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@the-way-astray
stria sixteen, she/her. i switch between hating on keefe and loving on aldella. header by @crescentpaws (thank you max) and pfp by @sunflowers-and-scales (eating your art)
i follow and ask from @fix-me-sixteen. my official (fake) birthday is 04/04/04 at 4 am.
some random stuff:
anything not kotlc-related will be tagged #not cawtulk, so it doesn't end up in the main tag. so if you don't want to see any not-kotlc-related posts from me (which there are very few of, i'll just say, this is very much a kotlc blog), that's probably a tag you'd wanna block or something
feel free to shoot me a dm about literally anything, ever, at any time, ever (dms to the main are fine, too). you don't have to follow me or be mutuals or anything. i'm open to being friends with people i don't follow or who don't follow me. just don't be a rancid bigot and we're good :)
there's definitely more to say. updates coming soon or something
posts that i want to be able to find on short notice (honestly this is more for me than anyone else) (i update this frequently):
anti-keefe long posts:
keefe rant part one (keeper through unlocked extras)
(ask) excerpt of keefe rant part two (keefe and fitz in the healing center scene) (will take this down once full part two is up) and another excerpt from part two
the infantilization argument (explained properly)
(ask) the extortion argument
a list of things i don't like about keefe (not the point of the post, but whatever)
(response) thoughts on keefe's supposed gray morality and comparison to dex
(response) thoughts on the relationship between keefe's trauma and actions and some sokeefe stuff
(response) a comparison of keefe to sophie, and why i think people let keefe's mistakes go while calling the same things out in sophie
(ask) how i would write sophie rejecting keefe
(ask) sokeefe, from a writing standpoint, reeks of insecurity (plus a fun headcanon) and more thoughts on chapter 42
(ask) i think keefe's arc is incredibly poorly written, to the point where it's practically nonexistent
i ramble about aldella (ship and non ship stuff):
t4t aldella
another t4t aldella, starring their transitions
age gap musings
slightly-toxic!aldella
their strangely idealistic marriage and secrets
(ask) obsessions by marina and the diamonds as an aldella song
(response) debunking some common anti alden arguments
they're scared to be alone
miscellaneous:
(ask) how i would rewrite the series
(ask) ocd!fitz
(ask) why i don't like legacy
(ask) keefe headcanons
(ask) assorted vacker thoughts
(ask) what if sophie and fitz died while keefe and fitz were still not okay?
(ask) extensive sophie thoughts
(ask) why i don't like dex
(response) why i hate the elwin is sophie's biological father theory
gethen is koralie's kid and glimmer is keefe's twin sister theories explained (disproven)
breaking news: tumblr user crescentpaws, whose entire blog is dedicated to repeatedly analyzing and drawing fintan and fintante, has revealed that he doesn't actually know what fintante is
every day i remember that max admitted he doesn’t know what fintante is. such a shame. i’m sure he’d have a lot to say about them . . . if he knew they existed . . .
hello anon! glad we’re going on this wonderful journey together lol. oralina is the ship between oralie and alina and its appeal lies in these ten reasons, at least for me:
it’s not koralie
it’s not koralie
it’s not koralie
it’s not koralie
it presents the two characters involved, oralie and alina, as equally morally dubious and equally lacking in ethics, which subverts the popular narrative that oralie is a “good” councillor and alina is a “bad” councillor. both the presentation of oralie as a “better” councillor and alina as a “worse” councillor are rooted in misogyny and both are also inaccurate to a significant extent, and shipping them implies they are on the same playing field with regards to morality, which, in my opinion, they are
kenric is an asshole toward oralie and not even in a cool, fun way, but instead in a boring, uncool “empaths can’t handle anything let me just not let you do anything and take away your agency too” way, which is thinly veiled misogyny by the narrative seeing as how keefe, a notorious empath, is able to handle things fine apparently. we are supposed to see this as romantic and also enemies to lovers, which it’s not. god i hate koralie. oralie’s entire canon character revolves around this man as if he doesn’t have the personality of a misogynistic piece of wet cardboard, which oralina would fix
it goes against the matchmaking propaganda of “telepaths x empaths forever!!!!” which koralie falls into, therefore pushing the “matchmaking bad!!!!” angle that this story so desperately needs to get back. ew koralie. also it’s wlw which means it just inherently subverts matchmaking (lmfao look at me making a case for this ship as if shannon will actually give it the time of day)
they have the potential to be a proper enemies to lovers, unlike koralie (ew koralie) which is half baked and bad. they also both suck the entire time because they are councillors <\3 ew councillors
they would be so toxic and bad <3 who doesn‘t love a good toxic and bad ship am i right or am i right
alina would not gatekeep shit from oralie in the name of “protecting her fragile little empath mind” because alina does not gaf about oralie. or so she thinks. or something. enemies to lovers except it’s equally toxic in both directions the whole time etcetera etcetera
random question what is your craziest crack theory
fintante shippers look away. i’m being so serious rn i don’t want to traumatize you
okay so when i was like fourteen it occurred to me that fintan and bronte might be the same person and that “inflicting” was just “bronte” manipulating heat inside someone’s body is such a subtle way that it felt as if feelings were being altered (????). keep in mind this was never a serious theory and always very much a crack theory but it was funny to me. the idea ig was that fintan needed an inside man on the council, so he became the inside man himself to keep tabs on things. yes this would mean forkle, thinking he was making sophie an “inflictor” like “bronte”, instead made her a pyrokinetic completely on accident but fourteen-year-old me did not think that far quite honestly
okay i did not have this out on time for. reasons. so i am releasing an excerpt in the name of proving this is actually a thing. crumbs for my loyal fans:
i’ve decided that for every day that i’m late to posting this rant, i will release one excerpt. sorry everybody, i’m taking far longer to edit this than i ever imagined. here’s today’s:
we are trying so hard to get this under ninety pages and honestly? it’s a struggle (hopefully we’ll succeed). live footage of me being manhandled by this monster of a rant as i attempt to get it under control:
okay i did not have this out on time for. reasons. so i am releasing an excerpt in the name of proving this is actually a thing. crumbs for my loyal fans:
i’ve decided that for every day that i’m late to posting this rant, i will release one excerpt. sorry everybody, i’m taking far longer to edit this than i ever imagined. here’s today’s:
we are trying so hard to get this under ninety pages and honestly? it’s a struggle (hopefully we’ll succeed). live footage of me being manhandled by this monster of a rant as i attempt to get it under control:
okay i did not have this out on time for. reasons. so i am releasing an excerpt in the name of proving this is actually a thing. crumbs for my loyal fans:
i’ve decided that for every day that i’m late to posting this rant, i will release one excerpt. sorry everybody, i’m taking far longer to edit this than i ever imagined. here’s today’s:
every day i remember that shannon made keefe the ultimate pity partier and somewhere along the line she realized that and her solution to this particular conundrum was to just have keefe verbally express how much he hates pity. like the call is coming from inside the house hello?
okay i did not have this out on time for. reasons. so i am releasing an excerpt in the name of proving this is actually a thing. crumbs for my loyal fans:
i’ve decided that for every day that i’m late to posting this rant, i will release one excerpt. sorry everybody, i’m taking far longer to edit this than i ever imagined. here’s today’s:
