Au marbre du monument d'espoir

Giulia, 24, living in Italy and dreaming of Middle Earth. Team Sansa Stark until the day I die.

[gabessquishytum]

Welcome back Astarion Ancunin

[babyzanna]

Just finished reading Somewhere Beyond the Sea and it was soooo indulgently sappy and queer and FULL of hope while also still having really poignant emotional moments and thoughtfully embedded social commentary and it was exactly the story I needed rn

[skygemspeaks]

I think part of what makes lucy so endearing is that even though he's an unholy little terror whose first response to any minor inconvenience is playfully suggesting murder, he's also just a typical little kid and he's unafraid to show it

like when he says something really cute so linus scoops him up and kisses him multiple times on the cheeks, then when he tries to put him down, lucy refuses to let go, clinging to his dad and resting his head in the crook of linus' neck and getting all sleepy and sweet

Or when he gets in trouble for making sentient mud men and linus does the typical parent thing of shouting his full name ("LUCIFER BAKER-PARNASSUS!") and lucy, who's probably never had a last name before and who has been eagerly waiting for his and his siblings' adoption to go through for the past year, just stops in the middle of running away and says, "aw, i love that name!"

he's the antichrist, but he's also just a little guy!

[lov3nnant]

my arthur parnassus and my linus baker💙

[skygemspeaks]

he's the son of satan, the prince of darkness, the literal antichrist

he's a 7 year old boy who would do anything for his brothers and sisters

he has untold power and could bend the world to his whims

he likes to collect records and listens to what he calls "dead people music" and he got a portable record player as a gift for one of his dads

He has spiders in his brain and has nightmares that cause him to lose control of his magic and wake up screaming

He likes to wear footie pajamas because they have a little flap for his butt

He threatens to kill people when they piss him off

He wanted to call his dad "pappy" but he was outvoted by his siblings

His birth name is Lucifer

He goes by Lucy

[wearenotjustsadstories]

Arthur Parnassus the man you are

[forever-flying-silver]

Kind of obsessed that Somewhere Beyond the Sea is just the Baker-Parnassus children have a team meeting about how to save their family and the unanimous consensus is to gaslight gatekeep girlboss the fuck out of everyone for 400 hundred pages.

[captain-is-king]

i LOVE the intimacy and love and hugs and kisses in this book.

like. thitcs is SO full of love but between arthur trying to not appear too close to the kids/seem like their father because he’s supposed to be the master of the orphanage and linus being literally a DICOMY representative we hardly see people hugging or like showing physical intimacy.

and now!! we have linus and arthur kissing all the time, zoe and arthur kissing each other on the cheek, helen kissing linus and arthur on the cheek or kissing her girlfriend on the mouth (sidenote i’m so happy to see more of these two). the kids hugging or cuddling or really just touching each other in some way like holding hands or leaning on each other. having sleepovers. the fucking cuddle puddle in linus and arthur’s room when the kids find out they’re engaged!!!! talia snuggled between them, phee next to arthur, chauncey on top of all of them. it’s so wonderful! we see phee and arthur have their moment in the gazebo and phee kisses arthur’s hand which is so sweet and then he becomes the phoenix and is poking at her with his beak and they fly together and fall asleep on the sandbar together! and then you have linus scooping lucy up and crying and peppering his face with kisses because he paid attention during fucking vocabulary lessons and lucy refusing to let go.

just. all the ways these characters showed love to each other was phenomenal in thitcs and i ate it up but now they can be even more open about it and it’s just wonderful. i love love!!!! i love found families!!!! i love this book!!!!

[thecourtfinchster]

i finally had time to finish a few Somewhere Beyond the Sea sketches!!!!! there’s some lighthearted spoilery Arthur stuff below the cut

the proposal scene WRECKS me. Cerulean Dads i love you. also it’s so great how Arthur flaunts his ring every chance he gets. no one will forget that he is in love and married to Linus Baker! i wish Linus got his own ring though :(

[dandelionnesss-deactivated20260]

Mr. Parnassus lives in my head rent free at this point.

[inndelibles]

Can’t remember who I saw post it (if it was you pls lmk so I can credit you!!) but I remember seeing a post saying if THITCS series ever had a live action adaption, Michael Sheen and David Tennant should be Linus and Arthur respectively, and just. Yes. Absolutely.

Edit: This appears to be a very popular idea which means we are all correct 😎

[birdshoes]

only a few pages in but - an antagonist who is a woman with reddish hair and is virulently anti-LGBTQ+ and is named Jeanine Rowder?? tj klune the legend that you are

[meanya]

I don't think I ever posted about this, but I noticed a long time ago that there's a facial expression that seems to pop up in Lore Olympus a lot.

I can't tell if I just see it everywhere now just because I'm acutely aware of it... I tried to catch it every time I saw it on rereads. I'd taken to calling it "Lore Olympus Face," it's this sort of exaggerated eyeroll + open pog mouth 😅

Am I just looking too deeply at the details? Did anyone else notice this expression everywhere or am I just seeing it now because I'm looking for it?

[tinker-the-prol]

Me blowing through Lore Olympus beginning to almost the series finale in like a month:

[pancake220]

Vaxleth and Perc'ahlia shippers, how you doing guys, still alive there?

[twinklestarss]

Vaxleth in Tlovm season 3 trailer

[twinklestarss]

Perc'ahila in the Tlovm season 3 trailer