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Magneto is so OP they had to make him in love with Charles to nerf him

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Something I find so absolutely fascinating in Lockwood and Co. is the way in which the text reminds you you're reading about children - the kids live in this world where necessity has forced them to function as adults for most of their lives, but rather than just allowing them to have taken on these adult positions we see them be so silly and sweet. They all have an obnoxious sweet tooth, Lockwood has a bin of costumes and seems to use them wholly unnecessarily and dramatically. He does stupid accents. Hes literally just playing dress up. They're just babies 🥺

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visible on the fridge in Portland Row throughout the first half of the Creeping Shadow

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people will tell you all sorts of things about the long game but I'm the only one who will tell you that about a third of the way through the book, Shane reluctantly tells Ilya about a sex dream he had, but very genuinely appears to be embarrassed only by the fact that the dream sex was impractical. And he makes sure Ilya knows that he knows that.

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I'm fully obsessed with how willing some people are to take things at face value. I did some reading to find out the best star trek TOS novels and on so many of them (interestingly enough it's usually for the ones written by women, but I digress), people leave bad reviews specifically with the same complaint, time and again. "Spock is too emotional in this. Spock is purely logical you can't write him with emotions like this." And every time i read that complaint i am fully fucking flummoxed, because of COURSE Spock is emotional, what the hell are these people talking about. Spock is shown over and over again in the show to be a deeply emotional person. This is something he vehemently denies, granted, but it is obviously intended to be clear to the viewer that he is LYING when he denies having emotions. Jim and Bones have very specific Looks reserved for when he tells this lie.

There is a very specific reason Spock tells that particular lie, of course. A pretty emotion-based one at that. Spock has a very complicated relationship with his parents and with his human versus his Vulcan culture. Growing up on Vulcan of course Spock wanted to be less human, and be more like his peers. But the fact is that even Vulcans are not naturally emotionless/logical, and they actually have very specific historical reasons for so deeply valuing logic over emotion. So it is absolutely baffling to me to see people just take what Spock tells us about himself entirely as truth. Spock is a bitch and a liar (affectionate) and he is so deeply human in so many ways. That's why people enjoy his character in the first place, imo.

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Literally any interaction between locklyle could be followed up with Lucy narrating "which could mean nothing" and it would be entirely in character and not out of place

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Sign stuck to the fridge at Portland row

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Lia's TLG hot takes and general thoughts:

The favourite son line is so clearly a joke i thought y'all were talking about a different scene until i finished the book

Shane is literally just fucking normal style autism and people act like hes the devil for ? Not picking up on the feelings Ilya specifically does not want to share with him yet?

Actually mind you shane DOES pick up on it? Like very early on tells ilya hes worried and that maybe he could try therapy and hes there if ilya needs to talk.

The audiobook for this one is ten billion times better than for hr. The womens voices dont make me want to tear my hair out

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