not gonna lie this is a struggle to get through. feels like there’s a lot of filler (lots of scenes where we get paragraphs of “a character stands up, then walks over to the TV, then turns it on, then sits back down”), a shitton of characters, and no discernible plot 40% of the way in. i wanted to like this more than i do but maybe ive grown out of it. this is gonna get me canceled but it feels like reading a jerejean fanfiction in 2016 before we all shifted to making them all go to therapy. not even a good one but one with like a million tags that’s dark for the sake of being dark.

i think my biggest issue w tsc so far (about 25% in, bee is taking jean to the foxhole court) is that i always imagined jean as someone who, once he was out of the dark, wanted to heal. more than neil or andrew or kevin, i imagine him seizing the opportunity of neil’s deal with ichirou and becoming a real human. i’m pretty early still so maybe that’s coming but it’s depressing to read jean this broken. i also feel like there are ways to write a character with trauma without making them a victim of CSA but not my call ig!!!

but if you hate Nora and think Aftg is all trauma porn why do you keep reading it and complaining??

because i want to???

"you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" meme and the picture is just fanart of fanon les amis de l'abc circa 2013

THAT being said, i wish she would grow out of the anime bad guy dialogue. also not sure but i don’t think CPTSD makes you forget how to use contractions. not sure tho

i think my biggest issue w tsc so far (about 25% in, bee is taking jean to the foxhole court) is that i always imagined jean as someone who, once he was out of the dark, wanted to heal. more than neil or andrew or kevin, i imagine him seizing the opportunity of neil’s deal with ichirou and becoming a real human. i’m pretty early still so maybe that’s coming but it’s depressing to read jean this broken. i also feel like there are ways to write a character with trauma without making them a victim of CSA but not my call ig!!!

that being said, i love Kevin Day

i think my biggest issue w tsc so far (about 25% in, bee is taking jean to the foxhole court) is that i always imagined jean as someone who, once he was out of the dark, wanted to heal. more than neil or andrew or kevin, i imagine him seizing the opportunity of neil’s deal with ichirou and becoming a real human. i’m pretty early still so maybe that’s coming but it’s depressing to read jean this broken. i also feel like there are ways to write a character with trauma without making them a victim of CSA but not my call ig!!!

i think my biggest issue w tsc so far (about 25% in, bee is taking jean to the foxhole court) is that i always imagined jean as someone who, once he was out of the dark, wanted to heal. more than neil or andrew or kevin, i imagine him seizing the opportunity of neil’s deal with ichirou and becoming a real human. i’m pretty early still so maybe that’s coming but it’s depressing to read jean this broken. i also feel like there are ways to write a character with trauma without making them a victim of CSA but not my call ig!!!

Are you going to read TSC?

i just bought it (and will gift copies to people if they want one, please pay for books i know we are haters but that lady wrote books we have spent years enjoying! DM me and i will gift you one) but i won’t have time to read until later this week. do people like it 👀

She made Jean NINETEEN in the book??? He apparently joined the ravens at 16. In case ur wondering what a train wreck of a book this is gonna be. She made him Nineteen in his junior year of college.

Oh,,

i saw tsc trending on tumblr and my first thought was that i was dying to know if you've read it and if you have any thoughts on it. and then my second thought was to search up the release date and realize it has been out for like one day. 😭 anyways... playing on will always be the jerejean canon in my heart, but i am mildly interested to see what nora has to say on the subject (and even more interested to see what YOU have to say if you do read it). hope you're having a good one

i didn’t realize it was out! yes i will read it and possibly complain live

Since we're sending anon N*ra "hate"... I just finally saw the post with her handwritten TSC.

Jesus H Roosevelt Christ, and I thought my handwriting was bad. Those aren't words N*ra. That's just cursive scribbles.

yall really turn into riko moriyama when n*ra breathes too loud and i for one support that

wait how do we know its gonna be jerejean. why do I have a terrible feeling it might not be

do we actually have any evidence that it’ll be jerejean and not just 300 pages of torture porn with weird diction

Lmfao I’m the anon who posted being irked about N*ra claiming to get sunburn and since people are doubting me: 1) I live in Echo Park & work in Playa Vista. I am all over the whole fuckin city every day of the week & it was rainy & cold as hell everywhere the days she was here. 2) I surf & surfed the few days conditions were good enough to that week also and the UV index was like fuckin 2 at highest. I’m the whitest bitch alive if I didn’t get sunburnt there’s just no way she did IM SORRY

ANON HAS SPOKEN !!

so there is some skepticism in the replies here

i did some research. nora posted the following blog on march 1:

on Feb 29-Mar 1 this was the weather in LA:

BUT it seems it was sunny prior to that. so possible she got sunburned in 60 degree weather i suppose. but i too would be annoyed anon cause why are you at the ~*~*~sunshine court~*~*~ without sunblock on. SPF is good for you!

This is such a weird thing to get annoyed by, but I feel like you will agree or at least understand where I’m coming from, but N*ra just posted on her blog that she was in LA for a week & got a sunburn & I live in LA and it has been RAINING the past straight week here & cold as hell otherwise like…why lie lmao. She just irks me!!! You don’t have to post this obv lmao I just wanted to vent

LMFAOOOO please keep venting in my inbox

This is such a weird thing to get annoyed by, but I feel like you will agree or at least understand where I’m coming from, but N*ra just posted on her blog that she was in LA for a week & got a sunburn & I live in LA and it has been RAINING the past straight week here & cold as hell otherwise like…why lie lmao. She just irks me!!! You don’t have to post this obv lmao I just wanted to vent

LMFAOOOO please keep venting in my inbox

well. it's christmas.

merry christmas!!

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