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I love how Ekko and Jinx had screentime together post-timeskip for about 5 or so minutes, and yet Timebomb's one of the most popular ships in the show and is THE most popular straight ship (over the in-canon ones lmao).

The Caitvi bar is so high that if they don’t have sex next season a lot of people are going to be crushed.

The Timebomb bar is so low that a promotional poster of them standing next to each other is considered a huge win.

The Problem with Miles and Gwen

Absolutely nothing! They're perfect individually and together!

Thank you for listening to this essay.

Jude Duarte fans

There is a clear difference between Jude fans on Tumblr and Jude fans on Tik Tok.

On Tumblr, people actually get Jude's character. They go more into her character and get/understand who she actually is. That there is more to her and how she's a selfless person that will do anything for the people she loves.

On Tik Tok, she's only a killer. That's it. She's just morally grey to them. I mean yeah, she killed people but she isn't the unhinged killer that TT fans perceive her as. The "You're not a killer, Jude" thing and how they go on saying, "then she kills Valerian!" Nah, Madoc means that she isn't like him. Jude is a killer but she's not a true killer. MADOC DIPS A CLOAK IN THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE HE KILLS. And they always use that fanart of her with blood on her head. I do like it but y'all stay using it, get something else.

The people who glaze Jude annoy me. The ones who think that she can defeat anyone because she's a human who has tricked her way and killed a couple of fae. If you tell them that there are characters who can defeat her, they go "NUH UH." FUCK YOU MEAN?

The slideshows where they put four characters and say who will win and people have the audacity to say "Jude will win." My girl is NOT winning this, I'm sorry. She's still human at the end of the day. It's only fair if you put her against other human characters like Kaz Brekker or Aaron Warner.

I saw a slideshow that had Jude, Feyre, Aelin, and Fang Runin. In the comments, someone said "They would just team up and be friends." Nah. Jude would be disgusted by Rin and her actions, Feyre and Aelin too. Rin committed genocide. And I don't think Rin is capable of making friends besides Kitay. Why would Jude be friends with a woman who committed heinous crimes like this?

The mischaracterization of Jude will never not piss me off.

If they don't end up together or at least make up, I am gonna turn into the next Silco (I'm just gonna cry like a goofball)

ekko and jinx's first season 2 interaction leaked

I know we're all excited for Gwen and Miles to kiss in Beyond, but honestly I feel almost as excited for the two of them to share a very emotional/angsty hug before we get to any kissing.

You know the kind of hug where the characters just cling to each other and maybe cry a little and just stay in the hug for like a solid minute or so. We need that hug please.

I miss them

Ghostflower Headcanons!

Miles loves to sneak up on Gwen when he's invisible and surprise her with a kiss

Gwen learns Spanish because she wants Rio to like her

Post BTSV, Gwen wears Miles' hoodie more than he does

Miles goes to every single one of the Mary Janes shows and he's the loudest one in the crowd

Miles learns all the lyrics to every song Gwen wrote (most of them are about him)

They have two weddings. One on Earth-65, the other on Earth-1610

Their movie nights are super long because they watch it twice. One version from Miles' dimension and the other from Gwen's

Gwen buys Miles sunflowers all the time.

Crime fighting becomes so much easier when they get together. It always feels like they're on a date

Their wedding rings keep them from glitching in other dimensions

They babysit Mayday for Peter B all the time

It's great practice for Charlotte and Max

Just like Peter B, they can't stop sharing pictures of their kids

Their mental connection gets stronger the longer they're together. It gets to the point where neither one can sleep when the other can't. Even if they're not in the same universe

After a long day, Gwen puts Miles' head in her lap to help him relax

Miles likes to be the big spoon so he can hold onto Gwen

Gwen doesn't care which one she is as long as she can touch him. No matter which one, she always holds onto his hands

yes

you know i've seen a lot of people say oak and suren don't have sizzling chemistry or whatever like jurdan do and i just think that it's not, you know, the same /kind/ of chemistry but still

they don't have the enemies to lovers tension but...see.

oak brushing suren's hair, untangling the curls the way he did with his sisters and mothers hair

oak buying the hairpin for her and pinning it on her hair

oak playing that game with the fox pieces just as they did when they were children and letting suren win but then telling her she owes him a dance

when suren pinned the hairpin on his hair in that scene in the boat

this....whole paragraph

i think their appeal is their tenderness and the way they're so familiar with each other thanks to their childhood friendship. Idk I don't think we should expect Jurdan 2.0 with everything HB writes. Suren and Oak have their own beauty. They're a great example of friends to lovers done well (at least only in the first book) and with substance.

