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lavender fields and the bluest dawns

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Vampires

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. (John Milton, Paradise lost)

-Dante and Virgil, William Bouguereau

The thirst for that which I now crave.

This thirst. This thirst is strong.

It overpowers all right and wrong. (Lestat)

"And to a place I come where nothing shines"

-Hans Von Voigt 1920

-Philip Burne Jones 1897

-Otto Marcus 1894

-Max Ernst 18th cent.

-Edward Munch 1893

The whole package of modern vampirism first appeared in the eighteenth century. Many European societies believed in the idea of the dead coming back to earth to harm and torment the living. Others thought that people who were bitten by an animal like a dog or a wolf, and whose wounds hadn’t been properly healed, would die and later on transform into undead creatures. In Russia, they thought that those who would rebel against the church would be punished with an eternal life of suffering and, as a vengeance, they would cause atrocities on the living. Specialists' believe is that the attributes of fangs and drinking blood come from the same origin: ignorance on the decomposition of the body. When the organs start to decompose, they produce a dark liquid or purge that leaks from the nose and mouth. People believed this liquid was actually blood that the deceased drank from living beings. People also related vampires to the spread of diseases they couldn’t understand, like the plague. So, in the 18th century a mass hysteria regarding vampires started all over Europe and some towns in America, where people were hunted down and publicly executed. In order to ensure that these "vampires" would no longer be a threat, hunters would take the teeth and heart of the "undead," place large bricks in their mouths, or cut off their heads. The vampire is a more rational being, which makes it more enthralling and also more frightening. We find vampires so attractive mainly because they embody all the elements that fascinate human beings: sensuality, eroticism, lust, immortality, supernatural powers, and darkness.

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Euripides’ Hecuba c. 424 BC

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When you find someone in the same niche fandom as you

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#lostnights

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I need a “hey its 3 AM want to go for a walk?” type of friend

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Okay but why isn’t anyone talking about the ACOWAR prologue though?!

It has some of the best prose Maas has ever written

“The buzzing flies and screaming survivors had long since replaced the beating war-drums.”

That’s literally the first line. It starts off so good and then it goes downhill for the rest of the bookl and the editor probably got bored or sth

It’s Rhysand’s POV. Everyone’s saying they want Rhys’s POV why are you people not going crazy over this?!

The imagery and description in this chapter is so rich and beautiful - visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, you’ve got everything!

“I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death’s handmaidens.” 

^^^^ literally the best line GDI Maas where was this kind of prose in the rest of the book?!

WE GET TO SEE RHYS BEING WORRIED ABOUT CASSIAN AND AZRIEL AND SEARCHING FOR HIS BROTHERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

“But it was not Cassian’s death-grey face that gaped at the sky. My breath whooshed from me, my lungs still raw from roaring, my lips dry and chapped.” 

I fucking knew Cassian couldn’t have died but you could feel my relief when I read that line and realised he was fine.

“Mile after mile. A kingdom of rotting dead. And still I looked.”

WE’VE GOT PRIME ILLYRIAN BROS CONTENT FROM RHYS’ POV AND YOU HEATHENS AREN’T TALKING ABOUT IT

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Even if you’re unemployed, even if you’re taking time off from school, even if nobody is calling and making plans with you, get out of bed, take a shower, put on clean clothes, wear some cologne or perfume, turn all the lights on, do some laundry, clean up a little bit. 

Doing all this stuff causes a shift in your perspective. Do it in spite of your situation. 

That’s the only way to create sustainable happiness, because if your behavior is dictated by your circumstances, you’re always going to be miserable. Don’t let the world determine your mindset. Let your mindset determine how you view the world.

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