In the second half of the fourteenth chapter of Games Wizards Play<\/i>, Nita learns something new about a friend, and then Kit messes up REAL BAD. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Lissa<\/b><\/p>\n
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS WE HAVE A CANONICAL ACE CHARACTER WITHIN THE YOUNG WIZARDS<\/i> UNIVERSE. Now, since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not ace, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll let ace folks speak more on what this representation feels like to them. I just wanted to speak briefly about something I am much more qualified to talk about: not being ace and saying shit that makes ace people potentially uncomfortable and hurt. While Nita recovers from it, she does<\/i> make a common mistake here: she assumes sex is an inevitability for all people. Thus, she just assumes that Lissa isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t having sex yet<\/i>, but that it will eventually happen; then, the assumption is that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celibate, which makes it sound like Lissa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s asexuality is just a choice and nothing more.<\/p>\n
These are the kind of assumptions that those of us who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ace have to start checking. And in a more general sense, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to avoid universalities. It is not universal<\/i> that everyone enjoys sex, wants to have it, or experiences sexual attraction within a single narrative. There are so many factors aside from sexuality that could affect a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sexual drive, attraction, or affection, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to distract from the point here. Nita made an assumption that many of us have made before, and this provides a chance for other readers to see why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a dangerous assumption to make.<\/p>\n
You Have Something I Need<\/b><\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if this is the act that will lead into the climax of Games Wizards Play<\/i>, but HOLY SHIT, THIS WAS UNEXPECTED. Well, unexpected in the sense that I just assumed Kit would always keep his cool around Penn, that he never saw Penn as a sign of competition. I even dismissed it in the last section, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T THINK IT WAS BELIEVABLE.<\/p>\n
I clearly misread the dynamic at hand here. After Penn had spent the majority of his time on the page insulting or dismissing Nita, he shocked the hell out of EVERYONE by claiming that Kit doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deserve her. And look, I found it perplexing that he reasoned that Kit hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> made a move yet. Like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 yes??? He did? THEY WERE LITERALLY IN A RELATIONSHIP, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
\nPenn was being crude about it, though. (Surprise, everyone. Penn was crude.) He wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t referring to a relationship; Penn spoke of Nita as if she was someone to own<\/i> or someone to claim<\/i>. And given that Nita felt a brief flash of Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s magic, I assumed that Kit had just fired a warning shot once Penn escalated matters too far.<\/p>\n
NOPE. N O P E<\/i>.<\/p>\n
What follows is a visceral, frightening, and utterly DUDE-FILLED EXAGGERATION. It is perhaps the DUDE-LIEST THING IN THE ENTIRE SERIES. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just two guys fighting over who gets to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153keep\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nita, which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 spoiler alert, Kit and Penn: IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S NO ONE. NEITHER OF YOU GET TO. Yet they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand that most women\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand people, for that matter\u00e2\u20ac\u201daren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really going to be impressed by a violent fight. Seriously, who does that? Who finds that attractive or tender or loving? I might have understood if this was just a fight that got out of hand, but a wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s duel<\/i>??? There were about a thousand opportunities for either of these characters to re-think their actions, and yet, here we are! Kit nearly CRUSHES Penn, Irina is so pissed at them that Penn is suspended from the competition, and Nita wants nothing to do with either of them until after<\/i> they speak with Irina.<\/p>\n
GOOD JOB. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL DID A REAL GOOD JOB.<\/p>\n
Also: what the hell does Nita have that Penn needs?????<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/7cdp1GwQrbw<\/p>\n
Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n
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