Alex Fierro

Alex Fierro

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I absolutely adore Muriel and how you can see she totally practiced for her mission (and her very first time!! Exciting!!) on Earth. Like, the "Heeeellohellohello!". The "What's all this then?". The politeness, something that Aziraphale, as the most (and probably the only) British of angels, certainly appreciates. When Aziraphale opens the bookshop door and greets her with a slightly bewildered "Good morning, officer" and invites her in for tea, you can see that sweet, radiant baby angel is definitely thinking, "I'm getting a good grade in human police officer impersonating, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve"... You're doing great, lil cinnamon roll 💕🧡🌻

People are so wrongfully dismissive of KotLC's worldbuilding. For the themes it wants to convey to its intended audience, it's so brilliantly done.

It tells themes of choosing love, defying authority, finding a home, and dealing with guilt; it has detailed worldbuilding about things like interspecies relations, expected conformity, governmental structures, and magic systems. And this is all in a book intended for kids! There are treaty negotiations shown, where one species is represented with far more people than any other, but they're placed around a "round table of equality," so everyone has to act like it's equal when it isn't.

And this is in a book series intended for kids, but so many of us are older and still get something out of it because it's so well done!

Like, when I was ten, I wasn't thinking "This series has a really strong point to make about marriage equality and how what's believed to make an 'ideal' marriage is ruled so much by bias and eugenics!" I was going "wow, matchmaking is really bad..." and the deeper message was something I unlocked later. Every time I reflect on these books, there's more for me to come away with that applies to the times we're living in.

The world of KotLC is built and displayed so that you're presented with a "perfect world" that makes you deeply, deeply uncomfortable. You're shown people who believe their world is perfect through the lens of characters who know better than anyone else why it isn't. You're shown how the dominant view can be hurtful and wrong, and how young people are critical to changing things.

And yet people will openly say that the worldbuilding sucks? It blows my mind.

losing my mind over the way thorn (autistic) saw ophélie (also definitely autistic) read an algebra book and his special interest drew him out of his usual silence to ask "Vous vous intéressez à l'algèbre?" like that dude hasn't spoken a word to her in weeks but he sees Numbers and suddenly he perks up like a dog seeing a bone 😭 this close to actually start wagging his tail /pos

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