Citra's middle name is Querida. I don't speak Spanish, but I'm pretty sure "querida" means "darling."

Greyson's middle name is TIMOTHY, which apparently means "God's honor," "honored by God," "honoring God," etc. which... lmfao I love him so much.

Rowan's is Daniel, which means "God is my judge."

So, we have: Citra "everyone's angel to protect at all costs" Terranova, Greyson "the Thunderhead's blatant favouritism" Tolliver, and Rowan "only God can judge me" Damisch.

Sounds about right

AOAS is actually so weird out of context. The main baddie is literally from mars, he killed an entire planet, was beheaded, and then started wearing one of the MC’s best friend’s body like the other 17% of the headless horseman for the ~drama~. One of the main driving plot points of the first book is Mars Man kidnapping Basically The President’s daughter and forcing the MC to babysit her against his will while he studies to get his license to kill. My man floods Basically NATO with mind-controlled sharks and yells “lol nope, u thought” while watching world leaders get eaten from a helicopter. The B-plot is New Jesus trying to navigate the intricacies of religion and developing a dysfunctional-ass found family that consists of his tour manager, a stubborn but devout theatre kid, a jean-cloaked ex-killer, and Robot God. He falls in love with a sexy sea captain who gets possessed by Robot God bc it’s in love. There’s deep talks about nature and morality of humanity. The two MC’s bang while dying of hypothermia while sinking to the bottom of the ocean. This isn’t even half of it.

Thunderhead: You’re my favorite human.

Greyson: If I’m you’re favorite, why do you talk to everyone else?

Thunderhead: I have to.

Greyson: No, you don’t.

*the whole world has been marked as unsavory*

Characters: Scythe Anastasia, Rowan Damisch, Scythe Faraday — Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman

He deserves to scream into the void as loudly as he can :)💕

Rowan, after becoming Scythe Lucifer : Whoops.

Faraday : Whoops? WHOOPS? This is not a "whoops" situation

Faraday : We are far past whoops.

Faraday : Whoops is a distant speck in the rear view mirror

Faraday : We are solidly in "oh fuck" territory, and I expect you to act like it!

Little Miss Massacre always puts "✨slay✨" into "slay out the entire White House"

You know what? I’m so tired of ppls weird hate boner for Citra. Like she’s not boring?? She’s well rounded and 3 dimensional. Just cause she’s not messy doesn’t mean she doesn’t have flaws lol she’s overcompetitive and judgemental but she learns to overcome these parts of herself and is a complex character in her own right? Like I’m so sorry this ya protagonist is a woman :/ y’all can shut up

I think you mean ✨𝓰𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰✨

In Thunderhead, we learn that Rowan installs a cooling chip on his doorknob as a security measure, and that he got the idea from Scythe Faraday, which means that at some point, Rowan did try to go for the ring

Please read this whole post, there’s no meme or catch to this, I’m not staying quiet on this.

this is the first post I’m making about Neal Shusterman’s recent actions - the second is about AI art usage, but this is so, so much more important.

Neal being complicit in the genocide that is occurring currently in Palestine and Gaza. Neal seems to have just gotten back from a book tour promoting a graphic novel he wrote, called Courage to Dream, which is about the Holocaust. He sent an email to everyone subscribed to his online newsletter.

Neal took this as an opportunity to state that he saw how “both sides” - both Israel and Palestinians - were doing things he did not condone, and that he would be remaining neutral.

Obviously Neal isn’t wrong in some of his wording, but what he’s fundamentally trying to say here is wrong and harmful. It doesn’t take someone who has lived through genocide to recognize that a genocide is happening. Genocide is a complex topic, but not in a “both sides should be shown kindness” way. It is complex in the fact that this has been going on for years, that history is repeating itself, and that people in positions of power are so easily falling for Zionist and colonialist propaganda because of their own bigotry and bias against those living in Palestine. How did you just go on tour promoting a book about the stories of people who were being targeted and killed in a genocide, and your first statement upon returning from that tour is to email all the subscribers of your newsletter that you’re “not qualified” to talk about genocide, and that you’re refusing to support the people being eradicated? Why did you write a book about genocide in the first place if you didn’t think you were qualified to talk about it? How do you write a whole graphic novel detailing the stories of people in what is the most known genocide in modern history and not see that Israel is trying to wipe Palestinians off the map?

Being opposed to genocide isn’t a simplistic opinion. It’s fucking common sense.

Neal Shusterman disgusts me. This is nothing new, of course, but many people in the Arc of a Scythe fandom haven't read Nicht Schöner als Ich and I feel like it should be talked about.

Nicht Schöner als Ich, translating to "No More Beautiful than Me" in English, is a short story in Gleanings that was written exclusively for the German-language copy of the book. It's about the purge of all mortal-born people that was briefly mentioned in The Mortal Canvas. I haven't finished it yet, I genuinely don't know if I can considering everything it is about (and the fact that It takes about 20 minutes just for me to translate a page, but that doesn't matter), but the basic premise from what I can tell is that Rasmus has to flee where he is with his grandma, Elke, who was born mortal, so that the scythes of the purge don't glean them. These specific scythes kill mortal-born people so that they can "cleanse" the population as all a show of power, a show of torture and bias, and a want to rule their own world.

Of course most of Shusterman's works are about killing, death, sacrifice, running and corruption and stuff. Translating this story, though, really makes me uncomfortable in the way it mirrors current events, with the genocide in Palestine, and the way Neal Shusterman is ignoring and literally engaging the killing of tens of thousands of people all while writing sympathetically about people being attacked and targeted in such a similar way is just so hypocritical and gross.

This is your reminder: I know you've probably heard this all before, but it cannot be forgotten about or ignored. Do NOT support Neal. Don't buy his books, don't buy his merchandise; if you want to read his books, buy them second-hand or support your local library. Try to minimize the clout you give him. Personally, I feel comfortable mostly interacting with people who are already in/have been in the fandom, and I don't want to post much or share his books, but absolutely no hate to people who still want to post about his content. Over 26,000 people have been killed in Gaza now. This is not something that you can just ignore, and this is not something you can be neutral on.

guyss☹️

THEN THEY.

HEY GODDARD HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU 📣📣📣

Im so glad i joined tumblr because the AOAS fandom is still at least somewhat alive 😭😭