#chubs meriwether

[viviyapsaboutlife]

I don’t think we talk enough about the Caledonia breakout…

[faeosna]

Why did i not know the tdm books were set in 2026-27...what do you mean i was born the same year as Clancy freaking grey... and that would mean that ruby would have escaped Thurmond this month im pretty sure

[loverblaze]

chubs meriwether is the realest character ever actually

[miraclemoony]

i remember reading the first book and instantly thinking ruby and chubs are gonna become best friends

so ofcourse i didn’t cry when chubs & zu visited ruby & liam in tdl, and even tho he didn’t greet liam he hugged ruby very tightly and long

[girlwiththeblush]

vidachubs glasses scene you will forever be famous

[in-an-hour-sunflower3285]

Chubs: I hate to say ‘I told you so’-

Liam: No, you don’t. You would marry ‘I told you so’ and have a baby with it and buy adjoining burial plots.

[nostalgicfortomorrow]

Why I love TDM so much

I love The Darkest Minds so fucking much. It's about found family. It's about trust and friendship. AND IT CREATES SOME OF THE BEST CHARACTERS I'VE EVER READ.

So obviously the setting. I like how much effort Alexandra Bracken puts into designing a world that I could definately foresee myself in a couple of years, especially with the rise of GMO food (agent ambrosia) and how it dives deeper into corruption and how a government works being that it never truly will care about it's people unlike many other dystopians I've read. I hated Shatter me (sue me, sure.) despite how similar it is to TDM because I didn't get a strong grasp of character and setting and it was mostly romance rather than an exploration of setting and our world.

Moving forward I LOVE THE CHARACTERS! They're realistic and lovable and flaw...ful? Whatever. The characters have a realistic representation of trauma in all its forms, and many of the characters have real feelings and you can really understand and love them. In many YA books I feel like the main hero doesn't really have much personality, but seeing the world from Ruby's eyes is a breath of fresh air. She's not bratty, but she's not perfect either which are the two swings in YA. She constantly feels guilt, and feels real just like if you and I were in the book together, we'd understand what Ruby is going through. And Liam who on the surface is the perfect dude but really, he's trying to deal with his trauma and guilt while simultaneously trying to keep an unhealthy, perfect facade to keep the rest of the group motivated. He has to live with the guilt of Caledonia and Cole as well as the childrens league and he learns to stop putting out a facade and just truly process his emotions. And Chubsie? My stubborn arrogant loveable grumpy bean. He's stuck with Zu and Liam for ages and now theres a total newcomer who may or may not be a threat. How would he feel? He learns to adapt and becomes bestiessss with Ruby which is extremely wholesome. And Zu. She's so sassy, and amazing, and a queen and yet she's also dealing with trauma by voluntarily going into silence because she doesn't have words to deal with her pain. She learns to speak up and become a force for good. I'd go into Vida, but I don't think I have enough time.

I love the found family. The different groups which become like family to each other. The Original Black Betty gang consisting of liam, ruby, chubs and zu. The never fade childrens league gang which consists of nico vida ruby and jude and maybe cole. And the final new black betty gang which basically pulls Vida into the family. the beyond the night gang with sam, mia and lucas. The darkest legacy gang with priya roman zu max and mayyyyyyybe even lana if she recovers. They are all family and as ruby states family is not the place but the people you are with and these characters make each other comfortable and happy and together and just adopt random children along the way in the case of the darkest legacy gang. Lets call them the psion ring gang. I just love the found family thing that this book series creates for us.

[thedarkestcrew]

Headcanon that Ruby can talk to animals

It's a bit after ITA when Ruby is in some boring meeting

when she sees a squirrel outside the window

and she's so sick of only being in peoples minds

so she's like ' I wonder what it's like to be a squirrel with no thoughts'

then she's like ' wait I COULD know'

chubs is in the meeting with her and he looks over to Ruby staring intently out the window at some random tree and texts Liam that she's going through it again

' Ruby is most definitely having a psychotic breakdown fix it'

Liam walks into a room later that day to see Ruby opening the Window and letting birds fly in because they honestly just want to chat with her

she gives such good advice to birds tbh

he calls her different Disney princesses all the time

' hey Snow White, I love you so very much'

' good morning sleeping beauty'

' Darin there's a mouse downstairs could you tell it to... not be down there anymore'

she went into a spiders mind once and she honestly has a soft spot for them now

like they're just little guys walking around

Nico goes to squash a spider and Ruby gives him ( and the surrounding kiddos) a long lecture about how just because a spider is small doesn't mean it needs to be killed and it deserves kindness as much as anyone

no one will dare kill a bug in fear Ruby will look at them disappointedly or yell at them

Zu has once said ' oh you want to be mean to me? My friend controls SPIDERS, suck on that, bi-'

her parents consistently walk into their house and find raccoons and deer everywhere

" okay I understand the raccoon BUT WHERE DO YOU EVEN FIND DEER IN A CITY"

" that's Tom"