Alright, *cracks Knuckles* Here We Go,,

My portraits inspired by Across the Spiderverse so far. There’s one character left!

My siblings read the books, first trilogy, with me as it was released back then. So they're familiar with the story even though they haven't read it in years.

So here's a compilation of their reactions (O.S - older sibling, Y.S - younger sib)

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Introduction of Lady Lesso:

O.S: OH wow 😳😳, hello?? Omg-

Y.S: YESSS i love her she's such a diva

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Starting from here, any scene with lesso and dovey

Both: OLD WOMEN YURI!!! They're so married!!!!

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Old!school master enters:

O.S: who is that? Sader?

Me: no, that's the school master. Sader isn't even in here

Both: SADER ISN'T IN THE MOVIE?!???? WHAT?????????

. . .

O.S: i thought he's (the actor) Samuel L. Jackson

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Gregor scene

Me: GREGOR MY BABY MY SWEETHEART

O.S: is he gonna die?

Me & Y.S: ...

O.S: is he?

. . .

Gregor turning to a monster scene

O.S: oh my god they made an example out of him what the fuck

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Agatha telling Tedros to "look past the black and white the world wants you to see"

Me: SEE this is why i love movie!tagatha more than book!tagatha-

later- Tedros and Sophie together during lunch

O.S: ooohh, the conversation tedros and agatha had, paved the way for tedros and sophie's relationship

Me and Y.S: ooooohhh

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Soman cameo

Y.S: soman is mogging us

O.S: gdi now i can't look at him everytime he shows up on screen

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Rafal scenes:

Y.S: CREEP! GROOMER! DISGUSTING!

O.S: oh this is like the phantom of the opera

Y.S: sophie is getting discord kittened

O.S: I'm starting to think the school master is soman's self insert

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O.S: i miss the two dogs

Y.S: OMG NOOO THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE THEM NOOOOOOO

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Leonora Lesso as the prev. Reader reveal

Both: ooooooohh, cool but also noooooo

O.S: is that why lesso looks more plain compared to dovey? Cuz she's a reader?

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Climax- big fight between schools

Transformation sequence*

Y.S: OOHH i fuck with this so bad- sophie looks so good woah

*toxic starts playing*

Y.S: oh whAT THE FUCK NOOOOO THIS FUCK ASS SOUNDTRACK

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Sophie's death scene

Both: are they gonna kiss? Please kiss, please please kiss

They kissed

Both: OH MY GOD? THEY ACTUALLY DID IT HOLY SHIT!

O.S: i can forgive everything in the movie now because they made them kiss

Y.S: thats crazyy, this movie now 4.5/5

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Sophie and Agatha about to go home

O.S: tedros should come with them, he can open his own grocery store *starts sobbing*

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End of movie thoughts

They both liked the movie, they had fun!

Kudos to the production team of the movie, from set design, costume, cgi, lighting, and casting.

Especially the choreography, the fight scenes are so well done and hyped.

The writing is a bit lackluster, but they think if given more time or lessen screentime from the school master scenes, the movie could've been better.

Overall, it was good, probably 4 stars, 7/10,

Making my siblings watch the sge movie, and 10 minutes in my older sister already hates it LMAOO

Thee kiddos

Random post canon headcanon: Call eventually gets a cane to help with his bad leg (and occasionally to hit Jasper with when he's being annoying)

I watched the adaptation of The School for Good and Evil on Netflix and was, to be honest, kind of disappointed. I watched without reading it first which made me wonder : "Is the book as bad as its adaptation ?"

The whole ambiance, world and characters in the movie felt really promising but also sort of shallow.

Then I read the first book and realised how much more nuanced it actually is and how more developed the characters are.

So I made a series of character designs based on the book and movie characters.

First : The Evergirls Reena, Kiko and Chinen (which isn't in the books but deserved her own character design...)

Prologue

"Well, Agatha had an answer to that.."

