#the atlas paradox spoilers

[crystalizrd]

just Nico de Varona and his two other halves

#can they be happy and together for like 5 pages pls #the atlas paradox spoilers #the atlas paradox #the atlas six #nico de varona #nicolibby #nicogideon

[nialllynchstears]

It's been almost two weeks since I finished the book, and I still think about Callum feeling his own emotions for the first time in two years at Tristan going "well sorry I fucked it all up by trying to kill you"

#omg she's posting #at6 #the atlas paradox spoilers #the atlas paradox #the atlas six #tristan caine #callum nova

[natjosten]

THE ATLAS COMPLEX SPOILERS

ik it’s hinted that he’s alive when james wessex sees platinum blond but i still get irrationally angry every time i think about callum nova’s potential death. he wanted to die of high cholesterol not stupidly being shot by tristan’s dad because he stupidly made a deal he wasn’t even going to go through with.

if ur gonna let callum think all those happy eureka! thoughts right before his “death” and then end up killing him, it’s not bittersweet, it doesn’t fulfill his character arc, it’s just lazy writing. olivie blake wanted her readers to be upset, to immortalize her series with “oh what a great series” but this is NOT the poppy war or six of crows. bc those books had enough of the characters’ actions and fast paced plot to keep the reader engaged and it made the deaths kinda worth it. callum’s death wasn’t worth it.

and then she writes a cheap way out, one that blake hopes to keep people talking about her book more, one that gives her an easy way out if she gets accused of burying the gays (which she does THREE times in the series). she adds the platinum blond to the security camera and she hopes her book will live on with a #ambiguous! just like iwwv did.

i just don’t understand if 1) that was her plan all along in which case it was a terrible idea or 2) she got heavily influenced by social media and the fact that the TV show is in the works (which ugh reading the book it’s so obvious she was thinking about the show the whole time)

and also it sucks that she never told us what callum/tristan did in book 1 when tristan said “i see u” and callum let him in??? idk if she even knows what happened herself tbh

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[nicolibbyquotes]

““How would he find me?”

“Who?”

“You know,” said Libby”

-“The Atlas Paradox” by Olivie Blake

#she knows he’s the only one looking for her 😭 #like it’s him or no one #she knows he cares #UGH #I need them #5 more days until we get them back and I die #nicolibby #libbynico #nicolibby quotes #libbynico quotes #nico x libby #libby x nico #libby rhodes #nico de varona #olivie blake #the atlas series #the atlas paradox #tap #the atlas paradox spoilers #tap spoilers

[spacehero-23]

#the atlas paradox spoilers #the atlas six #the atlas paradox #nico de varona #libby rhodes #gideon drake #olivie blake

[happygirl2oo2]

#Nicolibby #binary stars #libby rhodes #nico de varona #nico varona #the atlas paradox #the atlas six #the atlas complex #ta6 #the atlas series #the atlas trilogy #olivie blake #the atlas complex spoilers #the atlas paradox spoilers #text post meme #textposts #text post

[readbooksandwatchgilmoregirls]

Libby corruption arc this, Libby corruption arc that.

I present to you: Libby self worth and self determination arc.

In TA6, Libby and Nico have a conversation where he says to her, "Either you're complete or you're not. Stop looking. It's right fucking there. Either it's enough for you or it never will be."

Then in TAP, we get this quote from Libby's POV. "Today was the day. Two versions of her existed at once: the Libby Rhodes who was enough and the one who never would be."

She is about to make this drastic decision, this metaphorical opening of Schroedinger's box to find out whether she is or isn't enough. Until she opens the box (that is herself), she can never really know whether she is or isn't enough, because Libby Rhodes is reliant on the facts.

Her whole arc is not about her being "corrupted"; that is a side effect of what is underneath the surface. Her arc is about the bravery it takes to choose yourself and believe in your own abilities.

She has done nothing but hold herself back for fear of what might happen if she didn't limit herself, and in TAP we finally see her (as Nico puts it in TA6) "stop apologizing for the damage and let the fucker burn" literally.

We even see Libby in TAP call back to this conversation with Nico again later that same passage- "Destiny was a choice. Time to torch this outcome and let the fucker burn."

