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More Dark Rise and Dark Heir thoughts:

My prediction is that Will isn't a reliable narrator about his past self and the text is deliberately misleading about the relationship between Sarcean and the Light. Bait and switch foils are some of Pacat's favourite narrative tools and i'd be surprised (and honestly a bit angry) if it was as simple as the Dark King (with all his queer symbolism) equates to evil and the Lady (with all her Christian iconography) equates to good.

The biggest example of 'unreliable narrator Will' is how he already believes he's evil and that people are right to abuse and want to kill him. As we see with how all his thoughts about his mother in Dark Rise are loving, magnanimous, and illustrating a desire to avenge her death. Then in Dark Heir the reader discovered how abusive she was because of her belief in his 'innate evil'.

The point is, though, that Will isn't innately evil. No one is. Eleanor never had the right to treat baby Will as she did. Just as the Stewards never had the right to treat James as appallingly as they did. No one had the right to abuse and try to kill them. The Stewards created their own villain by treating James like a villain and that same principle applies to how everyone is treating Will.

Sarcean in his pov isn't good, but neither is he evil. He is Will. He's observant, artful, sneaky, scheming, smart, and uncommunicative. He's heartbreakingly loyal to those he loves. He rewards loyalty to him even if they turn on him later. He's ruthless and overly aware of how others perceive him. He craves control. He's obsessively and irrevocably in love with Anharion. I don't think Sarcean is some evil self separate from Will, Will keeps making all Sarcean's mistakes because they are, fundamentally, the same. I do think Will coming into himself and making better decisions will be in his accepting that Sarcean is not a separate person at all.

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More Dark Rise and Dark Heir thoughts:

My prediction is that Will isn't a reliable narrator about his past self and the text is deliberately misleading about the relationship between Sarcean and the Light. Bait and switch foils are some of Pacat's favourite narrative tools and i'd be surprised (and honestly a bit angry) if it was as simple as the Dark King (with all his queer symbolism) equates to evil and the Lady (with all her Christian iconography) equates to good.

The biggest example of 'unreliable narrator Will' is how he already believes he's evil and that people are right to abuse and want to kill him. As we see with how all his thoughts about his mother in Dark Rise are loving, magnanimous, and illustrating a desire to avenge her death. Then in Dark Heir the reader discovered how abusive she was because of her belief in his 'innate evil'.

The point is, though, that Will isn't innately evil. No one is. Eleanor never had the right to treat baby Will as she did. Just as the Stewards never had the right to treat James as appallingly as they did. No one had the right to abuse and try to kill them. The Stewards created their own villain by treating James like a villain and that same principle applies to how everyone is treating Will.

Sarcean in his pov isn't good, but neither is he evil. He is Will. He's observant, artful, sneaky, scheming, smart, and uncommunicative. He's heartbreakingly loyal to those he loves. He rewards loyalty to him even if they turn on him later. He's ruthless and overly aware of how others perceive him. He craves control. He's obsessively and irrevocably in love with Anharion. I don't think Sarcean is some evil self separate from Will, Will keeps making all Sarcean's mistakes because they are, fundamentally, the same. I do think Will coming into himself and making better decisions will be in his accepting that Sarcean is not a separate person at all.

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trying to explain why Dark Rise and Dark Heir are so good without immediately giving huge spoilers is so hard. Like yes the characters are good, the worldbuilding is cool but the last like 30 pages of Dark Rise just flipped my whole world upside down in a way I haven’t experienced in a long time. It’s such a brilliant subversion of the chosen one story. It utilizes reincarnation in such a fascinating way to tackle fate and question whether the history of every character is doomed to repeat.

Will’s inner turmoil is expanded beautifully in book 2. He is terrified of the person he might become yet simultaneously drawn to it. He is constantly plagued by power and knowledge he knows he can never share. He falls easily into ancient patterns, lying and sneaking and bending the world to protect those close to him. He tries his best to be kind. He is somewhere between monster and man and must hope he comes out as the latter.

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"So you can take a shadow," said Will, "you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?"

