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I'm very new to the All For The Game fandom (I'm in the middle of book 3), but i loved this part from book 2, and I wanted to draw it how i saw it in my mind

I don't really know anything about the fandom or what happens next in the book so no spoilers pls!! Haha

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Listen I was on the jerejean train since the king’s men BUT the way the banquet chapters boosted their dynamic up was delicious and insane and soooo good like the bus ride, ‘I’m not learning french for anyone but you, Jean wanting to remember the weight of Jeremy at his side, the hotel room, ‘tell me the phrase’, Jeremy’s promise of being honest to Jean, ‘you and me against the world’, the ties, ‘you look good’, Jean seeing how much shaken Jeremy is with Connors and defending him without a second thought, ‘they are not your partners’, Jeremy telling his story to Jean and Jean believing him on the spot about being clean because ‘you are you’, ‘his name’ insane INSANE

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Started aftg last week after YEARS of being in my tbr. I’ve already read the first two books, started the third last night and guess what my reaction was when I read this:

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captive prince moments that i don’t care about. whatever. doesn’t even matter at all.

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Nothing Matters by The Last Dinner Party. Directed by Saorla Houston, 2023.

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“Would you show me a friendly face, once more?” (more writing below)

It was with the familiar smell of ashes burning her nostrils that Lady Galadriel came to the realisation that there was no fight left in her.

If she closed her eyes, she could feel them— the last flickers of a fire long burning finally leaving her body. As she stood there alone, amid the smoke blackening her sight and a tapestry of bodies she could no longer distinguish at her foot, the yearning for the pale waters of the Sea made itself known at last. She welcomed it with great bitterness.  So this was her end. The daughter of Finarfin was to set sail home, at last. She felt him approach like she always did: a large shadow engulfing soil, corpses and hopes alike, the blade of betrayal still fresh against her skin. She could continue to fight him— she’d done so over and over again, with different faces, different blades, each trying at eroding figments of a once shared kinship to no avail. He would remain Sauron. She would forever be Galadriel. He could not slay her just as she could never rid herself of him in full, and the acceptance of this truth once made her chest cave with grief, right between the puncture points of the crown he’d once pushed against her. “Galadriel,” he greeted her. He considered her curiously. Beneath his helmet, his eyes were glowing embers, nothing like his—witnessing the change in Galadriel, no doubt. She had never given up on an opportunity to deal a blow before, and there he stood before her, tendrils of his armour reaching to her like a black flame, yet she was not moving. He took a cautious step forward. “Are you not going to fight me, today?” She stared blankly at him—through him, through what once was, what could be, what would be. “Would you show me a friendly face, once more?” She asked instead. Tired. She was so tired. As she let her head fall against his shoulder, he stood very still. “I would,” he simply said, southern vowels scraping against his throat, low, barely loud enough for her elf ears to hear. Against all odds, he had granted her her request. Stubble scratched the side of her head as a hand gingerly held the back of her neck, and she allowed herself to feel the solace of his embrace, just this once.

She had started to diminish the day they had met, after all.

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damen being the exception to all of laurent's rules

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And in the darkness, bind them.

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what have you done - within temptation

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Putting down my shipping lents and analyzing it with the clarity of mind I didn't have this morning (went full batshit crazy at work), the biggest issue with their scene and the season in general, was the flatness of Galadriel's arc.

Not enough screentime, sure, but I expected so much more complicated emotions on her behalf about the whole situation with Sauron.

And the premises were good! The scenes in the first episodes are GOLD imo ('he never left, Galadriel' made me deranged for a day and half). But after them I expected a more intense build up to the finale, that just didn't happen for me.

Did I really expected a full corruption arc for her? Of course no, with the focus on the Eregion arc I always knew it was not realistic given the limited screentime available.

But they really missed a chance to explore with her the depth of the connection she shares with Sauron, the despair, the anger, the guilt. A glimpse here and there but not enough, not even near to the emotions she displayed in s1.

And their scene in the finale suffered from a mediocre writing too. (Saving only this part where I almost fainted, wishing they had continued on this path of confrontation)

ANYWAY it's still not too late for a Will Graham s3 arc!!! If they play their cards well we can really have the delicious mind connection we were denied this season. Don't loose hope <3

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how it started / how it's going

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Saurondriel | Crash

Just reach out your hand

And give me one thing to hold on to

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I don't know if someone already pointed it out BUT for the whole episode every interaction Annatar had was so unsettling, so false, so sweetly manipulative and yet AND YET the moment he thought about Galadriel his façade slipped, a fraction of something close to sincere emotion breaking out on his face, as if the sole memory of the gold in her hair was enough to ripple the cold calm of his travesty:

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THE RINGS OF POWER 2.02 ― “Where the Stars are Strange”

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GALADRIEL and ANNATAR THE RINGS OF POWER | SEASON 2

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Ladyhawke (1985) dir. Richard Donner

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— Dark Heir, by C.S. Pacat