“Because We Match”

In love with Carry On, Six of Crows, The Last Binding, Good Omens, Raven Cycle, Doctor Who and Merlin ✨

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

am I ok? Yes. Did I cry watching edits last night? Also yes.

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

still ok over here so I made another one

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

just to finish the set. still perfectly ok 🥹

[ladyoftheburn]

Baz and Simon spend one weekend together and immediately decide they need to make out with each other as much as possible.

[lonleyhumanbeing]

I’m rereading Carry On for the 4th time in less than 18 months and here are some things that stuck out to me. I was reading around a friend and they were so suprised about how into the story I was. But it’s Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha. How could you read it and not be fully engrossed? Anyways:

Simon and Agatha didn’t believe for a second Simon would live past this year. That’s why she broke up with him, because she thought she was dating a future funeral.

Penelope is in denial about Simon’s fragility. She believes that Simon would manage to live through the Humdrum if she also fights hard enough.

Simon- Baz’s-eyes-are-the-shade-of-gray-that-happens-when-you-mix-dark-blue-and-dark-green-together Snow.

Simon is obsessed with Baz because Baz represents what the Mage is fighting against. Dark creatures, the Old Families, power. He notices all that as a rebellion.

Also, head over heels in love. But we’ll get to that.

The Mage did everything to fix Simon. Instead of, I don’t know, being a good dad, he became headmaster, did away with the oral exams, reformed the entry so anyone (Simon) could enter, made Simon his heir, gave Simon his sword and wand, started raiding homes for artifacts to fix a child HE broke and made numpties kidnap Baz, and tried to get Simon away from Watford so Simon wouldn’t hear any visitings. Just keep the kid around, man.

Fuck the Mage.

Rainbow putting 3 straight chapters of Baz’s POV is such a good move. She was obsessed with him, Simon was too, and the world deserved as much Baz as we could get.

I will forever love how the millisecond we get Baz reflecting on himself, we get the line “And I’m hopelessly in love with him”.

[lonleyhumanbeing]

Part two:

It’s totally normal to know exactly the features your sworn enemy has.

Simon didn’t hesitate for a second to help Baz. And he was absolutely willing to skip all lessons to find Natasha’s killer.

I’m talking about both of them. Simon talks about how Baz has ‘a face for pouting’ and Baz goes on a full monologue on how basic and blue Simon’s eyes are.

The Mage is spending so much time searching for an answer to Simon. But Simon doesn’t need an answer, he just needs someone to love him.

[ladyoftheburn]

Agatha: you’re losing a lot of blood Simon, what’s your type so I can tell Niamh?

Simon: Baz.

Agatha: Your BLOOD type Simon!

Simon: Well…I mean Baz usually knows that sort of stuff, but blood can be a sensitive subject for him…”

*Looks down*

Simon: Is red the right answer?

[letraspal]

“I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Almost since we met…” Snow closes his eyes and smiles like he’s trying not to. I smile, too, only because he isn’t watching.

For day 17, fluff 💜 @carryon-countdown

[blueraimo]

[sailorblossoms-snowbaz]

for Baz’s birthday I would like to remind people (in case I have a little more reach than someone who strongly feels this but doesn’t post about the books an insane amount as I have) that it’s completely okay if Baz never wants to bite Simon. It’s literally fine. It is not something that holds back his growth, or that it would be a signs that his acceptance of himself has grown (biting Simon would probably do the oppose, if we’re real). That the “benefits” of biting Simon do not outweigh the negatives for good ol’ Baz. It’s something I have seen a lot as synonymous with character growth, but Baz’s growth doesn’t really need to go in that direction, perhaps in the same way nobody needs to drink alcohol to feel like a real adult (otherwise they’re “kids” who still need to grow) if they don’t like it (iirc Baz is not into it either, nor does he like himself when he’s drunk… “he doesn’t like alcohol because he has seen what it does to Simon,” you might say, and maybe that’s it – I haven’t thought about this enough, but that’s not an uncommon experience for some people who don’t want/don’t like to drink) or nobody needs to date or else they’re in a phase they need to grow of if they don’t want to, especially if they don’t experience romantic or sexual feelings, etc. I’m bringing up examples I have seen, you fill in the blanks.

Point is: Baz has a boundary, and it’s a fine boundary to have, actually. “He would look less pale if he drank humans” is not a good enough reason to challenge it. Is it affecting his quality of life? Is he weak all the time, on the brink of death or starvation because he doesn’t drink humans? … unless I’m forgetting something he’s literally fine (or as fine as Baz can ever be, when not subjected to Simon Snow’s Tender Ministrations). “He needs to drink extra rats—“ what’s a few more if we’re already being nasty here. I just don’t see a reason (that can’t be challenged) on why he should change his stance there (nor do I consider “it would be hot” as a valid reason, character-growth-wise). It allows him to live with himself. Self-love and acceptance is not necessarily loving every single part of ourselves 100%… part of it is finding ways to be at peace with the parts of ourselves we don’t like, ways to live with those parts in ways that won’t result in self-destruction. Isn’t that what Baz is doing, when he decides not biting humans is a boundary? (When he sees biting the one he loves the most as a hard line it shouldn’t be crossed?)

[ladyoftheburn]

As much as I love to joke about Simon’s bite kink, I fully agree with this. I love that Baz keeps that boundary to keep him tied to his humanity, and it feels like a way to keep him tied to his mum who would have wanted him tied to his humanity as much as possible whilst still being a vampire.

[ladyoftheburn]

With all of Baz’s pining for Simon and worry over being a vampire, I bet he never imagined Simon would have a bite kink

[ladyoftheburn]

I just want to know if Simon ever looked back over his obsession over whether Baz was a vampire and correlated it with his bite kink

[biellepics]

Just Simon Snow and Baz Pitch

[paper-beats-writers-block]

this is adorable and made my night thank you

[ladyoftheburn]

The cutest pic of snowbaz

[ladyoftheburn]

“I’d tie our hearts together. Chamber by chamber.”

WHAT IS THIS

POOR BAZ BEGGING FOR MORSELS OF DEMONSTRATIVE LOVE IN WAYWARD SON WHEN SIMON IS WRITING TRAGIC LOVE POEMS

Simon fucking Snow you’re breaking hearts left and right (yours and Baz’s)

[ladyoftheburn]

Simon: “I’m just wondering what kind of blind idiot I was to not have noticed you attractive you are when we first met.”

Baz: “Whereas I am neither blind nor an idiot.”

BLUSHES FOR YEARS, NO DECADES

[ladyoftheburn]

Me reading Wayward Son when Simon starts talking about how he’ll break up with Baz

[ladyoftheburn]

Simon really must never have been taught fire safety because it didn’t even occur to him that he should probably do something a bit more proactive than make out with Baz.

Or… more likely with him being a hero, he did know and just wanted to kiss Baz, because that was how he was going to save them both.

[ladyoftheburn]

The Mage when he realises Simon won’t follow his orders any more

[ladyoftheburn]

“I’ll bleed whatever colour you want”

Simon to Baz when he realised Baz is just a boy he wants to kiss and not his mortal enemy

I’M SCREAMING

[ladyoftheburn]

NowNext vampires when Simon and Baz turn up