I love how Thomas is an unreliable narrator in the sense that he never notices how other people react to his appearance because he is so self-conscious and has a rather low self-esteem regarding his physical appearance.
It takes Alastair to tell us that, apparently, people are ogling Tom because he looks so good.
On the other hand, we never actually see people reacting that way in any of the other character's POVs, and that can mean 2 things:
A) The others don't pay that much attention to Thomas because he is just kind-hearted Tom to them
B) Alastair in a way overinterprets other people's looks because to him, Thomas is so beautiful, how could other people not see it, how could they not want him?
Addition: In ChoG, Cordelia actually describes Tom as handsome, but not beautiful as James or Matthew (several times). Clearly, the Carstairs siblings have different tastes.
If Chain of Thorns doesn’t end with:
Lucie and Jesse engagement
Cordelia and James honeymoon to Constantinople
Thomas kissing Alastair in front of everyone at a party
Ariadne and Anna finally dancing together
Grace and Christopher working on science-y stuff together
and Matthew drinking water
imma riot
And he fell in love with Alastair who is very good with words (footnote: I love the way of speaking and the extensive vocabulary Cassie chose for him) but quite often manages to fuck up when using said words. Just because he knows how to string fancy words together so that they sound nice it doesn't mean that Alastair gets his meaning across very well.
They really complement each other
Can we talk about how Thomas keeps on saying he doesn’t have a gift for words and he wouldn’t be able to charm Alastair or anyone with his words but with Alastair, he manages to say the most simple yet most important things that Alastair needs to hear
seriously I had some little TikTok teenybopper burst out laughing on my tour because I said that a historical figure was “most likely what we’d now call gay”
like
listen
you’re free to take a ouija board out to the cemetery and try to explain the dizzying array of current queer terms and get a solid answer as to how he identifies within that framework but
until then, I’m going to continue NOT definitively assigning someone identity terms they didn’t self-identify with, and might not have even known, when I’m responsible for representing them faithfully and they’re not here to correct me. even more so when they’re part of my own community
I mean, you know, as long as that’s okay with you. Bestie.
Maybe they really just went with the whole Easter vibe??
everyone hold my hand. NEOW. if bobby was actually dead why would be via man made rat disease. why would they not just let it leak, but post a fake script making light of the whole situation. why is oliver making light of bobby dying in his comments. why is tim saying ‘no bobby’s dead fr’ in his liar who lies voice. why is peter on set for 8x17. why would they kill him in a seemingly random episode instead of the end of the season. why was angela saying she doesn’t see an end of 911 where bobby and athena aren’t together. and also. this would just be shockingly bleak for the nobody dies show. if he’s dead fr i’ll eat my words but i swear i think bobby is literally fine.
Do you think CC will rewrite the CP2 epilogue after TLH finishes given that some things after Chog already don't match up? Like Barbara being present
She might change some things for when they order a new reprint. Different editions already have different people appearing in the epilogue. My best friend’s version doesn’t have Lucie in it but mine does, for example...
May you write 1,500 words with ease.May your characters be lively and not cardboard.May you need little editing.May your muse visit you as soon as you sit. May the Internet not distract you much. May your phone lie dormant while you write.
so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944.
Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538.
Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.
The fact that "Lucie" was the first thing Jesse said when he came back to life 😍😍😍😍
Also, was anyone else suprised that he woke up and after seven years of death instantly was strong enough to lift and carry Lucie? Maybe it's an indicator of how much power Lucie used on him. Which, in turn, would explain her fainting (and could assure us that she's quite alright and just needs rest to fill up her energy levels again)
* the TLH Gang standing around Jesse's coffin *
Alastair: I am going to bury something that reminds me of the person that I used to be, that I don't want to be anymore.
* drags Charles to the coffin *
A dozen different fandoms, but my biggest is TSC
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