Holy crap I have never gotten so much attention before (it’s not that much calm down). Y’all are just here for my 3am Magnus Chase thoughts and Alex Fierro rambles huh?
Okay I’ll throw a dog a bone
Here’s some recent Alex cosplay photos! My partner took them, they were cosplaying Magnus with me
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If I had a nickel for every time Rachel Reid wrote a book about a neurodivergent demisexual goalie falling for an extroverted blonde flirt I'd have two nickels etc etc
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The Provost's Dog series is amazing in how Tamora Pierce calmly and nonchalantly addresses sexuality, relationships, gender, and gender roles.
In the very first few chapters we have Rosto, Kora and Aniki together in some sort of a poly/open/threesome relationship. It's never actually stated directly what their relationship is, if it's romantic, open, sexual but not romantic, queer platonic, if Kora and Aniki are together, ect. But real life relationships are not black and white. And very few people advertise the exact details, and good friends don't really ask or make a big deal about it. Which is exactly what happens in Terrier. And it's a very healthy relationship. Kora decides to date Erksen instead, and Rosto and Aniki are completely fine with it. There is no resentment, fighting or jealousy. As Kora says, she is her own woman. I have never seen such a drama-free relationship in a young adults book before. It really shows a young reader that relationships can be simple and you can still be friends if it doesn't work out.
And then the sneaky descriptions of "spintry." Another term for a male prostitute. There is no judgement for a spintry, no one finds it strange and both female and male prostitutes are treated exactly the same, as just a job, as any other in the Rouge's Court. It was such a simple and refreshing take in a children's book, and it's done so well with no judgement or any acknowledgment that it's not normal.
That feeling of normality is an ongoing theme in the Provost's Dog books. There are a lot of shocking and liberal topics in the books, but they are treated as normal, everyday things, so it takes away any shock value and makes the reader simply accept it. Considering most readers are teens, that's a pretty great thing.
Take Okha/Amber. A transwomen/gender queer person who is in a long-term relationship with a man, a police captain. It's described as a normal thing. Beka is a bit confused at first, because she has never met a gender queer person before, but accepts the explanation and moves on. Amber's gender is never really fully explained, but thay makes sense. Gender isn't simple. In a fantasy world without modern labels, Amber is just Amber. They are who they are.
Beka has several flings throughout the series, and its treated normally. That is not usually seen in a teen book. The main female character having casual relationships, going into them knowing they won't last? That is super rare, and is how real life works. It's a great break from normal ya relationship drama.
There is some relationship drama in the series, with Beka's fiance, Holborn. He dies before Mastiff starts, and we never met him. But later, it is revealed that she was planning on breaking up with him because he was emotionally abusive towards her. She ends up meeting Farmer and getting over Holborn quickly. She feels guilty for not feeling more guilty over his death, instead feeling relieved that their toxic relationship is over. She loves some of the time they spent toghether though, and she does mourn him. It's a fascinating and nuanced relationship you never see in a ya book. But her and Farmer's relationship is wonderful.
As a young teenager growing up in a conservative, rural, small town, the Provost's Dog books were revolutionary, not that I realized it at the time. The book's description of gender, of relationships was so normal I didn't even realize it could be something debated. I just accepted it as normal. Okha/Amber was the first time I ever learned thay trans/gender questioning people could exist, and I just acted like Beka, accepted it and moved on. When people talked about poly relationships, how strange and unusual it was, l was confused, because Kora, Aniki and Rosto were normal to me. Learning prostitutes were discriminated against was shocking. Complicated relationships were normal.
I remember once in highschool, my teammates were talking about a scenario where your husband cheats on you with another woman, and that woman had a child with him, and they are now homeless. Your husband loves this woman and you. Would you accept the child and the other woman living with you? Or something inane like that.
I said, "Well, yeah, if she's a good person. If my husband loves her, then she's probably a good person, and I would try to fall in love with her too. And raise the child together."
My teammates did not expect that answer. I suppose I should have realized then I wasn't straight lol.
I find the “team/player figures it out” fics cute and funny but in the interest of realism I really DEEPLY believe that there is no fucking way that any hockey player would ever figure Shane and Ilya out. Like Shane and Ilya could be seen out and about, Ilya could dance and flirt with Shane at a club in Montreal, Ilya could KISS Shane on the ice and people would just write this off as jokes.