#libby rhodes my beloved #i am first and foremost a libby rhodes girl #libby rhodes #the atlas six #the atlas paradox #the atlas paradox spoilers #tap spoilers #nico de varona #nico and libby #what i love about their friendship your honor? everything #but especially how they push each other to be the best/most powerful versions of themselves #olivie blake #the atlas series

[daisy-johnson]

“as with any chronic condition, his survival was a matter of becoming more comfortable, not some elusive unreality of being wholly pain-free. the trick was managing it until it no longer bit so angrily or stung. ”

hey olivie blake what do you have there

A KNIFE

#olivie blake holding a knife to my throat: ok now empathize with callum #i literally said oof while reading #the atlas paradox #the atlas paradox spoilers #julia reads tap #the atlas six #books #cause this is what some people in my life don’t get #yes the chronic pain program that i went through changed my life and made me able to function and to Live #but what it didn’t do is 100% cure me #i’m always going to have pain and that’s just the reality #i’m always going to have limitations of what my body can handle #julia.txt

[malinaa]

Summary: What if the ending of The Atlas Paradox went a little differently? Or, Libby and Nico finally get a reunion kiss. | for @ohdeklo

“Jesus, Rhodes,” Nico says. His tone softens, his voice trembles with relief. “Jesus.”

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[nialllynchstears]

Also, I knew it was going to go like this, but Olivie made Callum so pathetic in literally the first 15% of the second book, I want to put him in a box with some grass and a little water bottle<3

Like I knew that it had be like that since the whole part about his mother, but still, it's so funny, how to make the only potential actually villain character of the book a meowmeow immediately

And he is a true meowmeow, he did kill that person technically

#the atlas paradox #atlas six #at6 #callum nova #omg she's reading the atlas #the atlas six #the atlas paradox spoilers #omg she's posting

[edelwoodsouls]

if i had a nickel for every time an insane magical academic lobotomised themselves to stop themselves from being too powerful, with the help of a coworker with hugely concerning duplicitous intentions, only for that lobotomy to fall apart due to love and drive them arguably more insane - I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice

#harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #the atlas six #dalton ellery #the atlas paradox #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #the atlas paradox spoilers #moss.txt

[nicolibbyquotes]

“Tristan was not only alive, he was also more useful than Nico had anticipated (or less, depending on whether one considered seeing the truth in Libby’s dead body to be useful if the person in question then proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it) and so it didn’t even matter.”

- “The Atlas Paradox” by Olivie Blake

#Nico hating Tristan because he didn’t help find Libby is everything #like truly he held that grudge forever #as he should #but like all Nico wanted was her back the whole book he really is/was the person who loved her the most 😭😭😭 #nicolibby #libbynico #nicolibby quotes #libbynico quotes #nico x libby #libby x nico #libby rhodes #nico de varona #olivie blake #the atlas series #the atlas paradox #the atlas paradox spoilers #tap #tap spoilers

[spacehero-23]

"Were there worse things than sand? Yes, definitely, but still. Gideon didn’t think it was entirely out of line to find its effects offensive."

#the atlas paradox #the atlas six #olivie blake #gideon drake #parisa kamali #the atlas paradox spoilers

[titsthedamnseason]

the way literally everyone is in love with libby rhodes

#i was evil laughing the whole book omg…. #istg she gets everyone wrapped around her finger. she had ezra she had nico she had parisa she had tristan she had gideon #SHE HAD FUCKING CALLUM MISSING HER???? #every time someone mentioned her or noticed themselves acting like her or used the word ‘rhodesian’ i turned into andrea swift #full on that’s my baby and i’m real proud #like that’s right libby rhodes is a trend setter! rhodesism is a cult and you’re all part of it whether you want to or not! #mine #the atlas six #the atlas paradox spoilers

[thomaslightwood]

“Do you think they know what it really means to love?” [he] mused aloud to him. “That it isn’t the simple joy of fondness, I mean. In fact it’s violent, destructive. It means to cut the heart out of your chest and give it to someone else.”

- Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

#the atlas paradox #the atlas series #the atlas six #olivie blake #this isn't a spoiler but some people don't wanna know even quotes before reading me included so #the atlas paradox spoilers