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modern elain archeron. 🌸

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everyones been ignoring the fact that Nikolai and Zoya regularly like PHYSICALLY faked being lovers and what is wrong with u all there should be 100000 fics and fanart dedicated to just this??? Can u imagine the thoughts going through their heads the first time they had to pretend they were fuck buddies for national security reasons pls it's so good

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Morning Doodle: They say that, after her husband’s death, the queen had fallen in love with a demon and had lost her taste for mortal men.

Artist Notes: Alright, people are insisting that I pay for their therapy after last week’s doodle, so here is my concession.

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if i had a nickel every time an iconic book series had a spin off that focuses on the 10 year old, sheltered blonde boy whom the original characters did EVERYTHING to protect growing up to have an enemies to lovers trope with a badass woman, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but its weird that it happened twice.

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Morning Doodle: “We should send him to Ketterdam to preach to Kaz Brekker and the rest of those reprobates,” suggested Zoya. Nikolai winced. “He’d certainly get his martyrdom.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)

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He was trying to dazzle her. But dazzle was a lot like romance—fantastic while it lasted, but it never lasted long enough. And Tella still wanted more. 

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⁣⁣⁣⤞ art by aysha.nasir15

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⁣⁣⁣⤞⁣⁣⁣ Characters Tella and Legend belong to Stephanie Garber⁣

⁣⁣⁣⤞ Quote from Finale

⁣⁣⁣⤞ Scene inspired by Legendary and Finale

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How the gentle wind beckons through the leaves as autumn colors fall

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say that you love her because you believe that you will die tomorrow? boring, cliché, has been done a lot of times before you.

practically bequeath the country to her while casually flirting? original, classy, fashionable, you probably won't be killed by her at the same moment

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Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

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What are chapters 39-41 of Legendary and why are they the best out of Stephanie Garber’s writing? They are the payoff to everything she’s been building up from the start of the book.

First, we properly meet Dante and we get to know him. From his tragic backstory of a bastard boy no one wanted, not even his first love, who he became magical for. What did he do? Shut down emotionally and build a fake identity who was much cooler and far more beloved than his real self ever was.

And then we have Tella and her equally large fear to love. Because she felt cursed and unwanted after being supposedly abandoned by her own mother, and being raised by a father who only loved himself. So she convinces herself love is for the poor stupid people who are willing to give their hearts to others (knowing they can be broken).

Dante wasn’t meant to fall for Tella. But he did. He let her past the mask of Legend and allowed her to truly know him, and himself to harbor feelings for her. By the end there he doesn’t care about getting the cards and the powers within them. He wants her love, and is even willing to make death pacts with powerful strangers to ensure she’s safe.

And Tella, who refused to fall even for the stories she was told of this fantastic magician, finds herself unable to match the image of the villain she made up in her mind with that of the guy she fell for. And she embraces him, and embraces that love, no longer being afraid of having her heart broken.

And then it all falls apart.

Because while Tella is not willing to give Dante up, she is still the little girl that wants her mother back. And so the love she just embraced within herself is used to sacrifice herself, and get trapped in one of the cards to save her mother.

Dante of course can’t deal with that. So he saves Tella and starts the apocalypse, but this is the second time loving so deeply had devastating results. So he shuts down again. Snaps the mask of Legend back into place and leaves Tella on those stairs because he is fucking terrified of being hurt again by someone he loves so deeply. And so fulfilling Tella’s own fear of having her own heart broken.

Literally all of their actions match the characters we saw this far to perfection. Stephanie is amazing and this series deserves to be in filmed media at some point.

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so as usual, i recently reread acftl and i just love jacks' character here. it makes so much sense given his journey in the books. i love how desperately, undeniably in love he is, how he keeps going and giving his all for evangeline. and i think that's so palpable. his construction, in my eyes, is so well done that this is just his peak, when he can no longer deny his own feelings or lie to himself.

that's why acftl is probably the book i've been rereading the most among stephanie's books, because it's simply so passionate, full of love and unconditional love. i don't know if everyone understands how big it is for jacks, jacks, the prince of hearts, to be so selfless for someone. evangeline said: i can fix him (no, i really can), and she did.

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Perhaps the biggest tell for me of why Elain and Azriel will end up together is that without the mating bond, there would be no other realistic option.

Without Elain and Lucien’s bond, Lucien really wouldn’t be interested in Elain at all.

If Elain didn’t have a mate, Azriel likely would have already acted on his feelings.

And even with the bond’s existence, Azriel and Elain have enough build up to be endgame in spite of the bond.

If you took away the bond for any other couple, you would still have two characters that like each other. The same cannot be said for Elain and Lucien. Quite the opposite actually. If you took away the bond, Elain and Lucien would already have formed relationships with other people.

And at the end of the day, all these characters deserve real romance over a bond they had no choice in.

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if i was a gw*nriel this would haunt me day and night

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Forbidden Love

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Wrong — it was so wrong.

He didn’t care.

He needed to know what the skin of her neck tasted like.

Forbidden love never tasted so sweet. Especially with a mate sleeping upstairs.

Characters: Elain and Azriel

Series: ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas

Art: @celestarly

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jacks crazzzzyyyyyy

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i just love the way nikolai feels jealous not in a romantic way, not of zoya's ex lovers (though he doesn't really like to think about them), but of people with whom she feels comfortable, with whom she can let down her walls, with whom she can be herself, not a general, not a commander, not a powerful grisha, but just zoya