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First Event: SoKeefe... or Sophitz?

First: I’m sorry I’m a bit late, but I’m *hoping* this one-shot (fanfic) will help to cover for my mistake. If you catch any mistakes around here, please tell me!!! (my first language is Spanish... so I tend to make a few mistakes sometimes).

I ship Sophie with Keefe, but somehow this oneshot turned out to be about Sophie and Fitz. And no, I don’t hate Fitz. But get ready to suffer a bit.

Without more preambles, here it is: The Storm!!

(It’s like... 13 pages in word xD so it required this)

#kotlcnetwork #member content #by: Mili #Sophitz #one shot #fanfic

kotlcnetwork

Hi everyone!! Since this is the most major source of discourse in our fandom, this is our first event!!

all members must make some sort of content representing a ship that involves sophie

(if you cannot for whatever reason, tell us!!)

members, please caption your creation @kotlcnetwork first event: (ship involving sophie)

you can create more than one entry

there can be more than one ship included in your entry

please tag all entries with #kotlcnetwork

entries should be in by March 24

Have fun with this!! And look for the new members list coming later today!!

owivizzle-deactivated20190829

God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable

mitch-that-bitch

I don’t mean to take over a post, but I actually did a project on this for my sociology of deviance class in college!

I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.

Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.

In conclusion, it is socially acceptable to carry a stuffed animal, its just not a societal norm. ^^

nerdgasrnz

#for followers with a big anxiety or self hate problem #bring a friend with you (via @kingdom-for-muses)

so1987-deactivated20230102

DOING IT

thebibliosphere

My friend gave me a stuffed monkey plushy when I was struggling with uni, and I took him everywhere for like four years, usually velcrod to my backpack. No one said a damn thing, except my renaissance professor who saw it one day in the hallway and cracked the fuck up because I had a literal monkey on my back and he just looked at me like, “oh god, me too”. I used to leave him on desks during classes and exams (the monkey, not my prof). It was my reminder that someone cared if I was coping. But more than that it was soothing to have something to fidget with that wasn’t a pen. I used to ping those fucking things across the room I was so agitated. Harder to hurt people with a projectile stuffed monkey.

kripke-is-my-king

I got what I thought was a normal screen cleaning kit for my computer while I was in college. Much to my delight, instead of a little washcloth or whatever, the kit came with a tiny stuffed pig.

So I carried this pig in my backpack all through college, periodically taking it out, spraying my screen, and using the pig to wipe it off.

Now, I kept the pig in the side pocket of my bag where he was completely visible.

Then one day in screenwriting class I pulled him out to wipe my screen.

One of the guys sitting next to me looked appalled. “You’re wiping it off with your little stuffed animal??”

I explained what the pig was.

Turns out, the guy had noticed it and just thought it was adorable I carried a stuffed animal with me every day. He’d never mentioned it before.

Honestly, people do not care, and will not say anything. No matter the reason for your little stuffed animal friend.

marcys-underground

And if you’re still really nervous about it keep a stuffed animal keychain on your bag. I have a cute little frog that stays on my backpack so when work gets stressful I can squeeze it.

peanutbutterbananasmoothie-deac

For my anxious followers.

mrforklefangirl

Thinking about joining the club 😁 I'm having a hard time right now. I desperately need a companion :/

SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL KEEPER FANS!!! @mallowmelting @sophiexfitz I don't remember more kotlc accounts now :s (I have a bad memory 😅)

crispyninjadonut

Nightfall crackpot theory

spoilers below.

you have been warned

Afficher davantage

dizznee

as casey would say, my wig is snatched

mrforklefangirl

This explains why she was in Lumenaria, and not in Exile. And Alvar. I insist that the Vacker Legacy has something to do with allowing bad things, because they don't investigate in time, and then they send to Exile the bad people, erase their memories, and go on with their lives as if nothing had happened....

acutelesbian

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

fat-thin-skinny

this fucks me up every single time

acutelesbian

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

conceitedtrash

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

mrforklefangirl

So much truth in a post!!!!!

aur0ra-studies-deactivated20180

No internet 😩 But I can’t let that stop me from studying and at least I have two great books to read. My desktop photo is reminding me of my goals! Thanks @emmastudies ❤️

emmastudies

i don’t know if i love you more for using my background or for your book choices!!😆❤️

mrforklefangirl

I need those books in my life!!! And there are kindle versions!!! GREAT!!

kotlcnetwork

WELCOME

Okay. Okay.

