Softball! The Coven

Is it bad that I’ve owned the new SGE book since April and I still haven’t read it? Like, I’d fallen in love with the series. I’ve been reading it for what is essentially six years now - started at 14, now 18. But I feel like there’s something stopping me. I don’t know if it lies more on Sophie or Tagatha. Don’t get me wrong Soman is a fantastic writer but you can see his favouritism towards Sophie and it gets old fucking fast, and you can play favourites but it’s when it affects the character arc it also creates a problem.

Sophie doesn’t learn anything nor face any consequences, despite the fact she’s the root of most - if not all problems because, to put bluntly; she’s a brat. Soman doesn’t acknowledge this. Sure, Agatha will give her a slight scolding but since when does Sophie take her seriously?

To be honest people bitch about Tedros being “on his period.” when he wanted Sophie dead, but I was rooting for him. Tagatha have their problems but Sophie amplifies them.

If Sophie’s not learning anything, then she’s not a good character - long-term at least. And I don’t want to have to force myself to keep reading her bullshit. I physically threw TLEA across my room when Sophie started degrading Agatha. I thank Sophie for one thing and one thing only; The moor scene.

Sophie’s a shit friend, period.

Which leads on to Tagatha. Why can’t these two just be happy? Seriously Soman let them breath for five fucking minutes. I’m sick of them falling out because Tedros takes a bitchfit over something so minute that could be solved in one conversation. Tedros isn’t 14 anymore - which to be honest it’s difficult for me to imagine the characters younger than me because I’ve literally grew through my high-school years with these books.

Edit: It is 2019 and I still haven’t touched it.

how can I be the greatest hero without you ?

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I forgot to post these lmaoo,, the road trip was supposed to be for titversary day 1,,, they got lost cuz of tamara lmaoo

The 2nd one is an attempt to design their uniforms inspired by altar servers/acolytes. I used this design for the 'take me to church' animatic.

Random thoughts- what if magisterium has more religious symbolism,,, its literally called Magisterium

What if the magic system is similar to Clerics in DND. Theres a god that granted them powers/magic, and they pray to use it. Maybe makars are like prophets, those have a special connection to their god which allows them to have more powerful magic.

Since the symbolisms heavily references catholicism,, constantine adds more into it (u kno, since his namesake literally converted to christianity). Like- idk what if constantine being a makar made him believe that he is strong, that he can become god- thus enemy of death.

Idk idkk what do yall think? Akdnjfndejgh

what if agatha have green eyes instead of sophie?

Just a fun lil headcanon i can’t get it out of my head- its 2am time to word vomit.

because we love a character with black hair and green eyes, amirite? also cuz it be hot

soman keeps emphasizing agathas eyes being big n buggy- basically agathas defining feature. usually calls it ugly tho- but u kno- what if???

green color is usually associated with bad magic and villains, 

while i love sophie’s green eyes aesthetic, i think agatha having green eyes adds to agatha’s “witchy vibe”, why the people in gavaldon be calling her a witch, and Ever students be avoiding her.

The whole hating her eyes to learning to love n appreciate thing

applies to agatha AND tedros-

Agatha looks scary and the green eyes is just making it worse. they be calling her a witch- a freak. but then later in the books, she learned to appreciate it n stuff.

TEDROS THO- in the Welcoming (SGE school orientation)- when their eyes met, he thought her eyes looks so beautiful <33

during the i-dont-like-you-ur-weird phase, imagine tedros thinking how her eyes are just so enchanting and captivating- 

it also adds to agatha and sophies dynamic

Sophie would be jealous, in a way, cuz agatha have such pretty green eyes and sophie have just, plain dark brown (DISCLAIMER- BROWN/BLACK EYES ARE V PRETTY (i also have em) TIS JUST- IDK PLOT WISE-)

like dude- imagine when they found out theyre sisters, Vanessa would hate agatha even more cuz “How dare this child look so ugly but have such pretty eyes???”

(tw// implied gore??) idk y but the idea of sophie wanting to carve out agathas eyes  sounds cool,

Agatha a Slytherin???

in the OTK cover, you can see agatha dressed in green with snake theme goin on. 

come on, agatha with green eyes, wearing snake theme clothes.

Thats,, what all i have, thanks for putting up with the word vomit. 

Ngl i also thought agatha was lesbian,, :0000c

Reacting to 1 Star SGE Reviews

Note: All of these are from different people! 

Okay, so I’ve personally never seen any gay characteristics in Agatha?? Does goth = gay ? Maybe it was because Agatha was bullied and outcasted? 

please reblog with “gay” traits that Agatha apparently has because that went completely over my head

Also since when did Soman Chainani make award-winning gay pride films?? I NEED TO SEE THEM NOW. 

And girl… I feel so bad for you. Wait till you find out they’re sisters. 

I do kind of understand the criticism of fat-shaming? But it didn’t really stand out to me. Soman was probably trying to throw in some satire/commentary, I don’t know. 

First of all:

Tedros raised some red flags but it was rounded out by TLEA anyway so it wasn’t a problem for me. 

Second:

WHERE DO PEOPLE KEEP INTERPRETING AGATHA AS A LESBIAN?? 

W H E R E. 

Seriously, I have no idea, someone enlighten me. 

Third: 

The whole point was that Agatha changes her mindset and accepts herself. I shouldn’t even need to explain this part. 

LMAOOO Fantasy Mean Girls. 

I think the “changing motivations” issue was with the Coven, because first they made fun of Sophie, then helped her win Tedros over, and at the end they were on Agatha’s side. I don’t exactly remember the reasons why, but it made sense to me because 1. they were just trying to get Sophie out of Evil and 2. they understood the bigger picture of defeating Sophie. 

This is so funny because I’m imagining this guy ranting and spitting in my face. He is Extremely Pressed. The rest of his review was something about stereotypes and wrong messages and confusion of the plot. 

My Review of These Reviews:

There were a lot of other… opprobrium that I didn’t include just because they went on and on for so long. Here were the points I found interesting:

Sophie is stupid, annoying character and Agatha should’ve left her when she had the chance. 

I can 100% see why many readers would hate Sophie. But she was my favorite character and still is! 

Agatha did a 180 on her personality. There was no good reason for her to date Tedros when she hated boys for a majority of the book. 

I think that whole “Agatha blushes and gets nervous around Tedros” scene was unnecessary. And her hypocrisy killed me the first time I read SGE, but I knew that was the lesson Soman was going for. I wish she kept her witchy side though, Agatha’s character is getting worse and worse with every book (in the Camelot Years). 

Someone said that it rubbed them the wrong way when the wolf captured Sophie, undressed her, then clothed her again? Something like that? 

Was it the Beast in the Doom Room (who was supposed to punish and humiliate her… god I see the implication). PLUS, Sophie described Stefan with a wolf mask?? That is very… uh. Are they thinking what I’m thinking? Not to mention that Hort, known simp, is a man-wolf. Jesus. 

This is not appropriate for ages 8 and up. 

I agree with this. I’m pretty sure Soman forgot that they were 12 years old, because picturing CHILDREN in romantic relationships is uncomfortable, especially when they’re acting AT LEAST 16. The amount of dark themes are pretty surprising, but I’d read much darker books before so I didn’t care. If Soman simply aged them up (and made it even darker, though that’s a personal preference) parents wouldn’t feel so misled and angry.  

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

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"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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are ya really best friends if your minecraft ocs arent undead/immortal exes with a tragic past (feat. quille, @quilleily's oc!)

(for context, sada is a zombie and quille is a ghast)

also, because of the ghast update: