"do You Have Any Weapons On You"

"do you have any weapons on you"

But the weapon is in them. They've been stabbed.

might get stabbed for this but like the edits of walker scobell make me so uncomfy like ma'am that is a child. especially when they use clips of him from percy jackson like that is a 12 year old my good lady. and before you say "oh but im the same age as him" or "oh but i'm younger than him" that's still weird dawg. he is still a kid and so are you. while you shouldn't really be sexualising yourself when you're still in middle school or whatever that's your decision. walker, however, did not choose to be sexualised, so just don't.

On a reread, I think the King of Attolia is my favorite queen’s thief book (although admittedly I can’t wait to meet Kamet and Sophos and Pheris again)

I just love how much and for how long Costis just fucking hates Gen’s guts. And the slow, all but dragged kicking and screaming inevitability of his soft heart finding sympathy for Gen’s homesickness and loneliness. While still absolutely hating his fucking guts. And gradually coming to love and respect and fear and be exasperated by him; the inevitable hero’s journey experienced by everyone who eventually comes to love Eugenides.

I love Costis so so much. A good man, a loyal guard dog, the Attolian royal court’s most beloved punching bag (by default, since Gen can’t be included in the rankings). And still no sense of humor. Bless him.

you see horses are as likely to step on your foot as look at you. elephants on the other hand are noble, graceful animals

I love breaking down hunger games and analyzing it, and I've thought a lot about the love triangle. Particularly how there isn't really one. How the love triangle was really just marketing, but it was always peeta and katniss. And also, Gale was always borderline toxic and possessive. If I compare that to TSITP...gale becomes Conrad imo, the way gale assumes that there is some attachment due to his care/protection/ whatever from the past, having issues that make the FMC feel needed and responsible to help, (I actual started writing this in June of 2023 and just stumbled upon it in my drafts so I'll try to finish what I was talking about) saying things to make the FMC feel guilty about choosing the other guy (even in small things, not even dating the other guy, but like talking to him), letting/making the FMC feel as though she's the only one who knows him/what's going on for him.

The thing about The Hunger Games for me is that Suzanne Collins was pointing out how powerful people are (and have always) pointing attention towards entertainment, and especially romance, to distract from serious issues. In the books, the love triangle is hardly present (again, IMO) but the movies proved the point by drawing out the relationships and marketing the movies for the love triangle, which led many people to believe it was just a dumb storyline about a teenage girl who can't choose between two guys uwu, when in reality it was a social critique, told from a teenage girl without criticizing or belittling girls in any respect, and taught a generation about activism.

That is the crucial different between the two, to me. Hunger Games was meant as a social commentary in ya fiction form, which got marketed as a love triangle. Summer I Turned Pretty really is about the love triangle.

Belly in the first episode is reading the Hunger Games, in the 4th episode in the flashback we see she's watching the movie, do you think there's a connection with TSITP love triangle?

Wow , great question. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the hunger games… it wouldn’t be fair for me to make an analysis, but I’d like to think that Jenny never does anything unintentional. In season 1, Cam and Belly went to watch Sabrina at the drive in and the plot of the movie represents the triangle between Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah. There’s connections everywhere. My sister has seen Hunger Games and she said that there’s not even a love triangle that present. I know that Jere loves Belly, but it’s not as present and deep like I think Conrad’s love is. From what I heard, it seems like Katniss and Peeta’s relationship had the main focus and the third person of the triangle was there to spark things up between them. Same goes for TSITP, Belly and Conrad are beyond teenage love. They’re represented as a love that will always find their way back, no matter the obstacles, they’re meant for one another. The gravitational pull between Conrad and Belly is infinite, the light shines most on them. Jeremiah and Belly’s love is platonic, as teenagers and young adults that can get confused with being in love, but when it doesn’t feel right—you’ll just know. I’d love to hear your theories and connections.

I wanna say that every part of King of Attolia is my favorite part but possibly my favorite part is when Attolia goes “Relius. You are my oldest and most trusted advisor, who helped me keep my throne and committed your life to me. But you made a mistake, so I’m going to have to kill you.” And Relius goes “My queen, you are incredibly correct, that is 100% the right thing to do” and Gen is standing there like “wtf is wrong with you people, I thought I was the one with poor coping mechanisms”