Even one of them spotted coming and going from the others apartment would be assumed to be collusion not an affair.
I think it’s very realistic in TLG that Ilya is canonically super weird around the Centaurs, doesn’t bother to hide why he’s constantly running off, and flirts with Shane on the ice and yet no one has any inkling until Troy and that’s only when Ilya comes out to him and Shane is also out. And even then Troy is more like “hey you guys are both queer? And you’re friends?” like I think he was just imagining them being in a little gay kids club more than having some epic romance
But I truly think the truth is just SO bizarre and the idea of two players hiding a secret romance so outside the realm of what most hockey players are thinking about on the daily it truly would never occur to any of them. Actually I think a lot of them would basically refuse to believe it even after Shane and Ilya are out. Like it’s one of those “this doesn’t look like anything to me” things from Westworld. Everyone KNOWS Hollander and Rozanov are married but also the second you’re not directly looking at them acting married it slips out of conscious knowledge
I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET IT—BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE
Give me a child of Aphrodite who’s aromantic—because platonic love is just as important as romantic love
Give me a child of Athena with low grades, but very high emotional intelligence— because intelligence comes in many forms
Give me a child of Ares who’s a pacifist and only engages in violence when necessary— because they understand just how dangerous and easily escalated conflict is
Give me a child of Hades who embraces life to the fullest and is bubbly and sweet— because they understand that the experience of living is unique and should be cherished while it lasts
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You may think the phrase "He's just a little guy" comes from internet memes, but you would be wrong.
The true origin of the phrase belongs to celebrated author Tamora Pierce, in her 1983 novel Alanna: The First Adventure, when Gary says, "Still—what can Alan do for you? He's just a little guy"(49).
Thus, whenever we say of someone or some creature that they are "just a little guy," what we are really saying is that they are a short redheaded knight-in-training with some sort of Gender going on who will kick your butt given half a chance.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. May we all be the little guys we wish to see in the world.
Pierce, Tamora. Alanna: The First Adventure. New York, Random House, 1983.
Fandoms can't handle when a character isn't "conventionally attractive" and yet is still considered attractive by the canon and it makes me so upset. Guys. GUYS. Stop describing Blitzen with visible abs in fanfiction. Stop giving him and Hearthstone the same build in fanart. I'm genuinely begging, let my man be handsome AND fat. Fat isn't a bad word plz 🙏🙏
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suddenly remembered that pjotwt incident where show fans dogged on latinopercy's fanart of latino percy to "defend" walker and one of the comments said that the piece didn't feel like percy because he looked "too angry" and . [insert plethora of generational curses here] now it has me thinking about surreptitious fandom racism in how people seem to be receiving and interpreting show percy (a blond, blue-eyed pale kid) vs book percy (who's commonly depicted as a darker-skinned boy of color)
show percy being seen as the ideal percy because he fits the white vision of a beach boy, which he never was in the first place, instead of the considerably more alternative, rough-looking skater city boy he was in the books. the massive erasure of how teachers instantly distrust percy and never think he'll amount to anything because of how his disability others him; the lighthearted twist on percy's home situation so that we don't feel the total gravity of the situation that gabe puts both percy and sally in; the glossing over of how gabe and authority figures are easily able to label percy as a terrorist because he's a poor runaway kid, and percy is in turn severely traumatized by them (just look at his internal narration when he meets mr. d); show percy being to one to know and narrate everything about greek mythology instead of annabeth; show percy being first and foremost a lovable golden retriever goof and to-be-boyfriend; show fans wanting percy to be openly pursuant and communicative about his feelings with annabeth from the get-go, perceiving botl and tlo percy as an asshole for daring to be interested in other girls because it doesn't fit in with the golden retriever bf archetype they want him to be.
show percy is not tangibly othered in the way that book percy made us feel that he is and therefore carries no impact preceding from that; percy with none of the melancholy and the rage and the tragedy that haunts him from the first book because of his mother's death (because, remember, he knows from episode 2? 3? that sally is alive in the underworld). to the show and its fans, percy's coding in the books as a minority (even if unintentional on rick's part) is inconsequential to his character; and it seems they like him that way. otherwise, he's too angry, too complicated, too much of an asshole for the extremely stunted extent of their moral palette.