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i don't know or understand

[captainsaltypear]

IS ANYONE ELSE GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR

[extraterrestrialenby]

"Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome."

from The House in the Cerulean Sea

[sharry-arry-odd]

"We all have our issues. I have a spare tire around my middle. His father is Satan. Nothing that can't be worked out if we try hard enough."

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

[islanddads]

thinking about linus being all “i am here to do a job. not to befriend the lanky frivolous orphanage master. why is he holding my hand. i don’t like it. my cheeks are flushing this is terrible. wait why did he stop. do it again.”

[knifexwife]

just like me fr

[backhurtyy]

something about. arthur giving the kids time to run around by themselves everyday because he was locked away for six months

[house-in-the-cerulean-sea]

It's just... The duality maan

Because Linus is like such a big guy but he does everything to be small, he is silent, he sucks in his stomach, he squeezes between too closely standing desks, he makes himself so small that people barley even notice him.

He tries to take everything he is and compromise it as tight as possible.

And then the kids? Bro they are so tiny but when you read you forget they're like so much tinier than Linus, like they only reach up to his hip y'all but they are loud and they let out all of they're personality, they are so so big!

So much big compromised into very tiny bodies!

And they *sobs* well they teach him how to be big too.

Looking to to him saying "don't you know anything?"

(because he's already physically big, he should know how to be big but but he doesn't)

[book-and-manga-dragon]

There is something about Under the Whispering Door and The House on the Cerulean Sea that make me keep coming back to them.

I thought about it and I came to this conclusion - they make me feel a sort of soul deep HUNGER. A hunger for the kind of love that is described there - both the romantic & platonic. A love that accepts a person even when they walk in darkness - that sort of love. A love thats says "so you have your dark thoughts/feelings - that's OK.. by all means have them.. as long as you don't push me away. I will be right beside you as you walk your long dark road - that's all I want". I just... it makes a person feel so SEEN.

[fairycosmos]

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

[tenthrees]

Linus Baker disliked himself and had a depressing view of life but Arthur and the children still fell in love with him and I absolutely love that bc it crushes the idea that you have to first love yourself or be healed in some way before other people can love you.

[cryskir]

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 🌻 I am smitten with this book

[megsandherbooks]

“When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn't mean it's no longer useful.”

T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

[oblivionsdream]

I am obsessed with the way that 'home' has such a heavy emphasis in TJ Klune's books. It's finding a home or creating a home and having that home be your found family.

The House in the Cerulean Sea had that titular house in the sea but it became Linus's home with his magical family.

Under the Whispering Door had its tea shop where Wallace found a place to be.

In the Lives of Puppets has literal tree houses and an odd little family of robots and their human.

Green Creek found home in a pack and I could go on.

Each book is just so full of home and family and I love it.

[cryskir]

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 🌻 I am smitten with this book

[tenthrees]

Linus Baker disliked himself and had a depressing view of life but Arthur and the children still fell in love with him and I absolutely love that bc it crushes the idea that you have to first love yourself or be healed in some way before other people can love you.

[passinhosdetartaruga]

I love characters that are Lawful Good in a negative way. When a character is so keen on following the rules that it actually becomes a hindrance and they can’t see how the rules are faulty or the system is corrupt or how breaking a certain rule could benefit everybody. They can’t do it. It’s not in their nature to see the world outside of the black and white mentality. And then i love seeing these characters slowly learn how to see the world in shades of grey.

[intairnwetrust]

Tairn being the best character in Fourth Wing:

"pronunciation could use some work"

"You bleeding. Stop it."

"You making us look bad. Stop it"

"You only fell about a dozen times that trip"

"The closest translation for humans is probably 'for fuck's sake'"

"And i could call you violence like the wingleader"

"Never. I’ll burn him alive before he takes a single step toward you."

"This grumby ass just caught you a dozen times, Silver one."

"Stubborn silver human"

“Never. I’ll burn him alive before he takes a single step toward you.”

"I hear it’s all the fashion"

"Should i get the wingleader?"

"Golden one" and "Silver one"

"No chance of that happening. I'm not letting her off my back, wingleader"

"Tell him if he harms you, I'll scorch the ground where he stands"