deus ex machina

Andrew Minyard really looked Neil Josten in the face and called him a pipe dream and it still took Neil 300 pages later to clock that the fucker was completely in love with him

mood: laying on silk sheets, eating lavender macarons, rose face mask applied, watching an audrey hepburn movie with the scent of a burning vanilla candle in the air

One of my favorite scenes in Crooked Kingdom is when Colm Fahey comes on the scene because that’s the moment you actually realize that every single one of the crows are just kids. We read YA books of kids in impossible situations and it becomes so normalized (not that I have a problem with that!) but then an Actual Adult appears out of nowhere – someone with these kids’ best interest at heart – and it’s like?? These poor babies?!?!!!!?! Anyways just call me Colm Fahey’s no.1 stan I guess!!

AU where the Foxes vlog for the sole reason that they can look into the camera whenever Neil says he’s fine

Remember when wymack said that the final game was about “everyone who laughed at you when you dared to dream of something big and bright” during the pep talk? He was talking to dan. It applies to dan more than any other character. dan has bigger dreams and more ambition than anyone else on the team. dan went to school, coached an exy team, and worked an overnight job, just to have the chance to go to college, even though she had zero support from her family. Her high school exy coach even refused to send her stats to colleges bc he didnt believe girls should play in college! He literally laughed at her for daring to dream of something big and bright. dan wilds has worked so fucking hard for everything she has and she came out the other side of it a nicer, more caring person. She of all people should never be taken for granted or shoved aside. It was her game. It was her chance to finally prove everyone she new wrong and wymack knew it. He was talking to dan.