Literally Every Part Of This Book Is Insane Without Context And I Love That

andreil going viral after Nicky uses that song a boy who's jacked and kiiind to make an edit of Andrew picking up Neil and throwing him over his shoulders like a potato bag to drag the idiot away from useless fight

finally reading The Spear Cuts Through Water and it's sorta fuckign amazing wow. The only way i know how to show I really really liked a book is to make shitty memes about it but there’s something so ethereal about TSCTW that it’s lowk sorta hard…

Anyway, it's a bit funny that even though it's being told through like 4 perspectives and it reads so much like an old oral fairy tale, it still has the ragtag group of misfits traveling through the land.

my @aftgsecretsnowflake for @szecretary sorry it’s not very Christmassy 😔

trk trailer ending with andrew looking over his shoulder into the camera because no one's watching his back while he watches everyone else's.

gonna have a lot of fun with these

Some TSH analysis, uncategorized

julian calling the greek class (minus bunny and richard) "magpies" is so fun to me bc . while they are symbolic of intelligence and resourcefulness they are also symbolic of deceit and opportunism

richard didnt eat his lamb chops at his first dinner with the twins and bunny ate richards chop instead . lamb could be a religious ref to following, how richard is not quite yet in the thick of it with the group, not yet a follower of henry/andor julian . but later in the book he does eat lamb in camillas room at the hotel if i remember correctly , perhaps he is consuming his own innocence, his own morality . finally accepting his role as a follower maybe . also something to do with morality

Henry as death, as Satan/the devil (Richard has described him as Satan, some girl at a party said the greek class were all devil worshippers and Who do they worship except Henry)

Rot and death, particularly rotting fruit -- something about opulence and overindulgence: richard says in his notebook from when he was 18: “There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death-those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement-been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death” and then the first few days at hampden (literally 2 pages later) “stunned and drunk with beauty ... Trees creaking with apples fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground”

Richard first name John:  john the apostle . outlived all the other apostles .beloved . follower . etc . interesting the things that could be associated with that; john also means “graced by god”so that could also be looked into; could be that richard abandoning his given name that he has abandoned any grace that could have been given him . could be that he is the apostle to Henry in a way that the others weren't .... could be he has fallen from grace; extremely interesting to me that richard as a name has zero biblical references and means "brave ruler" . something something about the front richard was putting on . the grandiose he wanted so badly to imitate but in the end couldnt and he will always remain but a humble john follower and apostle . perhaps

I really love the idea that when Neil and Andrew get completely comfortable sharing a bed they’re both actually horrible to sleep with. Neil talks in his sleep and kicks. Andrew is a bed/blanket hog, he’s also a cuddler but in the way that he’s laying on Neil (he claims it’s to stop Neil from kicking him).

i forget i'm supposed to reblog things like i can't do that that gives people notifications...... liking is scary enough my presence must not be known i lurk and snoop

why you should read Realm of the elderlings

- canonical gender fluid/ nonbinary character who is a main part of the plot

- the gays most heartbreaking love story ever told

- depressed main character

-pirates, magic and dragons all in one book

-insane world building,

- sarcastic animal side kicks

- absolutely devastating plot lines if your into that

- complex and extremely imperfect characters