#I NEED THE THIRD BOOK RIGHT NOW

[matthewswife]

Genuinely a mess after reading Jacks' pov from the tbona.

[thedeathwitchescats]

Okay, review time!! If you are one of the oddballs who thinks you cant be critical of something you love I suggest you stop reading now before I ruffle your feathers. Iron flame, second in the empyrean series. I am gonna start with what I was not a fan of and then go into the shit I adored.

1) what in the actual fuck was the pacing of this book?? I can tell you what, it was non existent. There was none. Where I thought there was a lot of filler in the last book there was none in this one. We got snap shots of conversations and then *boom* more plot flew at you. The timeline of this book greatly suffered for it i think bc we end only a couple weeks, if that, after threshing, which happens sometimes in October. This book was actually so wild with times.

2) while it was a spectacular cliff hanger, xaden becoming venin pisses me off. Especially if Rebecca yarros isnt going to have him tell violet. Like if that small tid bit of a conversation we got wasnt him telling vi that he was venin then the entire romantic conflict of this book was rendered pointless and their going to be having the same fucking fight for the rest of the series and at rhat point I give up.

3) I understand that the revolution is trying to take down basgaith and make the world better or whatever the fuck but can someone actually formulate a real plan for me?? Because I feel like their mission is just, giving violet and xaden something to be pissed at each other about.

4) the entirety of cats character. I get that she was set up as a spin on the typical jealous ex. Like having her be bitter about xaden picking violet over her but OH WAIT it wasnt actually about the man it was about the crown, oohh not like other girls. Im a writer too I see the point. I dont care. I think it was trashy. If you wanted her to be a bitter spiteful ex then have her be a bitter spiteful ex, the whole crown thing was shallow.

OKAY haters your time is up now onto the shit that made my heart hurt with joy and sadness

1) xadens arc in this book. I really liked that he went from "transparency is never gonna happen" to losing his fucking mind over violet and giving her everything. I love feral men and he qualifies. I think his arc was really well done and i liked it.

2) I appericiate that violet stuck to her guns for this book. She wouldnt let xaden off without a fight and I loved that. She made him bow and scrape and I was eating it up. It was spectacular.

3) the throne room scene. Violet on the throne. "Im making a temporary point not a lasting vow of maschocism" xaden being feral.

4) that gets its own point actually, just xaden being completely feral this entire book healed a part of my soul.

5) andarna's little speech at the end where she was like "I waited for you violet" made me ugly cry. That was just so hopelessly good I loved it. Andarna in general heals my heart but that part was just *chefs kiss*

6) tarin being completely and utterly ready to eat people this entire book. Just, at every turn "I want lunch their pissing me off " was spectacular

7) every scene their squad was in. Rihannon, violet, sawyer and ridoc are my roman empire. Their bond is so amazing. The fact that they launched a rescue mission for violet. Rihannon being ready to kill xaden at every turn. Ridoc being so platonically and adorably in love with violet. Just- augh happy cries happy cries. I love it all. Their so special tbh.

8) I love xaden actually, just, the whole book every scene hes in lives in my brain.

9) I liked that we saw a small bit of violet being feral this book too. I hope that we get more of that in future books. I want more of violet losing her fucking mind. Hot, badass women covered in blood

10) Liam. Fucking Liam. When violet was kidnapped and Liam was there. Now, do I logically understand that he was a hallucination, yes, do i care?? No. He was a gift from Maleck I will be hearing no critiques on that. It was so fucking sweet and amazing. I love violet and Liam and Liam being dead so horribly breaks my heart. I loved Liam. Liams death lives rent free in my skull.