Good morning Ghostflower Nation

Just thought I'd bring up miles and gwens future kids

And mention how funny it is that they constantly pick on the watchers and fight over poptarts

You know that one ship that has the grumpy, pessimistic, traumatized and addictive person who wears 24/7 monotonous colours and then there's the other one who is a walking rainbow, always smiling, optimistic, but also traumatized?

I'll go first

Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket from Hunger Games

Jude, holding a knife: Why should I trust you?

Cardan: You shouldn’t. I’m extremely untrustworthy.

Jude: Fair point. Let’s work together.

Nicasia is not better than Taryn bro what are ppl talking about 💀💀

Taryn and Nicasia: *betrayed by Locke after they both were manipulated by him into betraying their closest friend*

Jude and Cardan: 🎶 karma is my bf🎶

Peeta: hey Haymitch, what do you do if your wife is giving you the silent treatment?

Haymitch: boy, do I look married to you? Idk.

Peeta: WAIT! You and Effie had us OUT OF WEDLOCK?!? Katniss and I are bastards???

Haymitch: get the fuck out of here.

Peeta *while getting shoved out the door*: no! *unrestrained laughter* Katniss will be heartbroken! First we’re in an incest marriage and now we’re bastards?! *boy gets shoved HARD* OW! Why must you do this to me father!!

The amount of people that reduce Jude Duarte's character to being a bloodthirsty killer gets on my nerves. Jude is not bloodthirsty, she doesn't delight in killing people. She is trying to survive in a world that is not meant for mortals, a world that wants to break her.

She forgave Taryn and disguised herself to save Taryn after she killed Locke, took pity for Cardan when seeing him get hit by Balekin, saving the human girl Sophie and cried herself to sleep after she died, and went to save the Ghost even though he betrayed her (yes, I know the reason behind his betrayal).

Every time she takes a life, it's because that person has tried to hurt her back.

Valerian tried to kill her in Chapter 18 when he broke into her home. Jude stabs him in the chest but still tries to help him afterwards.

"He reaches for the blade as though to draw it out. Don't, I say automatically, because that will only make the wound worse. I grab for anything nearby-there is a discarded petticoat in the floor that I can use to stanch the blood. He slides down onto his side, away from me, and sneers, although he can barely open his eyes. You've got to let me-, I start." He despises her but even in his final moments, she wanted to help.

She has suffered so much in life and did things that she had to do to survive. And when she spills blood, it's not for fun. It's to protect herself or the people she loves.

Jude Duarte is not cruel like Balekin or Valerian or sees people as amusements like Locke. Jude is kind, selfless, and puts others before herself.

I love seeing her kick some ass but don't reduce her character to that. She's so much more.

🎨: Frostbite Studios

🎨: Eernarts

🎨: Illustratinghan

Me when Jude Duarte:

Me when people reduce the complexity of her character to her being a killer (y'all don't get her like I do):

I love him <3

AND ANOTHER THING ABOUT THAT is that--what gets me about the Miles and Margo flirting vs not flirting debate is that I really think people are underestimating how annoyed Miles is with Gwen in this scene.

Bear with me. I'm not saying anyone's a horrible person, I'm saying this is a fun thing about his character.

Miles is annoyed with Gwen on the Spider Society tour.

And he has good reason to be! She's been brushing him and his questions off. Back in Mumbattan she said she should've "never come to see him." And he's finding out that she lied to him--for instance, about the "small elite strike force" actually being a huge society.

I feel like a lot of people don't notice it because he's not letting it show too obviously. I think he's trying to brush off his annoyance and keep a positive attitude, but it still shows in his actions. And in the script:

And, of course, the most obvious:

And I wanna pause before I get to the whole Miles-Margo flirting thing to take a step back: the reason why this is important to me is because Miles isn't stupid and Miles isn't an always-positive ray of sunshine. It's clear that at this point, he's clocked that Gwen is lying to him. And he realizes that she's treating him badly. He's not oblivious, he's just choosing to not pick a fight with her about it right then and there. Even then, he's not just rolling over and taking the bad treatment, he's just reacting to it in a more subtle way.

...Which brings me to the flirting.

Now, the LAST thing I want to imply is that Margo is a tool for Miles and Gwen to use. Those that know my blog know I love Margo. I think she's a great character in her own right, and she doesn't just exist as a plot point to further ghostflower's agenda--it's clear metatextually that this moment served at least partially to introduce her as a character that will be important next movie, as a member of the Spider-Band.

