#notpuckconnolly

Hi I just want you to know that this fanart is what made me decide to read the book, I’ve been hearing about it but something about the vibes in this one stuck with me and i went out and got it and i’m halfway through its INTENSE ��

Honestly Malvern is kinda heartless about Mutt??? I never really think he was very fond of him- I doubt he'd be upset about his death. Like. He seemed perfectly functioning the day after the races when Puck goes to his house, he's not even mourning or anything.

Part of me was like “oh he would care exactly 0% in this situation” and the’re also part of me that’s like, if he had someone to blame in easy reach, would he have done... something? Just because he could?

(This was partly because my first thought for this AU would was “Malvern insisted that Edana be killed anyway, not so much because he lost his son, but more because he was offended by the concept of a horse eating his heir-apparent (well. Kind of heir-apparent? Something like that?).” Entirely so we could have Sean somehow sneaking an entire horse out of Malvern’s yard, because it appeals to me from a comic standpoint. So he returns having stashed an entire horse (um somewhere, I don’t know) like “okay yep done and done, I definitely killed the horse, that’s what I do, obey all orders,” *cut scene to Puck awkwardly tossing a piece of meat to Edana in an undisclosed location* ”Don’t think this means I like you or anything,” she tells the horse. But she does, a little.)

(My first thought was, of course, the comical one. I just do that sometimes.)

Okay I have more AU musings, but they’ll be under the cut because... I am incapable of being concise. 

Riding instructors tend to come out around dusk. Depending on the type you need, you may need to do a bit of travelling- western trainers prefer the more northern climates, in woods near civilization. Hunter trainers, however, can be found scavenging the rubbish bins around the local malls.

How I feel about this character:

OH LORD I CAN’T WITH PEG!!! (See all that here.)

All the people I ship romantically with this character: HER OWN DAMN HUSBAND WHO IS POSITIVELY DECENT FROM WHAT I CAN TELL ANDNOTGABE.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: See, I want her to be a good mother figure to Puck, but most of the time she’s not so good at it? I ship Peg and her butcher knife. I ship Peg and Father Mooneyham and his fancy red car, because I wonder what they have to talk about and, also, he seems pretty cool with this terrifying woman just driving him around the countryside for all to see when most men of his age and position probably wouldn’t have been back then. And, finally, I ship Peg and her bird costume (RIP), which, like all things on Thisby, met with a bittersweet end (the feathered cloak bit redeems Peg to me, if I’m honest).

My unpopular opinion about this character: I really want to love her because she is such a strong and intriguing woman who seems pretty empowered despite living in a patriarchal society, but I find myself liking her less and less. I guess she has a good arc, in that she finally seems to understand what Puck is doing at the end, but I’m wary of her and her advice (and that’s not even getting into the affair, which is probably also an unpopular opinion: I believe that it did happen off-page…I couldn’t unsee it if I tried…and I’ve tried).  

3. do you prefer truth or dare or would you rather?A “would you rather” question where “would you rather” is one of the options… interesting. My sister and I developed this fun game called “truth” which is just truth or dare except you’re both too lazy to do the dares, so that, I guess? (My preferred method of acquiring dares is for someone, in any part of my daily life, to in anyway imply in any way that I can’t do something. Then next thing you know, I’m clambering up the hardest rock-climbing wall at camp with a vengeance. Or enrolled in seven classes instead of five.)

5. what’s the last text you sent?This answer is a bit boring. I texted one of my housemates about cleaning.

2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?Hmm… in a way no, in a way several? There are lines from Maggie Stiefvater’s various works that resonate to an actually distressing degree… but some of those are characters where I think I’m resonating more with the character than with the author specifically? I’ve had similar experiences with characters written by Mackenzi Lee, Holly Black, and Jane Austen (of all people). 

7. do you care about your ethnicity?Hmm… I’m a Canadian citizen descended from European immigrants who arrived quite a few generations ago so… insofar as I do my best to be aware of colonial legacies and the harm inflicted by Europe’s big colonialism kick back in the day, yes? But not much beyond that. I’ve never been to any of the countries my ancestors are from, I don’t think… oh. Wait. I have been to England and I think at least one of my ancestors is English? (I’m not a huge fan of British cuisine, if that makes a difference. I can’t even eat most of it because of the gravy and lard and things…)