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Finally, it’s just the two of us, away from the palace.  Just you and I. Me and you. Now I can forget the truth and lies, misunderstandings and jealousy, the precarious fight for the throne and, death. And just devote my time on loving you.

I think one of the reasons the Harry Potter Epilogue was so poorly received was because the audience was primarily made up of the Millennial generation.

We’ve walked with Harry, Ron and Hermione, through a world that we thought was great but slowly revealed itself to be the opposite. We unpeeled the layers of corruption within the government, we saw cruelty against minorities grow in the past decades, and had media attack us and had teachers tell us that we ‘must not tell lies’. We got angry and frustrated and, like Harry, Ron and Hermione, had to think of a way to fight back. And them winning? That would have been enough to give us hope and leave us satisfied.

But instead. There was skip scene. And suddenly they were all over 30 and happy with their 2.5 children.

And the Millennials were left flailing in the dust.

Because while we recognised and empathised with everything up to that point. But seeing the Golden Trio financially stable and content and married? That was not something our generation could recognise. Because we have no idea if we’re ever going to be able to reach that stage. Not with the world we’re living in right now.

Having Harry, Ron and Hermione stare off into the distance after the battle and wonder about what the future might be would have stuck with us. Hell, have them move into a shitty flat together and try and sort out their lives would have. Have them with screaming nightmares and failed relationships and trying to get jobs in a society that’s falling apart would have. Have them still trying to fix things in that society would have. Because we known Voldemort was just a symptom of the disease of prejudice the Wizarding World.

But don’t push us off with an ‘all was well’. In a world about magic, JK Rowling finally broke our suspension of disbelief by having them all hit middle-class and middle-age contentment and expecting a fanbase of teenagers to accept it.

Also. Since when was ‘don’t worry kids, you’re going to turn out just like your parents’ ever a happy ending? Does our generation even recognise marriage and money and jobs as the fulfillment of life anymore? Does our generation even recognise the Epilogue’s Golden Trio anymore?

Today I learned

I mean I SAY I love the ‘Enemies to Lovers’ trope but what I really MEAN is that I love the

‘Enemies to Resentful Allies In A Time Of Crisis to Grudging Mutual Respect to Growing Fondness Concealed By Snark to Hurtful Betrayal to Slow Reconciliation With A Greater Understanding Of Each Other to Strange But Solid Friendship to Unexpected Feelings In A Time Of Crisis to Denying Their Feelings While Growing Closer As Friends to Epiphanies Of Love In The Worst Possible Circumstances to Mutual Pining to Unbearable Sexual Tension to Lovers’

trope

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

Lunch of Suffering. (X)

harem + scandals – requested by @kinda-real-awkward

The Art of Hiroshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style.

Coming into a fandom late

#geometric designs✨️

Beautiful Mosque Ceilings spotted in Teheran. 

💌 some of my favorite poems for World Poetry Day 💌 

A Cloud in Trousers by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Don’t leave the room by Joseph Brodsky (the original)

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

a splinter of my imagination by Halina Poswiatowska

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

Wait For Me by Konstantin Simonov (tr. by Mike Munford)  

Before You Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What’s Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Dear [ ] by Nick Lantz

Dogfish by Mary Oliver

Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück

Scheherazade by Richard Siken

The End of Poetry by Ada Limón

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

Poems for Blok by Marina Tsvetaeva

I’m Glad Your Sickness by Marina Tsvetaeva

Wait for her by Mahmoud Darwish

The Guest by Anna Akhmatova

Listen! by Vladimir Mayakovsky

Carousel by Vahan Teryan

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by Richard Siken

Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light by Richard Siken

Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong

Headfirst by Ocean Vuong

Advice from Dionysus by Shinji Moon

what are your favorite dramione fanfictions??