Dark heir by C.S. Pacat

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(DK/DH bookmark design with wames and sarcanha <3)

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i apologize for not posting as much (since my last post) on the atrocities that have been going on in Palestine, Congo, and Sudan (to name a few). i mainly post on twitter (@Lukah_o9). but we’re not stopping. we’re not stopping even once a ceasefire has been called. these people deserve justice. their killers and their killers’ supporters MUST be punished. they deserve reparations, peace, and their demands to be met.

FREE PALESTINE

FREE CONGO

FREE SUDAN

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as exhausted i am trying to stay afloat and as much as i want to ignore the world around me, it simply would be disgusting and awfully ignorant of me to ignore the countless horrors people all over the world are facing just so i can wallow in the comfort of my little bubble that america and other western powers provide. this isn't about me or us. this is bigger than us. they deserve to be heard, their lives, actions, and deaths remembered, and their resistance to be not for nothing.

i wish them peace and true freedom and equality.

I feel utterly hopeless and helpless, sitting in front of my phone while simply sharing tiktoks of these horrific events (Palestinian and Sudanese Genocide as well as the Congo Silent Genocide). I simply have nothing else to say that others haven’t already said.

To the people who have died, may you rest in peace. To the people who are fighting back (in whatever form that may be), may your actions be not for nothing.

To the people who are just simply trying to survive, may you see the day your world isn’t filled with the sounds of bombs, the cries and sounds of pain and anguish of your loved ones and neighbors , the smell of death, worries that this will be your last day.

You will not be forgotten. None of you

To the world leaders, the people who support their oppressors, and the people with influence and affluence who, too, are in support of their oppressors, may your evil deeds be turned around onto you TENFOLD. May you experience hell on earth. I hope for that with all my heart. I hope you all suffer. You will never be forgiven.

It pains me to know that you all will never face any consequences for your evil and inhumane actions (as we’ve seen countlessly from history). People in power never suffer. They never have. But I hope with everything in me that you all suffer so much so that you wish for death.

Do not stay silent. Do not ignore their suffering. Do not be complacent in the genocide, ethnic cleansing, enslavement of human beings. Share every article/tiktok documenting or speaking on the matter. Call your representatives! Make sure their voices are heard.

FREE PALESTINE

FREE CONGO

FREE SUDAN

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currently on season 4 of vampire diaries and, merlin, they don't make american television like this anymore. what a shame

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ok so imagine dinosaurs suddenly started existing on earth and fully grown ones at that. do you think we would have a shot at taking them down? and how long would it take? what would society look like?

ooooh and what country would be in the league? might as well make this a competition. it's bound to happen anyway

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making online friends isn't like how it used to be. the chemistry and flow of conversations just doesn't feel as...organic...?

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idc if you think i'm immature or whatever descriptive you wanna give me, i'm gonna skip every scene in that show until i get to the gay ones. you know i'm only here for the gay couple, so let's not pretend

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shoutout to all the fictional men

the manhwa ones

the anime ones

the words on paper ones

gotta give it up to all nonexistent men, they're the ones that are keeping my love for romance alive

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i’m like 3 crying sessions away from dropping everything to go and live in the wilderness

UPDATE it's now down to 2 sessions...

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...life has been rough for me.

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idk if this might just be me, but hairless cats always look like they're in a constant state of misery

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it's not that i haven't heard about the eight sense k-drama that's currently airing, i'm just ignoring it until it's complete and i'm certain it's a happy ending.

it's just that this drama feels too heavy, too queer, too close to home for comfort. from the cinematography to the actors' chemistry between one another.

i watch bl/gl dramas to escape and forget about the bitter realities a lot of people face with being queer.

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SAVE ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)

Monday, April 3rd

Call or email your local news or anyone with a large enough platform!!! Native American/Indigenous voices NEED to be HEARD!!!

This could be the next possible genocide of indigenous and Native American people.

PLEASE share across other platforms. This needs attention!!

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i was randomly scrolling through tiktok when i came across an adora and catra edit...

man what a time to be alive. i wish i could just go back in time just so i can experience it all over again.