Ruin And Rising - Blog Posts
Girls don’t want boys, girls want white-haired Sankta Alina and book accurate Korol Rezni
"labour" by paris paloma is the genya song
Had me gagging
That butterfly eating scene was honestly gross as fuck😵💫
Ep: "Ni weh sesh" (I have no heart)
Nadia bumped my shoulder with her own. "There are worse things than a prince."
"True."
"Better things too," Tamar said. She shoved a cobalt lace gown at Nadia. "Try this one on."
Nadia held it up. "Are you out of your head? The bodice might as well be cut to the navel."
Tamar grinned. "Exactly."
If this were a werewolf book, she would be with all three of them. She needs all three of them to be a whole and balanced woman.
For all my talk of vows and honor, what I really want is to put you up against that wall and kiss you until you forget you ever knew another man's name.
Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo
I love this chapter art
Well now that's just too far away.
A thing I really loved about Dorian was that he understood. He understood, and told Chaol that he can't "pick and choose which parts of her [Aelin] to love." And I just get this. *moving from ToG to Shadow and Bone... But Mal... MAL. He only loves Alina when she wasn't being herself. When Alina had to suppress her powers, when Alina played nice. And because of Mal, Alina was SICK for like 7 years. But The Darkling... he understood, like Dorian. He did love Alina, I think, and he loved her wholly. Alina tried to deny it, the connection and the similarities with him, but Alina was really just holding back for Mal once again.
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thank you for attending my tedtalk and ship Darklina
Am I the only person that ships The Darkling with Alina?
SOC paintball AU
So excited to show you guys my piece for the @grishaversebigbang ‘s reverse mini-bang!
@littlestivy wrote an amazing and fun fic based off of this piece, which you can find here!
I worked with @trassellynn on this au who also drew an absolutely stunning piece that inspired the fic, which you can find here!
grishasona 😌 i’m a squaller what are u?
was innocently scrolling and came across a darklina post and when I tell u it was a jumpscare - like I forgot they existed omfg
OK
I have just finished watching shadow and bone season two and I have many thoughts, but non of my friends have read the books, just watched the show so I can’t really talk about it with them so here we go. With that said, major shadow and bone spoilers below. Proceed with caution.
First of all, I accept that the books and the show are two different things, however, some of the book plots just made more sense and also I think it’s weird that the show just takes whatever part of the books they want which messes up the crows whole storyline.
Alina is alive and not fake dead?? How are they planning on spinning that? And also I was really looking forward to the white hair Alina look because I feel like that was going to be really cool but they just.... skipped that? Also why did she and Mal split up? That made no sense to me. I feel like Alina should have followed Mal, because he’s spent his whole life following her and now it’s her turn.
David??? My boy??? I’m not supposed to be sad about him now, I’m supposed to be sad later! That part really messed me up.
One part I loved was seeing Inej and Jesper and Nina all meet for the first time, it was lovely to see the start of that friendship. But Nina and Zoya had basically no reaction to seeing each other? They just kinda, cut to them being in the same room and had a few comments that hinted to a backstory but that was it?
I liked the Wylan and Jesper backstory better in the books, but I loved their interactions and story on the screen as well. I’m still mourning the loss of the “Just girls?” “Not just girls,” line, which sucks.
Speaking of missing lines, how about Genya’s iconic “I’m am not ruined, I am ruination,” ? I’m glad she stood up to the queen, but why was the king just dead?
I absolutely loved Tolya, anytime he brought up poetry I couldn’t help but smile. I’m glad he and Kaz had a poetry moment at the end.
Also, the whole story in the Shu Han was so cool! I loved seeing countries other than Ravka and Kerch, and anytime a saint popped up in the story I happily grabbed my copy of the lives of saints and felt more connected to the show.
I love Zoya in this season, I just love Zoya in general but it was easier to justify it to those who haven’t seen her full character with the way she acted during this season. I loved seeing her and Inej team up to take down the nichevo’ya.
Kaz and Inej make my heart hurt. That’s all .
In terms of Nikolai, I can honestly say I have no complaints. I know his story differed from how it was in the books, but it felt better somehow, having him present throughout the whole battle and having to discover and fight his demon on his own after everything. I don’t know how he’s going to do that with Alina around, but we’ll see how that goes.
Now for the kicker, the ending. I didn’t like the ending. The ending in the books is so much more poetical, despite Alina’s good intentions, she let her hunger for power get the better of her and she lost it all. She sacrificed everything for her country. Fought, bled, and killed for it, and it still took everything from her. In return, however, her power was given to others so they can continue on her legacy and relieve her of her great burden to destroy the fold. I probably didn’t explain it all that well, but I think it was much better in the books.
When I tell you I jumped out of my seat and paced around the room for a good five minutes because I saw the bee on Zoya’s shoulder, I mean I fully jumped out of my seat and paced. I might have screamed a little bit as well.
I’m exciting for the whole Jurda Parem storyline, although I’m not quite sure how they’re going to pull it off with the patchy mess they left of the crooked kingdom book after taking only what they want and scrapping the rest.
I’m glad they made it Siege and Rising rather than have a whole other season for the third book, I think that worked well and while it felt a little rushed at times it fit the story.
I loved the show, loved the books, and can’t wait to see what Netflix comes out with next.
I mean u r not wrong 😂😂😂😂
The Darkling (to Alina): Lift up your sleeve.
Me (who he's not even talking to): *shrugs and tosses off whole shirt* Well you see this isn't really like my choice but ok since I mean you did ask me to do it.
Don't lie we both know you'd shuck off your shirt if he said so. Darkling supremacy>>>