These are the ones that I still reread regularly: 

Polaroids by MrsRen 

Rumor Has it by MrsRen

Traditions by raven_maiden

Strange You Never Knew by raven_maiden

All Good Things (Come to those who wait) by weestarmeggie

Isolation by Bex-chan (OBVIOUSLY???!)

Wait and Hope by mightbewriting

Amateur Cartography by worksofstone

The Gift of Joy by BiscuitsForPotter

A Second Look by RiverWriter

bitter/sweet by provocative_envy

Fixing What You Broke by LadyKenz347

A Past Erased by Ariel_Riddle

the one time they stayed by quitethesardonic

Flesh and Blood by forbiddenquill

Love and Other Misfortunes by SenLinYu

Now Is A Gift by SenLinYu

The Right Thing To Do by LovesBitca8

familiar faces, worn out places by LovesBitca8

Theories and Analysis Masterlist

A probably incomplete list of mostly TFOTA meta from my mind to your unfortunate dashboards. Buckle up, Folks. I’m monologuing.

Keep reading

dude i think u may be the first person (i remember) ive seen not want movie/tv series for tfota and im so glad im not alone!! like it has a lot of potential but there are just a gazillion ways i can see it going wrong 😬 if we did get one i kinda want it to be animated b/c the otherworldly nature of the fae and all the magic would be easier to capture that way but that probably won't happen :/ ur casting is mega valid tho

first of all, i'm ecstatic someone else thinks this 🙌 the way a film/series would shatter my image of the world and characters.

plus, i'm just so tired of book adaptations becoming the next mainstream media craze only to get bashed a few months later for being "cringe" or whatever the fuck. not to mention, i've lost so much trust for screenwriters in recent times. i would rather just look at pretty fanart and read the books over and over, and exist in my little fandom bubble with y'all.

anyways, i know we're not the only ones cos i've deffo had conversations with some other lovely people on here about it.

HOWEVER. i've never thought ab an animated adaptation, and i have to say i would not mind a studio ghibli-esque version of this series at all 👀👀

writing tip #661:

create villains your readers want to have sex with. this is the only way to properly ensure people will read your novel

Everyone single person in Elfhame:

Cardan Greenbriar:

all of your feelings are valid as in “worth acknowledgment and internal consideration” but some of your feelings are also stupid and mean, and you need to deal with that shit without making it anyone else’s problem

brought a poem to the gun fight

“Thin brows are back in” “skinny jeans are back” “wolfcuts are out” “this style of eyeshadow is soo trendy right now” “big asses are out, slim figures are in”

Hey do you guys ever make your own decisions or form your own ideas on how you would personally like to look that’s not based around what’s currently being sold to you. Is that not possible

just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list

hihi!! i've been desesperate for the darkling x reader series but i'm struggling to find any, do you have recs (finished preferably) thank you!! I hope you have the best holidays!

Okay so I’ve had a look through my following list, and picked out my favourite writers for Aleksander. I thought I’d use this ask as an opportunity to give some holiday love to my favourites. (but off the top of my head can’t think of many completed darkling x reader series)

💛 @dearmantis • Masterlist

Series/My Favourite Fics:

The Something Special Series - ongoing

Written Love - oneshot

First Snow - oneshot

💛 @thebadgerclan • Masterlist

Series/My Favourite Fics:

The Dark Prince Series - completed

Miracle - oneshot

Affectionate - oneshot

💛 @dreamlandcreations • Masterlist

Series/My Favourite Fics:

Not Yet - oneshot

Amidst the Storm - drabble

Lost You - oneshot

💛 @bitesizedgremlin • Masterlist

Series/My Favourite Fics:

The Strange Love Series - ongoing

Insomnia - oneshot

💛 @stardustmorozov • Masterlist

Series/My Favourite Fics:

Can’t You Feel My Heart Beating? - oneshot

Caught in the Rain - smut oneshot

In my search I’ve also found @readerinsertsaremyguiltypleasure ‘s darkling x reader series - An Unexpected Taste of Love - which I’m going to add to my reading list

