My corn snake, Olive! She just shed today again~
5 notes
·
View notes
When I first finished "the School for Good and Evil", or the first book of it at least (in the middle of book 2 right now), I looked my dad in the eye and said: "There is no character like in this book, just some I don't hate.
Well, while watching the movie I was reminded that si not true, so here's my list:
Dot. Dot is being very kind most of the time and tries her best, she's sweet and funny and honestly, if you don't like Dot in the least, I don't trust you. She also makes anything turn to chocolate, very cool and cute. (Side note, that scene in the movie wehere she throws boiling chocolate at someone, how badass is that?????? I love her so muchhhhhh)
Kiko. Kiko did nothing wrong, she was cute and tried to be friends with Agatha, she was peer pressured into hating the "witch" just like everyone else. She genuinely tried, and she didn't try obsessing over Tedros. I liked her a lot actually
Lady Lasso. Need I say more? She is badass, she is evil, I've hated her at first, but both in the book and movie I loved her so much in the end. In the books she is just so much fun and I like her especially so far in book two.
Professor Dovey. I like her a little less, but I like her nonetheless. She means well, and the scene with her beautifying Agatha? Beautiful writing, wonderful message, she's funny.
Yuba. He's funny, he's trying to help them, he tries to save the people there, we love Yuba, he's a cool gnome, he breaks gender boundaries like they are ice on bucket water, we love Yuba.
Agatha. I didn't like her at first, or at the end, but I did like her sometimes in between. She was nice to read when she was not obsessing over Sofie or about not being good.
And that's all for now. Those are the characters I like. I can tolerate some others, not all but some definitely. I will have to keep reading book two and what comes after.
17 notes
·
View notes
one thing that i've noticed and begun to seriously appreciate upon rereading the watch novels is --
sam and sybil are not in love when they get married.
they like each other, but they aren't in love. and i think this is why sybil seems to be kind of in the background of men at arms and feet of clay, like, sure, she's his wife and he appreciates her and cares for her but he doesn't love her -- yet.
and i think it's the knitting moment at the end of jingo when it happens to him. like that john green quote about how you fall in love slowly and then all at once? i think the moment when he comes home and she's been trying to knit him socks but she's no good at knitting and so it ends up being a scarf instead of socks -- i think that's the "all at once".
and then after jingo, suddenly sybil matters more to him, appears more in his thoughts, he's so proud of her in the fifth elephant for everything she does (she is such a badass in the fifth elephant), and it's the cigar case she gave him that is what he longs for amd desperately needs to hold onto in night watch, the memory of her. she's much more important to him and his perspective in the later watch books, and yes the doylist interpretation is that sir terry developed the relationship more as he grew as a writer because he didn't feel like he was very good at writing romance, but i like the watsonian interpretation --
that sam vimes was not in love with sybil ramkin when he married her, but instead fell madly in love with her along the way.
1K notes
·
View notes