Modelland: Chapter 28-30
Modelland keeps on trucking and Tookie gets into more odd situations. We're at the half-way point and yet...what has actually happened so far? Not much.
Chapter 28
The BellaDonna let out a shriek. “Don’t you dare open your traitor lips to me unless I have granted you permission to speak! Do you know what it took for me to clean up that mess you made? I have been the BellaDonna of this school for ten years, and I thought I had seen it ALL! But what you did … what you thought acceptable to do with those girls’ bodies … it scares even me.”
Maya: In Chapter 28 we get some possible backstory and a whole lot of confusion. Honestly, I can't keep up with the character's personalities here. Ci~L is good! She's bad! Now good again!
Ing: I thought this chapter was one of the more interesting ones though. Tookie wakes up after her operation and finds herself in the M-building for some reason and she overhears Ci~L and the BellaDonna talking
Maya: And finds out that yes, Ci~L did choose Piper, Shiraz and Dylan, but the BellaDonna altered the "pre-accepted" list to include Tookie. We also find out that all Bellas are preordained to be there and it has little to do with TDOD
Ing: And that, at least, is an interesting development and I didn't actually see it coming that the BellaDonna was the one to change the list to include Tookie. So credit where credit is due, I guess. But all in all, that's a pretty short chapter. The only other thing we learn, I think, is that it sounds like Ci~L has done experiments on people before and is planning to again which Tookie of course overreacts to
Maya: She's done some sort of body modifications. Maybe. We don't know. I'm sure there's some logical and sane explanation that we won't find out until the last minute
Ing: I got the impression that the 'experiments that horrified even the BellaDonna' is probably something stupid like... Ci~L experimenting with getting people to accept themselves as they are or some such cause obviously that'd horrify the BellaDonna. But of course Tookie thinks this is OMG TERRIBLE EXPERIMENTS and she overreacrts to that over the next chapters, obviously
Maya: I would be really happy if she was actually cutting people up and sticking them together or something weird and unexpected
Chapter 29
Ing: The next chapter: The Flute Creepers. Honestly I've almost forgotten what this was even about
Maya: Basically, it's a glimpse at the people climbing the mountain to Modelland. They make it through the ~first level~, someone lost a finger or something and then the flute creepers attack the leader, but Creamy harpoons it. And then makes the guy eat its heart and she's probs a Modelland reject-ee since she knows a lot about the mountain. Oh, and a LeGizzard is climbing to eat Piper
Ing: So I guess this is an attempt to show us that OMG THE DIABOLICAL DIVIDE IS DANGEROUS. And that’s dumb, why would it want only Piper and not anyone else?
Maya: They only eat the albino entrails
Ing: This book, seriously
Maya: Like, I am totally not phased by A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO EAT ALBINO ENTRAILS. This is what Tyra has done to me
Ing: Haha so random, though, omg. Does he really want to eat her that bad? aren't there easier targets?
Maya: You would think but then again, that is logic…which does not exist in this book.
Chapter 30
ylan hugged her knees. “I’m really scared, y’all. I don’t wanna die. I’m still so young. We all are. I’m tryin’ to do somethin’ with my life to help my momma, my sisters, and my brothers. Y’all know I got four of each. And none of ’em have ever been outside the Nation.”
“I no want to do the dying either!” Shiraz cried. “I am Shiraz Shiraz! I want bring happiness and light to Canne Del Abra!”
Maya: In Chapter 30 we see the epicness of Tookie's freakout and Bravo continues to act like a love interest in a book written by a 13 year old
Ing: He does. but omg, he's being nice, though? And like, realy sweet. Uncharacteristically sweet for a guy in his teens, as I assume he is. and then Tookie's being a right bitch to him? She's like 'you're not my type, go away. ‘I don't like your pretty boy types, gtfo' and I'm like...dude, what. that's not how you turn down people, even if they are pretty boys. Also, she freaks out about the conversation she overheard and she tells the girls
Maya: She tells all of them about how they're going to be experimented on. And they decide to escape
Ing: Which sounds like a monumentally terrible idea, considering Tookie only heard a snippet of conversation. And leaving Modelland is some kind of horrible offense, so obviously the consequences of leaving are gonna be frigging awful
Maya: Didn't they say they age like 50 years or something in that god-awful song?
Ing: Lmao, yeah, it seems like it's not gonna turn out well, in any case. I would've thought twice before I left, that's for sure
Most WTF Moment.
Ing: Okay, I think... for me, it's Tookie's treatment of Bravo. Are we supposed to sympathise with this girl? She's being really rude and kinda awful :/
“You have such pretty eyes,” Bravo whispered. “They’re a mixture of chocolate and mint.”
Tookie made a face. “Yuck. I hate chocolate.”
“You might hate it, but I love it,” Bravo whispered.
Blood crept to Tookie’s cheeks. Seriously? “Look, Bravo.” She began to turn away. “I really want to hate you. I mean, you’re not my type. If you and I entered a Peppertown beauty pageant, you’d win every category. And I … well … it’s kinda obvious.”
Maya: Mine is:
“Whoa there, Creamy,” Bravo said, his eyes scanning her from head to toe.
Tookie gasped. “What did you just call me?”
Bravo’s smile faltered. “Creamy. Because of the whipped cream you keep in that flower thing. Among other things now.” His eyebrows rose.
Tookie raised her chin a notch higher. “If you know what’s good for you, you won’t ever call me Creamy again!”
“Sorry!” He held up his palms in surrender. “Would D-Head be more appropriate? The shape of your head reminds me of the D.”
Maya: WHAT? The only thing I think of when I hear D-Head is "dickhead". Nooooot the best nickname
Ing: My wtf moment is actually that surrounding area of text, but because aside from being atrocious at nicknames, he's basically complimenting her all through the convo and she's like 'Dude, you suck'. And this comes from someone who was obsessed with a guy who once asked if she was okay after she fell down the stairs. You'd think getting complimented for an entire conversation would actually, you know, make her happy. But no. Tookie's never happy, even if she just got what she fucking wanted all along- for people to notice her and say things to her. And he's even saying GOOD things to her. and she's like 'fuck this shit, you're pretty, go away'
Maya: It's impossible to like her or relate to her. At least Bella was so bland you could put yourself in her place. Not even possible with Tookie