anthony bridgerton is the most MESSY person alive im literally on the floor. he’s like i will have a terrible time finding a wife, what is poetry idk what that is, i will be the pettiest man alive, i will make the most ABSURD faces at the sister of the girl im trying to woo (affectionate and derogatory), i’ll bite ur dog, idk what women like lol i’ll just give her a horse, time to go crash a party ig, i will pout like a baby if you steal my mallet, how dare you insult my boots, miss sharma is AGGRAVATING why am i FEELING things for her literally what is this, oh wait it’s love lol gotta propose to her sister now, tHaT kNoT wOnT hOLd, oh no i’ve fallen in the water ahaha how silly of me. his entire demeanor is just “looks like i can’t gaslight gatekeep girlboss my way out of this one folks ://” and i love him SO much for it literally what an icon
THIS IS IT. MY THOUGHTS IN WORDS.
Look look look look look look. look. Here’s the thing, 90% of the time I couldn’t give a shit about villains and their tragic backstories. BUT FOR SOME REASON, Aleksander Morozova makes me absolutely feral. I am obsessed with the fact that he, the Darkling, the Black Heretic, was a hero. He was nearly killed by his own kind when he was a child and it made him PROTECTIVE of Grisha. He knew it would have never happened if Grisha could have a safe place in the world and he wanted so badly to create that.
He fought and won wars for kings to put Grisha in a better light, he fought against a king to try and save Grisha. Episode seven showed how he was practically the leader of a rebellion, the role so many book protagonists have. And he watched as people he cared about, the people he fought for, were killed through years and decades and centuries while he lived on. He was the hero that had been pushed over the edge, that became a villain because trying to save his people the “right” way had failed him one too many times.
Of course his intentions warped but he can’t stop because he’s so close and he’s lived too long to believe that any other way could work. But that core desire of Grisha no longer having to be afraid shines through even in his cruelty and it makes you feel like he could have been saved, could have been redeemed if things had turned out differently.
worrying is like worshipping the problem
no one quite psychoanalyzes like daughters do when looking at their mothers
"She'd been too busy trying not to die to think about dating or even hooking up. Darlington had nothing to do with it, no matter how good he looked with his clothes off."
Did I already know this? Yes.
Was I expecting Alex to constantly remind us how beautiful Darlington is? Absolutely not.
Seriously. We've known since book 1 how much she missed and needed him, but man, I was so not expecting Alex to be so direct about how much she wanted him and how special he was to her. I expected more denial tbh. Glad to have been wrong
there is no teen wolf movie in ba sing se
Is it weird that his furious expression makes it even hotter for me? Do I have issues? (Don't answer that)
Truly. Bless this show.
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