“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.” - Jude Duarte
⋆ 🌷 Me: she/her. ‘08. lovely pisces. gigi grayson with coffee tea addiction. never ending tbr. always a female characters defender. written by stephanie garber. produced by olivia rodrigo.
⋆ 🌷Books: the naturals | pjo | caraval | the cruel prince | the prison healer | ann liang books | ouabh | divine rivals | the lunar chronicles | fourth wing | sjmaas books (critical) | marionetta (webtoon) | school bus graveyard (webtoon)
⋆｡ﾟ☽ I believe in unicorns ☽⋆｡ﾟ
⋆ 🌷Shows: friends | studio ghibli | attack on titan | grey’s anatomy | gravity falls | the owl house | star vs | over the garden wall | mlp | spy × family | stranger things | alice in borderland | all of us are dead | bridgerton | enola holmes
⋆in way too many fandoms (yes, genshin included)
⋆ 🌷Scream about fictional characters with me(they’re usually better than real people)
#prophecy approved ✧⋆ﾟ - my reblogs
#Pythia whispers ꩜｡⋆｡˚ - my yapping about The Naturals
Can someone please give me some feedback because I’m super lost right now?
Long story short, I’m finishing my first year at university, majoring in bioengineering technologies and I really want to drop out because I have absolutely no interest in pursuing this career. (Basically, my father manipulated me into applying for this program in the first place.)
I’m really scared to talk about dropping out because once the topic came up my father as usual became very aggressive in trying to make me continue studying because apparently he sees me as some kind of project and wants to achieve his own goals through me.
Anyway I’ll have to apply to a different program and that will probably take another year, which makes me really upset because it means I’ll be wasting two years. The problem is that I still don’t know exactly what I want to study instead, where I’m going to get the money for it if my dad loses it or whether I should try applying to a university in another country (I kind of have a plan but I’m very unsure about my chances). I’m also completely financially dependent on my father, which makes the whole situation even more complicated loool.
What's orientation called if I'm attracted to men unfortunately but don't actually like them and never have irl because they suck and women are the best people ever but I don't think I've ever been attracted to them😭
( i ) celine should’ve there from the beginning. i hate how jlb only introduced her in the last book. she would’ve been SO entertaining and fun to read about. her natural skill is arguably the most interesting imo
( ii ) everyday i kneel at the foot of my bed weeping over the fact that we couldve gotten a morally gray / complex lacey locke :( i mourn the character she could’ve been. jlb had the opportunity to make locke one of the most interesting characters in jlb history (bonus points if she was written to be a lesbian)
( iii ) more kane darby page time. why did we get nothing. he only had appeared for about 3 seconds yet still managed to be dada of the year like ? i wanted to see him form a bond with cassie & become an actual dad to her unlike cassie’s bio dad
( iv ) this might purely be selfish on my part BUT making the books way longer and detailed. like the way jlb did with tig. i want more physical descriptions and just have more detail about the characters. why do we only have 1 canon birthday im irritated
( v ) the books being scarier and more psychologically horrific. sorry sorry sorry but not really FUCK the amount of stuff we could’ve gotten but didnt
( vi ) this might be a little unpopular but the cases felt a bit too straightforward for me. i wanted them to be more puzzle like with multiple layers & clues that connect in the most bonker of ways!!!! i mean we got a little bit of that yes,,, but not enough for me to really sink my teeth into #sorry
( vii ) seeing the naturals interact with more new people wouldve been very pleasing 2read. idc whether they became friends or rivals or forking enemies, i think it would’ve added some kewl dynamics & made the world feel a little bigger. it felt a little small to me just a teeny tiny bit. i get that they were in the middle of buttfuck quantico but i don’t care jlb could’ve written a few more teens that were in the same neighbourhood or meeting some teens in vegas or like even the frickin mall cassie and dean went to in book 1 like IDK ANYTHING.
