#sillyguy-supreme

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i see ur reading jane eyre

helen just died :(

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do you think they powder piss and then snort it at the elf club as recreational drugs. do you think they use like. alicorn piss as elf cocaine

my very first thought seeing this was that if alicorn piss is elf cocaine. does this mean elf adhd is treated with alicorn piss, too? there's a non-zero number of foxfire prodigies who tried to party it up in the elite levels snorting piss powder only to discover the ability to write an essay

It's all coming together. Elf piss has beneficial, restorative properties for humans. Of course other animals' piss has a variety of uses. And just like they have not-real wine that doesn't actually get you drunk, they have not-real stimulants that don't actually get you high! It just recreates all the effects of being high 🙂‍↕️

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keefe is so worn leather jackets and dirty sneakers and paint-splattered jeans. but then you look his outfit up and his sneakers come pre-dirtied and are $600. his jeans are also pre-splattered and are like $400. his leather jacket is either pre-worn and $40,000 or it used to belong to fucking. harry styles or whoever and has a sale value of $1mil

*adds this to my "this better be in unraveled or i will riot" list*

how does it feel being the most correct human being on the face of the planet. this is a masterpiece. you are simply objectively correct. bro is like that one girl that comes to school in a messy bun that took like two hours, thirteen minutes, and thirty-seven seconds to put together. come to think of it, that is quite literally what keefe's hair is. he'd spend like so much money on clothes that look like shit and here's the thing. he doesn't even pull off that messy-but-still-cute style. bro just looks a mess, but since he's hot he can pull through with some dignity. also yes, keefe would listen to harry styles <- guy that literally never heard of harry styles until like yesteryear

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ok not to alvar post in your inbox again but liek.

“You want to talk about being left for dead?” Alvar lunged forward, but Sandor and Ro shifted their blades to block him. “ I was left in a pod of orange goo while my brother and sister stood by watching! The same brother who threatened to carve me up with a knife earlier that night! The brother who stopped pressing buttons to try to save me as the pod filled up—did he tell you that? He let the tank fill, waiting for me to drown” (632).

this excerpt makes me want to eat concrete in a good way. we love to talk about fitz stopping pressing buttons, but the way alvar is angry at fitz for stopping isn’t really talked about as much as it could be i think.

i always thought it was so funny because alvar was given the chance to change and come back from what he did throughout flashback. and when his memories came back, he made his choice to turn his back on his family, but he’s mad when said family turns their back on him in return. but i rlly wanted to hear your thoughts on this because you’re one of the most ardent buttonsposters on this site

this is FASCINATING. Okay, so. Looking at Alvar's familial feelings, a lot of his hatred is centered on his parents. He felt drowned in unrealistic expectations he could never live up to as the only Vacker kid, and saw Fitz as a replacement, his parents saying he'd never be good enough. Whether this is true isn't really relevant, as it's how he took it

Fitz ends up in a weird cross section here where he hasn't actually done anything to Alvar but exist. Alvar hates Fitz for replacing him, but it was their parents that chose to have him. Everything Alvar hates about Fitz is a manifestation of his resentment for Alden and Della.

Fitz is the perfect golden boy. A telepath like their father, the youngest to naturally manifest at that. Replaced Alvar in looking for Sophie--actually found her when Alvar passed her by. Fitz enrages Alvar for being everything he thinks their parents wanted that he wasn't

But Fitz doesn't have to be. I think that's key. Fitz could throw it all away, stop being perfect, drown under the pressure like Alvar did, and join him. And I think Alvar wants him to. Then he wouldn't be replaced, and instead Fitz could serve as evidence of how horrible their parents were. If Fitz breaks, too, then the problem wasn't with Alvar

And yet he isn't. FItz is choosing, again and again, his family. His parents. To be on the opposite side. Which means he's now making an active choice to become the replacement he inadvertently always was, proving the problem's with Alvar. Which means Alvar can hate him for being himself now. He's just like them, and he's turning their sister, too. The little sister who was the most likely to get him--so when she doesn't? They're blinded, representing everything wrong with their world. The expectations, the indoctrination of the next generations, everything

Alvar is desperate to be the one hurting. He grew up incredibly privileged and only talks of the burden it was. Keefe said Umber was left for dead and he immediately lashes back with this quote, talking about how he's been hurt just as much if not more because he got gooed. And not only that, his family gooed him.

