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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-

“his monstrous queen”

“her gentleman demon”

just finished leigh bardugo's hell bent and idk what to do. how am i gonna survive the wait for the next book and the long darlingstern content draught that's about to come. 🫠

no one quite psychoanalyzes like daughters do when looking at their mothers

I still can't breathe

“do you think that there is a corner of this earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? i am a gentleman. my father raised me to act with honor, but 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 all my desires. night and day, i dream of you. and what i…do you even know all the ways a lady can be seduced? the things i could teach you.”

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. 

Okay listen. The first glowstick mention was indeed like a slap to the face (loved it tho), but was anybody really taken ABACK when fucking VAMPIRES came uppp?????

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