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people on insta are so afraid of nuanced takes. like how are you 25 having the same (wrong) opinion i had at 12.

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I'm not a fan of Taryn, but sometimes I can't help but wonder how she must have felt like seeing her husband take lovers right in front of her, while ignoring her, or her waiting for him to come home for weeks, but he is almost always away. And how satisfying it must have been to watch the life leave his eyes. And that maybe this is not the first time she attacks him with a weapon-

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proud to say i’ve always been team conrad (i watch the show through twitter)

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do i recommend keeper to my brother or do i let him grow up normal

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saw a reel calling fitz a manchild and there were no comments defending him 😭😭😭😭 i hate that app

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saw a reel calling fitz a manchild and there were no comments defending him 😭😭😭😭 i hate that app

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unpopular opinion but like its annoying when ppl make up that fitz was abused by alden lol. of course it’s fine to have headcanons but like in canon alden and fitz have a great relationship and he was always supported and loved by his father

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If alvar dies a “hero” I will throw the book across the room so fast. I hope we just never hear about him again he can go and do whatever the fuck he is doing now away from the cast. I would’ve preferred him dead but I guess you can’t wish for the impossible.

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unpopular kotlc opinion but i lowkey hate the newer characters

like don’t get me wrong i fw the characterization of maruca, wylie, etc but i feel like i just don’t care very much about any characters introduced (or became important) after lodestar bc they just feel unimportant and are taking up too much page time that could be given to older characters like… say for instance, dEX

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this has prob been done but I had to do the Barbie meme lol

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someone give fitz an award. not for anything in particular he just kinda thrives on the validation

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Shannon does not take advantage of the fact that Sophie and Fitz know like a ton of stuff about each other enough

I need more (lighthearted) blackmail I need more incessant teasing more random inside jokes

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I have come to the conclusion that

Tumblr hates Keefe and loves Fintan

Pinterest hates Fitz and loves Keefe

Reddit hates Sophie.

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SEE-ruh ?????????????????

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i wonder how disappointed the vackers were that alden’s first child was a vanisher

the pressure alden and della probably felt to have another kid and the shame alvar must have felt for something he couldn’t control

it would’ve happened when alvar was a teen too so there must have been so many expectations and so much excitement only for it all to come crashing down when he manifested

alvar must have felt like he had to do so much to make up for the fact that he wasn’t a telepath

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i feel like some of you need to do a better job of understanding that if keefe was in fitz’s position he would care about matchmaking just as much as fitz does

the only reason keefe does not care about matchmaking is because he does not care how it reflects on his family because they suck. being a bad match is like a win-win situation for him. he can piss off his abusive father and be with sophie. honestly being a bad match is the easiest choice he could ever make. there's no struggle to overcome with regards to matchmaking because he's already decided he wants to do whatever he can to piss off his family

fitz, on the other hand, literally says that the reason he couldn't handle being a bad match is because it would reflect poorly on his family. he doesn't think he can deal with his family who he loves because they aren't abusive having to put up with the consequences of his actions

people are such romantic fools about matchmaking and the way it's portrayed in canon . . . i'm sure the idea of being willing to throw away society's expectations for the sake of love is nice and all, but realistically speaking it's selfish, because it reflects poorly on people close to you as well. and being a bad match is no small scandal. it's a huge, devastating thing that will follow you for the rest of your life. people will stare. gossip about you. all the works. and all that will happen to the people you love too . . . obviously if you want desperately to be with someone and are willing to put up with it all, that's a show of love. but in keefe's case you cannot discuss his relationship to matchmaking without bringing up the fact that he will not have to deal with what likely makes being a bad match a scary possibility to most people, because he does not give one single shit what people think of his father. all those consequences are gone for him, and with it, a large part of the burden of being a bad match. that's something that he and fitz do not and will never share and why being a bad match is something that terrifies fitz more than it does keefe

throw in the fact that fitz's family is legendary and you have the perfect recipe for misery for fitz if he steps even a toe out of line. we see the way his relatives talk about his family after alvar's trial . . . they talk about how they're ruining the vacker name and wouldn't even look at them. imagine how much worse the way his own relatives, legendary relatives, talk about his family would become if he were to willingly become a bad match. imagine the way elvin society would react. it would be the scandal of the century and he would never get a break from it. ever. the council know this too, as seen by the way they talk about him in his registry file . . . it's almost a warning to him to not be a bad match and make things even worse than they already are for his family

anyway idk just consider all this the next time you parade keefe around as the superior love interest just because he's willing to throw matchmaking out the window. yes, his willingness to be a bad match goes well with sophie's unmatchable status, but you have to remember that even sophie doesn't want to be a bad match. remember. this is something that she is basically going to be forced into. even sophie says that she wants some mark of normalcy in her life and she doesn't want to have to deal with the drama that comes with being a bad match. already you can see the romantic aspect of being a bad match is going to be removed from this equation entirely, because for it to be romantic it has to be a choice. you have to choose to throw away everything for the relationship. in sophie's case, it is not. this is something she does not want. she does not want to be a bad match. she and fitz were actually on the same page about that, until circumstances not under her control forced her to face the fact that she will never be in a matched relationship. honestly, you could argue that sophie's unwillingness to be a bad match and fitz's unwillingness to be a bad match compliment each other more than sophie's unmatchable status and keefe's willingness to be a bad match because those are things that sophie and fitz put a lot of thought into deciding, and they are decisions that come from the heart for both of them. whereas sophie's unmatchable status comes from something entirely outside her control and keefe's willingness to be a bad match comes entirely out of a desire to piss off his parents and is clearly not something he's thought about for longer than four seconds

anyway the short version is: have some nuance about the way matchmaking is portrayed in canon. fitz is actually incredibly selfless for not being willing to be a bad match because he's clearly put a lot of thought into the way it would affect his parents and sister. also acting like the only reason keefe is willing to throw matchmaking out is because he just likes sophie that much is decidedly not true. him willing to be a bad match for her doesn't mean anything because he already did not care about being in a matched relationship

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wait so like prentice had a whole dna sequence memorized ??