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Meanwhile Harrison Ford: Who the fuck is Anakin and why are you asking me?
Sometimes a girl has to go a little crazy. Sometimes a girl has to make a book-accurate floorplan for 300 Fox Way. These things just happen, sometimes.
Obsessive annotations under the cut āØ but be warned, there's a LOT
Exterior
Okay first of all, I'm no architect, and my only knowledge comes from work experience in the real estate industry + a lot of Sims. The style is sort of neo-rural French colonial. I didn't set out to adhere to that standard so much as I made an amalgamation of homes in Blue Ridge Mountains-adjacent towns in Virginia. Specifically, my headcanon Henrietta template is Orange, VA (I'll save that explanation for another post) so I took inspiration from real estate listings from there.
Alright alright I know there is supposed to be one bathroom, but I simply can't tolerate that in a house with 6+ residents. I can't. There was a possible contradiction in the descriptions of "the single shared bathroom" that I used as an excuse to add a 3/4 bath, and I threw in a powder room for free. Because technically there is still only one full bathroom! But seriously with that many women over 30 most of them probably have IBS or chronic constipation and I'm not making them all share a toilet.
Officially we only have 4 bedrooms listed in text: Blue's, Persephone's, Maura's, and Calla and Jimi's shared one. Everyone else gets rooms that don't qualify as bedrooms via Virginia residential building codes (such as the attic, obviously, which falls below the combined ceiling height and square footage requirements). That really just leaves Orla unaccounted for but I'll get to that later. Other aunts and friends seem to visit during the day and live somewhere else, because in The Raven King only Jimi and Orla were described as needing to move out of the house during the demon stuff.
I designed the entire interior floorplan before I even touched the exterior, so there's a few issues, like how I'm totally missing shutters on the windows that functionally need them most. š«¶ I didn't feel like making the windows smaller to fit them, and I could have added faux-shutters but I think those are stupid. š
First floor
"This house is lovely. So many walls. So, so many walls," Malory said as Blue entered the living room a little later.
- Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Chapter 30
Right off the bat, we have an insane number of doors and walls. Old colonial houses are pretty much the opposite of open concept. Functionally I believe that's because it's easier to control heat with closed off rooms, but Virginia is not particularly cold so idk. As for the number of doors, I mean....š¤š¤š¤ I prefer archways/doorless frames in small high-traffic spaces, but every time I thought I could get away with it Maggie would specifically describe doors opening and closing (For example BL,LB Ch 41 gives the reading room double doors, and even the living room gets one in Ch 11. What kind of living room needs a door???). I'm actually missing one of the doorways described in canon, but if you know which one I'm talking about I DARE you to find a place to put that thing!! But I digress.
āMom," she said as she jumped down the crooked stairs.
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 3
I'm liberally using "crooked" to establish the corner turn stairs. Blue steadies herself on the stair railing when she identifies Gansey for the first time (TRB Ch 15), so I wanted the stairs to have good visual access to visitors. It also sort of has a feng shui-ish effect of separating the public and private energy zones in the house. If that statement made zero sense, I think one of us doesn't know enough about feng shui š and it might be me.
I'm also using that quote to establish Maura's room downstairs, if Blue generally expects to find her mother there, but mostly because everything else was upstairs and it was getting hard to fit. Granted, at one point Blue leads the boys "up the stairs to Maura's bedroom" (TDT Epilogue) but since they were just arriving at 300 Fox Way those stairs could easily be the outdoor ones. There's a handful of little things to support me here, such as Adam grabbing a scrying bowl from Maura's room to use in the reading room (BL,LB Ch 41) implying that her room was the closest place to find one. And speaking of Maura's room-
Calla was overwhelmed by how much shit Maura had in her room at 300 Fox Way, and she told Blue this.
... The mess was taking years from her life. ... Maura liked chaos.
... The psychic hotline rang in the room next door. Calla's concentration fluttered away.
- Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Prologue
Maura is my favorite hypocrite. She claims to detest clutter (TRB Ch 34) and yet her room is literally described as chaos. She probably treats her room like a college student and moves the furniture every time she gets bored/stressed. Thus, I gave her the most insane furniture configuration I could think of while still matching all the contents described.
The phone ringing next door might imply that she neighbors the phone/sewing/cat room, but that area is pretty well described and Maura's room is never mentioned there in any other instance. That leaves us with the kitchen phone (TRB Ch 27) which I put in the hallway with kitchen access as a compromise so it would technically still be in a room next to Maura's.
In the reading room, the man looked around with clinical interest. His gaze passed over the candles, the potted plants, the incense burners, the elaborate dining room chandelier, the rustic table that dominated the room, the lace curtains, and finally landed on a framed photograph of Steve Martin.
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 13
There are so many quotes about the reading room that I just don't feel like citing them, but other details include the mismatched chairs, the shelves, doors etc. It's also described specifically as Maura's "front room" (TRB Prologue) so it's one of the cornerstones that I designed the rest of the layout around. Because of the plants, it makes sense that this room would be south-facing too. (Although idk how much light they get with the wraparound porch awning in the way. Oops lol!)
The outside suddenly seemed vivid in comparison to the dim kitchen. The April-bright trees pressed against the windows of the breakfast area, ...
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 3
Blue Stormed into 300 Fox Way's kitchen and began a one-sided interrogation with Artemus, who was still hidden behind the closed storage closet door.
- The Raven King, Chapter 9
Likewise, I'm using the particularly dim kitchen to place it on the north side, where we also know there's trees in the backyard.
I'll say the kitchen layout is weirder than it strictly needed to be because in the Virginia homes I referenced I adored all the strange kitchens, especially with old timey 'servants area' vibes where laundry kitchen and pantry are all connected. Instead of a kitchen island, they get one of those rolling kitchen carts which I doubled as a bar cart for the drinks they have in the living room.
The kitchen has a doorway to the hall (TRB Ch 13) and the living room is within view when Blue's on the kitchen phone (Ch 27).
Speaking of chapter 27, that's when we get the description "The morning light through the windows turned the drinks a brilliant, translucent yellow." So I put the living room on the east side of the house, where the rising sun would cast really strong light like that.
Second Floor
When she woke up, her normally morning-bright room had the breath-held dimness of afternoon. In the next room over, Orla was talking to either her boyfriend or to one of the psychic hotline callers.
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 3
Blue headed toward the red-painted door at the end of the hall. On her way, she had to pass the frenzy of activity in the Phone/Sewing/Cat Room and the furious battle for the bathroom. The room behind the red door belonged to Persephone, ...
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 11
Blue's room and the Phone/Sewing/Cat room are our cornerstones for this floor. In several examples we know that the Phone/Sewing/Cat room faces the street and has a window (TRB Ch 15, BL,LB Ch 4). While Blue's room is "morning-bright," we also get descriptions of guests at the front door "backlit by the evening sun," (TRB Ch 15) so once again we're probably talking about south windows if it's sunlit at both times of day.
Adam sat awkwardly on the edge of Blue's bed. It felt strange to have so easily gained access to a girl's bed- room. If you knew Blue at all, the room was unsurprising - canvas silhouettes of trees stuck to the walls, leaves hanging in chains from the ceiling fan, a bird with a talk bubble reading WORMS FOR ALL painted above a shelf cluttered with buttons and about nine different pairs of scissors. Against the wall, Blue self-consciously taped up the drooping branch on one of the trees.
- The Dream Thieves, Chapter 49
We get some great descriptions of Blue's room (especially TRB Ch 43), although the above one is my favorite (#wormsforall). Every piece of furniture is accounted for exactly as described except the desk which I added because it seemed practical, and Blue is nothing if not practicalā¢.
