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I recently came upon the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire, I am almost up to date with the books and found out there are some additional short stories!

Even better you can read them for free here:

Juice Like Wounds (#4.5)

In Mercy, Rain (#7.5)

Skeleton Song (#7.7)

May you find your door and when you do – Be Sure! Happy reading 📚

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Belief in wayward children is soooo interesting to me

Spoilers for Every Heart a Doorway and Where Drowned girls go ahead

The act of believing is absolutely integral to this series. On some level: everyone knows the doors are real,

The people at the twin schools believe this to be fact, even if Whitethorn is designed to brainwash the belief out of its students and the teachers are nameless.

The principal, real and fake, both believe these doors are real, the kids on some level, believe these doors are real.

Cora starts Where Drowned Girls Go fully believing in The Doors and The Moors and the drowned gods that haunt her, she wants that haunting to stop so badly that she goes to whitethorn. There, they begin “teaching her to forget”

And yet.

She never forgets, she aches and yearns like everyone else there. She aches to feel water surround her, but she believes this is “helping” in so far as the rainbows and voices are fading and that will keep being the case as long as she stays up for air. It’s illustrated when she’s listening to Regan struggle during her “graduation”.

“Cora wouldn’t wait to be a Jack-o-lantern. Anything that meant she was still Cora in some way, and not the puppet of the Drowned Gods. She listened to Regan and she yearned, wishing with everything she had to be in the other girl’s shoes.”

Everyone aches and everyone years until they can bend themselves into the box whitethorn wants and then they can leave. Maybe.

Then Sumi shows up. The ultimate, absolute immovable object. She believes in what she wants and will bend and snap any system like perfectly tempered chocolate if it tries to change her. She knows for full blown fact how her story ends, she knows she goes home and she can extended that knowing to others, Cora included.

Cora comes to be a little more like Sumi, believing that she is more than strong enough to face down the Drowned Gods and tell them no. And she is. She makes their rainbows her own and she stops hearing their voices and plots an escape route for them all.

Cora and Sumi are good case studies on what belief can do in this world and that brings me to the reason Every Heart a Doorway is in the spoilers.

Doctor Katherine Lundy.

Kade says during the first book that Lundy thinks in stories. She thinks in beginnings, middles and endings.

Lundy is given a very high position of power, Eleanor’s right hand and the kids therapist, she uses this power well and treats her patients kindly. The kids love her, Eleanor loves her, Kade loves her and she loves them all in turn.

Everyone trusts Lundy

Everyone believes Lundy.

So when she tells the kids that lightning is more likely to strike twice in the same place than they are to find their door home, they believe her.

This is a belief Lundy carries into her grave and I think it’s a belief that dies with her.

The Wolcott twins go home after she dies, Nancy goes home shortly after everything has settled, a door from Confection opens DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL at the end of Where Drowned Girls Go.

It’s easier to openly believe in an everyday nightmare then to admit you believe in a beautiful dream, so the kids took Lundy at her word and locked up any hope they had left. Especially when the only women with a counter opinion accidentally looks like a hypocrite because her door is literally still there waiting for her.

I think Lundy’s belief leaked out into the students and kept many of them there. Of course this doesn’t make her bad or a villain by any means. I think she’s a testament to words having mass, unintended affects on people. Affects so deep it can change the very world around them.

I don’t know how to end this ramble thingy but I needed to thought vomit about these books they make me crazzyyyyyyy

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Wayward Children moodboards cuz this was too long to be a reblog! And for the same reason, this isn’t everybody!

These are in introduction order cuz I felt like it. Some titles are made up, cuz I wanted to do titles and I don’t like inconsistency.

Nancy Whitman: The Living Statue

Eleanor West: The Waiting Women

Onishi Sumi: The Candy War Hero

Kade Bronson/West: The Goblin Prince in Waiting

Dr. Jack Wolcott: The Mad Scientists Apprentice

Jill Wolcott: The Master’s Daughter

Katherine Lundy: The Hero of the Goblin Market

Christopher Flores: The Prince of Skeletons to-be

Cora Miller: The Hero of The Trenches

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Sometimes you go into your sketchbook from 2018 and you find a random gag from Comes Tumbling Down and it still makes you laugh out loud.