There’s probably plenty more, so if anyone wants to add some more feel free to reblog or comment your recs!

tu fui ego eris

book quotes that make me believe in love:

*VERY SPOILERY*

~feel free to add on (:

•“Nothing existed except for that and Annabeth at his side. Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world” -Heroes of Olympus 04 - The House of Hades

•“Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her” -Heroes of Olympus 03 - The Mark of Athena

•“You said you loved the words of my heart, the shape of my soul. I remember. I remember every word you said from that day to this. I will never forget them. There are so many words I wish to say to you, and so many I wish to hear you say to me. I hope we have all our lives to say them to each other”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I know how you are with your words, and, Will—I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. “Marry me,” he said. “Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it”. -Clockwork Princess

•“There is nothing about you that I can imagine not loving”. -Clockwork Princess

•“there will never be a time when I do not love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I do not wish you other than you are, Tessa. You are what you are, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“Tessa was lying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will’s voice as he read. It was a tenderness so intimate and so profound that Charlotte stepped away immediately, letting the door fall noiselessly shut behind her”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all” -Clockwork Princess

•”I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I am—I am catastrophically in love with you” -Clockwork Princess

•“When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off” -Clockwork Prince

•“I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?” -Clockwork Prince

•“You want this?” His voice was hoarse. “Yes,” she said. “Do you?” His finger traced the outline of her mouth. “For this I would have been damned forever.” “For this I would have given up everything.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I want you,” he says. He says “I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you”. -Unravel Me

•“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend,” he says. “The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body, Juliette—“ -Unravel Me

•“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time” -Unravel Me

•“I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,” he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it” -Unravel Me

•“I’m so—I’m so desperately in love with you” -Unravel Me

•“I love you, I whisper. “I love you exactly as you are”-Ignite Me

•“he kisses me, kisses me until time topples over and my head spins into oblivion. It’s a heavy, unbelievable kiss. It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. The kind that takes forever and no time at all. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.” -Ignite Me

•“I will be here every night,” he whispers, his words so soft, so tortured, “to keep you warm. I will kiss you until I can’t keep my eyes open” -Ignite Me

•“I want you to be happy, I tell him, my eyes searching his. “I want you to have a family. I want you to be surrounded by people who care about you, I say. You deserve that.” “I have you,” he says, resting his forehead against mine. His eyes shut. “You should have more than me.” “No,” he whispers. He shakes his head. His nose grazes mine. “Yes.”-Ignite Me

•“You are my salvation, Feyre.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction, even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or starved. I couldn’t leave him to his own dark thoughts, his own guilt. He’d shouldered them alone long enough” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Am I supposed to deny,” he drawled, but something sparked in those eyes, “that I find you attractive?” “You’ve never said it.” “I’ve told you many times, and quite frequently, how attractive I find you.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Smile again,” he whispered. So I smiled at him, broad and without restraint. “You’re exquisite,” he breathed”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers—who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I’m thinking,” he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, “that I look at you and feel like I’m dying. Like I can’t breathe. I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate half the time I’m around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•”I couldn’t … I couldn’t stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can’t stay away.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“And now I want you to know, Rhysand, that I love you. I want you to know … ” His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. “I want you to know,” I whispered, “that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I missed you. Every second, every breath. Not just this,” he said, shifting his hips for emphasis and dragging a groan from deep in my throat, “but … talking to you. Laughing with you. I missed having you in my bed, but missed having you as my friend even more”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I’m grateful,” he said after a while, as the camp beneath us stirred in the building light. “To have you at my side. I don’t know if I ever told you that—how grateful I am to have you stand with me”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have … The wait was worth it”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to … so I could find you.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I told him how I had fallen in love with him—every glance and passed note and croak of laughter he coaxed from me. I told him of everything we’d done, and what it had meant to me, and all that I still wanted to do. All the life still left before us”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“And will you come with me? On this adventure—and all the rest?” Rhys leaned forward and kissed me. “Always.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“She loves you—in a way I’ve never seen anybody love anyone.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I love you,” he breathed. “More than life, more than my territory, more than my crown”. -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I lifted my eyes to his again and found stars and darkness waiting. Found home waiting. Never enough. Not to paint him, know him. Eons would never be enough for all I wanted to do, see with him. For all I wanted to love him.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“You make me so very happy. My life is happy, and I will never stop being grateful that you are in it.” I looked up to find him not at all ashamed to have tears slipping down his cheeks in public. I brushed a few away before the chill wind could freeze them, and Rhys whispered in my ear, “I will never stop being grateful to have you in my life, either, Feyre darling. And no matter what lies ahead”—a small, joyous smile at that—“we will face it together. Enjoy every moment of it together.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop”. -The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)