Persephone's room is also very well-described, all the way down to the furniture and lighting placement (BL,LB Ch 4 and TRB Ch 11) and it's surprisingly similar to Blue's room, if not a bit smaller. Her room gets strong afternoon sunlight, so I put it on the south too (BL,LB Ch 43).
Calla and Jimi share a room that's also upstairs (TRK Ch 16). Because they are the only two who have to share a room, I have justified that it must be the "master bedroom" (sorry for using that term) and is far bigger than the other bedrooms. I managed to fit two queen beds in there, but some scholars [me] would argue that Jimi and Calla might also share a bed because they are in love. Can you prove me wrong? No, you can't.
As for the bathroom, remember when I mentioned a possible contradiction? Famously, Maura draws the ley line symbol in the steamed up shower door (TRB Ch 1). However, much later we get Maura, Orla, Calla and Jimi all sitting in the bathtub for some kind of ritual (TRK Ch 9). No matter how I picture it, I can't put 4 full grown women in a bathtub together without someone partially sitting on/spilling over the side. But that would be impossible in a combo bath/shower enclosed by glass doors!! Thus, I gave The Bathroom a nice tub and put a small shower in the en suite of Jimi and Calla's room. I know this is a stretch but I don't really care.
Attic
Blue had never been a big fan of the attic, even before Neeve moved in. Numerous slanting roof lines provided dozens of opportunities to hit your head on a sloping ceiling. Unfinished wood floorboards and areas patched with prickly plywood were unfriendly to bare feet. Summer turned the attic into an inferno.
... In one of the narrow dormers, two full-length, footed mirrors faced each other, reflecting mirrored images back and forth at each other in perpetuum.
- The Raven Boys, Chapter 34
Trying to fit the attic access in after everything in the second floor was my biggest challenge, because stairs normally take up a lot of space and you have to be careful about head room. I'm the end, I decided it was one of those fold out attic doors that you have to reach from the ceiling of the hallway. We might get a lot of instances of the attic door being opened (š¤ seriously, Maggie... š¤) but technically a trap door in the ceiling is still a door!
Dormers pretty much cemented the French colonial style for me. And you know the drill by now: a hot room probably means a lot of sun, which means I give it a south facing window!
Mud Room/Cellar/Basement
This cellar has absolutely zero mention in the text, but my justification is based in the architecture. So far we've got a funky old colonial house, built without a garage, lots of walls etc. Especially in a low-income/semi-rural area, it's not crazy to assume that 300 Fox Way was built before most residents had refrigerators (1930s-40s). Besides iceboxes, a major way to keep food fresh was root cellars. Modern renovations for old homes convert these to concrete basements, but that's why the basement is so small and connects to the kitchen.
My headcanon is that Orla originally shared a room. Pick whoever you want: Maura, Blue or Persephone, any of them would easily be such a chaotic roommate that Orla snapped and in a fit of teen girl rage moved herself down to the crummy dark basement. Over time, she made efforts to glamorize it, such as a vintage dressing screen to hide the flood drainage pump. The privacy also allows her to bring boyfriends over, even sneaking them through the mud room.
This is really just my artistic license, but I swear it makes a surprising amount of sense in context. There's cases of Orla sneaking into the kitchen (easier if she has a back entrance) and she's almost always using the phone upstairs or in the kitchen (because a basement would get bad reception) even though her calls get kinda ~intimate.
Aaaaaand I think that's everything. Sorry it doesn't look like the photo from the wiki at all, but I couldn't find a source for it and Victorian style wasn't super common in the areas I researched. Let me know if I missed anything major! I'll probably cry myself to sleep if so.
I long to write an essay about why Lucy Gray in the book is the perfect example of how the male gaze can make a woman into an object. And how the movie turns her into a real person - because you canāt make a movie through Snowās eyes if you want it to tell the truth.
I stand by the idea that Ezra Bridger is Anakin if Anakin had a supportive family, a master who didnāt hold him at armās length, and an outlet to talk about his feelings. In this essay I will
Thoughts about jonmartin from a future therapist (in grad school)
Half of you are going to hate me and half are going to love me for this, but I need to say it: jonmartin is toxic. Yes, even S5 jonmartin.