Even beyond that, I don't think Miles was faking his interest in her. I mean, we all saw his spider-sense go off, and I don't think it's just because "they're all spider-man." I believe they were both genuinely interested in each other and sparked a connection there.

That said.

I also believe Miles noticed how Gwen reacted to it. And maybe dug his heels in further than he would've otherwise, to get more of a reaction out of her.

I mean, we all know Miles is down bad for Gwen. If he hadn't been annoyed with her at the moment, I think he would've been a lot more receptive to "keeping moving" like she wanted to, simply because he's usually really attentive to her being upset. He tries to make her feel better. But this time, he doesn't. In the movie proper, he ignores her to keep talking with Margo. In the script, he literally physically follows Margo:

You guys see what I mean, right? It's the same as acting super invested in the anomalies right after Gwen claimed they weren't interesting. It's resisting Gwen and what she wants. Something he usually never does.

This! Is! Important! To! Me! Because I think it shows that Miles has a higher awareness and independence than people give him credit for in these scenes! He's not just running around enthusiastically, not knowing about the lion's den he's walking into. He knows something is up. He knows he's being treated unfairly. And he's not just forgiving it and letting it go--he's addressing it, in his own subtle way.

Anyway, I think that on the Gwen side of things, he's mostly annoyed at her because he feels she's devaluing their close relationship with the way she's acting (because she is). So flirting with Margo is kind of rubbing that exact same behavior back in Gwen's face.

And it works, because he gets a reaction out of Gwen that reinforces that she cares about their relationship--he annoys her. She literally yanks him away from Margo. And based on the way he reacts to that, I think he's pretty happy with that reaction. Because he forced Gwen to acknowledge that she cares about him and values their relationship like he does.

(most pixelated screenshot known to man but you get my point. anyway)

Peeta is always open to drawing or painting anything for Katniss and she's frequently taken him up on it. It's usually not that difficult for him, he loves the chance to paint, to refine his skills. Katniss loves having not only a reminder of certain memories but also a physical representation of Peeta's enduring and almost quiet love for her. And it's easy. Natural. That is until Katniss looks at Peeta one day and asks, "Would you do a self-portrait for me?"

That's hard for him. The sketches are never quite right, the colors are off. Katniss doesn't ever nitpick at his paintings, and she isn't being unkind or anything, but she always looks at the drafts with an uncertain expression only to say, "Somethings not right, Peeta."

Peeta gets frustrated. Why can't he just do this painting? He asks Katniss what is off about the sketches, and it's always a thousand little things. His eyes aren't that severe. He's supposed to have freckles there. His mouth is softer in real life. His hair doesn't curl like that. His expression is off. He can never seem to get it right. What is it about this painting?

They're lying on the couch one day when Katniss says, "Maybe you just can't see yourself the way I do."

That makes him curious. How does she see him? They start trying to figure that out. He says that she should describe his face to him as if he were a plant for the book, and maybe they could arrive somewhere accurate.

Katniss finds it a little funny, even odd, he's himself. He has to be more familiar with his own face than she is, but she humors him. They sit down in his studio together and begin.

It becomes an exercise in getting to know her, somehow, on a level that he hadn't explored before. She spends a long time talking about the shape of his eyes, the fan of his eyelashes, and the color of his irises. Her cheeks stain with embarrassment, and his heart knocks against his ribs, trying to escape, maybe even trying to reach out to her.

She has something to say about details he'd never even thought of before. The angle of his chin, the exact colour of his hair. She has descriptions that don't make much sense to him too. His smile is like spring and his scars are like marigolds. When given time, Katniss ends up arranging a whole bouquet of wildflowers with her descriptions.

He loves her. He already knew that. Heck, people on the other side of the country already knew that, but he'd had no idea, somehow, he still had no idea the depth of Katniss's devotion. It's beautiful and seemingly never-ending and it fills his own heart with joy.

They create the portrait together, after many hours spent alone. It's a painting of his own face, yet, it holds a deep intimacy and he can't seem to look at it without smiling and blushing like a fool. He doesn't think of it as his, even if it's a painting of himself, the painting is wholly Katniss's. He presents it to her when he's finished and Katniss smiles warmly, looking down at it with such affection. She hangs it in the hall, near the bench where she keeps her arrows so she can look at it when she leaves every morning and when she comes back home. That part of the house is very private, he doesn't even really go there that often, so it feels special. To know that Katniss wanted to bring him there with her, in her own way.

