[themoonlarksareback]

tbh really wondering how younger readers keep up with all of the plot threads. maybe it’s just because i’m older now and not obsessed with the series but the lack of structure in kotlc makes it super hard to follow esp for a ya book

[themoonlarksareback]

making my once a year appearance because i just finished stellarlune and i’m floored over how little can happen in the first 3/4 of the book only for it to be rushed in the last 1/4. literally sophie spends forever researching and also trying to figure out her feelings only for most of the answers to be revealed very suddenly and for each of her big conversations™️ to last like 5 minutes each. shannon really said pacing?? i don’t know her.

[fintan-pyren]

liking kotlc is a red flag. it’s also an orange flag, and a yellow flag, and a green flag, and a blue flag, and a violet flag. it’s a pride flag. you are gay.

[enbies-and-felonies]

“real kotlc fans can list all of sophie’s bodyguards and their species” and “real kotlc fans only ship [insert ship]”

actually real kotlc fans don’t even know the names of all the books or the order they belong in

[fintan-pyren]

The Neverseen recruits new members by sneaking up behind them and whispering puns in their ears. This is canon.

[fintan-pyren]

This sounds like a joke, but it's not. This is legitimately something that happened in Keeper. Everblaze, page 530, third paragraph.

[bronte-deserves-better]

one of the many things I love about tiergan is that shannon gave us a single father character with no heterosexual love interest, who displays zero interest in women and has a ‘best friend’ who he’s been devoted to for fourteen years and is a leader in a rebellion against the system in an incredible heteronormative world and then she expected us to think he was straight???

[tamsong]

shannon, writing full gender equality into the keeper series: okay, imma fight these gender norms!

shannon, having her female characters only wear dresses because it’s “emphasizing beauty” when the men don’t have to: damn! these gender norms got hands!

[angeldreifics-deactivated202602]

She’s just… so close but so far 

[sophitz]

[themoonlarksareback]

I ship Tam and Keefe

I think this is a popular ship because the two characters are quite similar, especially when they first meet. I don’t really have any strong feelings about this ship but I gotta say I think tam is too good for keefe as of right now

[themoonlarksareback]

I ship kenric and bronte.

why?????

[dizznee]

ok so i am trying to collect some spare braincells and create a coherent post

despite what i have posted i am actually excited (i think)! any content is good content and i do think kotlc has potential to make a good movie

now that i have said this, here are my other thoughts. ben affleck take notes

1. poc sophie and vackers. this would be narratively rewarding for all three - sophie feeling like she doesn’t belong with her human family, the vackers (particularly biana) subverting associations between whiteness and wealth/beauty

2. no brown-skinned gnomes pls and thank you

3. keep the setting in 2012 or even a bit earlier. yes it’s never actually confirmed that this is when the story takes place and the year doesn’t really matter for the plot but i think it would be funny for sophie to have avril lavigne and evanescence on her ipod and wear earbuds with cords

4. you can’t realistically fit all of book 1 into a 2hr movie. if it comes down to it, i’d make most of the cuts from the first half - the splotching match, midterms, base quest, other little worldbuilding things that are nice but don’t add a ton to the plot. the limbium scene as well is a bit useless without a confirmed sequel

5. please i am begging u keep the romance among the kids to a minimum. i’ll be ok with a koralie subplot and even an alina/alden/della love triangle but the kids are 12-14 at this point in the series. there’s no need to go beyond “oh sophie has a crush on fitz and keefe, isn’t that endearing.” no need for the level of romance that’s present in flashback and later books

6. make the movie’s a-lister mr. forkle so the audience will be like “haha look at [actor] making a cameo in this cute kids’ movie” and then it turns out he’s the undercover leader of a rebel organization, one of the most important characters in the series, and also two people pretending to be one

7. if they whitewash prentice, wylie, quinlin, or tiergan i’m stealing their bones

[dizznee]

8. oh and i FORGOT to mention. if they’re going to add in lgbt+ rep (which they should) then it should ABSOLUTELY be a backstory between prentice and tiergan

[song-tam]

can I add to 8? I want to see Elwin’s past boyfriends or something 

[1smolbean]

hey you remembered wylie (#7) thanks for that

also maruca. if they whitewash my girlfriend they’re dead.

[angeldreifics-deactivated202602]

Can Mr. Forkle be Danny Devito 

[dizznee]

@dorkdukess @angeldreifics be friends

[an-absolute-travesty]

We know the Neverseen are bad guys but honestly what’s their real motivation? They hate elvin society, yeah? You know who the elves seem like they wouldn’t accept: queer people. I am of the belief anyone remotely involved in the neverseen, the black swan, or any other group opposing the elvin government in some way is queer. Also Gisela and Vespera are dating. In this essay I will-

[cadence-talle]

if Pyrokinetics bad… then why Marella Redek so pretty 

[dizznee]

let’s place bets on how soon keefe is going to show up again in book 9. i’m betting on page 10-15

[bookwyrminspiration]

lmao watch Shannon make the next cliffhanger the gang finding Keefe wherever he’s hidden rn and the last paragraph is like

Her heart stopped in her chest as her eyes widened. He’d changed. His hair was longer, more unruly, curly gently around his ears. And that trademark smirk was missing, his ice blue eyes holding hers with dread and shame and guilt as she whispered, “Keefe?”

And then the book ends. I just think it’d be funny

[themoonlarksareback]

sorry sophie but dex is definately the pretty best friend

[themoonlarksareback]

also shout out to anyone who contributed to the kotlc wiki y’all are amazing my brain managed to merge the plot of nightfall, flashback, and legacy all into one mess

[villagetryhard]

for those who dont wanna read all that a summary: funky tattoos slightly enhance elves abilites