#but hey im gettin real personal with y'all so pls understand why i feel this way

[wendronwitch]

there’s always been this feeling amongst the fandom (that i’ve observed at least) that syrah deserved better. and i haven’t read the new short story that’s up, and i’m not sure i even will tbh, for the same reason i’m avoiding todhuntermoon - i don’t like the direction angie’s taking her characters in / can’t relate to them anymore (???) 

this is the year when i turn 21. 7 years ago, when i was 14, i finished reading the septimus heap series (it took that long because i was waiting for fyre to be available in my country.)  basically: i’m older now, and i’ve given this a LOT of thought.

most of you know i interact with angie a LOT on twitter (hell, she indirectly gave me song recs, and she liked a tweet i’d made about having had a crush on sep when i was a kid) and i find that experience truly magykal (hahaha) because !! this series that shaped my childhood in so many big & tangible ways and also, this series that brought us together, this series thru which i met so many wonderful people (some of whom are now like, my best friends ever) - this series that is so important to me in all the ways that matter - well ok lost my train of thought there but basically it’s a really special thing to be able to talk to the creator of the series and tag her in selfies and be like “hey angie i look like an eow apprentice today!!” and know she will see it and interact with it 

like that’s fun and that’s amazing 

but like. idk. at the same time obviously i don’t agree with her 100% all the time, there are things she’s written that i genuinely do not see as consistent or plausible (as somebody who GREW UP with these characters, as someone who saw these characters grow alongside me because i was literally reading the books when i was around the same age as them - i began reading them books when i was like, 8 or 9, and when fyre came out, i was 14)  given that, obviously, her characters exist super vividly to me outside of what angie says or how angie wants me to perceive them.

that’s why when some of you !!! at my fanfic it’s always the biggest compliment because these characters are always alive to me !!! i’m glad i was able to share them with you, too 

i don’t know. this was going to be a post about syrah. but i just.. want to say.. that ultimately, fandom and what we take from canon is exactly what we choose to make it. all of it is fiction, anyway. angie sage’s septimus heap isn’t alive in this world, but neither is my retelling of septimus. they’re all fictional, and they’re all magyk. and. i will post about syrah right after i hit post on this. just wanted to say

we can choose what we want to take. we can do whatever we want. 

don’t let a spinoff ruin the original magyk for you