Damn Kya stole all her parents' pretty genes 😭 😂

Also i love how Kya got Aang's personality while Tenzin got Katara's personality!

A load of people sort of view Jude as being kind of mean and grumpy a lot of the time and I do agree she doesn't have that natural humour Cardan has and can be overly sarcastic (which I absolutely LOVE about her, she has the best roasts 😭) I feel like these consumptions are wrong.

Jude is actually so nice. She is kind and a nice person especially towards humans because she's mortal herself. There's a bunch of examples of this throughout the series including when she saved Sophie in tcp, chose to help Taryn and her hanging out with the court of shadows when we get to see her friendly side shine through. I feel like we make her "meaner" side a bit too dramatic sometimes as a fandom 😭

I love how people who hate the idea of Gwen and Miles being together cuz they're interracial "couple" always forget that Miles is a child of interracial couple

Josh: What does Y/N mean?

Alex: I don't know.

Ava: Your name.

Josh: Thanks.

Josh, going back to reading: [Josh looked into Alex's beautiful eyes....]

Normal couples: get out of my house and never come back!

Cardan: get out of my faerie kingdom and don’t come back *wink*

My Favorite Things about Miles and Gwen

I’ve seen so many people hating on the Miles x Gwen ship…

So I’m making a list of my favorite things about it 🤪

Reason #1: They both have a deep, shared understanding of being superheroes as teenagers.

Reason #2: They both respect each other as heroes and acknowledge each other’s talent and ability.

Reason #3: Their talk at the Williamsburg Bank Building.

Reason #4: They get jealous of each other when they show interest in anyone else.

Reason #5: They make each other smile and love talking to each other: “It’s always so great to talk to you.”

Reason #6: They both relate to having rocky relationships with their dads and can talk to each other about it.

Reason #7: Miles was Gwen’s first friend since Peter. Gwen was Miles’ first friend at Visions.

Reason #8: The obvious spidey sense connection they have with each other, especially on Gwen’s part. Clearly the universe wants them together.

Reason #7: The little things they have to remember each other (Polaroid / Sketches).

Reason #8: How easy conversation becomes for they when they become friends.

Reason #9: Gwen goes to visit him when she isn’t supposed to.

Reason #10: Gwen in Miles’ jacket. That’s it.

Reason #11: Sharing a plate of food together 🥹

Reason #12: They are both characters that defy the norms of who Spider-Man is !!

Reason #13: Gwen considers Miles her only friend. On that note, she directly compares Miles to the closest friend she ever had in her life: Peter.

Reason #14: Miles unintentionally gave Gwen a sick signature haircut. LOL

Reason #15: They can have fun together swinging through NYC. I mean, how many couples have the ability to do that together?

Reason #16: Slow burn. Enough said.

Reason #17: Gwen immediately hugs Miles upon seeing him again and loves to give Miles little taps 🤭.

Reason #18: Miles helped Gwen get the bravery to try making friends again and made her believe that anything is possible and gave her a sense of hope. Gwen helped Miles on his journey to become Spider-Man. She inspires him and he looks up to her.

Reason #19 They make each other better people. Who they are now is because of each other.

Reason #20: Gwen WILL make up for her mistakes. Undoubtedly.

Ultimately, you’re entitled to your own opinion about the ship. But I think the Spider-Verse movies are portraying it really well 🤷‍♀️.

Why is everyone so upset about the idea of Jude having a baby ten years after the end of her story? You do know that a woman's personality and mind don't get vacuumed out when they get pregnant right? She wouldn't change into some simpering caricature with no agency, Sarah J Maas really did a number on you guys...

Family has always been a major theme in this series: Jude was motivated in the first book by a need to protect her little brother. There has never been any suggestion from her that she doesn't want children, only an expression early in the first book that she's scared to always be powerless, and even her fairy children would be able to be cruel to her, which speaks to her desire to find her own power not a genuine drive not to have children.

It's completely understandable to be tired of all your characters having the same end: marriage to a guy, crown, babies, but I don't think this one character's fate after the conclusion of this one fantasy/romance series is the hill to die on.

Anyway, I love the idea and every time I imagine Jude as a mother I think of Najwa Nimri's amazing performance in La Casa de Papel, it was sooo Jude

I do sorta wonder if the reason some people are finding it hard to jump to Oak/Wren from jurdan is because their comparing Jude to Wren and Oak to Cardan... like there are parallels but I think we're supposed to compare Oak→Jude and Wren→Cardan.