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Zoya asks to be alone with him and no one questions her right. The monks have returned to their cells. The courtyard is silent save for the faint chanting of psalms. She looks at the tree and its immenseness; gargantuan as the dragon is, dwarfing space and time. There is no seam, no scar to hint at the obscene secret the Thorn Wood guards. The bark is uninjured. It feels rough beneath her own smooth palm.

"You didn't tell them."

Silence. It stretches, long and viscous, like the honey of Elizaveta's hives, enough so that Zoya can drown in it.

"They wouldn't have believed it."

The answer comes from the depths of the tree, from somewhere within her mind, from beyond the Door that leads to the Making.

"No, they wouldn't have," she admits ruefully. "Monsters can't be heroes."

"What will you do?"

"You kept me prisoner for four hundred years, boy. I will have your little country as recompense. Was it worth the price you paid?" That you still pay?

The cool, youthful voice contains a note of pain. "I regret Grigori."

"Grisha was ever a fool. But he served as good bait. Without him, do you think we would have trusted your invitation?" The laugh that follows is the inhuman crackle of a bonfire.

"It wasn't enough." The boy admits.

"It never is," agrees the dragon. "I owe you four hundred years, Aleksander. They begin today."

When Zoya returns to the others her eyes are the silver of a lightning strike, but on second glance they appear blue - the blue of a cloudless day.

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But somehow, they found peace

(A doodle from my sketchbook that i decided to color in digital. Messy and all but fun with the colors! Im in the first part of the third book, anticipating the end and already making fanart to cope what’s coming)

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the reason the darkling thinks alina will be capable of forgiving him for everything he does to her with just a little time is because he has spent centuries forgiving his mother for her abuse of him simply because the alternative is eternal loneliness. he is always always mimicking his relationship with his mother in his relationship with alina.

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Enemies to lovers Darkolai (ft the tether)

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A FATHER IS AN UNNAMEABLE THING.

Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides // Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘Golden State’ // Agustín Gómez-Arcos, The Carnivorous Lamb //Desireé Dallagiacomo, Origin Story // Ilya Repin, Ivan The Terrible and His Son // Francisco de Goya Saturn Devouring His Son // Ocean Vuong, Someday I'll Love // Catherine Lacey, Cut.

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The demon in the wood

(I've been feeling randomly stressed today, so I drew a tiny little Darkling for an hour)

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Shadow and Bone, but it's Crime and Punishment.

Shadow and Bone, but Aleksander is tormented by his creation of the Fold. It all went wrong, you see? It was supposed to protect Ravka. It was supposed to swaddle her like a babe, but it sliced her in half. He harmed the very thing he was trying to save, as Raskolnikov harmed poor Lizabeta whom he meant to free from her tormentor.

Give me Aleksander and Alina, but as Rodion and Sonya.

Give me Aleksander confessing all his centuries of suffering and Alina, unwanted, orphaned, Alina, understanding such suffering.

This was not the way, this was not at all the way he had intended to reveal it to her, but thus it came out.

"No one, no one in the whole world, is unhappier than you are now!" she exclaimed...

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I saw people say Darkling is a r*pist and I'm scared of liking him now. Is he really?

no lol. and I suggest you get out of the discourse circles while you still can. they'll be telling you the darkling wanted genocide next, or that he deliberately planned genya's fate from the start.

this fandom has some of the most rampant misinformation campaigns I've probably ever seen. in other fandoms, the discourse is simply arguments that get out of hand. it is only shadow and bone which seems to attract people who will straight up lie about these things.

I don't know if it's because they believe it (maybe they haven't read the books or maybe they're bad at media literacy or maybe they even have trouble separating reality from fiction), or if it's because they like to control what happens in this fandom (the people here act like any post they don't like or that doesn't fit the 'acceptable parameters' is an attack on morals everywhere. there's a lot of thought control that happens in the general discourse tags), or if it's because they don't want to be outcast from the 'acceptable' side of the fandom.

but I recommend taking a step back and remembering a few things:

a) this is fiction. none of it is real.

b) it is ya fiction and attracts a generally younger audience

c) trust in your own interpretation of the text, and don't rely on other people's moral crisis and danger spiraling posts to guide your beliefs.

d) there is a lot of heavy handed 'think of the children' 'we just want what's best for you' manipulation going on in these tags, but you are not inherently immoral for disagreeing with them. don't trust the slogan.

e) block liberally and blacklist every tag you need to. antis will make you think they have your best interests in mind, but they are just as prone to harassing and gaslighting people as any other extreme loud minority discourse group in fandom.

and f) every part of fandom has a bad side. no side is actually better or worse than the other. no side actually sends more hate. no side actually has worse people. no side actually has more victims of abuse or more diversity or more experienced professionals. it's all relative. they're going to speak from their own experiences, which will always skew towards their own biased interactions with the fandom. that's just how it works anywhere.

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those dni that use the term "condone" when talking about pairings are so weird to me like you couldve chosen the normal option of "enjoy/ship" but no you had to go with the one w moral implications. uhm.

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my love for the darkling as an antagonist and my desire to see him be more monstrous to the point of becoming an eldritch horror and devouring the world vs my critique of the racist undertones of the writing in regards to both the darkling and the setup of the grisha as an oppressed minority and the knowledge that the darkling’s dehumanization within the text is the result of prejudice against his people and especially shadow summoners. fight

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Nikolai Lantsov Fashion: Sturmhond Edition

“And you’re Sturmhond.” “On my good days,” he replied. He wore leather breeches, a brace of pistols at his hips, and a bright teal frock coat with gaudy gold buttons and enormous cuffs. It belonged in a ballroom or on an opera stage, not on the deck of a ship.

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help me