STOP WATCHING THE GLITTER YOU CAME HERE TO READ THIS.

This is the

KOTLC NETWORK

*trumpet sounds*

What do I get in exchange for membership?

A chance to make friends

A community to share thoughts and ideas in

A spot on our birthday page

What do I have to do to become a member?

Follow the network

Fill out this typeform

Reblog this post. This one. The one you’re reading right now.

Hey, I want to help out a little more by becoming an admin!

Awesome! Great! I love you! Thanks so much! If you’re an admin, you help out with planning and the network design. You don’t need any special network/coding knowledge, you just have to fill out this typeform

My goal is to have the network up and running by March or April, when the list of members will come out. Admins will added immediately so we can discuss and design stuff.

Oh, also, I’m Isabel @gaybiana . Hi!!

livvysonden

Lord Cassius is the Lucius Malfoy of the Keeper of the Lost Citites

mrforklefangirl

OMG!!! It’s TRUE!!!!! I just hope Lord Cassius changes his attitude... more sooner than later :/

lithographarry

mood

mrforklefangirl

Me, right now, studying for the test tomorrow and waiting for Nightfall. All at the same time!!!

dizznee

because i’m sick and tired of the instagram fandom’s shit. (x)

mallowmelting: i’d like to talk about a problem in fandom—reposting art without credit.

why have i decided to make a post about this now? maybe it has to do with maggie stiefvater’s recent post about piracy. maybe it has to do with the fact in the span of 24 hours, i have had to ask five people on instagram to put credit on reposted art. maybe it has to do with my phone, which now autocompletes “credit to” with “siocynder”. “not my art”. “credit to artist”. “found on google”. i’ve seen this too often in the captions of kotlc fanart on instagram. this isn’t okay. when people don’t credit artists, they are stealing the art. even if they put “not my art” in the caption, they are still stealing.

here’s why. when art is reposted with credit, it can be easily traced back to the original creator. people who see this reposted art see the credit, and the recognition goes to the original creator.

but when art is reposted without credit, it becomes an island. what i mean by this is that there is no longer a way for a viewer to instantly find the original creator of this reposted art. all recognition is lost. by reposting art without credit, the reposter deprives the original creator of exposure that this creator would have received if their art had been reposted with credit.

but say this reposter thinks it’s not harmful because they’re not making any money by reposting someone’s art without credit. well, let me tell you a story about the most famous—and the most reposted—fanartist in the kotlc fandom. her name is siocynder. even if you haven’t heard her name before seeing this post, i can guarantee you have seen her art. her art is the profile picture of countless accounts on instagram, pinterest, and deviantart. her art is on dozens of wattpad covers. her art has been reposted again and again and again, with credit almost never being given.

it soon became impossible for sio to track down every repost of her kotlc fanart and request credit. she, a young twenty-something fresh out of university, was spending much of her valuable time making content—without being paid. and she was getting no recognition for it. names were being given to her that did not belong to her—credit to artist, credit to google, credit unknown.

so she quit. she stopped posting her kotlc fanart, almost stopped creating fanart entirely. this is a real-life consequence of reposting without credit. the fandom lost siocynder, one of its best artists, because of it.

and the problem isn’t just about sio’s fanart. even i, a small tumblr editor who is nowhere near as well-known as sio, have found uncredited reposts of my kotlc edits. and it hurts to see those reposts. it hurts to see someone has taken your content without even caring enough to find the original creator, seeing only the artwork and not the human being behind it.

now, there’s nothing wrong with finding art on google or pinterest. all people have to do before reposting this art is find the original creator. the kotlc fandom is fortunate in that its most popular fanartists all have very distinctive styles. it’s easy to tell siocynder’s art from xylia’s or dragonwinnie’s. so often a piece of fanart can be sourced by just looking at the style.

if the style isn’t recognizable, reverse google image search works wonders. so do sites like tineye, which finds every online copy of a picture and can help people find the original post. if no matter how hard they try, they can’t trace an image back to the source, a general rule of thumb is simply to not repost it! done and done.

finally, i’m not saying that people who repost without credit are trash, deserve to die, etc., but they need to learn and correct themselves. or else more creators like sio will leave, and this fandom will be all the poorer for it.

please remember that “google” is not an artist. “tumblr” is not an artist. people are artists, and people deserve credit where credit is due.

mrforklefangirl

So true

sophitz

The Timeline To Extinction

And why it’s scientifically incorrect.

