@worth-this-and-more FOR SOME REASON I CANT VERIFY MY EMAIL AND CANT SEND MESSAGES IM SORRY IT'LL HAVE

@worth-this-and-more FOR SOME REASON I CANT VERIFY MY EMAIL AND CANT SEND MESSAGES IM SORRY IT'LL HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS BUT HERE ARE THE PICS AGAIN AND HOPEFULLY COMPLETELY THIS TIME? I put them in order as best as i could... I also got the pics from someone else, so, when the pov shift happens its so abrupt it seems like smthng is missing, idk if there is, but yh i dont have it sorryy 😔 idk have fun reading tho!

He is a simp..

(my art please dont steal 🎀)

YES YOU'RE RIGHT. TRACY IS SWEET. TRACY IS SWEET. TRACY IS SWEET. TRACY IS SWEET.

Antihero arc nick would be SOMETHING 👀 but REGENT ALICE? i don't think i would survive that.. it'd be bomb asf im not denying that but i love her with my whole heart if she becomes evil.... Or do u mean she becomes a good regent?

Im so worried ab the disappearing merlins i do think it's liked to natasia & sel (natasia 🌹)

TRACY SAID MORE WILLARK 🥳 but this prolly means he wont be going with sel, instead staying with william (win)

AND DAYUM we all dislike tor but when i read that i was SHOOK like AT THE HANDS OF ALICE okaaAAAYYYY (i support tho)

Help i did misspell omg 💀💀

SO WE KNOW TRACY DEONN WATCHED JJK.

HOW COOKED ARE WE?

Im following the jjk manga right so when i finished BM i was like, yk what idrc who she ends up with i just want the main 5 to STAY ALIVE. (will, alice, nick, bree, sel)

BUT NOW THAT WE KNOW SHE WATCHED JJK... (after shibuya arc was released, we dont know if she follows/read the manga) IF ANYONE OF THEM DIES IM GONNA #$¢€§%×$"

but like i mean if she was gonna kill off alice she would have killed her and not put her in a coma right??? I mean why would you do that just for her not to wake up right?? RIGHT?

im honestly terrified that william might be killed off. But also greatly intrigued in his arc, what do yall think it will be?

ALSO THE OATHBOUND BLURP IN TRACY'S NEWSLETTER (and prolly website not sure) WDYM KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED MERLINS??? DOES THAT INCLUDE LARK?

Im going to tweak

Wait no but what if lark dying is for williams arc / char dev? Like he already lost whitty? (And broke up with his bf)

I just pray for my pookies to stay alive bro... 😭😭

I don't know....how Bree knew Nick invoked the same feeling of safeness in Sel as he did in her... how when Nick saw Sel in the blood walk he reached for him... how they clasped each other's necks, foreheads touching, breathing in the same air... how they had been fighting so long they forgot how they grew up together and trained together and how it felt t be together... how what brought Nick out of hiding was the feeling of his Oath, thinking Sel had died... how amazing their connection is even though we as readers are seeing their relationship at the worst it's ever been

THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Discord Thoughts

So basically this is room for me to talk about things in the Discord that inspired/reminded me of certain things, that I wanted to say but the conversation moved on, etc. In other words, I’m just rambling here. But y’all seem to like that, so here. No particular ordering of anything besides the order they came up-and some of them might be from my irl friends, I’m not actually sure.

Alice as Regent/Squire

Staying Close

Root Will Save Him

Willark VS Brelwyn

This might be my Brel Glasses, but it seems like William and Lark are intentionally the opposite of Bree and Sel. We don’t see them much, but we do know a few things: William is unquestionably good and pure, neither of them seem like they’re going to make a move, and Lark is remarkably perceptive about Brel.

1. William and Sel are surprisingly accurate foils. (Is it still a foil when they’re kind of opposites?) One is lawful good (and is proud of that) and the other is chaotic good. One is human, one is demon. One is never going to hurt anyone unless he absolutely has to, the other is… uh, Sel. Obviously both are generally ‘good,’ but Sel is fighting off an internal chaotic evil demon-not exactly going to blame him for being less than angelic. Also considering William has always been a safe space for Bree, particularly when Sel’s actively hunting her, and that they’re friends? It starts to feel intentional. Am I making any sense at all?

