Simon In The First 150 Pages Of Carry On

Simon in the first 150 pages of Carry On

god gives his toughest battles to his cuntiest soldiers

Fuck it was disappointing. No Hermit and Weiss being a couple as they deserve. And Shikka was OFFSCREENED. OFF. SCREENED. THE MAIN SHIP. WE DONT EVEN SEE THEIR FUCKING CHILD. This and Noragami needed 5 more chapters and it would’ve been perfect.

Not me delusionally thinking that if I don’t read the final chapter of EDENS ZERO it will never happen…

I’m rereading Carry On for the 4th time in less than 18 months and here are some things that stuck out to me. I was reading around a friend and they were so suprised about how into the story I was. But it’s Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha. How could you read it and not be fully engrossed? Anyways:

Simon and Agatha didn’t believe for a second Simon would live past this year. That’s why she broke up with him, because she thought she was dating a future funeral.

Penelope is in denial about Simon’s fragility. She believes that Simon would manage to live through the Humdrum if she also fights hard enough.

Simon- Baz’s-eyes-are-the-shade-of-gray-that-happens-when-you-mix-dark-blue-and-dark-green-together Snow.

Simon is obsessed with Baz because Baz represents what the Mage is fighting against. Dark creatures, the Old Families, power. He notices all that as a rebellion.

Also, head over heels in love. But we’ll get to that.

The Mage did everything to fix Simon. Instead of, I don’t know, being a good dad, he became headmaster, did away with the oral exams, reformed the entry so anyone (Simon) could enter, made Simon his heir, gave Simon his sword and wand, started raiding homes for artifacts to fix a child HE broke and made numpties kidnap Baz, and tried to get Simon away from Watford so Simon wouldn’t hear any visitings. Just keep the kid around, man.

Fuck the Mage.

Rainbow putting 3 straight chapters of Baz’s POV is such a good move. She was obsessed with him, Simon was too, and the world deserved as much Baz as we could get.

I will forever love how the millisecond we get Baz reflecting on himself, we get the line “And I’m hopelessly in love with him”.

Part two:

It’s totally normal to know exactly the features your sworn enemy has.

Simon didn’t hesitate for a second to help Baz. And he was absolutely willing to skip all lessons to find Natasha’s killer.

I’m talking about both of them. Simon talks about how Baz has ‘a face for pouting’ and Baz goes on a full monologue on how basic and blue Simon’s eyes are.

The Mage is spending so much time searching for an answer to Simon. But Simon doesn’t need an answer, he just needs someone to love him.

I’m rereading Carry On for the 4th time in less than 18 months and here are some things that stuck out to me. I was reading around a friend and they were so suprised about how into the story I was. But it’s Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha. How could you read it and not be fully engrossed? Anyways:

Simon and Agatha didn’t believe for a second Simon would live past this year. That’s why she broke up with him, because she thought she was dating a future funeral.

Penelope is in denial about Simon’s fragility. She believes that Simon would manage to live through the Humdrum if she also fights hard enough.

Simon- Baz’s-eyes-are-the-shade-of-gray-that-happens-when-you-mix-dark-blue-and-dark-green-together Snow.

Simon is obsessed with Baz because Baz represents what the Mage is fighting against. Dark creatures, the Old Families, power. He notices all that as a rebellion.

Also, head over heels in love. But we’ll get to that.

The Mage did everything to fix Simon. Instead of, I don’t know, being a good dad, he became headmaster, did away with the oral exams, reformed the entry so anyone (Simon) could enter, made Simon his heir, gave Simon his sword and wand, started raiding homes for artifacts to fix a child HE broke and made numpties kidnap Baz, and tried to get Simon away from Watford so Simon wouldn’t hear any visitings. Just keep the kid around, man.

Fuck the Mage.

Rainbow putting 3 straight chapters of Baz’s POV is such a good move. She was obsessed with him, Simon was too, and the world deserved as much Baz as we could get.

I will forever love how the millisecond we get Baz reflecting on himself, we get the line “And I’m hopelessly in love with him”.

I always read through Wayward Son as fast as possible because if I focus for even a second on Baz and Simon’s relationship I start crying. They feel as if they don’t deserve each other and can’t talk it out. Simon is too insecure to talk about any of it. It’s sad and too relatable and the traumatic things that they’ve gone through are mentioned so briefly it’s easier to ignore them. It’s such a good book, and one of my favorites of all time.