfth night - one half of a pair of twins, forced by circumstance to take on the guise of her brother for her own safety. we talk and talk abt who out of ianthe and corona came up w the "corona should pretend to be a necromancer" scheme, and also who enforced it; but is it not fucked up if it was violabeth? (especially considering ianthe specifies their father as the one who "wanted a matching set") and if it wasn't, isn't it still fucked up that, based on literature that existed before the houses, their mother's name is all but a prophecy?
My brother in christ Kuro Games removed a male character's pant zipper because male players complained that their female players were having fun sexualising it and making jokes but refused to change the jiggle physics on a female character's tits which literally flop around and wobble when she's standing still breathing despite multiple complaints from female gamers.
just saw a tiktok of a guy saying "Me when I see a fanfic that mischaracterizes my favs so bad that I actually have to comment and tell the author to never write again" with the sound "i love the way it feels to be a hater", and I opened the comments expecting people to be like "haha yeah, but don't do this" or like "okay but never comment hate on fics because people are writing for free and out of love so...", etc. but the comments were full of people admitting to absolutely heinous behaviour.
someone said: "that time i hated a fic so much I bookmarked it and filled the notes with an angry paragraph about how much I hate it", like, what? in what world is it normal and acceptable to do that? and that's just one of the many examples.
I mean, there was a lot of joking and exaggeration but also people have done this, people do this. idk it's so bizarre to me that you would actively read something you don't like (after reading the tags and author's notes), to then write paragraphs upon paragraphs of hate, that is directly sent as an email to the author
honestly, if I got something like that in my comments or bookmark notes, it would really affect me. someone going "never write again" or just loathing what I wrote, I'd feel really bad.
just idk, have some empathy. you can exit a fic, you can block the author, you can hate silently, or even pour every ounce of hate out into your friend's dms or a journal or something. just why would you actively hate on someone who is providing entertainment for free and for fun?
So... Spreen and Missa were brothers. That's a thing.
And Fit married Spreen, and Spreen died before the divorce paperwork was signed or they reached long enough for it not to need Spreen's signature, so Fit is Spreen's widower. (Much sexier than divorcee, let's face it, even if he prefers divorcee - which he legally isn't - because it sounds like he had a choice in the matter or something there's something to unpack there I'm sure)
And so Fit is Missa's brother-in-law. And Missa is Fit's brother-in-law.
And Philza is Missa's (platonic, government assigned [*stares at them and shakes my head*]) husband.
And so Philza was Spreen's brother-in-law. And Spreen was Philza's brother-in-law.
Which!
Means Philza and Fit are /also/ brothers-in-law.
But that's besides the point, because Fit (and Spreen) are Ramon's parents, and Missa and Philza are Chayanne and Tallulah (and Wilbur?)'s parents.
Which means Fit (and Spreen) are Chayanne and Tallulah (and Wilbur?)'s uncle(s), and Philza and Missa are Ramon's uncles.
This all means...
Ramon is Chayanne and Tallulah (and Wilbur?)'s cousin.
And I don't know where I'm going with this, but it's definitely something.
when no one booyah backs at the start of turf war it's bad enough but when no one booyah backs at the start of salmon run it's like.. oh we're in the TRENCHES