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I finally got my copy of The Way Home!!! I was not expecting there needing to be a trigger for sexual assault. :(

Oof, thanks for the heads up, I haven't read it yet

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I don't think there is anything to add about the tiddy tree but, FOLKS

the way Schmendrick is tied to the tree is insane! Like, insane levels of uncomfortable!

My man Schmendrick is a flexible guy and Molly does not complain much

#the last unicorn #tlu #schmendrick #the tiddy tree #Dude's tied up so uncomfortably #And does not seem too bothered by it #guess Schmen can do full splits??? #wild guess of mine he's quite flexible #he's a sideshow performer after all

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FIGO COME IL PANICO! (as in, when someone is so fakking fabulous you get caught in a awe-induced panic)

PLSSS HE’S A STAAAAAAARRRRRRR

#schmendrick #tlu #tlu modernverse #figo come il panico

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I am in the mood for some nonsense, so here some of The Last Unicorn crew's favourite Italian candy.

The Unicorn/Lady Amalthea: violet flavoured pastilles.

Elegant, simple design, delicate.

Schmendrick: Orange flavoured fizzy candies.

Oranges! And they fizz when you bite them! There's more inside if you are willing to look for it.

Molly Grue: Rossana cream filled candy.

Hard and plain on the outside, sweet, comforting, and reliable on the inside. Always the best.

Prince Lìr: Goleador gummies.

You look at them and you know they are good already. A true legend, indeed.

King Haggard: Galatine (milk flavoured pastilles)

... they make him happy. (Apparently, these little abominations are a favourite of most people I know. I hate them with a passion. Too sweet and too milky)

Mommy Fortuna: liquorice gummies.

Old people candy. Dark, liquorice pellet your grandma offers you because she does not like you very much.

#the last unicorn #tlu #the cast fave Italian candy #Lady Amalthea #schmendrick #molly grue #prince lir #king haggard #mommy fortuna #various brands of Italian candies #I left out a bunch of other great candies #I wanted to match them properly #This is so stupid but I had fun #And violet flavoured pastilles are great #but Molly's candies are the best ever

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I forgot this 1977 Italian release of The Last Unicorn existed:

Why is Amalthea posing like a hiker trying to walk past a grazing cow? Why the bikini? Why does the Red Bull looks like Ferdinand's ginger twin?

#the last unicorn #amalthea #the red bull #tlu #peter beagle #what the fuck am I looking at #the description sounds so nonsense too #“an immortal being on a grueling quest against the forces of evil” #seriously wtf

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"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick

The one that makes me scream," she said

"The one that makes me laugh," she said

Threw her arms around my neck

"Show me how you do it

and I promise you, I promise that

I'll run away with you

I'll run away with you"

#the last unicorn #molly grue #schmendrick #schmolly #feeling sappy today #tell me you're feeling sappy without telling me you're feeling sappy #i ship them like a fedex

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Headcanon turn into canon: Schmendrick being fluent in multiple languages. It is confirmed both in The Last Unicorn and The Green-Eyed Boy that Schmendrick is multilingual and knows multiple dead languages as well as current, in-universe languages. I mean, a wizard MUST know at least a few languages and dialects!

Please list in the comments the languages you think Schmendrick knows, I am curious!

#the last unicorn #tlu #schmendrick #headcanon #canon #multilingual characters #Schmendrick having to pause mid-sentence because he does not remember how to say something in English #“And I held the... uhhhh... the thing?” #“You know... the thing... that does things..." #il coso che cosa o il cjossul che cjossole

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I had a conversation with my dad earlier and he came up with a saying from where he is from: "Sa n'cacchio tu n'do piscia lepre". Totally something Molly would say.

It's a saying to address people who are clueless about how the world works.

#molly grue #colorful sayings #I want this on a t-shirt #molly is the kind of person who would use colorful expression #so the message gets across better #I wish I could add an audio to the original because it's pretty funny when said out loud in the correct dialect

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I AM LATE FOR S. VAL DAY I FORGOT!

Give your bubs lots of smoochies and snuggles <3

Ooopsies, smooching mode activated! If you find it too sappy, don’t worry: I compensated that with all the Italian profanities I could come up with while trying to get the right angles… (uploaded also on DeviantArt)

#thelastunicorn #schmendrick #molly grue #schmolly #smoochies

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The weather has been damp and foggy for days and you ended up resembling a very mediterranean-looking Molly Grue...

#the last unicorn #molly grue #this is a pretty damn dampy February #and my hair is going batshit crazy #It has a life of its own #just like my girl's molly hair in the movie

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Even if plot-wise - and logically speaking - the transformation was the only viable option for the group to move forward into the story, it still is an incredibly anguishing moment for the unicorn/Amalthea. She is understandably dreading her new form and her now impending mortality, which she feels and fears. Schmendrick however acts weirdly dismissive, defensive, almost annoyed when Molly and Amalthea express their horror at what he has done. He is boasting about having done true magic, while stating at the same time that he had no control over it. In the book, he tries to offer Amalthea his point of view as a mortal turned immortal, as if he is trying to condone what he has done masking it as a sort of favour.