( viii ) more descriptions of the big ahh house and the neighbourhood / surrounding area would’ve been nice 🤬. i wanted a much better sense of what their day to day environment looked like. & i still need answers about the other teens in quantico because there’s no way they were the only ones there 😭 i litcherally googled whether teenagers live in quantico and the answer was yes...... so where were they? what happened to them? what’s the excuse now? why why why
( ix ) i also wanted more naturals bonding moments that had nothing to do with a case. they’re teenagers living together and we only got like… 4? 5? fun scenes. i wanted to see them sneak out to a gas station, hang out at a park, go to a party (TOGETHER!!) i just need itttt
( x ) cassie and michael never being a thing & there no love triangle. instead it was cassie and dean and michael and lia from the start. SORRY. the love triangle just didn’t really work for me, & knowing that jlb changed her mind about the endgame after the first book makes some of the relationship development feel a bit inconsistent in hindsight. plus i hated the way lia was just tossed off to the side because michael couldn’t keep it in his pants
( xi ) sloane having a cat and michael having a dog
( xii ) we see more of judd and him disciplining the naturals like a dad 🥲 also wish we saw judd punch someone. like the directer maybe
( xiii ) i want to see full on fight scenes. doesn’t matter the context i just wanna see someone beating the living shit out of someone else. wether it be a terrible situation or a self defence situation
( xiv ) i wish sterling & briggs had felt a lot closer to the naturals on page, because even though we got some things, they still came across as kind of distant from the group (to me). obviously i get that they were being profesh and shi but like 💔 idc ur honor 💔 maybe there was a warmer relationship that existed off page, but we never really got to see it properly, and i would’ve loved more moments like : a mom/dad hug (!!!), banter, pep talks etc etc
( xv ) we get a lot more detail about cassie and dean’s lives back home, to the point where it feels like we know almost everything about them, but i wish we’d had that same depth for the others too. i wanted more insight into lia, sloane, & michaels lives outside the program, because they felt a bit less fully fleshed out in comparison, and getting that would’ve made the group feel even more rounded and complete
( xvi ) sterling and laurel bonding moments like das big sis and lil sis. i get that the book was basically over when we found out ronnie & laurel were related so this can be excused. im still upset about it tho
( xvii ) we know more about scarlett and her hypotheticals 🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🥲🥲🥲🥲
( xviii ) aaron shaw and tori don’t die 💔 and they form a relationship with sloane and all the naturals. i feel so strongly about aaron & tori and we barely got any scenes with themmmmmm :( WDYM THEY BOTH DIE😭😭😭 doomed yuri if it was straight
( xix ) we know more about michael’s mom 😒😒😒😒 where is she dafuq. we know she travels alot and works with docters without boarders but thats it,,, where was she when michael was getting his ass beat? does she even care lmao
( xx ) grayson shaw and thatcher townsend dying brutal deaths
The urge to dye my hair pink is getting stronger every day...
The color would match the vibe of OR3 so perfectly I can't stop imagining it. My hair will probably suffer, but it already has a mind of its own anyway, so I'm just going to accept my fate lol
✧ Some more tig/tgg character variants (also I need your opinion: should I make combined posts with multiple characters or give each character their own post??)
✧ A Fragrantica Memory Archive part 4 + the Naturals as Fragrantica scents
✧ A little fic about Gigi and a burning house 🤭
✧ And of course A LOT of content for the Naturals week
1)Circe and also Set in Stone by Lilith Max (she has such a unique sound)
2) the melody by DAMONA
3)Sweat and lips by Haiden Henderson (you’ve probably heard of him or at least song sweat, I’ve actually noticed that he’s been getting more popular lately, which makes me really happy. I actually discovered him because of Lynn Painter and her book Fake Skating lol)
4) I also want to mention ITZY. Omg how I miss the days when I was deeply into k-pop!! Sometimes it genuinely makes me sad how badly their company wasted the group’s potential. A lot of people stopped hearing about them around 2022, but they still have some amazing songs. My personal favorites are RINGO and Imaginary Friend
5)You probably already know Reneé Rapp, but do you know her song Pretty Girls?
6)Amd if we’re talking about underrated songs from popular albums, I’d definitely mention 1 step forward, 3 steps back by Olivia Rodrigo and Don’t Smile by Sabrina Carpenter.
Is there any particular quote in any JLB book that stood out to you more than the rest?
Actually there are so many great quotes in her books, some of them are poetic, some are genuinely terrifying, but there’s one quote from killer instinct that never leaves my mind and that nobody ever seems to mention:
“-We should have brought bowls.”
“-There’re a lot of things we should have done.”
“The sun was just now setting, but I got the distinct feeling that if I hadn’t been with her, she would have stayed out here all night, two stories off the ground, her feet brushing up against the edge.”
There’s just something about this scene that absolutely destroys me every time.
If you could choose to have one of the Naturals abilities which one would it be? Or if you could make up one of your own that fits into their world, what would it be?
All of these abilities sound really interesting, so it’s hard to choose!! But the more I think about it, the more I realize I probably wouldn’t want to have them, at least not permanently.
Just imagine how much information your brain would have to process, it would get overwhelming so fast. People lie every day and having to constantly notice and process that… or picking up tiny all expressions and basically knowing exactly what someone thinks about you or everything else - that feels more unsettling than helpful. Even being really good with numbers sounds like something that could drive me crazy lol.
But if I could switch it on and off, I think I’d choose something like reading emotions or being a profiler (detecting lies is also cool but it doesn’t really give you full answers, it just tells you that someone is lying without explaining the truth behind it). I think it would be really interesting to know things about people even before actually talking to them. I’d probably end up playing the same game as Cassie, at least it would be entertaining.
Also while trying to come up with new interesting abilities, I remembered a real condition where a person can remember almost everything in incredible detail and mentally revisit past events - hyperthymesia. It also made me think of the show “Unforgettable” omg I never even found out how it ended!!
It honestly sounds like a really cool ability, but at the same time I’m absolutely sure I wouldn’t want it. Remembering every single thing that ever happened to you in perfect detail feels like a burden. I think being able to forget things is just as important as being able to remember them.
