people being like "the new fob cover is bad because it's tonally inconsistent and silly" as if the original song doesn't list wheel of fortune, AIDS, and "rock and roller cola wars" within like 20 seconds of each other
not that I don’t appreciate Evan for what he is (a necessary personal cheerleader for Blake, a lingering question about the horrors of what it does for a child to be granted immortality without ever actually developing in mental maturity) but before I read Pact all I knew was that Blake’s familiar was a ghost boy.
So in my mind Evan was like this horror movie ghost of a Victorian boy with dark and greasy bangs who died of idk irradiated soup or the Consumption or a cobblestone alleyway stabbing. He (the Evan my mind had mistakenly conjured, I mean) wasn’t even evil he was just wet and creepy.
Misinformation I burned to death several times as a teenager due to the long skirts I wore
sounds legit
just like how I've literally snapped in half while wearing a corset, every single time, and now my midsection is held together by a complex network of zipties
(in all seriousness, before anyone starts in with the Um Actuallys, yes your clothing can catch fire if it's too near an open flame. but I seldom see anyone talking about the 18th- or 19th-century fire risks of frock coats, tailcoats, capes, long sleeves, long scarves- I nearly caught a perfectly normal blouse sleeve on fire once while frantically trying to unplug a sparking extension cord at the museum -or indeed anything that's not a primarily feminine-coded garment)
(so...)
(also obviously Wool Smolders, You Tend To Be Better At Fire Safety If Fire Is An Unavoidable Part Of your Daily Life, Show Me The Reliable Primary Source Death Statistics; I'm Waiting, etc.)