#stellarlune

[yourloveisacurse]

tam my beloved

[luvisour]

tbh i don’t think the way everyone acted in stellarlune was out of character. i mean they were a little weird sometimes but i think that (other than the storehouse fire argument) their actions were perfectly normal considering what was going on yk? like these are traumatized 16 year olds we’re talking about so i’d honestly prefer if they reacted realistically instead of still being completely rational and understanding after everything

[queefsencen]

stellarlune core

[oroshka]

Plot twist: the trolls from Stellarlune didn't eat Sandor, he ate them.

[bookishjules]

i haven't been able to stop thinking about how keefe noted that everything is flower-patterned in humanland. and ik sophie explained it away by implying that the hotel he was staying in had it esp bad, but the thing is.. he was totally right. esp from an elven pov. why do we have flowers on everything? why don't the elves? they decorate with stones and jewels, sparkles. things that are immutable, long lasting, things that reflect light. while humans decorate with that which is fleeting, merely a single iteration of a short and ever-changing life, specifically the iteration that actively absorbs light.

however trivial, this difference feels so indicative of all that separates elves and humans in terms of ideology. and it only makes sense considering how long elven lives are, that they wouldn't know to appreciate the cycle of life and death and the beauty to be found at their intersection. on the flip side, you see that because of their truncated existence, humans have grown used to taking. they're hungry because of how little time they have to grow and thrive, whereas elves have an abundance of life and light, so much that the only real solution is to send it back out in a way that should be primarily altruistic, but that has the ability to cause real pain.

[nerdyenoughtounderstand]

I so desperately want a sokeefe imagine/one shot where they're at school or smth hanging out with the whole group or whatever.

but Sophie didn't want to tell everyone immediately so nobody knows except like edaline and grady

and obviously ro

ANYWAYS

so they're like at lunch or smth and everyone's talking and Keefe gets up to throw away his food or something random it doesn't matter

BUT AS HE GETS UP HE KISSES SOPHIE'S HEAD AND EVERYONE JUST STARES

but like neither of them notice

[jeannefostergoriot]

Re-reading Stellarlune before writing the Secret Santa (not all of it)

Oh my GOD the introduction chapter for the Inquisition. First off. They’re so clearly kids oh my god.

Second off “I asked my dad if Cognates can be romantic partners and he said yes”

I’ll take “everyone fucked everyone in those cities and especially Cognates” for one million

[laughter-loving-thalia]

"Yeah, but there have to be other powerful Empaths that are better than that guy [Cassius]. And she [Gisela] picked him knowing she'd have to kiss him." - Ro, Chapter 8, Stellarlune

Riddle me this, Ro. If your main strategy to achieve your goals solely relies on your husband going along willingly to your experiments and not defending your son from your manipulation tactics, would you pick a powerful and well-adjusted Empath who could be a threat to you, or would you pick a powerful but vulnerable Empath who could more easily be manipulated and lied to?

Here are a few more possible reasons why Gisela would've picked Cassius:

Cassius is a numbed Empath. It's suggested in Nightfall that Gisela wanted an Empath son because Vespera was also an Empath. Vespera was infamously numb, and Cassius could have been the closest-to-numbness suitor Gisela could find. Maybe she hoped Keefe would be predisposed to numbness (which seems to be the case).

Cassius has very low self-esteem. Gisela is a master manipulator, and the early signs of Cassius' gigantic self-esteem issues would not have deceived her victim-radar. The two-hundred stories tower? The life-size statue in his office? His insistance on being adressed as "Lord Cassius"? His perfectionistic presentation? He screams "I think I am the worst so I always act like I'm the best" which is just too easy for Gisela.

Cassius looks like her. If you adhere to the Gisela is Living Vicariously theory, Cassius being tall, slender, blonde with pale blue eyes increased the likelihood of Keefe looking just like Gisela. Gisela treats Keefe as her greatest achievement, and she wants people to know she made him this way. If he looked nothing like her, it would have been easier for him to emancipate himself from being Gisela's-legacy-boy, which she wouldn't want to happen.

Cassius may have been the highest ranked Empath on Gisela's list. Who knows, maybe Gisela used the Matchmaking System to her advantage, filing her documents with answers that would point her towards getting as many Empaths recommended as possible, so then she could pick the highest ranked one on the list. Cassius cares enough about status that he would also go with the best possible match available, so I bet Gisela was high on his list too.

Cassius is the most powerful Empath we know. He is only powercrept by his own son who carries his genes and was modified, which suggests that Gisela did not pick any powerful Empath. She picked the strongest she could find.

I swear Ro just keeps proving again and again that she has absolutely zero 'strategic' thinking at all. Between the quote in this post and the one about how Gisela wanting to be underestimated is the silliest thing she's ever heard, you can tell Ro's unable to comprehend that her ways would not get her to survive ten seconds as an evil conspirator.