agatha and the wish fish from the school for good and evil 💕

read the school for good and evil. PLEASE.

@pumpkinpaperweight had a dream and now im suffering with brainrot. The "only sophie got taken so agatha went after her" post, and im not ok, im not ok. I have this plot in my head now, ideas and dialouges, but will i actually do it? idk so here's a couple sketches i did, what i imagined what happens at the aftermath of the kidnapping

aaaarrghh i want this to be a full blown au so bad you have no idea i am not okkk aaaaaaaahh

as a former school for good and evil girlie i had a lot of mixed feelings about the movie, but maybe the biggest negative for me was the fact that they completely cut agatha's arc about self-esteem and confidence. i first read the first book when i was like.. 15? and that arc CHANGED me and the way that i thought about myself

it's weird to complain that an actress is "too pretty" - and this is not at all a criticism of sofia wylie herself, who is absolutely gorgeous and who gave her whole heart and self to her performance - but i genuinely do wish that agatha had been more average-looking. she needed to visually not fit in! there needed to be a HUGE visual difference between her and sophie, who fits every conventional beauty standard and who relies on her pretty privilege in the second act and in her relationship with tedros! and speaking of tedros - their relationship is so much more impactful if agatha ISN'T PRETTY, if he's attracted to her for deeper reasons which sophie has trouble comprehending!!!

of all of the changes they made to the story, this is the one that i question the most. agatha's search for confidence is so pivotal to her character and to the themes of the series as a whole, and it is genuinely upsetting to me that the film skipped it entirely

The school for good and evil should've been a show made by people who actually care about the source material

AGATHA OF GAVALDON AND TEDROS OF CAMELOT THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL

SGE FANART

My lovessss<3

DELETED SCENES — THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL

Agatha, texting Sophie: Sophie! Help I’m being kidnapped

Sophie: Where are you?

Agatha: I’m with some strange person. In a car. Help.

Sophie: I’ll call Tedros.

Tedros, answering her cell: Y’ello?

Sophie: Where’s Agatha? They texted me that they were being kidnapped.

Tedros: Agatha? Whaddya mean, she's right next to me-

Tedros:

Tedros: I’ll call you back. *hangs up*

Tedros: THE NEW HAIRCUT ISN’T THAT BAD!

Agatha: WHO ARE YOU?!

Now that we have the deleted mirror scene from the movie, I wanted to show ppl who haven't read the books some parts of it, because oh boy it's. a lot

One of my favorite parts is in the begining there when Dovey tried to dissuade her and Agatha is having none of it, and for good reason. This girl has so much self-hatred that she has a breakdown when forced to look at herself in the mirror for goodnesses sake. She's been a social pariah her entire life! But I digress;

This is after Dovey reveals herself as the fairy godmother, and offers Agatha a wish. I just wanted to include it because "Fairy tales always punished girls like her. Fairy tales never gave ugly girls wishes." is such a poignant sentence it makes me want to sob even years later.

Agatha makes her wish, wakes up in the groom room and sees blonde locks on the floor, and runs through the school to find a mirror (the book says she's memorized where all the mirrors in the school are so she can avoid them. I want to chew some drywall.) On the way she passes various classmates and faculty, who all look shocked by her appearance, and comment on it. So she gets to the mirror and the scene above happens. She's been beautiful all along.

It's such a shame that the movie didn't take the opportunity to make her self-esteem issues with her appearance more prevalent. I feel like it would've helped a lot of young girls to do so!

Gone back to reading SGE (I'm part way through book 4) and look,,, I know this is a controversial topic in the fandom and I am mayhaps going to be swinging at a hornets nest, but this is literally the only fandom where I (and please hear me out) understand the incest shippers

Because like, Soman does queer-code the fuck out of Sophie and Agatha. And yes, canonically they are sisters! However, he doesn't write them as sisters. They didn't grow up as sisters, hell, they didn't even know until the end of book three. And even after that point, he still writes them with most queer-baity shit!

He is constantly having other characters make jokes or comments about how they're girlfriends, or they were "just off kissing somewhere" (Hort legit says this in book four). That's not how people talk about sisters! At all! And Sophie and Agatha never even bother to address it. Like, sorry, but if someone made a joke about me and my sister dating or, god forbid, having snuck off to make out? You best believe I would be gagging, like wtf?? Who says that??

