I Cant Believe Septimus Heap Art Is On My Feed

I cant believe Septimus Heap art is on my feed

Jenna Heap redraws!! I’m falling back into the obsession…

One of my favorite parts of any fantasy, including Keeper of the Lost Cities, is the inclusion of multiple races. My Roman Empire (one of six, anyways, lol) is the idea that humans could've been alive when other "homo-" species and Neanderthals and stuff existed and the fact that they would've had to interact. It's the same with the question, "What would happen if aliens came to Earth?" There's this weird knowledge that they are also intelligent and have these similar processes to us but they have fundamental differences to us, because they're different species.

Maybe it's because they're slightly less developed ("perfected"), such as Neanderthals to humans or us to some weird scifi aliens. Maybe it's because they have longer life spans (Fae, elves, vampires, y'know) or they live in completely different places with maybe different magic systems or something (mermaids who live in the OCEAN with more storm powers and powers of seduction versus fairies who typically live in more natural areas than humans with weird druggy shiz and mischievous abilities or sometimes nature powers/godlike ones).

Either way, there's a deep dive into completely different habitats and biological patterns and in a good one it might even have to look at what makes humanity what it is. Why is this species different from humans? What fundamental traits do humans have that they maybe don't, or have a more evolved form of? That's also why I am happy to see Shannon at least mention that cultural progress and innovation is so slow in the Lost Cities versus in the human world because she takes this idea of mortality rushing humans to do things faster versus immortality kind of allowing elves to be more sluggish.

Sophie coming to the Lost Cities, and even being born in the first place, ushers in a weird sense of urgency to the elven world that they hadn't had before. More death, more reform, more modernistic ideals slamming into their society before they can fully comprehend it as a human raised girl and two organizations who have studied humans extensively all try to change the world.

Gnomes are pretty cool for this reason too since they're so different in their plantiness and alternative powers and different diseases. They are so clearly different from other species and I think its interesting they seem to care a little less about the fact that they were literally uprooted from their home than they should be. As plant humans, they also probably care more about their own survival and sticking around than the reforms that other species might start which is why once they root themselves in the backyards of elvin homes they're content remaining there.

I mean teens dye their hair colors all the time, I just figured Maruca was having fun adding a new color to her hair. It didnt need to have story significance imo. Or is that not what was being talked about?

genuinely don't believe they will get that far, but if they do, i hope the kotlc moviemakers don't do the thing with tam and linh's hair. and maruca's

Not to mention, there's a lot less that needs to be excused because fandom really blowed his wrongdoings out of proportion

something for the mind to think about b4 drifting off to sleep is how the whole Fitz discourse changed for the better over the years ive been part of the kotlc fandom (which is about 4 years now)

now i admit i was a proud and loud Fitz hater but i started rereading the series and while, yes, he does make some mistakes we have to keep in mind the fact that this is a teenager and literally what teenager has gone through these years of learning how to live life without making mistakes?

all that im saying is that if we as a collective can excuse Keefe for being a flawed person, so we can with Fitz

AND LETS NOT FORGET!! THE FACT THAT BEING A GOLDEN CHILD DOES COME WITH GOOD AND BAD STUFF. while yes, he was being favored by Alden and people in general and overall being perceived as the standard in the elvin world, he is a living person that should be allowed to make mistakes, and being constantly perceived and judged cannot not leave a mental toll on you, and i think we overlook his trauma.

anyway if you read my entire rant tysm ily i hope u have a good day/night, stay safe out there!!

When I have genuinely said something is cringy, its because it gave me a physical visceral reaction and I almost cried, looked away as hard as possible and/or nesr vomited. Most of the time, I'm cringing at things I have done or photos of myself, or some form of gore and mention of body parts that isn't just blood (idky, but blood is the only thing that doesn't scare me about bodies). Ooh, or in my sisters' case when I don't like how they dress. That's it.

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Even underachievers cant live secure fulfilled lives. Underachievers probably don't even make enough to buy a house and go to school probably. And then everything is meaningless because you strive for nothing so I think it is actually better to overwork yourself but have a drive and goals that still get completed. Whats even better than both of these is just being an achiever. A very slight overachiever even.

the world is full of insecure overachievers. have you tried being a secure underachiever? you'll have more life in you that way