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“I think the rules were different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn’t care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.”

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9 HD posters of "Flow", the magnificent 2nd feature film by Gints Zilbalodis.

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props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack. 

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anybody wanna hear about my google translate multiverse concept??

:D

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New Orleans

Las Vegas

New York City

Boston

Chosen based on the specific intensity of the vibes: you could never confuse these with any other big cities.

looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?

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Is it weird or is it ✨️iconic✨️

If You Were a Fictional Character

I've seen a few moots doing this and it looked fun!

* Make this picrew of yourself

* Take this uquiz (How Fandom Would See You If You Were A Fictional Character)

...yeah that seems about right 😅🫠

Not sure who's done this already so tagging the besties @thetumblingmoron @redheadsramblings @woundedsoul12 @the-bear-and-his-sunbird @aurorabiggs @thepalehorsevictoria @kiir-do-faal-rahhe and anyone else who would like to play!

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Two weeks to go Rise Fam!

Remember! Even if you can’t draw! You can post! You can spam the hashtags! You can like, share, and support!

And most importantly, YOU CAN WATCH AND STREAM THE MOVIE IF YOU HAVE NETFLIX/PARAMOUNT! Together we can make a giant wave! Let’s do it!

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I think mirror Spock pushing Bones against a wall is in the top ten hottest moments of tv and I don’t know what that says about me as a person but goddamn.

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RISE OF THE TMNT ART BOOK ANNOUNCED

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I'm reading the scriptwriters' guide for TOS and it's cracking me up in many places. It's so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.

First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?

Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!

The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.

For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!

No saluting! Yes optimism!

There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!

Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."

And to wrap up:

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Oh heck yeah, TOS Jim Kirkw was absolutely the first time I understood the role of a leader and what made a GOOD leader. He's not perfect, but the respect he gives to his crew is a big part in what leads them to return it tenfold. And when he asks for miracles he gets them because he knows they're capable of it. Inspirational.

One of my biggest pet peeves with Jim Kirk's fanon/fanfic characterization is how so much of the time he's depicted as stupid...not just because he's standing next to Spock for comparison, but straight up lacking intelligence.

And I gotta be honest it DOES rub me the wrong way sometimes. I do think a lot of it comes from this puritanical belief that, somehow, people who are charismatic and gregarious and extroverted and like to have a good time are *incapable* of being intelligent and that's just not true. VS Spock, of course, fills the "virtuous enlightened smart guy" stereotype (read: doesn't fuck, isn't sociable, has never been to a party, doesn't act out or misbehave, etc.) very naturally. It's easy for us as the audience to believe he's intelligent because of it.

But Spock and Jim are shown to be equally matched at every turn, and they have a deep mutual respect. Jim is NOT dumber than Spock, and I doubt Spock would be nearly as loyal to Kirk as he is if he held that opinion of him. I think where he and Kirk differ is that while Spock has the edge on Jim when it comes to encyclopedic knowledge and mental math, Jim is definitely more emotionally intelligent. That's why he's the captain, afterall.

Spock is often alienated from the crew because he doesn't realize he's talking over people's heads. And yet, we see time and again that Jim is 100% capable of following along with all the technical jargon Spock and Scotty throw at him!!! The fact that Jim talks to others on their level--in layman's terms, with familiarity and a sense of humor, allowing others the chance to be the expert in the room, listens to what they have to say instead of acting like he knows everything--is a CHOICE that he makes, deliberately, and is HUGE sign of emotional intelligence, not ignorance.

Anyway tl;dr it really grinds my gears when Jim is written like a dumbass who failed general physics or makes idiotic, reckless decisions and succeeds only on luck and the crew covering his ass at the end of the day. Actually, I think TOS Jim is one of the few well-written leaders in fiction because we ALWAYS see him weighing the opinions and insights of the experts in the crew before making a final call.

Someone who's genuinely intelligent but also self-secure isn't trying to be the smartest guy in the room all the time. To me, Jim is someone who lets his actions speak for themselves.