And it's not like the others don't know, because ~everyone's read the Tale of Sophie and Agatha~! So why does he write them like this! Right from the first book, they've been in this weird in-between of "they're fighting over a boy" but they also have this... weirdly fruity tension. Sophie's dance with Agatha at the No Ball, saying Agatha is "hers" or some shit ("to get at Tedros" but like... weird flex Soph), Agatha saving Sophie with True Love's Kiss... right on the mouth. I do not kiss my sister on the mouth. And yeah, they didn't know at the time, but like, Soman (theoretically) should have known, and it's a weird Luke-and-Leia-esque vibe to put in there. Throughout every book, there are a thousand little moments—I mean the whole three-way true love thing! Because yes, you can make the argument that true love doesn't have to be romantic..... except everyone else keeps treating it like it's only a romance thing. Also, if it doesn't have to be romantic, then why can there only be one???

So yeah, idk, I just feel like there are so many other plot points in this series that make less than no sense and it constantly contradicts itself anyway so... if people wanna say "fuck that" to the sister reveal and ignore it in favour of so much canon queer-coding then... yeah. Not opposed

Wanted to draw them

Missing out on sleep because my brain keeps me awake with ideas for my next attempt at a long-fic, no matter how hard I tell it to shhhh...

I'm not even sure it's going to come to anything, I've never written a supernatural romance with a hint of a murder mystery before, but my mind just WON'T shut up about it.

It's all about working out the kinks, removing plot holes, figuring out the lore (omg the lore!), and then just sitting down to write the damn story itself!

Why brain why!?

Anyway, here's a sneak peak...

“Did you actually just eat that?” she asked, looking between the candy bowl and Agatha, an unreadable expression on her face. Agatha quite reminded Leonora of a toddler sometimes, putting everything and anything in her mouth without thinking, giving no thought whatsoever to the consequences.

“I did,” Agatha coughed then, her face twisting in on itself, because of, what Leonora could only guess, was the sweets bitter after taste making itself known. Regardless, Agatha crunched the sweet between her teeth, “God, that tastes awful!”

Leonora rolled her eyes wondering why Agatha didn’t just spit it out.

“Unsurprising,” Leonora tutted and re-arranged the rings on her fingers, “It’s a fertility booster infused with Witches Broom. It’s supposed to look appetising to make it easier to swallow, but that doesn’t make it pleasant.”

Agatha’s eyes bulged in her skull, “Why on earth would you leave them out unlabelled?”

Leonora made a big show of pulling out a small piece of black card from thin air, the words Sweet Fertility written in white pen on one side, along with the sweets effects and a price. She nestled it between the candy pieces in the bowl.

“To teach sweet-toothed shop assistants a lesson!” Leonora reprimanded, “This is a magic shop, you can’t just put anything in your mouth without checking what it is first! That’s rule number one!”

“I thought rule number one was ‘don’t touch anything,’”

I haven't read School for Good and Evil since the first book in the second trilogy, can someone be a dear and spoil for me uhhh. Pretty much everything? Pretty please? Like why couldn't Tedros pull Excaliber. And all the other things.

Look, the school for good and evil movie was a shit show in many ways, but one of their main fuckups was their portrayal of Sophie becoming a witch, shown in an incredibly antisemitic way: when she transforms into an “ugly evil” type person, her nose grows and hooks. Not only is this portrayal of witches inherently antisemitic from its earliest roots, but it wasn’t even in the books.

In the books, her hair falls out, boils form on her skin and her eyes turn to this faded grey colour, while her hands turn to gnarled claws. Her transformation is more about becoming sort of monstrous in the books, unlike the movies where she becomes this caricature of a witch that doesn’t even look ugly. But calling her ugly when she looks fine just makes the movie look incredibly antisemitic and stupid

Genuinely disappointed with the way agatha was handled in the movie

Agatha went through an amazing self discovery journey and managed to truly understand her goodness in the book

She had very low self esteem at first to the point that she despised to look at the mirror,when she got her "makeover" she believed that she got to be beautiful for the first time in her life because everyone were shocked at the sight of her,but then she saw herself in the mirror and realized that she's exactly the same and was just smiling;she realized that she was beautiful all along. Agatha from then started to take care of herself more

Along with her appearance her opinions also got to change over the time. The moment she arrived in the school she described it as hell in the movie and...it never gets resolved? In the books Agatha only studied to not fail,she was also helping sophie as well, but as the time went Agatha truly learned to enjoy her lessons in the school! She learned to enjoy Fairytales and passionately read about heroes who defeated their villains

And the most important thing that wasn't in the movie: AGATHA DIDN'T PROVE HER GOODNESS TO ANYONE

Literally everyone suspected her,even after everything she did. Even she doubted herself but the moment she shows her talent and reveals the truth about the fairies and wolves to both schools everybody were shocked. That was her most important moment and it wasn't even in the movie.

I recently saw a post on reddit about someone who only watched the movie and asked whether if it was a mistake that agatha went to the school of good or not- I can't believe how they managed to mess up the adaptation this bad it's 2022 for god's sake