Me After Completely Picking Apart A Book, Criticizing The Characters Endlessly, Nitpicking Everything:

Me after completely picking apart a book, criticizing the characters endlessly, nitpicking everything: it was great, you should read it.

thank u barbie for showing bi/lesbian solidarity

Scythe Thoughts

Chapter 8 - Chapter 13

Idk how Citra and Rowan aren’t shaking and crying rn, they’re stronger than me fr. If Someone asked me to leave my life to kill people everyday, I’d kill myself. Not only that’s such a morbid and sad way to live a long life and while I do hate my life, I have things I love about it and I wouldn’t leave it behind for that at all. Like I wanna go to parties, eat ice cream, find a boyfriend. Not spend the rest of my life attending funerals I caused. Idk how they don’t think about all this. I’d be crying myself to sleep every night

So if religion is no more how do wedding works? Are there even holidays or festivals? Like Christmas or Diwali or Ramadan?

Are there even different languages?

I still don’t get why exactly Citra and Rowan agreed to being apprentices, I know Citra has her brother but what about Rowan. And Citra’s brother isn’t a strong enough motivation imo. Like they barley mention their family, I think Citra mentioned him once after becoming an apprentice

So let me get the straight they don’t feel as strongly as we do? Their emotions are dulled by those nanites? So they’re basically on drugs or something?

Honestly I can’t imagine feeling dulled emotions, I’m numb half the time but once a month it’s feels good to let it out, to feel something

Hightlights

I need people to stop saying that Lockwood is like Kaz. Besides them calling their love interest an “asset” or “investment” they don’t have anything in common. At least I don’t see it.

Jacks and the Mirth Stone

**TBONA SPOILERS**

So we all know the mirth stone was inside the clock of The Hollow, right? And while Evangeline was there, she was having dreams of Chaos/Castor and LaLa, both warning her that she wasn’t safe with Jacks.

“You’ve been missing for weeks, Evangeline. We all thought you were dead until Jacks appeared a few days ago. I think he has the mirth stone and it’s clouding his judgement.”

They assumed he had the mirth stone — probably because of his unwillingness to bring Evangeline back, or tell them where she was. To keep her to himself, and not let her go. Maybe even because he seemed happy with her.

But Jacks didn’t have the mirth stone when he saw Chaos and LaLa. He wasn’t under its influence then, because it would’ve been in the clock, back at The Hollow, the whole time. It clearly wasn’t the mirth stone that made him keep Evangeline in The Hollow either, because while he was gone, and not feeling its effects, he still felt for her, and he came back. It seemed like it was only her rejection, when she told him nothing between them had been real, that triggered the journey back to Wolf Hall. Because he always knew exactly what he felt and what was real, even while he was away.

Chaos and LaLa thought THAT was the stone, but all they saw was his feelings for Evangeline, and he just hadn’t wanted to give her up.

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit