keefe: Well, well, well... if it isn’t my old friend: the dawning realization that I fucked up bad. source: https://incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org/
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kotlc finshes with amy. think about it though: it’s called keeper of the lost cities. amy is, quite literally, a keeper of the lost cities. she is the only human (that we know of) who is fully aware of the presence of other intelligent species, and she has to keep this from everyone she knows and loves. anyone got any ideas how she’d work in?
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Do you have any analysis or thoughts about the scene chapter 40 (Sophie sees the drawing green journal and that awkward conversation) sorry I just haven’t seen anyone discuss it yet
at first i didn't think this needed an analysis because it was a given what was going on - but i knew better than to let it slide and decided to give the scene a reread.
and oh boy.
if you yourself need a refresher, sophie has just come home from foxfire. keefe is under the panakes drawing after a training session with grady. sophie and keefe exchange their thoughts about their classes, the current stellarlune situation, and what keefe is drawing. keefe shows sophie that he drew ethan and eleanor's graves. during the discussion, keefe becomes frustrated and pushes the journals off his lap - flipping the green one open to the page where he had drawn sophie and fitz performing a cognate exercise.
sophie sees it as she is going to clean up the mess for him. she mentions that her and fitz's gazes are intense, but that's not what she's interested in: she's interested in how keefe drew her.
"Her hair was slightly messy, and her tunic was a little crooked, and she was slouching the way her human mom used to tell her would turn her spine into a twisty pretzel if she didn't work on better posture. But mostly, she looked like her. A little awkward. A whole lot nervous. Definitely not perfect. And... she kinda loved that about it."
this is all we get to hear from her before keefe snatches the journal away, feeling awkward that she discovered it. but this set of inner monologue holds a lot more weight than you think.
a) i want to focus really quick on the 'definitely not perfect' line. this is a direct tie-in to fitz.
only a handful of pages later, fitz and sophie complete their "cognate inquisition". during this, sophie enters fitz's 'core of verity' which is supposed to hold no defense mechanisms or barriers. it is a true reflection of one's self. sophie, on her journey to this place, sees herself in the center of fitz's mind. but unlike the drawing keefe created, this sophie is polished. she's posing, flashing a smile, looking undefeated... and perfect, as she mentions. but while fitz means well with the image, this pedestal and the woman on top of it is not her. it's not accurate to who she is in real life.
so, for sophie to witness the difference between how the two boys view her is huge. they both do have deep affection for her, but the lens they view her from is different. keefe has a camera; fitz has a microscope.
b) most people would cringe to be drawn in such an accurate, "flawed" light. sophie isn't gazing into the sunset looking blissfully aloof. she's not posing for the camera. she's caught in what most would considering an unflattering position. she's hunched, she looks 'awkward' and 'nervous'. her hair is messy, her clothes are crooked...
i can tell you little to no one who would want to be caught like that by their crush. but sophie doesn't shy from having keefe not only seen her that way, but record it - no, she enjoys it. she feels happy to share that side of herself with him. she's glad he gets to see the imperfect person she is.
that right there just proves multiple things to me: how long this love has run without her really knowing it, how ready she is to be open in a relationship, and how real this connection is to her.
sophie doesn't desire something movie-worthy with him. she wants something real.
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adrien wears a large variety of clothes, from a skirt and oversized tshirt, to corduroys and a sweater, to ripped jeans and a hoode (with cat ears, ofc) he does this, for the most part, because his fashion sense was severely suppressed, and he had virtually no room to experiment. . . given certain occurences, now he can, and he tries any and ever combination
marinette introduces adrien to thrift-shopping, and he gets so completely excited ("marinette!!! can you believe someone would get rid of this?" "what is it-?" "it's a piano!!! but it's a CAT piano!!! we need it!!!!")
plagg and tikki meet up while adrien and marinette sleep so that they can watch the stars and talk (they also eat tiny cheesecakes marinette made for them)
nino makes mixes of wayzz's favorite songs to play at bedtime so it's easier for him to wind down and not have to think about fu
daizzi helps rose to remember to take any meds she needs on time they also have slumber parties and talk about everything they love
luka makes a tiny guitar for sass, and teaches him how to play. . . it's a little hard, since sass doesn't have any fingers, but he can manage a few simple chords. . . they jam out together
juleka adds pink to her hair along with the purple, to remind her of rose, and to remind her to be confident
adrien never went trick or treating for real, only a few houses up and down the street before his mom died (not to mention trick or treating isn't very common in france). . . when halloween comes around though, the gang gets together and goes out trick or treating
that's all for today! thanks for reading my little ramble :)
If the Kotlc movie doesnt open with dramatic intro credits with a hard rock song released in the 2010's playing in the background and cuts to sophie in the museum listening to it after then i dont want it