#niccolò

(this is Niccolò and Giuda (right) who belongs to my friend:))

My Nini keychain broke today ):

HII HII NICCOLÒ you are so sweetie to me i treasure u as a mutual i think u are 2 cool...... but ik u are not TOO cool u r my silly awesome friend. anddd i check YR letterboxd like the morning paper let it be freaking known

But something that makes it so much clearer to me that she was, very much, a crazy (compliment) author is the way she writes gelis in Scales of Gold. Abrasive female characters have never been popular, but to make the main female character in your series, in the first book where she has a major role, so unpleasant... and specifically unpleasant towards the main male character? I think it's so brave tbh! The ending of this book is so cruel, and it's a stinging slap in the face for both Nicholas and the reader. But Dorothy was still like "yeah well Nicholas is crazy in love with her, he doesn't want anyone else, that's the love of his life" and I don't even think it had anything to do with trusting her readers to see the vision and that they would enjoy the character development and slow burn of Nicholas and Gelis learning to love each other like normal people lol. Like that's the story she wanted to tell and that's how she wanted to tell it. And I'm sure Gelis had a lot of haters back in the day (and now), but I genuinely don't think Dorothy gave a fuck. Would have loved to discuss this over a bottle of scotch though

Source: trust me because I'm also Italian

It's "Niccolò" not "Niccolo"