The timeline to extinction is an important plot device throughout the series: it both shows how important Silveny’s discovery is and provides political advantages for the Neverseen over the Council. All in all, it’s a well-placed part of the plot. But logically - it’s kind of trash.

Yes, we all know Shannon didn’t exactly major in the sciences, and it’s been an understandably long enough time since she went to high school to forget some crucial facts about evolution, but as an overenthusiastic nerd who passed biology over the summer, the Timeline to Exctinction is pissing me off.

To start, evolution has literally been happening since the beginning of life. So, for 2.6 billion years, species have been changing to meet their changing environment. When their genes no longer produce phenotypes that help them survive in their habitat, the only thing that keeps the organisms alive besides emigrating is mutations. A species’ genes will mutate to fit their new space of living, and those without the adaptions will die out; it’s survival of the fittest. The gene flow keeps organisms changing to survive. However, this means that species are constantly going extinct and being created.

To put that into perspective: over nintey-nine percent of the world’s five billion species that have ever existed are extinct.

But in Keeper, apparently, a species has never gone extinct. They’re kept them alive because it’s nature’s will and we’re all doomed if they don’t. Now, I’m definitely aware that this usually applies to the species that humans are responsible for the “extinction” of. But they have Verdi. They have mammoths, if my memory is serving me correctly. Which also means they have every other species since the beginning of elven history and civilization. If they have T-Rexes, then they’ve definitely been here a while (which also rubs me up the wrong way, because dinosaurs died out before the common mammal was even a hint of an idea).

So let’s say they do have every endangered species they’ve been able to save crammed under the Himalayas. They would have to keep…let’s see… archaea bacteria, which aren’t visible to the naked eye…saber-tooth-tigers…megladons, which would definitely eat every other endangered fish in the assumed Santuary Ocean Preserve™, unless, like Iggy and Verdi, it was placed on a vegetarian diet.

Speaking of which, that brings me to my conclusion. The elves are feeding every animal, including every carnivore, in their captivity only vegetables. Sure, yeah, their cheeseburger-flavored leaves probably have the same nutritional value as meat, but that doesn’t mean it’s natural. In fact, in Neverseen, the wild kelpies eat meat. It’s their natural diet when living in their own habitats. But the elves are supposedly “keeping up the balance of nature” by locking up hundreds of millions of species, possibly more, under a mountain range and forcing them to adapt to unnatural vegetation diets. They’re also keeping animals like mammoths in places like Havenfeild (there’s a mammoth preserve there, in pretty sure) when the reason they can’t live in the wild anymore is because we’re no longer in an ice age! They shouldn’t live here anymore! Neither can the countless other species that have either evolved into species better suited for the earth’s climate and biome! If they’re no longer even able to survive in the wild, how is it upholding nature’s will to keep them captive, and how will the extinction of a species that no longer contributes to the environment outside a synthesized enclosure cause an irreversible chain reaction of extinction?

So, what I’m trying to convey is that the elves need to back off their bullshit and think in terms of upholding the earth’s natural biome and not preserving every species that’s ever lived. Thank you for listening to my nerd-ass rant/analysis.

mrforklefangirl

An interesting analysis. I agree with some of the things she says, and disagree with others. But its reading is worth it. :D

generalcaraway

I saw a spoiler for nightfall and all I will say is that it is lacking context. Not that it’s impossible, and I wouldn’t even mind it, but it’s not wise to go off one page and decide that is the outcome. There are already reasons given within that page to make one think it’s not as straight forward as it first seems.

mrforklefangirl

I totally agree!! It's only one page and many things could have made that happen. I have one, but I really want to keep at least my blog free of spoilers.

Nightfall will be a VERY interesting book, I can't wait to read it!!!