Irie

Thinkin about the boys being like “it’s Halloween, we’re ghosts we have to be spooky!” And Julie is like “…pff good luck 😂” bc I mean just look at them,

Luke’s like “😠 no we’re ghosts we can be scary”

Reggie’s like “yeah we can be spooky!”

And Julie points out, “…none of you wanted to take care of the spider that was in the garage the other day bc it would come back as a spider ghost and haunt three.”

“In their defense, we haven’t seen a ghost spider before and didn’t want to test the theory.” Alex defends.

Bc Julie can always see them, it takes the spookiness out of everything. They can’t make anything look like it’s floating to her bc she can see that they are holding it, they can’t float or anything bc they haven’t figured out that part of being ghosts. After feeling like they’re out of spooking options they decide to resort to the classic ghost stereotype in media of using a white bed sheet.

They just wait in the garage for someone to come by and spook em but turns out it’s Julie and she once again cannot be spooked and this time she says their downfall was choosing the garage bc since she already links the garage with them she already knows there’s ghosts there so it doesn’t catch we off guard to see “ghosts” in there.

They decide to throw in the towel, they cannot spook Julie at all bc she has a good point and good reasons for not being able to be spooked.

When she leaves the garage she left the door partially open and the boys are like “huh she didn’t close the door kind of weird? Luke you go close it.” As he has his hand on the door to close it all of the sudden in the crack of the door in his vision he see a white figure with a black face who does a “BOO!” cry. Luke stumbles back and falls to the ground out of fear as shouts “AHHHH!” which match Alex and Reggie’s cries who were near the door and who saw the sudden figure appear just as Luke had. They suddenly hear laughing from behind the door.

“Good job Carlos.” They hear Julie’s voice and the white figure, who they now realize is short and has a black sharpie drawn on face opens the door to reveal her. “That was perfect.”

As Alex and Reggie help Luke up from the floor and they’re trying to process what happened they see that the white figure takes off their white sheet to reveal that they are in fact Carlos. They see Julie holding out a high five that Carlos returns with a smile on his face, proud of his part.

“You recruited your brother to scare us?” Reggie doesn’t know how to feel considering he always join in on Carlos’ “paranormal videos” and how much the two have bonded bc of them.

“You scared ghosts with a ghost?” Alex points out the irony.

“You can’t just do that!” Luke holds his heart like he’s trying to relax his breathing. “My life just flashed before my eyes.”

“Your afterlife.” Reggie corrects him with a whisper.

“That’s how you properly spook someone.” Julie smiles.

It takes them a second to collect themselves but once they do they can’t help but laugh and congratulate Julie, she got them good.

Julie explains that Carlos already had the sheet with the drawn on sharpie face ready bc for several years he got Ray multiple times with that same gag. Every Halloween seasons it’s like a tradition for him to spook Ray and even though Ray suspects it his son still gives him a fright bc he always catches him off guard. It was just her idea for him to use it to spook other people which was definitely worth it

No hate to Holly (she’s literally mother), but I find it weird that all the female characters in agggtm are redeemed despite committing actual crimes except for Lauren whose worst crime is be a little bit mean/bad friend. And I get it. It’s a murder mystery book and she didn’t have enough space to “redeem” her, but it’s absolutely hilarious that she was like “I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at a teenage girl craving male validation”.

can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that arthur wrote an eight page apology letter?

boy is he whipped

need mutals who also make pinterest boards filled w faceclaims for each character and aesthetics for each of their fav books 😞

Holly Jackson, from Five Survive

Five Survive: a book about a grown man who has serious mommy issues and would kill his own sister to deny his mother is a murderer 😍 By Holly Jackson

Pip, talking about a new serial killer: And the worst thing is that this guy's a racist?! Like If you’re gonna kill people, at least do it randomly! 

Ravi:

Ravi: How about not killing people at all?

speak your truth king

When ravi lifted pip off her feet and spun her around happily after they completed reenacting how sal's "murder" would've gone to check timings and pip showed ravi the timings and they confirmed that sal isn't guilty>>>>>>>

Inej and Matthias and Kaz and Nina are both sibling duos but they exist on complete opposite ends of the siblings spectrum.

Inej and Matthias are the siblings that post cute photodumps for each other's birthdays and go on trips together and text every day. They loan each other money and Matthias drives her around and Inej always brings him back something when she gets food.

Nina and Kaz are the siblings that fight over the smallest things and do the "he's touching me" "I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU I'M TOUCHING THE AIR" bit. Kaz just walks into Nina's room, stares at her for 30 seconds and walks back out. They eat each other's food despite Kaz labeling everything he owns and nearly kill each other over it.

Inej brings Kaz home and Matthias asks why he thinks he's good enough for his sister.

Kaz brings Inej home and Nina says, in full view of everyone "you're too good for my brother".

I’m forever obsessed with the fact Jude and Cardan tried to scare each other off and once they find out the other thinks they’re terrifying, it’s like… you’re scared of ME? But I’m scared of YOU

other shadowhunters cool and all but i’ll backstab them all for alec just saying

a good girl's guide to murder by holly jackson