In light of the title and release date of Hell Bent (unhinged squeal) I was rereading Ninth House and, man, I refuse to even acknowledge the possiblity that Darlingstern might not happen. Like, Alex remembers the feeling of Darlington's body lying pressed against her way too many damn times for it to be platonic. Seriously, it's around four times.
I just finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab and all I could think about was "why does this feel like a darklina AU?" Anyway, I loved it. Beautiful. Would 100% read a novella about Luc and Addie playing cat and mouse for centuries.
“And it is not far enough!”
“Do you think there’s a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough free me from this torment?”
“[…] that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence”
“You are the bane of my existence”
“And the object of my desires”
“Let me. It isn’t real. Let me.”
Makes sense
iit means you need to boil him in oil
I love you samosas. I love you empanadas. I love you pasties. I love you dumplings. I love you pirozhkis. I love you savory food in a convenient little carb purse.
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i know it'll pass but. can it pass a little quicker thanks
shoutout to friends btw. best thing earth has to offer
im this little kitty
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.