GRL PWR

[someone yells off camera]

I almost said semen.. [to other person] Excuse me I’m doing a video for cement- god, come on! 

OKAY LISTEN

i am SO fucking excited okay. i am HERE for this like legit my heart is pounding im screeching skin cleared crops watered grades lifted all that like i am LIVING

BUT

am i the only one that’s scared? like i love this series and these children so fucking much and idk if i’d handle it if it got tainted and ruined?

and imagine all the people who freak out over the series but never bothered to read the books (@ fucking all my friends at school)???

things that, if they happen, will break my ducking heart: - all of the gangsey (yes even henry) being played by white actors (we need poc representation PLEASE) - the gangsey being straight (who are you trying to kid???? we all know they’re in love with each other. RAVEN BOYS. SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH. SWEARING POETRY) - adam being not bisexual - excluding gansey’s gansey-ness - 300 fox way not being represented as it should be - if they take out “yee haw” “im being perfectly fucking civil” “hey fuck weasel it’s your girlfriend” - kavinsky being straight (honestly who you tryna kid???)

THERES JUST SO MUCH THAT COULD GO WRONG AND RUIN EVERYTHING

HOWEVER…

there is also so much, that if done correctly, could go amazingly and this will be one of the most beautiful series ever.

It’s one of my all-time favorite books.  It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.  He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”

It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.”  That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.

Then another tile falls.  Then another.

The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.

Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall.  So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.

The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.

It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy.  It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.