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kotlc fans should be called "keepers".
you agree.
reblog.
Things I've always wondered about in Keeper of the Lost Cities: Part 2
ID Dates. Remember when there was that random conversation in the middle of Neverseen and Forkle was like 'Oh, you're not actually 13 you're 14 because in elf we start counting life at conception. Birthdays? tf are those, we have ID dates which have no actual purpose.' And at first I thought this was just a poorly executed move to narrow the age difference and speed up Sophie's dating life, but re-reading it, the implication is that elves are pro-life, because the argument for that is that life begins at conception. I'm not sure if it was inadvertent or not, but does this mean elves are anti abortion? And does this mean Shannon Messenger is pro-life too? IDK, not sure how I feel about this one.
How can they not notice Oralie is Sophie's biological mum if they have both of their DNA?
Everything about abilities manifesting. Average age is 12-15 right? Imagine if when you manifested your voice cracked. That would 100% make the book better.
Tam and Linh's hair dye. Namely where do I get this stuff. But also...it's molten silver. Surely it would just burn off their hair. Imagine them attempting to make their super powerful statement and ending up with a pile of burnt hair mixed with goopy silver and Linh trying not to laugh while Tam stews.
Things I've always wondered about in Keeper of the Lost Cities
Foxfire's school hours. It's well established that elves live across the globe, and with light leaping it's not hard to travel, but like, if they live all around the world, they all live in different time zones. So some kids would go to school when it's dark at home. How do they decide when? It's not talked about at all in the books and this annoys me a lot. Is there Elvin Standard Time?
I know that they make a big point in the books that they have no Human prejudices but I think that clearly they do. Everyone's a little weirded out by the fact that Sophie wears pAnTs and doesn't like dresses or glitter (which is scandalous and totally not common for millions of girls around the world) and clearly they don't have any boys who wear dresses or girls who shave their heads. All the girls and boys conform to stereotypically gendered forms of beauty. No muscular girls. No fat characters. No short boys. No feminine girls. No trans or gender neutral characters. What's up with that?
On that note it really feels like Shannon Messenger is becoming J K Rowling just a little. There are no openly gay or queer characters after eight and a half books so something smells a little funky there.
The crystal palaces. Where do they get all that crap from? There's a reason these are precious stones.
The nobility. Everyone acts like it's super exclusive but like, there has to be one mentor for each kid at Foxfire, because classes are individual, and there has to be hundreds of kids. So there's hundreds of nobility whose only job is to teach kids. Not even go on missions or emissary work or whatever.
This is just edition one everyone strap yourselves in.
Sophie: If you get in trouble I'll act like a lawyer to you
Keefe: Okay
*later*
Mr. Forkle: Keefe! Sit down on that chair, you're in trouble
Sophie: Deny everything
Keefe: That isn't a chair!
Just wrote my first fanfic in eight-nine years! Sokeefe, from Keefe’s perspective
I will never let the fact that Mr. Tam Song is a hard-core Sokeefe shipper die down.
The keeper fandom back to haunt me again
Omg guys release day XD I got my book preordered off Amazon and it’s *so good*
The movie we can only hope for tho…
Keefe: that's what family is
Keefe: people who can't kill you because they will be the first ones questioned
Sophie: no offense but your family is already killing you
Dex: only his mom at least
Sophie: no, one time cassius dropped him on his head as a baby
Dex: maybe it was an accident..........
Keefe: Have you met him?
Tam: well..... that explains a lot
Kotlc x b99
Glimmer: what kind of a woman doesn't have an axe?
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Keefe: there is nothing gendered about a sexy cat.
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Sophie: I'm wired to thrive on dysfunction
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Fitz: I want someone to take me out
Tam: like on a date or with a sniper?
Fitz: surprise me
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Mr. Forkle to iggy in neverseen: do not blow this for us
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Biana: I think I just got stabbed by that guy
Fitz: oh yeah you did. You definitely did.
Dex: what's up? I got your text- oh my god biana there is a knife in you!!
Dex: Fitz did you stab biana?
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Linh: life is a party and I'm the piñata
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Fintan (in his ice prison): I'm not totally useless
Fintan: I can be used as a bad example
Marella: I can see that
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Maruca: how was i supposed to know there'd be consequences to my actions?
Wylie: *sighs*
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Sophie whenever something goes wrong: cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
No, but keefe was the only one holding sophitz together in legacy ?????????
He wasn't even in the relationship
There should be a reality show on the elvin families before sophie.
Show me grady being fatherly with brant but also threatening him! Show me edaline disapproving of jolie and brant but loving them anyway! Show me kesler and juline showing middle fingers to the matchmakers and the councilors! Show me the councilors trying to make laws against each other (somebody ate all the mallowmelt)! Show me Cassius being an arrogant bitch ! Show me unicorns flinging shit at the hekses! Show me alden and della reading alvar bedtime stories! Show me prentice making wylie practice some mind defenses! Show me tiergen and leto accidentally giving some info on this "supposed" rebellion !
I probably can't fit all of the things i want to see but pLS
I swear to god the councilors are so fcking dumb that even gorgodon shit could handle the elvin world better than them.
They are literally an example of "smart individuals but when together there is not a single braincell present"
Rereading the kotlc books and realizing that magnate leto said "you kids" in everblaze and him being hurt and asking her if she really meant "that they shouldn't heal prentice" that was probably one of the accidental giant slips that the fork man referred to in the neverseen
Also the forklenator calling keefe a beauty in neverseen was absolute gold
It still gives me the icks that oralie just agreed to give up her child to the black swan, like no shade on them or anything but im not going to be comfortable with the knowledge that my child is probably going to be experimented on and face a LOT of trauma.
And she just told sophie "I did it because it was the only way I could ever have a child" like excuse me!!??! This a job that requires a lot of responsibility not something you can just check off from you to - do list.
And we know she was a councilor at that time and she probably wasn't resigning soon so she knew that sophie would be matchless
Oralie definitely deserves the way sophie is acting towards her (which isn't even that extreme)
Kotlc musings
So for all of you Kotlc fans(including me..), here's a thought------
At the beginning, S. messenger wrote in the first book: "Humans don't know about the existence of elves" BUT there was a "human assistance program" So on the basis of that--- here's what I think-----
(To Be Continued)
I drew Sophie Foster a bit ago and decided to post her on here :D
Nothing else really to add other than contributing to the fandom, oh, and hi, I'm new here!
Ngl i liked Fitz immediately as an eight year old cause his eyes are teal and teal is my favorite color i was honestly like: this one. Teal. Yes. Me like.
GUYS I CANNOT EVEN, I LOVEEEEEE THIS ARTIST
Sophie's Bedroom
A commission for Simon & Schuster and Shannon Messenger from a couple years ago.
Sophie: That cape is really working for you.
Keefe: Oh yeah?
Sophie: It’s working for me too.
Keefe: Are you.... flirting with me?
Sophie: Something like that.
Keefe: Finally!!! Do it some more!!!
Chaprter 2 of The KOTLC Princess Diaries AU is up on AO3 👍
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63113431/chapters/162684679
I made a KOTLC Princess AU
As someone cleverly surmised, I did make the poll’s because I was writing this fic and needed some help with who should be who.
so here’s a link to it on ao3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63113431/chapters/161626207
In a KOTLC “Princess Bride” au…
In a KOTLC “Princess Bride” AU…
How that one scene in Stellarlune went
Sophie: Don’t worry, I have a few knives up my sleeves.
Keefe and Edaline: I think you mean cards.
Sophie pulling Hope out of its sheath: I did not