Ladys-maria - S. Maria

Today is October 4th and I had forgotten about this image

the day dawns babes

Now I can understand why people have a certain obsession with Zoyalina lol Rereading S&S (actually I've already finished it) I realize how obsessed Alina is with Zoya, I dare say that she is more than Nikolai in her entire duology (of course this was just ironic) but it's real she exalts Zoya in a way that makes any feelings she has for Maly seem like a facade.

Rule of Wolves - Zoya ch. 9

- Don't go - he begged, still half asleep. - I have to take a shower. I smell like a forest fire. - You smell like wildflowers. As always. What can I say to make you stay? - His words became a sleepy murmur as he fell asleep again.

    Tell me it's more than war and worry that makes you speak these words. Tell me what they would mean if you were not a king and I were not a soldier. (...)

    She brushed the hair away from his face and kissed his forehead.

- I'd stay forever if I could - she whispered. He wouldn't remember anyway.

Para se relacionar plenamente com outro, você precisa primeiro relacionar-se consigo mesmo. Se não conseguimos abraçar nossa própria solidão, simplesmente usaremos o outro como um escudo contra o isolamento. Somente quando consegue viver como a águia, sem absolutamente qualquer público, você consegue se voltar para outra pessoa com amor. Somente então é capaz de se preocupar com o engrandecimento do outro ser humano.

Nietzsche. (via refetuada)

someone recreates an image of nikolai as king and a dragon behind (representing zoya) an epic image

When I see people fighting with darklina shippers I wonder what they took from the Shadow and Bone trilogy. And I don't mean the basic things like "he's a bad person". I mean the fact the story is at it's core a story on how different people process the struggles of war, and the outcome of their actions while doing so.

I wonder if they understand malina is not the good, healthy ship, but rather the result of two very young orphans who lost everything and everyone else and bonded on an unhealthy level, to the point where Alina is willing to give up parts of herself to fit Mal's insecurities.

It's not meant to be cute and fluffy. It just is. And in that sense, I wonder if they actually look at the darkling as the full character that Leigh worked her butt off to portray, past the "ewwww, this man is problematic". Especially in times like right now, where genocide and "how far is too far when you are responding to aggression" are being openly discussed by everyone.

Sure, it's easy to reduce the darkling to this toxic abuser. It fits a box you can check and not think about it later, but I find that to be a disservice to Leigh. So many of you are old enough to think about what makes a character tick, and the context that the story is giving you, regardless if you find the characters' actions justifiable or not, and I see so little of that nowadays in every fandom. Where is y'all's media literacy? Comprehension skills? The ability to reflect on such a complex universe as is the grishaverse?

People are allowed to ship the two characters that are opposite sides of the same coin, and grieve over the boy the darkling was and the man he could have been, before the weight of war destroyed him.

Alina certainly did.

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November 6th - Dracula

I absolutely love the atmosphere here, Jonathan Harker in the shadow of the nightmare Castle in the sunset.

(Art by Angela Barrett in the special Folio Society ed of Dracula)