The School of Good and Evil saga is the gayest non-gay romance I've ever read. I'm just in the third book but people legit just be kissing their homies in the name of "friendship". Ngl, kinda sus.
Also, Sophie is more likeable as a boy, why's that?? I miss Filip, he was cute
Aric is my guilty crush, tbh. Love a cutthroat king. (But i feel like imma hate him eventually)
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So I just watched the school for good and evil movie. How did they manage to make tedros simultaneously way less of an ass but way more unbearable?!!?
Seriously not a single joke landed and yet it was his whole personality! Jokes and "you're not like other girls, you insult me and I find that hot". Like it was so much more entertaining to watch tedros and agatha hate and fight each other, to later be willing to risk their lives for each other!
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*drumroll* and behold! a Twilight Secret Gift Exchange anon, here to ask what kind of fanfic you would most dearly like to receive this December?
So first things first I'm so sorry its taken me so long to answer, things have been super super busy.
As for what fanfic I'd want, wow, well it changes depending on the length and also the day. I've been deep diving newborn Bella fanfics atm for my own. But I have so many things I would want to see!
As long as its something thats vaguely canon - meaning it sticks to the basics of what SMeyer wrote (aka how vampires work and stuff) - then I'll be one happy they!
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okay i lied last thought
i think the main thing that's been bothering me about the school master plotline besides lady lesso's uh . thing. was that by having him engage with the students and the professors so openly it makes it so clear early on that he's using them as chess pieces and is targeting sophie.
which isn't necessarily a bad thing because god knows that studios these days keep trying to pull a fast one on the audience, and the movie seems to be gearing more to the thesis of "there is more nuance in this world than you know" (which i believe nicely ties into agatha telling sophie that she's human at the end because it brings into the discussion a nice look at what humanizing these stock alignment fairy tale characters means), BUT i still do sincerely wish that they hadn’t name teased rafal so much and that the school master was if not morally ambiguous by matter of sheer not showing his face to anyone in centuries, then at the very least outright GOOD because the movie makes a very explicit point to show us at the very beginning that rhian the good brother is the one to survive.
because like, the audience knows that there was something dubious about the opening's anticlimax, but the rest of the school does not. if they truly were committed to suggesting that the school master had sinister motives and they were adamant that he interacted with the rest of the school, then they should have given him a kindlier or more sage personality in his introduction at orientation that would later be dropped (or not!) when sophie and agatha confronted him in the tower. like a sentence about how Yes it seemed that good has been winning for the past century, but that he has faith in both sides that they will do their best to win and that the world is still in balance. i don't know. something. i believe rafal is a better actor than that. he knew his brother best. that would have made knowing that he was up to something the whole time a lot more fun than sitting with the discomfort of his persona being apathetic at best between the schools.
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The weird world of the School of Good and Evil
I've been thinking about TSGE recently and it has the most wildly flawed educational system I've ever seen and I HAVE to break this down or I'm going to lose my mind. In the words of Daniel Craig:
(Please be aware that I am coming at this as someone who has only read the first two books and is a fan of both book and movie!)
Here are the reasons why nobody in this world should want their kids to go to this school:
The Mogrif system
The mogrif system has one third of the students turned into plants or animals every year. As it is based on rankings, 80 students will become mogrifs no matter how well a particular year does.
It is implied that many of Good's mogrifs lose their lives in the defence of the higher-ranked peers, with examples given of Princess Uma's deer mogrif who is torn apart by monsters to allow her to escape and Jack's beanstalk which is chopped down with an axe to kill the giant. Princess Uma's statement about sacrificing yourself for a princess being the best end you can have and Jack's willingness to kill his own friend makes me think that this may happen often, though it obviously is not something I can confirm.
The other interesting point to look at with the mogrifs is that during Princess Uma's Animal Friendship class, Agatha is chased by a stampede of mogrifs who appear to be living in the woods inside the school for Good. This makes me questions whether the mogrified students ever get to return home - we already know that multiple bodies of mogrified students (the pumpkin carriage and the beanstalk) are displayed in the museum within the school so mogrifs simply living within school grounds would make sense to me.
2. Failing
We are told that at least one student fails each year. Nobody outside of faculty/the schoolmaster appears to know what happens if you fail, and many students appear to believe that failing is synonymous with death. Both failing and mogrification are direct ways in which the school targets and hurts students, while some of the other threats could be argued to be either negligence or the consequences of living in a fairytale.
3. Deaths in Fairytales
It's confirmed that Gavaldon gets deliveries of fairytales every year, implying that at least one fairytale happens each year. In fairytales, a nemesis will not rest until either one of them is dead, confirming at least one death per year group. In reality, it is probably more than one due to the loss of mogrifs (from either side) or henchmen on the villain's side.
4. The Threat of the Woods
We are directly told that Surviving Fairy Tales is a class that was instituted due to the sheer number of children dying due to environmental factors during their quests. Not only that, these environmental factors do not discriminate between Evers and Nevers in the way that some of the other factors do.
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MATHS
(For this I will be treating failing as equivalent to death, due to the events of the Circus of Talents)
120 students per school per year -> 240 students a year
2 confirmed deaths per year (Failed student + Evil fairytale leader)
3 more potential deaths (both mogrifs + Evil henchman)
It is possible that one or more of the potential deaths could survive, but it's also very possible that more than one student would fail in a year or that non-fairytale students will die on their quest in the final year. So I will assume that the numbers will stand as they are.
80 mogrifs (78 remaining in the school woods)
I'm going to make an assumption that 10% died due to environmental factors in the forest, but I suspect the number may be higher than that due to the fact that the school directly intervened and instituted a class dedicated to surviving the woods.
24 deaths in the woods
This all results in 29 deaths per year with 78 never being able to return home at a minimum. In a best case scenario, parents have a 56% chance of getting their children home alive and well.
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Looking at this, why would any parent want their child to go to that school? Especially considering that many of them (many Evers but also some Nevers) are in line to become royalty - these are not children who may easily fly under the radar when it comes to negligence from a school; these are children with the highest level of privilege, and yet the world they exist within is fine with sacrificing them. Agatha shouldn't be the exception in wanting to leave this school - children here should be angry, upset, or visibly afraid.
Furthermore, I would kill and die to know some statistics about the survival rate of princesses vs princes before Good's winning streak. Princesses are taught very few skills conductive to survival, especially when you consider that the Survival in the Woods class is a recent addition and their main defence is finding a partner to protect them. This actually has some interesting implications for A World Without Princes (a whole concept I have criticisms of), but that's a post for another day!
Honourable Mentions:
Kidnapping readers to put them in a death school against their will
The fact that every single class session is assessed leaves little room for actual learning
Nepotism (Tedros' whole deal)
The entire "Good has been winning for xyz years" thing. Nevers, there has to be a better school out there.
I refuse to believe that feeding the Nevers awful food is something they enjoy. This isn't backed up by the text but it's a hill I can and will die on.
Anyway, what's your thoughts on this? Have I missed anything? Did I do my maths right?
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