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Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

From the start, yes, Qifrey does make some mistakes. He misses the mark on explaining things like the vapor bubble to Coco, and he probably leaves for the great hall a little too soon. Flaw point for Qifrey.

But he has no reason to believe Coco even knows about the Dadah range or other tests. If she did find out about them (through a book or something), he has no reason to expect she'd go there. Besides lacking the knowledge of which specific windowway connects there, he doesn't think she'd go that far when it's only her second day. As he points out at the end of the episode, he expected she was already aware of how dangerous magic could be, and the last he saw of her, she was petrified to operate something as simple as a vapor bubble.

Nor is there any reason to think the other apprentices would push her. This situation has literally never come up before, because the other three would have passed their first test before joining the atelier. Nor does Qifrey have any evidence that the other apprentices would treat Coco badly. He knows her outsider status/the rumors are awkward. But Richeh and Tetia accept Coco easily. And some people seem to forget that childhood bullies are good at acting nice in front of parents and teachers. Agott waits until Qifrey is gone to start pushing Coco around- when Qifrey sees them together, she acts perfectly calm and even actively helpful, teaching Coco how to balance spells.

"Qifrey should have punished Agott once he was back" how would he know what she had done? Tetia and Richeh couldn't tell him, since Agott implied Coco went off on her own. When Coco comes back, she doesn't tattle! She doesn't say "Agott told me I needed to do this", she acts like it was her own idea. How the heck was Qifrey supposed to know? To quote my partner, who is a high school teacher, when he was reading the series: "Okay so the proper teaching thing for qifrey is that he needs to address the ideas that agott is spouting off about how coco is an outsider and unworthy. Its tricky becuase agott may not be saying those thing in front of qifrey"

"But what about in Kahln!" Ok so at the start of that episode Agott says she wants to go off shopping on her own, and this is ok. These characters are teens, maybe twelve at the youngest. At that age, it is not unusual for kids to have some autonomy and be able to go out alone (shopping, to the movies, with friends, etc.). Coco is new and needs more support, but Tetia is very active in keeping an eye on her and keeping them together. And remember, in context, the last forbidden magic activity was four years ago. Coco was given the book as a young child. She's a lead on the brimhats, but an old one. We the audience see the masked witch at the Dadah range, but no one else does. As far as Coco and Qifrey are concerned. the brimmed hats have not been near Coco in like a decade and have no active plan, they just gave her a book and hoped something would happen. Even if Coco went out of the Starry Sword, she'd likely be safe on her own, especially with Tetia or Richeh accompanying her. "What if the brimhats secretly made a teleportation spell hidden in a random alleyway" is not a reasonable thing for anyone to anticipate or plan around. (And frankly, if Richeh and Tetia had split- "I'll go after Coco to make sure she's not alone, you get Master Qifrey for help"- the girls would have been found much sooner).

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Over approximately 10 days, our Artemis II crew successfully completed a voyage around the Moon. They gave us stunning photos of the far side of the Moon, Earth, and a solar eclipse, along with inspirational messages, laughs, and even a few tears. Let's recap the Artemis II mission.

First step: fit check.

Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen got suited up and had their spacesuits checked to make sure they were ready to go to space.