Things I wanna see less in fantasy~
Female protagonists having the best character arcs and personal growth only to lose their powers for the "greater good". Like? Let them be happy WITH POWERS?? ALINA'S LIGHT??? AELIN'S FIRE???? NESTA'S DEATH MAGIC??? TESSA'S SHAPE-SHIFTING??
Thinking about how Will Herondale scorned A Tale of Two Cities, but started loving it because of Tessa. HE ENVIED SYDNEY CARTON???? BECAUSE HE COULD TELL LUCIE OF HIS LOVE FOR HER??? EVEN IF THE ONLY THING HE COULD DO TO PROVE HIS LOVE WAS TO DIE???
and how Will would have died for a chance to tell Tessa that he loved her. HE THOUGHT SYDNEY WAS FREE, AND HE WISHED FOR THAT SORT OF FREEDOM.
SCREAMING
Carry On, snowbaz // The King's Men, Andreil
When I was reading the part where Alina does that vision-mind travel-connection thing with the Darkling for the first time I was like ugh this is gonna be the same old him making her feel stupid but DAMN
The "You might make me a better man." "And you might make me a monster." !!!! The "We would be equals till the day I dared to disagree with you." !!!! The "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience...But I am an apt pupil." !!!!!
Imagining that conversion happening in the show.
Brb screaming into the void.
Many boys will bring you flowers. But some day you'll meet a boy who'll learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.
~Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows.
Firstprince as Taylor Swift songs-
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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
I think the way ruin and rising ends is really beautiful. Just hear me out lmao-
"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that." is such a gentle, peaceful ending. Yes, alina is a very strong character who should've gotten a life filled with more adventures. But in the end, she got to build something that meant the world to her. She got a quiet life after all the fighting and war was over. She deserved it. It's a realistic ending, because sometimes characters choose to rest and be happy and that's okay :).
DARKLINA RIGHTS THOUGH SMH
“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
~Nina Zenik, King Of Scars.
“Did your wish come true?” // “I am not entirely certain yet.” // “You shall have to let me know,” Celia says. “I hope it does. I suppose in a way, I made the Wishing Tree for you.”
“I made a wish on this tree years ago,” Marco says // “What did you wish for?” Bailey asks, hoping it is not too forward a question // “I wished for her,” he says.
WILL I EVER RECOVER FROM THIS *SCREAMS*