Latest Posts by quilleily - Page 7
@bagel-emoji pointed out to me that Agatha's final outfit has her dressed like Tedros, w the belted tunic/waistcoat and loose sleeves,, just fell to my knees
Putting powdered sugar on the post below
Cant believe my siblings are peer pressuring me to use tumblr
movie tagatha my beloved
I agree,, but im holding on to tedros calling agatha princess thing close to my heart alongside normal girl
No no u don't understand. Normal girl has layers. LAYERSSS. 'Normal girl' bc Agatha doesn't believe she's got a place in a fairytale world; normal is what she wants to be, and thinks she is-- but she's not and she can never really be normal again. 'Normal girl' is slightly self-loathing and self-deprecating, ('normal' meaning she thinks she's homely and out of place and uncomfortable) but she tries to disguise it as a good thing by making it seem like everyone else is the issue; it's hamfisted, and Not Like Other Girls, but she's like sixteen, she's allowed to be a bit cringe bc she's embarassed. 'Normal girl' bc Beatrix tried to use it as an insult and Agatha's perspective on it is wobbly, but Tedros turned it into something fond. 'Normal girl' bc she actually treats Tedros like he's a normal person and he's so surprised he remembers it (and then gets attached bc of it). 'Normal girl' that gets dropped the second he knows her name. 'Normal girl' tha-- (I am dragged away, a rolled up list of a thousand extra reasons unfurling on the floor behind me)
Beatrix my beloved ❤️ My approach to social media is I disappear for months on end, drop an absolutely stupid good artwork, then return to the void from which I came
school for good this, school for evil that. where's my school for the morally grey?
"sge character syndrome meaning their personality is barely existent" is the bEST THING IVE EVER IN YEARS OMFG HELP AHSHFBASFHAHAHAHAH
Random rotsg thoughts (no spoilers)
In the main series Rafal is always so wannabe edgy and mysterious and in rotsge he's just a mildly angsty teen and I love the difference
Also I love all the new teachers? There aren't many but i can definitely imagine some cool fanart of them
Also the students but they suffer from the sge character syndrome meaning their personality is barely existent 💀💀
But also the illustrations and cover slap so hard, even though I kinda miss the style of the older books
I'm also vibing with the different rules in the School, like it's interesting to see that it changed so much
But i guess it's got a sliver of lgbt representation so yay?
The Gargoyle
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two of my irl friends thinks tedros is so bad- and its so hard to defend him TCY made him worse-
tedros is a misogynist pig and this fandom is tone death to how tagatha normalizes abusive relationships
i remember putting this on the back burner because i REALLY didn't want to piss people off but never mind op speak your truth.
in my own personal opinion, i wouldn't say they're ab//sive but there is toxicity in their relationship between books 4-6 that just got brushed over or handled completely incorrectly. i liked their relationship in the third book bc they actually learned how to properly communicate but forgot in book 4 and onwards. as much as i love tedros, he did not not unlearn his misogyny at all, it just shows up at the most random moments. like at one point he's like omg agatha my feminist queen my equal my not like other girls alt girlfriend! i'm so glad she doesn't suck up to me and tell me lies to make me feel good <3 and then came book six where he complained about the exact things he liked her for??? nah i'm just going to say this is soman's inconsistent writing and lack of thought in writing their relationship problems. like why completely subvert something established to make them argue when you could use their miscommunication problems to make them argue and then solve it?
i also didn't like how they just pretended the six month ignoring thing didn't happen because wtf that was just horrible to read and besides other characters joking about it, neither tedros nor agatha brought it up besides that mere apology in the celestium. and even after that they didn't properly communicate. like i really wanted to see them resolve their miscommunication problems and tendency to shut each other out and handle their problems on their own. but no, we brought back the sexism thing and made tedros a complete misogynist to develop his relationship like ?? what was the reason ??
i think there's more i could say but i haven't read/reread the books in a solid year so it's not fresh in my mind but yeah here's my take on it. i love them lots but these were pressing things i noticed in regards to op's post.