Donāt get me wrong, I love the ship as much as the next person, but looking at it from a therapeutic standpoint is so hard not to do (for me lol). Iāll explain:
Jon and Martinās bond is 100% trauma-based.
In reality, this can go okay if the trauma bond moves from shared traumatic experiences to things the couple actually has in common. But Jon and Martin never have a chance to get their relationship out of the survival stage.
This too might have been acceptable if we hadnāt seen what their relationship was like before the trauma bond. Jon hated Martin, and not just out of a misunderstanding - he fundamentally disliked Martin because of who they both were as people.
Jon only started to like Martin after he was socially isolated from his peers.
As much as Iād like to believe otherwise, this looks to me like a survival technique. Every single person in Jonās life hated him - except for Martin. Itās only human for Jon to latch onto the one person who wasnāt actively hostile towards him on a daily basis.
His dislike of Martinās personality didnāt go away, as evidenced by his sniping at Martinās quirks in S5. He suppressed it so as to cling to the one person who didnāt hate him.
Martin has no boundaries or self-respect.
Martinās self-esteem is extremely low. Understandable, due to the castās behavior towards him throughout the whole podcast. His crush on Jon - despite Jonās open dislike of him is S1&2 - never wavers.
When Jon commits crimes such as stalking his coworkers in S2, Martin is the only one who stands by him. This is the textbook recipe for an abusive relationship: one person does bad things and the other person is blind to it because they donāt believe they deserve or can have better.
This pattern continues even in S5. Martin does 95% of the communication, often forcing it onto Jon in a variety of ways: arguing, cajoling, wheedling. In a good relationship, Jon would meet Martin halfway, but he doesnāt.
If things are this bad in the height of the trauma, what happens after?
If Jon and Martin had survived after S5, my prediction for their relationship would be this:
Jon would come down from survival mode and fairly quickly realize that he is still annoyed by his and Martinās fundamental differences. He would become snappish and completely closed off, like he was in S1.
Martin, still unable to see that he deserves better treatment, would cling tighter to Jon the more Jon tries to push him away.
After that, itās more up to conjecture than anything else, but I donāt think they would fall apart right away. Rather, they would continue this cycle of Jon retreating and Martinās forced communication until one or both of them has had enough.
In conclusion, I love them both. And I love watching their dynamic, Iām still a huge fan. I just think they need so, so much therapy. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk āļø
hi, before i say anything i do not mean to be agressive, i just love their dynamic and i am excited to talk in depth about the complexicity of it! so please don't take anything i say personally or as an attack on your stance, i just want to have some civil fandom discussion :) i went off on a tangent so sorry for the long post
i dislike this take a bit because it acknowledges something that's obvious but refuses to acknowledge how complex their relationship actually is? yes their dynamic isn't perfectly healthy but it was never going to be that way because their situation doesn't leave place for a perfect relationship. the world literally ended - this isn't comparable to anything a person could ever go through irl.
their bond didn't form in a particularly healthy way because of the circumstances, but i do not understand why you say he doesn't like martin in later seasons - the more obvious reason for jon being snappish is the fact that his actions killed the entire world and feels responsible, considering questions about the new world are the things he snaps about. i also don't understand how his reason for hating martin is martin as a person? at the beggining it's heavily implied he hates martin because he's an incopetent employee, which leads him to believe he is incompetent as a person, but this is untrue.
let's look at how they got to know each other; obviously not under the best circumstances, but that's a given.