Apparently I didn't posted these here. so here it is.

First // Next

wait what if in scammers to lovers izuku still stopped gentle criminal and la brava from attacking ua but like… by talking to them or something

Just completely changed their worldview or something they’re like “wow this conversation has changed the way I look at the world and I think I’m a better person because of it. I’m going to follow my true passions now, thank you”

What I'd give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you're in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you're not weak if you can't escape by yourself

I've never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into "princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else", to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she's a strong female character! (Implying if you're in a bad situation, it's because you're not strong enough to get out)

SOPHIE'S TRAUMA (Or lack thereof)

Something that's always irked me about TCY is how flippant Sophie is toward references to Rafal. This old ass bitch groomed and took advantage of her, manipulated and brainwashed her with the Swan Gold, and by the Ever-Never Handbook she's talking about him like he’s an unfortunate ex and not, you know, a fucking monster.

In TLEA it is specifically stated that Sophie is terrified of Rafal before he gives her his ring. Even after that, she makes numerous comments on feeling unsafe around him. There's no denying that she was affected by Rafal's behavior during the time they were together, so why is he written off as another guy Sophie couldn't keep? Why does Rafal become a punchline from the Handbook forward, not even a year after his death?

To put it simply: Sophie was taken advantage of by an older man. She showed obvious signs of how this was negatively affecting her in TLEA. It's safe to assume that she would gain some sort of trauma from this, but such is never exploited in QFG onwards.

Sure, Sophie is a very frivolous person, so her making a joke at the expense of an ex or commenting on how he's “still hot” doesn't come unexpected. But Rafal isn’t a Tedros or a Hort or even a Rhian. Sophie was never actually in love with Rafal—she thought he was hot as a teenager, yeah, but her romantic feelings for him were made up by the ring, and the rest was about her desire to become Evil’s queen and her jealousy toward Tagatha.

It’s like… shouldn’t the memory of Rafal affect Sophie in some way outside of, “yeah he was evil but at least he was hot”, or whatever? Isn’t there a chance that maybe the reason she was happy on her own at the end of TLEA was because being with Rafal had scared the concept of having a prince out of her? And that her lunging for the first cute boy she sees in QFG is completely out of character?

Trauma and grief affect people differently. I’m not going to pretend to be a psychology major when I’m not. I can’t speak from personal experience, but I can confidently say that Sophie “getting over” Rafal as quickly as she did felt shallow and lazy.

The closest thing to a reaction at the mention of Rafal that we see from Sophie is her comparing theSnake to him in QFG and getting a little unnerved. I find it bizarre that Sophie’s pretty much moved on from the whole ordeal not even a year later.

The argument that displaying a character suffering from trauma in a children’s book is inappropriate doesn’t work here, either, because Soman’s already written the toxic relationship she would be suffering trauma from into the damn book. That’s not to mention Tedros getting tortured in book 2, Callis getting burnt at the stake, Sophie being brutalized and left to die by the Elders—seriously, I could go on for years about the things that aren’t “suitable for a M.G. novel” in this series.

In fact, I believe it would be important to show Sophie having nervous or negative reactions toward references to Rafal. It would display the damage a relationship like theirs can have on a person, and then maybe less 12 y/o’s would find Rafal and Raphie less hot.

This can be applied to more than just Sophie, too. Literally every character in this series has lost a parent or guardian. Tedros was tortured, Sophie died in book 1, Agatha watched these horrible things happen to her friends… the list goes on. It amazes me that not one character has mourned or shown grief for a dead character or has had a breakdown over the immense amount of shit they’ve been through. Callis is mentioned maybe three times over the course of TCY. It’s insane.

Is this comprehensible? I’m not sure. It’s vvv late but I need to get these thoughts out.

Bottom line: I don’t think the Sophie/Rafal situation was handled well post-TLEA, and the representation of the trauma these kids undoubtedly should have is nonexistent.