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hey so was anybody gonna tell me that the raven boys is one of the best contemporary fantasy novels of the twenty-first century and an insane study on the cycles of abuse and the mindset of rich teenage boys and class divides or was i just gonna have to figure this out on my own

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

Also how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere

Dogs can also cast Magic Missile but every time they do the projectile is shaped like a bone or a stick and they chase after it

group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.

any conversation about who could play odysseus well (as opposed to the obvious terrible choice matt damon) is inane, in my view, because it’s already been done and served by toby stephens of maggie smith’s son fame in an acclaimed yet underwatched show black sails under the name james “flint”—

fake tarot readings this beefing with declan that. my favorite thing that adam does in the dreamer trilogy is when ronan calls him to tell him about the weird parental doppelgangers he saw and how some guy keeps appearing in his dreams to spout ominous shit. and that hey i might be losing my grip on reality. and adams reaction is to be like. im going to spontaneously take a 12 plus hour motorcycle ride to check in on you without warning. break into your house. casually talk you down from shooting me in the head because you dont know whats real and i didnt warn you i was coming over. then ill ask if you want to fuck and THEN instead of even doing that im going to fuck up scrying so bad ill be basically auditioning for The Exorcist in your bed forcing you to stab me to bring me back into my body. and then ill leave in like an hour because i have an exam tomorrowwww

obviously the nature of YA books is that if a girl makes a point to tell you, the reader, that she does not date boys. well. that girl is about to date some boys. but it was extremely funny of blue sargent to open her story telling us all how she stays away from boys, ESPECIALLY those bastard boys who go to that snobby rich boarding school across town. and then literally six chapters in she takes one look at adam and goes. his girly eyes have bewitched me. i am going to give him my phone number.