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Mr the Mung Bean, checking out the Children's section of the library. It has a kitchen!
He is certain that he is hearing a suspicious noise... a whispery, squeaky type noise...
Could it be coming from outside this window? Could it be a branch in the wind?
Libraries are full of magic.
Silken Windhound
I didn’t have time to use actual paper and pencils but here is a library mouse I drew on my phone. (Tagging @thegreenleavesofspring. For you, beloved.)
…Digital art is not my thing. XD
Book Eaters
Does Luc loves Addie?
I'll asume that if you clicked on the 'keep reading' button, you've read the book The invisible life of Addie Larue and won't be bothered by spoilers. So here we go: my opinion on wether or not Luc loves Addie *sorry if it's too chaotic, my mind's all over the place again lately*
At some point in the story, Luc and Addie fall in love. Of course they did. They're both basically imortal, he's the only one who remembers her, she's the only one who keeps him company. They talk, they fight, they get to know each other, they bond, they fall in love. Simple as that, right? Well...
Few pages later, Addie suddenly doubts Luc's love for her. She thinks he fakes it to get her to give up her soul. And despite the narrative implying that that's not Luc's intention at all, he only protests meekly.
Now is where opinions gets shared: is there truly more to Luc's story or is Addie right? We know nothing about him. He's sarcastic, inteligent, handsome and powerful. He is like the needed evil in fairytales so the hero/ine can grow and learn and reach the true potential. Not knowing his backstory is hard to sympathize with him. Hard to see him as something more than what Addie sees him as: one eons old bastard whose only drive is collecting souls (why exactly? we don't know).
Therefore, it is hard to think that he genuinly falls in love and doesn't just wait for her to lower her guard. Addie isn't overreacting or jumping to conclusions. She is right to assume.
But the question of Luc's feelings comes even later, when he offers Addie a new deal: herself for Henry's life. Why would he give up the chance to get her soul if that is what he really, really wants? Why accept to lose a soul that's basically already his and can't escape him, Henry's, for the chance to have Addie with him for eternity? Once Henry dies, Addie might be broken enough to finally give in, offering him both of his payments. And even if she'd be motivated by grief and hatred to keep living to spite him, Luc would still be in gain. So why that last deal? It's not something any smart, experienced, eons old villainous god would do. Which is exactly what Luc is. So the answer must be he wanted her more.
However, I don't think it's love. Love isn't selfish or cruel. Love would have pushed him to persuade her before meeting Henry. Try to explain, try to prove himself, show her he's trustworthy. If it was love, Luc would be shown to grafually become more humane. We'd get a reason for why he's doing what he's doing, we'd be allowed to see more of him, understand him, pitty him even. Or the opposite. But he'd be more of a presence than only showing up to rile Addie up, help her achieve her true potential and give us delightful scenes.
In conclusion, I don't think Luc loves Addie. Seeing how little we know of him, he seems to not know what love looks like. He starts to admire her, crave her. And he calls that love. He wants her, he's possesive of her and slighlty jealous, leading to him being eager to accept a deal that's not advatageos for him. But he doesn't love her...
... yet (I still think there's potential for them after the ending, but I know there won't be a second book, so yk, daydreaming).
tag your bookish cryptid, i am INK DRINKER [x]
“Si alguna vez hablaba de los sentimientos más tiernos, lo hacía con mofa y sarcasmo”.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes.
It has been a whole-ass week since I’ve written! Hell yeah got over the bump! 931 tonight, 4,315 total.
Session quote:
It had been the library that had changed things.
Long before the Dracon would change them irrevocably, his library had saved them. Sascha had wandered in, wide-eyed with awe, the fierce surge of joy and wonder since their Embrace shaking free their fear and anger. Here was knowledge, here was information; here was a way to understand the world they had been hurled into.
"Myca Vykos," a voice had murmured, and they had jumped - then jumped again, more violently, when they had caught sight of the creature that had called their name.
She - it - she had been a small, shuffling figure cowled in black, the deep hood not quite hiding what could only be described as a mass of squirming tentacles. Her voice had come from somewhere deep within this melange; Sascha had stared and stared until their sense of protocol forced them to drag their eyes away.
She had chuckled. "Do not fear me. Surely Symeon has told you of fleshcrafting?" she murmured, and gestured to her... what was probably a face. "I am the Keeper, and this is the Library. You are amongst kin, here."
The Keeper of the Faith had, it turned out, been something akin to Sascha's great-aunt. Eldest of the Dracon's childer, broodmate to Sascha's grandsire Gesu, she was the guardian of the Library of the Forgotten, and she had become their closest friend in those tumultuous early years. Not just kin, but kindred spirits, both in desperate love with the written word, with knowledge, with information. She had understood why Sascha had nearly wept upon discovering the preserved and copied treasures from the great Library of Alexandria; she had fed their curiosity and their passions and had nurtured them as they had returned to themself.
Constantinople by Night: "Vykos often works with the Keeper of the Faith and is genuinely interested in scholarship - insomuch as it benefits [them].”
Me: She’s their auntie and fellow nerd and they love her 😤
04.01.2020
We had to remove part of the books from the shelf, so a guy can come and fix the corner behind it. I arrange my books by colour, so we have mangas, next to art books, next to dictionaries, next to novels and poetry. What’s your system for arranging books?
#04of366 #4of366