•“By you, I am forever undone.” -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart if you must. Just come home.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soils of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours”. -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Because I love you!” Her mouth fell open. “I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he’s always known how I felt, too” -Assassin's Blade

•“He brushed his lips against hers. “I love you,” he breathed against her mouth. “And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that’s where I want to be. Forever.” -Assassin's Blade

•“I just want to be with you, he murmured. “I don’t care where we go. That’s all I want”. -Assassin's Blade

•“He was so beautiful—so full of all the things that she wanted, all that she hoped for.” -Assassin's Blade

•“this relationship between them, this bond that was forming, so unbreakable and unyielding that it made the entire axis of her world shift toward him”. -Assassin's Blade

•“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“he was made to be worshipped”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you. When you were away from me you were still present in my art”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“He was helping. And he was willing to meet a horrible fate in order to keep her alive. He hadn’t left her alone. She hadn’t been alone.” -Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass Book 3)

•”I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us … I would find you. I don’t care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.” -Queen of Shadows

•“And damn if it didn’t kill him, the quiet joy in her face. They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile … It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him”. -Queen of Shadows

•”You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.” He didn’t have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss. So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night”. -Queen of Shadows

•“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.” -Queen of Shadows

•“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“And when Aelin laid her palm flat on him again, she said, “You are mine.” Rowan’s breathing started again, jagged and savage as the waves breaking around them. She flicked open the top button of his pants. “I’m yours,” he ground out. Another button popped free. “And you love me,” she said. Not a question. “To whatever end,” he breathed.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“He was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. Hers—he was hers, and— “You are mine,” Rowan breathed, and she felt the claiming in her bones, her soul. “I am yours,” she answered. “And you love me.” Such hope and quiet joy in his eyes, beneath all that fierceness. “To whatever end.” For too long—for too long had he been alone and wandering. No longer” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” Rowan breathed onto her skin, and flicked his tongue over the spot where his canines had scratched. “I’d walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you”. -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She whispered onto his mouth, “I’ll always find a way back to you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken.” Her tears flowed past him in the wind. “And I will be with you …” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you always”. -Kingdom of Ash

•“Aelin awoke to the scent of pine and snow, and knew she was home. Not in Terrasen, not yet, but in the sense she would always be home, if Rowan was with her”. -Kingdom of Ash

•”Because he was false,’ said Damen, ‘and you are true. I have never known a truer man.’ He said, into the stillness, ‘I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly”. -Kings Rising

•“I want you,’ said Damen, ‘I’ve wanted you for so long, I’ve never felt like this with anyone”. -Kings Rising

•“The kiss happened because they couldn’t help it, and it was so sweet and so right that Damen felt a kind of ache”. -Kings Rising