[murdleandmarot]

My bbg detectives come back from war I miss you

[respectthepetty]

I need to share this with someone. So, I'm very new to Thai BLs, but Not me personally assaulted me and left me behind obsessed. I am now watching a lot of things, but still Not me regulary comes to my door. I gathered in my last weeks that there are sometimes cameos of pairings in other shows or things like our skyy. And while I was watching Only Friends (which I totally don't do to see First and Mond later on), it came to me how fucking awesome it would be to have Black do cameos. Like just Black being somewhere in background doing shady shit. Not me didnt do him justice, but him becoming a local cryptid could heal me.

I see the vision, Anon, because Force and Book showed up as Enchanté's Akk and Theo, aka HUSBANDS, in Vice Versa.

And Gun showed up in Vice Versa as well as Theory of Love's Third.

If only Jojo would have followed through and had 3 Will Be Free's Shin meet his rich-on-the-beach buddy Nueng in Never Let Me Go, then I would have been in heaven.

But could we actually imagine Black showing up in other shows? Judging all these bitches. Being rude in the background. Starting fights.

Because he was already doing that in his own show! Just haunting everyone's ass, judging those bitches, being rude in the background, and starting fights WITHOUT EVEN BEING THERE!

So I don't want Black in other shows like Never Let Me Go, A Boss and a Babe, or Dangerous Romance judging Palm, Cher, and Sailom for crossing the class line and siding with the one percenters because of some dumb shit like "feelings" or whatever.

No!

I need Black back in his own series dealing with the fallout of how he dealt with the one percenter who LOVES him!

Because I know for damn sure unlike sad-boys-who-just-need-a-hug Nueng, Gun, and Kanghan, Todd would rather Black shoot him in the face before he would ever accept a hug from Black because Todd knows hugs are only reserved for his brother White, and Todd never wants to be in the same category as Black's brother since that man is Black's LOVER!

Therefore, I don't need cameos from Black. I need an actual series to give him his much deserved story since Not Me failed to do that!

GIVE ME NOT ME 2: BLACKOUT RIGHT NOW, GMMTV!

RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

HELP????

come on we KNOW this is jacks (even if it's not, SHEEEESH)

[camzverse]

apologizing in advance for the person i will become when the next pjo show season comes out

[luckycheesefoodie321]

I have now completed Iron Flame

What the ever living fuck.

[theamazingannie]

I’ve been avoiding the PJO tag cuz I haven’t finished TOA yet and I’m afraid of being spoiled but is there a chosen tag for talking about tv show spoilers so we can talk about the books and non-book readers can be unspoiled?

[arohuacheng]

i have to read tgcf again (<— the demons talking)

[madegeeky]

Hannibal (the TV series) seasons in one sentence:

Season 1: The least amount of police procedural you will ever see in a police procedural.

Season 2: Reins are off now, fuckers, let's do some goddamn character work!

Season 3: Wherein the first half is Hannibal writing fanfiction and the second half has completely new main characters.

[steelycunt]

umm hi. okay here's the brief for today my lovely little apricots can you. recommend a song that puts you ina good mood a song you can have a little dance to..alternatively a song 4 summer...eating a twister lolly and pretending it is not a miserable grey day outside my window...

[endbeginning]

and if i said.... pet.er peve.nsie.....

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

sometimes youre like "hey, remember that lawsuit from years ago where warner brothers would have had to prove ghosts were real, i wonder how that whole thing ended. i should look that up."

and turns out you shouldnt look it up. or at least not when youre gonna be going to sleep within the next hour.

because turns out the legally proving ghosts are real thing is one of the easier things to digest in that clusterfuck of copyright claims.

the warrens are/were bad people who seem to have given away exclusive rights for their lifestory at least twice, maybe thrice, and its all downhill from there

[darkeyedghost]

Obviously love my man Herodotus but if he could get to the point that'd be useful as well

[the-wraith-and-demjin]

HAHSGSKDIDVWNAYZYDOLWJBQ WHATTTTTT

[cultivating-saplings]

not to be a little bitch, but it’s very frustrating to see people vehemently shitting on a piece of media based solely on what other people have told them about it, without actually engaging with the text itself to verify any of the claims they’re making about it