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Arc of a scythe fandom are yall mentally ok?
Are you good?
Mainly asking because, I am not
He deserves to scream into the void as loudly as he can :)💕
For those of you who have read Scythe by Neal Shusterman AND know the Life series, hear me out here:
Scar as a Scythe. The man so afraid to kill now the one sentenced to bring death to every. Single. Person.
And his final test would be to redo Third Life, same ending fight and everything, except this time, he wins.
I don't care who does it, I just need this to exist ðŸ˜
got this last night and saved the sleeve just for my shrine!!
autism so bad that when i saw Callenger Deep on a thing for english class i had to check the author to see if it was Neal Shusterman… it was, and i geeked out
working on some basic ref sheet stuff! @nealshustermanreal shoutout because i'm so happy I didn't have to come up with my own logo LOL
Speaking of which, from here on out, for designs that aren't explicitly stated in the book: I'll be making my own designs. You can already see that in the rings! While we do know that the rings are gold, the actual design itself is unknown. I tried my best to make the rings look chunky, because I'm sure that if there was actual technology in there, it'd be hard to fit inside a tiny ring (plus, those diamonds are HUGE. The size of Faraday's KNUCKLE?! The Scythedom is RICH rich)
Also, for designs that contradict the book, they'll be ignored. The Scythe book trailer, for example, shows the rings being silver with a cyan diamond. That directly contradicts what's said in the book, so it'll be ignored for now!
Question for Scythe fans: Anybody have specific page numbers for character descriptions? This question applies to Scythe, Thunderhead, Toll and Gleanings (although if you talk about Gleanings, pls keep it spoiler free- i havent read it yet!)
I ask this because I'm trying to make a drawing of each notable character from the series. I'll do less notable characters too if I don't lose motivation, lol.
On my drawings I want to cite the pages where their descriptions are included, but unfortunately, I didn't mark the pages as I was reading. I'm trying to go through the book right now, but it's mostly skim reading since I don't want to reread the ENTIRE book. Any help finding descriptions would be greatly appreciated!!
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
So I've just started reading the third part of Neal Shusterman's series Arc of a Scythe – The Toll, and I believe this is the first time I came across a non-binary/genderfluid character in a book, additionally that beautifully portrayed.
The character's name is Jerico. Jerico is a captain of a great ship. Through the first few paragraphs of that chapter there are no gendered expressions used to describe Jerico (and note that I'm not reading it in English, but in my native, heavily-gendered language), until that moment when one sailor refers to Jerico as "sir", and then quickly corrects himself to "madam", adding, "it was cloudy a moment ago".
I won't explain here the whole setting of that story, but for what you need to know, it is happening in the future when there are some places in the world that function differently from the rest. It is explained that in Madagascar, where Jerico comes from, the concept of gender is not imposed on children. Once they are grown up, they are free to choose whether they feel like men or women, or not to choose at all. Jerico chose the fluidity.
And here's my favourite part. Jerico's gender depends on the weather. When there is sun or stars in the sky, she is a woman. When there are clouds, he is a man. For someone whose everyday life depends so strongly on atmospheric conditions as for a sailor, a captain, I think it's beautiful. I don't know yet what happens to Jerico later in that book, but anyways. Huge respect to the author.