La Scimmia Sogna

the holy trinity

I enjoy that Emma's conspiracy board surrounding her parents is resolved in the same way as all conspiracies: it wasn't that complicated. Emma dedicated five years of her life to a quest for vengeance, and this entire mission was dependent on the hope that she would one day be able to hold somebody accountable. A killer running free is a killer she can still punish, and her parents being targeted as the center of some grand conspiracy would justify her emotional response to their deaths. Conspiratorial thinking naturally arises around events with huge social impacts (like the JFK assassination) because we want to believe that there's a direct correlation between intent and impact. Something that causes years of upheaval must be the result of years of plotting. While the Carstairs deaths didn't reshape the course of national history, it did completely shatter Emma's personal world. This means that Malcolm was the perfect killer: he didn't give a shit about any of them. He murdered the Carstairs casually, as a side effect of his actual multi-century revenge scheme. Emma finally gets her hands on a real tangible cause to her parents' deaths, she gets the satisfaction of killing their killer; but it's not actually satisfying because she also gets the confirmation that they never needed to die. Emma was never facing off against some epic antagonist who set out to ruin her life, and her parents were never the victims of a carefully cultivated plot. She technically won, but it took away all the catharsis of a good revenge narrative. Instead, she just has to put the photos back into their boxes.

one of my fav things about jeremy is that he unabashedly lets everyone know that he fucks. this convo did not call for this little detail at all. no wonder andrew went running back to renee to be like girl he’s gay as hell

it's riko's death anniversary

giles & spike // beating up a cop

we are all sinners

‘you put that cig out, you can hold her’

wendell is this but reverse, he gets one badass scene every 3 moments of him being horrendously useless and lazy.

Dropping this artwork of Emily and Wendell from Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by @heather_fawcett !(the cool mechanical pencil is BACK!) I had such a pleasant time reading the wrap-up to this trilogy in Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales. I love the transition of Emily dipping her toe into Faerie from the real world in Book #1, having a foot in both worlds in Book #2, and keeping a toe in the real world while in Faerie in Book #3. It created new backdrops and stakes through her journaling journey, with Book #3 being the stakiest stakes of the three! Absolutely love these two DOLTS (Wendell's words, not mine), the best grumpy-sunshine couple since Howl and Sophie. So sad to see them go, but this trilogy seems so easy to pick up and reread again! I want to thank @delreybooks for providing me both an arc and a hard copy of Compendium; I hope to do another papercraft standee featuring the whole trilogy set soon!