I can't explain how much I love this book and Leigh Bardugo and this story and the details and the characters and I'm sorry I'm a mess bye
Ninth House Spoilers!
Okay but,
“She was Dante. He was Virgil. [...] Later, she’d looked them up and discovered that Virgil had been Dante’s guide as he descended into hell.”
I think it’s poetic that ninth house ended with Dante (Alex) on a quest to go to Hell to get Virgil (Darlington) back.
WHAT
I’m not saying that that drink represents the food of the Underworld like Hades did when he offered some pomegranate seeds for Persephone to bound her to his kingdom BUT-
filmmakers and audiences and critics alike all need to start suspending their disbelief again
i have this silent awe and appreciation for experience and wisdom that comes with time. when monotony and redundancy turn into a craft, when the amateur turns into an expert, when it becomes effortless to others. but there is practice hidden underneath it all. years of it. it is how my father can measure distances without any instruments because he has been an engineer for so long and his kids watch him do it in awe. it is how i know just the correct amount of milk and sugar when i make coffee for the people i love and they think it to be alchemy. it is the combination of efficiency and knowledge that only time can bring. gifted talents are great, but a time-honed talent is labor and repetition. you claim it as your own because time has made it yours, time has etched it like a schoolkid etches their initials on the desk over a period of time
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print! | kofi ♡
"do it scared" ok but I would like to do something some other way occasionally. Like at least once. For a change.
my besties guilt & grief
something about parallel dreams something about being in love something something something
leigh bardugo was insane for writing “This was Darlington—scholar, snob, and pain in the ass. No mystery there. But she’d held his soul inside her. She could still taste him on her tongue.” and then proceeded to treat ninth house like her least favourite child
Hi, I made a very niche meme.