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perfectfeelings · 4 months

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You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

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arcofacatboy · 8 months

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#arc of a scythe #scythe #the toll #thunderhead #neal shusterman #aoas #gleanings #scythe faraday #citra terranova #rowan damisch

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thoughtkick · 9 months

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Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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quotefeeling · 4 months

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You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

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beesinmypancrees · 5 months

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Scythehood gave Citra empathy and I eat that shit up entirely everytime I think about it: an essay

One of the first things we learn about her in chapter one is that she's quick to anger. We also learn that she freezes up when she's scared, and shuts down completely. These two are a deadly combination meaning that if's shes afraid of losing an argument, she'll just shut the other person down completely instead of admitting fault.

She literally pushes a girl under a moving truck and just. lets her live with that. She actually killed someone and got them ridiculed for like, ever, and said nothing about it and covered it up completely. I don't even remember her actually saying she was sorry about it, even years later, when she actually had to apologize to the girl. This girl does not give a shit about anything!!!

Yet when she's an apprentice and a scythe, she shows people more compassion than she knows how to give. She falls hideously under her quota just to give people their last decision in their death. She bends rules and makes her life all the more difficult because it weighs on her that their life is ending because of her and she does her best to accommodate. In conclusion, she's my precious little meow meow and i love her so goddamn much you wouldn't believe

#arc of a scythe #citra terranova #neal shusterman

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alma-n · 9 months

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He deserves to scream into the void as loudly as he can :)💕

#this boy has BEEN THROUGH THINGS #HE DESERVES EVERYTHING #ive started the third book and this series is a chef's kiss #arc of a scythe #aoas #rowan damisch #citra terranova #arc of a scythe fanart #rowan damisch fanart #art #digital art #thunderhead #the toll #scythe #neal shusterman

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meezimoo · 10 months

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Scythe Volta and Rowan fanart from a little bit ago that I forgot to post. I love arc of a scythe so, so much and I highly recommend reading it. I'm not even an avid reader, yet I've enjoyed these books to no end

#arc of a scythe #neal shusterman #rowan damisch #scythe volta #scythe book #meezimoos art

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scythe-fan · 10 months

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the scythe fandom when scythe curie:

#arc of a scythe #scythe #scythe book #neal shusterman #thunderhead #the toll #scythe trilogy #scythe curie

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greysontolliverowned · 3 months

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Neal Shusterman disgusts me. This is nothing new, of course, but many people in the Arc of a Scythe fandom haven't read Nicht Schöner als Ich and I feel like it should be talked about.

Nicht Schöner als Ich, translating to "No More Beautiful than Me" in English, is a short story in Gleanings that was written exclusively for the German-language copy of the book. It's about the purge of all mortal-born people that was briefly mentioned in The Mortal Canvas. I haven't finished it yet, I genuinely don't know if I can considering everything it is about (and the fact that It takes about 20 minutes just for me to translate a page, but that doesn't matter), but the basic premise from what I can tell is that Rasmus has to flee where he is with his grandma, Elke, who was born mortal, so that the scythes of the purge don't glean them. These specific scythes kill mortal-born people so that they can "cleanse" the population as all a show of power, a show of torture and bias, and a want to rule their own world.

Of course most of Shusterman's works are about killing, death, sacrifice, running and corruption and stuff. Translating this story, though, really makes me uncomfortable in the way it mirrors current events, with the genocide in Palestine, and the way Neal Shusterman is ignoring and literally engaging the killing of tens of thousands of people all while writing sympathetically about people being attacked and targeted in such a similar way is just so hypocritical and gross.

This is your reminder: I know you've probably heard this all before, but it cannot be forgotten about or ignored. Do NOT support Neal. Don't buy his books, don't buy his merchandise; if you want to read his books, buy them second-hand or support your local library. Try to minimize the clout you give him. Personally, I feel comfortable mostly interacting with people who are already in/have been in the fandom, and I don't want to post much or share his books, but absolutely no hate to people who still want to post about his content. Over 26,000 people have been killed in Gaza now. This is not something that you can just ignore, and this is not something you can be neutral on.

#arc of a scythe #aoas #neal shusterman #free palestine #free gaza

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surqrised · 6 months

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Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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asterorsomething · 9 days

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i find it fucking wild that neal shusterman, the guy who writes dystopian novels about mass murder being legal and publicly endorsed, is a zionist of all things. like, shit… pick a struggle babes…

#neal shusterman #unwind dystology #arc of a scythe #unwind #unwholly #unsouled #scythe #thunderhead #the toll #gleanings

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perfectfeelings · 6 months

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You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

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arcofacatboy · 8 months

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#arc of a scythe #scythe #the toll #thunderhead #neal shusterman #aoas #gleanings #rowan damisch #scythe lucifer

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

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quotefeeling · 11 months

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You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

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beesinmypancrees · 5 months

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end of scythe and early thunderhead quirks because i refuse to shut up

apparently every character is strong enough to carry every other character. like yeah i totally expected curie to be able to just, hoist citra everywhere but reading that citra CARRIED (not dragged) faraday (you know, a grown ass whole ass buff ass man) was a lil jarring. i know they’re all buff as shit but faraday has to be bulking i mean cmon

rowan is so emo oh my god

brahms sniffed the air when he realized someone was following him

neal has a personal vendetta against xenocrates cause WHY DOES HE FEEL THE NEED TO MENTION THAT HE CAN BARELY FIT INTO A CONFESSIONS CHAMBER

this one is from scythe but rowan knows what a tweaker is only because he was so depressed he got his nanites tweaked. he’s so emo and for what

#arc of a scythe #citra terranova #rowan damisch #neal shusterman #scythe

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