2. Both Lark and William are the definition of incredibly adorable gay panic.

Instalove VS Devotion

Okay, this is the first one I’m actually typing out bc I have the most to say about it and it’s probably the least coherent. Thanks @paigeagainstdamachine for making a vague comment that started this whole train-

I’m not saying instalove is ‘bad,’ or that her relationship with Nick is somehow fake because it was fast. Let’s get that out of the way. You can absolutely have a fast romance that is still incredibly real and long-lasting-see my parents, who were dating for 6 months before getting engaged and are still married after ~25 years.

But I will say that as someone currently in high school… I’ve seen this movie a lot. It’s true love with the boy who just moved in next door, until he’s not new and shiny anymore and you start seeing all the shitty parts of his personality. He’s not a bad person, either-just one too many red flags or negatives, but it’s not like he’s abusive or cheating or anything.

This doesn’t have to echo in Legendborn. I do believe that Nick genuinely loves Bree, and that it’s mutual. (At the very least, whatever they have is more than just friendship.) I’m just… if they’re endgame, they shouldn’t feel so immature. Yes, they’re adorable (especially in LB), but it feels like a high school romance-and it is. It feels like my brother’s senior relationship-they were going to different colleges and both agreed that they probably wouldn’t be able to manage long-distance, so there was a time limit from the beginning. I can’t actually explain why Brick feels so… young? It just does.

Brel, on the other hand? Yeah, ofc it’s also a high school romance, but like… there is so much trust and devotion and it feels natural. They have the kind of relationship where you actually can stay friends when you break up because you just fit together. Then again, I’m just a sucker for well-written edgy demon boys, so I could be a little biased. They fight, but a healthy relationship isn’t defined by ‘we don’t ever fight.’ It’s defined by ‘we can forgive and forget.’ It’s defined by ‘no matter how angry I might be towards you, whatever mistakes you’ve made, I don’t want you to suffer.’ And that’s exactly what Sel and Bree have found.

“We fought…”

“We’ll always fight, I think.”

They fight, and they move on. They forgive. They love the other no matter what. And not to be a Sel apologist, but uhh this is exactly the kind of relationship he’s needed for so long and as much as the “I can fix him” mindset is awful she literally is giving him a reason to be a good person. Both make really big mistakes, and they get mad, say and do things they shouldn’t… but they always, always come back together.

HELPP

Oh damn time zones, yeah you should sleep!

The sel pov story also provides more reason why nick punched sel, good content for you! :D

(more sel appreciators! Hurrah!)

And no problem for the extra content 🙏🙏 lets end this thread here maybe its rlly long 😅💗 goodnigjt! 🎀

blue: pjo mention red: legendborn cycle mention black: jst in general i honestly don't care much about the shipping portion of books. like, pjo; there are a lot of other interesting plot points than ships and pjo's never been just about romance yk? it's about so many other things. sometimes, shipping ruins shit for a fandom, especially when people are out here harassing people for harmless ships. when i say harmless ships, i mean ships that don't have pedophilia, zoophilia, incest, and more. scarily enough, there are plenty of ships like that I'm gonna choose not to tag or comment because lowkey interacting with people who scream at you for not liking their ship is something way too common in the fandom. also, legendborn. this book series has a lot going for it (if it can get better after bloodmarked..) but i see a lot of people only focusing on the shipping portion which is very strange to me. this book is about representation and ancestry and finding your roots, not about which boy bree should kiss. i mean, is the romance cute? sure. but let's stop shoving aside the actual plot for it also, mind you, the amount of people i've seen getting attacked for not being a big fan of canon ships is insane. some people think canon is some kind of holy grail, and that changing it is akin to sacrilege and I just do not get it. why does canon matter if some guy says “I’d prefer it to be like this”, and it's still an innocent ship? it’s just an excuse for people who clearly need to go outside to say “uhm actually you’re having fun wrong 🤓, leave this fandom now, you don't deserve to be here”. but also, mind you, if someone makes an anti post of your favorite ship or character /or/ a pro post of your least favorite, stop going after them. damn. scroll past. even block them if you want. it's not difficult. people are entitled to their own opinions and they can choose for themselves what characters they like and dont like. would you like to be attacked for liking/disliking a character? of course not. literally no one wants to wake up to that. TL;DR: sometimes, shipping can ruin a fandom, especially when people harass people over it, and canon doesn't have to be followed, and sometimes anti/pro really isn't that deep when it comes to book characters