Upon my first reading, it flew over my head. Book-Schmendrick is more mean-spirited than his movie counterpart (justifyably so, since keeping the same personality for movie-Schmendrick without book-Schmendrick's backstory would have made him an unapologetic jerk) but his reactions and his excuses did sound a bit off. Further readings and reflecting between the lines made me think that Schmendrick (at least book-Schmendrick) is essentially trying to normalize trauma.

He has done to the unicorn - in reverse - what Nikos has done to him. Schmendrick was a mortal man who had been turned immortal. The unicorn has previously expressed her contempt to the story of Nikos turning another unicorn into a mortal man, stating that he might as well have trapped the creature into a burning building. Still, what Nikos did to Schmendrick, as well-meaning it could have been, was no better at all. Aside from being an incompetent immortal, trying and failing endlessly, Schmendrick has zero chances for connections and relationships. If he is doomed to stay immortal, he is doomed to be alone, to see people around him grow old and die while he remains a bumbling young man forever. Just as the unicorn is not supposed to be mortal, Schmendrick was not supposed to be immortal.

When he tells Amalthea his story, he is curt and to the point, telling Nikos' speech word for word. His dry way of talking contrast with the visceral response of Amalthea. From "Schmendrick Alone", the novellette about Schmendrick leaving Nikos to begin his solo journey, the reader learns that Schmendrick seems to not be right away aware of his curse. Unlike the unicorn, his must have been a slow, painful realization and hell knows what he must have felt when he has fully understood its implications.

After his self-congratulatory speech, Schmendrick shows signs that he, on an emotional level, has grasped how much he has fucked up. Still he refuses to admit so. Acknowledging it entails acknowledging how Nikos has fucked up, how his master has screwed his life under the pretension of giving Schmendrick the possibility to come into his full power. That is not feasible for Schmendrick, so he comes up with excuses, justifying his act with good intentions. Most interestingly, he shifts responsibility on magic itself, claiming he has not control over it. I don't know how magic exactly works in TLU universe, but it seems to have ties with the subconscious of those who employ it. Schmendrick had no control when Nikos cursed him, now he is in control by lacking control. Sounds weird? Then why, of every creature possible - and Schmendrick himself quips about it in the book - was the unicorn turned into a mortal woman?

Schmendrick's arc in the story does not end when he comes into his full power, but when he acknowledges what he has done to the unicorn, expressing his regret and taking full accountability. Schmendrick's apology to the unicorn is the moment were the trauma-cycle is broken. He has come to terms with his own traumatic event, has accepted it, and is aware that he cannot do anything about it. He - and the unicorn - can only move forward; they are now again what they were meant to be, with additional awareness and knowledge.

#the last unicorn #schmendrick #the unicorn #lady amalthea #trauma response #normalizing trauma #psychology and the last unicorn #I have been cursed and I turned out fine #No Schmen you're traumatized and you're traumatizing others #tlu #tlu analysis #breaking the trauma cycle #I love how subtle it is

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okay so no one talks about how Molly Grue changes eye colour between books. Like, are they ‘grey’ or are they ‘tawny’, Peter? PETER ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING???!!!

Molly having bodyshifting powers is another reason why I'd die to see Natalia Tena casted for her role in case of a TLU live-action adaptation

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Watching horror movies: does not flinch.

Listens to 'The Drift' by Scott Walker: has nightmares for a week

#off topic #I literally do not give a fuck about horror movies #Still this album fucked me up for a while #Tough listening #'Clara' really gave me nightmares since I am familiar with the pictures of her execution #Literally what the fuck have I listened to? #Also the donkey braying in 'Jolson and Jones' legit made me yelp #And I am familiar with doney braying!

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@aquicat

"Others will learn what they must from glory—I from failure. Shall we begin work, my master?"

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This was an easy list to do

#the last unicorn #lady amalthea #molly grue #prince lir #the pirate cat #schmendrick #Who would fuck up among them? #Useless questions calling for obvious answers #Schmendrick is a master of the art of fucking up

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#the last unicorn #schmendrick #molly grue #prince lir #lady amalthea #king haggard #the red bull #mommy fortuna #the titty tree #the harpy celaeno #what would they do if a child starts to cry #*Schmendrick juggles oranges* #Hey kid look at me! Ignore the three tittied harpy!

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how many ‘r’s in ‘miracle?

Two. It has the same root as 'mirror'

#the last unicorn #tlu quotes #schmendrick quotes #I have an Italian translation which has 'mirra' (myrrh) instead of 'mirror' (specchio) #clever choice phonetically speaking #too bad it loses the original meaning