so if you remember last november- I said I was working on a TAZ project that came to nothing! this was what I was doing! i decided to stop working on it because i think i improved so much in those months I was doing it that the styles just look weird next to each other- plus other amazing artists had already done it! but i credit a lot of my improvement to this project so it felt weird just sitting on my computer. so— here! (oh also i have my editing notes in here- so enjoy that insight lol)
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Seems
to me, the last man standing gets final say on who is right or wrong.
I know you think you’ve lost everything, but you haven’t. You have me, you have Charles… you have more family than you know. You never had the chance to save your family before, but you do now. That’s what I’ve come here to tell you.
okay but things that are tragically funny in High School Musical 2:
- Troy Bolton being weird and passive-aggressive because he thinks his gay classmate, Ryan, is trying to steal his girlfriend
- Ryan not picking up on this heterosexual bullshit and being genuinely baffled when his polite small talk doesn’t get the expected reaction
Can’t you see it?
“[Flint and Silver’s] was a complicated relationship with a lot going on under the surface. Starz gave us the freedom to allow some of these relationships to exist without specific labels and to embrace that people don’t always say what they’re feeling and exist in the space that people don’t even know about themselves.” [x]
I think Flint knew, but Silver? No way. He barely knew that he loved Madi and she was a beautiful, brilliant princess, there’s no way he knew he loved Flint. You can explain it as internalized homophobia, trauma related to male figures in his past, or simply not wanting to process that he loved this terrible hurricane of a man known as Flint…but he did love him.
OP tags: #ugh the scenes keep getting brighter#until it finally hits him/he can’t hide it any longer
T’was not I who raised an army of faithful to storm this land, Inquisitor.
aesthetic book recommendations: The Bartimaeus Trilogy
“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can’t see one.”
Honestly one of my favorite book series ever written, we don’t talk nearly enough about it.
Why aren’t we talking about the Bartimaeus Trilogy more?
Like, this book series is amazing. First of all it stars a sarcastic djinn and his misadventures with a young boy wizard who isn’t painted as this perfect kind hero. Nathaniel isn’t a sugar coated chosen one. He’s a flawed boy who makes selfish choices and who ultimately has to learn how to overcome his own selfish ambition. His talent gets him into more trouble than not, and it’s refreshing to see this change in YA lit.
Secondly, the books are totally about class revolution as the trilogy centers around magicians being the top elite 1% as they use their magic to control the populace and wage wars with other nations (America included). As the stories unfold we learn to question who are and who are not the actual heroes of the trilogy as we learn more about the government and the resistance fighting back.
Thirdly, the books are set in this unique alternate history where a lot of our real world events happened, but things have been drastically affected by magic. For instance, the American Revolution never properly took place as the British had demons and magic to fight the rebellion. Additionally, the Native Americans had their own magic and summons, so colonists were never able to get further than the East coast, so most of what we hear about America in the trilogy is about guerilla warfare being fought in the Appalachian mountains.
Fourthly, the books address that adults and guardians aren’t necessarily good. It flips the trope of the wise magician mentor trope on its head, and it presents a pretty frustrating, if not more realistic, representation of power struggles between the government and the people, masters and apprentices, parental figures and wards, and magicians and demons.
Fifthly, and most importantly, Bartimaeus’ footnotes and quips are legendary. Bartimaeus may be a djinn bound to serve whoever summons him, but he does not give in or fawn over his masters. He has more salt than a winter road, and he is eager to season everything with it.
So yeah, if you like shape shifting snarky demons, reimagined histories, and revolution against oppressors (that is not told in the typical dystopian sort of way) then the Bartimaeus Trilogy is for you.
gayspacepirates backup 