Fandoms ‘n’ Books

[The Love Hypothesis, by: Ali Hazelwood, aesthetic]

"carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man."

"I wish you could see yourself the way I see you."

"You can fall in love: someone will catch you."

"You kiss him and next thing you know he's saving your ass and he's buying you scones and calling you a smart-ass in a weirdly affectionate tone"

"She would have loved to run to the edge of campus and scream into the void until modern civilization collapsed, but that wasn’t exactly a pressing matter."

"God, she had forced a married man, a father, to kiss her. Now people thought that he was having an affair. His wife was probably crying into her pillow. His kids would grow up with horrible daddy issues and become serial killers."

Day 1: Watford

Slow down. Slow down!

The dance scene is incredible, because it has so many layers, it’s not just a “fan service” to appease the shippers, but a very important plot device that deepens Magnus’ and Malec’s storyline.

On one hand, it’s yes – a very romantic scene, where we see that in his last dying thoughts Magnus is seeing the one he loves the most – Alec. It shows how much in love they are, they are in their happy, safe place – the loft, they’re eating breakfast and dancing. The room is filled with the golden light. There’s also a foreshadowing of Alec’s proposal…

But on the other hand, there’s other underlying meaning that this dance scene holds –

“Dance with death” – to do something very dangerous that involves a lot of risks. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.)

Klaus: *mouth full of food* No…

Ben: Then what’s that on your pants?