The Darkling, cruel and terrible villain, smiling at the camera while Alina, his sun wife and queen of Ravka, take pictures of him and his buddy.
When it comes to Ben Barnes' evil characters my moral compass goes out the window. Am I sorry? Not really. LOOK AT HIM. The crush will be eternal.
been thinkin about this lately and i think i want a small life. not a BAD life n not an ISOLATED life n not a CLOSED life but just. small. with defined boundaries. i want a job that will sustain me that doesn't require exhaustion to survive. i want a place to live that's big enough for me to choose every part of it; just enough shelf for mugs i love, just enough cabinet for a neat set of paints, just enough closet for clothes i actually like wearing not just ones i tolerate. i want to do little routines and make small batches of things and be a regular somewhere. i just want to have something contained and clear that's mine, mine, mine
Oh this is too good.
and it’s really such a shame ’cause i was miss here to stay... goodbye mr. perfectly fine, how’s your heart after breaking mine?
I’m fine
I just finished reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I just cannot get over Luc’s running gag of subtly announcing to the world he is a forest spirit. Like his surnames of Dubois and Wald (both meaning of the forest/forest in their respective languages) and the fallen angel themes and forest mask in his speakeasy. Luc is so confident, clever, and subtle all at the same time. We cannot help but stan.
Is it just me or would Corey Mylchreest make a nice Darlington? Tell me these pictures don't give moody/angry smart potentially fancy boy ✨
“Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
characters about their morally grey bf: so WHAT if he’s the devil? at least the devil has a JOB! at least he’s active in the community!
I love this man.
Omg not ben saying he's the one who also improvised the "are you sure" I??? Lmfaoooo the way he's carrying darklina on his back if it wasn't for him I'm sure we wouldn't have gotten most of the little things we love about them love that for us but also it just makes me even more convinced that they had and have no intention of further developing darklina and although he's going to be doing the most, actors can only do so much in the end it's the writers who have 99% of the creative control so it's a loosing game when the creator hates your characters' and ships guts
God did he also improvise that??? Ben will not rest until he adds verbal consent to all of his sex scenes even if he’s a villain. Bastard does it with Billy Russo too. Someone stop him (but don’t, I love it).
Ben actually has a pretty large amount of creative control over the Darkling it seems. He was able to get book lines in there, clearly they let him do a lot of improvisations. He got to expand on the character’s emotions a lot. So I’m pretty sure he’ll keep fighting for the Darkling’s humanity until the very end and I love him for it