The Final Part.

the Final Part.

The entirtey of Chapter 61 is fantastic.

62 is so good too, them just rolling around making up for years of kisses in one night...

Baz finding food for Simon again...

I wish Baz had taken Simon up on the offer to see a psychiatrist (it's a throwaway line in the epilogue). He could probably benefit from some therapy.

When Baz shows Simon his fangs- undisputed proof he is a vampire- the only thing Simon thinks to say is "Wicked,"

Vera is a real one for ignoring the fact that she saw the two making out...

Simon running to Baz's house because he just learned that he is madly l love...

Okay on to the final part....

"I'm sorry all the good stuff happened after I left you,"

That line tore me up a little bit.

The Mage would have destroyed the Humdrum with Simon's power, probably in the exact same way Simon did (IF the Mage could have given up any kind of power). He just wanted it for himself.

There is no way that the Mage ever saw Simon as a child, to Davy, Simon was only power. As soon as he saw Simon as a child, he was disappointed.

Simon picked up on some of the Mage's ideas about him, highlighted in his conversation with Baz. But he is not his magick, the magick was one component of who he is. He survived before and he will survive after.

The Mage is such a complicated and nuanced character. He has some good ideas with his reforms and he opened Watford up to hundreds of students. But he went about it in the wrong way and traumatized Simon, made Baz a vampire, and killed Natasha and l

I’ll finish this post out with a good old

FUCK THE MAGE.

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”.

god gives his toughest battles to his cuntiest soldiers

I love Fairy Tail Zerø so much. Something about the characters is so endearing. Mavis has all the ambition and heart it takes to create a guild. Yuri has the energy and reckless abandon that the guild later embodies. Warrod has the heart of the guild and Precht has the brains. They were all a perfect match for each other.

Zera’s story hurts me fundamentally. She and Mavis agreed to be friends right as Zera died, then Mavis inadvertently created the illusion so she wouldn’t be lonely. The boys caught on so quickly and it was so kind of them to pretend with Mavis. They never once let slip that they couldn’t see her.

Zeref and Mavis. These two are so tragic. Mavis knew his curse on the spot and was able to relieve his loneliness for a little while. I can’t believe their story later on. It’s terrible what they (specifically Mavis) have to go through.

Anyways, Fairy Tail Zerø is so close to my heart. I cried so many times through but that’s alright. These kids deserve a few tears. I think the ‘what comes next’ blurb at the end severely downplays what actually happened to all these characters. They all met such a tragic end, save Warrod (who suffered too. He lost his best friends to horrible circumstances). I’m so close to the end of the series it’s insane…

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…

How am I supposed to be okay with this? I want to read about their wedding and marriage and mortgage so badly…

rainbow rowell just casually confirming simon and baz are married with absolutely no warning 😭

I found it… I wrote an entire fanfiction based on this exchange, but at the time I couldn’t find it for the life of me. Randomly scrolling today, I found it.

Anyways, the fic is: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54709297 If you’re interested.

ok but this is so on brand for them 😂