•“You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs." “I'm not a hallucination," Neil said, nonplussed. “You are a pipe dream," Andrew said”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“He straightened and turned to find Andrew had shifted closer. There was nowhere for Neil to stand except up against Andrew, but somehow Neil didn't mind. They'd been apart for seven weeks but Neil keenly remembered why he'd stayed. He remembered this unyielding, unquestioning weight that could hold him and all of his problems up without breaking a sweat. For the first time in months he could finally breathe again. It was such a relief it was frightening; Neil hadn't meant to lean on Andrew so much”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making Andrew's pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•”Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty, and the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.” -The Song of Achilles

•“Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other’s bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” -The Song of Achilles

•“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world” -The Song of Achilles

•“He is half my soul, as the poets say” -The Song of Achilles

•“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.” -The Song of Achilles

•“In the crooks of your body I find my religion” -Sappho

•“she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out”. -Caraval

Things I loved about Imagine Me

Been seeing a lot of negative reviews about Imagine Me here but I personally loved it, so to bring some positivity into the tag here are (a lot, sorry) of things i loved about Imagine Me

(spoilers, but that is a given)

- That whole entire fight scene at the beginning, literally the most intense moment in the whole series

- Warner begging his father to take him instead of Juliette because he cares more about her freedom than he does about his own life

- Anderson declining his offer because even though he doesn’t really care for him he doesn’t want that future for his son

- Warner finally snapping at Omega people for being bad friends and abandoning Juliette (and him (but mostly Juliette))

- Seeing the more ruthless side of Warner, I mean this was obviously sad to see but we finally got to see that people weren’t exaggerating about him

*side note but I don’t consider this a “regression” from his part, Warner was never fully the good guy just as he was never fully the bad guy, he exists in a gray area and just does what he needs to do, we got to see his more gentle side with Juliette because he allowed that side of him to show but with Juliette gone that part of him wasn’t useful (in his mind) anymore. He allowed himself to be happy for a little while and that was immediately ripped away from him so it only makes sense that he acted the way he did. His characterization is so unique and complex and I will literally never shut up about it 

- Anderson having compassion, something he never had for his own sons,   & trying to save Juliette at the end, but only because she was useful and obedient to him  

- The fact the the whole series was build up on the idea of Anderson being super smart and stuff and seeing that the other Supremes thought he was a fucking idiot 

- Ibrahim being the one to shoot Anderson / seeing them turn against each other to maintain power

- Warner spending days covered in blood and dirt and then showering and putting a suit on to go save Juliette 

 - Warner thinking that Juliette was already gone but trying to rescue her anyway because that was the only thing he could do 

- Kenji going OFF on everyone and anyone that said that Juliette wasn’t going to make it / that they would be better if they killed her 

- Brendan and Winston finally getting together 

- Winston getting Kenji drunk by putting whiskey on his tea 

- Juliette coming full circle with her skin powers; saying that she would never use them to hurt anyone ever again and her holding up that promise until the very end to kill Emmaline because it wasn’t to hurt her but to free her from her pain

- Juliette struggling with her goddess, being curious, and going against orders despite being brainwashed and being under control 

- Every Kenji/Nazeera interaction 

- Warner telling James that he didn’t tell him they were brothers because he didn’t want to scare him off 

- Emmaline feeling safe in Juliette’s mind and to some extent getting to spend her final moments with her 

- Warner literally stabbing Anderson with a MACHETE 

- Like this man tried to kill his father so many times for what he did to him and never could but the moment Juliette’s life was in danger he did not hesitate to try and kill him 

- The people of 241 basically falling in love with Warner after he saved the day

- Kenji and Warner’s little bonding moment when Warner tells Kenji that he proposed to Juliette and Kenji finally understanding why he was so devastated 

- Warner calling Kenji a clown and that he should seek help 

- Kenji telling Nazeera that Juliette and Warner were engaged just to annoy Warner 

- That whole Warner & Juliette scene just UGH the FLAVOR

- I had been secretly hoping for a Warner/Juliette showdown since the beginning and I can’t believe I finally got it

- “She’s going to kill you” “that’s fine”

- “She’s really going to kill you” “then I’ll die”

