Queen of The Coelacanth

simon's crush on grace is sort of a horror aspect of book 3. like, it's just in the background - neither simon nor grace acknowledge it though i think they are both aware of it. and there's nothing inherently wrong with him having feelings for her, of course, but it so clearly informs everything about his perception of her. his idolisation of her, his willingness to fall in line behind her - and then, conversely, his entitlement to her mind, and her body, and this grating sense that he thinks she owes him something - owes him her secrets, owes him her undivided attention, owes it to him to feel the same way he does. he doesn't see denizens as people, and really as the story goes on you realise he doesn't see anyone as a person, grace included. and his crush is the centrepiece of that, explaining how he can have a sort of reverant attraction to and admiration of her, yet still dehumanise and reduce her personhood to what best serves him. and, there's also the fact that it's always horrifying as a teenaged girl to find out the guy whose friendship you value does not value/respect you in the same way because he's preoccupied with fantasies of dating you.

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

hanahaki disease but it's normal. its just a thing everyone does. have too many pent up feelings for someone (romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, anything positive really) and suddenly ur coughing up a few flower petals and your emotions are on display for all to see and it's really just embarrassing,

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)