RIGHT?? Thats The Biggest Problem I've Always Had W Sokeefe- He Keeps Falling Back On Her Inherent Love

rIGHT?? that’s the biggest problem I've always had w sokeefe- he keeps falling back on her inherent love and inability to be a bad person as an excuse to continue being self destructive and in the process bring everyone down w him

In the Lost Cities they don’t say “I love you”, they say “Please don’t hate me”, which means “I’m going to betray your trust and sell your secrets to the other side but you’ll forgive me instantly and I’ll get away with the emotional damage I caused you with zero consequences” and I think that’s beautiful.

I watched charlie’s angels and it was so good shut up >:(

fitz gets treated so badly by this fandom (especially on insta/pinterest) my god... i don't want to think about this but considering how shitty shannon's publishers seem to be she might be forced to ,, kill him off ,, i really really hope not but with how little character development hes been getting i get the feeling she's just stalling hh

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR LEGACY AHEAD

hot take but the main reason fitz freaked so bad was because sophie was literally not communicating at all. like his fuck ups were 

1. because of his upbringing (as a vacker, he can't imagine why one wouldn't apply for the match and settle for a bad match when there was another option, and her being hella tired meant she didn't explain jackshit. this wasn't either of their faults; it’s just what happened. and later, he does apologise for lashing out like that)

2. because he was already tired of how she shut him out this entire book because of her other commitments. think about it; his gf was seemingly actively avoiding him while hanging out w his best friend (who he knows has a crush on her) and when he makes the effort to reach out to her she just pretends that communication gap doesn't exist. it doesn't excuse the way he lashed out but we all know homeboy has anger issues but he recognises that and apologises for his mistakes sincerely and does his best to be who she needs him to be and that is why I will go down with this ship

but all in all im glad they decided to put off dating for a while everyone needs to get their act together

while some of these have been addressed, e.g. elves having a very short fertile period or something of the sort and hence not reproducing as often as humans, causing their population to be controlled, the rest of these issues definitely need clarification.

Some thoughts I have about the elves

+ Soo, the elves don’t have birthdays, instead they count their age from their “inception date” which is basically when the elf sperm met the elf egg right? And from that moment, they’re considered to be an elf. Are the elves pro-life? What happens when an elf doesn’t want a baby? Adoption rarely happens so does that mean an elf has to keep a child and raise it no matter if they wanted the kid or not? Seems a bit sus and kind of concerning 

+ Do elves get period cramps? They don’t experience pain from labor so how about periods? Humans seem to have very similar parts for making babies as elves (seeing as sophie’s mom was capable of carrying sophie’s embryo and forming her into a perfectly normal elf) 

+ Why are elves and humans so similar? Elves basically seem to be super-powered humans, so how did humans and elves become different? 

+ If elves behave and have similar needs to humans, what was the big deal about human medicine being used on Sophie? In general, it doesn’t seem to hurt humans, so what makes elves different? 

+ How was the humans betraying the elves such a big problem if the elves are so “vastly superior” How come the elves decided to leave most of the world to humans if they should be able to easily defeat them? Do humans have some sort of supressed abilities that pose a threat to the other sentient species? 

+ WHY HAVEN’T ELVES HELPED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE? This is a huge issue that would affect them too, so why aren’t they paying attention? This seems like something they should address. 

+ Why doesn’t the elven world seem to struggle with overpopulation? Humans struggle with this, and we are not essentially immortal. Elves rarely die, so why are they able to all live in huge mansions? Do elves get sent to space or something? 

+ What hides the Lost Cities from the humans? What measures do they have in place to prevent humans from seeing and entering their cities?

+ Why do elves not make music? What kind of culture do they have? So they read books, see plays, make art? 

+ What are elven customs? How do they celebrate weddings, and inception days, and other things like that? 

+ If matchmaking is in part to produce kids, how are same-sex couples treated?  Do they exist? (if they don’t exist, that REALLY sends a warning sign, considering elves are the “superior race”) 

+ Do gender-fluid, agender elves, and other elves on the gender specturm exist? 

+ Are there trans elves? How are they viewed/treated?

+ Do elves have mental illnesses like depression?

+ Are there disabled elves? 

Feel free to add more questions, this was all I could think of at the moment, but I’m sure there’s more.

am I the only one who’s noticed that every odd numbered book is sophitz centric and every even numbered book is sokeefe centric in conclusion Shannon loves riling us up only to turn the tides in the next book