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Daniel Arlington III the man that you are,,,,,,

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Oh, I see 😕😕😪

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U just cannot answer that eboy andrew ask with no pic of eboy andrew.. u cannot.,

FINE!

are yall happy now!!!???

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oh i just found an old sketch do u guys wanna see something absolutely cursed?

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Ngl Luke’s argument in the pjo show is way more convincing than in the books. Like if it weren’t for Poseidon’s surrender there is so conceivable way percy wouldn’t have been like “aight bet” when luke tried to get him in on the Plan

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Simultaneously the blog where I post the least and the blog that gets the most reposts. I love you tumblr never change

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maggie stiefvater gutted me alive when she wrote this <3

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guys . i am crying i'd forgotten this part of ninth house

The night of the Manuscript party, Darlington spent the early-evening hours with the windows of Black Elm lit, handing out candy, jack-o’-lanterns lining the driveway. He loved this part of Halloween, the ritual of it, the tide of happy strangers arriving on his shores, hands outstretched. Most times Black Elm felt like a dark island, one that had somehow ceased to appear on any chart. Not on Halloween night.

this is what he's always wanted. people coming to black elm, making everything he's done for the stupid house was at least a little bit worth it

(hell bent spoilers below)

Darlington sat in his office at Black Elm, looking out at the borders lush with flowers, the neatly trimmed hedge maze. As always, the house was full of people, friends who had come to visit, scholars staying to make use of his extensive library or give seminars. He heard laughter floating through the halls, lively conversation from somewhere in the kitchen.

(via his hell vision of what he wants most)

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something cool i noticed during my ninth house reread (spoilers)

alex dressed up for the rite in which she, dawes, sandow and the others would try to bring darlington back home, and when mercy asked her where she was going, she basically said she's going on a date

“What college is he in?” asked Lauren. “He’s town.” “Ooh,” said Lauren. She placed Alex’s fake silver hoops in her hand. “Alex loves a working man. That lipstick is way too much.”

i mean... darlington is town when you think of it like that

“I like it,” said Mercy. “It looks like she’s going to try to eat his heart.” Alex stuck the hoops in her ears and blotted her lips with a tissue. “Just right.”

wait, eat his heart? like. consume his soul sort of thing?

and as a cute addition

“You beautiful slut,” said Lauren. “Be careful,” said Mercy. “Tell him to be careful,” said Alex, and locked the door behind her.

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Alex: fuck you man I can’t believe you’re making me the moral backbone of our duo

Darlington, doing unspeakable things: you always were, stern

um. hell bent (ninth house sequel) spoilers ahead.

darlington has implied anger issues, alcohol problems, a dirty mind, insatiable curiosity, a hyperfixation on the arcane, he's a murderer and he doesn't regret it - he's basically always sinned. he's always been a little bad.

it's not that only now that he's part-demon he has to wrestle with this ominous darker being that's lurking inside him. it's always been a part of him (part of every human being i'd like to argue), he's just been able to shut it out, control it better, compartmentalize (as one does), and now he has no choice but to let it free, free himself from his own inhibitions

But as he was not quite human any longer, he supposed a more flexible approach to morality was called for.

he's intelligent enough to realize he basically has to learn to deal with the fact that he's now powerless to the urges of his own demons, pun intended

this is what i want to see in a future book, not him struggling to hold back or trying to school himself into an image of goodness and perfection, because he's always done that! i want him to let go, absolutely lose it and be unapologetically unhinged and sinister, kind of like how alex is but worse

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ninth house spoilers!!

here's the quote at the very end of the chapter with the moth scene, before darlington figures out that alex killed everyone at ground zero with the help of hellie's ghost

Months later, he would remember the weight of the moths’ bodies in his palm. He would think of that moment and how foolish he had been to think he knew her at all.

it feels like a nod at what north says towards the end of the book, when he finds out daisy has been eating girls' souls to sustain herself for years

“I didn’t know she was capable of such things,” he said over the clamor of the crowd. “I never knew she had such a heart.” “You never knew her at all.”

i don't know if it was intentional but it's such a beautiful parallel between the wheelwalker/murderer/survivor girl and some ordinary guy in love with her, groveling and being unable to grasp what she is and what she can do

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yeahhhhh sorry i havent responded to your email yet. the haruspex i hired to inspect the entrails before every email i send keeps finding weird spots in the liver. i'll get back to you as soon as the omens are propitious. sure it'll be any day now

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““Did you think you were going to drift through life on talent and hard work? Get up. You’re hardly a failure. You only get to think that of yourself when you stop trying to win.””

— Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince (Warformed: Stormweaver, #1)

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Darlington: I have appetites, Stern. They are not entirely… wholesome.

Alex:

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In a world full of Lens and Blakes I'm searching for my Darlington

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Daniel Arlington III the man that you are,,,,,,