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rip Joseph Kavinsky

you could have had an amazing character development

you could have healed

you could have had actual friends

you could have been so so much more

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treasure planet writers: parental abandonment is a wound that never truly heals. it shapes a child in a very specific, very painful way. it leaves them longing for love for the rest of their life and, even worse, it convinces them they are intrinsically unworthy of that love. they feel they must beg and bargain and work for every ounce of affection and attention they receive. many children are plunged into poverty in the wake of the abandonment, causing them to fall even further through the cracks as their life becomes about survival. some of them internalize their anger and shame to the point that they become self-destructive, shutting out their loved ones and sabotaging their own success. in short, the effect of abandonment upon a child cannot be overstated.

treasure planet audience: hell yeah space pirates

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In the name of karmic balance and reparations I think the graphic novel writers should make Kavinsky Worse. Let him call Ronan a faggot

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so we all agree dream thieves is the best book in the original quartet right?

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one night stand except instead of sex we tell each other all the secrets we won’t—can’t—tell anyone we know. and then we never see each other again

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AND THE WINNER OF THE DISNEY TOURNAMENT IS.....TREASURE PLANET!!!!!!!!

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i know i’m getting ahead of myself but i just got so excited for the dream thieves graphic novel… like the kavinsky dramaaa, him and ronan drinking and dreaming in the woods full of white mitsubishis, the blaring sun on the manmade lake, the gray man!!!!!!!! i’m curious how k will look, he’s not quite as clear in my mind as other characters are but i’m sure that his design will be as satisfying as the rest of them are so far :)

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A mark on your forehead identifies the god you must worship to stay alive, usually by joining its local church or temple. Your mark is unknown, meaning an old, forgotten god sponsored you. To survive, you must either find an old temple to worship at, or do the arduous task of building a new one

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Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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I totally gasped the same thing boy but not with the same emotions...

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if you think about it kavinsky almost definitely thought ronan killed his dad too. that’s gotta be part of the reason he was so obsessive.

k’s got this trauma and secret weighing on him so heavily and isolating him from everyone until he finds out that kid who’s dad was mysteriously murdered is a dreamer too. especially considering ronan was the one who found the body and he immediately shifts to become aggressive, impulsive, and starts avoiding everyone. k mistakes the clear signs of ptsd for signals that they’re the same.

in kavinsky’s mind he’s finally found someone who will understand everything he went through and all of his fucked up coping and communication. he creates this ideal image of ronan as his last chance at a genuine connection with anyone, with no secrets in between them. the ronan in his mind is patient with k’s addictions, trauma, and tendency to push people away because he understands all the reasons behind it.

they’re both dreamers, gay in a small town, labeled as aggressive and outcasted, and in k’s mind, both victims as abuse who managed to outsmart their abusers. ronan’s everything he’d been craving.

when ronan rejects him and essentially calls k delusional for thinking they could ever be the same, k loses not just a boy but the very chance to ever be understood and accepted by anyone. if someone who he thinks went through the same shit as him still thinks he’s too fucked up to care about, then he’s got no chance. he’d rather die and drag everyone down with him than spend the rest of his life isolated and hated by everyone around.

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unreasonably into kavinsky this reread. hes the worst, hes complete trash, i love him. wdym he makes his crush bracelets and looks at ronan and says "i know what you are" and then shows him his dream mitsubishi graveyard thats fucking hilarious.

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just thought about treasure planet i need to sit down

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I chase the feeling of The Raven Cycle like Gansey chased Glendower. I will not explain further.

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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what could have been

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i cannot stand the “let men be friends” thing anymore. no it’s gay now. really gay. Sorry