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I felt this. That quote was a gut wrench. Every parent-child relationship is complex, and the love was there. This book series captures so many aspects of love with it's characters.

***Iron Flame SPOILERS****

I am so incredibly disappointed with what everyone is choosing to talk about with this book. Everyone is concentrating on what happens with Xaden but you know what to me was the absolute most gut wrenching storyline in the whole book? General Lilith Fucking Sorrengail.

From the moment we see her again in the beginning of the book she is nothing but supportive and proud of her daughter. Yes, she absolutely made the wrong decision where she stands in the war, and what she did to Xaden was absolutely inexcusable. (Although I do think if she hadn’t done that they would have killed all the marked ones.) But she made all those decisions for her children. Because she did what she needed to to keep them safe. You can’t convince me that even after Violet leaves, that even after Mira leaves, that she wasn’t incredibly thankful for the fact they were together and with Xaden who would never let something happen to Violet.

Lilith went into the dungeons to get her daughter out of there and I am not unconvinced that had Violet not already been mid rescue the General wouldn’t have turned traitor right there to get her out. The scene when Brennen reveals himself to her?? She’s cracking and can hardly hold herself together and my heart felt so sorry for her in that moment. It made me mad at Brennan because he threw it in her face like ammo when Violet spent all of fourth wing describing how his death ruined their mother.

One of the most heart breaking quotes in the whole book is at the beginning of chapter 65:

“Most generals dream of dying in service to their kingdom. But you know me better than that, my love. When I fall, it will be for one reason only: to protect our children.”

General Sorrengail didn’t support the war, she didn’t fight for Navarre she made it clear fron the beginning that she was just a mom protecting her kids, and she did so without second thought. Without hesitation. She didn’t do what she did for the war effort, or even to help everyone on the battlefield. She did it for Brennen, and Violet, and Mira.

Lilith Sorrengail was just a desperate mother and everyone glossing over her sacrifice is bullshit.

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This is accurate in so many cases...

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This just seems to work so well lol.

these are actually so stunning!! might be some of my new favorite artworks, the details are insane and also so beautiful <3

artist @giannyfili on instagram!!

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Colourized ASCII art at NASA using an IBM System/370 in 1981, via. Or… EBCDIC art?

If this is real, I wish I knew this could happen on my old Nokia.

It feels like it's harder to be a kid these days, at least in suburbia. The kids float around in bubbles in which sometimes they interact with those outside their household. But the days in which it was fun to interact with people on a walk down the avenue or visiting a friend's home casually has become a weird concept.

At a community park, there were several daycares with their assigned group of kids in little buses but the kids didn't interact with each other but in their assigned group.

Yes! I had a concept for something like this but I don't know how to code. I'm glad someone built this.

I had wanted this because I wanted a way to clean up my digital remains when I die. But considering how social media is (insert all sorts of descriptors), it's like living in a hoarder's house after a while.

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This is badass fan art.

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