- Nazeera being shocked and hurt seeing her father dead despite her knowing it would happen/kinda wanting it to happen 

- Warner taking his coat off while “fighting” Juliette and folding it over a chair, literally the smallest detail but his mannerisms are just so interesting to me  

- Juliette unconsciously recognizing Warner’s traits in Anderson 

- Juliette being SO CLOSE to killing Warner but stopping cause she couldn’t believe how beautiful he was and her literally thinking Warner was fake and that it had to be a test because he was too good looking to be real 

- “Where did they make you?” “So you are in there”

- This whole scene is so good because it’s unlike Warner to do something so reckless and you can just feel his desperation at not knowing what else to do to get her back and Juliette thinking that she has to kill him but being unable to resist when he kisses her and her trying so hard to hold back her emotions, thoughts and memories but her love for him being literally so strong that it snaps her out of the control just UGH 

- “Here,” he whispers, pressing my hands to his heart. “Home”

- Emmaline fucking obliterating Max 

- Warner being unable to hold back his inner fashionista and saying the new wedding dress was ugly 

- Warner being embarrassed at feeling too much when seeing Juliette in her corset and being literally paralyzed (in a good way) at the thought of them getting married 

- Warner having to restrain Juliette from grabbing a plunger 

- Juliette being excited at fixing stuff, learning how to use tools

- Juliette reclaiming her name to not give the ghost of Anderson any power over her

- Warner being the only one to call Juliette Ella the way she’s the only one to call Warner Aaron 

- Kenji destroying the wedding dress

- The dog!!!! They have a freaking dog!!!

 - Juliette being upset that she can’t talk to the citizens cause they almost trampled her cause they were so grateful 

- Those same people throwing babies at her and trying to cut a piece of her hair off 

- Warner’s, who has struggled with depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts, final words (and the last words on a series full of pain and loss for every character) being of happiness at the mere sound of Juliette’s laughter 

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tfota posts by me

This is in no way a complete list (nor it can be, coz I post a lot about them XD) but I will keep adding to this list in time. I'm kind of just putting together some things I love <3

Jude and Cardan thinking about each other so much that they even dream about one another

Why Madoc didn't allow Jude to declare herself ready for knighthood in the tournament?

“And is it?” “Out of your system?”

Cardan's fear for Jude while she's held prisoner in the Undersea

Karma in tfota

Like father like daughters

Cardan "I am no murderer" ready to kill for Jude

Jude misunderstanding the signs Cardan gave

Madoc respects Jude as a Queen

Jude's uncomfortable love for Madoc

“It meant nothing, and he should forget it.”

“I see a new monarch coming” aka. Cardan's queen aka. Jude

Soft Jurdan

Caring Cardan Supremacy

QoN underrated scene

some small/deep parallels in tfota

Jude and Cardan: heart-less

When Jude's taken a prisoner by the Undersea

How Jude feels in the mortal world and how Cardan sees her in Faerie

What Kaye thought she saw in Cardan's eyes for Jude vs. what he really saw.

tfota parallels with Simon Snow trilogy

Cardan and Baz: I didn't know what I wanted

When they don't think what/who could hurt them

How Cardan and Snow make Jude and Baz laugh

Jude and Baz: maybe I should kill him

the energy between jurdan and snowbaz

Snow and Cardan simply giving heart attacks

tfota parallels with tsc

Jude and Julian: acting behind the scenes

Cardan and Julian making decisions based on ...

Jude and Kit being like: enough is enough, I need to show them.

Cardan Greenbriar and Kieran Kingson

Cardan Greenbriar and Ash Morgenstern

tfota and other small parallels I've squealed over

Jude and Annabeth fooling people with their smiles

Cardan Greenbriar and Oliver Marks

Patroclus, Cardan and Emma, in the dark

Jude Duarte and Delilah Bard, same energy?

they feel like the only real/solid thing in the world

A little of my treasure for you 💗