mē, tangō leviter Miētte cum latus pedīs meī: Miētta, dēmovēre ut nōn incurrere in tē
Miētte, cum oculōs ēius magnōs: tū CALITRĀS Miētte? tū calitrās corpus ēius sīcut follis? ēheu! ēheu! carcer prō Mātre! carcer prō Mātre prō Singula Mīlla Annōs!!!!
This blog is practically just becoming an sge blog so I might as well. I’m rereading the whole series and have gotten to AWWP right, and like. Tedros. My boy. He has gone through so so much (some of it was kinda his fault but I digress) and it just kinda feels like it was forgotten. I mean in the next book the only thing that is picked back up is his relationship with Sophie/Filip but like. My boy was tortured and starved for days before Sophie ever showed up. She literally had to physically stop Aric so that Tedros wouldn’t die. I just feel like his trauma from those days was completely erased and diminished to him and Sophie.
Okay so, I'm not really the fondest of associating songs with characters, but. Agatha throughout the first half of TLEA to me feels like “Goodbye my Danish sweetheart” by Mitski. I mean she spends the whole beginning of the book feeling like Tedros would rather be with an “actual” princess instead of her and feeling like she’s not good enough. I just feel like the song is her talking to Tedros when she’s decided to let Sophie get with him and she’s saying goodbye to him.
Oh boy oh boy its the discjude official COVEN bingo card!!! not many are about the coven themselves because i uh uh don't know too much about them but yeah. I've put a brief explanation of each of these under the cut (because a few are vague) (WARNING its a lot):
Lady Lesso mentioned: this one sort of coincides with "hester true evil speech". I reckon she's important enough to the witches to warrant a mention. Also. I think all of the Lessos might be relevant but I talk about that in my predictions
Obligatory Sophie cameo: she's Soman's favourite. She's showing up
Political commentary: based off of his substack, I don't think Soman will go too overt with it, but I think there'll be a more roundabout one. I'd love to see him address the fact that he wrote in that homophobia is a thing in SGE. Soman if you can hear me
Drag race reference: He's done this a lot before, in QFG mostly, and I think he'll do it again
TCY acknowledged: this could be like a "haha yeah you remember how the storian almost got destroyed? that was kinda crazy aha". I have a horrible feeling that he's going to completely skip over that part of canon
Hester gives a speech about "true evil": i mean come ooonnnnnnn. I also think this'll include something about evil love that contradicts the canon about it
No blatant fatphobia regarding dot: Soman phased this out in TCY I think he'll have stuck with it
Rats are, somehow, back. Not explained: Japeth killed at least one of those things and I genuinely think Soman will have forgotten it
Events of R+F acknowledged: ties into my predictions a bit, but I reckon the setup regarding neverland and the other stuff in Fall might come up
I'm right about my predictions: I think the entire thing looks very aquatic themed, and there's a lot regarding evil water stuff, so a) the mermaids are relevant b) the saders are (still) relevant c) the lessos are relevant. that's the big three in my opinion. I can't wait to be horrifically wrong
Storian still at fault: i mean. name one book where it isn't. and you cant say OTK that doesnt COUNT
Symbolic ending of the series thing: I want the storian dead. thats what this one means
Obligatory tagatha: come onnnnnnnnn
There is at least one twink: yeah. not much to say here
Vaguely pub-style setting: this one also includes "why is everything british" because i said so
None Japeth: Japeth is mentioned by name exactly no times. I'd love to have faith but I really don't
Tennis reference: I fucking CAUGHT Botic being a tennis player's surname in the prequels. he's GOING to try it again
Colour/lighting symbolism: have a draft rn about colour symbolism in SGE and I think Soman might lean into it
At least one snake: please i want to feel something
hestadil real: come ON he's doing this every tiktok post about coven has had the hestadil tag he's doing this
Aric is referenced: goes with my predictions and lady lesso being mentioned. I hate to say it I think he's far more likely to be referenced than Japeth
Big unanswered question gets answered: the BIG!! one is the Aric Dad Reveal. I want to know for parallel reasons and I think it could happen. maybe
no wait! We'll use the power of friendship: speaks for itself. something like this happens
major character death: goodbye dot. im being fr I think she's dying in coven
Thank you dearly to @liketwoswansinbalance for some of these entries I really struggled to think of some. Also no I'm not convinced of my predictions. But it'd be nice. right
Haha cant lie but Ive been snacking on cookies all day
"that trope is so overused in fanfiction"
no. i have never once looked at fanfic and thought "i wish there weren't so many amortentia Aus" "i wish they didn't always have that Oh, Oh moment" "i wish there weren't so many jokes alluding to canon"
in fact, i want more. make more silly little jokes about reg drowning. give me the oh moment again.
i will read the same trope over and over again, that's what fanfiction is for
Games like elden ring can be very "dangerous" for English as a second language speakers.
I have to consciously remind myself, especially if I am interacting with an English speaking client or business partner at work, that this is not how normal people talk.
Thou must have some business in mind, to come all this way.
A pleasure to meet thee, I'd heard tell of a new client.
Heed my words. The meeting tomorrow will be rescheduled.
What is thy business with these files?
I was entrusted this, for thee, a summary of the last meeting.
Thou art of passing skill, this excel list is perfect!
I doubt we shall again meet. I am only helping out on this project.
Reading is political and it always has been. Here are some of the classic books on the banned list that you should definitely check out.
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I literally saw a video about this book 5 mins ago. Does anyone know if it's worth it?