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i forgot to post here lmaoo
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I love your sge drawings! They look so good!<3
I just saw this oop-
thank you so much!! I'm glad u like em!!
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It's Agatha's turn
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Todays Challenge: Wish Fish
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Animal Communication class with Princess Uma
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"Well, Agatha had an answer to that.."
Apparently I didn't posted these here. so here it is.
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Agatha's protection squad at Tagatha wedding lol. Base on this post by @pumpkinpaperweight
If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers ‘hear’ the words through images.
AAAAAAHHHH SHE"S BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AMAZINGGGG!!!
Not gonna give up just yet on this, her fit is too pretty
Was thinking abt Tedros's talent and why he never had one in the books (thank Kate for making me wonder abt this stuff) and...it would've been really funny if Tedros has a Talent but no one knows he does because it has nothing to do with fighting or swordplay or being the future of Camelot.
Like his Talent being something like proficiency with musical instruments or singing. Talking to birds or other small creatures. Growing plants. Tedros being a disney princess would've been his peak character trait and also hilarious.
why sofia is an amazing choice for agatha
so i am extremely happy with the cast and think the choices are so amazing! but i’ve also seen skepticism about the choice for agatha, mainly either about her skin tone and that her actress is very, very gorgeous and not at all unattractive like the books made her out to be.
i started thinking about why the team made this decision, and it kind of ties into a feeling i had that some of the themes in sge would be adjusted for the movie. first of all, the whole ugly does not mean you’re evil and you can still be a good person despite being ugly message is just… heavily outdated. it’s not a message that will reach the audience in this day. because everyone knows that, and i don’t think anyone will find it to be a relatable message anymore especially cause agatha’s mainly looked down on because she’s goth and… goths don’t get bullied anymore ?? so the plot of the books just don’t WORK for this film especially not in this decade.
so that leads to the question: why is agatha an outcast? why is she treated poorly by the people around her? well, i believe that’s where race comes in. in this age, racism, whether it be in the form of stereotypes, violence, lack of media representation, it’s a very big issue and black people are still not being represented properly.
addressing the racism of the real world through agatha, who is shunned by her town, immediately thought of as evil without giving her a chance both in gavaldon and at the school, not seeing herself as a princess or equal to the evers in her class and sophie… not because she wears all black and has super pale skin or whatever reason worked in the books, but because of the racism that is persistent in her world and our world.
seeing agatha’s story about how she started out shunned and stereotyped and won her own fairytale, her own prince, and respect from everyone as a black woman will be so inspiring to black girls who never saw themselves in stories like these. it’s so inspiring of the casting team to make the main protagonist a woman of color and i am so happy someone as talented and wonderful as sofia wylie gets to play our agatha.
for people who are saying that you wish agatha was played by a light-skinned actress or that “we already have nicola and dot as black women,” i’d advise you to choose your statements carefully. you may not have intended it, but they are fairly racist remarks and you don’t know who you could be hurting by saying this.
and yeah, i can understand why some people may be upset about her not matching her appearance in the books, and i have to say, the books and the movies are separate. the movie is an adaptation of the books, of course things will be changed to make the movie as inclusive and successful as possible without the weight of some parts of the book holding it back. i see two stories: book sge and movie sge. of course each of these will be different in their ways but that’s the beauty of it - the movie is one story and the book is another.
also the way the fandom skipped over how kei literally drugged dot??? dot is such a tragic character in so many different ways
dot always gets the short end of the stick i swear
yeah that was so messed up i get he was probably ordered to but wtf. i like kei but that was so screwed up of him, why did he get close to dot and USE her like that oh my god. and the way dot was blamed and attacked by the coven and hort when she was DRUGGED by this boy who she thought genuinely liked her.