jon, during early season 2, doesn't let himself trust anyone. hovewer, his hatred of martin isn't unwavering here as you described - this is the moment his opinion of martin changes. we know he and martin spent time together regularly, considering we know martin dragged jon out for lunch. i would risk saying they get to know each other pretty well because of this, as aside from fear-induced recorder rambling jon seems to act civil with martin. jon changes his opinion of martin fundamentally, discovering the reason he disliked martin to be untrue (martin isn't an incompetent person at all, just not qualified for his job, which is different). the initial discovery leads to paranoia for some time, but it's because of jon's own poor mental state. after the reveal of martin's cv and then learning his coworkers didn't murder gertrude, he tries to be civil to everyone else - including martin. he also gets better when it comes to his treatment of them.
during this season, we can also see the things you mentioned about martin, such as his blindness to jon's awful behavior. while this isn't totally untrue, i think it's more complicated than martin having a crush. he defends jon to tim, who's reasonably angry, but he does call out jon on his behavior - not only during the intervention, but also directly to jon in conversation and urges him to speak to tim. he doesn't believe jon can do no wrong in this scenario - he believes jon deserves to be forgiven for how he acted considering the circumstances. normally, this is probably questionable, and i can't say martin's very easy forgiveness doesn't come from years of being treated poorly by somebody he loves - it's definitely part of the problem - but i think it's a grey area considering martin personally went through the encounter with jane prentiss and can relate to jon's paranoia personally.
at the point he says he thinks jon was framed for murdering sasha and leitner in s3, he has a lot more reasons to suspect jon isn't the culprit aside from his personal feelings and acknowledges it to basira. i'm not saying this is healthy and that his opinions aren't influenced by his crush at all, because that would be untrue, but i think that's not all there is to it and context is important here - it's not like he's wrong, anyhow.
jon also doesn't latch onto martin during season 3, he cuts himself off from all of his friends (archives crew+georgie), believing the further he goes into the investigation, the further he will trap them - something he hates and feels guilty for, so he keeps his distance. he's moving out of georgie's when she makes him promise to reach out to others; and after he returns from getting kidnapped by nikola, he reaches out to martin under georgie's advice. i believe this isn't jon naturally clinging onto the closest person who doesn't despise him, as basira at that point doesn't particularly hate him either, he has no reason to dislike martin anymore, and reaching out didn't come naturally - he did it because he was taking georgie's advice. he shows concern for all the assistants as well as for martin specifically. when he returns from america, he manages to be civil with melanie and basira, too - melanie is definitely snappish but she doesn't out-right hate jon by then. martin is naturally a very caring person, and jon seems to find a little respite in martin's effort at a casual conversation, and overall treats him much much better than he started out - taking martin's word and plans into consideration, openly trusting him, caring for his well-being. that first impression is gone and irrelavant now, that's clear.
in season 4, the things you said about martin really come to light; he distances himself to keep others safe and because of his low self esteem, the grief he's going through and past parental neglect it comes so easy. that's when jon latches onto martin, trying to not let him go; but it's not because martin is the only one nice to him - martin isn't nice to jon during this at all. jon cares about martin, has seen him for the kind and caring person he is, and wants to save him - but at the same time, he trusts martin and refuses to go back to how he was before, even if it means he can't keep him close. that doesn't mean he's not concerned, though - when he finds a way to get out, martin is the first person he tells. martin doesn't react well, but jon never stops trusting him, even at the end, where he finds out peter is leading martin to the panopticon - he has doubts whether the tape informing him is beneficial to whatever martin is planning.
but he goes down, and leads him out of the lonely. i don't think, if he actually disliked martin as a person, he would be able to do that.
martin is a character who gives away parts of himself to help others - something steeming from his childhood. it's decades deep trauma. this is where he learns that even though he has good intentions, 'being understanding' can't come above his own life and self image. this is where he learns that if he gives in and harms himself to help others, if he isolates himself, he won't actually help anything at all - like georgie said to jon earlier in season 3. what they both need is an anchor, not a sacrifice. it's jon who makes him realise this.
in season 5, because of martin learning he can't use himself as a fire to keep others warm, he consistently calls out jon when he refuses to communicate. while jon often doesn't react kindly to questions about the change, i would like to reiterate my stance that he's that way because of the world literally ending, and does at least try to communicate upon being called out for being uncooperative.
