— Jonathan Safran Foer
Golden child, Lion boy; Tell me what it's like to conquer. Fearless child, Broken boy; Tell me what it's like to burn.
—oh darling, even Rome fell // p.s.
Any Heartless fans out there?
Been rereading The Kings of Clonmel lately and I'm pretty sure that's what sums up Halt and Ferris' relationship
Kaider Wedding Portrait version two~ (version one)
Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025
“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”
How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops
As much as I absolutely regret spoiling most of the RA series for myself (I unfortunately have the self-control of a five year old, and the wisdom of a duck) it’s admittedly kind of fun watching pieces of future plot-lines slide into place without any foreknowledge about how it will. Examples, and huge spoilers ahead:
• Halt ‘lying’ to Deparnieux about being Hibernian royalty. And then denying that he was to Horace afterwards. Crazy work. It felt like I possessed illegal knowledge.
• Malkallum actually being Malcom. I was aware of there being a healer named Malcom, but little else, so I was somewhat excited to put together that they were the same person.
• Not as much of a connection, but I definitely got wide-eyed when I read that Tennyson was working with the Genovesan assassins (which is where I left off, so… I guess I can’t say no spoilers but I still hope to be a little left in the dark for Halt’s Peril lol).
Moral of the story — don’t read fanfic until you’ve finished reading/watching all the canon content. But there are sometimes some pros that come along with knowing stuff prematurely. Still, it’s hardly worth it in the long-run :,)
and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be lifted—nevermore! ••• nineteen years of living on this planet and still somehow unable to make connections properly • infp 9w1 • in a perpetual state of indecision between reading or writing more • trying to maintain a sense of whimsy admist the gruelling nature of everyday life•••ranger’s apprentice • the lunar chronicles • the hunger games (and many more)
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