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Here's the name of the place Julia goes with Richard to visit (etc) Kira: Peregrine Convalescent Home. I looked up the word peregrine, and it turns out one of its meanings is 'wandering,' and it has its roots in the Latin word for pilgrim. So appropriate for where Julia is at in her story right now!
okay I am predisposed to hate Richard because of the youth pastor vibes and I cannot fuck with that even a little. he never stood a chance with me. but after watching 1x09, like. he actually does suck, right, it's not just me? it's fucked up that he took Julia to kill Kira without talking to her about it? he tells her that she will know what to do by doing whatever is hardest, and that's how you get redemption? like.... no? even *if* that were true, you can teach that in a way that's supportive rather than throwing someone into the deep end like that without giving them the chance to think about what they're doing. just because he's testing her for the sake of becoming a better person or whatever and for learning to use magic to "do good"... doesn't make it okay for him to be testing her like that at all...
Ohhh maybe this was obvious but I just realized that the things Free Trader Beowulf are trying to do line up directly with stuff going on in the Brakebills storyline: curing depression, curing cancer, turning back time, and bringing someone back from the dead.
This is like... Major Mendings, I guess. And I can't help thinking of it in context of Eliot's line last episode, "Thinking you can change anything is such an act of monumental ego." Very interesting that they think a god will even want to fix their problems (or give them the power), even if they manage to summon one!
Well, we know how that's going to turn out for them. But that doesn't make Eliot right either, I mean trying to fix things does require some ego, but not always in the unrealistic/bad way that he's implying. Quentin was pretty unrealistically egotistical when he tried to cure cancer during his first semester. But he was also wrong when he said they can't fix anything that matters!
It really sucks most of FTB don't get to live long enough to grapple further with any of this, it would have been really interesting to see where they would go next.