during the course of this podcast they didn't only change their opinions about each other; they changed as people. jon, upon having the chance to heal, wouldn't instantly revert to the pricklish person he was before, and martin wouldn't suddenly go back to giving pieces of himself away and keeping isolated. even though what they went through is literally incomprehensible, they are still trying their best to make the most out of their relationship. they are doing their best to be good for each other during the literal apocalypse. of course they aren't healthy - they are deeply traumatised people who have their own problems that clash sometimes, especially under high stress situations. but i don't like to think their relationship is toxic. i think it's false, post season 5, to claim that being together would make them worse, when they're trying to uplift each other's hopes and call out each other's flaws, while doing their best to remain kind and understanding.
yes they have lots of therapy to go through. but as long as they have that chance to really heal, they would make it work.
Wow, thatās an amazing analysis! I enjoyed reading it, and you have some great points that I didnāt think about. I admit, I havenāt listened to TMA in a bit - Iām following along with Protocol at the moment, so I was inspired to make this from what I remembered.
I like to think that with a lot of therapy, theyād be able to make it work and become better people together, like you said! But Jon and Martin arenāt exactly best case scenario people. Personally, I canāt get past their communication issues. Theyāve never had good communication (because of Jon) and I donāt think he would be able to fix that in this post-S5 survival fantasy.
Trauma can cause people to do many different things - like closing off from those around them. Based on how Jonās default is to close himself off (as weāve seen over the seasons), Iām making an educated guess that he would revert to that. Itās possible he would open up more with some therapy, but I donāt think he would, and hereās why:
I donāt think Jon respects Martin. And I know youāve refuted that, but I disagree with that aspect of your argument. In S5, heās:
constantly leaving Martin out of major decisions
withholding information despite Martinās repeated requests that he be allowed to know whatās going on
mentioning that heās not a poetry guy despite Martinās love of it (less about him not liking poetry and more about him refusing to share Martinās interest and looking down on it)
dismissing Martinās opinions about various people or tasks
Iām sure thereās more, but thatās what I could remember off the top of my head. Yes, the argument can be made that these things happened due to Jon being the Architect and the strain of knowing literally everything. But this behavior isnāt limited to S5. He has always done this to Martin, from the very beginning.
Jon may be kinder and more willing to work on his relationship with Martin as the seasons go on, but ultimately I think it still suffers from the same problems it always has. After S5, Jon would still be fundamentally himself.
My opinion is changed on Martin, though. Iād forgotten that he didnāt approve of Jonās misdemeanors, and I think youāre right that he would willing to stand up for whatās right against Jon.
Post-S5, Martin would probably push Jon to go to therapy - or Jon might even go himself in an attempt to change. In the event that Jon actually begins to respect Martin, the relationship would become healthy.
But respect is hard to give if not given in the first place, because it means changing fundamental views that the giver holds true in their psyche. It would be a long and grueling process for Jon. If Martin is able to gain self-worth in therapy, he might not be willing to stick around to help Jon gain that respect.
Iād like to add one more thing: Jonās final decision, taking over the Eye after Martin expressly forbids him not to, is to me a culmination of the toxicity of their relationship.
Jon knew Martin, and he knew Martin would likely not leave him to go into danger alone. Itās possible he willfully suppressed this knowledge because he wanted to sacrifice himself so badly, so he pretended everything would go to plan.
Itās my opinion that Jon knew about the bomb being set off. He may not have Known, since both the inside of the tower and his friends were a blind spot, but he knew Melanie and Georgie. He knew they wouldnāt take any chances. I think he wanted to die, and this is supported by things he said in all the seasons.
If he went to die, and simultaneously knew Martin would follow him in with the intent never to leave him, we have to conclude that Jon let Martin die for him, for no other reason than that he himself wanted to die so badly that he didnāt care if Martin went with him.
