#caster chronicles

I love you, Ethan Wate, basically going "Listen, we are too young to even start thinking about that. Marry me, not marry me, don't worry about that. I always want to be with you."

I love you, Lena Duchannes, accepting your boyfriend's non-proposal, and when presented with a ring that he describes as cheap and probably not even real silver, but belonging to his mom, going "Even better."

They really went "Fuck consumerism and worship of wealth, fuck fairytale stories about rich princes and perfect princesses, fuck pressuring young adults into marrying early, fuck pressuring young adults into having babies."

(cont.) I had no idea of the weird slavery whitewashing in Beautiful Creatures, but looking back it really doesn't surprise me. Sounds like a classic example of how trying to divorce an aesthetic from its ugly origins makes what you've removed stand out even more, not less.

I did not, no; I was over it by then

and yeah the slavery avoidance stood out to me even as a teen when I still liked the books (I read the first two and didn't get any further). in the Civil War-era flashbacks, there's a servant named Ivy who is fiercely loyal to her "mistress" Genevieve. What race is Ivy? Never specified. Is Ivy free? Is she enslaved, at least until the immediate post-war scenes? Never comes up.

Same with Amma, the MC's housekeeper in the present day. Obviously she's not enslaved, but there's conspicuously no mention of her race- or those of anyone in her social circle, even though the coding is extremely similar to those of Mystical Black Characters in other works (eg going into the swamp to do mysterious ancestor-worship rituals involving animal bones).

But they DO specify that the Cool Badass Magical Librarian Who Has A Master's Degree And Stuff is Black. So the impression you're left with is that they could clarify this; they just don't because they'd rather skirt around outdated tropes and unfortunate implications than have to actually handle them in the text

"They're dead."

I felt my chest tightened. "Sorry."

"It's okay. They died when I was two. I don't even remember them. I've lived with lots of my relatives, mainly my Gramma. She had to take a trip for a few months. That's why I'm staying with my uncle."

"My mom died, too. Car accident." I had no idea why I said that. I spent most of my time trying not to talk about it.

"I'm sorry."

I didn't say it was okay. I had a feeling she was the kind of girl who knew it wasn't.

Examples include:

Peeta + Katniss

Jack + Rose

Percy + Annabeth

N + Uzi

Ethan + Lena

Liam + Ruby

magical girls who are 7 deadly sins themed

i'm so excited, this shits my white whale and its being released in the west again by indie studio speedrobo games who got the rights from the japanese holders. it's such a strong game and such a beautiful one too, like. just look at this shit dog

its like, equal parts Persona + Precure, and i adore it.

This one is old

New coming soon as well of her with Ethan I’m ready I never got to draw them as a teen which now feels like blasphemy