no but that’s so messed up, like yes we love kei but let’s not forget to hold him accountable for that pls
What are your thoughts about morgrifs? I think its very concerning considering the fact that half of the student body turns into animals and plants because- they failed their classes? they arent good/evil enough? The three fails- and your gone? you failed your classes and now your stuck either as a servant for the other school, or be a food or be a sidekick- THIS ARE LITERAL CHILDREN?!?!!? AND THEYRE STUCK LIKE THAT TILL THEY DIE??? WHAT?????
the mogrif system is beyond unethical and so unnecessary. it’s actually horrifying and gave me the creeps when i read the books. it’s too harsh of a punishment, like not everyone is going to get the hang of things and need practice so turning them into a plant or an animal FOREVER is so cruel and just shows that it’s a bad school. the good/evil enough thing is awful and i’m glad they addressed that in the circus of talents. no one is completely good or evil (not even agatha and sophie, i won’t accept they’re 100% good/evil). so why should they be punished for that?
i get the point was to make the books scary and give the fairytale world a dark edge but i’d accept it more if it was a punishment for something huge, not failing a regular lesson. and yeah, tracking is just terrible, the best of the best are leaders, the fortunate are sidekicks, and the unlucky ones get turned into plants or animals. LIKE YOU HAVE A REALLY HIGH CHANCE OF BEING A PLANT OR ANIMAL IT IS SCARY.
i can’t believe millicent was a deer, mona is a jellyfish, and brone is a tree like- it’s so weird the students we read about are now animals and plants?? it just feels like a terrible fate and it’s even sadder when you’re a reader who has no idea what is going on and have to adjust quickly even though everyone is incredibly biased against you :/
soman - a rant.
a lot of people have been speaking out about soman’s horrible recent livestream, a lot of experiences shared, so I would like to propose one idea, to all of us, but especially to people who have stayed on his side. roll it over in your brain a bit.
intent doesn’t matter.
what soman meant to say, what he meant to get across in these books literally doesn’t matter. if you shoot someone, it doesn’t matter that it was an accident. they still got shot. you don’t sit by their side telling them to stop crying because you didn’t mean to shoot them. you take them to the damn hospital.
soman talks a big game about how we’ve “misinterpreted” the books. about how they’re “satire.” he tells himself that taking things too literally is OUR fault. he tells himself that his young fans are “smart” so that means he can project his entire adult life onto these books with no repercussions. he has the audacity to tell himself that he’s the victim, and we’re just trying to drag him down with baseless negativity. well, guess what? news flash, kids don’t understand satire. nor do they understand the concept of an unreliable narrator, for that matter. the average 8-11 year old will accept almost everything they read as truth. even IF they register that sophie is bad, or a “regina george type,” they still leave the book with the knowledge that people in this world worry about their weight, or stop eating so they can be skinny, or view fat people as liars/second class citizens. jesus christ, no child should have to think about that! no child should have to think about their body at all! every young person who reads these books leaves with a seed planted in their mind. every. single. one. do you know how many people I’ve talked to who felt like their insecurities mysteriously appeared when they started reading sge? people who had no outlet for the things these books made them feel, because members of this fandom are so afraid to talk about serious subjects? so, no, intent doesn’t matter. only your impact matters. and I cannot believe that soman is so full of himself he can’t even acknowledge the fact his actions have consequences.
if you actually care about someone, you care about the impact your actions have on them. in this live, soman said loud and clear that he does not care about this fandom. he does not care about any of us unless we stroke his ego. he does not care about our feelings, our opinions, our personal lives, our mental illnesses. he cares about how good we make him look and how much money we can earn him. he cares that we paint him in a positive light so he can keep getting movie deals and free promo. he sees us as a bunch of 12 year olds in honors english class whose attempts at free thought are futile and stupid. well, let me tell you something. we are smarter than he wants us to think. we are more compassionate, empathetic, and open to self growth than he’ll ever be. this, right here, this speaking out is the positive change he’s told us to band together and create. he will not silence us. we are right.
soman does not know what it’s like to be a teenage girl struggling with body image. his opinion carries absolutely no weight. we know what it’s like. we trusted him to understand us, and he let us down. we carry him on our shoulders. it’s time to let him go.