This is pretty grim, and I understand if you think differently - we definitely seem to have different opinions on Jonās psyche. But I appreciate you taking the time to debate with me!
Thoughts about jonmartin from a future therapist (in grad school)
Half of you are going to hate me and half are going to love me for this, but I need to say it: jonmartin is toxic. Yes, even S5 jonmartin.
Donāt get me wrong, I love the ship as much as the next person, but looking at it from a therapeutic standpoint is so hard not to do (for me lol). Iāll explain:
Jon and Martinās bond is 100% trauma-based.
In reality, this can go okay if the trauma bond moves from shared traumatic experiences to things the couple actually has in common. But Jon and Martin never have a chance to get their relationship out of the survival stage.
This too might have been acceptable if we hadnāt seen what their relationship was like before the trauma bond. Jon hated Martin, and not just out of a misunderstanding - he fundamentally disliked Martin because of who they both were as people.
Jon only started to like Martin after he was socially isolated from his peers.
As much as Iād like to believe otherwise, this looks to me like a survival technique. Every single person in Jonās life hated him - except for Martin. Itās only human for Jon to latch onto the one person who wasnāt actively hostile towards him on a daily basis.
His dislike of Martinās personality didnāt go away, as evidenced by his sniping at Martinās quirks in S5. He suppressed it so as to cling to the one person who didnāt hate him.
Martin has no boundaries or self-respect.
Martinās self-esteem is extremely low. Understandable, due to the castās behavior towards him throughout the whole podcast. His crush on Jon - despite Jonās open dislike of him is S1&2 - never wavers.
When Jon commits crimes such as stalking his coworkers in S2, Martin is the only one who stands by him. This is the textbook recipe for an abusive relationship: one person does bad things and the other person is blind to it because they donāt believe they deserve or can have better.
This pattern continues even in S5. Martin does 95% of the communication, often forcing it onto Jon in a variety of ways: arguing, cajoling, wheedling. In a good relationship, Jon would meet Martin halfway, but he doesnāt.
If things are this bad in the height of the trauma, what happens after?
If Jon and Martin had survived after S5, my prediction for their relationship would be this:
Jon would come down from survival mode and fairly quickly realize that he is still annoyed by his and Martinās fundamental differences. He would become snappish and completely closed off, like he was in S1.
Martin, still unable to see that he deserves better treatment, would cling tighter to Jon the more Jon tries to push him away.
After that, itās more up to conjecture than anything else, but I donāt think they would fall apart right away. Rather, they would continue this cycle of Jon retreating and Martinās forced communication until one or both of them has had enough.
In conclusion, I love them both. And I love watching their dynamic, Iām still a huge fan. I just think they need so, so much therapy. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk āļø
Nesta causes debates every time she moves a muscle. Even saved a planet and yāall are still seeing red. Iāve truly never seen an It Girl quite like her
Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980's. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay
Okay but imagine if all this sex happened between breeding pairs. Florida would not exist due to the alligator threat. The world would be overrun with alligators. They would be the new apex predator. If God hadnāt made alligators gay, we would be drowning in the consequences of straightness being the āonly natural sexualityā
Everyone always talks about how bad the āher moans of pleasure drowned out the moans of the dyingā scene is, but no one ever mentions the scene where Feyre and Rhys have foreplay in a library full of extremely traumatized women who live there specifically because they donāt want to be exposed to that sort of thing
Getting into the Magnus Archives fandom before you finish the series is wild because theyāve all made a collective decision to pretend the cast loves each other and itās all just an office drama, supported by copious fanfic and fanart and things. And then you get to the actual content and itās like,, most of them genuinely hate each other. Not even in a cute way, they genuinely want each other to die
XO Kitty is such an interesting show because on the one hand, I could not care less about the main boring cardboard boy sheās paired with for most of the show. On the other hand, I somehow ship Kitty with two side characters equally despite the fact that I hate love triangles with a passion
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