As Dante Was Watching Me Search The Sky Through The Lens Of A Telescope, He Whispered, “Someday, I’m

When Jessie and Amita started talking about diversity in the industry, and how being Asian and trying to fit in makes you feel like you belong nowhere. And how these characters show young girls that they DO BELONG AND THAT THEY CAN BE BAD BITCHES TOO. I cried. We love it.

I think it's beautiful how so many people still live their lives like they care about the small, yet meaningful things. Like they read books and drink tea and love making art and look after a garden and listen to old songs on repeat and never move past a 'phase' and talk to birds and admire the sky even though it's the same everyday and watch movies till they remember the dialogues and write letters to the people they love and collect rocks and dance with their windows open and overdress to every occasion and pretend and wish and-

Remember when Cardan said "Jude jude jude jude jude jude jude jude..." and achieved poetic cinema?

“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.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”

~Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

The whole point of inclusion and diversity in a show is so people can watch it and actually relate to the characters and be like "YES, SHE'S SMART AND BEAUTIFUL AND SUCCESSFUL AND SHE LOOKS LIKE ME, THEREFORE I CAN BE THOSE THINGS TOO". As someone who cried when Amita and Jessie talked about diversity in the industry, and as someone who's brown, I think it's safe to say that I found this whole ordeal to be disgusting.

90% of the content I've consumed in my life has been white-culture based. I grew up watching films and reading books that portrayed people who were nothing like me.

When S&B announced its casting and literally made it's whole marketing strategy 'Diversity' I was beyond happy. Amita talking about how hard she had to work to be able to do a pushup, let alone be INEJ made me have mad respect for her and the whole crew.

So seeing a white woman being PAINTED BROWN TO DO STUNTS FOR A CHARACTER WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE BROWN really really stung. I don't know who's decision this was, and frankly I don't care. This one thing has changed so many people's perspective on a show that's literally based on a group of people who don't care about what the others look like, or where they're from, and love them regardless.

I really hope they take accountability for this and apologize. Because this may seem like a really little, meaningless thing to some white people, but it's a big deal to all those kids who read the books and then were BEYOND EXCITED TO WATCH THE SHOW. One brown woman in a netflix show that remained #1 for 13 days represents all those brown girls who believe that they too, would be accepted for WHO THEY ARE, NOT WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

Netflix, do better.

ricemale: I am Rhysand, the Most Powerful High Lord™!1!!1! I am High Lord of the Night Court, Night Triumphant, Death Incarnate, Hot Feminist!1!!1! I can snap your mind without moving and I am Very Powerful!!1!!1!!

women of illyria and hewn city: can you use your power and privilege to help us and provide us a safer life and end wing clipping and stuff???

ricemale, for the 300 something years of his rule: lol nope

“You could have been a ballerina,” Mme. Padva remarks to Celia. “You are quite good on your feet.”

“I am good off my feet as well,” Celia says.

DID SHE JUST?????🤨🤨🤨MISS MA'AM

Friendly reminder to never mess with our Corpse Witch, Nina Zenik.

“Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds."

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers. But we who would wield power adorn ourselves in flowers to hide the sting of our thorns.”

~Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

Firstprince as Taylor Swift songs-

•London Boy

do I even need to explain this one?

"But something happened, I heard him laughing. I saw the dimples first and then I heard the accent."

"You know I love a London boy, I fancy you."

"He likes my American smile, Like a child, when our eyes meet, darling I fancy you."

"So I guess all the rumours are true?"

"Show me a gray sky, a rainy cab ride, babe, don't threaten me with a good time."

•Delicate

"This ain't for the best, my reputation's never been worse. So you must like me for me."

"We can't make any promises, now can we babe?"

"Is it cool that I said all that? Is it chill that you're in my head? 'Cause I know that it's delicate."

"Stay here, honey I don't want to share."

"I wonder, when you sleep, are you ever dreaming of me? Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time."

•Gold rush

"Eyes like sinking ships, on waters so inviting, I almost jump in."

"What must it be like, to grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominos?"

"I don't like a gold rush. I don't like anticipating my face in a red flush. I don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch."

"Everybody wants you, but I don't like a gold rush."

"My mind turns your life into folklore, I don't dare to dream about you."

•Enchanted

"The playful conversation starts, Counter all your quick remarks, like passing notes in secrecy."

"This night is flawless, don't you let it go. I'm wonder struck, dancing around all alone. I'll spend forever wondering if you knew, I was enchanted to meet you."

"My thoughts will echo your name, until I see you again. These are the words I held back, as I was leaving too soon."

"Please don't be in love with someone else, please don't have somebody waiting on you."

•I know places

"Something happens when everybody find out. See the vultures circling dark clouds. Love's a fragile little flame, it could burn out."

"Let them say what they want, we won't hear it. Loose lips sink ships all the damn time."

"And you know for me, it's always you."

"Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it, my love."

"I know places we won't be found."

•Dancing with our hands tied

"I loved you in secret."

"I could've spent forever with your hands in my pockets, picture of your face in an invisible locket."

"I loved you in spite of, deep fears that the world would divide us."

"I'd kiss you as the lights went out, Swaying as the room burned down. I'd hold you as the water rushes in, if I could dance with you again."

•Cruel summer

"Devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes. What doesn't kill me makes me want you more."

"It's cool, that's what I tell 'em. No rules, in breakable heaven. But it's a cruel summer, with you."

"I don't want to keep secrets just to keep you."

"And I screamed for whatever it's worth, 'I love you' ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"

•The Lakes

"I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones, These hunters with cell phones."

"Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don't belong, and my beloved neither do you."

"I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze, tell me what are my words worth?"

"A red rose grew out of the ice frozen ground, with no one around to tweet it."

"While I bathe in cliffside pools, with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief."