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still planning on doing stuff with this blog (alas i am shit at figuring out formats and then actually using them), but one thing i feel like i should warn about ahead of time: because the writers cannot be assed to keep timelines straight, and are doing so while writing about relationships between teenagers, sometimes instances of accidental CSA/COCSA will crop up when pointing out timeline errors. unintentional on the writers' part or not, it has noped me more than once when i realized, so please be aware that that will be a thing now and then if it might get to you.

(there is also some, uh. Concerning Framing about some age-related stuff that they did seem to intend. lmao. major examples being one and her ex-boyfriend, and the way nine acts about john in particular whether they meant them to be the same age or not. so there is that 🙃)

i'll do my best to tag it, but, uh. yeah heads up lmfao

#blog policy #CSA mention cw #COCSA mention cw #timeline fuckery #number one #number nine #john smith #getting this one out of the way because wow getting hit in the face with that a few times has done me a turn #n.one is a shining example of both unintentional WOW YOU DID NOT THINK THAT TIMELINE THROUGH #and intentional 'hi sorry what the fuck is that supposed to mean' #ugh #anyway

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hello, folks! this blog ain't dead!

it has been six whole ass years since i last posted anything to this blog. (jesus christ time is fake.) i got distracted by life before too long back then, but it was a lot of fun while i was running it and also honestly fucking hilarious.

fast forward to now, when i've been rereading the series on a nostalgia kick, and have proper access to ebooks of the first series with a search function to get around, instead of relying solely on what i can find manually flipping around the physical copies. at first i was mostly just content with rolling my eyes at the random worldbuilding and so on inconsistencies, pick and choose which ones i wanted to roll with, combine, or discard. it's mostly pretty simple, and not very difficult to do; it's not a numbers game or anything.

but then i started to get into the timeline stuff. first for the purposes of figuring out characterization dynamics and whatnot; then out of morbid curiosity; and now out of sheer grim determination just to figure out how extensive the inconsistencies are. (and, well, to decide what version of a Fixed Timeline i would want to use in my own writing. and also because this is the kind of thing that's fun for my pedantic ass.) point is, i'm going in with the intent of figuring out what we've been presented with in the series itself.

and, dear reader: what a fucking mess.

i've been trying to figure it out on my own in private; but the upfuck is so fractal, and involves enough estimation and pinning down small details, that it is genuinely difficult to keep track of everything. so! i'm resurrecting this blog. i could just use my main fandom blog, @angorwhosebabyisthis, but honestly there's So Much it would drown out all the other meta and whatnot there for LL alone, much less other fandoms. this blog already exists, so i figured, hey, why not?

on top of that, if you think you've caught a mistake or a piece of info, you're welcome to send it in! i'll check it to verify--whether that it's factually stated without contradictions, or stated with contradictions, or is neither confirmed nor denied but is a reasonable estimate by the standards i'm using--and if it holds up i'll add it to any masterposts with credit.

(no offense if i don't add it! i just want to try to keep things as clear as i can for my own sanity, because this series--in particular its timeline--is already such an absolute headache to figure out.)

i'm going to keep some masterposts/threads; so far the main ones i have planned are a post laying out the standards and assumptions i'm going to be using, a single timeline post to keep track of everything as the information currently stands, and an ongoing thread of updates to keep a record of previous changes. i'm going to be feeling my way around the format as i go, but i'm going to do my best to figure it out. i'm also going to be trying to use organizational tags that won't show up in the public tags, in the interests of not spamming them.

anyway! this blog is fun to run and i'm excited to be back to working on it. see y'all around!

#lorien legacies #wtflorienlegacies #blog policy #here we gooooo #i realized the writers can't be assed to keep straight whether maggie died in 2007; 2008; or /2009/ #and that was when i reached critical psyduck mass; and now here we are #also this blog needs a damn icon #i don't know whether i'm gonna find some existing appropriate snapshot or draw/design one or what #but it Needs

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There's a part in the very end of uao when Marina says to john "think about it. We never got that fourth scar" talking about five because of him falling in the black gloop. But at this point one two three and eight are dead. Isn't that already four scars? 👏 Marina can speak multiple languages and fight an evil alien race but she can't count

[james frey voice] what the hell is an eight

#lorien legacies #wtflorienlegacies #united as one #asks #anonymous #plotholekinesis #theres an empty seat did we forget somebody #(that's gonna be my tag for characters who get COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN BY THE AUTHOR THANKS FREY) #did anyone bring a calculator #that one's for number-based plotholes in general #just fuck me up man there's so many of these #also i laughed out loud at this submission bless u anon #Anonymous #submission #mod moogle

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Lorien Legacy blog "sound off"

Hi guys! Since I’m rarely on nowadays, idk who’s who these days, so I’ve decided to do this thing, which is, if you are apart of the LL fandom or have an LL blog and want me to follow you, reblog/like this with the blog you want me to follow, so if you have a personal blog and don’t want me to follow that one, then reblog with the LL blog and I’ll just do it. And for those of you who I currently follow, please do so if you want me to continue following, cause I’m gonna unfollow any and all LL blogs that do not do this, cause I will consider them as inactive. And if you don’t want to do either of those, you can also just send me a PM or message me or whatever.

#fandom community stuff #we are here we are here we are here

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The Mogadarian laughs, a nasty, mocking laugh. It raises the sword, the only weapon in the universe that can break the charm that until today protected the boy, and still protects the others.

James Frey, making his first major continuity error three pages into the prologue of the first book. It begins.

#lorien legacies #wtflorienlegacies #i am number four #plotholekinesis #that's gonna be my tag for this stuff on this blog #i'm just #crying holy shit #it's beautiful #also hi this blog is finally back in business hello all #mod moogle

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so, first exercise on this blog: think of the character/s you liked the least--or downright hated most--in lorien legacies. not so much the ones you're supposed to hate, but the ones that you were most put off, annoyed, enraged, etc., by the characterization and role of. what do you think the author could have changed about them, their arc, or their involvement in the plot in order to make them tolerable--likable, even--to you? discuss!

#lorien legacies #wtflorienlegacies #mod moogle #i am number four #[[i personally have a Great Many Thoughts on how nine could have been written better]] #[[he's got such potential to be a fantastic character but the wrong author got ahold of him]]

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so this blog ain't much to look at yet, because its current mod is a lazy asshole, but basically it's here to bring the fandom together: to laugh, to cry, to wtf. to talk about what this series means to you, where it failed and where it succeeded, and what you wish it could have been. welcome to the fandom afterparty. welcome to wtflorienlegacies. we've got a trainwreck to salvage. -mod moogle

#lorien legacies #wtflorienlegacies #i am number four #details to come about the kinds of things that'll be on this blog! #continuity errors will show up here too #oh yes #mod moogle #also be chill about conflicting meta pls no drama on this train