Why Do Young People Live In A Constant State Of Yearning For The Present? Why Do We Sing Of Staying Forever

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.

do not eat your yummy cheeseboruger too fast. something fucked up and sinister might happen

I actually adore just lovers Peter so much omg

“I’ve scene him naked, you know. James, I mean.”

“I— what?”

“James. Naked. You haven’t lived because you haven’t seen it. Still with me?”

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

writing is so fun

Todo lo que fue de los dos son ecos de amor

(Everything left between you and me are echos of love)

Anadil shoul’ve been albino and there’s no changing my mind

DISCLAIMER: I actually really liked the actress they chose to play Anadil in the movie these are just my feelings and don’t reflect on my opinion of the actress.

that being said let me set the scene: little twelve year old me has just been given by my sister a book that she didn’t like a lot (sge) (she has bad taste but that can’t be helped) and I read Anadil being described as albino. Now, at that time, I still hadn’t open access to the internet, and absolutely to no social media, so I had no way of knowing what an albino person was or looked like, but the word makes me curious so I go to my dad and ask him what it means and he explains. I just wonder how many young girls and boys have found out about albino people that way (I’m deliberately ignoring that soman made her being albino what made her “ugly” (when she turned “pretty” at the end of the first book her hair turns brown, and her eyes green)). I also wonder how many young girls are albino and could’ve seen such character and felt represented.

"childlike sense of wonder" this and that. Personally, I'm cultivating my elderly sense of wonder. Hence my excitement over a perfectly ordinary bird in my backyard or an above-average-sized vegetable.

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.