"I would like to toast all of you. Really. I know that I'm the butt of your jokes and that's just my cross to bear as the patriarch of our little family...
[ Death imagery warning; TDPA: The Devil in Me spoiler warning. ]
Mark and Jamie, the two of you do the work of a team of ten.
and Kate, despite our bickering, you are the heart of this show. You keep people interested.
And finally to our newest recruit, Erin. We would be lost without you. Who else could we trust to remember every little detail?
Thank you all...for your hard work.
Cheers."
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thinking about the wolf wilder by katherine rundell. she made that little ballerina boy gay and it healed my 14 year old soul....
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ok hi <3 i am choosing kate as the target of my confusing wrath, so buckle up because we're in for a mess of thoughts all shoved together into one post and it isn't gonna be pretty.
i don't think kate will ever truly get over mark's death, especially if she abandons him on the boat. to me, they're like... soulmates. they are each other's other half, even if those halves aren't perfect.
i think the guilt eats her alive, and i think she has nightmares about him almost every night. she already struggled with sleep, but now that mark haunts her dreams, asking her why she left him, it's as if sleep has completely abandoned her entirely. but she deserves it, doesn't she? it's what she gets for abandoning him. that's what she thinks, at least.
and what's even worse is that mark never gets a proper funeral. his body never washed ashore, so they were forced to bury an empty casket. kate hates herself. he probably would've survived, had she stayed on the boat. there wouldn't be an empty casket. there wouldn't be a funeral. she wouldn't be wearing black, and she wouldn't be crying the way she is if she weren't such a selfish coward.
or maybe she would've died with him. honestly, that probably would've been better than being forced to live without him, y'know?
the others tell her that it isn't her fault, but it was. it is. she could've done something to save him. she should have done something to save him. she's the reason he's dead, even if they don't want to think that she is.
and after his death, i can see her wearing his clothes to feel a little closer to him. they're a bit big on her, but they're his, and it's the closest she'll ever really get to being held by him again.
his death makes her realize all the things she took for granted. you'd think she'd learn to cherish people more after what happened with shelby, but it seems like she's yet to learn her lesson. she'll never get to see him smile again. she'll never hear his laugh. the only time she'll be able to hear his voice is when she listens to old voicemails she saved or when she watches old recordings of him.
he'll never be able to live out his dreams, and it's her fault.
and i think she keeps all of his old cameras. on particularly bad days, she'll look at all the old photos he's taken and she'll always cry because a lot of them are of her. or the rest of the crew. she'll never be able to see his collection of photos grow.
she'll never be able to tell mark that she loves him.
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I just realized that almost every time Kate thinks she's about to die she says something like "It's not on you. You hear me?" (Reflection) or "I'm with you, Mark. I'm with you." (Ultimatum) so that the other person doesn't blame themselves and feel really guilty like how she feels about what happened to Shelby.
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Books read in 2022
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
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