The preview: mean girl Aelwyn is dressing as a librarian? HELL YEAH SHE TOOK THE JOB LEVIATHAN HERE WE GO

C’mon Garty O’Brien, please grace us with your presence!!!

Something bugged me about what Brennan said about Fabian’s new gold maximum legend tattoo: he’s now immune to Dragon Madness.

Why would that matter? Yeah, it’s probably great for Fabian’s future adventures but why would it be relevant now? The Bad Kids already got rid of all the gold they received from Kalvaxus’ hoard, right?

Please bear with the red-string bulletin board-making side of my brain while I talk through my theory:

It’s always struck me a bit odd how much attention is being paid to Fabian’s finances this season. I totally get that it’s partially due to his parents being gone all year/turning 18 and gaining access to the funds left by his papa, as well as the general arc Fabian is going through of navigating going it alone for the first time, but it feels like there’s more to it than that. Fabian has never wanted for money before, and it hasn’t really factored into this season either (for him. points about Adaine being broke are irrelevant rn.) beyond the handful of conversations (and one altercation lol) we’ve seen between Fabian and his banker, Alston Hughes. A couple of things that Brennan has mentioned feel very much like breadcrumbs, and I’m not sure if the Intrepid Heroes have clocked any of it yet (as of Ep 15: The Last Stand).

Fabian banks with KVX, which Alston Hughes tells him has gone through a shift in management since their board of directors were smote by the Council of Chosen. Their branding and logos have changed from Kalvaxus red, to blue.

I also find it worth noting that we did discover Alston Hughes to literally be a member of The Harvestmen. 👀

This brings to mind the subject of Oisin.

Oisin is a blue dragonborn in his junior year at Aguefort, the conjuration wizard of the Rat Grinders. We learned at the shrimp-jump party that he’s descended from a blue dragon, who’s said to live atop a great hoard of treasure.

Oisin offers to help Adaine get some of her much-needed spell components, and she turns him down.

Aelwyn tells us that Kipperlilly can’t use Oisin to get the material components she needs - hence why she’s using Aelwyn. Kipperlilly says she needs to protect Oisin.

Why?

I’m willing to bet that his family has something to do with the new management at KVX. I’m also willing to bet Kipperlilly knows exactly how to protect herself from Dragon Madness.

And Fabian’s new tattoo is gonna save everyone’s asses. True Maximum Legend.

Adaine: My medication can occasionally make me spacey as fuck, which can be a problem when I'm driving. Like yesterday, for example, when Aelwyn was trying to help me avoid a pothole. 

Aelwyn: To the left.

Adaine, mumbling: "Take it back now, y'all..." 

Adaine: And then I hit the pothole straight on.

It's incredibly funny how unserious the government of Fallinel is now that Adaine/the Bad Kids have killed the Abernants and the people they worked with. Last season, they held a child in solitary confinemenf in a cell with no capacity for them to trance, sleep, eat, or drink for a full year.

Now Adaine can walk in there, spur of the moment, wìth only her (wanted) sister for back up, not even clearly telling anyone what she was doing and go on a labor strike (historically something that requires a lot of people), and get exactly what she wanted.

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Thank you! Midnight Oil is definitely my Baby, and it means a lot to me when people respond positively to it. There's just. There's so much going on in it. We go from Newsies to a murder mystery to How To Be A Thief 101 to a prison break to Baby's First Murder to making a deal with a demon (kinda.) And that's just the first 60k. It is such a wild ride from beginning to (the yet unseen) end and I'm so glad that so many people have come along for the journey, it's always a highlight of my day to see people's reactions to it.

complaining about high elves and sharing inside job gossip. the sisters ever actually

In episode one of Fantasy High, Adaine casts Tasha's Hideous Laughter on Aelwyn and Aelwyn not only makes her save but reverses it onto Adaine. Eleven episodes later, Adaine casts Tasha's on Aelwyn as the final blow to defeat her in an all out battle and thoroughly embarrass her in front of all of her peers.

Now, Adaine casts the same spell on Aelwyn as a bit of good natured teasing and Aelwyn elects to fail the save.

Aelwyn might not want to heal as fast as Jawbone wants but she IS healing. They both are!

new reaction image just dropped

the implications of aelwyn making BANK working for kipperlilly is cracking me up. ms copperkettle is dishing out large amounts of money to hire known scammers and conmen so she can win this election and kristen may still beat her just because she did a cool trick at a party

The fact that Fabian’s nightmare is to be exactly like Gilear and yet when you look at both of their romantic lineups:

It is literally identical. Like I hate to break it to you pirate boy but the man you supposedly despise and desperately fear becoming is literally just as into toxic elf women as you are.

i hope siobhan thompson knows that “i don’t love our parents, but despite the fact that you have not earned it, I do love you” is carved onto the surface of my brain and I think about it constantly

So a lot of traumatic things happened this week but I think the one I will think about the most is the look Brennan gave Ally when they cast death ward on Aelwyn, that was the look of a man sad he can’t kill a beloved NPC anymore and that TERRIFIES ME

How do you make fun of wizards? Call them a jock

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the abernant sisters

this feels more like a @caitmayart easter egg than a plot-related thing, but aelwyn’s cats look like they correspond to the non-adaine bad kids.

the little gray one is riz

the one-eyed tabby is fabian

the scrappy orange one (playing with a ribbon!) is kristen

i’m split on whether the black cat is fig or gorgug - my gut says gorgug but with all the talk around fig’s luck right now, a black cat seems appropriate

the siamese is whoever the black cat isn’t

or maybe i’m pulling a riz and it’s just a coincidence

this is the first time I’ve ever drawn aelwyn lmao