Which reveals he does value family to an extent. If it's worse to be hurt by your siblings, it's because they matter more. Again, everything Alvar hates is centered on their parents. Fitz and Biana were supposed to choose him, to see his pain and understand him, leave their parents behind. They're siblings, even if they're bratty and naive.

We see that in the repetition of brother before each point; he's highlighting the connection they should've had--and blaming its dissolution on Fitz. A little on Biana, but mostly on Fitz, as Fitz was the replacement and the spark to the fuel of Alvar's suffering. The last straw. He's furious. And frames everything as if its unbelievable.

Which implies, potentially, that he wouldn't do the same. That he wouldn't take a knife to his sister, or watch his brother drown. That for all his talk, he sees them as different from their parents and that they matter, deep down.

I think Alvar is desperate to have his pain acknowledged, to be seen and understood, which is a valid desire. But he has blown it entirely out of proportion in his quest to be seen--and his siblings were his main hope. Who better to understand what being a Vacker kid did to him than the other Vacker kids? But because of that blowing it out of proportion, even though they're all Vacker kids, they can't understand. Because Alvar's reaction is illogical. He's in the wrong, and he refuses to understand or realize that because there's kernels of validity to his feelings.

so he's simultaneously furious at Fitz for replacing him, being everything he wasn't, and not choosing him, and desperate to be seen and acknowledged and understood by him and Biana.

basically Alvar's a clusterfuck of complications of a man

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finished nona the ninth

FOR!! REAL!! So much happens in that book, especially at the end, and I cannot and will not ever get over it.

Paul??? Go loud?? You can't take loved away?? Get in line thou big slut?? Gideon being the saddest person Nona's ever seen? Stabbing Jod and he's just like ah, you're awake???

And I'm absolutely certain there's a lot that I'm missing, too. These are books meant to be reread, and I haven't gotten to that yet. So part of finishing it is being aware there were things that didn't make sense that now would, and knowing just how much there is left to uncover.

Isn't literature fantastic?? Don't you adore storytelling and the art of words? Isn't it incredible what people can do, and how long we've been telling stories?? Don't you want to drown in them forever and for always???

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read your keefe rant!! i disagree with some of it because a lot of it boils down to “i found him cringe and annoying” which. true, bjt it’s not a crime. but overall, i never really realized how prone he was to jealousy, or how he doesn’t really have developed interpersonal relationships outside of sophie so thank you for opening my eyes

hello, hello! thanks for reading the rant. it means a lot to me when people say they actually had the patience to get through it all, lol. i can't thank everyone in my reblogs because that would be weird, so. here it is, instead.

it is true that a character being cringe and annoying is not a crime, but for me personally it significantly reduces how much i'll enjoy the story, especially when the character is as prominent in the series as keefe is in kotlc. in my personal subjective opinion, writing a cringe, annoying character is the second worst writing sin, right after long info-dumps that add nothing of value to the story.

you're welcome! i think a lot of people don't really realize a lot of the smaller negative things about keefe. as i've said, this is mostly because the narrative just brushes over the things he does after casually dropping the fact that he did them. it's treated as a completely normal thing for keefe, because he's keefe, of course he's like that! that's just the way he is! so you really have to slow down and examine some things because the narrative sort of spoonfeeds you what it wants you to see.

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here to add to the htbd propaganda: there’s like a whole bit about the dirt man.

I am on episode 4! I have no clue who or what the dirt man is, but I'll keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man. in case he comes to town. keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt man. so he won't take me down. to his lair! deep under the mountain. underground. that's where he keeps his dirt.

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hello quil your dedication to reading silly books has inspired me to find a digital copy of modelland by tyra banks

YES, HAHA, YES! I'm so glad I can inspire people in these important ways. I will die on the hill that a healthy book diet also includes bizarre and strange and ludicrously ridiculous books you can't believe were ever written <3

I hope you have fun! I would love to hear all about it if you ever want to share :)